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London, England, 1863-03-06 00:00:00

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to 76up and go home, deceased being. . unable to
move. The prisoner pulled his hairy tlt -ew him
lielently on the ground, and kicked biro ..17, 'th great
force. She called for assistance, and her sun entered
and ordered the prisoner to leave. When: witness
first found her husband he was speechless t nd in-
sensible.
In answer to a question by his lordship
.have th
witness acknowledged that deceased might
been trying to rouse her husband.
Mr. Corsellis, a surgeon, residing at Benson, s'afd
that on the 22d of November he was called in tc,
attend deceased. He found hint a good deal in-
jured, and on the following morning he died.
Upon making a post mortem examination, witness
discovered that the brain of deceased was seriously
injured, that several of his ribs were broken, and
hip lunvs much congested, but said those injuries
might have been caused by a fall.
His Lordship here stopped the case, and told the
jury that there was no evidence to go before them
of murder; that no one had seen the fatal blow
struck, and they ought not to convict on a -pre-
surni.,tion. He advised them to return a verdict' of
acqutttal.
The jury accordingly found the prisoner not-
guilty.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCITESTER, March 5.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Sergeant Shee.)
Lewis Francis was indicted for maliciously
wounding George Dean, at Portsea, on the 19rh of
December, with intent to murder him. There were
other counts varying the intents.
Me. Poulden and Mr. H. T. Cole were counsel
for the prosecution.
The prisoner asked the Court to order all the wit-
nesses out of court, and his desire was complied
with.
The prosecution was instituted by the Govern-
ment against the prisoner for a most violent and
outrageous attack made by him upon George
Dean, who was a warder in the convict prison
at Portsea. The prisoner was a convict in that
establishment under a sentence of penal servitude.,
At eight o'clock in the morning of the 29th of
December Dean had charge of a gang of 14 con-
victs, among whom was the prisoner. Dean
marched them to the junk store. The prisoner had
been guilty of some offence against the discipline of
the prison, and a short time before this day Dean had
reported him, and the prisoner had been put upon
bread and water diet for three days. On the morn-
ing of the 19th of December the men were at work
in the store, and there was an armed guard outside
the door of the store. The prisoner idled and talked,
and prevented the other convicts from attending to
their work, and he was reprimanded by Dean. This
occurring a second time, Dean threatened to report
the prisoner, upon which he struck him a most vio-
lent blow on the eye with his fist and knocked him
down, The prisoner, having got Dean on the ground,
began kicking him in the most savage manner with
his boots. Dean called for help. The other con-
victs, who, for their work, had hatchets and knives
in their hands, came round, but did not render Dean
any assistance. This continued about 10 minutes,
and then a warder named Hayward, not hearing
the work going on, came into the store and saw the
prisoner beating some one on the ground. Hayward
was too much frightened to go near them, but he
went out for assistance. Another warder, named
Peters, then came in, and told the prisoner to get
off the officer, and he asked the prisoner whether
he was going to kill the officer. The prisoner said
he was, and he would kill him also if he interfered.
The prisoner got up, made a rush and seized a round
of a ladder, and Dean having got up, the prisoner,
with this stick, a most formidable weapon, struck
Dean on the eye, and felled him to the ground,
and then struck him several blows with the
stick. Dean begged the prisoner to have mercy
on him, but the prisoner continued his blows.
O'Neil, the armed guard, then came in, and saw
the prisoner lying upon Dean on the ground
beating him. He then ordered the men to stand
back, and pointing his musket at the prisoner, told
him if he did not let Dean get up he would shoot.
him. The prisoner said he would not, for he would
murder him. O'Neil then capped his piece, but the
other convicts declaring they would have O'Neil's
life, he was obliged to drive them back with his
bayonet, as, if he had not been armed, they would
have carried their threat into execution. Having
driven them back, he looked round and saw Dean
on the ground, and the prisoner leaning over him
beating him on the bead with the stick. He then
went up to the prisoner and pushed him off with
his bayonet, and then marched him off at the point
of the bayonet to the prison.
The prisoner, in cross-examining O'Neil asked
him what he was doing at a particular moment.
O'Neil replied "I was capping my musket to blow
your brains out." He visited the store every five
or six minutes, as was li:s duty. The prisoner said
he would kill a dozen such as O'Neil.
(O'Neil was the only one of 10 men who escaped
at the Khyber-pass in India, and afterwards took a
standard under Sir Charles N ipier at Meeanee.)
O'Neil, by the Judge.—Eight of the other men
had what in Ireland he should call hatchets. He
did not know what they called them in England.
Dean was taken to the hospital, and was found
to have been so much injured that for a time the
result was very doubtful. His head and his back
were very much injured, and it would be a long
ime, if ever, before he would be able to do any-

