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London, England, 1862-11-27 00:00:00

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CRIMINAL COURT-THIS DAY.

MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
CHILD MURDER.
Elizabeth Simms, aged 20, a respectable-looking young
woman, was charged with the wilful murder of her illegiti-
mate male child. There was a second count for concealment
of the birth.

It appeared that the prisoner was a domestic servant, and
it had been observed that her appearance indicated that she
was pregnant She was charged with the fact, but strongly
denied it. Some short time afterwards, from circumstances
which had transpired, she was charged with having given
birth to a child, which she admitted, and stated that she
had hid the body in the copper in the kitchen. A search
was then made, when the body of the ehild was found,
quite dead, and on examination it was found that the skull
was fractured.

The jury ultimately acquitted the prisoner of the charge
of murder, and convicted her on the second count, for con-
cealment of the birth.

The learned Judge sentenced her to three months impri-
sonment with hard labour.
William Harrington was indicted for causing the death
of an aged man named Hammond.
The prisoner was a tradesman, and was driving his dog-
cart in the neighbourhood of Islington, when the unfortu-
nate person, who was extremely deaf, was knocked down
and very much hurt. Some time afterwards he died.
Evidence having been adduced,
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The learned Judge sentenced him to three weeks' im-
prisonment.

NEW COURT.
(Before Baron Bramwell.)

MORE GAROTTE ROBTIERIES.—John Painter, labourer,
and Charles Thompson, joiner, wet° indicted for feloniously
assaulting Samuel Prior with intent to rob him.
The prosecutor was a clerk in a public office, and was
passing along Cockspur-street on the night of the robbery,
when he was stopped by the prisoners in the most violent
manner. One of them seizing him by the throat, whilst
the other commenced unbuttoning his waistcoat. An alarm
was raised by the prosecutor, when both parties ran away,
the police, who had in the interim came up, following
them. After a short chase both persons were captured.
A cabman who was passing with his vehicle at the time
also identified the prisoners as the persons whom lie saw
atop the gentleman.

Tho jury found both prisoners guilty.
Baron Bramwell postponed passing sentence.
ROBBRRY IN A BROTHEL.

The face of the deceased bears marks of many
blows, but none which would seem of sufficient
violence to cause death. Ducker is more punished
than the deceased. He is.a man between 60 and
70 years of age, but of great strength.
About twelvemonths since the deceased received
very severe injuries when endeavouring to secure
two men who were committing a felony. An in-•
quest is to be opened to-night.

William Smith, labourer; Gibson Burley, sailor; and
George Needham, sailor, were indicted for a robbery with
violence on George Rowell, and stealing from his person.
'1 he prosecutor went into a brothel, where he was robbed
of his property.

Baron Bramwell said the present case was very different
from other cases with which they had been occupied. The
public could not have much sympathy with a married man,
the father of a family, who goes to a brothel on a Saturday
night and there gets robbed of his property.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
The prisoners were then again indicted for robbing Win.
Began.

ANOTHER FAILURE OF 7HE NEW

POACHING A Cr.

At the Keele Petty Sessions on Tuesday three
well-known poachers, named Thos. Parton, Wm.
Leyton, and Joseph Williams, were charged before
Mr. T. F. Twemlow, the Rev. C. H. Mainwaring,
and Mr. F. S. Broade, with being unlawfully in
possession of game. Abopt six o'clock on the morn-
i❑g of Nov. 19, Police-officers Bradshaw, Taylor,
and Rushton, of the county force, were on duty in
the turnpike road at Seabridge, and met the de-
fendants, whom they stopped and searched. They
found on Parton a bag with nine rabbits and a hare;
on Williams seven rabbits, a hare, a net, and a quan-
tity of pegs; on Leighton eight rabbits, a hare, and
a net. The nets were damp, and the sharp ends of
the pegs were damp and dirty, as if just used. On
the following day Bradshaw, accompanied by a
gamekeeper of Mr. Davenport, of the Maer, went
round the covers of the estate, and in one of the
fields found a number of peg holes, and the soil of
the field was of a similar nature to the dirt on the
pegs found on the prisoner Williams. The facts of
the cases (each prisoner being tried separately),
having been brought out in evidence,
Mr. Twemlow said it a conviction could take
place on suspicion, of course the magistrates could
have no doubt in this case, bat they were bound by
the act of Parliament, and it certainly seemed to
him that the evidence was not sufficient to show
that the prisoners came into possession of the game
unlawfully, though there was no moral doubt of it.
Therefore, as far as he was concerned, he should
decline to convict.

