The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1861.

Arßef:Troy UP THE A LDERSHOTT MURDERER.

Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, Thomas
Jeckes, aged 19. a private O the 74th Highlauders, who was
convicted at the recent reties held at Winchester, before
It,. Justice Williams, tithe wilful murder of John Dickies,
• sergeant of the same regiment. at Aklershott, suffered
the extreme penalty of the law at the hands of Calcraft,
the common hangman, on the gallows erected over the
principal entrance to the County tool of Winchester.
The crime for which the culprit forfeited his life was
surrounded by circumstances of more than unlinary bru-
tality. The murderer, it apwars, enlisted in the army ie
1814, being then a little over fifteen years of age. He after-
wsrtLi deserted. ad sahmqseatly joined the 30th Regi-
ment, and is Aped, 1160, he was dotted and punished as
a d.orter. Shortly after this he destroyed has kit, with-
out any known cause, and received punishment for the
offeum. Recently he was tried by court-martial, and was
,entranced to further imprisonment for breaking his rifle.
thi the Maki of Nov. 2:1, the pprisoner was in room No. 11.
at the Aldershott camp, and decewd (who was 35 years
of 5.4 e) was assisting Corporal Chhipbe in oiling
the roll in the same department. The e prisoner
was standing near his owe cot, which was next to that of
• corporal named Monroe. Each man hangs his pouch,
with '2O rounds of hallcartridee in it., at the head of his
cot ; but meu on recruit drill have no ammunition. The
primed was on recruit drill, but Moores's pouch con-
tained ammunition. The primmer was standing between
the two cots, and a ride rack was at the head of each.
The prisoner, it was proved on the trial, took down his
own rifle, ',Lend it by his side in the attitude of "ready,"
moved it backwards sad forward, and then fired it. Dickson
and Campbell were both hit, and the culprit then coolly
replaced the rifle in the rack. The doomed, who had his
back towards the murderer, cried out, "Who did that?"
Jackson replied at once, " I did, okl buy." Deceased never
uttered another word, bed fell over and died Campbell
recovered from the effects of the injuries he received. It
wee bead that Jackson bed abstracted one mead of atomu-
aides from Menroe's pouch, and that be had need his own
rills About • fortnight before the ticesinece Jackman
was beard to say, " l'U be hanged far that sea (Sergeant
Dickies) yet ; and be repeated that ea several
cessiese ; and alter easamithing the brutal deed
he said to several of the serehe the regimerit,
I'm worry that I've been • fool to myself, or I
would have shot more at yes." To Sergeant Perot* he said,
"It's your turn next. and it will be dose by the 15th of next
month, or before Christmas, as I have left some one behind
me who will do it." At the police-station he said, " I
know my destiny. I know what I have to suffer. The
gave me six moths' bard labour, and now I've given
him twelve." Upon the triel the prisoner declined to creas-
e:smith say of the witeiseee ; and when asked by the
learned judge if to had anything to urge to the jury, he
replied, in • firm aadaudible wake, " I have nothing to say,
my lord ;" and when senteses of death was passed upon
him he did not evince the slightest emote*, but, on the
contrary, left the dock with a quick step and jaunty air.
Since the prisoner's condemnation the inhabitants of Win-
chester got op a memorial, which was numerously signed,
and forwarded to the Home Secretary, praying that the
convict might be hanged at the camp, instead of at the
county gaol, it being considered sod urged by the memo •
dilate that the Wolof aiming out the sentence near the
scene of the perpetration of the murder, and in the presence
of the troops, might be meet salutary under the circum-
steams of such frequent resetitioe of similar crimes ; but
from she fact of the essential taking pleat hank the decision
of the flume Secretary was entirely *Avon to the prayer.
The criminal has behaved himself, since the trial and coo-
denanatios, in the most stolid and Indifferent manlier
which it h possible to imalod has steadily refused to
.74. stieatios to the chaplain (the Rev. M. Rogers),
tied gentlemen has extremely solicitous to
awakes the miserable man to • due sense of his impeding
fete. The culprit, who slept soundly throughout theme Wit,
w visited about seven o'clock yesterday monies the
chaplain, bawls, refused to see the reverend gentlemen at
an earlier time, and he persevered in his refusal to listen to
bin exhortations although he again and again sought, unavail-
ingly, to move him to reproduce. Shortly before eight
o'clock the underalteriff, Mr. T. B. Woodham, theompenied
by Captain Barber R.N., governor of the gaol,
Yr. H. G. Lyforsi, the surgeoc, and the other
pprvrroone authorities, entered the culprit's cell, sad
t, the execatiocer, at once proceeded with
his donee of violating, to which the criminal sub-
mated with the same coolness with which he had
hitherto demeaned himself, salts the gaol clock struck eight
the procession moved towardi the fatal drop. On craws(
the gaol yard the culprit carnally glanced at the gateway, es
the top of which the drop wee erected, sad stepping quickly
ea amended the steps, the chaplain reeding the burial
service. On arriving at the drop he stepped at once under
the beam, the only cos unmoved amongst these who were
there, and still paying no heed to the nervier far %edged,
which was being reed The led act of pinhole( having bees
performal, Calcraft pat the black cap over the wretched
sun's Ma. and at tbit instant • bugle call essmied hem
the barracks in the town. The service wee thee poesaded
with, and at the awful words, " the " ke.,
the bolt wee drawn, and without • struggle or a sign the
fatal act was over, end the hardened misread dead.
=ray enough se the bolt was withdraws, mother
and ringing through the clear frosty
eh, the cellv: bad a peculiarly mournful and Indicative▪ that military duty oiled his comrades to their week,
while the executioner performed his fearful teak, sad the
culprit was hastened to his deem.
The morning was pertissimly fine and clear, but the
number of perms' preent did not exceed 300, of whom
2,157 were soldiers. The erthinel sae clothed in his
tousers and • Naha jacket, the same in which he
was tried and the body, titer hanging the usual time, was
eat down and buried In the pol in the course of the
afternoon.