thing.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty with intent
to maim and to do grievous bodily harm.
The learned Judge then addressed the prisoner—
You have been convicted of this very serious offence,
and if you had been convicted on the first count of
the indictment it would have been my duty to sen-
tence you to penal servitude for life. I was glad to
find myself justified-in recommending the jury to
relieve you from that charge. I did not know at the
time I addressed the jury what the nature of you?
previous misconduct had been, so that you may be
sure you have had a perfectly fair trial. There has
been every disposition to treat you as fairly as we
should have tried any other person on whose cha-
racter there had never been a stain; but I now
know that you had already been sentenced to four
years, seven years, and to another period of penal
servitude. Under these circumstances I have no
course to pursue but to pass a very severe sentence
upon you. You are yet a young man, and if you
conduct yourself properly it may be, I don't ssy it
will, that before the expiration of your sentence
some consideration may be shown to you, and that
you may be relieved from part of its severity, but
I beg of you when you return to your prison to con-
sider that it is for your interest to conduct yourself
properly, and not to be guilty of those excesses of
which you have been convicted. The sentence now
is, that you be kept in penal servitude for the term
of 20 years.
The prisoner was then removed.
The following is the history of the prisoner :
In 1854, having previously been convicted of nu-
merous crimes for which he had undergone vari-
ous terms of imprisonment, he was sentenced to
be kept in penal servitude for four years. He
was sent to Dartmoor, and in 1857 he made a
murderous attack on a warder, of which he was
convicted at the Exeter Lent assizes in 1857, and
was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. He
was then sent to Bermuda, and there he made a
similar attack upon a warder, and was sentenced
to 15 years' penal servitude, and he was then sent
from that colony to Portsmouth.
Ann Snow was indicted for the wilful murder of
her infant child at Freshwater, on the 20th of
January.
Mr. Beetham prosecuted, and Mr. A. Sanders, at
the request of the judge, watched the case for the
prisoner. wask
in the Isle of
kitchen-maid at
the Needles
aNpepeedalreds that the
at prisoner
Freshwater
Wight. On the 19th of January she complained
went
of being unwell, and went to bed. The next
morning she was found sitting by the fire in the
kitchen. The chambermaid went into the prisoner's
bedroom, and, from what she saw, had a consulta-
tion with the laundress. Theyinto theprivy
and saw a bundle lying on the •30i.1. They got uP
the bundle, and It was found to ,!ontain the body of
a newly born child; it had a napkin tied.l round its
neck. The prisoner admitted the chill was hers.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of conceal-
ment, and she was sentenced to one years' im-
prisonment with lard labour.

An extensive business is carried on at present
between Switzerland and a great part of Europe
in the transport of ice. In imitation of the German rail-
ways, the French Eastern line has just issued a special
tariff at reduced prices for the conveyance of that ctinenando-
dity. Letters from Switzerland state that the
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for being
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and illuminated with Bengal fire, and the light reflected
entered thtsiosleitia.
from these walls of crystal produced a dazzling effect.
A Marseilles letter says :—" A man dressed in a
very singular manner, and armed to the teeth, has been
walking about our streets followed by a number of persons
desirous of closely examining him. This personage is no
other than an Armenian, recently arrived here, and on his
way to Paris."