The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-21 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(TELLS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
Emma THE NAME 01 A DUD 07 ASISIGNICENT.
L ~ on behalf of the trustees of a deed of
sigipMent which had been duly registered, applied for the
diodepal of petition which had been presented against
the debtor in bankruptcy, the proceedings under which
badn spied pending the time allowed for registration
ow deed. He Produced the deed, and submitted that
a the requirements of the statute had been complied with.
gr. Chandler, for the petitioning creditor, consented to
go/Application.
Hu- asked for evidence that the debtor bad
on to the trustees of all the property of
given
whil(Nroom:M give or order possession, as required by
aIpAN 7 of the 199th section of the act.
Mr. !Wpm said he was not prepared with documentary
videos upon that point, but one of the Unitese was pre-
pant, who would tell the court that possession of the pro-
perty had been given, and that it was in process of radi-
pindividual creditor wished to state that the debtor
had not given possession of all his property, which ha
would be in a position to prove if the court would allow an
wtrient.
Honour said that the 7th clause of the 199th see-
fion was a most important provision and he should re-
quire strict proof that the debtor bad really given up
5: of his estate to his trustees. It frequently
that the debtor remained all the time in pos-
of his property instead of surrendering it for
the benefit of his creditors. The application would be
adjourned in order that the trustees might make an rifil.
davit showing that poinession of the property had been
actually given to them, and to enable the creditor to pro-
cure evidence for the purpose of impeaching the deed, if he
jould be so advised.
Adjourned accordingly.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Justice Wilke.)
THE ALLEGED NORDEN IN WHITECHAPEL.
Timothy MurpAy, 29 labourer, was charged upon an
*Siete:tent with the wilful murder of Thomas Sullivan.
Upon the coroner's inquisition, the prisoner was charged
Ma the lesser offense of manslaughter only.
Mr. G. S. Griffiths and Mr. Wood conducted the prom:-
adieu, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. E. Daly.
Mr. Justice Wines, at the opening of the case, expressed
his opinion, after carefully reading the depositions, that
the charge of murder could not be established against
the prisoner, and that the coroner's jury had Wren a
fight 'newel Cheese in returning a verdict of manslaughter.
Tie prisoner appeared to have been wild with drink,
and there seemed to have been a quarrel, and under
them circumstances he did not think it was probable that
the jail would convict the prisoner of the serioneertme of
wilfalmurder. The learned judge said he thought it right to
state what he bad done, in order that the learned counsel
for the prisoner might be relieved from the difficulty of de-
walla; the prisoner upon the charge of murder.
The learned counsel for the prosecution then proceeded
to state the facto of the case, which will be fresh in the
recollection of our readers. The prisoner and the de-
ceased were labourers, and both married men, and they
occupied rooms immediately over each other in a house
siteateNo. 34, Royal Mint-street, Tower-hill. On Saturday
afternoon, the lit of September, the decorated went home
hem hie work about half -past 2 o'clock in the afternoon,
quite sober, and he gave his wife his wages, amounting to
jie. The prisoner came home about the same time, and
st this time he also appeared to be sober, but he went out
sad when he returned he was very drunk, and it appeared
that he made use of a very offensive expression to the
rife of the deceased, and asked the latter whether he
lad not caught her in bed with some men whom he
sawed. This naturally excited the anger of the
deceased and ho threatened to knock the pri-
er/ler down stairs if he repeated the offensive
etpnesions. Nothing more seemed to have occurred at this
time, but later in the day a great disturbance appeared to
hers taken place, and the wife of the deceased went up
stairs to her room, and she then saw her husband lying on
the floor, with part of his body in the room and part on
the landing, and the prisoner was lying upon him. The
deceased was then heard to ask the prisoner in
▪ faint voice to get off him, and not to bite him,
sad the wife of the deceased struck the prisoner a
were blow on the head with a door key, and
the effect of this blow appeared to be to induce
him to get up. The deceased then seemed to have raised
himself, and staggered a step or two, and then fell down
dead. The result of the surgical examination went to
thew that the deceased had received a stab from some I
abase p instrument in the left breast, which had penetrated
the hart, and this, no doubt, was the mortal injury ;
bat in addition to this wound there was the mark of a
braise over one of the eyes, and a severe wound in the
thigh, apparently resulting from a bite. The prisoner,
after getting up from the deceased ,under the circumstances
above narrated, seemed to have gone to a surgeon in the
Neighbourhood for the purpose of having the wounds in-
Wed on his head by the door key dressed, but the surgeon
seeing the drunken state he was in advised him to go to
She hospital, and be replied that he would not do so, but
be would have his revenge, and he would go back and
knife the —. At this time the unhappy man was dead,
es that the threat appeared to be of an unnecessary charac-
ter, and there seemed to be no doubt the prisoner was
almost mad drunk at the time the occurrence took
Owe, and that he was hardly aware of what had taken
place. The broken blade of a knife was picked up on the
loading on the morning after the occurrence, and there was
some evidence that this was portion of a knife that be-
longed to the prisoner. The prisoner appeared to hove
received some very severe wounds on the head, which the
wife of the deceased admitted might have been aimed by
her with the door-key, but she swore positively that she
bad no knife in her band at the time. She also swore that
she was quite sober at the time the affair happened. There
woe a good deal of contradictory evidence, and some of the
vitamin stated that the deceased was drunk as well as the
prisoner, and that a tight took place between them before
thrfatal stab was given.
The jory found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter,
but recommended him to mercy on account of his being
drank at the time.
The prisoner was sentenced to fire years' penal ser-
vitude.