THE CONDEMNED POACHER, WALLS&
A petition to the Queen has been prepared, and
bas beet exhibited is Dredfard, with a view to obtain •
respite or communities of the sentence of death passed at
the lots pd delivery at York, on James Waller, the poacher.
of Haildoe Moor, who was convicted of the wilful murder of
Wm. Smith, gamekeeper. The document seta forth that
taw petitioners are informed and believe that several of the
witnesses who gave writhe** for the promeution ea the
trial of Waller committed perjury ; that Jones
horse* pare watcher, who was examined on the hied,
swore that when he beard two shots fired which were
supposed to have been the shots by which the deceased
:trod, he saw Wailer come from Daisy's "Hrood-top
his own bona*. sad that he mold see him to his
waist, although this witness bad twice previesey, assoely,
whim before the corium and the committing *hen% given
*Menet which showed that be was is doubt as to who the
=ilsiciw was ; that smother witness, lhopeset Meehan
of Huddegefield, swore co the trial that when
slier with the offence far which be was hied,
thetgetter replied, "Well, it's right," whereas in a copy of
priyikt this witness's sot taken before the commutingmagielaMes. but by the attorney fur the preterit.
the to the a atterem, Waller is stated by the
witaem to hare made eii reply ;_
_that Sergeant Moms.
Immo, of Meeston, women the trial that Waller, when
obarged with the odours, mid "It's right," although when
lumen's deposition was takes before the committiog Jus-
tine, be did not state that Waller, when chergod, replied
as ins sworn on the trial It is then alleged that the pi-
thiamin believe that the evidence given by these three
WiIIMPION es the trial was calculated to inflow" and
no doubt did materially Mauna, the jury in coovictieg
Wallier of murder ; aad that themes evidence is estrus,
and if time is gives to those triteness the lame
will be proved to he Pals. ; that the penalises believe that
the shot. which caused the death of the deemed were sot
fired with the intent to murder him, and ground their
belief oa the fact that if such Lad bees the intestine, de-
reseed would have been idiot in a vital pert, so as to have
killed him on the spot, whereas one of the shots hit him es
the hand only. The petitioners therefore humbly pray
that her Majesty will be pleased, in the exercise of her
royal preroptive, to respite the execution of the maid
James Waller, direct as investigation into the matter
alleged in the petition, sad allow time for the prosecu-
tion of the said three twosome for perjury, in'oonimute the
seeteace of death passed epos Waller. It is reported that
there is a second petition in preparation, praying simply for
a commeniatio• of the sentence of death.

