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London, England, 1851-11-11 00:00:00

TUESDAY

on the floor covered with blood. My wife was bathing
her face with water. The prisoner and the boy were
gone, and I saw a box on the pavement outside
the door, which I removed into the house. I sent
for a doctor, who shortly after came. The woman
was dead when the medical man arrived.
Cross•examined by the prisoner—The deceased
was a well-conducted woman, and both her and Mrs.
Hands, the deceased's fellow-lodger, I believed to be
serious and religious women. You told me several
times that your wife had sold up your home, taking
the property with her.
Prisoner—You, sir, seem to be very warm on the
subject. I have no more to ask you.
Rebecca Lanning, the wife of the last witness, said—
.l remember a female by the name of Nott coming to
lodge with her on Friday fortnight last. She brought
a Mrs. Hands with her. The latter represented her-
self as a widow, and the female Nott said she was a
single woman. A boy brought their boxes. The
females were both together when they took
the lodgings. Never saw the prisoner before
until Saturday night, about eight o'clock, when the
prisoner came and inquired for a Mrs. Bear. I was
in the parlour during the whole time the prisoner was
talking to my husband. The prisoner seemed in a
very excited state while he was in the parlour, and all
his conversation was about his wife, who, he said,
and had robbed him of his
pwraospeartvye,rywbhaid wochhmeaualleged was in my house.
He then became more calm, and shortly after
Miss Nott came in and went up stairs, and
I said that is her. The prisoner immediately
followed her upstairs, leaving the boy in the parlour.
After the prisoner went into the room I heard ileva
talking. I was standing at the foot of the stairs, and
believe the room door was closed. In about ten
minutes after he went upstairs he called the boy to
come and take the boxes. I said to the boy you had
better go, and he went directly and brought
down a box. As soon as the boy went up I
heard the deceased screech awfully& I ran
to the street-door, and she still screeched
out as far as I could understand—" He is murdering
me." I then went to the stairs and met the boy
bringing the boxes down. The screeching continued
for about three minutes, when the prisoner came down
stairs. I opened the door for the prisoner ; he said
nothing, but held his hands down as if to hide them.
I saw on the back of one of his hands what I thought
to be blood, and fancied that the deceased had bitten
him in a scuffle. At that time the boy was gone.
After the prisoner had gone out, I ran up
stairs into the woman's room, and saw a chair
lying across the fender, and the deceased lying close
by with her eyes wide open, and her hand to her
throat. I then rushed out and fetched some water,
and called a lodger who followed me into the room.
I put my hand round deceased's neck, but could not
feel any wound. I saw blood about her hair, which
was in disorder over her face. I bathed her face
with some water ; she was then breathing, hut did
not speak. A medical man came in about three
minutes afterwards, and .he was then dead.
Sophia Price—l am it married woman. My hus-
band's name is Edward Price. We lodge at 33,
North-street. I first saw the prisoner on Saturday
night last about nine o'clock, in the back room on the
first floor. I was going out to meet my husband,
when I heard screams of " Murder" from a female in
that room. The door was open, andl saw the deceased
by the fire-place, and the prisoner beating her with his
fists. I begged of him not to beat her. She was leaning
on the floor, but I did not see any blood. The pri-
soner looked at we very hard and went on beating
her, and I was so frightened that I lost my senses and
recollected nothing efcer.
Emma Webster lodged in the back parlour at 33,
North•street. Had seen the deceased several times.
Heard her come in on Saturday night, about five
minutes to 9. Sae passed my room door, and I heard
her unlock her own. I then heard a man's footstep
follow her up almost directly, and I then beard a
loud talking, and heard her distinctly say " So help
me God, I have not done it." I then heard her
scream out " Murder," and I opened my room-door
and went partly up the stairs, and heard the deceased
say, in a faint voice, " Oh, he's murdering me." At
that time a boy came out of the room with a box, and
passed me on the stairs. When the boy came
out the screams had ceased. Before I went on to the
stairs I heard blows in the room. I then went into
my own room, when Mrs. Lanning fetched me up
stairs into deceased's room. I then saw the deceased
lying on the floor with blood streaming from wounds
in her face. Sae did not speak a word, and appeared
to be dead.
Gott, 338 D, said on the way to the station the priso-
ner said that his wife had taken a chisel, or something
of that sort, to strike him with, and that he snatched
it from her hand, and " gave her the contents." His
right hand was covered with blood, and upon his
chin were also spots as if blood had spurted out upon
it. He inquired frequently how his wife was ; and
on being told that she was dead, he exclaimed,
" Christ Almighty, who would have thought rd the
heart to do it? I have a daughter on the town, and a
little boy in bed at a beer-shop—he little thinks that
I have killed his mother. I wish I was going to be
hung this very moment."
Church, 129 G, produced a triangular saw-file,
about six inches long, very sharp at each end, which
appeared to have been recently ground and pointed.
There were marks of blood on it. It was found be-
tween the bars of the grate ; the handle was broken in
two, and picked up in different parts of the room.
The portions of the handle had also blood upon them.
Mr. Dickinson, surgeon, 15, Charles-street, Man-
chester-square, deposed that he was called in, and
found the furniture and other things in the room in
great disorder. The woman was lying upon the floor
to all appearance dead, and blood was flowing from
various wounds. Witness described the wounds,
which were sixteen in number, and they had been in-
flicted upon carious parts of her person ; one of them
was on the left side of the chest over the second rib,
which was fractured about an inch and a half frotn
the breast bone ; and on tracing that wound, upon
meking a post mortem examination, he found that it
had penetrated two important blood-vessels in the
region of the heart. The wound alluded to was of
itself sufficient to cause death. The wounds were all
triangular
shape, and the file produced was just the
instrument with which the fatal injury might
kofin a
kind
ofi gan
have been inflicted.
The prisoner, after being cautioned in the usual
way, was asked if he wished to say anything in the
present state of the proceedings, and he replied
" Nothing."
Mr. Bitouatrroet—l shall commit you for the wilful
murder of your wite, but you will be brought up here
again this day week, when you will be sent for trial.
The prisoner was then removed from the bar.
A verdict of wilful murder was returned against
him at the inquest before the coroner, which was held
eesterday.

