The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, - 1861.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—Dsc. 12.
situap d NW Prim la Loodoa.—(Brifore Lord Chid
Justin Eris and • Special Jury.)
PINTIONI AID ANOTNIA e. OOLIADQL—CHAATED-PANTT.
This was ea adios to re••ar 9001., SW loss said to ban
been sustsioird is ooa•egsssoe ol • skip sot hwing raid
fur orders at Gpinilt•r..

Mr. Lush, Mr. Mouldy, and Mr. H. Lloyd append for
the plaintiffs god Mr. M. Smith, Mr. Cloosby, and Mr.
Hamm: for the defendant. _

The plaintiffs were Merchants hi Little Winchester.
street, sad the defendant was a shipowner at Suede:land.
In February, ISA, the Horning Star, • vessel which
belonged to the defendant, was chartered to proceed in
ballast to Odessa, there load • cargo of tallow or grain, and
sail to Queenstown or Falmouth for orders for a safe port in
the United Kingdom, or on the ooetineat between Havre and
Hamburg. In April it was apparent that it would be more
profitable to send the cargo to Portugal, and an endorsement
was made on the charter•party that the Morning Star should
all at Gibraltar for (mien.
. _ _

&ideas, was given on both aids. and questions of law
Win raised ; but ultimately it was WI to the jury to lay
whether the captain had received orders at Odessa to go to
Gibraltar.

The jury fond a verdict for the defendant upon this
point, and kayo was given to tarn the matter into a special
owe or to more the court to enter the verdict the other
way.

SECOND COURT.

Steins et Nisi Prim la Loasica.—(Before Mr. Justice
BA.. sad • Speriel Jury.)

OAXILIT r. 00bDitlf. —714 NOULTMLOr 01.7De8 CASE

AGUIL
The plaintiff in this use, /b. Richard Banner Otte.,
sued to recover the amount of • bald etchings for • 4nw
which bore the name of the defeediat r acuptor, and tie
principal plea upon the record alleged that the defendant
had Accepted the bill in bleak, apes the that
it wu to be aid up fur 1001., thst She sum of . had
beep fraudulently needed, end that the plaintiff takes
the bill with notice of these simmundsacen The details of
the case have been already fully before the public, and the
metier sow came on for a sewed trial.
Mr. M. Chababers, Mr. llsseassara. and Hz. Harriers
rfor the plaintiff ; and Mr. Hawkins, Yr.
lb : Cole-
and . Inderwich for the deftsdant.
defendant was examinsd at greet length, sad at the
coachnioa of the evidence in support el hi cam Mr.
Chambers addressed the jury, stating the 'vibes, which
he proposed to give on behalf of the plaintiff.
The farther hearing of the Nee was then adjourned until
to-morrow (this day).

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
• •
NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—laysaroor., Dam 12.
CZOWN Courr—(Bstore Mr. Hem Chnowell.)
THi CIILD MIIILDZI AT DIOTIADIENt tlas lastegarwit.
Late last evening the jury returned • verdict of gaily in
the ems of Nancy Armtield, aocused of the murder of het
illegitimate child. The verdict was accompanied with a re-
commendation to mercy, on tLe ground that Sheppard, thu
father of the child, had not paid the prisoner the necessary
attentions.

Mr. Baron Chappell passed sentence of death on the pri-
soner, but said he should not fail to forward the recom-
mend:tilos to mercy to the propel quarter.
The primmer was thins removed in a fainting condition..
TIN MORD= OF COLONEL CROFTON AND C.AFFADI HANNAN.

TRIAL OF MN:A/PENT!