- ,
Tno MCRDRIRLS IN WARWICK GAOL—The
ineeution of Thompson sad Beamiab will take place in front
of Warwick county gaol on Mcmday neat, Nan early hour.
Thompson admits the justice of Ms eenteme, but says
Foripiluit nu,ght to be hung it he is. as his is a similar
see, both having killed their victims. as he says, through
maiblea eager. lir six children clotted him on Thurs-
day. Beamish lute received the Milts of three of hie cousins
be.. Coventry ' • but &Milt Statham, who applied towe
the etwidenistal criminal. has been refused access to Lim.
Then ass nioncess dist Deanneh has said is gaol that
"Rhon' be did not peiess hie wife and child, he knew
who did, Ms allusion. of eenn ". being to Statham ; and
further, est he would se es to the scaffold and he hanged
rather these he would cease. Bat inquiries our corm-
posilent has instituted @bow that the rumour bus no founda-
tion whatever ; but that Beamish manifeste the same is-
sersitable demeanour which characterised him on his trial.
Eight semi are employed to watch the conitimised criminals
day sod night. Both Heemish sod Thompson remise the
misistrations of die gaol chaplain, the Rev. C. R. Cert..
with considerable apparent beeedt. It is net *se that
Desalhali expected to seep coevielsoe foe wilful murder.—
Dirstisphast Dail, P.O.
111AVY PRXAMT POR ILLWIT DISTILLATION.—
s Justin of Pees" Oren bey as Roeday, W ilium
Cisishisek. !sift Is Pertelsalio, pleaded guilty to
heeßing salteensed etel ler maaufacture of spirits,
in hie instnitse is Portobello,. There were eleven vessels
feud es the premise.. and the assumed was ordered to
pa • amid of 'AJIDS. for ere eesest, =skies 241101. is all.

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FATAL AFFRAY NEAR PLYMOUTH.

A murder has been committed at the new fort at
Tressedle, which is the westernmost and oar of the principal
forte of the new Jima of fortifications for the harbour and
missal of Plymouth, and the dockyard at Devooport. It is
on the coast at the west of Whitsaod Bay, and will when
complete be one of the strongest fortresses in England, with
• barrack attached. The contract is in the hands of the Lou.
doe firm of Kirk and Parry, and the works are now in an
advanced condition. There have been for many months past
and still are some huudrtila of men employed on the works.
Amoogst them of course there are, especially as navvies and
hod carriers, a numberof Irishmen. Christ:name pre-eminently
a time of peace and good will, but too frequentl men's
passions end evil habits make it assume of quarrels, strife,
and too often of bloodshed. On the works at Tripods
there are two blocks of huts, one of which, erected by Mr.
Rice Meanie, of Plymouth, is principally occupied by Irish-
men engaged on the works. This block of huts was the
scene of the occurrence we have now to record. It appears
that the Irishmen eugaged on the works, from affects= or
other circumetanose, made up parties to asiebente Christmas.
On of these parties on Christnms-eve assembled la the but
of a man known as Johnny Sands. sod amongst the party was
a man whose Christian or common name was Allen. This
party had made themselves jolly with good sating sad potent
drinking, awl bad brought themselves to • dangeross and
excitable condition, whets some difference arose between
different members of the party. Johnny Suds and Allen
involved themselves in the debate, and the foul words in
the then condition of the men soon led to blows. Johnny
Salida, forgetting the sacred laws of hospitality, and all re-
gard for human life in his maddened rage, caught up the
poker and struck Allen on the heed • ferocious sad terrible
blow by which he was stunned, sod, as the event proved,
death-struck. The others present, possibly familiar with shil-
lelagh blows, sod " fights for love, thought the poor fellow
bully struck, but had no doubt that, through an Irishman's
tenacity to life, and his power of suaterniog blows, he
would "get all right" again presently, and they therefore
did not send for a medical gentleman, or make the police-
man or the works acquainted with what had taken place.
There is • policeman statiooed on the works. The con-
tractors, in order to have civil help on any emergency, have
made an arrangement as to the payment of mists, by which
a member of the Cornwall county constabulary is always
at band. The policeman on this occasion was no more
consulted than the doctor. The unfortunate blow doe.
net seem, so far as we have been able to ascertain, to have
broken up the puffy. What was deemed best was does
for the wounded man, and with the hope that all
would be well, the remainder of the party coetinued their
joililleatioe. Time wore on, and Christmas-day was
bat some time between 12 and 2on Thursday mornZted'h•
poor sufferer was released from his mortal woes by the
&Meade( death. On this sad termination of the event of
Christmas-eve counter to the resident paiosman's ears he
communi:ated with his superior, Mr. Superintendent
Stephens. at St. John's, and Sergeant Foot, of Torpoiot,
was despatched to Tregantle. The man Sands was appre-
hended on the charge of murder, and about three o'clock on
Thursday he was brought into Torpoiat by Foot, sad was
placed in the lock-up there. So far as we have been
able to ascertain, the blow by which the fatal resell was
produced was not premeditated. It doss not appear that
there was any ill foaling between the primmer and &-
amid before the unfortunate drunken wrangle on Tuesday
evening. It may be presumed, from the fact of the deceased
being in the prisoner's hut at the time when the fatal blow
was struck, that not only was there no ill-feeliog, but that
they maintained friendly relations towards each other.
The fatal deed, it would seem, was the result, DOS of
design or premeditation, but of sudden and irrepressible
sager, arising out of • commonplace and unimportant dd.
(Greece of opinion on matters upon which, probably, there
would have been no difference whatever had all the persons
concerned been, at the time, fret from the unhappy incite-
IIII•11ito: coestikud tly wiry; eetaatioa with the use d is-
Walla( rinks.

