The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-28 00:00:00

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/Mai • palsy ise %ASK tie Ike
own mime eb. Mks fist it seems be haws seemed
to him that la order to &bat bis 'redden It would
be es will to the hoes ei the Wm%
le. be a fried, ands's& • trustiraillisitry=
lie possessed in one who hod formerly beta vo.t .
mesterei Guildford, bathed been esseemd from that ones.
Preview*, however, to the assignmsed to Weiler, a
eemmaniestion was made to Willienhem, by the Osm-
sekeleniee et Thdien_that in maseguenes al a amok having
Demi diseovered is the wad of the Oollema's Head, sad
th2massally dilapidated eeadidea ad hussies, the
WIWI be illsondimeeil mid it wag thmovered
•7M'er the emseic a:denied, and this sespeadea was
never ravel WilliseisWe a... 4w.. to Mikes
Hodges' Digillery oowaw to his with a
quantity el odsits—anil this they did tie saint of
1,06 W. This was towmde the sad et liap—lbe home
beig .Moist_ Early in June Se assii=le
Wm was imesid, and in July Wile
effected
7401. de.,,
es
tee podey on tie desk ilztares,attar that
fur.
,
the serviess of • 1
Xr. Green 1111111 and
the whole of the stook at the Co'.bham
with the eneeption of ease bomb of ale, was re-
moved sad sold. Some of the not.. the proem& of this
sale, were paid into a beak at Islisigeosi by Wilbraham,
Wm. Takla beim unwswered to draw spas the bank to
the WAWA el NIL is September !Maim was again
amend, and la Wiriaber also it was deemed advisable
that Weller *saki buidsr his heasing in the Cobham's
Heed—pralrw Ise & valuable imanderation—to Mrs.
Tettm was in Whiteman-street be
was elided by Mrs. Tattoo, who paned es his
sister-ia-law, and also by his wife, who was *gni=
rant of the relations between her hothead and
In the forenoon of the 12611 of Deoember—the

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Fay of the -We dz. Totten visited
Wilbraham at the rim, and they subsequently drove
to the Claim's Head, which they entered.
This was between tea AEI three o'clock in the afternoon.
On estirinLthey entimmitered a man named Cutinjubacne
wastalltkzec.h.gfts? oteriedFrbbmottle, wOri was in. great
mew* severed by ambits sloth ; that she and Weller
went down info the miles, into which a quantity of shav-
ings end bay from
__upstairs had been pr-
viously removed by Weirdo mien ; and then WINIM
they got down there they sine a light After remaining
below a abed time they esme up, and Waller having
glum the ultimo a *Naghimself, sal jeked hi m
'Wetly not te Ist anyone as the prembes, be and
Table went away. The Idiom's evidence was also quite
Millar* that the only terminus in the house on ,that
day was an old matt:am a French bedstead, and
a mai
Broady ze stand.
smn thilleiliocit
broke
007 nose of a 4
was kind.
to burn with remarkable rapidity. When Mrs. Tatters
was isicemsd of the premises bung on fire it is said she
went off in a faint, which however lasted but for a
very abort time. The next morning Weller 'naked the
some, and was very busy is getting the rubbish cleared
away. No Wefts remained indicating that there bad
been either stock or furniture on the premiere. Mrs.
Tanen sent in her claim to the company's office ill January
following—that is, Januury, '67—and on the
.00nspany's
refusal to askrewledge
ed, Vi&tLe roesediarsleoriginsted.
At the orindedin el the ' case, defendants'
counsel &Ades to eall
Mr. Hawkins, ariiwariasiliag the amurazwe of the
jury that it was gabs INlllllllllllry for him to do en, brieffy
summed up the sempany's emu In conclusion, the
learned counsel seggened to certain of the defendants
pressen the ezessiting prudence of their betaking them-
selves of as speedily as peseible—a suggestion on which
Mr. Wilbraham at oboe acted, as he forthwith walked out
cd court.

-111r.15ensplisli Poster having addressed the jury on be-
half of the einimente, prineipolly ridiculing the smallness
of the proof that the premises had been fired at their
instance,
Baron Martin pronounced the ease one of the vomit
attempts at martian ever introduced into a court of law.
It wee • poultice latish to the understandings of the jury
to invite them to give their verdict in support of such •
claim. The time was when anon was • hanging offence ;
it was still punishable with pm servitude for life. If
this were • criminal more striatum of proof
might be requisite. As it was, all the jury had to do wire
to exercise their common sense, and my was the fire
accidental.

