The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-04 00:00:00

.ASSIZIS INTBLLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.-MAIDSTONE, Dm 4.
(Bdore Mr. Jostles Wilke.)
ATTENPTID littlilDlit OP A WWI.

Frederick John Bushell, 27, • powerful, determined-looking
young man, was indicted for the capital offence of wounding
Rosanna Bushell, with intent to murder her.
The indictment ale° contained the anal minor counts of
wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, sad to
maim and itieshie.
Baena Bushell, the proacatrix, a very good-looking
young woman, deposed that the prisoner was her husband, and
they lived at the time of this occurrence in Hartley-street,
Dover. On Sunday, the 27th of September, she and the pei-
toner were at home together, and nothing particular occurred
during the day, and they went to bed about half-peat eight
o'clock. The primer shortly afterwards got up, and she
alao got out of bed, and they sat up for more than two hours,
and then went to bed again. Very eoon after they bad
been in bed the second time the prisoner again got
up, and she sew him go and get • razor, and
he approached the bed whets she was lying, with
the visor open in his hand. She took op a shawl that wee on
the bed end twisted it round her throat, and the prisoner then
eeisad bold of her and pulled her out of bed, end she strug-
gled with him to the door of the room, mad then fell down
pairs. The prisoner followed her, and again laid hold of her
at the stair foot, and be then cut her throat with the rev,.
The wound was inflicted through the shawl. She struggled
with him end tried to obtain passedon of the razor, and in
doing we her thumb and several of her fingers were severely
cut. She at length contrived to get away from him and ran
to Use police elation, and as elle woe going oat of the door
of the boas, she observed the prisoner in the act of appa-
rently cutting hie own throat.
The proseautris, in answer to queolona put to her by
Mr. Clark, mid that she had left the hones of her bastard
sod gone with her two children to her mothee's, at New
Romney, and she had returned on the 27th of September of
ber own accord, and the prisoner appeared to be very glad to
eel her, and they were very friendly and happy all day, end
nothing animist occurred until they went to bed. A wen 7
short time after thsy had beta lit bed the primer mid he

could not deep and be would go down stabs, end eke told him
ehe would get up too, and they both west and mat by the
window fee two or throe hears to their nighhelothos. Their
convenetion was of • kind and teemed}, I .e They
then went to bed again, and a lbw mistrals ~nerds the
Celadd that • fortase4slier at Dover bed told
t there would be was, dom. The Omer
then got up, and she saw him make Mesas km with •
razor in his hand, and she had hardly time to wrap the
shawl round her throat before the fektmer had bold of her
and pulled her out of bed. He did not injure her In any
memoir In the bed-room, but after she hod struggled with
him and Wm down Mire be know** bee and oat her
throat with the razor. She believed that the
under the empleion that she was unfaithdel Yin, was
there was no fonedation for suck • orampielen on We pert, and
he had accused hr of being Whiting with gmenemen whom
she had never aeon. They lived very mehapol is maw
gnome of the prisoner's eumkkin that she was U(tine with
other men. It wee only daring the els months pike toter/-
Mau that the prisoner eatertelned this or picks. It was en-
tirely a delusion on his pert Her husband wes27 years old,
and she had heard that his mother was conilned in • lunatic
asylum and died there.
Upon re-azazaination by Mr. Ribton, the promentriz said,
that the reason ahe left her Inaband's house on the last OCCII•
don ma that he accused her of being unfaithful to him, and
ha had several times threatened to murder her. He had
made thew threats before he accused her of brag unkithful.
Hs did so when he wan in liquor. There was nothing in hie
conduct during the three years they had been married to in-
duce her to believe that he was mad. He need to work regu-
larly when he amid get it, but he sometimes need to spend
nearly all hie wages end get drunk, sad this caused them to
quarrel.
(burp Geddes, a sergeant of polio@ at Dover, deposed
that about to minutes to one o'clock in the morning of the
With ci September the prosecutriz rushed into the police-
station with nothing but hil night clothes on, and nearly
covered with blood. He also observed • kegs wound on her
neck, end in consomme* of what she mid be went to the
maidesai of the prinmar and found him there struggling
Wilk another meatable named Bowles, who was endeavouring
to take a razor hale him. He at last suoceeded in doing so,
and handed it to witness It was open end bloody. He
abound at the some time that the primmer bed • wound in
his threat, and he was aubioquently conveyed to the hospital.
George Bowles, the constable referred to by the km wit-
ness, deposed that on the eight in question he herd • cey of
"Murder " from • woman's voice, and, on preendlag to the
home of the primmer, he saw him standing at the window,
and he called out to him, Go for my brother James, tin I
am dying." He me at this time that thews was • woad in
hie throat, and he asked him what was the matter, and he
said, in reply, " I have been and done what they wanted to
do for us—out our throats." At this time the prisoner had a
razor in his hand, end whiner asked him to give it to him,
but ha objected to do so, and witness took it from him.
While the prisoner was at the hospital Mums had the
charge of hen, and he several times inquired of him if his
wife was deed ; and when he told him she was not, he said
he was pure she would die, as he hod given her a good
cutting. The prisoner appeared to be gobs sober when he
first saw him on the night the offence happened.
Crone-examined—He did not hear theramoner sayanything
about his having heard people talking in the street on the
night the affair happened.
Mr. John Welter, a surgeon at Dover, deposed that he
was seat fur on the night in question and found the prosecu-
triz lying on the floor of the police-station in • very faint
and exhausted state from loos of blood, and be observed a
wound on the left aide of her throat There were sloe several
cute on the fingers of each hand, and there was • deep cut
between the thumb and linger of the left hand. The wound
in the throat was a very dangerous one. A small branch of
the jmular vein was divided, and if the injury had extruded
a .n datum further it most have been mortal.