The prosecutor said he was induced to accompany a wo-
man to the same house as that to which the prosecutor i❑
the last case went. While Began was talking to the woman
the three men came into the room, one by one, when they
seized him by the throat, threw him on the bed, and vio-
lently robbed him of all his money, and then turned him
out. He said his throat was sore for a fortnight from the
effects of the ill-usage.

The jury found all three prisoners guilty.
A previous conviction was proved against Needham and
Burley.

The learned Judge asked whether anything else was
known about the prisoners.

Inspector Lindsay said—Needham had been 12 times in
custody, and six times convicted. Burley had been twice
in custody for assaulting the police, and Smith had been
four times in custody for the same offence, in addition to
which he had been twice convicted for robbing drunken
men.

The learned Judge sentenced Needham to 10 years, and
Smith and Burley to three years' penal servitude.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
RECEITING STOLEN GOODS.

Frederick Cornell, shoemaker, was indicted for feloniously
receiving 181bs. of gutta percha, the goods of Henry Bew-
ley and another, well knowing the same to be stolen.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The Recorder sentenced him to 12 months' imprison.
ment, with hard labour.

POLICE-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE.—A CASE FOR THE DIVORCE
COURT.—William Taylor, of 4, Little Stanhope-street,
Mayfair, servant, was charged before Mr. Knox with as-
saulting his wife, Sarah Ellen Taylor.
The wife, a respectable •looking female, said that a quar-
ter past one that morning, while she was sitting up with a
young female who lived in the same house, her husband
came home drunk. A soon as the female left, her husband
commenced a violent assault upon her, striking her several
blows about the eyes and nose. She then called a constable
and gave her husband in charge.
Eliza Henderson, the person alluded to by the com-
plainant, said, that hearing screams from the complainant
she entered the room and found the defendant with his
hands twisted in his wife's hair. She got between them
and separated them. They (complainent and her husband)
had only lived in the house seven weeks, and there had been
frequent quarrels.

Mr. Mainwaring said he had little doubt about
the case being clearly proved against the prisoners,
and he could not concur with Mr. Twemlow's rt-
marks.

Mr. Broade, not having heard the whole of the
first case, declined to take any part in the adjudi-
cation, and it requiring two magistrates to convict
the prisoners were discharged.—Birmingham Post.

MARKETS-THIS DAY.

MARK-LANE.

IDLrERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 48s 9d ;
barley, 35s 10d ; oats, 21s 9d ; rye, 32s 5d ; beans, 39s 3d ;
and peas, 43s 3d.
THE SIR WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 48s 10d ;
barley, 35s 4d ; oats, 21s 4d ; rye, 33s sd; beans, 39s 4d ;
peas, 42s Id.

Mr. Knox observed that he saw no marks of violence
about complainant, and she then exhibited the hand which
the defendant had bitten.

ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 84,233;
barley, 109,638 ; oats, 16,691; rye, 35 ; beans, 4,163 ; peas,
2,536 quarters.

Cameron, 40 C, proved being called to the house by the
wife and the last witness, and said, seeing marks of violence
on the complainant's hands, he took the defendant into
custody.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

In answer to Mr. Knox, the wife said she had only been
married to the defendant four months, and shortly after her
marriage she had to leave her husband in consequence of
his threatening to cut her throat. After a time she went
back to live with her husband, and he had ill-used her,ever
since, whether sober or not. The first Sunday after she
was married her husband tore her dress from her back.
Mr. Knox remarked that it seemed to be an ill-omened
marriage altogether.
The wife said sh. 3 would rather do anything than live
with her husband again. He had threatened to be hanged
for murdering her, and she believed he would do it.
Defenjant made no defence.
Mr. Knox said the defendant's conduct was most abomi-
naLle, and he had been guilty of a series of acts of bruta-
lity. Fortunately for the defendant his wife had no other
marks of violence about her than that on her hand. As it
was the first time the defendant had been before him, he
should not punish him so severely as he otherwise would
have done, but he would commit him for one month with
hard labour.

Our market to-day was moderately supplied with beasts
in fair average condition. Most breeds changed hands
slowly; nevertheless, compared with Monday, very little
change took place in the quotations. Downs and half-bred
sheep were in steady request at full prices—the top figure
being 5s 8d per 81bs ; but all other breeds moved off heavily
at barely previous currencies. The show of calves was
moderate, and the veal trade ruled somewhat firmer at ex-
treme rates. The demand for pigs was less active on for-
mer terms. In mulch cows very little was doing.
Per 81b, to sink the offal.

s d s d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Primeers-wool d 0.4 . 10. 6. 4
Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Pme. S' thdown d 0.5 6 5 8
Prime large oxen 4 2 4 8 Large erse. calves 3 6 4 0
Prime Scots, &c. 4 10 6 0 Prime small do 4 2 4 6
Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 0 Large hogs 3 10 4 4
Second quality do. 42 4 8 Small porkers 4 64 10
Suckling calves, 10$ to 19$ ; and quarter-old store pigs,
20s to 295.
TOTAL SUPPLY.