ALLEGED ourivaz ON A JAMIE GUNBOAT.

A private despatch received in Halifax from
Bermuda cattalos ill' startling annonnoement that the
British gunboat Lambed, while carrying despatches to the
English admiral of the Went India station, was fired into by
an American ship-of-war Dia unfortunate Ban Jacinto).
This intelligence caused a strong feeling in Bermuda. The
Hauler Reporter any.: " W hatever differences of minim
may exist as to the arrest of Slidell and Mason, there ma
be no doubt es to the light in which the outrage offered
to the British flag in the nue of the Leaked should
I and will be regarded. It is evident that the AOlOll.
*a government wish to provoke • quarrel with
England. The toes of their the brae=
madam of the officers of their cleat, with which the Atlan-
tic coast is now covered—and the hardly concealed wish al
her public men to iaault nod bully the nprenentetives of
the British nation on every occasion, leave no doubt es to
the recent outrages being the result of a sailed plea"
The Landrail was lying in the harbour of New York ea
the 14th December. TM Herald a that date my.—" The
report that the Landrail, Commander J. B. Martin, 5 gum,
was fired at by the BID Jacinto, is altogether without foe=
dation. The Landrail is • screw VLF
boat, rod, when lassies the Gulf eir=titat am-
! =ay on bar purge with the Sea Jacinto. She arrived
at tine port yesterday at 12 o'clock, sad on tusking in t:
remade the alleged insult to the British flag it has
=cemented from her own 'Mom that no each Iseult was
intended. The Landfall was bound far New York, and in
coming alongside with the San Jacinto, and ban in fall
sail at the time, recognised the shot from the latter. It has
been °Mover= that the United States war unseal only fired
a blank shot. It was amicably agreed nem that it was no-
, Ming beyond that, and both as seem satisfied that was no • insult,' as it is wlleto the British Bug, The
Landrail sot having her pease= flogs tying attire time, the
'Seem theenselves coda= that it was the right of the San
Isolate to do what she did, more esposially In the present
oscines times ia which we live, and la eassideestioa of the
war is which the !Mateo an engaged. Previous to the Nag-
lick gunboat Landrail arrival' at this port she 'meshed her
jibbom, owing to the heavy weather she had be encounter.
She carries five inns, one a 68 -pounder. sad the others 40-
j:wanders each. Her jibboom is being rapidly put is order,
and she will be ready to take orders from New York in •
'few dam to where at. is doptioed to carry them."—Limr-
poof Meratry