Mr. Clark made an able address to the jury oa behalf of the
prisoner, and he said that of ammo It was impoesible for him
to deny that the prisoner's was the hand that inflicted the in-
jury epee the unfortunate proenutri; bat the defence he
was instructed to offer wee, that by mown of the condition of
hie oiled he was not criminally respondble for the act he bad
tosunitted. He called the attention of the jury to the bus,
that the prisoner appeared to have been quite sober on the
eight the occurrence happened, and that there did not appear
to have been any geared between the Fiume and hie
and urged that the act of violence had been eddy o
by a sadden feeling of finny which the prisoner wee enable
bo control. . . .

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&veal whiteness were examined on behalf of the firisonsr,
whose evidence went to show that •• that time before the
occurrence took place the primmer had exhibited a good deal
of eccentricity in his conduct, and it was ea proved that
when the father of the prisoner wee about his age be wee
_der a similar delusion with regard to the fidelity of the
praiser's mother to that exhibited by the primmer, and
that his mother died in a lunatic asylum, after having been
imellned there for eighteen months.
Mr. Justice Willie, in amazing up
_the caret explained to
the jury the law with regard to the defence of insanity, and
Awned upon the importance for the sake of the safety
of society, that a defence of that description should not pre-
vail, except upon strong evidence ; and he said that unlea it
was clearly made out to their eatisfaction, that at the tame
the offence was committed, the prisoner was incapable of
distlegroiehing between right and wrong, mot being e were that
what he wasdointwea an act contrmy to the laws of God and
man, they would not be justified in acquitting him upon the
pound of inanity.
The Jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoner
Guilty of wounding the pessxatrix with intent to do her
grievous bodily harm, and be was sentenced to be kept in
penal inn Ando for the term of We natural life.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—WoacEsna, Dw. 4.
(Baton Mr. Baran Martha.)

Eihma Hart ma arraigned for the wilful murder of his
wife, at Stoorbridge, on the 23rd August last.
Mr. Powell prerocuted ; the prismer was undefended.
The facts of the case ere rather singular, end it resolved
itself at lest into a charge of manslaughter. The prisoner
and his wife had not heed happily together, and the former
tore a very indifferent character. The wife bed been suffer-
ing from choleraic diarrhoea, and on Saturday, the 22nd
August, was ill from that disorder. Mrs. Mina, a neighbour,
waited upon her on that evening and applied hot fomentation,
to her bowels, which Mislead the pun, and next morning she
tea much better. The prisoner had been out drinking all
Saturday night, and returned home on Sunday morning at
about eleven o'clock muck the worse for liquor. He
immediately went up-stairs to him sife's mom, where
she was lying in bed, and instead of condoling
with her, abused her, and told her it was her own
fault that she wee tit. The deceased put out her
hand to her husband to shake, and be took it and lay down
on the bed by her ode, with his clothes on. In this position
Mrs. Mills, the neighbour, left her. On her return to the
room, shortly aftersards, she found him asleep, still lying
on the bed, with his hand over his wife's nose and mouth.
The wife was dead and black in the face, having evidently
died from guff ,cation. The woman ran down stain and
called in another neighbour, Mrs. Morris who went up and
found him In the same position, with his hand over his wife's
face. The two women tried, without success, to awaken
him, but he removed his hand. They then went in quest of
the relieving officer, and in about en hour returned again
end found him in the name poeitiun by the side of his dead
wife. Evidence was given by •surgt Al to the effect that
the woman died from apphylis.
The primmer said he webs quite unconscious of having
injured his wife.
He was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to 15
months imprisonment.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-YORI CASTLE, DEC. 3.

Mr. Justice Williams took Ma seat this morning, and deli-
vered his address to the reread jury of the county. Thera
are two caeca of murder and dm of manslaughter, one of the
latter arising out of a reilway accident, as to which criminal
ortgligeoca is attributed to the driver of a train. Some of the
cams the learned judge expected would demand much labour
sad attention, and in that sense the swims would be heavier
than usual, but the catalogue of °dew:saws+ not mare
heinous than on former occasion.