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A: the. lose-ot ,he E*.dec raoe
Mr. Baron Watson said-he'clid not think theie
was any case against the prisoners France and
Hughes.
Mr. Neale then addressed the jury for. Harris
and Wright.
The jury, without hesitation, found both• nriso.
ners guilty of inanzl ;n ter, Toe prisoners France
poaching.
and Hughes pleaded guilty to a charge of 'LliesAit
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Mr. Baron Watson sentenced Harris and Wright
to 14 years' penal servitude. The other two pri- -
s )ne-s, France and Hughes were then brought :up,
and sentenced to eight years' penal servitus.

S rAMP DA
Plum: 40.

lure that no human aid could prevent Ler gradual
sinking and ultimate death.
The police, on being called in, took possession of
the premises and also the weapons with which the
tragedy had been perpetrated. The chopper was
lying on the floor covered with blood, and on the
blade was a quantity of brain. Several locks of hair
were also found on the floor, having been cut when
the deadly blow was inflicted. The knife, too, was
also covered with blood, and found near the dead
bodyof the unfortunate man. Both weapons were
recognised as having been the property of Osborne,
and used in the house.
We have before mentioned that when the
lodger's wife died she left b:-hind her a child which
was placed under the care of Mrs. Osborne. It had
receutly been suffering from illness, and died at the
latter end of last week. The corpse was placed in
the back parlour, whither the wounded female was
removed for which reason the police were unusually
strict in excluding any persons from entering the
room unless their presence was absolutely neces-
sary. The body of the unfortunate man also lies
in the house, and will do so until after the coro-
ner's jury bas been empannelled.
Tne neighbourhoods where great crimes have
been committed are usually visited by a number of
morbidly disposed individuals, but in the present
instance the crowd has been so great, from the first
moment that the intelligence of the horrible tra-
gedy had spread abroad down to an advanced hour
last night, that it was found necessary to station
constables in the vicinity of the house to keep the
road clear.
George Osborne and his wife had been married
13 years, the former aged 32, and his wife 35 years.
Osborne was a very fine athletic man, standing
above six feet high, aed had the character of being
a *mbar, Well-conducted man.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—March 22.

MANSION-HOUSE—DOING THE LORD MAYOR.
—On Eliza Filch, a decent-looking, middle-aged
woman, being brought up and placed at the bar,
consVerable surprise was manifested by a crowded
court to see the Lord Mayor suddenly quit the
magisterial chair, into which Mr•. Alderman Hale
instilled himself' while the chief magistrate of the
city was sworn by the usher of the court as witness
and prosecutor in the cash, the second scene of
which exhibited the prisoner tumbling flat on the
floor, in a well-feigned fit of hys-erics. The appli-
cation of a glass or two of col water, externally.
and infernally, however, soon had the effect of re-
storing her powers of perpendicularity, and the
Lord Maycr then, whose humane and charitable
disposition is as well known as his ruthless bearing
t 0 ward impostor s, and his extraordinarydiScernment
in their detection, then proceeded to relate his
tale.

