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The Sun. — 1853-03-04 (London, England)

TELLEB9.  noma] to be quent  and it kind o to con He she after t] be sent being prison of insa  a. The whole conduct of the prisoner proved it ), for it was well known that insanity was frer accompanied by an iMpUlse to commit murder,  was a common characteristic of a crime of this mmitted by a lunatic, that he made no attempt cal the truth, but frankly confessed his . guilt. uld adduce evidence to show that immediately e birth of the prisoner his mother was obliged to 1 to a lunatic asylum, and that she died there after an inmate for several years, and also that the from his youth upwards had shown indications. city'  -Car line Collier was then called. She said lam a married woman, and my husband_ is a corn-chandler at al Kens New Town. The prisoner is my brother. My mothe died at ' thelunatic asylum at Wanstead. She had been there sixteen years before her death. She had been confined three or four times. The prisoner is younger than I am. After his .birth my mother was a lost vtman. She was taken to the asylum about a year ad a half after that event. Her illness came on durin4 her confinement.- She had the puerperal .fever.. During . her two subiequent confinements it was necessary to take .her from home. - My brother occasionally called upon_ me ; kali- he has been a wanderer for twelve or fourteen years. As nearly as I can recollect, the last time I saw him was a month before phristplas ; that was at my house at Kensal New Town.l He did not stay at my house more than a quarter of an hour. He was very excited. His conversation was ulion the Roman Catholic religion. He said there were men after him who would kill him, whichever way he would go. He wandered -a long time about my door before he would come in on each oceasion that he visited me. I endeavoured to reason him out of his ideas. He said he considered himself superior to other persons, and that he would one day have a good deal of money, and be a gentleman. Cross-examined by Mr. Cools—l remonstrated with him for not working and living without a home. He did not appear to have sense enough to get a living, but continued to ramble about in idleness. I was in the habit of giving him occasionally one or two shillings. Re-examined—l could not reason him out of the idea that people were going to kill him. Mr., Cook having brieily replied, • • Lord Campbell summed up the evidence With great care aid minuteness. . J  The jury then retired, and, after being absent about ten minutes, returned a verdict of guilty. The iprisoner was called on for judgment. Lord. Campbell then sentenced the prisoner to be executed in the gaol of the county where the offence was committed, Essex.
The Sun. — 1853-03-03 (London, England)

LEFT SPEAKING.]  CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)  CHARGE OF MURDER. (Concluded from our First Edition.)  Mr. Sleigh then addressed the jury on the part of the prisoner, and contended that he, at the time he committed the offence, was not legally responsible for his actions. The case was entirely one of homicidal monomania. The whole conduct of the prisoner proved it to be so, for it was well known that insanity was frequently accompanied by an impulse to commit murder, and it was a common characteristic of a crime of this kind committed by a lunatic, that he made no attempt to conceal the truth, but frankly confessed his guilt. He should adduce evidence to show that immediately after the birth of the prisoner his mother was obliged to be sent to a lunatic asylum, and that she died there after being an inmate for several years, and also that the prisoner from his youth upwards had shown indications of insanity. _  Caroline Collier was then called. She said lam a married woman, and my husband is a corn-chandler at Kensal New Town. The prisoner is my brother. My mother died at the lunatic asylum at Wanstead. She had been there sixteen years before her death. She had been confined three or four times. The prisoner is younger than I am. After his birth my mother was a lost woman. She was taken to the asylum about a year and a half after that event. Her illness came on during her confinement. She had the puerperal fever. During her two subsequent confinements it was necessary to take her from home. My brother occasionallyjcalled upon me ; but he has been a wanderer for twelve or fourteen years. As nearly as I can recollect, the last time I saw him was a month before Christmas ; that was at my house at Kensal New Town. He did not stay at my house more than a quarter of an hour. He was very excited. His conversation was upon the Roman Catholic religion. He said there were men after him who would kill him, whichever way he would go. He wandered a long time about my door before he would come in on each occasion that he -visited me. I endeavoured to reason him out of his ideas. He said he considered himself superior to other persons, and that he would one day have a good deal of money, and be a gentleman. Cross-examined by Mr. Cook—l remonstrated with him for not working and living without a home. He did not appear to have sense enough to get a living; but continued to ramble about in idleness. I was in the habit of giving him occasionally one or two shillings. Re-ex amined—l could not reason him out of the idea that people were going to kill him. Mr. Cook having briely replied, Lord Campbell summed up the evidence with great care and minuteness.  The jury then retired, and, after being absent about ten minutes, returned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was called on for judgment. Lord Campbell then sentenced the prisoner to be executed in the gaol of the county wherd the offence was committed, Essex.
The Sun. — 1853-03-24 (London, England)

