The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-16 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—TAturrow, Dze. 15.
(Before Mr. Baron CliannalL)
TO BRIRDIM OF ♦ NAVVY ALT WELD,.

The tii:l7dito7vrl istrig, and Ww. Bigrset, 20,
charged with the wilful murder of George Carniah, at
Wells. on the 3rd of Anent, was resumed this interning.
After the despatch of Moodyy's parcel, the girl Elisa-
beth Drew, who was originally charged with the prisoners
ai an aceompbos in the mime, was examined. She con-
tradicted several of the witnemse as to the time spoken to
as her having been seen in company with Sweet and Bis-
fr. On being cross-examined by Mr. Saunders, who
eigilded Bisgrove, she said that Sweet (with whom she
cohabited) was very angry at her having gono into the
Said with Negroes for an immoral purpose, but
be did not say a word to Biagrove. Sweet
did not threaten Biagrove with violence if he went
into the geld with us. When she tried to dirmade Dia-
gram from doming in the field she was not apprehensive
that Sweet would do him any violence. The statements
el as two prisoners wefts put in. Sweet admitted going
to the Somerset tap on the night in goestiem and leaving
Sere a few minutes before 11. Upon ironing to the PhD
Mom In they saw a crowd, and were told that a roan had
faller cat of window. Megrim went of halo the camp
Slid, and after he retailkii be slid Sot Blown had
OM her 2s. He asked Mr were the young man (BM-
W° woh sad she rePlied, "He is lying down out in the
by the side of another man." He then
struck her for going with the man, and the then
went off together down Tacket-streett and remai there
until neat/ a quarter to five. He said be had never seen
the man that was killed, and no man could say so. Bic.
grove's daemon! amounted to an explanation of the
cause of some spots of blood upon his trousers, saying that
his nose had bled, and that he bad bed a St, in which he
hod knocked himself about.

This morning, Mr. Edlin summed up the evidence for
the proesution, and
Hr. Sanndereaddrused the jury for the prisoner Bis-
grove, pointing out the absence of any motive for his
making any attacKuponCormick, wbonile had never seen
before, and to his having given the police all the infor-
mation which had led to his being charged wi h the
offence, and which was now sought to be used as evidence
against him.
Mr. Poole, for the prisoner Sweet, contended that hia
being in the field at the time of the murder was • matter
of theory only, whilst Sisgrove was found in the field
within a few minutes of the murder being committed,
and that wu a fact, apd no theory. Besides, the mur-
dered man was robbed of threepence in copper, and
wkilit nothing was found upon Sweet, fourpence in
coppers was found upon Biagrove.
His Lordship summed up, and the jury returned a
verdict of wilful murder. Sentence of death was passed.

A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER COMMITTED POE
Taut. rot FORGLIIT. Yesterday. at the HuddereSeld
Police-court, a traveller, named John Lairdlar Hawkins,
late in the service of Messrs. J. Hasp and Co., manufac-
turers, Crosalend Factory, neer HuMerAeld, wascharged
with forging and uttering • bill of exchange for 1161. 1 la.,
with intent to defraud. The prisoner, when not
mimed on • journey, took hie place in the
coun- ting-house aa a clerk. He had no absolute autho•
city to collect moneys, but on the 6th of January he
called at Masora Lockwood's, Hudderefleld, to collect •
sum which was due to his employee,. Next day he called
:=taking with him • statement, and the account was
by the payment of a draft. The same morning
Hewkins waisted at the Midland Bank a draft whisk
was endorsed J. Heap and Brothers, and be obtained the
cash. When the bill became due it was of comas disho-
noured, the name having been forged, and the prisoner
was apprehended at Birmingham. Hawkins had been
committed on • charge of embezzlement, and he is also to
be indicted on the charge of forgery.
A CLERGYMAN CHARGED VIM ANIALILT.—At
the Botherbam petty swims, on Monday, the Rev. J. J.
Christie, the head insider of the Rotherham Grammar
Mod, was charged with ainaolting Arthur Hama one of
him peglik e boy 13 years_ of Age. It appeared that
the ant had found a pet jackdaw which had
strayed, and being under the impression that it was a
wounded crow had killed it, by dashing its head against
a wall. The defendant hearing of this charged the boy
with cruelty, and thrashed him severely with a cane,
inflicting suc.h injuries upon his shoulders and arms that
his health had since been impaired. Dr. Showman, a
local medical gentleman, mid that the boy had been
" bartiareeily treated," end the bore arm, zeta& wee
exhibited in wont, showed that he still—Sve days after
the ocoarrence—bers marks of • severe castigation. The
defence was that the boy had been guilty of wanton
acuity towards the w, and that theevidence of Dr.
fthearreaa wee udiosd, because be was opposed to
amps: weal trdtebmsat in public schools. Tbe magistrates
(the Hon.?. B. Wortley and Mr. W. H. Otter) dismissed
the caw— Loeb Ihrelsry.
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