Patrick ir apt;y23, wu indicted for the wilful murder
of Adjutant Join Hsnham and Colonel Hugh Dennis
Crofton, on the 14th September, at Fulwood-barraeka, star
Preston.

lii. Kaye prosecuted ; lir. Russell defended.
Mr. Kays, is opening the case. said that in a chirp ef so
serious a character the jury would be glad to know that the
prisoner had the advantage of Lis learned Mead 11r.Rmsell '
for the defence, for however clear the widgeon might be
against the accused, it would be • satisfaction to them to
know that before they were called upon to rebut a verdict
involving such momentous coosequences to the pri-
soner they would hear everything that could be urged
in his defence. At the time the shot was find the primmer
was a private in the Mid Regiment of Foot. He bed en-
listed in 1860. On the 14th of September, when Captain
flusher met his death, be was presser with the depot el
his regiment at railroad barracks, sear Preston, and at
that time there were at Fulwood the depots of five other
regiments, farming a depot battalion, of which Colonel
Crofton was the colonel and uiptain Benham the adju-
tant. On Friday, September 13, We prisoner we
acting es picket sentry, sear the racer? quar-
ters. The officers had been mach disturbed by
the nein which children made near their quarters,
and Captain Hashers had wrested the prisoner
to see that them children wee removed. The primer
awned to have been somewhat careless in obeying the
order, sod Captain }Wham then requested that he would
go and find out the MOMS of the
_parlor. The pricer
weak but did not appear to have broaght more than the
name of we of the pereata, sad hum the way in which he
obeyedhe the order Captain Hearse impaired to have thought
that had neglected it, and met Idea to the guard-roem.
The teemed counsel thee demnibed to the jury the rendes
pursued when a soldier is banter lm i bees el some
minor offence, explaining that been detained in
the guard-room until the easel& at ja the -roues to
dispose of the ease. Nest nomming the *sow was takes,
betimes 10 and 11 o'er*, before Weed erotica, In the
orderly room, when Caplan Hearse preferred • oats-
plaint that M'Caffrey had resoled the order he on the
previous day. When asked by tis carrel what he had to
may, the prisoner said, '• lam murk I tried my utmost to
get the names of the children, but they ran away, and I
could only get one." Captain Heehaw said, "I should not
have complained, if it bad not been for the dogged wad in
which he went about it." The colonel, after • short tame
for ooseiderstion„ ordered him to be punished, by being coo-
led is banseks for 14 days. He was at perfect liboerstAtis
move about within the waW, but he multi not go
sad he had in addition to saw what wee
" peek-dedl." The prisoner, after sea Wee, was men to go
Tate am of the veareme outside ; he did not appear to be at
as excited, bet wee mesa waiting there natal eis the ordinary
mune me of the serpasts should ewe and take him to
the guard-row, In order that the sadism an guard Wot
identify him and not allow him to pre the pie until his
son woe ha expired. Now while the primer was thus
occupied one of the privates bed takes his anursaires hoot
his (11'Cairey's) pluck and bid it upon his bed in his
MOM, which was *Mb& ia puree two
the pro
produced. The somenities mineprimed two eisoloste of
hall cartridge, each packet unstaring 10 rounds.
The primer's ecoontrements were seat down to the
i[-ream, but when be wee set at liberty
ifiredrbsing shown to the guard) dreadrey went back to
wove, and the mane private (lever) was in the room.
The primer did set appear at all melted. He asked
Lever for his rills and ammunition, sod Leven told him it
was lying cm the bed. The prisoner asked for a piece of
cloth or rag to rem the ride. He had the rag and the
rite supaia, and he appeared to have game to hie bed
and takes the ammunition. He was this for a short time
unobserved, bat shortly afterwards a Sip was heard to
in K purge. About this time, too, me of the
explode
went into the pewee, sod saw the rimer Wad
there with • ride in Ni had. No sobs, however,
seemed to have bees lakes of this at the time, but Immo-
diately afterwards the wives of two miser sergeants in the
barracks sew • man (whom they were sot able to identify)
°ems out al( posemea, keeel &ow in haat of the doer of
tits passage, md after taking a thilimesto aim, be in the
direction -of Oared Crafts,. sad Petals Hashes, who
were wends, aide by side SIMS the square. The ballot
took too veforesate 'Reek be after prig Worth
Colonel Crake, and ere of the sew at (kgt Hashes,
it lodged is the lower pert of the captain's spire, and the
oremeenee was that the urea died on the following
day, and the carer on the Monday followieg. The
inn who red the shut readi-ly weir bask to
sod it would be for the jury to
fogdre whether that ram was the whew at the her. They
wet member that before the chat was red, • imp was
heard to explode is K pomp ; that • soldier wont into
the puree and saw the prisoner with a ride ; sad that a
ow
wee mein to be, and than go bask kW the
The wiser the explores of the gas was beard, osia=
morgeres west directly to the ramp, end fora the gri-
sorer there with • ride (sal wan) in his head, an ex-
ploded tap berg epos tile ripple. The elegant mild,
" Who ilia done r The priscear replied. " Never
mind, lake this." Inmedifiely aillerwards another w-
iper owe ire the pewee, end Wok
_" Who les dose
this rTo which the prmoner replied, " I GA" He wes time
emanated by the sergeant and me or two molders from
the pomp to the gaud-room. es the way there he
toned round sod mid calmly to me of the soldier, "
could not de it with the first eatia:ud I pat on a wood."
When Ia the gaud-roes, es the erlammatiom
about the colossi and wear being he said, " Ab, I
didn't bread to shoot the colossi ; I meant it for the
captain ; but it doesn't mach saner—however, I didn't
intend to shoot the colossi, but the emptain." Whoa
taken into custody, and told the arum of thecharr against
him, he said, " I didn't inlaid to wader ; I didn t anted
it for the colonel, Let far lie captaie." He was the
marched. It was discovered that one round of ball cart-
ridge had hem taken from his ammunition, and that four
rider
ores• led hem beard to In the K endpas-
sage. It was difficult (the learned ecesemel observed)
ender these okeumetancce to come to any other assolmies
than that the prisoner had fired the shot which had prima
fatal to the two officers ; and if the case against the prisoner
was made out bored any rearsabie doubt to the matisfac-
ion of the Jim he we sum they would not shriek, how-
ever painful might be, from the duty which their cattle
E imposed upon them.
vidence was the. valid.

