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The Express. — 1855-01-15 (London, England)

THE FOLE T. PLACE M UR D BR.  --• From inquiries instituted on Saturday it appesrs that Lu,gi 13ararelli, as:well as Mrs. Lambert, as etc is called, are both bkely to recover from the injuries they base received, a decided improvement having taken place in their condiiion. Barantlii, as has already bsen stated, is a native of Ancona, 114 on Thursday he was so much better as to be enabled to sit up in bed and write a letter to his mother, who is living there. In this letter it is stated he detailed his horrible position, and the crime he has committed. fie requested that it might Ise posted without delay. Considering the frightful injuries he received, added to the eerie= position in which he is placed, he appears to be recovering with singular rapidity. As he gets fetter he, however, seems to be more restless about the ultimate consequencei of bit crime, which he frequently refers to, and as frequeatly expresses a hops that he shall die. This circumstance has induced the authorities to direct him to be closely watched by a police constable, both night and day, an apprehension being entertained that whenever he has regained sufficient strength, and the opportunity offers, he will make some attempts upon his life. On Thuisday, while some of the medical gentlemen I attached to the hospital stiff were standing rioind his bed one remarked how much better he looked than, he Lad done on the previous day—oa which Baranelli bitterly remarked, "yes, you an making me wen so as to hang me," or words to that effects On Thursday morning a respectably-attired man made an application to be admit d to the hospital to see the murderer. The earnestness of his solicit induced inquiries as to who he was, and what was his object in wis'Org corn— pliaace with his request. It tome d out that this person was Mr. Williamson, the husband of the woman with whom Baranelli has asserted to has been on such intimate terms, I and who has been, however innocent, the unfortunate MISe of the catastrophe. The application was refused. Mr. Williamson stated that hie object in seeing the murderer was to ascertain from him what had become of his child, about a year and a half old, which he believes t 3 be kept away somewhere at the instigation of Biranelli. A letter which B Ili wrote on the night preceding the murder, addressed to hire. Williamson, has already bean published, and from which the fact is clearly established that he premeditated the tertible act. Another letter, written on the same evening, but without any superscription, in the mamba's handwriting, also in Italian, confirms the determination of Bstetielli to commit the crime. The description given of Bareaelli at the house ,t 33, Newman 'tree, where he took a lodging after he was turned cut of Lambert's house, was that of au apparently, quiet, Inoffensive man, although it was remarked that he appeared exceedingly melancholy and depressed in his manners. He was known to be up, from • light in Lis room, the whole the Saturday night prior to the commission of the murder. of
The Express. — 1856-05-16 (London, England)

DESPERATE BURGLARY IN KENT.  Oa Monday night the wife of Mr. Atkinson, general dealer, West. thane, Kent, was aroused by a noise outside her bedroom door. She opened the door, and was startled at setieg a man, who presented a gun at her, and commanded her to "stand for her life." She immediately shut the dcor in the face of the burglar, and secured it ; but he, ens tting his strength, almost as soon as the door was closed, burst it spin with great force. Mr. Atkinson at once went forward from his bed, when the burglar, without a moment's hesitation, presented a gun at him which be had found ready capped in a room below, sad drew the trigger. The cap eiploded, but, fortunately, the gun was not loaded. Thu baulked in his expectations of disabling Mr. Atkinson, the burglat became mugged, and threw the gun down with an oath. Mr. Atkinson then &mad with him, but during the few seconds that bad elapsed, a second villain who had entered the house came up. Instead, however, of assisting his companion, he became alarmed at the noise, and ran down through the, shop. His haste to escape wail so great that he jumped' through a glass door into the street, taking with him the framework and much of the glass. The noise thu occasioned was beard by 'several persons. One girl, wbo was induced to look from her bedroom window, sow the man wham, ; but, incredible as it rimy seem, the neighbours took no notice of the unusual noise, and the girl coolly returned to her bed. A dreperatra struggle took place on the landing of the stairs between Mr. Atkinson and his antagonist for about tweet, minutes, during whisk time neither could effec:ually over • power the other, sometimes the burglar being uppermost, sad sometimes Mr. Atkisson, who was al times struck on the bead by the burglar with as iron instrument, probably a "jemmy." After the straggle had motioned for come time, the robber called t. Bill I" several times, when a moo, suppored to have been the one who escaped, entered the house by the back way, and Dime to the assistance of his companion. When be saw the struggle that sae going on he immediately tendered his aid, saying, " Shall I stab him 1" but the other replied, "No, knock him off." Bill aid so, and by a few blows on the brad the strength remaining to Mr. Atkinson was en. tingaished and the robber escaped his grasp, hastily quitting the house with his companion, Mario' Mr. Atkisson lying on the floor severely wounded. An effectual alarm was soon given, and medical eminence precumd, when it was found that there were nine severe wounds on the he ad of Mr. Atkinson, and that his wife had also in the strangle received a murderous blow en the bead, but by whom Inflicted she could not say. Every attention was /hawk them, but the husband is lying an a highly dangerous cmdition, and his wife is but little better. Two men answering to the description of the thieves, ha we been tad on suspicion.
