The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-01 00:00:00

EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1861.

THZ POLICE UOURTS.
(THU DAY.)

PREFERRING A PRISON TO • 110111.-11 AD CARR OT BORDIERT.
Eh:abet/I Barrow!, aged 17, residing at 5, Cooper's-
buildings, St. Power, was charged with stealing four
Abeeta, one counterpane, and a number of other articles of
the value of the propertyci her lather, Joseph Barraud
ioul Rosalie Cortopasst, aged 30, of 45, George.street, St.
P.ineras, was charged with receiving the same, well knowing
them to have been stolen.

This wee a most p:iinrul case. the prisoner Barraud left
the home of her father about a month ago, and took the
articles mentioned in the charge away with her. The
father saw her, and she, in the presence of police-sergeant
Tuit, 20 G, said that the other prisoner had incited her to
commit the robbery, and that the whole of the articles would
be found at Cortoriassee lodgings. The prosecutor and the
sergeant proceeded there and found the greater portion of
the missing proporty, the only this; missing being a sheet,
the pawn ticket of which was found in her pocket.
Mr. Barker said there was not sufficient at present to
detain Cortopaui and she would be discharged. If the
complainant pleased he would go on with the charge of
robbery against his daughter.
The complainant said he would rather not proceed any
further with the charge, but hoped that he might take his
daughter home.
The prisoner said she wonld,not go home. She did not
care about it. _ _

Mr. Barker— Would you rather go to prison than !rme ?
What ration eau you have for not going home?
The prisoner-1 would rather go to prison than go home,
but t will nut state my reason.
Mr. Barker thought it would be better to remand her for
• week so that she might have time to reflect. It was a mad
cam.

THE MURDER AT MINOSTON.

This dreadful occurrence still continues to be the
wand topic of conversation and interest in the town and
neighbourhood, and notwithstanding the strict inquiries
that have been made by the police, no motive has been dis-
covered to account for the commission of the dreadful
crime. So far from the unhappy woman having been actu-
ated by a feeling of jealousy, it would appear from all that
has transpired that she was very much attached to the
deceased. and that hearing she was out of place, having been
employed for about eighteen months in • gentleman's family
as nursemaid, and her services being no longer require
the prisoner sent for her to come to Kingston, sod
asked her to remain with her and her husband
until she could procure her another place. She bad
only been in the barracks with the prisoner about • fort-
night when the dreadful occurrence took place, and during
that period not the slightest familiarity was observed to
have taken place between the deceased and the prisoner's,
husband ; on the contrary, the former was always con-
sidered a remarkably modest, well-behaved young woman,
and the prisoner never seems to have uttered a word that
would create a belief that she was conducting herself fill-
properly. The result of all the inquiries that have been
made up to the present time is that the frightful deed was
committed wider a sudden uncontrollable impulse of
mania, that the wretched woman was at the time quite ea-
conscious of the nature of the act she was committing. It
would seem that for several weeks the prisoner has
suffered moat agonising pains in her head, but it was coed-
dared that this arose from natural causes, incidental to
women at her period of life, and no medical advice was
sought for further than as she could not obtain any rest at
night some medicine was obtained with the view of pro-
curing sleep. This, however, did not have the desired
effect, and it appears that the prisoner had herself pur-
chased small quantities of laudanum, which she took with
the same object, but it was of no avail, and there is no
doubt that the laudanum still further acted upon the
brain of the unhappy woman and aggravated her condition.
The result appears to have been that for a abort time before
the dreadful occurrence she was in such • condition
that she was actually afraid to go to bed, as she could not
sleep, and if perchance she did so for • short time, the sleep
was accompanied by much horrible dreams and visions, as
she described them, that it was equally dreadful to her.
For some time before her sister came to the barracks to
live with her she had been in the habit of going to the
quarters of the other sergeants, and sitting up with the
wives as late as she could at night, and she repeatedly in
the course of conversation with them, made reference to
her condition, and stated that she dreaded to go to bed, and
would rather sit up all night than do so. On Monday,
the day previous to the dreadful occurrence, the
prisoner and her sister were on the moat friendly
terms, and they had gone out for • walk
in the afternoon, and the prisoner had placed
the name of the deceased in the book of •
register office for servants, and as they were going back the
prisoner ordered a small cask of ale for the family. She
and her husband and the deceased all bad tea together, and
they sat up during the evening reading, and the prisoner
parted with her mister on the moat friendly terms, and
nothing at all unusual was observed in her appearance.
The paroxysm that seized her in the morning must have
been elmost momentary, for immediately after
committing the dreadful act, she appeared to
be seized with the most poignant remorse, and
when she returned to the room where the body of the
deceased was lying, still quivering in the agonies of death,
the mental anguish she exhibited is stated to have been of
the most appalling kind. The wretched woman has be-
come much more calm and composed since she has been
in Horsemonger-lane Gaol, but, in order to prevent the pos-
sibility of her doing any act of violence to herself a female
warder is constantly with her. As the town of Kingston,
although within the distance over which the Centred Crimi.
nal Court has juriadictioe, is not one of the places named in
the Central Criminal Court Act, the case cannot be disposed
of at that court, and the prisoner, therefore, cannot take
her trial until the summer mixes in August next.