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London, England, 1858-07-31 00:00:00

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HOME CIRO CUT. —NIAmsroNE, JULY 30, ' :
CROWN SIDE.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) r
THE ROCHESTER MURDER.
Albert Huskey Turner, 44, was charged with the wilfu
murder of Mary Ann Turner.
Mr. F. J. Smith and the Hon. G Denman conducted
the prosecution. The prisoner was not in a position to
obtain the assistance of counsel, bat at the request of the
Court Mr. Bridge watched the case on his behalf.
The learned counsel for the prosecution, in opening the
caee to the jury, described it as ene of a. very mlancholy character, the prisoner being charged with theodreadful
°fleece of wilful murder, and that murder committed upon
the person of his own wife. He said he was afraid there,
could be no doubt the act was committed by the prisoner
under the influence of jealousy, and that the only questions
they would ultimately have to decide under the direction of
his lordship, would be, whether the prisoner was guilty of
the crime of wilful murder. or whether, under the circum•
stances that would be detailed to them in the evidence,
they would bo justified in convicting him of the leaser
offence of manslaughter only.
Witnesses having been examined,
The jury retired to consider their verdict. They-were in
deliberation nearly three hours, and upon their retunt
into court they found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter.,
Ho was sentenced to penal servitude for life.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—DURHAM, JULY 29.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Lord Chief Baron Pollock.)
George Menham, 39, and Edwin Fox, 33, were indicted
for the wilful murder of Wm. Barren, on the high seas
—to wit, on the river Elbe, at Hamburg, on the 22d of
June last. A second count charged that the prisoners
were masters of two British ships lying in the river Elbe
at Hamburg on the 22d of June last, and that they wilfully
murierecl the said Wm. Barren, a seaman on board one of
the said ships.
It appeared, from the opening of the harned counsel for
the prosecu lion and from the evidence of the witnesses
called in support of it, that the prison :r For was the master
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the brig Reliance, and that on the 22d of June last both
being
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I vessels were moored alongside each other, in the river
About iwn tohfe onee
even e andni n g
ceased Wm. Barren, a seaman on board the Reliance,
went on board the Schiedam in a state of intoxication and
began " sky-larking" with the apprentice boys on board
the ship. The captain—the prisoner Fox—went up to him,
and endeavoured to persuade him to leave the ship, and
pushed him towards his own ship. The deceased returned
the push, and the two men got scuffling together. Fox
called out to the men on board the Reliance to take Barren
away, and_ shortly after the captain, the other prisoner
Aleutian-1, came on board, and gave the deceased a shove or
blow on the cheek, and told him to g.) on board his own
ship. The deceased said, " You may split my face, air,
but that -- shan't." The deceased and his captain,
the prisoner Ilenhain, then got scuffling together, and the
deceased tore the shirt of Captain Menham. The prisoner
Menham, looking at his shirt, said, according to one ac-
count, "Let's throw the overboard," but according
to the other witnesses, " I'd thr w the overlie Ird ; "
and thereupon immediately seized the decensel under the
arms, and lifted him, assisted, according to Ramsay's evi-
dence, by Fox, who lifted his legs and placed him on the
rail of the vessel. The other witnesses said Fox only stood
by. When on the rail Fox Wined round and left him,
walking aft, the other prisoner, Menham, let go of the de-
ceased, his legs b,ing over the vessel's side, and he slipped
down overboard and sank. In a short time his hair and
one band appeared above water, and Ramsay threw a rote
over him, but he made no attempt to catch it., sank again,
and was drowned.

The jury, after a short absence, returned a verdict of
not guilty as to both prisoners.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-July 30.

