The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-10 00:00:00

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-Y 0 DEC. 8.

The commission was opened here on .e.turday evening
by Mr. Justice Erle and Mr. Gurney.
The York City Assize was held this norning. There
was only one case, a charge of forgery aganst a young man
named Barrow, who had forged the nameof his uncle and
guardian to a cheque for 5/.
He was found guilty, and sentenced t 12 months' lin.

prisonment.
At noon the learned judges commencodthe county busi-
ness, which is exceedingly heavy, there)eing about 120
prisoners for trial, and many of the offeAes charged being
of a very heinous character.

In charging the grand jury Mr. Justic, Erie alluded to
an extraordinary case of bigamy, in whielthe prisoner is a
man named Harrison, who became notoricts as the "Leeds
Wizard" on account of his dealings with )ove, the person
executed at the last assizes for poisoning hs wife, at Leeds.
His lordship remarked that the prisoner AS charged on the
depositions with three marriages, and sena objection had
been raised before the magistrate as to the roof of the valid
or first marriage. A valid marriage muE, be proved, and
not by mere repute or cohabitation ; but a the registry of
the old church at Leeds there was an entr3of the first mar-
riage. Nobody could be brought forward Li a witness, but
some person believed the writing in the roister to be that
of the prisoner, and perhaps that would ; enough. But
what seemed abundantly sufficient was thi,
that after the
marriage, unknown to the parents of the girl,
had taken
place, the prisoner claimed to be the husland of the girl.
The father and mother questioned them losely as to the
fact of their being married, the mother req ired the daugh-
ter to produce the marriage lines, as thy
were called ;
and, in the presence of the prisoner, the daughter produced
the marriage certificate, and repeatedly declared to hers
father that they had been married. So ther had been per-
mitted to cohabit together, and.had had chldren, and that,
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establish the first marriage, and make the jrisoner respon
ce,
sible for the second and third marriages. :f by any acci-
dent the proof of the first marriage shouldfail, an indict-
ment might then be prepared treating the second as a valid
marriage, and alleging the offence to have leen committed
with respect to the third marriage ; and the prisoner
brought forward the first marriage as a defelee, it would
be requisite to adopt proceedings accordingly ; but the
prisoner would thus be placed in a dilemma 11-nu which it
escape.
appeared to his lordship there corrttia,:oliinlYsasuriv:oit
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RAILWAY COLLISION AND CDAIIOIO or
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taideeeondruceeent
hpolfoin' the last.
George Spivey, 24, was indicted
the prosecution ;
Mr. Blaushard a'id Mr.lllaule coedoo,or.
John Coupland, at Church Fenton; on
Mr. Digby Seymour defended the parlosa
the NorthE„tern
The ease arose out of a collisiostation.
On the esth of
Railway, at the Church Fenton
ket Wreighton, whee there
July an excursion train left
hed Church
Futon a
Selby, the train reac
Having passed
it had to be drawn up f, the
purpose after
12 o'clock, where r
theted 26 th Icy
' of
, and while part of the excursion trait was
ostrainsdimnien in an. oblique direction across the main lice a
at a sfsed
heavy luggage train of 40 or 50 trucks came up,
of about 30 miles an hour, and ran into the excursion thin
with such force as to break several of the passenger Cr.,es to splinters, and to throw the engine of the luggt.r.e
rtiraaL off the line, and upset it. One of the passengers,
John Coupland, was killed. The prisoner was night po-.
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train, knowing that he had started before his time, and that
The jury found the prisoner not guilty, g
he was travelling beyond his proper speed, had an interest
in showing that the signals were not on.
arraigned for the manslaughter of Godfrey ewas
Braino, wi2o
was killed at the same time, hut the prosecution offered no
discharged
ftlrther

MIDLAND CIRCUTP.—LiNceLN, flea. V.
(Before Mr. Justice Willes,)
aecive ti7right, aged 17, was indicted for feloniously
assaulting phoebe Horton, a child under 10 years of age, at
Leaks, on th,,. 990bQr last.

Mr. tio*erg 13kagOtit8(L

It appeared from the statement oafs° nrosecutrix and
her mother, that the child having been sent au errand,
was met in a field by the prisoner, who asking her whe-
ther she knew Where any mushrooms were growing, and
riti.t,3iving a reply in the negative, knocked her down and
violated her person. This statement was fully corroborated
by the evidence of the medical man who had examined
her; and the jury having found a verdict of guilty, the
prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life.
Daniel X.orth was indicted fer accusing, and threatening
to accuse, John Sampson Wells with an infamous crime,
with intent to extort money.
Mr. Roberts conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner
was not defended by counsel.
It appeared from the statements rade by several wit-
nesses that the prisoner, a butcher at Grantham, had for
several months previous to July last, as well as in that
month, frequently made an accusation against the prose-
stator, who was also a butcher in the same town, of having
committed an abominable crime about four years ago ; and
that to one witness he had said that he meant to have
money from the prosecutor now that he (the prosecutes)
had got into business and was a, householder. On two
occasions in July he had made the Same charge in the
public street of Grantham to the prosecutor himself, who