The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-17 00:00:00

Mr, Payne, the superintendent of the P diriaion, deposed
that ea the morning .4 the 31st of July he ailed the pri-
soner if he blew anlthing about the knife that had been
found, and he mid it was hia, and that he used it to eat
his tried and cheese with, and that he had had it • few
days or nearly • fewtaight.
At this sVtlae ease the Court adjourned for the
purpose of moms refreslumint, and after • short
interval the wee resented. _ _

The witness V *seri was re-canal, and he Mid that the
itoner told him that they women arsterar bad alert
in the front room, with his make mid Milb Wino
Mr. W. B. Bo4dyl surgeon, dryad thei le wee mita in
to examine the bodies of thliMend poem Three d
the bodies were on the lan Men males wad wee
of the children, and the younger eklid amen tie bed tribe
front room, All the bodies wen quite arse', as was as
when alive. Upon examining the wean be found a
stab in the left breast, which peretseted into the cavity
the chest. The throat was Monk cut from ear to sir and
a very strong and very absousindrament bad evidenap
used to inflict the injury. IlOrotid artery and hole
vein were completely eranuel, end the wood emineild
down to the bourn of the meek. This wend amei=
calmed instantaneous death,and the person seniving Wei
not have called out. It would have required • Aron as le
mum such an injury. Tie deemed mural to be •
strong, healthy wawa Upon enerabisisthe be
_el
the older woman be WINO OWN, WI WO, tie WNW
bone of the Wt NM end ere upen brats been Ifte
was elan a deep ebb or eel ea the bit Me el the seek
which divided the carotid eatery and jug** vein on that
side and reached down/mew bones of theme. This injury
way a mortal one, but would not have seed death quite so
quickly as that loftiest en the loon VORIS. There were
no injuries about the brads of either of lie wefts. Wit-
ness then examined the body of the boy Climbs. end found
• wound on the beaest•inne sad two cub on Ile hit arm.
There was also • Ili on the bask et the Ink, which
divided the boniest the risk emi Nuilisidr wind the
dspinal cord. Tbh wood Beet have aftml hemoodiate
eath, and the child could not have aced soh ITzthe
Mho older boy's body he found two all a
cut on the lower lip, a cut mod the
throat which merely divided the skin, and is ebbs in the
neck, and some in the ribs. Some of the heipen d the left
hand were elm cut through completely to the how The
stabs in the chest were both mortal ; one bad 'penetrated
the covering of the heart, sad the other the lap. The
injuries to the child's hands were such as would be Goes,
dosed by grasping • sharp imrtnimeut, and having it drawn
through his band. The whole of the wounds he caw were
such as might have been occasioned by an instilment such
as the knife that had been produced, before the point was
broken. There were no ups say of the bodies
to denote that they bad except In the awe of the
elder boy.
("roes-examined—The wounds as the boy's beset must
have caused almost instantaneous death. If Mrs. Young-
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roan, the mother, had been in a stated delirium, he had
no doubt that she was strong enough to have inflicted all
the injuries that he observed upon the dead bodies.
Re-examined—The mark round the neck was evidently
occasioned by an attempt at cutting the throat.
Mary Ann Wootton dapped that she was in the service
of Dr. Duncan, of 11 Covent-garden. The
prisoner was in the same service, s:nd left on the 16th of
July last. She identified the prisoner's handwriting in the
letters that were produced.
Dr. Duncan said that ho resided in Henrietta-street, Co-
vent-garden. The prisoner came into his service as footman
on the 18th of April last, and left his service on the 16th '
of July. Witness of course saw him very frequently, and
he did not observe anything peculiar about him.
Cron-examined—it awes was well acquainted with the
description of 11301101331131113 known as homicidal monomania,
and he believed that it was possible for a man to have an
impulse to destroy another while at the 011C0 time pos-
sessed of his reason, and that he might commit the act
although aware that it wan a wicked one—in fact that he
was unable to control the impulse far dsstruetion.
Edward Spice deposed that he kept
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pnblic-house in Bermondsey-street, was well acquainted
with the deceased young woman and her family. She
came to his house on a visit on the 23rd of July, and the
prisoner visited her there, and he understood they were
going to be married. The damaged remained at his house
until the following Monday, and the prsoner called there
every day ; in consemunce of menet ing he saw in his
conduct, he put some stions to him, ,in answer to which
he said that he was independent, and that his indopeadonco
consisted of homes in several parts et London. Ho was so
dimatisfied with the s conduct that ha advised the
deceased not to merry him, and said he would rather see her
take a rope and hang herself in his skittle pound than be
united to sure a man. The demised went away with the
prisoner on the 16th of July, and 130 never again saw her
elk's. Before the prisoner left he told him that he was
going to take a lodging for himself and the deceased either
at Brighton or Bastrop, and that he and his wife should
live independent.
Samuel Wells Streeter, the father of the deceased, de-
.d that he resided at Wadhurst, in Sussex, and was a
farmer. The prisoner came to his house on the Bth July,
' and stayed there one night. Witness had never sass hfra
before, and his daughter had not told him that the prisoner
was paying his addresses to her. After his daughter went
to London to the prisoner the inspector of police came to
his house, and he horded to him • writ* desk belonging
to his daughter which contained the letters that had been
produced in evidence.
Mr. T. Tanner, a gentleman connected with the Argus
Insurance Company,. proved that the primmer made a pro.
posal to insure the life of the doomed for 100 f., and on the
he described himself as having retired from the
of a tailor. On the 19th of July bat the prisoner
este to the office accompanied by a young woman, who paid
Um premium, and the policy was delivered to the prisoner.
A quarter's premium only was paid, which amounted to
10s. 2d.