The Express. — 1849-08-27 (London, England)

THE POLICR COURTS.  SOUTHWARK. THREATENING TO MURDER MISS VINCENT OF THE VICTORIA THEATRE.—llarrieg White, alias ('tale, a youeg woman of respectable appearance. wee charged wi h attempting to extort money from Miss Vincent, and threatening to murder her. The complainant. who was attended by Mr. Johnson. stated that about three months ago the prisoner waited about the stage entrance of the Victoria Theatre until the performancts were over, and as she was pissing from the entrance to h. r carriage t..e prisoner rushed upon her with a large stone in her right hand, with which she violently attacked her. She also said that she was determined to do for her. Fortunately, however, the doer-keeper mid Mr. Johnson were close by. or murder might have been committed She was eventually secured. brought to this Court, and sets towed to three months' imptigonicent, which had expired only within the last week. On Friday morning, while complainant was in the lobby of the theatre, the prisoner rushed in, and wanted to see her, and on bring refused an interview she said she was determined to have her life. On the door • keeper threatening to send for a policeman she ran away, but witness thinking that she m.iht carry her threat into execution, obtained a warrant against her, and she was aperehendert by Winch, one of the officers of that Court, in the course of the day. Mr. Seeker asked what was the re-eon of her making auch threats towards her. Had the any claim on her ? Miss Vincent, in reply to the magistrate, said that the prisoner had no claim on her, and she rould not account for her conduct. She knew nothing about her, except seeing her as a ballet dancer at one of the theatres. Eiger, the stage doorkeeper, proved the previous attack by the prisoner on Miss Vincent. He also said she rushed into the lobby on Friday morning and demanded to see Miss Vincent, as she was determined to do for her. Witmer told her to go away, when she became extremely violent, so that he was compelled to send for a constable. Before the arrival of the latter she made her (nape. In defence the prisoner said she was extremely terry for her conduct, and would promise not to repeat it if the Ma• giitrate would forgive her. Mr. Seeker told her that it was impossible for him to take her word after the threatening language sad the furious attack she had used towards Miss Vincent. He should accordingly order her to find substantial bail to keep the peace for six months, and in default of that he should commit her for that period. The prisoner exclaimed that it would be impossible for her to find bail. She hoped Miss Vincent would not send her to prison again. Miss Vincent said she could not trust her any more. She had attempted to strangle her, and had been punished for it, but as soot as she was liberated from jail she hemmed about the theatre, and demanded money, and on being requested to eo away threatened her life, and she really hclievtd she would muraer ker. Mr. Seeker ordered the prisoner to be removed, and on her commitment being made out she was sent to prison.