SWEARING-IN THE NEW LORD
MAYOR.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
The oeremouy of swearing-in the new Lord Mayor
took place in the Court of Exchequer, at Westminster.
The RECORDER, in introducing the new Lord Mayor,
William Hunter, Esq., stated that he was now chosen
Chief Magistrate of the City at a time of considerable
importance, and he perhaps might have to look forward
to an ardaous year. They were told that efforts would
be made to reproduce those disastrous convul-
sions which lately happened in Europe. He trusted
that this land would still be exempt from them;
but if necessity should arise, the citizens would
not fail in their duty to maintain the authority of
the Queen and the law inviolate. The year of office of
the late Lord Mayor, Sir John Musgrove, had been one
of the most memorable as well as happiest to this
country. The Learned Recorder then alluded to the
presentation to the Queen by the City of an address
expressing the determination of the citizens to resist all
aggression and encroachment on her prerogative; also
to the distinguished place which the Corporation took
in the inauguration of the Great Exhibition; and also to
the Lord Mayor subsequently entertaining her Majesty
in the City, and receiving from her the honour of a
baronetcy. The Learned Gentleman also alluded to
the first civic visit to Paris—the heart of that country
which was once treated as our natural enemy,
but was now one of our closest friends. He
sincerely hoped he was not going too far in express-
ing his conviction that from that friendly meeting be-
tween two representatives of two great nations lasting
benefits might arise to this country.
The Loan CHIEF BARON, in the course of his ad-
dress, said—He did not entertain any anxiety as to the
anticipated disturbances which had been referred to by
the Learned Recorder, but he, nevertheless, had every
reliance on the firmness and loyalty of the Lord Mayor
and citizens. There could be no doubt that the Exhi-
bition of the Industry of All Nations, which might
well be called, and had been, the Temple f Peace, would
tend to bind together by good will and good feelings,
and by common interests, all nations which had an op-
portunity of witnessing it, and he apprehended wherever
education had done its work thoroughly, and when man-
kind experienced the blessings of peace, wars would be
no more, and instead of meeting different nations in
war, they would consider them as brothers of one great
family, having common and general duties to discharge.
After some further observations from his Lordship,
The ceremony of swearing-in was gone through.
The Barons were then invited to the banquet at Guild-
hall, and the Lord Mayor and the civic functionaries left
the court.