Mr. limesll addres•ed the jury for the defence. He ma-
tended that the panishneut which lit`e•ifery had received
at the heads of his °dicers was entirely disproportionate to
the offence which he had committed ; that the prisoner lied
formed se deliberate iatention of murder; and that the act
was committed under • momentary impulse of . age and
venetian when he found the author of his shame and
punishment was before him, and when he had the weapon is
him baud.
His Lordship then summed up, and the jury having found
the prisoner Guilty of wilful murder, be was amateuind to
de

Totut. Due. 12.
(Before Mr. Justice Wiesturoun.)
MUIR= MURDER,

Thomas Scott, o^, was charged with shooting at Caroline
Ferules, with latest to murder her, at Wakefield, on the
30th of July last.
Mr. Shaw sod Mr. Foster prosecuted.
Thklcg morose,
was elp4PrTicrixtritts pra!s'tall.r.autdo rTPectaan upbtr
house two or
three Gays in me werconene formedc an affection fur her,
and although 52 years of age, and past the meridian of
life, he fell desperately in love with the ptosseutrix. He
asked her many times to many him, but she told him that
, she could not comply with his request, because she was a
married woman,although she had lived apart froru her husband
for many yeas. On the 3rd of July last the primmer visited
the prosecatrix at her lodgings, when she observed that he
had a pistol in the inside pocket of his coat. He was excited,
and was about to take out the pistol wherewith to about her
when the prosecutrix seized hold of him on each side of his
coat, and prevented him from using the pistol. The pri-
soner excfaimed, " do it ; 111 don ; we'll both die togs.
tier?* The prosecutris managed to imam from him, and
being afraid of him she left Wakefield sad went to York, she
herbs' a little daughter living in Hungate, in this city. She
remained in York for two or three weeks, sad returuod to
Wakefield os the 27th July, proceeding to the Spotted Leo-
pard public-base is that tows. W hilst she was in this Muss
the prisoser came to see her, sad renswed his protestation,
of love for her. The proncotrix was prevailed epee to eci-
oommny him to as eating-house kept by a person named
Clarkson, and there partook of some tea. She took op her
lodgings at this house, and the prisoner wont to see her two
or three times • day. On the 30th of July last he again
visited her. and after be had remained wish her a abort
time he west out, saying be would fetch something for her.
He was sheet for about an hour and a half, and on his
rebus to the prieeoutria he asked her to hike a walk with
him. 9hs enneseted, and told him that she Intended to
pressed leek again to York. Te this the passim made as
ob remarking, "I dee% Shish you will." The
whilst petting en her Wesel, and looking
r porth= PregeleterY te gobs, eat for • walk, was
etzh, who pieced 61e hand epos
her shedders"Aye, lace," 'ad Axed off a
loaded pistil et her prenwetrix was strait upon
the left ells wee Is the bask. liertenaiely she had a shawl
ws at the time, sad • think Or of slay; and scessquently
the shot w 1 which the *Winn charged did sot penetrate
her gram That part of her body, however, spinet which
the abet skulk was slightly Injured, and ohs was enable
fries gin te kw her stays fa for • taw days TM peer
aide Meg eat, "For God's sake have gooey!` She mimed
held pistol which the Weenie had la his had, end he
holes •• ;Wm =01:1 The preeesetrin
in* tad legged Oen
•

