The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-11 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCIIIT.—Yoirs, JULY 10.

The summer assizes for this comity eanmemed today at
the Guildhall. Mr. Baron Wilda came to York yesterday
bluitrehe two o'clock Mein. Two prisoners were tried on
which were not of sufßcisot interest to call for a
report, and this terminated the City smiles buainess.
His lordship afterwards proceeded to the Castle to dispose
of the business of the county, and up to our parcel being
despatched nothing of public interest had taken place.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Jostles Wightman.)
THE ISLINGTON OUTRAGE.

George Quilter, fiesey the prisoner
wbo had just been convicted, Prederick Strugnell, were
then placed at the bar to take their trial for the robbery
that was committed in the house of
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Taylor again for the FOOD-
▪ ; Mr. Tindal Atkinson, Mr. Ri toe, and Mr. it. IL
Palmer defended the prisoners Laney and Quitter. The
other prisoner, Struguell, was, of course, oily placed at the
her in order that the witnesses might show that be was in
company with the other prisoners, and that he was con-
nected with them in the transaction.
The evidence in this care was precisely the yarns as that
adduced in support of the former charge, with this addition,
that two or three respectable witnesses swore positively to
the prisoners Liney and Quilter being seen to come out of
Mr. ns's house on the evening in question, carrying the
box containing the money that wee stolen (rein Mr. Higgios's
bed-room, and there ens no doubt from all the circumstances
of the case that the robbery had been planned and tarried
oat by all the prisoners.
The jury, without any hesitation, returned verdicts of
Guilty against each of the parties accused.
Mr. Justice Wightman, m paring sentence, said that the
jury had come to the only conclusion that could be arrived
at by removable men upon the evidence that had been laid
before them, and after observing upon the very grave cha-
racter tot the offence, sentenced Quilter and Liney to five
years' penal sere itude.
No further sentence was passed upon the other prisoner.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
Harriet Henry, 23. married, a respectably dressed and
impledooking young woman. wan indicted for feloniously
taking away a child, aged four months, with intent to de-
prive the father of possession of the child.
Mr. Kemp prosecuted.
The circumstances of the 'case are very peculiar. It ap-
pears the parents of the child, who are named Foreman,
reside in the neighbourhood of the Dover-road, and on
the 7th of May an elder sister of the infant, a child about
seven veers old. was out in that neighbourhood with it, when
the prisoner and another woman came up and spoke to the
girl, and asked her if she was going to the fir, which was
bin held in that neighbourhood, and also asked her to let
her carry the child. She then gave the girl a penny to go into
one of the booths. and promised to mind the infant until
she returned. The girl did go to the booth, and on her re-
turn found the prisoner had deoamped with the infant.
Mrs. Foremen, the mother of the child, a respectable
woman, who was so ill as to be almost unable to give
evidence, corroborated the child's statement of having last
the child, and stated she caused ever exertion to be used
in discovering the prisoner, but without sumer, until
the 12th of May. Upon that day she went
company of police-constable 272 R to a house in Kiss whet,
Deptford, and there, in a back room on the fleet Boar, she
sew the prisoner and her husband. The primer had the
child in her arms, which the constable took fres her to
the window, and witness immediately saw it we. her and,
and took it. The prisoner, however, tried to get posiosion
of the child, stoutly alleging it was hers. The pramer's
husband then interfered, and stated that his wife had ban
°Defined on the previous Monday. In the room witness
found portions of articles the child had on when stoles ; bur
the child appeared to have been well cared for by the
prisoner.
The landlady of the house at Deptford said she recollected
the prisoner coming home on the evening of the 7th of May.
She had with her what would have peeled for a bundle hat
foe witness swing part at a chiles fast. Prisoner had ewe
poortasely stated err oft oal Ma, led lied tritons to sap-