This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Beet then proceeded to address the jury for the pri-
soner in • speech of great power and eloquence. He said
that it was clear, as stated by his learned fnend in his open-
ing address, that they could not convict the prisoner upon
this charge without at the same time declaring by their
verdict that he had committed the horrible crimes of muz-
dining his own mother and his two innocent brothers, and
he earnestly entreated than to pause before they came to
such a dreadful conclusion. He then proceeded to arras
that the theory set up by the prosecution was • most mon-
strous and improbable one, and that it could hardly be pos-
sible for a human being to have arrived at such a pitch of
wickedness as to destroy a young woman for whom he
always appeared to have expressed the moat ardent &free-
Bon, and also kill his own mother and brothers for the
sale of obtaining the paltry sum of one hundred pounds.
The learned counsel next proceeded to endeavour to show
that the story told by the prisoner of his mother
having killed his sweetheart and the children, and
that she, in a moment of frenzy, also attacked him, and that
he slew her in self-defence, might poseibly be true, and he
said that if any, even the smallest, doubt remained upon
the point, the prisoner was entitled to the benefit of it.
Nr. Justice Williams then summed up the evidence with
peat care and impartiality, and be particularly called the
attention of the jury to the fact that the prisoner had him-
self stated that he wrenched the knife from his mother
after she had, as he alleged, murdered his sweetheart and
his two brother ; and, if his story was true, she was them
powerless, and might easily have been secured, and there
was no necessity to dertroy her life.
The jury retired et ten minutes past six o'clock to delibe-
rate upon their verdict, and in about ten minutes they re-
turned into court and found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Avery, the clerk of the court, then inquired of the
poisoner whether he had anything to urge why he should
not be sentenced to die according to law!
He replied—" I am not guilty."
The learned Judge then pet on the black cap, and, ad-
dressing the prisoner, said that he had been convicted of
the crime of murder, and of one of the must heinous mur-
der, that was ever committed. It was no part of his office
to dwell on the enormity of his guilt, and his only duty
was to pass upon him the sentence of the law. His lord-
ship then passed sentence of death in the usual form.
The prisoner maintained the same coolness he lied exhi-
bited throughout the trial, and when his lords 1p
_bed con-
cluded he turned round deliberately, and walked with •
firm step out of the dock.

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HODS

&mud Armeberg, a respeetablirlooking young are, 19, a
foreigner, living at 3, Prisms-street, Fiselway, was charged
with robbing hie wester of 171. 10a.
The complainant, Edward Keil,• courier haymaker, at
28, Bush-lane, had a bank post bill for 101., and also 71. in
gold and 10s. in silver in a puree, which be kept in a private
room of his home in a locked drawer, the key of which
bun at the side of the mantel-shelf. The primmer, who
hod been in his service two months, had occasional nooses to
the room. The money was last seen all safe in the drawer
by the complainant on Wednesday afternoon, about
four o'clock. The prisoner worked in a room
underneath, and the complainant in one immir
distely over that in which the money was. Between
four and five o'clock beheard the primmer come upstairs and
enter the room, and when the complainant shortly after-
wards went there to take his tea he perceived that the
drawer was open and the money pee. Suspecting the pri-
soner had taken it he went to his lodgings, where he found
him, and charged him with the robbery. At first the pri-
soner denied it, but afterwards admitted having taken the
money. lie went with the complainant, at his request, to
the plaoe of business in Bush-lane, and on the way offered
to give complainant the money, but he refused to take it,
and afterwards pve him into custody. At the police
station he said the money was at his lodgings ;
and an of ker who went there found 9s. 4d. on the
top of a picture frame in his bedroom, and 171.
under some old carpets in another part of the house. The
complainant had received the 171. 10a. in question from the
prisoner's father in Germany only on the thy previous, in
payment for some goods supplied to him, and the prisoner
tat he had received it. . .. . . .

The prisoner said what him master had stated was all true,
and he was guilty. Yielding to the temptation of a moment
b• had hese induced to take the money, and this was the
hat time he had committed a crime. . . . . . .

A respectable-looking;; stood forward and stated that
the primmer had lodged in his house Binde the early part of
January last, and had uniformly conducted himself with
the greatest propriety. He had had during that time the
nap of his loam, and no single thing bad hew mired.