The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1868:

SPORTING INTELLIONNOE.

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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—/LuDercent, JULY 24.
Owing Bum— (Wore Mr. Justice Wines.)

• BV Lai A? AMID DIGIABODALS. it. • •
JaAn Siamonia, 26, • .respectably dressed, powerful
looking young man, was charged with feloniously and
burglaziously breaking into the dwelling-house of Viecourt
llohnerdale, at Lintrffr, in this county, in etninmuy with
another person, and armed with an offensive weapon, withintent to commit a robbery. . .

&leant Sleigh was specially, retained, with Mr.
Straight, to sxmtduct the prosecution ; the prisoner con-
ducted his own defence.
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The crime imputed to the pprisoner was one of the most
daring and ezirsordinary thatacter. At the time of the
occurrence, the noble prosecutor and • portion of the
establishment were staying at the town house, but there
*ere several women servants in the house that was
'attached, and the prisoner and his companion: had
evidently gone there determined, at all hasards, to carry
out their object of pkander. The robbers con-
trived tq make their escape at the time, but by the seal
and activity of Mr. Ovenden and Mr. Danoe, two superin-
tendents of the county constabulary, the prisoner was
apprehended and brought to justice.
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t ufi elly opened the clam for the
`lierjean Sleigh ha Ini
=ntion and detailed the particulars of the outrage
al d been committed, the following evidenee was
adduced. . .

Sells. deposed that he was night watchman at
the residence of Lord Holmeedatia Linton-place, near
Maidstone. .on.the morning of the 18th February, about
3 o'clock, he was on duty in the grounds' on.the north
side of the premise., when he observed • dim light in the
house which attracted hie attention, and he went round
the bouee, and sail that the window of the butler's room
was open. lie got through the window into the room,
and Sound the door open, and he went into a
paaeage leading from the east to the west, and just as he
-got into that passage he saw two men aiming towards
him. He bad a bull's-eye lamp with him, and he put it
full into their faces, and almost at the same instant he
did so the men knocked the lamp out of his hand and
extinguished it. Each of the men had • small light with
him in his hand. When the lamp bad been knocked out
he seised one of the men, and they had a severe struggle
together, and just as they got to a room called the lamp
room the other man struck him a violent blow on the head,
and be and the man he wan struggling with both fell to the
ground,. He was then struck teem two or three times on
the head, and was obliged in consequence to loose his hold of
the man he had seized. He got up and swung his
stiek round, and struck one of the mon with it.
The place was in darkness at the time, as all the lights
lad been put out. As soon as he had recovered himself a
little, he again seized oneof the men, cndthey had a etrua,le
in which he received another violent blow on the
head, and at the same instant • pistol was fired. He was
then again beaten very severely about the head, and
became nearly insensible, and was unable to remember
what part of the passage they were in at the time. He
snoceeded in getting away from his assailants, and went
and stood by the wall, and he heard one of the men say,
" Where is he ?" His companion replied, "Oh, stop a
minute—where is the P I'll do for hun." Witness
stood still after this, and so did the men, and he heard
them whispering to one another, and then they went a
little way down the passage and struck a light, and
left in the direction of the 'servants' hall door, and he
saw no more of them. He followed them for a
short distance, but he was hardly able to stand
from lose of blood. After a short time Dome of the
female servants (mine to him, and he was carried home
and attended by Mr. Jay, the surgeon. The prisoner was
afterwards brought to bins while he was in bed and
suffering from the injuries, he had received; and he recog-
nised him immediately, and had no doubt that be was one
of the men he 'saw on the night in question and who coin.
milted the assault upon him. He was certain that be
was struck by some short weapon, but as all was dark-
ness, be was unable to say what kind of weapon it was with
which the blows were inflicted. This witness went on to
state that he was confined to his bed for 11 days in come-
queues of the injuries he received.
In answer to questions put by the prisoner
in cross-examination, the witness said that he'
had trimmed his lamp shortly before, and it was burning
brightly, and be put it full in the face of the two men,
and haled no doubt that he was one of them, but he
would not take a positive oath to the fact.
Mr. Jay, the surgeon, was then examined, and he
proved that the last witness had received a number of
contused wounds on the head, which were evidently in-
dicted by some blunt instrument, such as a life preserver.
He saw Sells on the same morning the occurrence hap-
pened, and he was in a very faint condition, and had evi-
dently lost a great deal of blood. He was very much ex-
hausted, and for several days be oonaidered him in a dan-
=condition. The Injuries, he considered, might also
been inflicted with asbatt end of a pistol.
Hrs. Mary Chilton deposed that she was the house-
keeper at Linton-place, and at the time this affair oc-
curred Lord Holmeedale was in town, and there were only
five maid servants and. a boy sleeping in the house. She
went to bed about ten o'clock on the night of the 17th
February, having previously seen that the premises were
properly secured, and she was awoke about three o'clock
on the following auWmg.by hearing a peculiar noise, as
if sonse persons were nng about in the passage under-
neath her bedroom. She got out of bed to see what time
it was, and struck i light for the purpose, and discovered
that it was exactly a quarter past three o'clock. At
this moment she heard the report of • pistol in
the passage the referred to, and she went to her
bedroom door, which was locked, and listened,
and heard a maim as if some persons were
together in the passage underneath, and she trefitilitlis=
some very dreadful language, and a man's voice ex-
Where is the —, his eyes, we'll do for
him. Witness rang the bell that communicated with the
peerage below, and immediately afterwards she heard two
persons run upstairs quickly, and they stopped at her
bedroom door and tried to open it. She called out to them
in as loud and powerful a voice as she could assume,
" Who are you ? What do you want? If you come here I
will shoot you." The two persons then went away to-
wards the housemaia's room. and she heard them shut the
door and lock it after them, and soon after this
she heard a faint call for assistance, which she
recognised as the voice of the watchman. In a few
minutes the maid servants came to her room, and she
went down stairs and found Sells, the watchman, covered
with blood and n early insensible, and he appeared to have
been dreadfully beaten. They pulled the alarm bell, and
Thomas, the stableman, came to their assistance, and
Sells was conveyed to his own house. She searched the
passage and found acap, which was produced. Some of
the lower rooms had been broken open, and various arti-
cles of property were strewed about, but nothing
was missed from the premises. As the men were
going along the passage they seemed in a great hurry,
and made a very peculiar noise with their feet. She
heard one of them speak to hie companion as they went
along ; and when she heard the prisoner speak while he
was under examination before the magistrates, it imme-
diately struck her as being the same man that sheheard in
theirg
prisonere put Several questions to this witness, but
he did not succeed indiciting anything that was favour-
able to him.