MYSTERIOUS MUEDIE AT
A savage murder was perpetrated at Enniskillen
on Monday night, or rather Tuesday morning. The victim
wee named William Carleton, a remaikably quiet and gene-
wally esteemed man, who had for about three weeks been
keeping a public-house in ilighetreet. Early in this dim,
aces of Tuesday an inquest warn held on the body, to the
premises, by Montgomery D. Nixon, Esq., and an intelli-
gent jury. Ihe following is the amount of what was
' elicited by the investigat'on.
' Oa the previous night two young men, Henry Harriman d
Janice Griffio, after drinking some time in the public-house
of Thomas Carleton, brother of the deceased, went into de-
seased's sloes with a soldier of the 96th, who pis his
name as Maguire, of Newtrivenbutlcr, end came out
in a few minutes, it being then about eleven o'clock,
leaving • man named M'Manus in the house. The evidence
of Harm, sad Grifflo both agreed that the soldier had sud-
denly disappeared ; and Griffin thought that he had either
goo* back to Carletoo's or into some other house. Miss
Cosner, who lives next door to the scene of the murder, wee
awake after 1 o'clock, and beard • bone at Carleton's door,
es of a little fighting, and • faint cry of " Murder." Her
father, Mr. William Cuellar, beard a sou& upstairs in
Carleton's, and in a short time one or two cries of murder,
warently at the door of the deceased. Mr. Nihau and Mrs.
M'Caffrey, who live in the same boom in which Carleton
was killed, but in a different part of it, beard no un-
ion:union noise at all ; but about twelve tho former heard
• knocking at the hoot door, but did not hear the door
opened. After three o'clock be woke up, heard moans pro-
ceeding from below, and woke Mrs. MUffrey. When they
west dews they found the demand lying in the ball, w.th his
lee is a pool of blood near the door, soother pool of blood
at the door, the buck door wide open, and the hoot door uo-
latched. The drowsed could then speak, and asked to
be tikes to bed, but objected to Mr. Mihan /Meg for his
brother. He did go, however, and while he wee ggnonus the
deceased called foe "Edward" and "James," no deoaed
scold talk some at first ; but he evidently did net naderstand,
or was aawilling to tell, what bad happened to him. One time
be said he knew very well what bed happened to him, and
then he dewed that anything had happened to hire. To
the doctor ha appeared to have lost recollection of all
that had happened from early in the_ previous
evening. He sank till about 9 o'clock, and this died. Duffy
found pools of blood in the hell, in the trout room up-stairs,
in the garden, and in a bock kitchen. He found traces of
blood on the garret stairs and in other places, and in • Lock
I house were two bloody weeps of straw, as if some one bed
wiped something with them. Dr. Nixon performed a post-
mortem examination during the impost. (The bead and
face were horribly mangled and disfigured with clotted
blood) One of the injuries wee • hectors of the skull
affecting the brain. Thot was the isjury that elated death.
Another wooed had cut the neck for six inches, and cot
half-aminch into the jaw-hona The wettish must have
been inflicted by an instrumeei sharp enough to make a
clean cot, nod heave enough to break the skull. A short
heavy sword might iio it. Captain Butler was of opinion
that the blow described by the doctor WY that of • prac-
tise! swordsmae, and the most powerful cut • swor,lsmsn
coold give. M 'Manus, who was remanded as the last left
in Carletoo's booms the previous night, was present at the
Inquest in custody, having been brought in by Head Cosa
stable &on, of Mackey. It was considered that the evi-
dence did not justify his detention, so his was released and
examined. He gave a eonfussd account of himself, saying
he hail left Carleton's quite briber, about ten o'clock, after
the young men ; that he got drunk on the road on whiskey
he had in • tattle, and that he knew nothing of what he
was about till he found himself in custody in the morals,
for trying, with two others, to force Ids way into tlis home
of people named Stewart.-IPeragenept &porter.

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Kato intellignut.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—DEC. 27.
(Before Yr. CollUldilliODef GoalburD.)
IN RE PP=

The bankrupt, a commercial traveller, of Camden-town,
applied for his order of discharge. His debts are 7001., of
which 5001. is in respect of bills given for 'hares in • con-
cern called. "Tie Economic Omnibus Company."
A creditor named Jones, a lodging house-keeper, opposed,
on the ground that the bankrupt had contracted a debt
without probable means of paying it.
Mr. Aldridge (who has been appointed by the Lord Chan-
cellor to attend to those cases in which no trade amigos* is
appointed, and to act as adviser to the official sseignee),
being appealed to by the court, submitted that the ease wee
not one for an immediate order. The bankrupt, two days
Wore be lost his situation, had incurred a liability of mot ,
by taking shares M a oompany, he at the time owing
WO& to other creditors. Those creditors had been seriously
injured by that proceeding, for he had been sued by the
company on his bills, and had been taken in execution.
His Honour said the case clearly came within the pro-
visions of the 159th section. The bankrupt had incurred
debts without probable or reasonable expectation of
able to pay then,. and he had indulged in rash and ba
cue speculation. The order of discharge would be suspended
for twelve months. As the execution creditor was the
omnibus company, protection would be given.

IN ES WV/DEBT—LONG HUBPINSION.
The bankrupt was • licensed victualler, is Upper Bing-
street, Bloomsbury. This was the sitting for examination
and discharge. Debts 8801.; no meets, all the property
being held by secured erditare.
Mr. Lows and Mr. Dark opposed. It appeared that the
bankrupt had purchased two pianos from the opposing cre-
ditors, sod had immediately raised money on them.
His Honour, alter coraulti with Mr. Aldridge (who ap-
peared as in the last case) said he was inclined to direct •
prosecution in this case, but found that he could not do so,
by moon of the offence not having been committed within
three months of the bankruptcy. The case was • very bad
one, and the order of discharge would be suspended for two
years.

replied—" Prom master's in the Brixton-road." As the
prisoner was going in the reverse way to that direction, he
inquired his master's name, end bow long he lived them,
and he then stated that he came from Clapham. Witness
was not satisfied with his statement, and he took him to
the station. Upon making inquiries, he found that the roll
of calico had been stolen from the lobby of Mr. Collins's
shop door, where it had been exposed for sale in the after-
noon.

IC having heat ascertained that the prisoner bad berm
committed before,
Mr. Deymao fully committed him for trial.