The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-08 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDDLESEX SES,SIONS.

THE CHARGE AGAINST TWO POLICEMEN.
At the sitting of the Aseistant-Judge in his oourt, Mr.
Metcalfe applied to his lordship in reference to • case in
which there was a charge against Henry Crampton for an
assault upon two police-constables, and a cries-indictment
against those police-constables, George Davis and Frede-
rick Jarvis, of the N division, for en assault committed
upon Crampton, all the parties being committed for trial.
Mr. Metcalfe said as this was a case of considerable
importance it should either be tried by his lordship or sent
to the Central Criminal Court.
The Assiatant-Judge said he never tried police cases.
It was fixed to be tried by Mr. Payne.
Mr. G. S. Grifi'hs mad he had come hack from the
Oxford Circuit, at great inconvenience to himself, for the
purpose of attending to this case, which had been fixed to
be taken the first thing that morning by Mr. Payne, and
he (Mr. Griffiths) was then prepared to go on with it.
The Assistant-Judge—Do you concur in the suggestion
which has been made, that this case shall be sent to the
Central Criminal Court!
Mr. Griffiths—Certainly not.
Mr. Metcalfe—l feel that this is a case of so mtch im-
portance that it ought not to be tried in the other court,
and that being the arrangement I now hand back my brief
to the attorney who instructs me for that reason.
The brief was then handed back to Mr. Beard, the attor-
ney, who was in court.
Subsequently, in Mr. Payne's court,
Mr. Healey said—ln the matter of Davis and Jarvis, I
understand that the indictment in this case will come be-
fore your lordship. sent from ibe other court, where a pro-
poul was made that it should be sent for trial to the
entral Criminal Court. Mr. Griffiths, who represents
the policemen, objects to that proposal. and inconsequence
Mr. bletcalfe has returned his brief. I have, therefore, to
apply to your lordship for a postponement of the case.
Mr. Payne—No ;if Mr. Metcalfe chooses to return his
brief I cannot lend myself to anything of the kind.
Mr. Dasley—Allow me, my lord, to do the best I can for
my clients.
Mr. Payee—This is not your fault.
Mr. Besley— I understand, then, that your lordship
refuses my application for an adjournment until the next
sessions
Mr. Payne—Oh, certainly. Ido not see why this case
should stand because the counsel chooses to throw up his
brief at the last moment.
Mr. Besley —As the two constables were committed for
trial for unlawfully wounding, before the other com-
mittal, I have to apply that the two police constables may
be kried first.
Mr. Griffith.—! object to this, as Mr. Crampton was
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—MANCHESTER, DEC. 7.
charged and committed first, and it was afterwards that
Como Coton.—(Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) Mr. Beard applied to the magistrate to hear his wit-
Joarph Rodgers, 19, Henry Holland, 23, John Gleaning, De,,sis.
20, norm's Craren, 18, John Awn tug, 18, Joseph :Roane, Mr. Besley—Allow me an hour to read over my brief.
`22, and Richard Alaeready, 20, were indicted for having, Mr. Payne—Very well—not mole.
in Jersey-street, Manchester. onthe '26th September, felon-
(Before Mr. Payne.)
ously killed and slain one William Lee.
The Recorder of Manchester and Mr. Hopwood were Jaws Fusee, 32, a determined-looking man, was placed
counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Higgin, Mr. Ernest in the dock charged with obtaining by false p-etences a
Jones, and Mr. Cobbett. appeared for the prisoners. sovereign from Charles Taylor, with intent to defraud, to
This was a case of homicide, arising out of a most which he pleaded not guilty.
brutal and disgraceful outrage in which the deceased came Mr. R. Corney Grain prosecuted ; the prisoner was un-
by his death through interfering, with a desire, so far as defended.
can be ascertained. peacefully to protect others. On the Mr. Grain having opened the cause, said there were half
26th September, in the afternoon, William Jewell, a boat- a dozen other charges against the prisoner for felony, but
man, and Mary Jewell, his wife, were pruning along Jer- he proposed to deal with the one of fraud. He galled
sey-street on their return from some law works Charles Taylor, an ironmonger's assistant, living at No.
there. William Jewell was leading • horse, 8, Rutland-street, Stepney, who said he was in want of •
when a crowd of some twenty or thirty young men, among house, and on the 10th of October the prisoner came to
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whom were the prisoners, attacked Mary Jewell, and one him and said he wanted to let a house which belonged to
of them (the prisoner Rodgers) took off his coat to fight him. Witness and his wife went over the house, No. 37, DEATH PROM EXCESSIVE ABSTEMIOUSNESS.—
her. The crowd gathered round the boatman and his wife, ohirpottartreet, and being very satisfied with it entered Yesterday afternoon Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, held an
and dealt blows at them. One of the prisoners, Doming, into an agreement to take 11. The prisoner said he should inquiry at the Sugar Loaf Tavern, Church-street, Mile-end
was assisted upon the horse. At this moment William require a deposit on the house, and witness gave him a New-town, touching the death of Samuel Parry, aged 32
Lee, the deceased, walked up to the side of the horse and sovereign, believing at the time he did so he was the ye irs. Mrs. Sarah Parry, the stepmother of the deceased,
told Doming he had no right on the horse, and said owner of the house and had authority to let it to bim. said that she lived at the Marshes, Long Hope, Gloucester.
