The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

TAE GUILDFORD MURDER.

Mr. Ribton, who Viii;criiitedlodelend the prisoner
Longharst for the murder of Jane Sex at Shire, near
Guildford, applied to the court to fix a day for the triaL
He said that since he had received his original instructions
the prisoner had been committed for the more serious
offence of wilful murder, and some of the witnesses he
proposed to call were not in attendance. Any day after
Friday would be convenient to him.
Heron Cheapen said that Saturday had been suggested
as a convenient day, but after what occurred in the case of
Charlotte Winsor he should certainly not fix a trial for
murder on a Saturday. He had been blamed for dis-
charging the jury in that case on Saturday night, and he
was lulu) sure they would not have been very well pleased
at being locked up all day on Sunda.
It was them arranged that the trial should be postponed
to the beginning of next week.
The criminal business is rearly concluded, and it i ex-
p-cted that to-day, or at all events on Saturday, both
courts will be occupied in trying civil causes. It has been
arranged that the special jury eases will not be taken until
Tuesday morning at ten o clock.
NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—MAlrcustrrss, Auo. 2.

Csowir Courr.—(Before Mr. Justice Lush.)
11111 1110TWOOD roams.

Janes Burrows, 18, was indicted for having, at Hopwood
(on the mad from Manchester to Rochdale, and near-Rath-
dale), on the 21st May, killed and murdered John Bren-
nan an Irishman.
)?r. Holker and Mr. Addison appeared for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Torr for the prisoner.
The prisoner is the son of Mr. Burrows, a farmer, who
keeps the Hopwood Arms Inn. On Saturday, the 19th of I
May, Mr. Burrows engaged Brennan to work for Mm. On
Sunday, the 20th of May, a man named Henry Clegg was
at another public-house, the Jolly Waggoners, only a short
distance from the Hopwood Arms, and met the prisoner
and Brennan there. Clegg says be saw the pri-
soner borrow half-a-crown from Brennan, but a few
minutes afterwards prisoner paid him back. Next day
Clegg again went to the Jolly Waggoners a little before
one o'clock at noon. The landlord and the prisoner, and a
man named Taylor, who was brewing, were with other
company in the tap-room drinking. About three o'clock,
when Clegg got up to leave, prisoner proposed to go to
Rochdale. Clegg mid he had not money enough to go
there, and the prisoner said, " Let us go to Johnny (the
deceased) in on field, and borrow Mil -a-sovereign off
him," he said they could then go to Blue Pits and take the
train to Rochdale. They went towards the field, but
Clegg remained behind while the prisoner went and talked
with Brennan. He then saw the prisoner and Brennan
(who had been ploughing) leave the field, taking the horse
with them, and, go towards the Hopwood Arms. He
followed and watched them into the stable, and remained
waiting for prisoner about twenty minutes. Finding
he did not come back he was about to start for Blue Pits
alone, when having to pass within ten yards of the stable
the prisoner came out and went with him up the high road
towards the Jolly Waggoners. Clegg said—" How but
thou got on ?" and prisoner said," He would not lend me
a halfpenny." Clegg said, " Where is he r and pri-
soner replied, 'I left him in the stable." When they got
to the Jolly Waggoner they went into the tap-room, but
the prisoner went on to the brewhouse, and came after-
wards to the tap-room. He had then got off his collar,
necktie, and jacket, and appeared to have been washing.
Taylor afterwards came into the tap-mom, and he and the
prisoner went out into a field to fight for half a gallon of
ale. Taylor made prisoner's nose bleed, and they then
came back, and prisoner paid for the ale. About 5 o'clock
one of the prisoner's sisters was sent to the stable by her
father to give the horse some hay; she found Brennan
lying on the stable floor near the home quite dead, with
blood on his face. She returned and told her brother
that the horse had killed the Irishman. _

The evidence of Taylor, the brewer, was that about 9 or
10 o'clock on the mmwng of the Met May, the prisoner
at the Jolly Waggoners borrowed a shilling from MAL He
saw Clegg aad the prisoner leave together between three
and four o'clock and noticed that they were away about
tines-quarters of an hour. When they returned prisoner
came into the brewhouse and pve him back the shilling
he had borrowed. He then asked withal§ for water to
wash In, and being supplied with it be skipped
off his jacket, necktie, and collar, sad used Neap
and towel Witness raw blood es hie collar, necktie,
and bee, sad asked aka whet he WI bums &ft? Pa:am

replied, " I've killed yon b— in the stable." Witness
said " Thou never has," and he replied " I have."
Witness said " Tbou never ham—What has thou lone it
with?' and he replied, " I've killed him with a crowbar."
Witness asked what hehad done with the crowbar, and told
him he would be found out. He said he bad put it in a
hole in the wall where it could never be found till the
building was pulled down. Prisoner also said he was afraid
of no one except Clegg, and gave as his reason for the
crime that Brennan would not lend him any money, and
he tool Bs. 6d. from him. After the above conversation
prisoner burnt his necktie and collar in the brewhouse fire,
and then went into the tap-room.
The cane lasted till Intelsat evening when, according to
a telegram from our correspondent,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, with a recommenda-
tion to mercy.
The learned judge, in a crowded and ezdted court, passed
sentence of death.

gabs! anli ifttlitstrp.

CHATHAM,_ Auovirr 2.

The screw line-of-battle steamer Rodney, 78,
500-horse power, attached to the third division of the
steam reserve squadron at this port, has been placed in
the steam basin at Sheerness, for the purpose of being
brought forward for commission, to relieve the Primer
Royal, 73, 400-horse power, esphip of Vice-Admiral Geo.
St. V. King, C. 8., in command of the China squadron.
The Rodney will require some extensive repairs to be
executed before she is fit for sea. The following troops
are ordered to embark at Gravesend on board the chartered
troopship Edwin Fox, for conveyance to Bombay:-20
men of the lia battalion 4th King's Own Royals ; Captain
Powell,
J. Po, and Ensign W. H. DV askill, 102nd Regiment;
Captain J. 0. Vandelenr, 35th Regiment ; 22 men of the
96th Regiment ; Lieutenant F. Packman and 6 men of the
2rd battalion 21st Fusiliers ; Lieutenant St. John E.
Danbeny, Ensign A. W. Gardner, and 40 men of the
100th Regiment, with Amistant-muzison J. B. Ball, M.D.
33rd Regiment, in medical charge. Two officers and
40 men of the Ist battalion 10th Regiment, from this
garrison, are ordered to be held in readiness to embark foe
the Cap! of Good Rope, to join the service companies of
that regiment.
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 2.

The Urgent, iron screw troopship, Captain S. H.
Henderson, arrived at Spithead this afternoon, from
Gibraltar. She has been employed in the removal of
troops between the West Coast of Africa and the West
Indies, but owing to some serious defect in her machinery,
she was obliged to revair to Gibraltar, and her service
was completed by the fiusocan.
The Antelope, 3, iron paddle vessel, Lieutenant Com-
mander John Bruce, arrived at Spithsed last evening
from Woolwich, and sailed to-day far the West Coast of
Africa.
The Enchantress, paddle yacht, Staff Commander J. E.
Petley, sailed this morning for Chatham, to be in attend-
ance on the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who
proceed on their annual tour of inspection.rheir lordships
are expected to arrive at this port on Tuesday next.
The Tribune, 23, screw frigate, which recently returned
from the Pacific) station, where she was under the command
of Captain the Lord Gilford, has been condemned, and is
ordered to be broken up.
The left wing of the 31st Regiment embark on board the
steamers Albatross and Montezuma for conveyance to
Ireland. The former took in her detachment to-day.