The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-29 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1856

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THE DAY'S NEWS

We have again a variety of news from all quarters,
—the police investigations of murders, railway
frauds, and robberies, the un-Christian eowign-
ment of the remains of the Erith murderer and
suicide, the trial for the savage murder in Parlia
meat 'street, London. These, with other topics
of a miscellaneous character, form a go'd budget
•of domestic intelligence. Further news
Australia is to hand, and the advices from the
Continent merit a passing glance.

As to the Great Northern Railway frauds, the
accused, Redpath and Kent, were yesterday again
brought up at the Clerkenwell Police Court,
London ; but as the magistrate • before whom the
case was previously investigated was unable to
attend, a remand to Wednesday next was granted.
Fresh charges are to be brought against the

prisoners on that day.
Marley, alias Joseph Jenkins, was placed at the
bar of the Old Bailey. yesterday morning, before
Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Coleridge, charged
with the murder of Richard Cope, in Parliament-
; street. We have already frequently given the facts
of this atrocious case. The prisoner, on his taking
his position at the bar, east a hasty glance round
the court, and nearly throughout the whole of the
proceedings he maintained the greatest calmness.
The witnesses who gave evidence against the
prisoner at Bois-street were severally examined by
Mr. Bodkin and cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh, that
object of the learned gentleman engaged for Marley,
for some time, evidently being to show that it was s
ease of mistaken identity. -When the witness Croft
was under examination, in the course of which he
stated that he saw the prisoner striking at some.
body in . the shop .of Mr. Berry, in Parliament.
street, Marley fixed a steadfast gaze upon him,
and it was sometime before he again resumed his
apparent calmness. On Baron Alderson putting the
question to Croft, whether he bad the slightest
doubt in his mind as to the prisoner being the
person he saw come out of Mr. Berry's shop on
the evening of the shocking occurrence, and on his
reply in the negative, the prisoner convulsively
hit his lips, but shortly afterwards he regained
his composure. The effect of the answer of
Croft was completely to fix the prisoner's identity.
Mr. Sleigh, the prisoner's counsel, did not attempt
a cross-examination of this witness. The only
otherpers-on whose evidence created the slightest
sensation in court, was Allen, the hackney car-
riage attendant, the brother-in-law of the unfortu-
nate man Cope, and when that witness left the wit-
ness-box, the prisoner evidently felt great relief, as
the whole tenor of the evidence was greatly
against him. Another exciting, but pain•
ful incident occurred during the examina
tion of Mr. Burnaby, the chief . clerk of the
Bow-street Police court. This gentleman read the
depositions taken before Mr. Jardine, the magis-
trate, at the Westminster Hospital. The witness
having finished reading the document, Mr. Sleigh
asked Mr. Burnaby whether the precise question.
"Is that the man who struck you ?" was not
put to Cope .in the presence of 'Marley. Mr
Burnaby said it was not. The injured man
was, of course, prepared for encountering the
presence of the prisoner, immediately on seeing
whom Cope gave a convulsive shudder, and, in
answer to the question, whether be could identify
any person present as the man who had injured
him, lie pointed to the prisoner and said, " That's
the man." At the relation of this incident in the
dreadful tragedy, a thrill of horror ran through the
court, but the prisoner, at this particular moment,
was not in the slightest degree disturbed. 'The
prisoner's counsel made a very able and ingenious
defence, and attempted to persuade the jury that
it was a case of mistaken identity. The jury,
after twenty-five minutes eonsultation, found
Marley guilty.
On Thursday night the mortal remains of Wor-
rell, the supposed murderer of George Carter, near
Erith, was interred by torchlight at Shooter's hill
Cemetery, in a portion of the ground not cense-
witted, in p*Ursuance of the Act of Parliament
relating to self murderers, which dire—

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