The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-02 00:00:00

THE CONDEMNED MURDERERS.

The prinoner, George Inkpen, who was oonvicted
' on Thursday of the murder of his sweetheart under very
peculiar circumstances, there bong an
Surrey was
attomtaastiself-
, murder by both, by drowning ia the
removed aSaturday to Rakish:me Gaol, the Ones
having bees committed in the county of Kent, when be
will remain until the government decide what mane is to
be takes with raped to him ; but this, is se probability
,of the capitol sentence being carried into Nest. He was
' conveyed to Yaldstase in the charge of two of the warden
of Newpte, and during the journey he frequently expreend
the deepest sorrow at the melancholy °mummer, and da
eland that he was be inch • state of mind at the dons
that be hardly knew what °marred, and that after he
I had blued' escaped from drowning, it was moms time before
he was eresoisas of the death of hiswrenamoo;sni=
As rapids the other primer, tbe
Reeve, there appears, from easasmaisatime that have
already tam pleat between the adonis of the poi and the
salharitim of the Ransallee, to he eseadderabee difikedty
in ordain at • enseinekie as to what should be dam ia
sash an extraordinary ant Nearly fifty pars have elapsed
sines the mime el gartailw was committed ander similar dr-
eaminess% and In thst ems, the culprit was • boy ten
paneldl. Mid be Ma tried at the Ktngstea Alines for the
eirardm 1 a alie girl, one of his playmates, who wee
mawlhmm Idnimilf. II wee proved at this trial that the
=bad ems spAp satinet the child, sad that he
her be •
the
he cat her throat, and
albums& hid the Is • dung-heap. He warn
seepseled mid bat he all ham-
ledge of dm seissingq algid ; and the body was&Med ally dis-
covered after • mamba eserce, sad the crime was satisfac-
torily yonsitt hese to the ealprit. He was coavicted of
wilful murder, mad left for esseatios ; but the Mader age of
the primmer excited, el some, a gnat dell of sommierra-
Hon ia the public mind, sod 1d.,. the day of execution
arrived he ems respited, nag the iodise were invited to coo-
eider 'imam this, were ear airesiesimees that would
justify • reprises of the minima/ The any epos this,
made
edema esaridomMon, and the report thM was
meads by the judges was that, seaMli soder erdisary
eismstssersoieltßd of once ea sae mdilst he considerad as
act oompeteet to form • Eno or to snoartain nosh as is-
tea*. et Wields, as would seeditate the aims of wilful
murder, still is this parthialar babas, %here we. so much
deliteratioa in the mode a/ treeinitikg the act, and the
whole if the circuitries."' scented with it were such

as to clearly establish ever motive aforethought
r amounted to the aims at wilful murder, and
theytherefore we unable to sanest any grounds upon
wadi the capital raters ought sot to be Moaned. The
culprit wee aura emend time, sod was in custody as a
espial facia re asap menthe, and at length the demon*
el the Grown was extended to Ma, but he was seat to ens
of the soloniseas • fake. Neither before nor are his con-
vict/ea hes the boy Rua made any explanation u to the
eirennierneei under which the murder was committed.
Upon one occasion the question was pat to him, how he
car to destroy the life of his young Cater, whom it was
his duty to protect ; and the only reply be rAo aram,
" W ell, I did it ; ebe was always aggravating me, sad she
did so this day, and no I thought 1 would kill her, sad ham
no
mere of it. He appears to have entertained an cantos
that the jury would have acquitted him oa the pound of
inanity, sad after be had been taken beak to ler cell
he aid very coolly that he believed the jay
would have sequined hen epos that gonad if It
had set been for the ridge telling them in seat straw
tame that there was no evidence whatever to justify
than in returning such a verdict. The jury evidently
fat very grat commiseration for the ;orrice', and it is
hissed[ so
that, if the leased judge had not erased
so strongly opal& the point, the prisoner would have
been acquittal by them upon the ground that his mind was
oat in a sound sato when he committed the mime. He
still seatiasee to exhibit the NUM coolness and indiffemees
that have eharecteriaal him ever since the dreadful affair,
and does not appear at all affected by hie being ander sea-
Mice of death. Under fallacy dm-omega** the sentence
would be earned out on the 16th of December; but the
general impression upon the misdeal the eathorinee appears
to be that from the recomenesd•tioa to aim by the Jury,
and the youth of the culprit, the capital punishmentwill
not be carried into effect, and that it will be commuted to
one of penal servitude for life.

