The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-04 00:00:00

NORFOLK CIRCUITt— Noawicu, APRIL 3.

The commission yes opened yesterday before Mr. Justtce
Wightmen, both for the city and the county. No IMO of
interest was tried on the first day.
Pan•s COVRT.—Bialau CROW BARON POLLOOL.
Dos DIM. KINO a. WRIO/IrMAN..
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In this cam Francis King was the lessor of the plaintiff,
and Mr. Ambrose Wrightman the defendant. The declara-
tion mated that on the 19th of January last Francis King
had demised to him, for a term of years, certain premises
mentioned in the declaration, and that during that time the
defendant entered and ejected him from possession of the
same by force. To this the defendant pleaded not guilty,
and thereupon issue was joined. The action was brought
to recover possession of a house, • blacksmith's shop, and
about two acres of land at Feltwell, which was copyhold
of the manor of Soathold. Mr. King is • butcher at Stoke
Ferry, and the defendant &wheelwright, at Feltwell. The
title to the property was derived under a mortgage (or 4001.,
made by the owner of the property to • Mr. Alexander. In
1849, Mr. Alexander sold his interest in the property to Mr.
King, the plaintiff. Evidence of the surrender of the pro.
party by edmiesion in the Manor Court of Southhold was
given by Mr. E. L. Swatman, of Lyon, the steward of the
manor. The defendant continued in possession of the
property, sad Mr. King not obtaining interest for
his money distrained upon the goods of the de-
fendant and they were sold by public public auc-
tion. The defendant then brought his action against
the plaintiff for damages, on the ground that the
seizure had been illegal, and Mr. King paid 151. into court,
and afterwards some costs. Mr. King then brought an as
of ejectment against the defendant, who replied to the
action that he held the property as tenant, and not as mort-
gagee, and this in reality formed the next question which
the jury had to try.
The learned Judge, in summing up, observed that the
question was whether the plaintiff in this action was entalcd
to recover. He thought his right would rest chiefly upon
whether his title had ban established. The answer set up
by the plaintiff wee that he was tenant of the premises, and
that he had not received my notice to quit. His lordship
then recapitulated the evidence, which was chiefly of •
documentary character, after which the jury, after a few
minutes' consideration, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
damages, Is.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Wmtvacit, APRIL 2.
Boom Ma. Baum reale.
CH•101 or IREARTICIDE.
Bridget Tameney, single woman, seed 26, was charged
with the wilful reorder of her illegitimate male infant
child.
Hannah Walters, nurse in the lying-in ward of the War-
wick Union Workhouse, stated that the prisoner was ad-
mitted into the union-house in the latter end of last year,
and was confined of a healthy male child on the 27th of
December. In a few mornings afterwards witness noticed
that the child's tongue and lips were of a blew colour, and
that the child was not well, upon which she informed
Mr. Hilton, the governor of the house, and
gave him some pieces of " bluestone," which she -
had found in the prisoner's bed, and some smaller NOR Tl 3 WALES CIRCUIT: APRIL 2.
bits which were upon the floor of the room. Mr. Blew a ER,
kinsop, the surgeon to the house, was sent for, but the child Heroes Ma. Jerrie' WILLIAMS.
died on Suaday morning. CHARGES Or Past sex IN A COUNTY COURT.
By his Lor&hip—The prisoner was placed in the able- John Freidman, 40, was isdicted for wilful and corrupt
woman's ward, but witness did not know if any " blue perjury before J. W. Harden, Esq., judge of the county
stone" was kept there. wart at Northwich, in this county.
Cross-exasained—The prisoner was confined on the Than- Mr. Brandt stated the case for the prosecution, to the
day., and appeared very fond of the child, which she suckled, effect that the prisoner was charged with an offence which
and expressed great anxiety about it when it was ill ; she would require their best attention—a charge of wilful and
said she hoped it would not die, and evinced all the care and corrupt perjury. This, be (the learned counsel) believed,
fondues natural to a mother. was the first case which had been brought before this court
Joseph William Hiltin, governor of the workhouse, for perjury committed in the new county courts. By the act
examined—Witness received with:Mr. Blenkineop, the our- constituting the county courts it was provided that if any
goon, a communication from the last witness, and after Mr. penmen whose evidence was material should swear falsely in
Blenkiusop had seen the child and left, the nurse gave him that court he should be subject to the same pains and penal.
the contents of the box he now produced. Witness went to ties as If he had taken the oath in a superior
the prisoner, and said, " How came you to administer court. The facts of the case were very simple.
such stuff to your infant ? " The prisoner replied, It appeared that on the Bth of January last the
;larva it to my infant to do it good." He then prisoner summoned a person named Ann Lee before the
her " how she came by it ?' She answered, judge of the county court at Northwich for having taken
"it was given to me by a Mrs. Green, a • navvy's ' wife, certain goods from him. The action was in " ton," and
Whie lived in the Saltisford," adding, "I am very sorry for was brought either to recover the goods or their value in
e I have done; I hope the child won't die ; and I hope, money. At the trial the defendant, Ann Lee, alleged that
if I get multi. trouble, I shall be more careful for the Prosaism (the prisoner) had given her the goods, and in
Mitre." Witness then asked her "if her brother used any proof of her allegation, put in a paper signed by Proud.
of that kind of stuff to stuff birds with ?" and prisoner re- man, which would at once have established her case. The
piled, "he uses a white poison, not blue." Witness had not prisoner, on the paper being shown to him, swore as follows :
