The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-19 00:00:00

EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1861.

of the Prince Consort, out of respect for the memory of his
royal bi4hoess. He stated that be would have no objec-
tion to sit on Tuesday and try a ease, if that could be done
with the consent of the peel

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
Doc. 18.
(ffefcre the Judge Ordinary.)
WATSON (BART.) V. WATSON AND wmusrson.
This part-heard case was resumed to-day. Mr. O'Malley,
Q.C., and Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., examined • number of wit-
imams in support of the respondent's recriminatory pleas ;
it was proved that Sir Charles had had &shop with low
women at his own residence (Wratting Park), at Cam-
bridge at Newmarket, at Bury, at Reach, and at other playas
as well as in London. The identification, which was de-
fective in the cases swan to on Saturday, wee now made
Pod-
Messrs. O'Malley and Macaulay then summed up their
respective cares ; aid Mr. layee replied.
Sir C. Croswell, at great,proceeded to recapitu-
late the evidence on both e du_ly of the jury, in
awarding damages was not to punish Mr. Wilkinson. If
it was, and the charge against that gentleman were true, the
transaction in which he had been concerned would be of •
very dark character. He was a married man, and be could
not make the respondent the only reparation which •
seducer could offer his victim, namely, in the event of a
divorce being granted, give her once more the position of a
wife. She must therefore be thrown unprotected and die-
graoed upon her relations or in the world. There was nothing,
therefore, to be said for a person guilty of such
misconduct. This, however, was what the jury
had not to consider. They were to determine
what compensation Sir Charles lit Moon ought to receive,
not what amount of fine Mr. Wilkinson ought to pay. The
question of damages necessarily depended on the value the
petitioner himself placed upon that which be had lost ; and
the jury would consider what value a man placed on his
wife if his conduct was what bad been described. In con-
clusion be (the judge) trusted that the verdict would be
band wpm a manly consideration of the facts that had
raspy been proved, and without reference to consequences,
which were entirely for the court to deal with...

The jury, alter i brief ceese/tation, found all the parties
guilty of adultery, cad armed the thumps at 401., the
&moist claimed hay* beta 10,00 W.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIROUIT.—YoRz, Dec. 18.
(Before Yr. Justice Wightrass.)
ItURDIR OF A GAIILIMPZIL AT OTLEY

James Waller, 34, was charged with the wilful murder of
William Smith ow the fith November lest.

Mr. C. Foster, Mr. Hannah, and the Hon. F. S. Wortley
prosecuted ; Mr. Meade and Mr. V. Blackburn defended the
prisoner.
The some of the crime with which the prisoner was
charged was celled Low Springs, an obscure nook at the
bottom of Bandon Moor, near Biogley and also Otley. The
deceased was about 32 years of age, and held the situation
of head gamekeeper to T. Hornell, of Hawksworth
The prisoner resided in the neighbourhood, and was noted
as • daring poacher, the deceased having been the means
on one occasion of getting him convicted for the offence.
The prisoner was very bitter against the deceased for this
act, and had stated that he would thick no more of shooting
him than he would a rabbit. He had se raped the vigilance
of the murdered man and hie ambulant, several times, but
on the Monday evening (the night before the morning when
deceased was shot) an arrarigemeat was made between the
deceased and a gamewatcher named Fawcett, that early in
the morning they should meet Dear the prisoner's house.
Smith did not make kis a at the usual time, and
while he was being awai Fawcett, thelatter heard shots
fired near the spot where he was standing, and shortly after he
saw the head of the prisoner over a wall a little distance off.
The deceased, it appeared, after parting with Fawcett, had
gone his usual rounds, and was in the fields near where he
bad promised to meet him, when he heard the report of a gun
in Hawksworth Springs, and on going in that direction saw a
man whom he knew to be the prisoner. He followed
Waller end got within fifteen yards of him, when he was
only about 150 yards from his (the poacher's) own residence.
The prisoner here suddenly turned round and fired at the
deceased, hitting him in the body. about 60 shots entering. The
deceased then turned round, when the prisoner took aim
and fired a second time, the shot entenng Smith's hand.
Just at this ft meat • warp-dream named Batley was pee-
ving the place, when his attention was arrested by hearing
the shots Si ad, and shortly after he beard some dismal groins,
and directly after a pergola cried out, " Oh, Waller ; oh, Wel.
le-." Batley, feeling certain that some one had been shot,
went and milled his father, and they and two other peruse
went to the place indicated, when they found
the deceased on the ground oirefully triardedmarta
his dog, which was trying to pull hiss
cost over his head. Waller was sees to leave the scene of
the murder, and while the pereose above moitiosisd were
standing round Smith, Wslar joined them, and looked
quietly on the mart be bed shot. The deceased stated to
times about his that it was Weller who had shot him.
The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to death,
without any hope of mercy.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Exisria, Dzo. 18.
(Before Ur. Jostles Williams.)

