The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

ATWITTER ZULU THROUGH MALODOR.

A Toting man named Charles Puke, the mutes cf
a tradeog vessel called the Anne, belonging to Goering, she
yesterday brought before Sir P. H. Dyke and a tbli bertha
megistretes, at the Court-house, Dartford, upon the charge
of feloniously stabbing a young man named Charles May,
with intent to do him gr:evoue bodily harm. Mr. Emma% a
solicitor of Dirtied, comleeled the prosecution- and r.
Gibson, another premised gentleman of Dartford, ap-
peared for the prisoner. The case, from the eireum-
stones ensected with it, appeared to create •pea
deal of interest, and the court was crowded ley
inhibiting of Dartford and tto neighbourhood during
the inquiry. The transaction which w the sub-
ject of iavestivion occurred on Good Friday Let,
sad the prisoner has been in custody since then, the page-
ant,* having been too seriously injured to appear sad glee
evidesee until the present occasion. The set emus to
have been committed under the following circumstances :
The prisoner, who, itoppeare, is very respectably connected,his
father being • shipoweer at Guernsey, one of his meth
being under the prooner's command, was in the habit when
his venal came to London of stopping at an inn at Green-
hithe kept by a person named Mister. He had two
daughters, end It would stem that the prisoner paid great
attention to one of them, and there appears to be no doubt
that he was very mach attached to her. The prisoner's
vessel ins at Greenhithe on God Friday, and he spent the
day at Sir. Minter's, and he invited the prosecutor, who is a
young mu belonging to Dertiord, and a friend of his named
Webb, to accompany him sad the two young youth
on board his vessel, and it named that during the
day the prisoner was mach annoyed at the prosecutor's
taitarliteintion to his eweetlient. Upou their return to
in the wenn, • quarrel took place between the
two young me m, and theprineme elemilenged May to come
eat sad fight, bit be deelined to do so, sod about half-put
aloe ti clock at sight the restart left the Hull Traderorlthh
is the sign of the hone, kept by Mr. Minter, to go on board
his weed. Tha proeecn'or, it appeared, followed him, some-
thing having shortly bikes been said about dghttag, end
some blows were eachanged between him sad the prisoner,
when the latter western to suddenly thrust his hand forward
la the direction of the prosecutor's trzast, end he knew -
distely exclaimed " I am stabbei," gad fell to the ground,
and the prnoner then made the best of his way fee hosed hie
vessel, where he was taken into custody on the following
morning by Mr. Brandon, • superintendent of the
county constabulary, • very useful and satire Miner. who has
the charge of this district, and • seaman'e knife, the blade of
which was covered with blood, and with which the Injury
had no doubt been inflicted, was found coutated in kis
berth, Dr. Seccomb, • surgeon at Greenhithe, who attended
upon the prosecutor, found that ha had teceived very serious
injury, end for some lima it w anticipated that the knife
had unenvied the right lung, in which case the injury
would in ell probability have proved mortal. This. however,
fortunately tuned out not to be the cue, and the pro-
secutor eau now suffieleirly reocvmed to be able to
attend and
_give evidence, although stSl is a very week
condition. Be was sworn, and deposed to most of the above
facts, and, in anme.elantinatiop, he denied having paid say
attention to Miss Mister with a view to annoy the prisoner,
but he admitted that they were alt jibing together d the
afternoon. The other young men, Webb, was also
and he oorroborand the for in his statemeat es to the
droututisoes under w ch the injury was inflicted, and end
that until the prosecutor mind out' lam stabbed" he lad
no idea that the prisoner lied any weapon. The whole of the
dersitloos haying beta taken, the Chairman said the bench
felt it to be their duty to oomout the priciner for trial to
Maidstone gaol at the ensuing summer seethe.

THE 4TLE1727.D MURDER OP IN INFANT 42'
HOLBSCII.

At the Leeds Town-hall, on Saturday mornin,
Jorepti Read. shoemaker, Towngste, Holbeok, was home d
up for exurb:oboe, charged with cruelly tresvag Honey
Read, aged eve months, with intuit to do her some grievous
bodily hum. Policeman Sykes said that last Wednesday
night, between four and five o'clock, he went to the prisoner's
bottle, Townpte, Halbach. He saw Hrs. Rodley coming
out with the child, and ate said, "See, be has killed Ms
chi:d." He th ught it was dead, and he charged the
r, who was lurking at his beet, with murdering it.
litaalerristher replied that he had not hurt the bairn. He
asked him to go tq the Polloe.office, but the prisoner refused.
' He told him he most go, end the prisoner then attempted to
strike him with a hammer.
Margaret Mann, aged twelve years (a dee-daughter of
the prieoner4), mid that Let Wednesday afternoon about
four o'clock, she and her little sitter went oat, leer mg her
father and the baby in the hone. The betty wee in bed
seeep. When they retained hey father said the child was
dead. It was on the bed; its fete was black. Her father
was also on the bed. She sent her sister into the room. Her
stater came beck and told her that her father was striking the
child over the stomach. She then sent for Mrs. Rodlay, e
ceghbour, who came tn. Her father had then got up. See
did not see any person strike alto child. Her ester told her
that her father bed shock it.
Mrs. Rodley said that she was fetched to the priether's
home by the bole girl. She went into the room where the
child was. Tito rimier wee there. The child was on the
bed, end appeared to be deed. It was bleak in the face,
sad sadly marked. The pristine wag needing at the bed-
side, looking over it. She said, " What ever have you hews
doing at the child r' He replied, "Nothieg." The merke
were huh, and the left eye wee full of bleed. The elate girl
told her whet her little eia'er had seen, In the hearing of the
prison7r. The little girl said her father bad heat the child
over Its little neck, and thee best it over the belly with his
"double neat," and the bad watched him through a nigh of
the door. She also said abe had seen her father put his hand
to Is throat. She (viruses) said to the prisoner, " Yon have
killed it." and be replied, " I wish it was dead." She than
sent for the police.
Mr. Wm. Sc dt, eurgeoe, Holbeck, said he saw the chi%
at Mrs. Fi.her's about era o'clock. He found severel marks
of discoloration on the face, neck, and left arm. The dheo-
loration was on the right cheek and temple, on the left
temple, an the throat directly over the wallet, sad on the left
arm, just below the elbow. The eyelids were swollen, sad
the face wu partly swollen. The merit on the rieht cheek
and temple' and on the neck, had been wearily done. The
mark en the left temple had been mescal • day or t wo before.
The chat was sensible bat drow.y. Be had attended it
since, and it twee now out of Jenger. The marks en the
face and temple were, he thought, produced by blows. that
on tbe srm by preestue with the Seger or by the the
Marha oa the throat were mused by pressure, sadmouth.
apparently
by the enure.
The wiener declined to est any quretione, end Mr. Bur
then fervid wnh the juniors aa to 'whether the ease should
be sent for aid, or be dealt with summarily node, Lord Camp-
belt,. hot, alter which the primmer ray named his sorrow for
what be bed done.
The chiefconembh weld biOwas informed that the child', We
sees insured. The prisoner pit Id. per eek, mid would be
entitled to 61. on its death. He told ore et the officers that
t he ill-we lit foe the purpose of getting the 61.
The Opals, wee committed ,to the urinous for ttlel.-
1 • Lr"is Mercury.