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London, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME ClRCUlT.—Guildford, Aug. 3.
CROWN SIDE.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTNA.N.)

Henry Page, 40, was indicted for feloniously wounding
Stephen Ings, with intent to maim and disable him, and
in other counts his intent was laid to be to prevent his
lawful apprehension.
Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Locke defended the
prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence, that the prosecutor is a
gamekeeper in the service of Mr,Harvey Conibe, of Cob-
ham Park, and on the 29th March he was i❑ a wood
called Muggeridge wood, in the middle of the day, and
in consequence of seeing pheasants fly about, he was in-
duced to believe that some trespassers were in the wood,
and he waited for a short time, when hesaw the prisoner
come out of the wood, and the moment he observed him,
he ran off. The keeper pursued him, and as they were
running along the prisoner threw two live pheasants
from his coat pocket, and also a number of snares.
After running some distance, the prisoner asked the
keeper whether he meant to take him into custody, and on
his replying that he did, he said he should swim
across the river, and the keeper said that if he did he
should follow him. The prisoner then picked up two
flint stones, and delared that if the keeper followed him
he would smash his shins. It seemed that they then
closed with each other, and both fell to the ground, and
the prisoner struck the keeper repeatedly upon the head
with the flints he had in his hands, inflicting very se-
vere wounds, and he was nearly covered with blood, and
in the course of the struggle the prisoner bit the nails
off three of the keeper's fingers. Having committed
this brutality, he asked the keeper whether he would
still persist in taking him into custody, and on his re-
plying that be would, be pulled a knife out of his pocket,
and (,pened it, and attempted to hamstring the keeper as
he was above him, but was fortunately prevented from
doing so by his having on thick trousers and overalls.
Notwithstanding these desperate proceedings on the
part of the prisoner, the keeper persisted in struggling
with him, and endeavouring to secure him, and it was
highly creditable to him that having a loaded pistol in his
pocket, although he had been so cruelly treated, he did
not make any use of the weapon, and et length the pri-
soner finding he had a determined opponent to deal with,
confessed himself beaten, and the keeper then gave an
alarm, and assistance arriving, he was secured.
Mr. Locke, in behalf of the prisoner, urged that the-
attempt to apprehend the prisoner was an unlawful! act,
inasmuch as the trespass having been committed in the
day time, the statute required that the party should be
called upon to give his name and address, and it was
only upon his refusing to do so that power was given to
apprehend him. No demand had been made upon the
prisoner for his name or his address, but it appeared
that the keeper had at once endeavoured to apprehend
him, and this being an unlawful act, the prisoner was
justified in resisting it.
Mr. CLARKSON admitted that there was a difficulty
in the respect pointed out; and the question was, whe-
ther the running away of the prisoner the moment he
saw the keeper amounted to refusing to give his name
and address.

Mr. Justice COLTMAN expressed an opinion that it
did not. He said the statute expressly required that a
demand should be made upon the party trespassing to
give his name and adiress, before he could be appre-
hended. He was, therefore, of opinion that the charge
of felony could not be entertained.
The jury eventually found the prisoner Guilty of a
common assault, and he was condemned to be kept to
hard labour for six calendar months.
Julia Egan, 19, a good-looking young woman, was
indicted for feloniously intermarrying with Charles
Wells, at the parish of Croydon, her husband, William
Egan, being alive.

Locke defended the prisoner.
The circumstances under which this charge was made
appeared to be of rather a singular character. From
the testimony adduced, it seemed that on the 14th
September in last ear the prisoner was married to a
man named Egan, at St. Sepulchre's Church, in London,
and the ceremony was performed in the presence of a
man named Stevens, who said that he met the prisoner
and Egan by accident on that morning, and they asked
him to go with them to church, and give the bride away;
and the sexton's daughter acted as bridesmaid. The
second marriage took place on the sth July, and to prove
the fact, Charles Wells, the second husband, who ap-
peared to be quite a lad, was called as a witness;
and he deposed that on that day he was married to
the prisoner at Norwood Church, but could not
state with certainty the name of the clergyman
who performed the ceremony, and would not speak
to the fact that he really was a clergyman, and no certifi-
cate of marriage was produced. The prisoner, it ap-
peared, had all along denied that she was the person
with whom the first ceremony of marriage had been per-
formed, and a good deal of amusement was caused by
the cross-examination of the witnesses by Mr. Locke
upon this point.
The Learned Judge, at the close of the evidence, ex-
pressed an opinion that the marriage had not been proved
with sufficient legal strictness, and under his direction,
therefore, the jury returned a verdict of " Not Guilty."
The prisoner was immediately discharged, and she left
the court arm in arm with her second husband, both of
them apparently very much delighted at the result of the
trial.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. Wild, the keeper of a slaughter-house in Fox and
Knot-yard, Smithfield, was summoned for conducting his
business so as to become & nuisance dangerous to the health
of the public.

Inspector Scott, of the City police, stated that his atten-
tion was called to the nuisance by the inhabitants of King-
street and Fox and Knot•yard, and on going to the spot
about eleven o'clock that forenoon, with Dr. Lynch, he
found that eight or nine cows, in a state of putrefaction, had
been brought to the premises, and two were lying in the
court. The stench arising from the bodies was most power-
ful and disgusting, and Dr. Lynch said it was sufficient of
itself to create a fever in the neighbourhood. While he was
applying to the magistrate for the summonses Mr. Wild
seemed to have got rid of the nuisance.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked Mr. Wild if he could give any ex-
planation on the subject?
Mr. Wild said he could. This was a slaughter-house of

long standing. The eight cows had been suffocated by over-
crowding in the hold of a steam-boat from Rotterdam, and
as it was known that he was extensively employed in re-
moving live animals from the docks, and that he had the
proper carts, he was asked to take these cows, remove their
hides, and deliver their bodies to Mr. Cohen, of Shadwell.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked for what purpose Mr. Cohen used
them ?

Mr. Wild supposed it was to moke soup, and get the bones,
or some such purpose. He gave 1/. each for them. The
animals were not diseased, but died of suffocation.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked if this had not happened before?
Mr. Wild said twice before. Once he had a lot of seven, and
the other five, which died on their passage from Hamburgh.
This occurred three months ago.
Sir PETER LAURIE said the alarm and danger to the
neighbourhood seemed to have been considerable, and might
have been easily avoided. The putrid carcases might have
been skinned without bringing them into the City at all,
and if Mr. Wild did not take care how he conducted his
business, the provisions of Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor's
Paving Act for the removal of slaughter-houses would be
enforced. The power of doing this by notice was vested in
the Commissioners of Sewers in the City, and Mr. Wild would
have notice from them when to attend and answer the
complaint of the inhabitants, several of whom he now saw in
the room.

Mr. Wild said he would promise such a thing should never
happen again.
Sir PETER said he should prefer leaving the matter for the
decision of the Commissioners of Sewers, who had power to
close the slaughter-house. He was glad the nuisance had
been so far thus promptly abated, and he discharged the
summons.