The Express. — 1849-09-01 (London, England)

AWR MR. 11. C. BOWLES. ATTZDIPT OP • MOTHER TO HE HER TWO CHILDREN, Sarah Jack.scvs, a widow, about 40 years of age, was charged with avemying to murder Ebel Jackson, aged 9 years, and Mary Jackson, aged 6 years, her daughters, by endeavouring to cut their throats with a table knife. The prisoner bad, since the death of her hatband, which occurred about three years ago, curled on the business of a general dealer in Eofield. _ _  Mary Ellis, a married woman, residing next door to the prisoner, said that on Tuesday morning last, about half.past 4 o'clock, she heard the prieoner's deu,elyer El.z), who was in the street, screening violently. Witness went to her, and asked her what was the matter. She exclaimed, " Oh, Me,. Ellis, Mrs. Ellis ! Mother has cut my throat at d my arm ; and she, is now cutting Polly's throat !" Witness instantly ran into the prisoner's house, seeing that her daughter wee bleeding at the throat She went Leto the bedroom on the first flour, and saw the prisoner standing by the bedside. She said to the prisoner, " Oh, Mrs. Jackson, what have you been doing ?" She made no reply. Whines picked up a table knife, at about six feet from the/snout. Her (huge-ter Mary wee on the bed crying. She had a cut OA the left side of her neck, and on her right thumb. E,'za Jackson, an intelligent little child, stated that en Tuesday morning last she was suddenly awoke by her mother, who had a knife across het throat. Witness struggled and wrested the knife (rem her mother, which she flung into the mid.lle of the room. Her mother observed that she would exn get another, and ran down stairs. She returned with another knife. Witness was out of bed. 1.7p0n seeing her, her raother said, " Come up stairs into the gar. rat, I have such a beautiful wax doll there." Her mother went up stairs. Witness followed bar out of the rcom, and ran down stain to give an alarm. She saw her mother go into the ro tm where her sister Mary was. The wetness further stated that before her mother asked Ler to go into the garret she stabbed her in her left arm. Mr. Asbury, jun., surge (m, Enfislel, stated that the stab on the left arm was about two inches long and about half an inch deep. He was informed that the younger child had the knife in her right hand, and that her thumb was cut while her mother w..s drawing it away. Stevens, a polieenion, nil that be took the prisoner to the station-house. Ho told her for what offerce she was charged. " She observed it was all through telling lies." (He produced two table knives. One of them had blood on the blade.) The Chairman asked the prisoner, who was frequently in teen, what she hod to ray to the charge ? The prisoner said that what had been rtned was correct. She added, " I do nut know anything about it, any further than that I am at times not of sound mind."  The Chairman observed that the melancholy state of her mind was very apparent, bat th,re was quite sufficient evidence to induce the bench to send her to the Central Criminal Court, for ationrina to murder her children. The prisoner was committed accordingly.
The Express. — 1849-06-08 (London, England)

CHILD MURDSR.—Mary Anne lloyden, the wife of one of the porters of Guy's Hospital, was charged with the murder of her infant child. Mary Buckle stated that she lived in King-street, Snow'sfields, and that, on the preceding afternoon, the prisoner's husband called on her and informed her that his wife had destroyed their child, and that it was then lying dead at home, and he bagged of her to go there with him. She accoreline4 accompanied him to their boas., in the same neighbourhood, where she found the prisoner sitting on a safe in the parlour, and by her side her child was lying dead, with a cloak thrown over it. She appeared to be in a very d. spending state of mind, but aai i nothing until witness took the cove& g off the child, and, observing that it was quite dead. melted her how it happened, and she then told witness that she had drowned It in the copper boiler in the back kitchen. She added that she had first washed and dressed the child. Witness then asked her the reason she commited such a dreadful act, and as to whether she and her husband had any previous quarrel. but she replied that they had not. Police Sergeant Letchfield gave similar testimony, and added that the prisoner's husband told him that he left home at 9 o'clock in the morning, and returned about 2, when his wife opened the door to him, having the dead child in her arms at the time. The witness also stated that, upon his questioning the prisoner as to her motive for committing the deed, she said she was fond of the infant, and that her fear was that she could not do her duty by it, and had therefore availed herself of the means of putting an end to its miseries. _ _  A it mate relative of the prisoner's said that she nursed her when she was confined, and that she (witness) never saw her exhibit any symptoms of aberrrion of min:l, and she seemed to be much attached to her offspring. The witness, however, said, that the prisoner's mother was now an iumste of • lunatic a•>lum. Mr Cottingham asked the prisoner whether it was true she had destrnyeel her child in tue manner before-stated by the wi,nesses ?  Prisoner, in a low tone of voice : Yes, it is true. I was not a care of what I did at the time. I attend chapel regularly, and I loved my child dearly. Mr. Cottingbaus—Then why did you destroy its life ? Prisoner—l am sorry for it now. Mr. Cettiegham said it did not appear that the prisoner had ever betrayed symptoms of insanity, although it seemed that one of her parents had been afflicted with that malady. The prisoner also by her answers before him showed that she was in poss. s•ion of her faculties, and she confessed that she had celaminei the crime. Whether she was conscious at the time that she destroyed her infant was a question not for him to decide, and therefore he felt it his duty to send her fey 'viol. 'I he prisoner, who merely nodded her bead, wu then removed from the bar.