he would sot Ware her, upon which he cad. "D— you.
I've not dons with you yet." The proneentrix, after a
enecesded in peskuir the primmer haek,and camped
rirsVe. yby running down stairs. Information was given
to the pause, and as allow named NO WA/ tosit the pri-
soner wit* andedy. Be bed • doubie-larrellei pistol in
his possession, one of the towels of which was discharged,
but the other was loaded with powder and No. 1 shot.
After the affair early in July, when the prisoner threatened
to shoot the proaeoutriz, he said to a police.otlicer. "I'll
have my revenge, if I abed blood for it," and shortly after-
wards a single barrelled pistol loaded was taken front him
by Mr. ld'Docuold, superintendent of police.
The prisoner, hi his defence, denied that he had any in-
tention of injuring the prosecutrix, and alleged that the
pistol was discharged accidentally. He accused the prose-
cutrix of lumen.' conduct, and charged her with swearing
falsely against him.
Guth,.—Sentence deferred.

MIDLAND ClRClllT.—NosssAmprow, Dsc. it

The eoennairion was °posed here to-day by Bann Martin.
The Dumber of
.priaceers for raid is about the average.
There are 12 preweera in the county po1; in the borough
pol there ire two primer&

NORFOLK CIRCIIIT.—Boar ST. EDKozugs
Dic. 11.
(Moro Mr. Baron Aladin)
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Two little boys, aged respectively 10 and 19 years, wave
indicted for setting fire to • laden steetattbir
eproperty of
Mr. Boby, on Sunday, the 13th
Mr. W. W. Parker was couneel for the erowa. The Pri•
KOMI were naddended.

The boys did neideay having e►used the :Mackie, and
the elder boy at Mat said ae he was lighting a pipe. and
kneeling op the ground, some of the era fell as the straw
around. At soother time he said they sash had a louder,
sad set Are to the straw.

The learned judge told the jury the My question in this
case was whether it had been dm accidentally or mis-
ohisvonely.
The jury, taking the latter view, emitited the primers,
at the same time strongly recomminding them M mem.
His lordship, in a few kind words, endeavoured le make
them sensible at the wickedness of their mode* and
ordered team to be imprisoned for a fortnight, and at the
red of that time to be sent to a reformatory for live years.
With this me ended the Winter Amiss for the Norfolk
Circuit.

L connexion with the preseetment al the mod jury for
the county, to the effect that " the Winks Anise for this
district use um ," the following feats may be inte-
resting :—There were 21 prisoners for trial-16 cases in all.
The y pleaded guilty. The trials al the reariadar
13 boars. To aocomplish this, one al the Barons
al her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, attended by his mar-
shal, claw* le., 16 counsel, 4$ pond jurors, 72 commas
jurors, and hall-keepers, policemen, ice., not to be numbered,
was basogbs to As two maim tows.