The Lord Mayor—On the 16th Feb. the prisoner
whom I have known these six years, and always
believed to be a respectable woman, came to me
with a pitiful tale, beseeA);no• try aid. ' She said she
bad been for so r tn. rry,, goipi- •
tel, and had of , only pardally
cured, in consequence of beds using wanted by fresh
applicants for admission.. While is- th,,bhspiltAl
she said she had got behrri •in her rent; and-xi ter
I .ndlord was pressing her, and she had no mains of
paying, she begged me to assist her. Believing her
tale and pitying her case, I gave her a sovereign, for
which she seemed to be very grateful, and when she
produced some pawn tickets and said all her clothes,
except what she then wore, were in pledge, I gave
her another sovereign to redeem them, and she
went away. From something I heard shortly after
I sent to St. Thomas's Hospital, and found that no
woman named Eliza Filch had ever been an in-
patient there, and I also discovered that the address
she had given, and where I always supposed she
lived, was false. I saw nothing more of her until
this morning, when she came to me again, and
asked me to assist her once more, as she had ob-
tained a good place for her son in a family at the
West-end, but she bad no money to buy him
clothes to go in. I then told her I had discovered
her deception about St. Thomas's Hospital. At
first she persisted in saying what she- had before
told me was true, but when she found I knew all
about her, she admitted she had never been there,
and offered to give back the 2/. at so much a week.
I gave her into custody for obtaining money under
false pretence; and I may say I have learned that
when I gave her the money she applied a part of it
in hiring a band of music for the purpose of annoy-
ing her landlord. (Llughter.)
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The prisoner said his lcrdstiip had been mi9iii
formed, for it was at another time she dad hired
the band of music: The truth was, instead of being
in St. Thomas's Hospital, as she had represented„
she was in Whiteoross-street, where her landlord
had put her f,r debt, and as she did not
like to state where she . really had been, she
invented the tale about the hospital, theband
having been hired by her on the day of her
discharge from prison. . She was certainly '
great distress when his lordship gaie her the'2/..,
and when he did so he told her he should like
boon
eeztno
hear how she was getting on afterwards. She gave
him
Air. G
ano. herJod
nicaallu (thacthif clerk)meurning said he
morning.
known as a regular applicant for relief at that court
for 11 years ; but having himself found her out
three ye rs ago, she had since gone to the private
door of the Mansion House to appeal to the Lord
Mayor privately.
The Lord Al Ivor—She has had 13!. or 14/. from
this court, and I em told that at this time she sticks
to her house, for which she has paid no rent for
two years, and will not go out unless her landlord
will give her 6/.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRO-MT.—WARWICK, March 22.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord Campbell and
a Special Jury.)
BETTS V. CLIFFORD.
This cause, which occupied the whole of Satur-
daA and was only concluded this morning, was an
actin brought to recover damages for the infringe-
ment of a patent taken out by the plaintiff Betts,
in respect of his having invented a new material
congisting of lead coated with tin, and which was
principally employed by him in the manufacture of
capsules for the covering and rendering air-tight
the mouths of bottles and other vessels.
His Lordship, in summing up this morning, told
the jury that there were three questions of fact for
their consideration—first, whether Mr. Betts in-
vented this process ; secondly, was it known and
invented before 1849, the date of Betts's patent, so
as to be perfected, or was there evidence that it
was Abortive, and that it was on that account aban-
doned ? Thirdly, had there been an infringem-nt ?
The jury would fini their verdict on these facts, in
order that a question of pure law, whether under
certain facts found there had been any infringe-
ment, might be reserved.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant,
upon the question of novelty i • and for the plaintiff
on the question whether there had been an infringe-
ment.
In the course of his summing up Lord Campbell
noticed that a scientific witness having asked his
opinion as to whether he was bound to attend upon
being served with a subpoena he would say that a
scientific witness was not bound to attend, and
ought not to be subpcensed. If he knew any ques-
tion lof fact he might be compelled to attend, but
her Majesty's subjects were not compellable to
give their attendance to speak upon matters of
opinion.

CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.)
John Eagan and Edward Ingram were indicted
for a garotte robbery, oimmitt d November 7 upon
John Breeze, in John-street, Birmingham. The
prosecutor was at a public-house at the corner of
London Prentice-street, on the night of November
7. Be left about 12, and was going along John-
street, when he was attacked by some one behind,
knocked down and robbed of 7s.
A policeman cowing up, he was taken to a mu-
gem. A. dozen men were standing near, but did
not interfere further than by some of them calling
out,, "Don't kill the man, Ducky, if you rob bim."
The. prisoner Ingram was • identified by an eye-
witness of the assault, who ran and brought the
policeman ; he bad refused to attend on the day
after he had given evidence beforo the magistrates,
and !was locked up in a cell, and the prisoner
Ingram, who was in an adjoining cell, was he trd
to offer the witness Cloyne 1/. to hold his " click."
Eagn was seen to put his hand into the prosecu-
fuel pocket before he was knocked down. On the
art of Eagan an alibi was set up, but, the Judge
av ng gone through the evidence,
i T le jury returned a verdict of guilty.
i T e prisoners were each sentenced to eight years'
anal servitude with hard labour. •

The landlord's agent, who had been sent' for,
confirmed this sta anent, and said the prisoner
owed 501. for reut.

Munday, offictlr of the court, had made inquiries
in the neighbourhood of her, residence, and found
that she defrauded everybody who gave her the
charce of doing so.
The prisoner appealed to the Lord MayorYdr
mercy, but Alderman Hale told her he was a ttiug
magistrate, aud as there could be no doubt of her
being a regular impostor, he should Feud her to
prison aud herd labour for three mouths".

WESTMINSTER.—ALLEGED EXTENSIYE ROB-
BERY BY A SERVANT.—George Watling, a young
man, was charged with stealing a quantity of wines'
and spirits from his master, Mr. Charles Burgess,
proprietor of the Cadogan Hotel, Sloane-streat, •
Chelsea.

NORTHERN CIRCIIIT.—LIVERPOOL, March 22.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)
Martin Devitt, aged 54, was indicted forbigamy,
in having unlawlully married Mary Sheehan at
Manchester, on the 20th of July last, his first wife
being alive.
Mr. Burke appeared for the prosecution ; the
prisoner was undefended.