" Why cannot you let these poor people pass along the He afterwards made inquiries, and found that he had been TheMetropolitanece Ch d was • mercer and ders, raper Mile , and he live
Nd latterly
street quietly ?" Immediately he had asked this question duped, and the pnsoner was not the owner. aamb-end ew-
Lee's hat was knocked over his eyes, and he was knocked Hidore Pallactio, general dealer, 475, Hackney-road, Daniel Cronin, bed maker at the Metropolitan Chambers,
down several times. At list he went down under a shower proved the house belonged to himself, and the prisoner said that the deceased had lodged in the chambers for six
of blows, and when lying helpless on the road, the pri- had nothing to do with it. The house was let to a Mrs. weeks past. He was very penurious in his habits, though
soners and others dealt kicks at his head with their heavy Linden. He never saw the prisoner before. there was no necessity for his being so. He had shares in
iron-shod clogs or shoes. The result was that he was Mrs. Charity Linden proved the prisoner lodged in the companies, and ready money. He was a vegetarian, and
picked up so sOOll as assistance could be rendered, dead, or house for four weeks, and left suddenly without paying had, he understood, been so for some years. He lived
in a dying state. One woman said he was dead when the rent. The prosecutor's wife came to her and said her principally on a basin of gruel and an apple cut up.
picked up. Another said he died in her arms as she husband bad paid a sovereign, when she (witness) told the On Thursday week he seemed very ill, and he was
assisted to lift him. prisoner she thought he was doing very wrong, and in asked to send for • doctor. He said that he never had
Mr. West, the Recorder, in opening the sue, Said it was answer he said it was all a mistake. anything to do with doctors. When he was ill he went
one that disclosed a state of things highly discreditable to The prisoner, who declined to crosa-examine the wit- without food for a day or two until he got well again. On
the city and to its progress in civilisation. nevus, said nothing in answer to the aharge. Friday the superintendent became alarmed and sent for
In the course of the evidence, which was very lengthy, The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Dr. Champneys, the perish doctor. He got worse and
Mary Jewell, wife of the boatman, said the prisoeer Rod- One other case was proceeded with, which was clearly worm. until Monday, when he was removed, dying, to the
gers put his arms round her neck before her husband came proved against the prisoner. It was for stealing some workhouse. Dr. A. M. Champneys said that when he was
up. and then took off his coat aini put himself in an atti- blankets and sheets from the rooms he lodged in. called in to the deceased on Friday last be found him quite
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tude before her to fight. Her husband then came up, and The other cases revealed a long series of depredations exhausted from debility from want of food. He refused
they tried to get away. Deceased came up and spoke to from furnished lodgings where the prisoner resided, but to give any reason for not taking food. Witness gave mthem, and Rodgers came up and hit him a blow on the they were not proceeded with. dicines to provoke hunger. On Sunday he was only par-
side of the herd. Holland hit deceased on the head and A verdict of Guilty in the one case having been recorded, tially conscious, and it was with difficulty he could be got
knocked him down. This was directly after he had got Warder Reeves, of the House of Correction, and Harry to take • little gruel. On Monday he was totally insen-
up from • previous knock down. After this there was a Short, 77 0, gave to the court along history of the prisoner. Bible, and he was removed to the workhouse, where he
mob round him, kicking lino and knocking him about as he It appeared that for the last 20 years he had been living a died in a few hours. The post-mortem examination showed
lay on the pavement. libe slaw Rodgers kick him on the very bad life. Tbe former convictions which were proved that the cause of death was effusion of serum on the brain,
right temple. I Wit eat did not say on the right temple, against him were—At the Central Criminal Court, in 1859, resulting from the exhaustion of the frame from want of
but pointed to that part of
Trot on head.) She saw four he was tried upontwoindictmenta for &similar fraud to that proper nourishment. If the deceased had taken food he
other men kick him but coul identify them among the of which he bad been found guilty, and at that time there would be alive now. He could not have taken proper
prisoners. While this Was taking place her husband went for was also a charge of felony against him, but it was not nourishment either vegetable or animator some time past.
a policeman. The kicking, she thought, hardly lasted four proceeded with. He represented that he was the owner The jury returned • verdict that deceased died from effu.
minutes. The crowd ran away before the policeman came, of some houses, and obtained money from a man as he had lion of serum on the brain, accelerated by too abstemious
gheenon the ground. She remembered a bpi being onthe done from the prosecutor. He had 18 months for an- babita.
back of t horse and jumping off on to deceased's neck as other fraud, and at that time nine months' bard labour Du BAsaw's Infamous RBYALEBTA Amami
be lay in the road. She could only speak with certainty to was proved against him. Be was next tried at the Surrey FOOD cares dyspepsia, indigestion, cough, asthma, connunption,
Rodgers and Holland as kicking Lee, hut she thought Se/slain on the 19th May, 11362, when he was sentenced debility, constipation, tilerearm palpitation, nervous, bilious,
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was the ono that jump .W off the horse. to four years' penal servitude. He has got two wives, ous, liver, and stomach complaints Cure No. 68,413.—" Rouse, July
Edward Jewell, the boatman, said he was loading his an old woman and another *young girl, and when taken It 1866.—The health of the Holy Father Is excellent,
ice, abandon an other rainedim he his confinedmtli la
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horse down Jersey-street, after leaving the glauworks of into custody was about to be married to a third. entirely to Dn Bowel Food, and his Neilsen cannot prams
Mr. Glasgow on the 26th of September, and WU following Mr. Payne, after commenting upon the prisoner's long this excellent food too highly. —Gamete/ha ILI& Du Barry and
his wife, when he saw • number of men pushing her mew of Many and bigamy, meowed him to be kept in Co., lie. 77, Regent Louden, W. In thia, at U. led.;
about. Thews were Si or 28 of them. She followed 004 psaalgerfileds for seven rem ilk, Is. Ili Mtn., 3. silks. 406.—(Advertimassit.