The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-18 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.--STArrum), Dec. IT.
TRIALI 1.1011 1411.1,11. V VKIJER.

Trigg, bricklayer, &I, was arrsigued for the wil-
ful murder of Mary Twigg, his wife, or the 2:4. of July,
ltlllo, at Rasta:.
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Mr. M'Mahon and Mr. A. S. Hill were fur the pneecii..
tine, and Mr. Motteram defended the prisoner.
Samuel Twin, the younger, aged 16, demand that at
about 1 o'clock in the morning of the 2.7itli of July lie heard
his father knocking at the trout door, and shouting, "Now,
Polly, get up and loose me in." lie Mani his mother go
downstaire, ►nd then he heard also the voice of a strange
man in the kitchen, and his mother running back. After.
wants he heard him father call to hir mother to conic down,
hut she refused, until " the strange man was gone." The
prisoner then said, "If her don't emus down and cook we
some steaks, I'll cut her throat from ear to ear." He heard
the man say he would go, and afterwards the door closed.
He then went down, 111111 Nita his father lying on the
amen. His mother folloaell him down and shut the door.
Prisoner refused to go to lied, so they put
a j.icket under his head, took his shoe* off,
and put a chair under his feet, and left
him asleep. In about a quarter of an hour afterwards he
heard the prisoner cry out, " liam, get up, and get rue •
light ; I want to go to bed." lie asked his mother to go
down, as he had to rise early in the morning to go to work.
His mother went down, and he heard her poking the fire.
While she was doing so, prisoner etid, " the us • kiss,
Polly." Immediately after this he bean! s claspAnife
closed and the prisoner nay, " Now, I sin seatisded," and his
mother Mlle to the button, of the stairs and odd, " Oh,
San, 1 ion stabbed." His mother then went out at the
door. He went down immediately, and found his father
lying on the screen.
The deceased, it appeared from other evidence, had been
stabbed in the left side of the abdomen, and died on the
following night.
When the deposition of the deceased was read over to
him, the prisoner said—" I was drunk at the time ; she was
a very guest wife to tile." Before the nuigistnitcs be said—
" I wan very helpless drunk indeed. I laud nu occasion to
set about her. She was u good wife to Iflo."
The Judge ainsuuel up the case as one of wilful munler.
The jury• after a brief deliberation returned a verdict of
that nature. _ _

His Le ip was about passing sentence of death, when
the prisoner's mother shrieked out in the gallery, and had
to be removed. At the same time the prisoner fell upon his
knees in the dock and began to shod tours. He was lifted
up by the gaolers and ceasing crying received the awful
sentence of death in the usual form.
The unhappy criminal, as he was led out of the dock,
found vent for his feelings in tears.
The neat prisoner charged with wilful murder was Ann
Williams, aged 11, who had been auniiiitted fur the murder
of ber infant child. _ _ .

Mr. M'Malion prosecuted, mid Mr. Scotland was in-
structed by the judge to watch the ease for the prisoner.
The evidence showed that about the end of last Septem-
ber the prisoner left her home nt with her child
in her arms, very earl) in the rooming. She was missed for
smile time, soil the ain:d was searched for her. Subse-
quently she was tumid at the hones of a relative some few
miles away, without her babe, and apporeutly of unsound
mind. On being brought home, she and the chihl was in
the canal. By one witness she was seen carrying the
child along the bank, and by two other witnesses she wee
seen the same morning standing ou a bridge which crosses
the canal, still with the child in her 147111*. Atter she boil
been on this bridge she was seen to be without the child,
whose body was subsequently found iu the canal not for from
the bridge.
The sitrgoon who was called in to see her when she was
brought home was of opinion that the worium was }wane.
There was raison to believe that her iusanity Mao uoaisioned
by excessive nursing.
The jury returned a venlict of Not
His Loolship asked on what ground.
The Foreman did not seem able to give a satisfactory
reply ; but one of the twelve said tint they were not
atis-
tial that the prisouer threw the chill into the water.
His Lordship made no reply, and oniered the woman's
discharge:
dlephre. Dirkroano, 40, was then arraigned fur the wilful
warder of Miasbeth Dickenson, on the ht August, ltaiti,
at the borough of Newarstlegunkr.Lyine.
Mr. A. S. HiU was instructed by his lordship to watch
the age for the prisoner.
The evidence showed that the prisoner was insane, and
that the deceased was his soother. He had been visited by
a parish surgeon two or three days before, and instructions
given for the removal beyond his reach of soy cutting
instriumeas. On the day in question his mother was taking
him up mediciue, when on the top of the lauding he met
his !outlier end ,truek her on the head with a large wooden
stand, called it candle-block, that the prisoner had been
accustomed to use when working by night as a shoemaker.
The Judge stopped, the case. and put it to the jury if it
was 110CeAKI/11" to proceed with it
The jury found the prisoner #7,,i11.# of wilful murder,
animated when lie woe JO II state of insanity.
His Lordship sentenced the prisouer to confinement
during her Majesty's pleasure.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.7--LtvziteooL, DEC. 17.

(Before Mr. Justice Kentiug.)
WIVE lIVEDER, IN I.lVEltriE)l.

Thomas Netr.lono was char,reil with the niunler of
his wife in Hotner•stn..rt, Liverpool, uu the lath of Sep-
tenilier lent. _ _ -

Itappeared from the evidence that the prisoner and his
wife hail lived together fur MAIM time on tolerably friendly
terms. On the day of the oectirrenee in question there was
a fuorel between the parties, when the deceased, being
drunk, was heard to use very improper and provoking lan-
guage, which very much irritated her husband. In the
course of the squabble the prisoner oiled a knife and stabbed
his wife in the left Mille, the ((mind cans* death. For the
defence it was contended that there was no delibenito
malice on the prisoner's part, mid ultimately he wee found
guilty of manslaughter, mid sentenced to penal servitude
for life.