Prisoner had been in prosecutor's service twelVe
months up to last Friday. On the evening of that
day Mr. Burgess's housekeeper draw his attention
to the fact that she had found a bottle of whisky,
in the kitchen between the steam apparatus. The
prisoner and the cook were shortly afterwards pre-
sent, when he inquired of them who had taken the'
bottle of spirits from his cellar. They bath denied all
knowledge of it, upon which he informed the pri-
so uer that he had long su-pected him of robbing him,
and lie wished to search his box, when prisoner re-
plied that he should not. Prosecutor then deli
rejk,_
his daughter to remain with the accused while he
fetched a policeman, but he bad not proceeded many
yards in quest of one when his daughter overtook
him, and at consequence of something she told him,
he hastened back. The prisoner, who had hurYied
up to his bed room in the dark, was at that moment •
engaged in taking bottles out of his box, and put-
ting them under the led, and when the police C4lllB
live bottles full of wines and spirits, and a bottle of
spirt 's half full, were disclvcred concealed between
the bed and mattress. Prosecutor had no doubt
the wines and spirits b, longed to him, although he
could not positively swear to them, but when drawn
marks on the corks might establish their identity.
Prisoner had access io the cellar, and a great deal
of the stock had recently been purL fined. Pri-
soner's wages and perquisites appeared to be so
g, that
due ehato his
hereTsteieterfahviemhitmo atackheeqcuhearfgoar
of it for him. While ihe police were in the house
the prisoner effected his escape, but making his
appearance a day or two afterwards, was detained
and given into custody.
He was committed for trial.

The prisoner, who is an Irishman, created great
amusement in court by his manner of defending
himself, and mode of cross-examination of the,
various Irish witnesses called to establish the
charge. When asked whether he pleaded guilty or
not guilty, he appealed to his Lordship as a " fellow-
con utrynaau" to protect him.
Hir Lordship.—Very well; then you had better
plead "not guiLy."
From the statement of the learned counsel for
the prosecution and the examination of the various
witiieFses it appeared that the prisoner was mar-
ried to Mary Honohoe at Foxford, in Connaught,
by Father James Henry, a Catholic priest, 24years
ago, and her brother paid the priest 255. for per-
forming the ceremony, and that his wife was now
alive in Manchester. the second wife, Mary
Sheehan, stated that the prisoner. had courted her
five years, and that she was a staymaker in Man-
chester. He represented himself to be a widower,
ansi on the 20th of July last year she was married
to him at St. Augustine's Catholic Chapel, Man-
chester. After a time he represented that he had
a job in the country which would keep him ab-
sent for some time. He then used to come and
st-e her on Saturday nights and leave, as sho sup-
posed, to ga to his work in the country on Monday
mornings. Eventually she. heard that he had a
wife living in Manchester; and gave information
to the police.

CHILD POISONED.—INQUEST.—Yesterday evening an
inquest was held at the New Crown and Cushion, L.ni.
beth, on the body of a little boy, about four years old,
named Samuel Joel, the son of Mr. Jenkin Joel, draper,
of 52, M"ur,t-street, Westminster-road. Part of Mr.
premises is let as a photographic gal!ery,
and the child went into the gallery and drank some
cyanide of potassium from a small jug which was stand-
ing in the window-sill. A surgeon was sent for, but
the child was unable to swallow an antidote, and died
in about ten minutes. The jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental Dery b," with a caution against leaving
each poisons in the way of children.

The prisoner then began to cross-examine the
witness, and, working himself into the greatest
possible state of excitement, he shrieked out to her
" Answer me this, and none of yer bather. Would
you ever let me alone till I married you ? Didn't
you get two candles and burn 'ens all night to
bewitch me, and give me some powders to charm
me—answer me that now ?"
The witness answered, " No."
The prisoner (gest'culating violently),--" What !
Turn round and let me look at you." (The witness
obstinately stood with her bank to him.)
Prisoner--She daren't look at me, yer honner.
She bewitched me with her candles and powders
and tricks, and when I hadn't my sinses got me to
marry her, and charmed me with her powders out
of my home and my wife and my children. The
prisoner then worked himself into such a fury that
his shriekings became utterly unintelligible.
His lordship left it to the jury to say whether the
prisoner had married twice, his first wife being
alive.

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The jury found him guilty..
On being asked if he bad anything to say why
sentence should not be passed upon him, the psi-
ioner said he thought he ought to be excused as
he was " not in his sinses whin be did it, with her
candles and powders."
His Lordship said he had committed a very bad
offence in inducing a singe woman to marry him
when he had a wife already.
Prisoner—l don't know that, yer honner, for the
man she lodged wid told me she had a darter as
big as herself. (Laughter.)
His Lordship said he did not know how that
was • but the offence he had committed the law did
not ;How, and the church to which he_ (prisoner)
thhece
reee nteubolonged thought it a great crpimnesO
ned T
of the Court was that he be im •
calen-
dar months, with hard labour.

OXFORD CIRCUIT. --SRREWSBURY, MARCH 22.
CRIMINAL COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Watson.)
John Harris, 47, labourer ; Richard France, 48,
labourer ; John Hughes, 35, labourer ; and James
'Wright, 38, collier, were charged with the win