Christina Spurrll deposed that she was fourth house-
maid in the service of Viscount llolmeadale at Linton-
place: On the night o(the 17th of February she went to
bed at ten o'clock, and another housemaid slept in the
same room. Between three and .four o'clock the next
morning she was awoke by hearing a lumbering
noise in the lower part of the house, and she got out
of bed immediately. Her bedroom door was not fastened,
and as she was going towards it, it was opened,
and two men entered. One of the men had a light in his
hand, and when they both came into tho room, one of
them locked the door. Both the men came towards her,
and she saw that one of them had a pistol, and he pointed
it at her and said, " If you halloo, I will blow your brains
out." Witness said, "Tray, pray don't," and they then
went to the window which looked into the kitchen-yard,
and they opened it, and both dropped into the yard. The
second housemaid was asleep when the men first came
into the room, but she woke up while they were. The
light they had with them went out almost directly they
got into the room, but she was unable to see the facts of
the men ; the prisoner resembled cue of them in stature.
He was the taller of the two.

Jane Pewter, the second housemaid, confirmed the
evidence of the last witness, and she also expressed an
opinion that the prisoner in his general appearance and
sue resembled the tallest of the two men who came into
her
}lth:C'elnwas then adduced to show that when the
prisoner was taken into custody and told what he was
charged with, he stated that he had not been at Linton
for several weeks, a statement which was proved to be
false. A witness was called, who said that on the morn-
ing of the outrage he met him coming in a direction from
Lord Elohnerdale's, having no hat or cap cm, and it was
also proved that some nailanarks up= two dusters that
were picked up on the lawn on the morning after the
burglary corresponded exactly with the nails that wens in
the prisoner's boots. There were also a variety of other
little circumstances which tended almost conclusively to
show that the prisoner was one of the persons concerned
in the outrage.
The prisoner, who, it may be stated, in addition to
haviirg been previously convicted of felony, had pleaded
guilty to two other indictments of the same description,
made a long and rather ingenious speech to the jury,
asserting his innocence, and he called his father and one
of , his enters to prove an alibi, by showing that he was at
honii 'frbm bra-pant elemb o'clock on the 17th of
February during the whole of the night, bat the evidence
of ; the witumme upon this point was of a very Unotis-
Tohareeter. •
ritaiee Willes having summed up the whole of the
see very carefully,
ithe jury, after a brief deliberation, found the prisoner
The learned Judge, addressing the prisoner, said that,
notwithstanding his protestations of innocence and the
evidence of the witnesses who had been called on his be-
half, he believed that the charge had been clearly esta-
blished against hut and he entirely concurred in the Ur-
diet of the jury. e hail been concerned iu a burgia.-y of
a very serious character, mcompanied by moot aggrove.d I
circumstances, and he felt it his duty to nutmeat him to
be kept in renal keryitzle for the Jena of te.- y

Risherd pewee Brie, • very respectable-looking man,
apparently about 30 years of age, surrendered to take his
trial atm a charge of having feloniously assaulted a girl
named Louisa Haynes.
Serjeant Ballantine was specially retained to emiduct
the prosecution, with Mr. Un.losclowro; Herjeant Parry,
also specially retained, &Ad Mr. Pi on, app area for the
defence. . . .

This was • case that attracted 6011113 attention on
account of the position of the prisoner, who carried on an
ezte naive business as a tea dealer and erocerat Tenterden,
and was reported to be • man of considnrable property, and