The Express. — 1850-12-19 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY.  MARLBOROUGH-STREET..  3&IIIID1,613 ATTACK AND ROBBIRT.— W. Thompson, who described hitoseli u R cabana, was charded with rob Ms. gonmentor, Mr. Adolphus Dubois, dentist, 65, Priou'oetweert, Leicester square, deposed that lest night, about 1 Veleek, he was proceeding along Upper Nortonstreet, when soddenly, from a door-way, three men, one of whom was the prisoner, rushed upon him, and the prisoner cans in front of him and passed some kind of an instrument round his seek and twisted it. Witness called out, and the prisoner twisted it tighter, the other man at the time calling out " Give it him." The prisoner suddenly let go his bold, and witness celled out " Murder," and " Police." The other two roan, wt o are not in custody, than came forward, and held his bands down while the prisoner forcibly tore his coat open and 'Patched his watch and chain from his waircoat pocket. The other two men ran away, and the prisoner gave the instrument another twist, and witness became uneonscroua. When he came to himself he found his coat torn, and bin watch and eosin gone. The watch and chain produced were his property. Witness added that be was still suffering from the effects of the injuries that he had received, and his throat was much swollen in consequence. Mr. J. Toning stated, that about a ouarter-past nine lag night he was in Upper Norton-street with a friend, when he noticed opposite to whirs be was walking three or four individuile, and almost immediately after he heard a cry of " Murder," and " Police," and then saw two men run down the street, and the prisoner crossed over towards where he was walking. Witness's friend called out litre is one of them," and witness Lemke hold of him by the colter. Witness held the prisoner till a constable came. They then walked over to the prosecutor, who recogniscd the prisoner as the man who had attempted to strangle him. A female then came from No. 38, neer.y opposite to where Cm occurrence took place, and handed to the constable the watch and chain produced, which she said she had picked up in the erea of her house, clue to where the prisoner  was stopped. • Matilda Carrel said she lived at No. 39, Upper Norton-street. Last nlaht, about sine o'clock, she and her family were at supper in the parlour, when she heard the cries of " Murder," and " Police." She ran to the door, and on the step of the next house she saw three men who were holding the prosecutor, and she heard one say, "Give it him; do for him." She then saw the prisoner put his hand thrcugh the railing of the area, and she heard something drop on the stones. She went into the ares, and found the watch and chain produced. A constable having given corroborative evidence, The prisoner, who is supposed to belong to the gang who attacked Mr. Curators, and who said he was perfectly innocent, was remanded till Monday next.
