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The Express. — 1848-02-10 (London, England)

THE DUNDEE MURDER.—FURTHER _—The inquest on the body of Mr. Walsingham Hazen was yesterday brought to a conclusion. In addition to the facts previously deposed to some circumstances were detailed calculated to strengthen the suspicion previously existing Litainst the nephews of the deceased. The witness Capel (who, it will be remembered, was at work in the barn on the Monday, aud, saw his master at the colts' house with the prisoners) was recalled, to speak to a material fact, which at his form urination he had omitted to mention. lie was in the habit of keeping an old coat at the farm to work in, 11 and his usage was to take off his other coat when he came , to his labour, hang it up in the stable, and resume it when he left in the evening. lie should in the usual course have gone into the stable on the Monday evening to fetch his coat, but he found that some person had brought it out and thrown it across the door of the barn, so that it was unnecesary fir him to do so. Mary Stallard, • connexion of the deceased, stated, that on the Friday after the prisoners were in custody she was at the Carpenters' ,1 Arms public-honse, at Dundry, and saw James Resell there, 1 in conversation with his sister. She heard him say it was not he who did it, and also heard him exclaim, " I wish that Benjamin bad never come here." A youth named Pritchard deposed, that on Tuesday evening, while the search for Mr. Mizell was going on, he went to the premises, and asked the prisoners if he might not have got into the old well. They did net offer to search it, but said they did not think he could he there. Josiah Sampson deposed that in the search for the deceased a person named Itees took an active part. Witness beard the prisoner Benjamin say to his brother, "Here's that old Rees again. He 'a been bothering here several times, and wants • bit of the skin knocked off his head." A man named Marshall deposed that, on the Tuesday after Mr. disappeared, he saw the prisoners and the servant man owles in the stable. Fowles, who was tipsy, leaned against the manger, and said, "0 I'll die, I'll die." Benjamin Hazen inquired, " What, bee'st thee going to ' die instead of thee master ?" The Ashton winnable Your -g deposed, that while the prisoner James was in custody a conversation took place about the umbrella. The priaoner said ne one could have put it into the stable, as he had the keys. Witness also heard him say, " I wish that Benjamin had never come up at Christmas." The corone; having slimmed up the evidence the jury returned a ",erdict of " Wilful murder against Benjamin Hazel! air; James Hazell." It is understood that they will not be 'removed to gaol till they have been finally examined by tae junk:P.  P. Blum FRENCH PLATS: La Vicomteeee Lolotte," in rt.!'" Iddlie• :Rath :tie appeared with so much semen on sseadaY, was reP'Ated last evening. It was preceded 1".,y a 1 vaudeville, in ~wo acts, called " Noensie," little ;..o.ece of and net without interest. It tow, upon an tr..le lilin dmiTtew'al a' ch, if we remember rightly, foram the subject of I another French piece produced here a few rare ago. A
The Express. — 1848-03-24 (London, England)

MARY LEBON E. —T u s MYSTERIOUS Casa OP CNILD It is proper to be mentioned that the dividends' Mumma.— William Rigdon, the letter-carrier, who on Fri- eel uing on the French Three per Cents. Rents* day, 17th inst., was charged on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of a female infant, was again taiUteiontbibe yllneoonmthe, and en odrdayegredbytothbee Provisional ionnalantioct brought up. In the afternoon of the 24th January two per- pa by eons, named Batchelder and Randall, were shooting in afield vernment of France, have been duly received between Kilburn and the Harrow-road, when they saw the parties interested in this country in bilis at sight, or prisoner scraping up some mould on a bank in a field adjoin- short date, oa the house of Rothschild as one instance, mg. In a short time afterwards prisoner came towards them, and having mentioned to them that he had just seen and paid accordingly. But as the government have some snipes, he passed on. Soon after this Mr. Batcheldor declared the notes of the Bank of France to be legal and his friend repaired to the spot alluded to, and just below tender, and as therefore at Paris the dividends would the surface of the ground they diacovered a wooden box, be discharged in there notes, which, quoad specie, which, on being opened, was found to contain • dead infant, were about 10 per cent. discount, there must evtwhose legs were doubled up over its body, and the cloth in which the infant was wrapped up had upon dently be a loss to the recipient, or in other quarters, it DOIIIOOIIII marks of blood. A coroner's inquest in the exchange operation. The matter is worthy of had been held, and • verdict was returned of " Wil- reference, more particularly .because, as asserted in ful murder that some person or persona unknown."—Dr. respectable quarters, no loss is sustained by. the reciCarr proved that the child was born alive, and that the immediate cause of death was suffocation, arming from pressure pients, or holders of the French securities, in the ration. This it is difficult to understand, unless upon on the neck, and from the head being violently' struck against some hard substance. The prisoner was ultimately the almost incredible supposition that, as respects met with in Portman-square, and given in charge. On foreign holders, the Bank of France, still shut to being asked by the magi•trate what he had to sey, he denied lar business, has orders to pay in specie the sums due all knowledge of the affair, and said that the parties were to foreign holders of Rentes, after strict investigation entirely mistaken.—The evidence of Mr. Randall, corrobora • into the nature of the property as asserted. The fact tive of Mr. Batchelder's, was gone into.—The solicitor for the prisoner aciwonasained the whiteness eet the part ei the pro- of viethe;eoarelrulsr receipts of dividends here, however, motion at moms length, and called forward Marta pence& re under whatever circumstances.