Wilburn Lanydos, a miler, waa charged with an liana-
tural offence at Upottrey, andantes/re of death was recorded
against him.
Sarah Sheppard, an elderly woman, of &Ackland, war
noniron, was charged with the wilful murder of Mary Ann
Ashton, her daughter, and the infant child of the latter, on
the
-88th of October.

Mr. Carter sod Mr. Here prosecuted ; and Kr. oau &-
fowled the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidsoos that the deseased, Miry
Ann Ashton, was the daughter of the prisoner_ by • former
• and that on its being reported that she was
anecdoteby her present husband, the prisoner said to Ann
Bolles, the wife of a labourer, that no cos should ethos wear
her daughter mail she was dead, if it were tree that she
was in the family way. To soother wither she wee alleged
to have said that if her daughter was in the family way
by her husked she would run a " a pick" into her. These
threats were made some time before Ashton's confinement.
Oa the 26th of October the prisoner called at the shogt.d
Mr. Simko, chemist, of }Joan li na, ed asked is
Starke for a pennyworth of smelling melte. and inquired
it she could give her anything for her daughter
who bad bees confined that day. Mrs. Starke,
having elicited that the prisoner had left her daughter for
mos hours, made a remark upon it, to which the primmer
replied that she had left her In charge of a midwife sud two
women. It was stated, however, that the midwife, Grace
Monteith, was not called until the following morning, the
'47th of October, when she found the poor young woman
dead sad her biby as well. Death must have happened
several hears previous, as the midwife could not, from the
rirrl of the body, the elf the clothes. It was also
alleged
that no women were idled in to attend the de-
ceased.

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loft at ball pant No Oink.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Wort Mr. Justice Keitheir.)
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John Ford, 59, carpenter, was charged with feloniously
forging and uttering an order for 201., with intent to de-
fraud William Glass.
Mr. Metcalfe conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Sleigh
watched the are on behalf of the Bankers' Association.
The circumstances under which this charge was preferred
swiss.: the prisoner were somewhat peculiar. 1 t appeared thrill
the prosecutor and the prisoner both resided in the city ot
Bath, and were on iutimate terms. In the month of March
last the prosecutor had some claim in reference to property
which he was desirous of enforcing. and be cousulted
the prisoner as to the beat course io be adopted, sad
he offered to recommend him to a solicitor iu London
who would bring an action for him. They accordingly
maze to London, and the prisoner took the prosecutor to
the Mhos of Mr. Todd. atoliciter, No. 75, Newrcate-street, and
that gentleman unc'ertook to emery oe the action, and it was
that the prosecutor should send him a remittance
oarfT2 on account of his costa After this arrangement bad
been completed the prosecutor and the prisoner returned
to Beth, and the prosecutor inquired of the latter the exact
Address of Mr. Todd, and he told him that the name was
not " Todd," but " Toad," and Aat his address was No. 95,
Newgatemtreet, instead of 75. The prosecutor shortly after
this paid in 201. to the South Welcomed West of England Bank
at Bath, and sent a letter of advice to the address stated by
the prisoner, giving au intimation of the fact, and that the
money ought be received at Mews. Glyn sad Co.'s, in Lon-
don. • The case on the part of the prosecution was that,
by means of the false mine and address given by the pri-
soner. be succeeded in getting hold of the letter containing
the advice of the remittance, and was the, enabled to get
the money at Meagre Glyn's, epos an order signed in the
name of William Toad. sod it was proved that one of the
notes that formed part of the 20f. was afterwards found in the
possession of the prisoner, and it appeared that he obtained
change for it at one of the lank' in Bath in the beginning of
April. It also anpesred that when the charge was made
against the prisoner he produced a letter purporting to be
signed by the prosecutor, in which he authorised the prismsr
to receive the money at Messrs. Glyn's, and a receipt for N.,
also purporting to be signed by the prosecutor, which he
represented was part of the money he so received. Both of
these documents, it appeared, were impounded by order et
the Lord Mayor, before whom the prisoner was examined,
and they were sow brought forward as evidence in support
of the charge of forgery that was roads against the
prisoner.
Mr. Glass, the prosecutor, who described himself as
a millwright, was called to prove the facts se above
nareated ; and in answer to numerous questions put by the
primmer, it appeared that they had been engaged on several
occasions in loan transactions, and that the prisoner had
taken a very active part in connexion with the legal pro-
mediap which the prosecutor was interested, and that
be had give') him money for the purpose of paying and sub.
posastait witnesses, and other matters of that character.
TM prisoner also put a number of questions with a view to
show that the prosecutor had authorised him to''
receive the money at Mean. Glya's, in order that be
might pay some legal sapiens that bad been
Mourned, but he swore positively that be never gave the
prisoner any such authority, and else smarted that the letter
and the receipt referred to ware forgeriee, In the mem al