The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-18 00:00:00

TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF ALICE GREY

The trial of this notorious woman for perjury at Wol-
verhampton, in a case in which she accused two boys of
robbing her, and succeeded in procuring their conviction
at the quarter sessions, held a few days following, took
place at Stafford on Saturday.
The prisoner, on entering the dock, exhibited the most
perfect indifference and contempt, and a seat being pro-
vided for her, spent the most of the time in sucking
oranges. During the judge's summing up, a young man,
who stood near, sketched her face and held it up for her
to see. She jumped up, seized a long wand of an officer
of the court, and dealt her insulter a smart blow on the
head with it
Twenty witnesses were called to prove different parts
of the case, whose evidence it is needless to detail.
His Lordship then carefully summed up the evidence,
and the jury, after a short time spent in deliberation,
returned a verdict of Guilty of wilful perjury..—His
Lordship said he would defer passing sentence, until he
had taken time to reflect upon it, when the prisoner con-
temptuously said, " As you grow colder, I shall grow
older; " and was adding something more, when she was
removed.

BY TELEGRAPH.
STAFFORD, MONDAY.

The first business in the Crown Court before Mr. Baron
Bramwell this morning was the sentence of the notorious
impostor, and convicted perjurer, Alice Grey.
The prisoner, on being called up for judgment, was by
no means daunted,:but: on the contrary, manifested the
utmost nonchalance.

Mr. Baron Bramwell, addressing the prisoner, said, You
have been found guilty of perjury. Ido not want to
address you at any length, but I must say that I can
hardly conceive a worse case than the one you-

The prisoner (interrupting the learned judge), well
then, if you please, pass the sentence with as little cere-

mony as you can.
Mr. Baron Bramwell : I was going to do so.
The prisoner : I know it is a hard thing for me to suffer
innocently.
Mr. Baron Bramwell: Four years' penal servitude is
the sentence upon you. I pass that in addition to six
days' imprisonment.
The prisoner : You cannot make me live it out.
The prisoner was then removed from the dock without
making any further exhibition.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN OFFICIAL
IN THE LONDON AND NORTH
WESTERN,RAILWAY.

Yesterday morning there was more than usual attraction at
the pollee court, in consecitterce of the arrest of an official
connected with the London and North Western Railway, by
inspector Kehoe, on a serious charge of fraud on that company.
The .court was crowded when, at one o'clock, the case was
called on before Mr. Mansfield. The prisoner is a
Fespeefable looking person, about thirty-seven years of age, and
his name on the sheet was entered as William Parsonage, and
his addition, Clerk in the claim and goods department of the
London and North Western Railway Company, at the Waterloo
Road station, and also auctioneer to the company for the sale
of unclaimed property. Mr. Blenkensop, the solicitor to the
company, appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner had no
legal assistance. Mr. Blenkensop, in opening the case, said
the 'prisoner was in the employment of the London and North
Western Railway Company, and the charge against him at
present was for having obtained money under false pretences.
It was just necessary for him to state, that the prisoner had
been ire the employment for many years, and up to the present
had deserved the confidence of the company. He had been
peculiarly connected with the goods department and with that
where claims were made for damaged goods. The mode in whiCh
that department was conducted was this—when a claim for
lost or damaged goods was put in, it was inspected and inves-
tigated, and sent to London by the prisoner after such investi-
gation. It was there submitted to an audit, and then came
down to Mr. Poole's office, whose manager the prisoner was.
It was then handed to tire prisoner to be paid. He (Mr.
Blenkeneop) would only produce one case to the court, so as
to found a remand, for which lie would ask. He called Mr.
James 11. Butler, who said he was a merchant of Liverpool.
In 1854 he ordered a pair of maps from Mr. Wylde of London.
The cost was £l2 18s. These were sent by the railway
directed to him. They came, but were damaged, and he
refused to take them. He made a claim for the value,
was sent to Mr. Poole. The claim was £l3 3s, the value
and carriage of the maps. He did not press the claim, as it
was settled in London with Mr. Wylde, who had been paid,
but witness did- not get any money for that claim from the
company. The receipt now produced was not sent from his
office, and he had no clerk named Winter, to sign the receipt ;
he never got• a sixpence of the money mentioned in that
receipt. Mr. Blenkensop said the receipt was produced by the
prisoner as far money paid by him. He was then remanded
without further evidence or comment.

FRIGHTFUL MURDER IN CORNWALL,

One of the most shocking murders that has occnered in the
West Of England for many years, was perpetrated on Thurs-
day night, in a field adjoining the camp ground at Maker
Heights, about two miles from Devonport, on the Cornwall
side of the Tamar. On Wednesday last the 3rd Jager (rifle)
Regiment, of the British German Legion, arrived at Devon-
port in the Alps, and, atter staying a short time, a portion of
the regiment was ordered to Maker, to occupy the accommo-
dation recently used by the South Devon Militia. Amongst
the men so disposed were Charles Jacobi and Hans Hansen.
On Thursday these two men were ',clanking together
in Millbrook, and on Friday morning it was dis-
covered' that Jacobi had been murdered. Jacobi is
said to be a surgeon by profession, and of very
respectable connexions, although serving as a private. They
called at the house of a Mrs. Palmer, and bought two penny
buns and some penny loaves of breacL at about eight o'clock,
and they were then both the worse for liquor, but Hansen the
more inebriated of the two. They were subsequently seen
going toward the barracks, Hansen carrying a large stone under
his arm. He did not, however, arrive at the barracks until
twelve o'clockovhen he was immediately put under arrest for
being ;out of quarters without leave after hours. On Friday
morning, on calling over the muster roll, Jacobi was missing,
and si:ortly afterwards information was received at the bar-
racks that the dead body of a soldier had been found by a man
named Gregory, in a turnip field, near Maker Church,
on the heights. A picquet was sent to the spot,
and the body found was at once identified as that of Jacobi,
although ho had been brutally mutilated, especially about
the head. There were three superficial wounds on the left
side of the head by the ear, of the several-lengths of two inches,
ono inch, and half an inch. The scalp was separated from the
skull about two inches, though the skull was not fractured
externally. On the skull being opened some extravasated
bloOd was found •on the brain, and on removing
the brain the base of. the skull was found to be fractured
ilii:Ough that part of the temporal bones which contains the
organs of hearing. About two or three yards from the
place. where the body was found, a largo stone was disco-
vered bespattered with blood, and to which some human
hair was attached. The stone was nearly 161 b in weight.
On Hansen being arrested lay Captain I grace de Lemicki
that officer observed some spots of blood on his jacket, and
on his attention being called to it, he started back, and said,
4‘ I did not kill, the man," and afterwards said'his nose had
baen bleeding and that some of the blood had gone
about his clothes. The deceased • had a short time
previously received £4O from his friends, but the only
money found upon the body as 3s. A coroner's jury has
returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Hans
Hansen. The prisoner will be committed to Bothnia gaol,
and tried at the Cornwall assizes, which commence on
Saturday next.

SELF-MURDER