A LIBERAL OrrEtt.—A correspondent of the
Wigan Tines of Friday, under the signature of " Emma
H-," states that she has purchased a "Boomer" suit,
which she wishes to wear. She offers to present any Wigan
lady with a suit, who will wear it in public along with her-
self.
A countryman applied to a solicitor for legal
advice. After detailing the circumstances of this case, he
was asked if he had stated the facts as they had occurred.
" Oh ! ay, sir," rejoined he, " I thought it better to tell you
the plaiu truth; you can put tua lie;; to 11., yqrseif."
The si,teie taken out by the BfAzil 'packet ytster-
day amounted to 232,0001., of which 186,0004 TM for Rio
Janeiro, and 46,000/. for the Riyer Plate,.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 10.
FLIGHT V. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
In this case, which came on upon the plea of t
defendant, Thomas Flight, on behalf of himself atr 1
all others, creditors by judgment subsequent in de i'Le
to the 27th of May, 1847, and duly registered an te-
nior to the Ist of May, 1850, of the Duke of Bu. :k-
-irigham, who should come in and contribute to the
expanses of the suit, was plaintiff, and the Duke of
Buckingham, the Marquis of Chandos and othe rs,
were defendants, the prayer was, that the deed of • the
27th of May, 1847, might be declared fraudulent a ird
void, and be set aside, and the estates comprised in 'die
deed sold and be made available for payment of tbie
claims against the Duke.
The MASWBR of the ROLLS said he should not adilu-
dicate upon ithe validity of the plea in question in uae
present state of the case without further assistant :e.
The plea must-. stand over for an, answer, with libel ty
to the plaintiff' to except to it.
ARGUDIN 0. MENDER.
Mr. ROUPELJ,, for the plaintiff, Jose Soarez
gudin, moved for an injunction ,to restrain Di,c3go
Mendez, the def'e ndant, when he should come wi tibia
the jurisdiction of the Court, and Anselmo de 1 Lr-
royave, their consignees and agents, from selling or
otherwise disposing' of 205 tons of copper ore, brorii ;ht
to;this country by the ship Carina, now lying at Swaim sea,
or from parting with the ore or the proceeds the it 'eof
otherwise than under and according to the directions
of this Court, and that some person be appointee i to
sell the ore as soon as conveniently might be, an d l to
receive the proceeds thereof, and that the same red, ght
be paid into court, and secured for the benefit of the
party rightfully entitled thereto, and a suit now
pending in Cuba should be determined.
The MAsTint of the ROLLS said he could omy
grant an interim order until next Thursday, witl3
li-
berty to serve the other side immediately with n.)tice
of motion of what was intended to be applied foe. on
that day. They were not to part with the coppe 17 or
with the proceeds until that time, Mr. Roil, r, all's
client undertaking that if, by reason of this o r der,
any loss should be sustained by the other parts P, he
would abide by such order as the Court should di-
rect with respect to such damages without the n aces-
sity of an action at law.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 10.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FANS.)
IN RE BENNING.
The bankru,ot, W. Benning, of Fleet-street, law
bookseller, came before the Court to pass his last to xa-
mination. The balance-sheet, from the Ist of (Tan.,
1844, to the 30th of August, 1851, shows the 101 l ow-
ing :—Creditors, 10,8451.; ditto holding secui.i ty,
1,910/. ; liability, 2001. ; capital on the Ist of J-
-1844, 5,859/. ; amount drawn from firm of Bermi'ng
and Co., 12,185/. ; R. Saunders, amount receii Ted
under a decree, 5,9321.; rents, 450/. ; Mr. Bennillg,
from rents of collieries, 2,250/. ; life interest in col-
lieries, 900/. ; debtors good, 372/. ; property, 1,2001. ;
ditto in hands of creditors, 1,8001. ; expenses, 4,9531.;
personal, 12,7761.; losses, 1,649/. ; W. Benning and
Co., amount introduced by me as capital, 10,00001.;
subsequent payments by me, 7,5911.
Mr. Lawrance appeared for the assignees ;
Wordsworth supported the bankrupt.
Mr. LAWJLANCE offered no opposition. There we re
one or two points in the balance-sheet which required
explanation, but it would answer ne useful purpose to
adjourn.
Mr. WORDSWORTH baring undertaken that every
information wanted should be rendered,
The bankrupt passed.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 10.
(Befora Mr. Commissioner Law.)

