The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-21 00:00:00

BURGLARY AT DILWORTH.

At the Blackburn Town Hall, yesterday, tics
men, Roger Haydock, John Barnes, John Jackson, William
Maudelay, and Richard Corbridge, were brought up on re
resod charged with burglariously entering the house J.
John Bonnie, farmer, Written Stone, Dilworth, betwal
three and five o'clock en Monday morning, 11th Mat. Ni.
Bourne, who is 76 years of age, proved the huratiof
open of his bedroon; door by five or six men, of whoa
he could identify all the prisoners except Barnes, woe
time between three and five o'clocklian Monday moroig.
the Iltb instant. One of the men, Jackson, rushed up
to his bedside, and presenting a pistol, demanded his
money or his life. He was then covered up in bed, while
the men ransacked the drawers in the room, and took
from one drawer three 101. and one 5/. Bank of &gland
notes, and nine or ten sovereigns. From the pocket of a
pair of breeches, which were in a chest in the room, were
taken 16s. At the time .Tackson came to his bedside, (*ors
bridge held one light .l candle, and one of the other men
another. After searching the room the men went down•
stairs, and shortly after one of them returned with a
single•barrel gun. which Mr. Bonnie recognised as his
own, and presenting it at him, demanded his watch and
more money or he would blow his brains out. Mr.
Bonnie replied that he had none, end, as be bad not loug
to live, he did not care if they did kill him. The man
who presented the gun he believed to be Corbridge
after leaving him the man went to his daughter's bid, who
slept in a bed at the opposite side of the room, where he
threatened her, demanded money, and then Indecent,/
assaulted her.

Margaret Bourne said that on the Monday morning she
was awakened by a rattle at the bedroom door, in which
she and her father lath slept, and which had been bolted
the night before, when they went to bed. She looked out,
thinking it was her father, and immediately the door was
burst open and five men rushed in, and while three men
rushed forward to her father's bedside, two, Haydock and
Barnes, stood behind. She corroborated her father's state-
ment respecting the visit paid to the room by Corbridge
with the gun, and also to the ill-nacelle she received from
Corbridge. She identified the whole five prisoners as the
men who were in the house on the night in question. She
also identified the silver spoons produced. It was further
proved that in Illvtinek's house were found three loaded
pistols, capped, and the silver spoons identified by Mise
Bourne ; that one of the pistols found in Haydock's house
was bought on the Saturday at Mr. Boyle's pawnshop, by
the prisoner 3faudoley. A witness saw Corbridge arid
Haydock on the Sunday evening, at six o'clock, going in
the direction of lAA tree's house ; anti a potman met the
five prisoners coming towards Blackburn from where the
burglary was committed, at 7 o'clock on Monday morning.
The prisoners Parties, Maudsley, and Jackson were de•
fended by Mr. H. Backbones and Mr. Dean, who e..lled
witnesses to prove an a/Ai. Haydock pleaded guilty. and
said all the rest were innocent. They were all committed
for trial.

NEW FRIEN.rO AT THE HOLNEN OF PARLIAMENT.
—The subject of the new fresco bv Mschse, in the Home
of Lords, now being painted, is the meeting of Wellington
and Blucher after Waterloo.

One of the popular errors in Paria lure long been
the belief that persons recognising any dead body pnblielY
exposed at the Morgue would have to pay certain expen.es :
and the consequence was that many people made s rule of
abstaining from communicating with the officials when they
happened to know any deceased individual exposed• To
remove this error, the prefect of police has had a large
*card stook up opposite the entrance to the Nerve.
calling on all persons to make known the mune and address
of anybody they may recognise, and promising that they
shall not be subject to any expense, even if he belonged to
their family.