The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-12 00:00:00

ASSIZE _INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCHESTER, DEC. 11.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
John Wallis, aged 30, a medical assistant, was
indicted for intermarrying with Miriam Fry, his
former wife, Catherine Wallis, being then alive, at
Poplar, on the 26th of February last.
The prisoner, in reply to the arraignment, said,
" 1 am sorry to say that I am guilty, my lord."
It appears that the prisoner was apprehended a
short time since on a charge preferred against him
by Mr. Fox, of Broughton, near Romsey, of pretend-
ing to be a doctor of medicine and a qualified prac-
titioner. It seemed that he had never qualified, and
although he had held different places as a qualified
assistant, he was not a registered one, and a
diploma which he had with him was dated " Ley
den." For this offence, in default of paying a fine
of £lO, he was committed to prison for six weeks,
without hard labour. • It transpired that about six
years ago he married a young lady named Webb,
in Oxfordshire; after she had had two children he
left her and went to London, when in last February
he was married to Miss Miriam Fry, at All Saints
Church, Poplar. This lady he also heartlessly
deserted. He afterwards went to live with a sur-
geon in St. Pancras, London, and while there he
made proposals to his master's daughter, but his
antecedents were fortunately discovered.
The prisoner was sentenced to penal servitude
for seven years.
The trial of Johnson, for the Aldershott murder,
has been fixed for to-morrow (Wednesday) morn-
ing.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-NORTHAMPTON, DEC. 11.

(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
The court commenced the trial of prisoners at 10
o'clock this morning.

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN.

William Ingram, 19, labourer, was indicted for
stabbing and wounding Mary Ann King, at Castle
Ashby, on the Ist of November, 1860, with intent
to kill and murder her.

Mr. Maunsell prosecuted; the prisoner was un-
defended.

The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
It appeared from the evidence that on the night
of the Ist of Nov. last the prosecutrix left the vil-
lage of Denton about half. past nine o'clock, in com-
pany with a young man named Jas. Robinson, who
accompanied her some distance along the road
which led to Yardley Hastings, where she lived.
About five minutes after Robinson left her she was
overtaken by the prisoner, who observed, " Then
you are just going home ? " She said she was, and
remarked to him that ho was walking very fast.
He said he had set a wire up the road and was
going to see if there was anything in it. He drew
close to her, put his arm round her waist, and be-
gan to pull her about. She resisted him, said she
would never disgrace herself with a married man,
and threatened, if he did not leave her alone, she
would tell his wife. He said she should have no
chance to tell her, lifted her up in his arms, and
threw her down by the side of the road. She was
struggling with him when she felt a blow behind
her left ear, at the same time hearing his knife
snap. She felt several cuts at the back of her head,
and on her arm and fingers. He also gave her a
blow on the eye, pulled her by the hair of her head
and tried to choke her. She heard the sound of
wheels along the road and called out "murder."
The prisoner thereupon ran away. The vehicle
was- a gig driven by Mr. Edmund Longland, a
farmer of Floore.

The prisoner made no defence, and merely said
he hoped his lordship would have mercy on him.
His lordship having summed up,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Baron Bramwell ordered sentence of death
to be recorded.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoRK, DEC. 11.
(Before Mr. Justice Hill.)
The commission for the winter assizes was
opened on Saturday, and on Monday at noon
the county grand jury was sworn (J. G. Smyth,
Esq., M.P., foreman). The whole day was occu-
pied in trying two cases from the city,—one of
bigamy and one of forgery.
This morning William Walsh, 48, was charged
with the manslaughter of his wife, Mary Walsh,
who died at the York Workhouse on the 21st
of August last.
It appeared that the prisoner had been married
to his wife about eleven years, and a few months
previous to her death she and her husband went to
live at a house in Navigation-road, Walmgate. The
poor woman was kept in a garret, and was not
allowed to come down stairs at any time. The
deceased was only seen twice by the neighbours in
the course of three months, and as there was another
woman living in the house with the prisoner, a
rumour prevailed in the locality that the deceased
was ill-treated by her husband. On the 31st of
July last the prisoner went to his work as usual,
and the female subsequently left the house in order
to take the prisoner his dinner. Great curiosity
being felt as to the exact state in which the
deceased was, two of the neighbours, Mrs. Sum-
mersgill and Mrs. Garland, took advantage of the
absence of the prisoner and the woman, and obtained
a ladder, which they placed against the window of
the garret. They each went up the ladder, and
observed the deceased crouched upon a bed in the
corner of the room, and in a very weak and feeble
state. The poor woman was aroused, and she came
towards the window, putting her fingers into her
mouth, and making signs, showing that she was in
want of something to eat. Some bread and butter
was given to her by Mrs. Summersgill, and the
deceased in making a curtesy for the kindness shown
towards her, fell down on the floor from exhaustion.
The wretched condition which the poor woman was
in was made known to her relatives, and two of her
brothers went to see her. They found her in the
most filthy state. The deceased was removed to
the workhouse, where every attention was paid to
her, but she was so reduced and debilitated when
she entered the establishment that she never
rallied, and died on the 21st of August. A post
mortem examination was made on the body of the
deceased by Mr. North, surgeon to the workhouse,
who came to the conclusion that death had been
materially accelerated by the continued want of
the proper necessaries of life. Her death being
thus attributable to starvation, the charge of man-
slaughter was preferred against the prisoner,
who, according to his pecuniary means and station
in life, ought to have provided his wife with food
and clothing. That he was enabled to maintain
his wife was clearly proved. He was a working
man in good employment, and he and the female
with whom he lived at the house in Navigation-
road had plenty of food.
The prisoner was found guilty, but the sentence
was deferred.

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