IN BE MOSES JACOBS.

This insolvent's application for a day to be named
for granting a fine' order of protection was opposed
by Mr. Cooke, on behalf of Messrs. Bignell, Briar,
and Laurent, proprietors of the Argyll Rooms, Wind-
mill-street, Haymarket. Mr. Nichols supported.
The insolvent, upon being examined, said he called
himself a general and law agent and accountant. He
had been twice insolvent and twice bankrupt. Had
brought an action against Mr. Bignell to recover
331. 17s. for cleaning, fitting, and repairing chande-
liers at the Argyll Rooms. In that action a nonsuit
had been entered, as his witnesses were taken out of
the way when the trial came on. He had been a
glass-dealer and manufacturer, but had not been in
business for the last fifteen years. Mr. Bignell was
entered in the schedule for the supposed amount of
costs in an action for 5001., penalties under the 25th
Geo. 11., c. 26, sections 2,8, and 13. in which action
a verdict had been returned for the defendant. (The
insolvent was shown a paper, giving as the plaintiff's
address and description " Moses Jacobs, accountant
and law aput. He also keeps a china and glass shop,
and has done for the last seventeen years, and resides
at 101, Berw.ick-street, St. James's.") Insolvent
admitted the paper to be in the writing of Mr. NV.
B. Davis, his attorney in the action, but denied that
he had ever authorised that description of himself to
be given. He bad not carried on any business in Ber-
wick-street since 1832. That business was carried on by
his daughter. He rented the house, and his daughter
paid him nothing for the shop. He brought another
action for 1,8001. penalties, but had discontinued it
after the other was tried. He had been originally
employed at the Argyll Rooms to see that no persons
passed in under false names, Stowell, an informer,
having indicted the proprietors for an unlicensed en-
tertainment. He had never offered to forego the ac-
tions he had brought if any sum of money was paid
to hips, but he had heard that Stowell had offered to
settle the matter for 2001., without any authority from
him. Stowell was now Mr. W. B. Davis's chief
clerk. Mr. Davis suggested originally that the actions
for the penalties should be brought, as the parties had
not kept their agreement with him (insolvent). Davis
said, " You ought to punish them, and, as you are a
housekeeper in the parish, let me bring the actions for
penalties in your name." To this he assented, and
the understanding was, that Davis was to have the
law costs, and half of any penalties that might be re-
covered, and himself (insolvent) the remainder. Mr.
Davis had advanced some money for the prosecution
of the actions, and he (insolvent) had found about
401. or 501. He called himself a law agent, by which
he meant that he obtained law business, which he took
to an attorney, who allowed him a certain portion
of the profits, according to agreement.
Mr. Coox_s submitted that the insolvent was a
trader, being, in fact, the real owner of the shop in
Berwick-street, and that, therefore, the petition de-
scribing him as a non-trader was invalid, and could
not be entertained.
Mr. NICHOL% resisted this, but
Mr. Commissioner LAW thought the insolvent must
be held to be a trader, and therefore dismissed the
petition.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov. 10.
(Before Mr. Serjeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and
a Bench of Magistrates, at the Guildhall, West-