who is also married, and has a family of seven
children. The promecubir., a very good-looking girl,
fifteen years old,. was in him servloe, antb ac-
cording to her evidence, the offence was committed
during the temporary ab‘ence of the wife of the primmer,
on the rind of June. The story she told, divested of
matters that are uufit to be made public, wee that on the
afternoon of the day in question the prisoner asked her to
have some wine, which she refused to do, and he then
tried to force her to take some wine, and ultimately threw
her chap and committed the offence imputed to him.
fffiestated that she became insensible, and remained

so for More than an hour, and while she was in
this condition the prisoner carried her upstairs
to a bedroom, and, aceording to her testimony,
repeated the offence.. She seemed not to have made any
complaint until the morning after the occurrence, when
she iommunicated to her mother what had taken place,
end the prisoner was taken into custody.
Ssr'eant Parry made a very effective address to the jury
thih of the prisoner, and he endeavoured to show
at what had taken place was done with the consent of
the proisecutrin
The learned judge summed up the ewe at some length,
and to. jury retired to deliberate upon their verdict.
They were anent moss than an hour, and upon their
return into court they gave a verdict of baldly. They,
however, recommended the prisoner to mercy, but did not
state any ground for that recommendation.
Mr. Justice Willem said that the jury, after considerable
deliberation, had found the prisoner viltp of a most
detestable crime. They had r•tomm him to mercy,
and altiough.he was not aware upon what grounds they
had given this recommendation, ho did not feel that in
such a ease it ought to operate to any extent in mitigation
of punishment. It was painful to see a man in his con-
dition ad life standing in the position he did, but he felt it
to be his duty to sentence him to be kept in penal servi-
tude for ten years.
The prisoner, who appeared almost overwhelmed at
the result, was then removed from the bar.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, JULY 24.
(Before Mr. Baron Pigott.)
TUE WIEDER OP • LITTLE 011 IL AT Itnennova._

William Hancock, 40, furnace-man, was indicted for the
wilful murder of Mary Ann Whiteiaurst, on the 10th of
June, at Ridsgrove, in the parish of Woldanton.
Mr. Brindley and Mr. J. Randolph Rose wore counsel
for the prosecution, and Mr. Midteram defended the
prisoner.
The evidence showed that the deceased was a little girl
about ten years old, and the daughter of a neighbour of
the prisoner. On the night of the 9th of June the de-
clared, after playing for some time with the prisoner's
children, asked and obtained the permission of her father
to sleep at the house of the prisoner. She did so, and
retired to bed along with the prisoner and his family at
about half-past 9 &clock. The household was aroused
about 2 o'clock the following morning by the prisoner,
who, in s state of uncontrollable violence, was shout-
ing, cursing, and attempting personal violence to-
wards his wife. The prisoner's wife and chil-
dren became terror-stricken and fled from the house,
taking refuge at the next door neighbour's. Unfor-
tunately they left the deceased behind them, as the pri-
soner, after leaping through the bedroom window into
the street, returned to the house, and seizing hold of the
unfortunate little creature by the legs and arms, battered
her head against the kitchen floor until life was extinct.
The medical evidence showed that the prisoner was suf-
fering from delirium tremens at the time be committed
the deed, and that he was not conscious of what he did.
The learned judge having summed up, the jury
Acquitted the prisoner on the ground of insanity, and his
lordship ordered hum to be detained during her Majesty's
pleasure.