(Before Mr. Justice Lush.)
John Cronin, 29, was convicted upon clear evidence of a
felonious assault upon a respectable young woman named
Mary Anne Kelly, and he was aentenced to ten years'
Tend servitude.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
LAMP /WARM ING.
A tall, stout young fellow. who gave the mune of Thomas
Smith, was charged before Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., with
breaking a lamp in Charlotte-row, attached to the Man-
ion-house. _ _

Police-constable John Penny, 613, stated that last night
shout a quarter to 11 o'clock he was on duty in Charlotte-
row when the prisoner came up to him and asked to be
taken into custody for breaking the lamp which he pointed
oat to the witness. lie said be bad done it by throw-
ing at the lamp the howl of a tobacco pipe, and stated
his reason for the act was that be was destitute and
wanted to be locked up. He took the prisoner to the
police station and locked him up.
The prisoner, in answer to the alderman, said be bad
formerly gained his living by hawking articles for sale, but
he had done nothing for the last six weeks, during which
he has been wandering about the country in search of
work without success, because nobody would employ him
in his wretched plight. He would have have enlisted,
but they would not have him in consequence of an injury he
bad stutained from having fractured his left wrist. If he could
obtain employment, he was quite willing tu work, and he
hoped the alderman would send him to prison for six
months rather than to the workhouse, as he would rather
be a pri.oner than a pauper.
Mr. Alderman Lusk paid the prisoner was one of the
class of able, but lazy, idle, fellows, who preferred living
on the public to working for their own living. He would
not be indulged in his wish to be sent for six months to
prison, though he would come to that ; at present he would
stand committed to the House of Correction for 21 days,
and there kept to hard labour.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
CAMON T l HEFItEmIIMENT-HOUSS KZEPERS.

Mr. James Chubb, the keeper of a refreshment-hone at
No. 4, Rupert•street, was summoned before Mr. Knoz to
answer the complaint of the police of keeping his house
open between the hours of 1 and 4 in the morning.
The defendant did not appear, but a person attended on
his behalf. . .

Sergeant Matthew Fox, 21 C, said that at quarter to
2 on the morning of the 11th inst. he saw three women
come out of the defendant's house, 4, Rupert-street. Re
visited the defendant's house, and saw five persons. There
was a glass on the bar, and on the floor under a female's
dress there was a glass containing liquor.
Mr. Knox, having ascertained from the police that there
Ins no previous conviction against the defendant, inflicted
a fine of 20s. and costs.

DISGRACE7t L PLUNDER.
John Ward, a man between 50 and 60 years of age, was
charged with robbing Mary Mapletion, a poor widow
woman, who gets her living by mangling clothes.
Prommutriz, who hvee at 7, Roberts'-buildings,
said that at about six o'clock last evening, the prisoner
came to her parlour door with a bundle of books in his
hand, and asked her to purchase some at a halfpenny each,
at the same time displaying the pictures with which
they were illustrated. One of the books entitled
the" British Traveller," he said, contained a faithful nar-
rative of his own adventures and sufferings in India, and
that reprosesentation particularly induced her to look at
It with some attention, but still she would not buy. and
Czr, after having exhibited some other pamphlets,
out of the room with one of them opened before