The Express. — 1846-11-14 (London, England)

SJUTHWARK.—JEALOUBT AND AITEMPT TOMURDER. —Thomas Louisa, described as a cheese porter, was brought 1, before Mr. Seeker for re-examination, charged with attempt- .1 ing to murder a young woman named Louisa Childs, by cutting her throat. The complainant has been a patient in Guy's Hospital ever since, and although still very weak from ; loss of blood, she was considered sufficiently convalescent to II attend and give evidence against her assailant. Being as- 1: misted into the witness-box and swam, she deposed that she 11 was a married woman, but had separated from her husband about ten months ago, since which period she had been living under the protection of the prisoner, at No. 181, Kent t street, Southwark; that on Tuesday the 3rd inst., they 4 went out together, and on returning scent into a public- 1; house and had some refreshment, but not such a quantity as to affect either of them. The same morning the landlord of the 8: house where they lodged had forbidden the prisoner to re- r( turn, expressing his determinition not to admit him again, 2,, and on her saying to the prisoner that he had better not go near the house in case of any disturbance, he endeavoured to 1 persuade her not to return to the lodging ; but she expressed her intention to sleep there that eight, and accordingly 5, parted with him about 40 yards from the house. Just as she !; was about to go up tke steps to knock at the door, she was relied Ij round the neck from behind, and ins moment she felt that her 2! throat was cat, and that the blood was trickling down her St boson. On turning round she saw the prisoner, who said something which she did not remember, and who then ran 3! up the street, towards St. George's Church. She added that she saw no knife nor any weapon in the prisoner's hands; that the deed was done so instantaneously she bad no oppertunity of observing with what instrument her throat was cut. —The prisoner, who was incessantly crying from the moment ho If was placed in the dock, exclaimed that he was eating bread and cheese at the time, and that, being e-.cited at the cornpleinant's refusal to go elsewhere with him, instead of proreeding to the house of another which he was forbidden, he It scarcely knew what he did.—Mr. Walling, of Guy's Hospital, It deposed that when the complainant was brought there on the night in question, on examination he discovered that there were two distinct wounds in her throat, each extending lj about three inches in length and almost half an inch in depth ; thateach wound passed overthecarotid artery, which 1 was as near as possible being divided, which would have pro- 41 duced instantaneous death. They were evidently inflicted 4( with a sharp instrument, but were now healing; and there It was not much danger to he apprehended from inflammation. —Mr. Seeker, having ordered the depositions to be taken, j committed the prisoner for trial to the Central Criminal I; Court, and bound over the witnesses to prosecute.
The Express. — 1846-09-11 (London, England)

LAHORB, JOLT B.—A horrible judicial tragedy has just been enacted here, and which, were it not that it was performed in an open plain in the clear light of day, and before a crowd of spectators, could scarcely be believed as an act of the 19th century, occurring in a civilised nation, in a town that is garrisoned by British troops! A wretched murderer was this evening burnt alive, after first undergoing the most diabolical tortures that his blood-thirsty executioners, fiends in the shape of men, could inflict upon him by the means of knives and red-hot irons, scarifying and scoring his face and body until he confessed his guilt. lam told that not only one but five murders he owned to having committed, and that the skulls and other ghastly remains of his victims, all females, were discovered in his house. The motive in each case was not malice, jenousy, or revenge, but the mere paltry value of the jewels they wore on their persons. The murderer was a young man, and of rather handsome features. and ho met his horrible fats as ith apparent coolness. A few blackened ashes are the only traces to be seen on visiting the spot th's morning. No curiosity seems to have attracted visitors after the execution, such instances of retributive justice being unfortunately too common here. Unhappily objects, both men and women, presenting the hideous deformity of cropped ears and slit nostrils, are but too ofteu met in the streets of Lahore, and their mutilated features tell a frightful tale of the power that revenge, under the name of justice, had hitherto held in the Sikh capital. Things are as usual since my last, rain still coming down, much to the wonderment of the inhabitants, who attribute the unusual ' fall of the waters' to the invasion of the British. The court astrologer in vain tries to consult his stars—pour man ! few being at present visible except those of our newly-created C.B.'s, who kindly illumine our benighted optics now and then with a' passing sight' of their gorgeous toys.' The last on die from head-quarters is, that we are to move out of the city, either to the cantonment in the vicinity, or else to the Jullunder,and remain in camp for a month to watah the effects of our withdrawn. The disbanded soldiery still remain in large numbers unpaid and unsatisfied, and vent their murmurs in curses deep, not loud.' "—Delhi Gazette, July 15. We are in receipt of the following letter, which we doubt not very correctly represents the real state of things at the Sikh capital, and what that must lead to it is very difficult to guess. We are mile] disappointed at not having received the Kabul letter due oa the Bth or 9th instant, as we are most anxious to learn the denouement of the visit of the Persian envoy, and the declared intention of Dust Mahomed to abandon the government to his pugnacious, son ; it will, we trust, reach us to-day or to-morrow:— "