' THE POLICE CO URT&

MANSION HOUSE.

William Fill, a respectable looking man 61 years of age,
was brought up on remand before Mr. Alderman Finis,
on several. charges of forgery and embezzlement.
The prisoner was a clerk in the employment of Mr.
John Barnett, wine merchant, Great Tower-street, and
his duty was to keep the ledger. About a fortnight ago
a junior clerk picked up a pocket book belonguag to him,
and gave it to Mr. Heury William Osborn, the -manaor,
who found it to contain eight letters addressed to Mr.
Barnett, notifying the enclosure of cheques, none of
which had been received by Mr. Barnett or Mr.
Osborn, and the prisoner had no authority to open
any letters or receive cheques. It transpired in the
court,e of the evidence that the amount of the'
cheques had been carried to the credit of the
customers in the but that no corresponding entries
were in the cash book. ledger,
The prisoner had written acknow-
ledging the receipt of the cheques, and in several cases
proof was given to show that he had endorsed Mr. Bar-
nett's name on the cheques, and received the money for
them. On Mr. Ostorn asking him what he meant by
having their letters in his pocket-book he seemed very
much confused, and said he hoped the pocket-book would
be returned to him, as it contained papers ratting to
private affairs. The total amount of his defalcations in
the course of six months was about 1401. Subsequent to
being given into custody the prisoner wrote two
letters to Mr. Barnett, expzeseing contrition for what ho
had done, and praying that the charge against him might
be withdrawn.
Mr. Alderman Finnie committed him for trial.
CLERKENWELL.

Mary Ann Jackson, aged 27, of 2, Back-road, St.
George's-in-the-East, a dirty-looking woman, described
on the charge-sheet as a prostitute, was charged with
stealing, at 39, Brook-street, Holborn, two 5/. nk of
land notes and N. in gold, the property of Mr. John
h Audsley, of Bexley, Kent.
e prosecutor, who had apparently been drinking
freely, said he met the prisoner on Thursday night in
Oxford-street, and he treated her to drink, oysters, " and
so forth." They went to a house, where he missed from
his poeke-book the money mentioned in the charge-sheet,
and he called a constable and gave the prisoner into cus-
tody. None of the stolen property had.been recovered:
The prisoner, who denied the char)* was dischirged,
the magistrate remarking that no jury would believe the
story of a drunken man. .•
John Bowers, aged 21, a barman, in the employ of Mr.
Clark, licensed victualler, Rosoman-street, was charged
with stealing several sums of money, the property of his
employer.
The prosecutor, from feelings of charity, employed the
prisoner as his potman, and about six weeks ago raised
his wages, and promoted him to the situation of
,barman. For about three weeks the prosecutor has
suspected the prisoner of robbing him, and in con-
sequence he communicated with Inspector Potter, of
the 0 division, who marked some money, and em-
ployed some parties to pais it. On Thursday, from what
came to Inspector Potter's knowledge, he went to the pro-
secutor's, and called the prisoner into the parlour.
The prisoner said that he had got no money in his posses-
sion or in his be* but on his clothes in his bedroom being
searched a florin, two separate shillings, and a sixpence
which had been marked, the dorm on Friday last, were
found. From observation that bad been kept on the pri-
soner Inspector Potter had ascertained that the prisoner
had been in the habit of passing drink and money to his
confederates over the counter.

—The prosecutor faateriiiniduring the past fortnight his
takings had diminished as much :a 2U. During that
time the prisoner had purchased a new suit of clothes,
but be had now only in his possession the new coat. • -
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and he was sentenoed to be
imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Cor-
rection for six months.