Airoriza TRADE OUTRAGE AT lIIIMIZLD.

BfIBMELD, SUNDAY EVENING.
The horrible details of the outrage in Aoorn-street
(which base been fully gives le the if:prem)ere still fresh
is the public mind, sad we are sorry to state that another
deed of violates has been committed, which will throw
fresh disperse upon the town. The outrage we are about
to record, however, has not caused Worry to life, bet •
large amount of valuable property has been imperilled.
It appears that early this sinning a .an named Job.
Bolliegthe, siegiee-tenter at the worth of Mr. Harry
Houldsworth, crinoline manufacturer, New George-street,
Sheffield-mom, went to his master's premises far the pur-
pose of inspecting the machinery. Very shortly after
entering the works lie found that sa attempt had Manmade
to blow up the place during the night. On going into a
room which is let off to a factor named Pattison, he found
the window shattered to pieces, the hearthstone broken,
the joists of the door heaved out of their places, and
oee or two of them broken. He west into the machine-
mud there found that the joists of the door hail been
lifted up, and the framework of the door forced out. It
was evident that the explosion had proceeded from the
lower stery, and on proceeding there Solliegton found
his surmises confirmed. The usual means of destruction
adopted is these cases were found, and sufficiently marked
the nature and origin of the outrage. In the cellar be
found the shattered remains of a large milk-can, capable
of holding several pounds of powder, which had been
thrown in through the grating. In the broken lid at the can
there was a small hole, is which the fuse had bees placed.
It is remarkable that the damage done was not more ex-
tensive, but the building, as it is. is seriously injured. A
man was working all sight in another part at the works,
but he my. he aid not hem se explodes bat haul a
" basing " noise about 4 this morals& The vied was
very high at the time, which may socesat for this BMW
what singular circumstance. The facts were at ouce
communicated to the polies, and Mr. Jackson, the mom •
(*tie chief constable, was shortly afterwards engaged
with his detective officers in investigating the case. The
shattered remains of the can are in the possession of the
police, arid it is hoped they will be the means of affording is
clue to the perpetrator of the outrage. It seems that • son-
unionist grinder has been working ou the premises, and the
explossou wee, it is thought, inteuded as a warning.
The two unfortunate victims of the explosion of the "in-
fernal machine" in Acorn-atreet are still lingering in great
suffering. This aftersooe a special sermon was preached
by the Rev. Brooke Herford. unitarian minister, to a vast
assemblage of working men in the Temperance Hall. The
rev. putlemari,who is • stench suppmter of unions, strongly
deeoumed those crimes, acid called upon the working men
of Sheffield to leave no means untried until the perpetrators
of them were rooted out. The general feeling rn the town
is one of unmixed detestation and horror of these crimes,
and no amount of punishment will be deemed too IMMO If
the perpetrators me discovered.

ACCI DINT TO A MAIL CAST.—On Friday night,
about six o'clock, as the mail cart from the Charing.croes
branch wee proceeding to St. Ifartires•le.Grand, the bores
broke from the Ramose wbde opposite the pit outmost of
the Lyceum, and threw the driver and the postman into the
street, injuring both of them. The horse then dashed
ageing a Brumptoe omnibus, the pole catching him in the
chest, and inflicting a fright:al wound. The horse sad cart
belong to Mr. Abbott, the contractor, of Jockey's-flelda
Bedford-row.