The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-09 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET,

Arthur Henry Wools,, 22 _
ea of age, residing at
Eagles-home, Well-street, Hackney, and described as •
straw bonnet manufacturer ; Samuel Edwards, 40, King
Edward's-road, Hackney,"gentleman,"and Edwin Jefferson,
of 04k Villu, Victoria-park-road, Hackney, "gentleman,"
were brought before Mr. Cooke, charged with cruelly tor-
timing three cats by killing the same with two dogs.
Police-constable Here, 182 N, deposed—About half-past
12 o'clock on the night of Saturday last, while on duty in
Church-street, Hackney, I saw the prisoners coming to-
wards me, and beard a eat making a cry, helloing ; as the
prisoners passed me, Edward' said te Wooley, " I wish
I had your dog at my home, he might kill plenty of cats
there." After proceeding a little distance I heard another
oat hello._

Mr. Safford, (clerk)—As in pain'
Witosss—Yee, sir. I followed and beard them eel the
dogs on another cat.
Mr. Safford—ln what way—describe it.
Witness—By making a hissing noise, and saying, " Shake
it." Oo hastening up I sew one of the dogs killing a cat
in the toad. I asked, " Who bikinis to the dogs'" and
they each denied being the owner, but Mr. Wooley after-
wards said, "They are mina." Another constable came op
and the three gentlemen were taken into custody. Another
cat was found dead on oar way to the station, end one of
the dogs brought a third nearly dead in his mouth. One of
the cats was very bully torn about.
Crosseexamined by Mr. Vann—The prisoners were going
towards Wellotrset. One dog was behind and the other
before teem. The three prisoners .ere standing on the
foot-path when I reached them. I did not hear them call
the dogs off. They were 150 yards or about it from me
when I beard them setting the dogs oa.
Other evidence was then given in rapport of the charge.
Mr. Cooke, in dealing with the case, said-1 have no
doubt of the facts. If the prisoners bad been simply walk-
ing together without intent to commit cruelty, and had,
when accidentally there was occasion for interference, re-
strained, or tried to restrain, the doge, they would not then
have been criminally responsible, although they might
civilly be so to the owners of the cats; but it is very
different. By the evidence of three witnesses it is clearly
shown they all incited the dogs to kill at least one cat, and
I order each to pay a penalty of 405., or to be imprisoned
21 days.
The fine was paid.
The act empowers three months' imprisonment without
fine.

311:11DER TRIAL IN SCOTLAND.—Brown, mateof the
schooner Nymph, of Mullins., win yesterday found guilty
of the murder of the esptain off the Forfarshire coast
Sentence was delayed, the plane of execution being unde-
cided.

THE MCRDERERN UNDER SENTENCE OP DEATH.
In the case of the murderer John Jamieson, who was
sentenced at the Glasgow Winter Circuit Court to
be hanged on the 17th inst. for the murder of a
woman who bad refused to keep company with
him, but who was recommended to mercy by the
jury, that recommendation has been forwarded to the
Home-office, sod referred back for report, as usual in such
cases, to the learned judge who tried the ow. With
reference to the murderer Forward (or Southey. as he
prefers being called), some very considerable efforts are
being made in his behalf. Mr. C. E. Gold, of the
firm of Gold and Son, solicitor*. of Berianntle-inc.
Chancery-lane, applied to Mr. Waddiegtoo on Satur-
day, with a view of obtaining, with Mr. E. T. Smith
and Mr. It. Blake Steele, the counsel who appeared
at the trial, an interview with the Home Secretary, to place
some additional facts "oefore him with regard to the insthity
of the culprit ; but it is understood that Sir George Grey
has declined to grant an interview, and Mr. Gold therefore
left Landon last evening in order to obtain from the visiting
justices of the prison the necessary certificate under the
27th and 28th Vict., cap. 29, which can alone authorise the
Home Secretary to issue a commission to investigate the
prisoner's state of mind. Independently of this action,
which it is said will be supported by Viscount Harding. and
other magistrate., an application will be made to the
Attorney-General to issue his flat for an arrest of judgment,
on the legal ground to be submitted to the Court of Criminal
Appeal, that the learned judge tried the prisoner wrong-
fully; that the question of insanity ought to have been
decided first, so that the prisoner's election to defend him.
self might have been granted had the jury pronounced him
to be of sane mind. Should these endeavours on the part
of the defence prove ineffectual, the miserable man will be
executed at Maidstone on Thursday, at 12 o'clock.

. •
BCRKING REVIVED.—An attempt at " burking"
was made in this town on Saturday. The servant girl of
Mr. T. G. Sbuttleworth, of 22, George•street, and Upper
Otford•street, was passing between Burlingtoo•street and
Bond-street, about 6 o'clock in the evening, when she was
stopped by a man, who placed over her mouth a plaster of
pitch or coal tar, and then laid hold of her. What bis
precise object was does sot appear, as she managed to release
herself and give an alarm, upon which the men ran away
into a dark part of the street, and got clear off. The girl
was able to give a description of hie dress to the polies, but
up to the present time he has not been foand.—Shelfeld
Independent

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An inquiry was
held yesterday at the Twyford Arms, Twyford-street,
Caledonian-road, by Dr. Lankester, relative to the death of
James Legg. aged 36, a shouter on the Great Northern
Railway. Eli Aldridge deposed he was an engine shooter,
and saw the deceased attaching a waggon behind the break
von of • train, when one of the buffers overrode the other,
and the deceased was caught by the head stocks. One of
the trucks was loaded and the other was empty, and the
springs of the loaded one were lowered • good deal. Mr.
Williams, of the Great Northern Company, explained
that the loaded waggon, the buffers of which were
of unequal height with the second waggon, be-
longed to the London and North Western Railway.
The Coroner remarked that although the occurrence
in the present case was a novel one, be thought it was obeli-
lately essential that there should be uniformity in the
height of the buffers, and he also considered Users should
be some supervision to prevent trucks being overloaded.
Mr. Williams said the inspector of waggoos had taken the
loaded truths from the oentre of the train to the rear, is
order to prevent accident. Mr. W. A. Bryan,
having deposed that the deceased died from rupture of the
spleen and liver, the jury Mimed • verdict of "Accidental
death," and suggested that the railway company should
observe uniformity in the height of their buffers.
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