The Express. — 1848-11-14 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, Nov. 13.  The emigration from Waterford, Cork, and Limerick primed. with vigour. In the metropolis, the desire to try their fortune in the New World has very generally seized on our small trailing class, and they have a sort of organisation fur the establishment in America of a colony derived from home. A number of our shopkeepers, alarmed by the prospect of the times and the little hope of improvement which presents itself, have agreed to emigrate in a body. They have purchased a small territory in the district of Wisconsin, and thither they propose to proceed, and found, perhaps, a city. Each will leave home with a sum of 2,0001. at least, either in cash or merchandise, and with such funds at their disposal they persuade themselves, and no doubt truly, tbat with energy and industry they must succeed. The abstraction of each an element from such a society as ours is a serious loss. Of the class which is proceedicg towards the " Far West " from Waterford a journal now before me says: "Were it our poor population supplied with funds to emigrate we would not regret, but the stream is from our most industrious farming class, who are carrying with them considerable property converted into hard cash." The Guild of Bricklayers and Masons of Limerick have appealed through the public prints to the humanity of their townsmen for contributions to a fund they are raising to enable their active and unemployed members to emigrate. Armed bands (says the Limerick Chronicle), with their faces blackened, nightly parade the country ; and the same journal records a list of eight separate robberies.  The preparations made for the enforcement of the distresses ler poor rates in the Gort union, seems to have had an admirable effect on the constructors of barricades and cheraux-de-frise. On Thursday last the military and police moved out of Gort, under orders of Sir Michael Createh, to support the ratecollectors. But, lo! the barricades had been all re moved, and every sign of obstruction had disappeared. The result of the day's proceedings was a payment of 3001. to the rate collector. His future operation, will doubtless meet no violent opposition there. It is a fact sadly illustrating the condition of the agricultural class, that within a circle of three miles from the place where the recent murder of the bailiff was perpetrated, near Limerick, there were as many as four-and-twenty other bailiffs in charge of seizures, that is to say, in that small circuit of a fruitful district, with a good market, four-andtwenty farmers were unable to pay their rent. Two persons named Flanagan are in custody, for the murder of the unhappy bailiff. I perceive to-day, by a local paper, that in an electoral division of the same county, en Kilmallock Union, 26 families, supposed to number 130 souls, are about to be evicted, notice to that effect, in the terms of the statute of the late session, has been served on the relieving officer. In this same union of Kilmallock, on the last meeting day of the poor law guardians there were 200 paupers in waiting outside the workhouse for admission or relief.