BOW-STREET. —A ca marl, named John Knight,
Litus?lf the proprietor of two cabs, was placed at the bar,
before Mr. Henry, on a charge of robbing a young woman,
named Mary Early, a servant at Ashley's Hotel, in Hen-
rietta-,street, Coveut-garde.i, under the following circum-
stances :
The prosecutrix stated that en Tuesday last she wont to
vi,it a lady at Islington, %%ha ha i formerly stayed at her
master's. She left at about eight o'cloclf, when the servant
accompanied her as far as High-street, Islington. As she
could not see the omnibus, and as it was a very wet night,
she hailed a gib, got in, and told the man to drive her to
Ashley's Hotel, Henrietia-.street, or to Charing-cross, from
which place she would know her way home. Aboul half-
way home the cabman raid he should like to have a glass
of ale, as it was very wet, and asked if she would have a
glass too. She agreed, and he stopped at a public-house,
where he got some ale, of which she took one glass.
After that she could recollect nothing, until the next
morning, when she found herself in bed in a brothel
in Joorge•street, Si. Giles's. She then missed her purse,
containing 11. 17s. 4d., her sleeve studs, boots, mantle,
and parasol. A woman whom she supposed to be the
landlady told her she was brought therein a cab overnight.
The woman agreed to loud her a pair of boots to go home.
It was a Hansom cab, but I should not know the man
aga'n.

-Policeman Lambert, of the E division, explained the
manner in which he fount the prisoner's address. Pres.:-
cutrix had given information at the E division station, in
consequence of which he went to the house in George-
street to make inquiries. He found she was brought
to the house by a cabman. The latter had been there
once before with a prostitute, who said she had heard
another cabman call him Knight. He then looked
at the name in the hackney carriage books, and got
prisoner's name and his address, in William's-mews,
Mary-street, Hampstead-roa.l. On Thursday he found the
prisoner at a public-house in Mary-street, and ceiarged him
with the robbery. Prisoner said, "All right ; I have lift
the purse, money, and studs at the station-house an hour
ago," at the same time producing a receipt from Inspector
IStackenzia for property given up at the F division station
iu Bow-street. The amount of money, however, was only
11. Prisoner said, " I don't want to get the waterman
into trouble. The purse was found at the bottom of the
cab, and 1/. Cs. in it. I gave the wat3rman 25., paid is.
6d. fox the bed, and spent 2s. 61 with the waterman.
That accounts for the Don't say anything to hurt the
waterman."

Win. Smith, a boy of about 16 years of age, a servant at
the brothel in George street, said the prosecutrix was
brought there by t he prisoner at about half-past 12 o'clock on
Tuesday night. Pi isoner bad called about an hour before and
had " engaged a room for a young woman for all night."
The prosecutrix was helplessly drunk, and the prisoner not
very sober. Witness helped him to take her upstairs, un-
dress her, and put her to bed, as she could do nothing for
herself. At the desire of witness, the prisoner showed him
the contents of her pockets, "that he (witness) might not
be blamed for anything in the morning." She had only a
fourpenny piece, a halfpenny, a small German coin like a
farthing, and a pair of gloves. The prisoner, notwi hstanding
witness's remonstrance, kept the fourpenny piece, saying,
" I will come in the morning, and sot her up with all I have
got of her's," adding, " that he did not care what they
charged for the bed--ho would not mind paying ss. as
long as he knew she was all right." lie then requested
witness to go away and leave him with the young woman,
but witness refused, observing " that he would see her all
right, for he could see she was respectable." He also told
the prisoner "it was a
Dot know
ought to know batter." Prisoner. said h di
where to take her. Witness said, You should. take her
pity to see her. in_ souchda place} he
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are. I never'saw her till to-night." (He had previously
said she
was a friend.) Witness insisted upon the prisoner
Cmh a rmar onh.
the key. The next night.p:edne,sday) prisoner came again
leaving the room wiatwshithhi
'stiiiieffy,tir was a runs job," and men-
tionede
that he. had. the young woman's money at home,
having placed it in his wife's hands, and that, if there was
" no more noise" about it, he should keep it for his fare.
Waterman, No. 96, said he wagon duty on the night in
question on the Broad-street rank, when prisoner drove
up and asked witness to mind his cab while he went to get
a lodging for a female. He went along towards George-
street, and after a while returned, and saying ho had " got
a lodging for her all right," took the young woman out of
the cab.

Mr. Henry —You did not mention that she was in the
cab before?
The witness continued—She was very drunk. He took
her away towards George-street, and presently returned
with the boy, who treated witness to come cold rum and
water and a hiPcuit.
Mr. Henry asked if ho did not know what sort of houses
they were in George-street ?
Witness- I knew there were some brothels.
Mr. Henry—You :11,11 know more about t.i:3• The CAM
was one requiring a thorough investigation, and for the
present the prisoner must be remanded.

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