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London, England, 1856-12-11 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK, DEC. 9.
(Before Mr. Justice Erie.)

John Robinson, 29, was indicted for stealing a cow,
the property of Henry Waddington, of Halton East, and
also five pigs, the property of Abraham Tillotson, of
Broughton.
Mr. Blanchard prosecuted, and Mr. Shepherd defended.
It appeared that the cow and pigs had been left safe
on some premises on the 21st of Oct. last, and that the
prisoner was after wards seen driving them in the neigh-
b,,urhood of Skipton. Before taken into custody he had
sold them.

These facts having been clearly proved, he was found
Guilty. It then appeared that he was a ticket-of-leave
man, and had committed several felonies.

His Lordship, in passing sentence, said it was hope-
less to attempt to reclaim him, and his was one of the
cases in which society ought to be protected from his
propensity to commit crime. After having committed
one or two felonies, he had been sentenced to be trans-
ported fur 10 years for sheep stealing, but had been let
ont of custody on a ticket of leave before the expiration
of that sentence. So far from having been restrained
from crime by the punishment he had undergone, he had
been at large but a very short time before he had com-
mitted another felony, and had since then stolen a watch.
For the offence of which he now stood convicted the sen-
tence of the Court was, that he be transported for 20
years.
The prisoner asked to be allowed to address the Court,
and he then made a rambling statem9nt to the effect
that, having the reputation of a ticket-of-leave man, he
had found it impossible to get an honest livelihood.
Toe prisoner was then removed.
Thos. Smith and Thos. Hoyle were indicted for bur-
glary at Ripon, and stealing a large quantity of jewellery.
Smith pleaded "Guilty."
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Mr. Shepherd and Mr. Robinson Fowler appeared for
the prosecution ; the prisoner was undefended.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
His Lordship said this was a case in which society had
a right to demand to be protected from the crimes and
designs of such men as the prisoners. The sentence of
the Court was that they be transported for 20 years.
The prisoners both looked rather astonished, and the
prisoner Hoyle, casting aside his depressed Liok of a sick
man, said, with a sort of sneer, "He has given us time
enough to reform."
Alexander Syme was indicted for a burglary com-
mitted in the house of Henry Thomas, at Leeds, on the
28th of September last.
Mr. Wheelhouse prosecuted. The prisoner was not
defended by counsel.
The prosecutor, his wife, and a little boy were the
only,___ former of the house on the night named, the two
u;rin being last up, and going to bed a little after nine
"lock- At the timep' they went to bed all was safely
fastened,o
down. the doors locked, and the windows hasped
the cellar a eerao
fvrer a hole through which coals were let into
plate the street there was placed a strong iron
and
open,
This plate was not fastened down,
slightly said that the kitchen window was left
to-
gether with a thoughl the shutters outside were fixed to-
ouse. The hook. Nothing was taken out of the
prosecutor was awoke by a noise in the
kitchen at two o'clock in the morning. He lighted a
candle and went downstairs,
of the kitchen 000nrstairs, and there, in the middle
floor, he found the prisoner, and
asked him what his
was
Rer Caen was. The pri-
soner answered that he
to which prosecutor replie(looki°g out for lodging's,
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prisoner now reiterated
the prosecutor at first, with the additional
that hs was very drunk indeed, and that, instead of
statement
entering the house, as was suggested bythe
prosecutor)
through the iron trap at the coal-cellar manhole,
had
really got into the house through the kitchen '
window-
shutters, which he found flying Open ; that he th fur
ther opened the window-sash which Mrs. Thomas bad
left open when she went to bed, and, being drunk, he
thought he had got into his own lodgings.
His Lordship, in charging the jury, told them that to
open a door or window further which had been ire.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and a previous
conviction for felony having been proved against him,
His Lordship sentenced him to four years' penal ser-
vitude.

LIVERPOOL, DEC, 10.
(Before Mr. Baron Alderson.)
Bridget Kelly stood indicted for the murder of Win,
Moran, an infant child, at Manchester, on the 21st o
October last.

Mr. Wheeler appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Tindal Atkinson (assigned by the Court) defended the
prisoner.
Mary A. Howell said—l am a nurse at the Canal-
street Workhouse, in Manchester. In August last the
prisoner was admitted, and on the 7th of October she
was delivered of a male child. She remained till the
21st, when she left, taking the child with her. It was
at that time in good health. The child had on clothes
belonging to the workhouse. It was christened before
it left the house by the name of Wm Moran. The pri-
soner called herself Mary Moran. I told her that I
thought she was going out into the air too soon, but she
would leave.

William Pembray—l reside in Manchester, and work
near an arm of the Ashton Canal. On Saturday morn-

ing, the 25th of October, about half-past 8, Isaw the
body of a child in the water. It had been brought up
by the line of a boat which had just come in. The body
was taken out of the water, and it proved to be a male
child with a tape round its neck. The tape was not
very tight.
J. Hall, police-constable on duty, took charge of the
bcdy. It had on a pair of socks, cotton binder, and a
tape round its neck. It was not tight. There was no
mark upon the neck. It appeared to -have been in the
water for some days. It was a fine child.
Ann Phelan-4 know the prisoner. She lodged with

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me. She west by the name of Kelly. She_ left my
house, telling me she was going to Birmingham. She
left her box. She returned to my house, and after be-
ing there a week she was taken into custody. She
came back without her child. I showed the box to the
constable.
Sarah Cath deposed to giving up the child and the
clothes to the infirmary.
The matron of the workhouse then identified the
clothes.