The Express. — 1848-01-31 (London, England)

LOUD ORMOND'S UNDER STEWARD.—Merry and Philip Cody, the former about 35, and the latter about 18 or 19 years of age, were placed at the bar, charged with ' the wilful murder of E lmond Madden, at Killerney, on the 9th of July last. The indictment charged that the shot which :awed the death of the deceased was fired by Henry Cody, the ether prisoner having been present aiding and &misting. The prisoners, who were brothers, had not employed an attorney er counsel. Mr. Rolleston was assigned to the prisoners to defend them, which he had to do withoutte the intervention of an attorney. After the lapse of some time, during which Mr. Rslleston wag occupied in ri riding the inturtuations of the several witnesses, the case was proceeded with. The Attorney. General stated the facts of the case, which were d.tehed by the witnesses, the first of whom was:— John Kelly : I live at Ballyknackin, and am a steward in the employment of the Marquis of Ormond, at the wood of Killerney. The deceased Elmond Madden was employed there as an LAil'allt steward over the women tuesged in barking the timber. I know the prisoners. On the 9th of July I left my own place to go to the wood. A. I was pass; log through it I heard a shot, and heard Madden bawl. I knew h's voice. I looked alter I heard the shot, and saw the smoke, and observed a man, and then another, who ' bounced out close to where the first man was, and fired a eeeood shot. I afterwards heard a third shot, and saw the men who fired it. I heard Madden bawl immediately I after the fir*t shot, and before the second. After the ' Ifirst shot was fired he began to move away, and then the , two others were fired after him. Madden ran out at I the gap, and the three men followed him; the three shots were tired at him before he reached the gap. There were heaps of brushwood collected on the sides of the path along which the deceased was passing, and it was from behind that brushwood the men who fired the shots come. The persons who were pr sent did not pursue the murderers. 1 did not attempt to follow them myself for they were out of night in a minute. I turned back from the place and sat the people to work. The list of workmen was called over, but they did not all answer. There were 160 mea altogether. Henry Cody did not attend that day at all, but Phil. Cody came at one o'clock and made a half day. They were both at the work on the following day. They worked there all that day, but never after. Cross-examined by Mr. Rolleston : Elfin M'Grath was in the work, but I do not know whether she was there that 1 day.—To the Chief Baron : I was about thirty perches from the three men when they came after Madden.—Mr. Holies* ton read the informstiona of the witnes., in which he swore that be saw Madden eery plainly, and knew him br his rain.—To Mr. &Wok*: Ikaow kis alasitas.—Dr. Cliarim
The Express. — 1848-03-18 (London, England)

MURDER.— W. Rigder., about 28 years of age, a letter-car- , rier in the General Post-office, from which establishment a gentleman, holding the situation of inspector, attended to watch the proceedings, was accused of wilful murder.—The first witness called was Gilbert Batchelor, who said, " I reride , at No. 3, Rock-row, Earl-street, Lisson-grove. On the ' 24th of January last, I and a friend were shooting in some fields between Kilburn and the Harrow-road, and at four in the afternoon the prisoner came from Kilburn-lane across aII footpath into a field next to that in which we were; he had under his arm something which was covered over loosely p, with a handkerchief; he went round o pond to a hedge ,U I where he remained for about a quarter of an hour, and 6S, observed him ecraping up some mould with his hands front 5( the top of the bank. I and my friend continued to watch I him, and he soon afterwards came front the spot towards ' us, carrying in his hand a handkerchief, which 1 believe to be the same that lin the first instance noticed. He said to me, 1 have just now seen four anipes ' (pointing in the direction he had come from) ; and, after some further observations, my friend and I left him and went to look after the snipes, but could not sec any. We rep Bred to the place where we first saw the prisoner by the bank, and we observed that the earth had been disturbed. My friend kicked some of the mould away, and just below the surface we found a wooden box. Even- 1 tually we discovered that it contained the dead body of • , maleinfant. We did not then bring it away, but gave information to Webb, 100 8, whom we met on our way to the station, and who, having accompanied us back, took peweession of the box and its contents, which he conveyed to the Paddington-green station-house. Yesterday afternoon I saw the prisoner, and caused him to be taken into custody. —Raymond, 89 D. said that the prisoner, when being told that he was charged with being concerned in the murder of a child, alleged that he knew nothing about it. Witness added that, from inquiries made by him, he had ascertained that on the 24th (the-day of the discovery of the murder) he (prisoner) was absent from hie duty as a postman. An inquest had been held upon the body, and a verdict was returned of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."—Dr. Carr, 9, Sheldon-street, Paddington, and who had made a most careful and minute examination of the body, by direction of the caviler, gave evidence which clearly showed that the child was born alive. The immediate canoe of death was suffocation.—The prisoner declined putting any questions to the witnesses.—Mr. Long : You are at liberty to say anything now if you think At. 1 shall feel it my duty to remand you for further examination.—Pri 'loner : I can prove by the inspectors at the office that I was on duty that day, and they will be able to tell the time by the book. I know nothing of the case nor of the man.—Mr. Long remanded the prisoner till nest Thursday.—The prisoner was then locked up.
