The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-20 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING-, AUGUST 2O 1851.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 19.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
William Harrison and Thomas Prince, two middle-
aged and respectable looking men, were indicted fur
the manslaughter of Thomas Hodgkinson at Man-
chester on the 9th of March last, and John Miller was
indicted for inciting them to the commiesion of that
offence.

Mr. Joseph Pollock and Mr. Wheeler conducted
the prosecution, Mr. Monk defended Harrison, Mr.
Sowler the prisoner Prince, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins
and Mr. Bair the prisoner Miller.
It appeared from the evidence of the witnesses that
on the 9th of May last the deceased and the three pri-
soners, a man named J.ttnes Hayes, and two men of
the name of Brown, were in a public-house called the
Grapes at Uhorlton-up m-Medlock, near Manchester,
between nine and ten o'clock at night, of which house
the prisoner Miller was the landlord. As they were
drinking together some words took place between the
deceased and Harrison, the deceased saying to him,
You are working under wages, and you are a
knobstick." This led to a dispute about the wages
Harrison was receiving, Harrison saying he was get-
ting 12,. a-week, and the d,ceas-d ,ffering to bet him
a sovereign he was not receiving so much. Har-
rison said he had not got so much money, and the
deceased then offered to fight him for a sovereign in
the morning. This produced an immediate row,
ll.trri,on saying he would give it hint then, and
striking hint a violent blow on the back of the head,
which knocked him down. They all went outside
the house after this, and A general fight took place
among them, in the course of which the deceased
was Ittn,cked down, and Harrison and Prince kicked
him while down violently on the stomach. While
doing so Miller, who was standing on the threshold
of his dour, cried out--" Go it; pitch into him !"
'Hie deceased, on getting up, complained of being
hurt, and walked towards his home. On his way
home he went tato a public-house and had some beer,
and got home about twelve o'clock. Next morning
he was engaged to brew for a man, but he was in
such pain he could only give directions. He was then
compelled to walk with a stick, and died, nine days
afterwards, of gangrene, which the surgeon whe made
the post mortem examination of his body attributed to
violent klcits and blows.
Mr. Sownett, in defence, contended that the evi-
dence W4B not conclusive that the prisoner Prince had
kicked the deceased.

Mr Monk reserved his defence until after Mr.
Sergeant Wilkins had addressed the jury, as it would
then be unnecessary for him to occupy the time of the
court.

Mr. Sergeant WILKINS, in a speech of much power
and eloquence, contended that the expression of Mil-
ler—" Pitch into him"—had reference to Harrison
and the deceased whilst they were fighting together
with their fists, and was not intended to apply to the
subsequent kicking. He called witnesses who gave
Miller an excellent character for kindness and hu-
Inanity of disposition.
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, told the jury he
thought there was no satisfactory evidence against
Prince.

The jury retired, and, after an absence of an hour,
found the prisoner Harrison Guilty, and Acquitted
the other two prisoners.

Sentence W;% deferred,

The owes tried to-day in the civil court have been
very unin,eresting. The common jury causes in the
first list have been got through, and several of the
common juries of the second list have been tried. The
heavy business of the assize is SR yet untouched.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
THAMES.

Nine Allah, a Turk, was—brought before Mr.
Yardley, charged with causing a mob of persons to
assemble, and with being disorderly, in Rusemary•
lane, Whiteehapel, at four o'clock in the morning.
The prisoner, who was stated to be a person of high
rank in his own country, was dressed in full Turkish
costume, and wore a very large and handsome turban,
richly embroidered. He refused to uncover on a
motion being made to him by one of the officers, and
he was p-rmitred to wear his head g.ar. It was
some time before he could be prevail-d upon to enter
the dock whore persons charged wiih felonies and
with being drunk and disorderly are generally ar-
raigned. At last he a:.cended the steps, stroked his
long and du w ing beard, and made his ki4laam to the
magistrate.

It appeared from the evidence of a police-con-
stable named Walter Mashford, 112 H, that at four
o'clock that morning he met with the defendant, in
Rosemary -lane, surrounded by a mob of disorderly
characters, who were much amuied at the ge4ictsta-
dons of the Turk, and the gibberish he uttered,
which his hearers could not understand. He had a
razor stretched forth in his right hand, and he made
signs that he intended to cut some one with the
weapon. Re would, however, have found it very
difficult to have carried his threat into exe-
cution, for the edge of the rez.ir was
very rough, and not sharp enough to cut papr.
The policemen, believing the Turk had broken one of
the precepts of the founder of his religion; and had
taken too much wine, conveyed him to the station.i

house. At that time there were two leather bags fas-
tened to his girdle, one on the right side, containing
his pspers, a passport, brush, comb, soap, and other
things necessary for making his toilet, and the other
109 pi-ces of gold and silver coin, consisting of piastres,
dollars, half-dollars, and other foreign money, together
with 9d. in English money. Inspector White de-
tained the unfortunate stranger to keep him out of
harm's way, and to preserve his money and property,
which would most probably have soon become the
prey of the loose characters in Rosomary-lane, which
has not at all improved, though its name has recently
been changed to Royal Mint-street.
Mr. YARDLBY examined the stranger's papers, and
said his passport was signed by the Marquis of Nor-
inanby, our ambassador at Paris, from which place
the prisoner had only arrived three days ago. He
supposed from the appearance of the foreigner, and
the large sum of money found in his possession, that
he was a person of some consequence in his own
country.

Seaman, a I:rake-constable, No. 150 H, who has
been often engaged as an interpreter between the
Court and the Asiatic seamen coming to this port.
said he questioned the prisoner, who hid been in a
kind of stupor all day, and it was most probably
caused by his smoking opium, of which the Turke are
very fond.
Mr. YARDLEY—Is he a Turk ?

Seaman said the prisoner was undoubtedly a Mus-
sulman, and he thought he was an Egyptian Arab.
A representation of the great pyramids of Egypt was
embroidered on his sash.

Mr. YARDLEY directed Inspector White to take care
of the pri'uner, and provide him with a lodging where
he would be proptrly looked after. The prisoner
would most probably he ill-used or plundered if he was
permitted to walk about the streets without a guide
orsoine one to look after him.

The prisoner, who is a tall, fine-looking man, about
50 years of age, made another s4laam to the magis-
trate, and retired with a policeman, who was directed
to keep him in the station-h ,uie until Inspector
White could find a lodging for him.