The Cary et once found a verdict for the oompany upon
an the mines submitted to them.
Mr. Hawkins then applied that the documents produced
at the trial Mould be impounded, which was forthwith
ordered to be done.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
Nov.- 27._ _

(Mott ths iwise Ordinary.)

711101111ALD W. 111110INALD.
Mr. CeUridge, Q.C., Mr. °Ward, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey
for the petitioner; Dr. Spinks, Q.C., and Mr. hearts for
the
ht= elk:sts, which wits repeated in the Norms of
yesterday, the court tech tinie Meonsider its judgment
the question of dinertion.

ORLIN e. OZZIEN.
Dr. Tristram for the pefitiomn., the wife of a surgeon at
Hull. She was married to him on the 20th of December,
1886, and she lived with him till the 27th of the October
following, when she left him on the groundof his ill-usage
of her. He had in other respects misconducted himself,
and the court granted a judicial separation.
ILICZAT (11Y NMI OILULDIAN) a. RADCLAT.
Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Inderwick for the petitioner.
At the age of sixteen she was married to Dacre Bruce
Barclay, and she cohabited with him at Hammersmith and
Child's-hill till August, 1867, when, she alleged, after being
much ill-treated by her husband, she was ordered by him
to leave the house. She also charged him with various
acts of adultery, but the case stood over for further
evidence.
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before the Assistant Judge.)
uluthotty Stewart, 25, labourer, and Thomas Stewart, 20,
were indicted, the former for maliciously wounding and
inflicting grievous bodily harm, actual bodily harm, and
a common assault upon John Hannon, a ticket collector
at the Hammersmith Railway Station of the Great
Western Railway, and Thomas Stewart for a common
mann upon the said John Hannon.
Mr. Williams prosecuted for the railway authorities.
The prisoners were unrepresented by counsel.
Mr. Williams stated the facts. The prosecutor lived at
18, Waterloo-street, Hammersmith, and was a ticket col-
lector at the Hammersmith Station of the Metropolitan
Railway, which is farmed by the Great Western Company.
On the 7th November the prisoners came to that
station with Kensington tickets, for which 21.
extra was demanded by the prosecutor, who
took them to the inspector, and he wrote down
their names. On coming out of the office the pri-
soners abused him, and, making use of very bad language,
the prisoner Thomas Stewart struck him. Prosecutor ad-
vised them to go away, and not get themselyee into
ro tuble. The prisoner Anthony said, "Only that you
have government buttons on, or .1 would give you some-
thing now." They then went on a little way, when
Thomas said to Anthony, " You had better let him have
it now," and they thereupon set upon him, knocked him
down, the prisoner Anthony falling on him, and while on
the ground bit a piece of his ear off, and, as it could not
be found, it was supposed the prisoner had swallowed it.
A cabman came up and pulled the prisoner Anthony
away from the prosecutor. The other prisoner, Thomas,
had by that time run away. Thomas 'lions, a carriage
examiner would corroborate that portion of the case.
The cabdriver who pulled the prisoner away
saw him deliberately take the prosecutor's ear
between his teeth, and bite it off, and throw
his head back, and he thought he must have swal-
lowed it. Dr. Haynes, of the West London Hospital,
examined the prosecutor,. and found he had lost a
piece of his ear, about an inch and a half long and nears
y
half an inch in breadth. The piece was entirely gone. and
for some time erysipelas was apprehended and his life was
in danger, and he must have suffered very grad agony.
Witnesses were called who spoke to these facts, and also
• gentleman who gave the prisoners good characters.
The Andstant-Judge, in summing up, said the evidence
was all on one side. The prosecutor was merely doing his
duty when he was:savagely set upon by the prisoners ; and
for Lis part he could hardly understand how a man could
descend to such an act of brutality as the prisoner Anthony
bad been guilty of.
The jury found the prisoner Anthony Stewart Guilty of
actual bodily harm, and the other prisoner of a common
assault.

s&Th mistant-Judge said he could hardly believe any
man could be found to behave in such a brutal way. The
sentence on Thomas Stewart was six months, and on
Anthony Stewart twelve mouths' imprisonment, with hard
labour.