The Express. — 1848-06-22 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET. TRW MURDER IN SPITAL• MILLE —G. Hart was re-exnenined, charged, upon his own confession, with having been accessory to the murder of the child Henry beams. —lnspector Name laid before the magistrate an anonymous letter he had received some time before the surrender of the prisoner, bearing initials corresponding with those of the man whom the prisoner had declared to be the murderer, and which, in the most positive manner, retorted the charge upon the prisoner himself, in the following word.: "I have just parted company with the man who strangled the little Jew boy. have promised to meet him at ten o'clock tonight at Sho editch Church. 1 give you this information, because he has lately told several persons in the neighbourhood that he intends to give himself up and split against me. You had better go ilt plain clothes, if you an at all, and take him. His name is Tom Hart, need he lives in Fashionstreet, Bricklane. Ile is dressed in a tweed coat, drab trousers, hat, and green handkerchief. We sold the elothes in Rosemary-lane. When he is once in custody I will 'peeler against him, and tell all about it, if I am promised a pardon and part of the reward which is offered. He is a short man, about .5 feet 4 inches, and I know ho will be at the church, as I promised to lead him come money to go on the trump. We met the little boy. in Whitechapel, and took him to the arches in Commercial-street, and there we tied a handkerchief round his seek end ' done ' him, and I took the body where it was found." The inspector added that all their efforts to obtain a clue to the writ, r of the letter io question had been hitherto unsuccessful, and he considered it most potable that he was not yet aware ofthe prisoner's apprehension, or that the government had promised a pante n to any actors plico not be ing the actual murderer, se the printed handbills to that effect had only keen circulated a few days.—Mr. Arno:11 then asked the prieginer if be wished to add anything further to his statement, at the same time cautioning him that he war not bound to say anything unites he thought proper, and whatever he did say would lie taken down as evidence. —The prisoner (sullenly) : I know nothing at all alse.ut it. —Mr. Arnold then asked the prisoner if he had anything to urge against his re-committal u,,on the charge ? and the ark moner answered shortly in the negative. The prisoner was then remanded, and upon being removed to the cell, he requested to be furnished at first with writing n aterials, and upon Sergeant Sander takir.g temporary charge of him in the absence of the officer who bad previously done no, he entered into a minute and lengtheucd detail of the circumstances attending the transaction, and, it was understood, made certain other disclosures which it would not be prudent to divulge in the present stage of the investigation.
The Express. — 1848-02-24 (London, England)

ROME. Flu. It. I broke off my last letter at post hoar, in the very midst of a popular demonstration, which continued to a late peried of the ni4ht, and exhibited symptoms of unmistakeable deterciination to get the power of the state into respnsible Lands, and to exercise vigilant control over ministers. The rumour of Austrian occnpction of Tnseany, as well as of Parma and .Nlolena, has stirred up a spirit here of desperate rage and defiance. The Pope is not free from the ecucral feeling, and talked yesterday, in the event of their violating his frontier, of " mounting on horseback, proclahniug a religious war, and Munching an excommunication." This comes fi om parties not likely to misletul or exaggerate. Lord Shrewsbury has despatched to Home the Rev. Peter Connolly, an American priest (formerly of the church of England, whose wife has retired to a nunnery here), to meet with documentary evidence the various statements and quibbles by which the fact of indifference if not connivance at agrarian outrage and landlordicide on the part of certain " venerable" archdeacons, &e. &c., is sought to be palliated. Some remarkable passages about ie " aristocracy of the land," and the duties of subjects to the representative of royalty in Ireland, culled from O'Higgins, with tit-bits from the pond"... us verbosity of Mac Hale, will not a little r.stonhli due Vatican. Mr. Connolly is highly respected at I:).ne. The remarkable attendance of clerical mourners at the funeral of Brian Seery (who was hanged for a murderous assault on Sir Francis Ilopkins) is a feature in the business not forgotten. The French journal Le Taphole, which was ushered in with a flourish of trumpets to demolish English influence in Italy and It nne, has o:ed still-born. So, I am sorry to add, has the Tuscan Athenceam, which arose this year in Florence, stimulated by the growing success of the Roman Advertiser. However, there is an attempt to revive it under the title of Florence Record, to be managed by one " Captain Joussif," a person not likely to command much popularity. He is a sort of Florentine Joseph Ady, perpetually inserting advertisements holding forth lucrative and " genteel" employment to persons of unoccupied capital, a portion of which is of course to be safely deposited with him in the first instance. Galignani has felt it a duty to notice his doings, and several of his epistles have come to my cognisance' which warrant the strictures of the Parisian oreele ; but, like the quaker " accountant," the "captain" is as pachidcrmous to such shafts as any rhinoceros. Gibson has just shit fed for your ltoyal Academy Exhibition an " Aurora" of matchless grace and loveliness. It is accompanied by a "Lavinia" (Thomson's "Seasons"), by young Spence, a most promising sculptor. Both statues are commissions from the prince-merchants of Liverpool. licr Majesty has Just given orders that re second marble edition of her statue of last year shall be carved by Gibson, the destination of which is not known.