The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-24 00:00:00

ANOTHER FRIGHTFUL DEATH PROI
HYDROPHOBIA.

INQUEST. —(THIS DAY.)
This morning Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex wear.
Mk, an inquiry at this Loodoa Hospital. nista,* '
death from hydrophobia of Charlie Julius Eriek
30 years.

Eery Sholdt, 2, Idontague.plaoe, Whitechapel, said
the deceased was a German, and was by trade a toWitness had a dog, which WAS vary quiet sad u
until nice weeks ago, when it bit some ekatiPt
Witness tied the animal up in the Magnus and when Ya--.
who was a friend of bee hasband, Sholdt,
she told him about what the dog had one to the dike,
Knob asked to see it, and he went out and me
patting it on the head. The dog suddenly flew at him,
bit him on the lip. The blood flowed down, and the ,
licked it up. When witness's husband came hefts
hanged the dog at once. Brick's wound healed,
returned to his work.

By the Coroner—They had kept the dog 12 months.
dog tax was paid for it. Witness's husband earned o
average 15e. • week, and out of that 4s. • week teat
to be paid sod two children to be supported.
Coroner—And yet you kept a dog, which you
support too. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer N.
only insist upon the collection of the dog tax, a peat
of anions mischief would be obviated, or else he might
able to reduce the income tax.
Mae. Anna Ekren, 37, York-street, Commercial-rood,
deceased's landlady, maid that she remembered his ea
home severely bitten about two months ago, but the -
healed. Oa Thursday he became strangely affected
first time. He complained of giddiness, could not I
water, and could not swallow liquids of a Mod.
worse rapidly, and seemed to become mad. Two
saw him and treated him, but without any good effect
Sunday be was carried to the hospital.
Mrs. Sholdt said that deceased knew the dog well,
used to play with it when he called at the house,
Mr. Dove, house surgeon, said that the deemed
brought in to the hospital in externals. He died from
phobia soon after.
The Coroner said that such cases as the present
the class of people who kept clop to the injury of
own underfed families. It would be a boon to the
people's children, as well as a security against hydro**
if measures could betaken to abate the nuisance. Is ow
street, • sergeant of polies had reported that nearly 1000
were kept, for not one of which was the tax paid.
The jury returned • verdict, " That deceased died I
the mortal effects of hydrophobia, canoed by the bits
mad dog ; and the jury recommend that the coroner
draw the attention of the Home Secretary and the
calor of the Exchequer to the fact that • great
of dogs are kept which are • nuisance to the public genemily,
and which endanger life ; and to suggest that some star
should be taken to reduce the danger arcing from
evil."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
fa Baneo.—(Bcfore the Lord Chief Justice, and
"*" jesting Blackburn, Mellor, and Lusk.)

stetson V. PRI Orrlllll.—Warr OP WWI.
Os further hearing of the arguments in this case was
peel tbis morning.
os Solicitor-Moira and Mr. Hansen appeared for the
or. Folkard and Mr. Collins appeared oa the
.4 of the prisoner.
lisp Solicitor-General said that on the part of the Crow*
• submitted the following proposition in support of
prisoners convictioo. First that the learned judge in
olemiag that under the orettmatancan it was nue&
sod proper to discharge the jary determined a
of faot which he was oompeteet to decide,
it out his determation could no be reviewed by writ
oTor. 2od. That if it was fort the court to deride
sober be was right or wrong he submitted that the
woad jags was right; and bed. He should contend
W if the learned judge were wren' in discharging
• jury, still such wrongful discharge
▪ operate u • legal bar to the wooed trial
plough it might form matter for memorialising the
own to exercise the prerogative of mercy. Bat that
wf bad not then to consider. The law upon this point
ss imperfectly laid down in Coke, and it was only to be
Dated as laving down a rule of practice assumed to be oot,
pi then, and was not in accordance with the different and
lost practice of modern times. It was eztremely.doubt
Of he was correct in describing a practice of his own
ose and before it. The "Doctor and Student," quoted
oterday by the prisoner's counsel, appeared to take a
&rent and more sensible view of the practice than Lord
bb. In Mansell's case, reported by Anderson, the practice in
ss time of Elizabeth appeared to be at variance with Coke,
then the jury were discharged, and a Dew trial had.
'the case of the " King v. Ferrara,* reported by Sir
booms Raymond and Hale's " Pleas of the Crown," the
odic, was shown to be different to that laid down by
sks, end different from that foe which he wo-
oded in this case. He ventured to submit
6st the discharge of the jury by the learned judge when
sin was no chanty of their agreeing was the uniform
ad general practice of modern times. There were many
matinees where juries bad been discharged without giving a
'edict sod never questioned, and consequently were not
ported in the law books. In Cobbett's ease, for malicious
Rol, the jury, after being locked up 15 hours, and not
oo3g likely to agree to a verdict were discharged without
Ong a verdict. In the case of " Gray v. the Queen," for
ulnas shooting in Ireland, the jury were discharged, one
them being ill, and he was tried • second time and a
bird time, the jury in each case being discharged without
igewing to a verdict, and it bad been held by she Irish
lodges that the discharges were legal. If it was illegal it
sight to be pleaded the same as autrefois acquit, and the
• ion so raised. In considering the various oases that e ere
tel in favour of the prisoner, the learned gentleman
• the cue of the "Queen v. Newton" was a de.
•• a in favour of the crown, and in the case of
"Queen v. Newton " be had also the antho.
'ty of Ir. Justice Hill for the legal discharge of the jury.
o distinction in practice could be made between felony and
' demeuour, and in the latter it was admitted a jury
d be discharged.
Mr. Justice Blackburn said of late many crimes as good
felony had been made misdemeanours. The old law had
been ',hinged though the reasons had.
The Solicitor-General said the case of " Conway and
ynch v. The Queen " had been misapprehended by the
r's counsel, because the second trial was not in
• cation, but the first one only. Mr. Justice Perris care-
ly distinguished that case from " The King v. Shields,"
here the jury were discharged at the end of the assizes.
The Lord Chief Justice said, conceding that at the end of
• e seizes the judges might depart, the crown had to show
t the business of the assizes had concluded. He did
see that that fact was found on this record. This
no doubt the last case to be tried, but there was
•ty of time for the judge to have taken the var.
• t on the Monday morning before going to
min. The criminal judge at Exeter did not sit as
•ch at Bodmia, and therefore it was necessary for him to
ve for opening the commission.
Mr. Janie. Blackburn said the case depended more upon
e nett day being Sunday than on the oommission down
Bodmin.
The Soliciter•General said although it was not for the
• tion of the court, he contended the learned judge