The Express. — 1866-12-06 (London, England)

CIRCUIT. —Lusconv, Dec:. 5. house a cart for him, and asked him if he sold carriages upon commission; and he told him that he did (Before Sir W. F. Channell.) so. The prisoner then said that he had a cart at the Joseph Bones, labourer, aged 44, was charged with the Waterloo station, and gave Mr. Roden an order to fetch wilful murder of Eyre Peahen, at Billinghay, on the 16th it away. The prisoner said the cart was built nt Staines, of August last. and as it had not been built exactly to his order he wanted Mr. Dugdale appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr, . it warehoused until such time as Mr. Bedell could sell it. Mellor (by direction of the judge) defended the prisoner. a Mr. Roden received the cart accordingly, and two or three Upon being called on to plead, the prisoner uttered days afterwards the prisoner called upon him, and obsome incoherent expressions about knowing his victim tallied 101. on the secnrity of the cart. it is almost needever since they went to school together, and this led his less to say that the prisoner never appeared to make any lordship to inquire of the governor of the castle as to the further inquiries about the cart, and was not seen again prisoner's conduct during the time he had been in his until he was apprehended by Robert Allison, a poliescustody. constable, on this charge, on the 19th of November, at 27, Mr. Foster replied that the prisoner was one of the . Church-street, Stoke Newington. When he was charged most extraordinary beings he had ever bad in his charge ; with this offence he denied having made any false pretence sometimes he was capable of understanding everything whatever when he obtained the cart. said to him, whilst at others he did not appear to know Albert Harris said he knew the prisoner's signature .He anything ; sometimes he was very quiet, and at others so had an account at the Metropolitan Provincial Bank,Cornviolent that it took two or three warders to restrain him. hill, and the last cheque he drew, and which was honoured, Mr. E. F. Broadbent, the surgeon to the castle, was then was on the 19th of March, 1864, and that cheque overdrew called, and he gave it as his opinion that, although the his account to about 51. odd, which the bank had not been prisoner was capable of distinguishing between right and since able to recover. wrong, he was not at all times in a propel state of mind, The jury found the prisoner Guilty. and was certainly not in a sufficiently sound state of mind I The Assistant-Judge asked if anything was known of the to plead to so serious a charge. He was a very dangerous prisoner? and violent character, and would no more care about Mr. Inspector Carpenter, of the London, Brighton, and thrusting a knife into a man than he would of eating his South Coast Railway—who happened to be in court on dinner. some other case—said, from the description given he beAfter a few words from his lordship, • lieved that the prisoner was the same person who had The jury returned a verdict that the prisoner was of can- committed a fraud, by means of • false cheque, upon the sound mind, and was therefore incapable of taking his station-master at Seaferd, a station on the Brighton Railtrial, and way. If time were allowed be believed that be should be His lordship ordered him to be detained in custody until able to rove the case againt the prisoner. her Majesty's pleasure should be known. The Wady mid,s under these cirmunstanees he