J. Kirkwood, poliee constable, took the prisoner into
custody. She was at work in Gorton-lane. I said I
was informed she had had a child, and asked what had
become of it. She said, " I have bad no child. While
I was away I was at my uncle's at Birmingham." I
then went to Mrs. Phelan and took the clothes I now
produce from a box. There are the remains of the
workhouse mark on them. Upon taking her to the sta.
tion the inspector charged the' prisoner with drowning
her child. She replied, " I have nothing to say but
that I did it. I went through a brick croft and threw it
into the canal. It was covered with thrush."
Thomas Rayner, house-surgeon at the infirmary, saw

the body of the child. It had the appearance of death
by drowning. It was covered with thrush ; that is what
it is popularly called—thrush. From the state of the
intestines it appeared to have suffered from diarrhoea.
There was also a bruise on the back of the head. My
reason for supposing that the child had been drowned
arose from the membranes of the body and the brain
being much congested. Another statement of the pri-
nor was then put in, where she said she did not know
who the father was, and necessity' compelled her to doit.
Mr. T. Atkinson, on the part of the prisoner, earnestly
insisted that the body which had been found had not been
clearly proved to be the child of the prisoner. He also
made a strong appeal to,the jury on behalf of her forlorn
condition in life.

The learned judge summed np, tolling the jury that
though the case was undoubtedly one for great compas-
sion, nevertheless it was their duty to consider the case
entirely with respect to the evidence which had been
laid before them.
The jury, having deliberated, returned a verdict of
guilty with a recommendation to mercy.
Judgment of death was then recorded.
His lordship, addressing the prisoner, said the case is
perfec4 clear ; the jury have done their duty, though
they have done it kindly, and as Christian men. I shall
recommend your case to the merciful consideration of
the Crown, and I trust my recommendation will be at-
tended to. You may have to leave the country. I only
wish I could punish the man.
The prisoner, who seemed much affected, was then
removed.
W. Robinson, J. Thompson, T. Ward, and J. Woods
stood indicted for highway robbery from the person of
G. Thomas, at Liverpool, on the 11th of October last ;
and J. Hayward and J Irvine were indicted as receivers.
Mr. Blair and Mr. Aspinall prosecuted ; Mr. Sowler
defended Robinson, Mr. Simon defended Thompson, Mr.
Scott, defended Ward, and Mr. Brett defended Woods.
From the evidence of the prosecutor, who is a book-
keeper in this town, it appeared that he went to a brothel
kept by the prisoner Ward about 2 o'clock in the morning
of Saturday Oct. 11, and passed some hours there in
company with three women, indulging freely in
champagne, and at that time he had with him
about 801. in bank-notes and sovereigns. He left this
house about 19 on the following morning, and went to
a publichouse in the same street kept by a person named
Hills, where he had breakfast, and again met Ward,
and both here (where he slept some time) and at 'Ward's
he had exhibited his purse containing money on paying
for the articles which had been supplied to him. Ward
then left the house, but returned shortly afterwards,
being followed by the landlord and five other, men,
among whom were the prisoners Robinson, Thompson,
and Woods. They did not come together, but appeared
to be strangers, though they talked together. In a
short time two of the party commenced quarrelling, upon
which it was suggested by one of them that it would be
disgraceful to fight, and they had better settle the
matter by- a foot race, and the prosecutor, who at first
declined, was eventually persuaded to accompany them.
A car was then procured, and the whole party set off,
four of them inside and two on the box. On their way
they stopped at a publichouse in Boundary-line, and the
prosecutor treated them all to ale, for which he paid.
The race was soon over, but the prosecutor was not
aware who the winner was ; nevertheless he had a race
with Robinson for is., which he lost, and the party
again repaired to another publichouse, the prosecutor
once more paying the score. At this time all the
prisoners were with him, and it being about 8 o'clock
the prosecutor proposed to go home, upon which Robin-
son very kindly offered to show him the way, and,
taking his arm, they left the house. The party, how-
ever, had only proceeded a short distance through
what was described as a " near cut," when the prosecu-
tor was suddenly seized from behind, and Robinson hav-
ing seized his purse from the pocket the whole party
ran away. The prosecutor then called out "Police I"
and followed after the prisoners, and meeting with
some person be was advised to take a cab and give
immediate informatian to the police, with a description
of the prisoners. Robinson was afterwards taken at his
own house, and Thompson was also apprehended about
1 o'clock the same morning. He saw several other per-
sons in Thompson's house, but did not recognise them as
parties concerned in the robbery.
The prosecutor was subjected to a severe cross-exami-
nation by the different counsel for the prisoners, in which
he admitted he had been drinking very much upon the
day in question, and that hie employers had since dis-
charged him for his misconduct.
It appeared that the other prisoners were all appre-
hended from information which the prosecutor had given
to the police.
After the case for the prosecution had closed,
The learned judge intimated that he thought the
evidence was not sufficient against the prisoners Wood,
Thompson, and Ward, including Hayward and Irvine,
who were indicted as receivers.
Mr. Sowler then addressed the jury for Robinson,
urging the state of intoxication in which the prisoner had
evidently been in during the whole day.
The learned Judge summed up, and the jury found a
verdict of not guilty.

According to the last adviceefrom India, the Calcutta
Chamber of Commerce had unanimously passed a strong
resolution in favour of the Eastern Bengal Railway, in-
tended to run from Calcutta through the delta of the
Ganges to Jesaore, and ultimately to the city of Dacca.
The indigo planters' association were also about to take
the question into consideration. Meanwhile the ar-
rangements for the survey were making progress, the
Government showing every disposition to facilitate
them.

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