The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-16 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—ExErra, Disc. 14.

Mr. Justice Willis this morning commenced the trials of
prisoners at the aeons for the county of Devon. There are
23 cents in the Winder, some of which are cis serious cha-
rades.

101011 y.
M • arranger, of Axminster, was charged with
having • chasms for 40i., with inked to defraud
Wear& and Herbert Williams.
The prlstaw pleaded guilty: and a memorial was put in,
signed by • number of weans In Axminster, in his favour.
Ifia lordship eald be generally found that such memorials
as them wen got up in favour of prieoners who bed families,
as in this cam but not in the case of unmarried penman
who lad no families. The offence of forgery was •Tory
MAO= one in • oosaassecial country like this, sad he Mould
therefore Infilca amen punishment upon the wiener. His
lordship then senemesti him to six yams' pawl merlin&

ATTRIITTED 111711Di1 OT A Ws +MATZ.

law Boykin!. Maas Braun, and Jima ahem
wee committed an a sharp of having burglarloody entmed
the haw of Xi. Bmddon, an old gentleman mading at
Blacklands, mar Plymouth, end a =emirate of Caswell.
His lordship thouOt it Bearable, is Yr. Breaks wee
suffering severely front the Jejuna; indicted on bin, that tits
prisoners should be recommitted to the aprteg Amebae.
Mr. Kaislake, who appeared for the prosecution, mated that
the surgeon who attended Mr. Bredden led madded that
that gentleman was too ill to attend these mime, end the
prisoners were then ressendid until the wet rims.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.--BTAno6D, Du. 16.
(Hein Ur. Baran Martin.)

The learned Judge took ha seat Is the Crown Court at
ulna &deck, when don newt end Philip Care, the two
prisoners charged with murder, were arraigned, end pleaded
not guilty.

stanza OF A CHILD DT ITS MOTIIIII AT DITATOC.
ANN Plant, an nom hied hateled.22 yews et in-
dicted for the wilful murder of J Pleat, her Illtiitimata
male child, on the 22nd of October, at the path& et °lvor-
hantrpeon.
a young woman of humble origin, wee attired
In a thri= and bonnet. She appeared wan end dejected,
and throughout the whole of the trial denasemed lime& in a
=inner becoming the awful posidcm in which she was placed.
The prosecution wee conducted by Mr. Spooner. The pri-
soner had not the benefit of counsel.
The learned counsel for the prosecution kitty opened the
was to the jury, and then called,
Hannah Hickman, the wife of J. Hickman, of Hall-
green, Balaton, al:metaled that she knew the primate, whose
mother lived nest door to her house. The prisoner had not
lived M home for the WS two years, but oocationally called
there. On the night of the 20th of October last the prisoner
Bled at her house, and asked to be allowed to remain there
during the night, with her child, which she had with her,
stating that she was Intending to proceed to Froghell, to I
affiliate the child, and that she could not go because shell
wanted a shawl. Witham allowed her to stop during that
and also the following night; and on the following Thursday,
the 22nd Oct., her mother having provided her with a shawland • stork of fax', she stetted in the morning to walk to
Pregball, a distance of more than 30 miles. About sus. I
o'clock in the evening the prisoner returned without the I
child, and In answer to her question. a. to what she had '
dose will it, she said, " By God, Hannah, I've given my
clad away." In reply to further inquiries, ebe mid that she
was on • door step in Suifford•street, Wolverhampton,
end the was crying. when a Lady and gentleman d
la black pared her. They stopped and noticed the child,
and asked her to give It to them, which the refused to do.
The gentleman, bawd er, took hold of her, and said,
"Cone along with us," and he carried the child, nd she went
with them to one of the two new homes standing by them-
selves in the Staffutd-road. The doors, she end, were
covered with carpets, and everything looked beautiful. The
lady got some Imeuits and made the baby some food, and
the gentleman went and borrowed a bottle to feed It with
milk. The lady then told her that if she would never own
the child it should never want for anything, nor never
work, and she would take care of It; and that they per-
seeded her to give it up. This romantic tale war told with
so much art and apparent truthfulness that she (witness) ac-
cepted it @e nee. The prisoner subsequently went to a Mrs.
Welker's, in HallSelds,Sedgley, and as she (witates.)diecuseed
the strange tiidory of the child, she began to entertain doubea of
the genuinonsee of the prieoner's statement, and on the fol-
lowing Monday, the 26th, the went to Mrs. Walker's to me
the prisoner. She was not then at home ; but on the follow-
Mg morning she found her there, and told her she mud
either point out the house to her (witness), or to the
At first she refused to do either; bat, at being
rshe rid, " Oh, Hannah, I have destroyed my child.
rteedirouble that =dense do it. I threw it Into the amid
. . . . . .

