The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-07 00:00:00

♦ LONG CATALOOOII OP CRUM.

hew dimmer:A, 29, pleaded ttyy to being unlawfully
Warn ear a sentence of for life, at Hull,
on Me 17th of August lest, and was sentenced to be WO-
mad fat Me week, efter which to be kept ii=eervitede
during hie mama life.
_The eerier of tie hie been
of a ranee* and angskr elleceiptiom. called a Mee
Hun pollee-odice on the night of Monday, the ll* of Lagoa
lest, eed said Inspector Corkin If a senceint or inspector
wen In. He was told by Corkin that he wee or .saer.
The prisoner then said that he wanted to give himself at as
an eteoped ccaviot, end the inspector took down in writing
the statement of the priaoner' which wee to the following
Mitt My name is James Ainsworth. lam 29 years of
so, end sin • naive of Leeds. I was born in Grantham-
aneet,aser the Selby Railway bridge. I wee transported
frees Lambe in March, 1844, along with a man named Wm.
Johnson, for housebreaking, in Great Limber, in Lincolnshire.
We eremboth sentenced to trenaporation for life. I was re-
tuned too Millhank prison, and was sent off in the ship Ryden-
bed to Norfolk Island seven maths after I wee convicted. I
leaded there in January' 1846. 1 served there two yeius
and eight months, and there wee tried and convicted of
to murder my overate whose name was Skin-
:i tr7idageree sentenced to two yaw; end Wm months exten-
sion an the island for that ogres. I was also matenoed to
two yam more extension, and was flogged mayoral thus far
cam offences. I remained on the Wend nine years, and
weethen removed by order of government, Wag with ahem
to Peet Arthur, a penal eettlement. I lamina then Its.
months, and wit then transported to the henteke at Ho-
bart Town. I was shortly after handed over to • amen at
Spring Creek, and remained with him Mont a month, sad
then assaulted him. I was tried and mama! to
three months in • chain , and removed to another
pert of the settlement. d10w91,19 1999 a
maga and took to the mountains, end necked fee
whet* timber, end made about M. I then
myself end went to Hobart Town sad lannosaca, to
to get • ship, bat could not succeed. I then ma to
to
Hobart Town, and paid SOL to go in a ship to Melhearne,
In Aaetrslie, along with 18 others. I went from there to
the
_end made a little money thine. I then
retnnewl -MoDemes, and got • ship lo go to Calcutta, in
the Beet Indies. When there, I shipped In the barque
Ocean Eagle, Caplan Soma, for New York. I wont from
that place to Beam, and paid nay fire to mine la the
Niagara steamer to Uverpool. She pm in at Hakim the
sea evening to naive the angle hags. I went an ahem
there, and MUM with two MIN erne of whom I had known is
a convict. They proposed that we should go to Windsor, to
rob • schooner that was lying there that had maosy ca
board. We went, bat did not succeed in robbing her
I was inaged an board Is mist in getting her down the
and-when at Beck I robbed her of 1261. I then
watt to Halikx,end wee thereakmand committed for hied st
KentvWe. I weesentemeed to three years to Halifax Peni-
tentiary, and I remained thin 13 days, and then made my
aseope. I then came to New York, end joined the American
Union Bieck Bell line packet for Liverpool, and arrived
there Wee months ego. I Dave been travelling about the
conntry ever abets. I came to Hull at seven o'clock yester-
day morning hoes Grimsby. Ten pounds toward has been
aced for my apprehension."

NORTH WALES CIRCUIT.—Cnesna, DEc. S.

(Bac* Mr. Berm ChaimalL)
aIAIOI OF it URDISL.

His lordship took kb seat on the bench at Mae o'clock this
morning, ant after
B;esing of • criminal monk char's,
the ear of Francis for the murder of John Drury, at
Birkenhead, am the 4th Odeher lirM, was Galled on.
Mr. Heaven and Mr. Hi= promoted ; and Mr.
/Claire end Mr. Y. Lloyd
The feces at lie ems me as follows :—The primer, the
&loomed, and several others raided in the ranee block at
buildings, in the Dock-oottagee, at Birkeshewl. On the
night of Sunday,tbe 4th of October, the prisoner, John Smith,
and Peter Odle .6sr were at the Eggs and Bacon public-
house, which they Wi about 11 o'clock, end then went
towards their lodgings. On arriving at their lodgings, they
found a man in the lobby named John Hoare. They ques-
tioned Hoare as to where he was going, knowing that he did
not live in the house. On his aseeranethat he did they struck
him arveral tunes, end pushed him out of the house with so
much free that he fell down in the street. Hoare then
cried out Murder." Several men then CM, up, amongst
whom was the dreamed, end a general fight took place.
the fighting some perema come out of their cottages,
of whom dimmed to hearing a cry for a stone,
and others to a cry for a knife. The deceased was
found lying on the ground stabbed and about
three yard.from him the prismee was founder the grated
inamaible, having been felled by • stoma, and within a few
inches of his land an open clasp-knife, which was amend
with blood. A Mott time afterward. the prisoner wee found
in bed with John Smith sad Gallagher, him hands and clothes
mill stained with blood. When charged with murdering
the dammed the prisoner made no reply.
These bete ware substantiated by • number of witnesses,
though 10611 deposed to seeing the prisoner engaged with the
deceased slow. bnt only to lue being in the general fight.
Mr. Wham for the primmer, contended that from the
position in which Drury end the prisoner were found lying
on the pound., at the same time, it we. not possible for the
prisons to have Inflicted the fatal wound.

file Iced&lp minutely summed up the evidence, remarking
that when discrepancies is the evidence presented them-
selves the waest and the safest course for the jury to pursue
waa to adopt such a conclude & ea waa moat assistant with
the intercom of the primmer.
The jury deliberated for a isw minutes, and then returned
a Yarded of Nog Guilty.