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London, England, 1860-07-14 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCHESTER, JULY 13.
(Before Mr. Baron Channell and a Special Jury.)
The learned Judge having disposed of the com-
mon jury causes, proceeded to try prisoners until
the hour fixed for special juries.
Henry Harwood was indicted for stabbing Wm.
Marsh, with intent to murder him, at Portsea.
Mr. J. D. Coleridge was retained for the prose-
cution ; the prisoner was undefended by counsel.
The prosecutor, a grocer and beer-house keeper
at Portsea, after a three years' courtship, married a
woman, who subsequently had two children by
him, having previously had one child by the pri-
soner; and after they had been married about a year
and a half, Marsh discovered that his wife was,
in fact, the wife of Harwood, to whom she had
been married some years. Harwood was then at
sea, as a steward, and on his return he wrote to
Marsh, offering to compromise matters ; he would
not molest them if he were permitted occasionally
to see his child, now six years old. On the even-
ing of June 20th Harwood rushed into Marsh's
house, with a knife raised in his right hand,
knocked him down and fell upon him, and Marsh
discovered that he was stabbed.

Mr. Garrington, surgeon, found a wound 11 inch
in length, just under the last rib on the left side.

Prisoner- said he was totally unconscious of what
had taken place. He met his wife casually shortly
before this occurrence, and asked why he was not
allowed to see his child. His wife, who spoke
very tenderly, said, " You know how it is ; he has
threatened if I see you privately to turn me out of
doors." He told her she knew he was open to re-
ceive her if she would return, and that would be
the best in the end. She alluded to the children
by Marsh, who then came in sight, and they se-
parated. They were both deeply affected ; his wife
seemed as though her heart would break, and he
was moved to tears. His brain was ready to burst;
he had a few glasses of porter, and then became
unconscious of everything. He had corresponded
with his wife during the whole time of his absence
from England, and was not aware of her second
marriage.
The jury convicted the prisoner of illegally
wounding, and recommended him to the merciful
consideration of his lordship, who sentenced him
to three months' imprisonment.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—AYLESBURY, JULY 13.
:Before the Lord Chief Justice of the Common

Pleas.)
Jesse Harding, 29, was charged with shooting at
Sarah Harding, his wife, with intent to murder
her, at Winslow, on the 21st of February.
Mr. Fremantle was counsel for the prosecution ;
the prisoner was undefended.
The prisoner was a labouring man at Winslow,
in this county, and had been married some eight
years, having a family of four children. On the
night in question he returned home very late,
having been drinking in the town, and commenced
threatening and abusing his wife. He also com-
plained that she would not remain at home, and
had spent a shilling he had given her. Having ill-
treated her very much downstairs, he followed her
to the bed-room, and levelling a gun at her, the
contents were lodged in her body. She was for-
tunately in a stooping position at the time, and the
charge entering at the side passed beneath the
skin of the abdomen and was left at the back of
the upper part of the thigh. He then struck her
with the butt end of the gun and the poor creature
fainted. Becoming alarmed, he then undressed her,
and some neighbours coming in he admitted that
he intended to kill her, that he had given her an
hour for repentance, and that he meant for some
time past to have her life. To one he said he had
borrowed the gun on purpose. For several weeks
the woman's life was in imminent danger. Upon
being called on for his defence, the prisoner, crying
violently, said his wife had been a very bad wife to
him and a bad mother to his children. He also
added that he was so drunk at the time he did not
know what he was doing, and that he would as soon
have shot himself as his wife.
The jury found him guilty of the intent to
murder, but said they believed the prisoner had re-
ceived great provocation. He was sentenced to
penal servitude for life.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.--OxFoRD, JULY 13:
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
Ann Barkers, servant, aged 22, was charged
with throwing her child, Charles Barkers, thirteen
months of age, into a well, with intent to murder
him, at Ipsden, on the 18th of April last. u
Mr. Cripps appeared for the prosecution ; Mr.
Hill
Inae the prisoner.
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appeared, and the case occupied
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courtof witnessesfor
seve-
ral hours, but the facts wereAprilhouse nst
who had been staying with er last,
of a relative, Mrs. Prior,
her child, as she re-
presented, to visit of Berrin's-hill, Ipsdeu,
left a little before nine, with
aunt at Henley. About an
hour after she was her
seen by two witnesses on the
road to Henley without her child. On reaching
Henley, in reply to a question by her aunt as to
how her child was, she stated that she had put it
out to nurse with a person named Prior, at Hethe-
ridge-hill, as she was anxious to go to service again.