Beasts
980
Cows l4O
Sheep
Calves 312
Pigs 392

FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts
Sheep
Calves
Pigs ....

WESTMINSTER.
ROBBERY .AT THE ExEmarrloN.—George Remmings
and William Little, two labouring men, were charged with
stealing some lead pipe from the International Exhibition.
Police. constable William Rattle, 197 X, said that at four
o'clock yesterday afternoon he was on duty at one of the
doors of the exhibition, when he observed the two pri-
soners about to pass out, Hemmings carrying a roll of lead
pipe in his right hand, and Little walking close behind
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MEAT MARKETS.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supplies are ex-
tensive, and the trade rules heavy, as follows :—Beef, from
2s 6d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; veal, 3s 6d to 48
4d ; and pork, 4s Od to 4s 8d per 81bs, by the carcase.
SOUTHALL, November 26.—Prime stock sold steadily at
full prices; otherwise the trade ruled heavy at drooping
currencies. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 10d; mutton, 38 10d to
68 8d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 4d; and pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs,
to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, November 26.—We had a moderate demand
for stock, as follows .—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 10d ; mutton
3s 8d to 68 8d ; veal, 3s 10d to 48 4d ; pork, 38 10d to 4s
8d per 81b8; suckling calves, lOs to 18s ; quarter-old store
pigs, 20s to 298 each; and milch cows, £l4 Os to £lB Os
each.

Witness—Yes; to the eastern annexe.
Mr. Paynter—Have you compared it with what is left ?
Witness --Yes ; and it corresponds. It was taken only
a few minutes previously.
Mr. Paynter—Are the prisoners employed in the build-
ing ?
Witness—Little was employed there as the turncock, but
nothing is known of the other man.
Mr. Paynter—ls there anyone present who can give
further information upon the subject
Captain Brent, superintendent of the fire, gas, and water
arrangements at the Exhibition, said that Little had been
recommended by Mr. Carter, the superintendent of the West
Middlesex Water Company. Hemmings had no business
in the building. A water-pipe had burst yesterday after-
noon, and Little had been engaged in repairing it. No per-
son had any right to take property off the building.
Hemmings said he was carrying the pipe openly, and
might have disposed of it unseen had he wished, but he
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HALESWORTH, SUFFOLK, WEDNESDAY.
Yesterday great excitement was caused in this
town from the fact that since that morning a police-
man had disappeared, and was supposed to have
been murdered, and the same evening the body was
found, death evidently having resulted from foul
play. It seems that the murdered officer,Ebenezer
Tye, who is about 22 years of age, went on duty as
usual on Monday night, and the last time he is
known to have been seen alive was about 4 o'clock
on Tuesday morning, when he was spoken to by a
brother officer. His beat was in the town of Hales-
worth. As he did not report himself as usual on
Tuesday, at the police-stati:,n, a search was made,
which resulted in the finding of the body in a shal-
low stream which runs through the town. The
poor man was lying on his back, with his hands in
front of him as if whe❑ he died he had been endea-
vouring to force back some person with whom he
was struggling. Close by were his handcuffs and
his hat, whilst his staff was found in the osier
ground which bordered the stream.

A man named John Ducker has been apprehended
charged with the murder, and also a man named
Stephen Warren, and the wife of the latter. The
facts against Ducker seem to be these. That about
6 o'clock on Tuesday morning the deceased and
Ducker were heard by a woman who was going
out washing scuffling at the corner of a court called
Clark's-buildings, which leads from Chediston-street
to the stream where the body was found. It is
known that the deceased was watching Ducker,
who bears a very bad character, and from a truss of
hay found in Ducker's house, which is situate in
Clark's•buildings, it is supposed that the deceased
stopped Ducker and endeavoured to search him;
that Ducker made off, ran through the water, and
Tye catching him in the osier ground they had a
struggle there. Then it is thought Ducker suc-
ceeded in breaking from the deceased and ran into
the water, where Tye followed him, and after a
further scuffle Tye was knocked down and held un-
der the water until he was dead.