minster.)
The November General Sessions were this morning
resumed by adjournment at the Guildhall, West-
minster.
The calendar contains a list of 45 prisoners for
trial, of whom 42 are indicted for the commission of
felony.
Henry Martin, aged 21, was indicted for having
feloniously incited a young lad of the name of Charles
White to steal a pistol, a fork, a sovereign, and a
watch and chain, the property of Algernon Edward
West, his property.
Mr. Somerset appeared for the prosecution.
The facts of this case have recently been placed
before the reader, and therefore there is only occasion
now to present him with a brief outline of its cir-
cumstances.
It appeared that the prosecutor resides at No. 44,
Curzon-street, Mayfair, and the boy White was in
his employ as an errand-boy. The prisoner contrived
to form an acquaintance with this boy while he was
walking in the streets some weeks since, and subse-
quently he suggested to him that there were means
by which he could benefit both of them by taking
different things from his master's house. The boy
unfortunately permitted himself to be seduced from
the path of honesty by the persuasions of the prisoner,
and in due time: he stole a pistol for him. This act
having placed the boy within his power, the prisoner
then by a threat of giving him into custody for the
theft compelled him to continue a system of robbery
upon his master. The prisoner also induced him to
obtain half-a-sovereign from his mother.
The prisoner said in his defence that the boy had
accosted him one night in the street as he was return-
ing home, when he told him that he had picked the
pocket of a gentleman at the Bloomer ball which had
been given at the Hanover-squre Rooms ; and then
the boy had gone on to ask him if he had done any-
thing there. A conversation sprung up between
them, and while it was proceeding another boy came
up to them and made a similar confession, whereupon
White demanded that the other boy should pay him
11. as his share of the transactions.

The Learned JUDGE having summed up the ev,
deuce,

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE said, it was impossible for that
Court to discharge its duty properly towards the
public were he not to exercise its power of passing
upon the prisoner such a sentence as would have the
effect of removing him from this country, and that
sentence, too, as severe as the law would allow. It
would be a great act of cruelty were such a person as
the prisoner to be allowed to remain here in order
that he might again have the opportunity of pursuing
his avocations; for it appeared, upon one of the oc-
casions on which he had previously been convicted,
that a boy of twelve years of age only had been de-
coyed by him from his former course of honesty and
then that he had initiated and instructed him in the
art of crime. In the case then before the Court it
had been clearly proved that he had pursued the same

practice, with too much success, upon the boy White,
who, without doubt, had been an honest led until
his unfortunate acquaintance with this men. The
sentence of the Court was that the prisoner he
transported beyond the seas for the term of fourteen
years.
George Clark, aged 34, and George Johnson, aged
36, were indicted charged with having stolen in the
dwelling-house of Robert Rymill, 12 silver-handled
knives and forks, two watches, and various other ar-
ticles, of the value of 501. and upwards, his property.
Mr. Parry appeared for the prosecution. Mr,
Metcalfe defended Johnson, and Mr. Prendergast
was counsel for the other prisoner, Clark.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor,
who is a collector of Queen's taxes, resides at No. 11,
Brompton-crescent, and that just after he had sat
down to his dinner table, at a quarter-pest 7 o'clock
on the evening of Thursday, the 23d ult., he received
information from one of his seruants to the effect
that some thieves were moving about in the upper
part of his house. He thereupon went out for a police-
man, desiring that they would remain quiet, and not
disturb the uninvited visitors upstairs. On his re-
turn, in about four minutes, he heard some person
call out—" There they go." He presently saw the
prisoner Clark in the custody of the police. The
prosecutor, upon subsequently going up to his room,
found everything in a state of great confusion ; the
jewel-cases had been broken open, and their contents
taken away; a desk bad been rifled, two watches had
also been stolen, and a case, containing a dozen silver-
handled knives and forks, had likewise been opened
and the contents removed. Other articles too were
missing. There were two attic windows to which a
communication was afforded by means of the gutter
from the other houses, and the thieves must have ob-
tained their entrance by that course, from an empty
house, No. 19. The prisoners were seen by the
policeman to come out of No. 19, shortly after the
prosecutor had given the alarm, and Clark was taken
by him as he was in the act of getting
over the garden-wall of No. 17. When
the officer had got hold of him he said—" Don't
hold me ; the thieves are gone this way, and
I'll go after them and assist you in catching them,"
but the officer, not being disposed to place re-
liance in his promise, and having moreover seen him
emerge from the empty house, he deemed it the better
course to decline the proffered aid and at once to
secure him. As they were going towards the station
he observed the prisoner put his hand into one of his
pockets, and, suspecting that he might have some-
thing in the hand which he intended to throw away,
he laid hold of it, when he found he had an iron
wrench, sharp at one end like a chisel, and constructed
at the other in the most approved manner for forcing
iron bars. Johnson made his escape, but the officer
having given a description of him to another officer,
he was apprehended some days afterwards at a
skittle-ground in Westminster. The officer stated
that he had noticed the prisoners talking together in
Brompton-crescent about half-an-hour before the
robbery. He was quite sure as to both prisoners. A
gentleman of the name of Taylor, who lives at No.
16, proved having seen Clark getting over the garden
walls. Upon searching the premises, a large bundle,
containing the stolen property, was found iu the gar-
den, left in such a manner as to show that the thieves
had been disturbed.

Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. M. Prendergast severally
addressed the jury on behalf of their respective clients,
the defence set up for Johnson being an alibi.
Witnesses having been called in support of this line
of defence,
Mr. PARRY replied.
Mr. WrruAst (who was sitting for the Assistant-
Judge, who had been compelled to quit the court by
illness) left the case to
The jury, who found both prisoners Guilty.
Johnson then pleaded guilty to a charge that he
had been previously convicted of felony, while evi-
dence was given that Clark had not only been noto-
riously known as a thief since the year 1844, but
that, having been many times in custody upon diffe-
rent charges, he had been convicted thrice.
Mr. WITHAM thereupon sentenced the prisoners to
transportation for 14 years.

ADJOURNMENT OF TUE APPEALS.

The Learned JUDGE, before withdrawing from the
court, addressing the bar, said that in consequence of
the severe indisposition under which he had been
for the last three weeks labouring, and from which
he was still suffering so much that he could
neither sit up nor eat nor sleep, he had been advised
that it was necessary that he should keep himself
in a recumbent position fur a few days, and then that
his recovery would be accomplished. His Learned
Friend Mr. Witham had kindly promised to sit for
him during the remainher of the day, to-morrow,
(this day), and Wednesday. With respect to Thurs•
day, for that day he had upon Friday last appointed
several appeals. Now, es there were but few of them,
he would ask, in consequence of his illness, that those
appeals should go over to the 28th instant, when, with
other appeals, they would be heard at Clerkenwell,
without any additional expense to the parties, and if
those who represented the press in that court would
be so good as to make the announcement of the post-
ponement in their respective papers of tomorrow,
there would not be the necessity of the parties serv-
ing notices. He should now retire for the purpose
of a few days' rest, after which he would resume his
duties.

Mr. PAYNE, as the senior of the bar, said that the
best wishes of himself and his learned friends for his
perfect recovery would accompany the Learned Judge
in his retirement.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET

A well•dressed fellow named William Pinkkam
was charged with robbing a young woman named
Mary Anne Harvey, a poor servant girl, of 3/ ss.
Mr. John Power, a grocer in Fenchurch-street,
swore to seeing the prisoner deliberately thrust his
hand into the prosecutries pocket, while his confede-
rates stood convenient to cover him, and that upon his
hand being withdrawn the girl's purse was in it.
Tile prisoner thereupon declined offering any de-
fence, and, the depositions having been taken, he was
fully committed to Newgate for trial.
CLERKENWELL.

Mary Ann Langford, a resplectably•dressed young
woman, was brought up on remand, charged by Miss
Mary Masted, of Camden-square, Somers-town,
with having been concerned with others in picking her
pocket on the platform of the Great Northern Railway.
The prisoner was committed for trial, and the wit-
nesses were bound over to prosecute.
Lockerby, the detective officer of the S division,
said he had no doubt but the prisoner was the same
person who was connected with Mahon, who was
concerned in an attempted burglary some time since
at Mr. Holford's, Regent's-park.