Catharine Ingram, a thaw ti the =laws, corroborated
portions of her data:lent
Pulior-constable Wm. Ponder deposed that fur some time
the erisosar refused to tell him when she had drowned the
chlW unless he would promise to allow her to jump down a
coal-pit, adding that it would brisk her mother's heart. She
subsequently, however, told him that she threw it into the
mina alive, near as bridge, where the Wolverhampton-reed
crams it ; and on the following day he found the dead body
of the child, about 100 yards distant from the spot she had
=of. It had ita night-gown on when he took it out
inter.
H. D. Bert, Esq., surgeon, deposed that he made a post-
mortem examination of the thecae= child, and from the
absence of say sign of bodily iejury, end the general con-
, dition of the atonal organs of the body, end their freedom
Irons dime= he was of opinion that the dreamed died from
=Somalia, the resat of prolonged Immersion in the water.
The prams?' staitement Wore the magistrates was also
put in and peed, au I did it from want. I had no
hums to go to. I bed eat base confined a month before I
Wea_titilmgrs,. is
proved
Erewhouse
nil tit
Thu o Itir: Hickman.
In reply to lordship, the prisoner aid ate hal no wit-
nesses to eall, ear anything to say to the Jury.
The leas= Judge summed up the =idea* *the Jury
returned s verdict of Guilty, but strongly recanbilUdedher
to mercy in consideration of the distressing IifOUNOWON
which had prompted her to commit the rash at. t
The learned Judge, who was deeply affected while so-
=he prisoner, said be should take =mane of the
allowed him by law, and in consequenos of the
straw recommendation the jury, order 11101111.10111 of death
to be record= against her.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoIix, Dec. 15.
CROWN COL KT.—MAWR Mr. Judas William.)
TRIAL OF MR. BRIGHT. OF HULL, FOR
FORGERY.

Mr. Justice William", In summing up, remarked that not-
withstanding the deed was not executed by Robert John
Taylor, and without his authority or consent, yet it by
means followed that it was a forgery. The mem was this.
It was quits clear that the shares tranderred by the deed
stood in the Dame of Robert John Tayki_, that he me only
the nominee or soot of the prisoner, Mr. Bright, and his
partner, Mr. Taylor. The shares Imre without doubt part-
nership property, and Robert John Taylor no in-
terest what- tier fa them, tieing at that *mealy& eliwk b the
house. If, therefore, the prisoner hoit the nom of
Robert John Taylor to the deed bons itilmdfng
sell the partnership property for
with the authority of Mr. Taylor. why thee ft 1=6:1
be • forgery, notwithstanding that Robert John Taylor woo
entirely ignorant of hi. name having been pat to the deed.
The partner had unquestionably. In point of law, authority
to put the name of the den to a bill of exchange or any eml-
lar Instrument, sad if be did that for hie own purposes and
not for the partnership, it ma not a forgery, but low* ea
abuse of the power with which the la. invaded Ida as
partner. But It was obvious that this win net the welliati
at one at the mow at w era, bat of • elzukgr, laberi