The Express. — 1867-08-06 (London, England)

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Indies Montagu Smith.) James Clegg, 18, was charged on two indictments, one for attempting to murder 11 int= Reece, a warder at the the New Bailey prison' Salford, and the other was for stabling with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Mr. Lereeche was for the prosecution ; the prisoner was undefended.  The prisoner was sentenced at the spring maims to twelve months' hard labour for a robbery with violence. He was undergoing his imprisonment on the 3th April, and was working on the tread-wheel. About three o'clock he got off the tread-wheel, and went to sit down, which was against the ruler unless his turn at the wheel had been up. This not being the cam Reece, who had charge of the wheel, ordered him to standi up. He drew a knife out of his pocket, which he had been allowed to cut the ends off mats made in the prison, and ran at Reece and stabbed him twice under the left ear, and once under the eye. One wound was half an inch deep and near the carotid artery, and the blade had penetrated to the bone under the eye. He had told a fellow-prisoner that he was angering from rheamatism, and could not stand the mill, and if the governor persisted in putting him to it, he would stab him. The surgeon of the prison described the wounds, and said they were not dangerous, bat had been near to dangerous parts of the head. The pr;soner told the court that he had been a great sufferer h rheumatism, and bad complained to the surgeon, who refused him an order not to go on the wheel. He said the prosecutor, Reece, was unfeeling, and had told him he was taking measure of him for his coffin, as he had previously done for another prisonerle at the wheel, who soon afterwards required it. denied this. The prisoner elicited from a fellow prisorer, called to prove the sicault, and who had often been on the wheel with him, that he had often heard the prisoner crying while undergoing his task on the wheel. The jury acquitted him of the intention to murder, but found him guilty urder the second indictment. The Judge thought the prisoner's conduct was more attributable to dislike of restraint than to illness, and sentenced him to seven years' penal servitude. JoAp Mackie, 33, was charged with having attempted to murder his wife, at Bolton, on the sth Aprll. Mr. Blair prosecuted, and Mr. Richardson defended. The proirecutrie, Mary Ann Maekie, said she was between 24 and 25 years old,. and had been married to him five years. Some seven or eight months ago she ceased to live with him, and took one of the two children with her to her mother's. The other child had been taken charge of by the prisoner's mother. She bad since then supported herself by workibg at a cotton-mill She left him because of ill-treatment, and threats that be would take her life. On the sth April, at neon, she was pearling a public-house kept by John Moores, in olton, when she beard her name called. On looking round she saw the prisoner standing at the door, and he beckoned to her. She went to him, and he took her into the bar parlour, and asked her to have I some porter. She declined, and invited him to go home to dinner with her, but he refused. She then tasted • glass of porter with him. While sitting near him he suddmly slipped one hand behind her and caught hold of her left arm, and held it while with his other band he drew a sharp instrument across her throat several times. She fell on the floor, bleeding. A surgeon proved that there were three cuts on the throat. Verdict, Guilty. Sentence, twelve years' penal servitude. Toni, Anoint? 5. Piuus Counr.—(Before Mr. Justice Lush.)  •