used the word " poison" before to the prisoner. She cried bit- . I new wrote my name In my life. I always needs my
WV, and expressed great regret, and particularly after the mark when my signature was required. I did not sign the
chiliwas dead, paper produced. I did not sign my name but made my
By Mr. Baron Parke—Before he said anything of the mark to my marriage register." In order to establish these
child's illness to the prisoner he had seen the medical man, facts he should cell a person of the name of Dodd, who had
who told him that the infant had bad blue vitriol, drawn up the paper in question and had seen the prisoner
Examination oontinued—Witness said to prisoner, "You sign it, and Ann Lee who had also witnessed his signature ;
have given the child blue vitriol, widish appears to be poi- and, in order to make this point more certain he should
ma." He might have used the word poison before the pri• prove that the prisoner had been seen to write his name on
nem did. There was no vitriol need in the house. The several other occasions. Several witnesses were called who
plasm bed hem visited before her confinement by her sustained the statement of the learned counsel.
mar and imam Mr. M'lntyre then submitted that the indictment would
Crewe-ezamined—He learned from the surgeon that blue not be sustained, inasmuch as It was not a material question
vitriol was a prom. He had not known this before. He before the County Court judge whether the signature were
would not swear that the prisoner had not told him that the Promises's or not. The question was, did the goods be-
" navel's " wilt odd the stuff " would do the child good, long to Prolamin ? The paper was not stamped, and was
mid keep it quiet," After witness told the prisoner she had therefore invalid as a deed of gift to Lee, unifies delivery of
gran blue vitriol to the child, she said she would be more the goods to her was also proved. No such delivery was
Meal in farm. proved, for the goods bad been removed from the house
Mr. Wary Illenkineop, house surgeon to the union house, daring his absence ; and thus their conversion by Lee was
Nil he had been in the profession fifteen years. On the wrongful, and the paper, being undamped, went for nothing.
ladi of Derailar his attention was called to the decoyed, If the paper were worthless, then it could not have been
whom he bed era IS the previous day in good health • on material to the question tried at the County Court whether
Me Mew pleadved Me lips and tongue wen discoloured ; Premeds= had signed it or not.
wine oft bdilleill blue, and the child's cap and cap The Judge was of opinion that it was a material question
&wades
wan dibb re colour. It was his opinion that the whether the paper had been signed by the prisoner, for even
win by sulphate of copper. To his if the County court judge had hold mat the papar did not
wades to tie Ms what she had given her infant, par the goods to Ana Lee, still it might have influenced
she made an and,. newer,
1111 ordered what was him with respect to the damages, and also as to the mode in
to be deem babe and, and gave the cap to Mr. 0. help, of whisk he would enforce judgment
Warwick. draft The child died on Monday. Oa es- Mr. ll'lotyre then addressed the jury at considerable
andueliemaillee Sena he found the whole of the tubes led- leagth for the defame, after which the learned judge
Mgr Or etirleabin a high MAW of inflammation; in the summed up.
steam" Oro 111111111M0 quantity of half-liquid half-solid The Jarinfoil the prisoner Onilev.--Elentonos deferred.
matter, nal the be vs to Mr. Baly. He had no doubt Ralph , 30, was iadjeted for wilful and corrupt
but that Ms of rpm would cause death. pajat the may Court, held at Runcorn, on the 14th
was by WI maim. mar applied of February last.
externally te mad was&id N blue dna." It was The charge ears out of as action in the County Court,
also used is very Mali doses as ea amide sad arab. tried at Eisseen, before J. W. Harden, Esq., in February,
Cremexuained —Two, ram or bur genie might be in which John Astbury, the brother-in-law of the prisoner,
gives tosivalip perm, but he had 118,011•11111 it. Had was the plaintiff, and the pursuer was the debadost, to
read " ea Persia." It swami to Ms that the reenter the sum of 61. 10s., berg the balance ef as mutest
ill ward b. He knew Yr greener, and MA he !sow lost. The a whore la the
Armed bre mind to a provisos Magillniale and a melee, swore that he CrillarVe= as
a larger sum Men
ableb she Mid hem eselaseds sad ft was Etat of • kind and Si. 10s. doss his slaw (the irMb of the plaintiff), sad Or be
aillsellsnale .whet. He murdered the praiser to be is• did nee then owe her anything, having repaid that sem
tbao brew iho obsdiard of intellect, but be did sot Intend whisk be admitted . To support the =
brats to lap* alt she was insane, dirge, Mr. &grey lies , and man that last
Charge Daly, •• chemist, at Warwick, proved the nine the primer @eked her to lead kiss 101.. which she
aminelion of the imp, and stomach with ite Goatees% Wend to do, and that bet briber Job Bentley fetched the
heeded to Ma by Yr. Blenkinsop, and his appliance of the ream from her • that she apple' be t, and in Jane
wag tuft le discover the presence of poisons, lie discovered get M 10s. on acierattized Mat Irma pressed for
Arid in Os *rip of the cap end sulphate of eopper was the bibusee he ((Me ) 41111111111 i he would rather go to
Mee dismered in the intestinal tube. gar than pay It, if errs wear met wait his time. Mr.
Mr. "doh addressed the Jug he the defense, and his Astray gar confirmatory ordenes ; and Mr. Harden, the

The juty found that the IDMITIAC, had been effected for
the mutual beeelit of both parties. They were also of opi-
nion that the defendants were not aware that )41..Eachen
had any Interest is the ♦essel at the time of the tzaasac.
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His lordship then directed a verdict for the defendant,
with liberty to plaintiff to move to have the verdict re-
versed, and also with liberty to defendant to more for a
nonaait.