The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-27 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRULTIT. —lavaztoot, MARCH 26.

(Before Mr. Justice Mellor.)
Thomas Quigto, 35, labourer, wee indicted fee hav,
at Literpool, on the 18th December last, murdered Mt
wife, Dinah Quigley.
Mr. Peel and Mr. Williams conducted the pre/mouths,
and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Torr.
Mr. Peel, in opening the case, said it would be 'bun-
, dandy meatiest that duth came to the decreased, Dot in
the course of nature, but through the great Moline. done
Ito her by the prisoner ; and the jury would have to deter-
mine whether there were any facts in the can which
would enable them tosay that the prisoner's violence fell
short of the full measure of the crime of murder. The
prisoner was living in a court off Vernon-
strut, and his family consisted of his wife
and two little girls, the eldest of whom was nine years
of age. In the same court there lived • man named
Andrew Matthews. About eight or nine o'clock p.m. of
the 18th December last, prisoner mute home in a partially
intoxicated state. His wile was not in, bet the little girls
were there, and one of them made the prisoner some tee.
After partaking et the tea, the prisoner sensed to recover
from the effect. of the liquor he bad taken, and sent his
eldest daughter to see if hie wife was in the bones of
Andrew Matthews. Fee sum reason the little girl said
deceased was act there, altheedh the outran, was On
fact, and as the ycisoser was not initialed about this, he
went himself.: dewed Ivied to esosial herself under
the 'Wrenn, bat the.prisesier.fettadleer, , seined her by the
hair of the hark, lad dredged Mr sot 'ef the house. The
prisoner was abut 10 deessetid to do gam further violence,
but was at that thum prevented by Matthews. The
woman ' was :then dragged .by the prisoner to
her ewn house. Some women in the court
and a man looked • thretatt: keyhole, and the
prisoner .was told to do no Rhea' in the Dense
the prisoner aloud the shatters and fastened the doers,
and then with one weapon and another he struck and
beat his wife moat brutally. He jumped upon has.
and struck her with • stick and poker, sad she wasf
in mach • state that she had to be taken to the.
hospital. At the hospital it was found that hones
were broken • that marks of the meet extreine
violence covered her from head to foot ; and that her body
was almost mashed. She did sadism:l aw as n wasexpec ,
however, bet lingered en in great suffering until the 23rd
ef December. It was • most deplorable stem
of thirds, but the inhabitants of the court,
=d to have treated the cocun as enoe
they were accustomed to such scenes. No one
seemed to have rushed into the house ; no one seemed to
have n:ade. tiny effort to atop the prisoner in his acts of
violence. Whenthe violence was over, and while the ',man
was lying in her blood on the door, tyo policemen visited
the hones, but they_ mid it was drunken sow,"
and went away. The seeker Molise officers lad
since been dismissal the forge, ore, could not
be called as • witless. When 'was taken to
the hospital the sturgeon saw ti could not recover,
and bee dying depositions were accordingly taken before
one of the borough magistrates.
The prisoner wee found Guilty of murder, and the jury
accompanied their verdict with a recommendation to
. . .

Ki.i lonlship, in passing sentence of death, held ont
not the slightest hope of mercy.

THE POLICE COURT&

SOUTHWARK.

Henry Williams, 17 George Bruce, 24, and Jeresiiala
Ducey, xi, ruffianly-looking men, were brought before Mr.
Partridge, eharged with cutting and wounding, and other-
wise brutany assaulting William Frauds, barman to Mr.
Samuel Hart, landlord of the Railway Tavern, Blackfriars.
road, while attending to his duty behind the bar, sad with
breakiog a ebandelier, a looking-glass, several glasses, and
• number of bottles of spirits, doing damage to the extent
of 101.

I Kr. Childs, solicitor to the Liceased Victuallers' Protec-
tion Society, attended for the prosecution.
The prosecutor, William Francis, whose head was ban-
daged up, and who appeared to be in • vary weak state
from lose of blood, said that on the previous morning,
between six and seven o'clock, be wee attending to the busi-
ness behind the burin his master's house, when the prisoners
came in and commenced using bad language, and got spar-
, ring together in front of the bar. He told them to desist.
Williams and Bruce said that they should do as they liked
and did not care a—for him. Witness sent fora police
constable, and assisted in ejecting them from
the house. Shortly after the constable had left they all
returned to the house and abused him. Retold them to go
away quietly, or be would have them looked up. The pri-
soners then tried to get over the counter, sad while he wee
preventing them from doing so Williams seized a heavy
tumbler and struck him on the forehead two or three
times, brashly( the glass and cutting him frightfully, and
he was completely smothered in blood. Williams after
that seised him by the throat and held him down over the
bar, while he amok him with &quart &sniping pot, and on
leasing him be threw the quart measure at his head. The
prisoner then held him down, when Bruce struck him
with a pot and Nosy with his fists. Williams seized
the caster-jug and threw it at his head, but it did not
touch witness but smashed the chandelier and • looking-
glass. The prisoners also turned on nearly all the taps,
whereby a large quantity of spirits was lost. They also
broke several boniest of spirits standing near the counter.
When he recovered from the injuries be missed his collar,
necktie, and a gold pin, all of which were safe prior to
their attacking Lim. As soon as 001131) one came to his
assistance, and the police came up, the prisoners made off,
but they were pursued and taken into custody. At the
conclusion of his evidence witness fainted away and was
carried out of court, when he was attended to by a medi-
eel gentleman, who happened to be present on other
bushman

The prisoners, who mule a rambling defence, were com-
telfeed for tidal for maliciously wounding the prosecutor.
Reg was refused.