LIGHT AND COKE. COMPANIES. -LEEDS-MARCH 23. roughly. She screamed out " Murder ! " violently, and The commodore and other officers of this highly- occasionally of service, the committee have been unable to long. 29 W. . . . death which took place here in the nver two or three went to the window! when the defendant called to the ' popular club have been re-elected for the ensuing year persuade themselves that it would not lead to greater disas- The Shenandoah, for Philadelphia, Feb. 23, lat. 42, , • Dividend Amount STOCK ExCHAN GE. The share market dent hums in days ago Name of Company. per of much the same state as for some da • • t Very little man-" Smith, let her go," and she smashed several - - ' the fixtures of matches have been made, and a multipli. tors than it conk:, on any view of the matter, prevent. long. 59. Anaum. Share. Paid. ' Price b • • • ys pas . ut 1 • anness is domg, and rices from da to da show b Mr. John Comby agreed that disease of the lungs was Unless the guards and engine-drivers had orders to stop the The Dunbrody, Liverpool to Savannah, Feb. 21, lat. 25, 13 a" y squares of glass in the window. city of other b • • ' usiness of the most lively interest to the -,!----- _______' shght variation. Compared with yesterday, the quotations the proximate cause of death. Witness examined de- - de a signal the privile e lone 67 train whenever a passeng,er ma , . g ,b. . . , Mr. Corrie, at this stage of the proceedings, addressed - yachtsmen disposed of. The first match is appointed for • -\£s.d. x s, ci. 1--- of this morning are rather better. The following are the ceased's scalp, and found two nodes on-the skull, one toN 01 Fb 9 lat 19 N, would be useless to the latter. It, however, requires little The China, London ew r eans, e . , _ _ Mr. Clarkson, and suggested that some amicable ar- Tuesday, the 31st of May the next for Thursday the - ' a British ••••••• • • • • • •• - _ closing transaations :-South Eastern and Dover, 2312 three inches long and two wide on the right side, and - ' acquaintance with railway travelling to be convinced that long. 49 W. rangement might be made between the parties. 16th of J ' une. The 30th of that month had been the day 51. 20 0020 0 0 in 23 York and North Midlands, 294 ; Lancashire and Yor ' Mr. Clarkson said that his highly respectable client, hi g another somet 'n less on the left. They were filled originally named, bat as the Royal Thames Yacht Club its dangers would be greatly increased if the train were to - k. Brighton •••••• •• • • •' be stopped wherever and whenever a passenger, under the .
The Sun. — 1853-02-16 (London, England)

RYLEBONE.—M ary Anne Griffin, aged 22, was charged with having murdered her male infant, by cutting its throat. The prisoner, who was evidently in a very weak condition, was allowed to sit during the inquiry. Having lately lost her father, she was attired is black, and when told what the charge against her was, as it appeared on the police-sheet, she burst into tears, and buried her face in her hands.  Frances M'Claughrey, on being sworn, said—l am nursemaid at W. Hart's, Esq., 7, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-gardens. Prisoner was in the same service, and slept with the cook. On the 27th of January, in the morning, I bad been doing needlework with prisoner in her room, and at one o'clock I left her to go down to dinner. I asked her to some down. She was then in my master's bedroom, and she said she would be down in a minute. She, however, did not make her appearance during the meal. When I went up again to her bedroom I saw her standing by the fire, and asked her why she had not come down, to which she replied that she was not well. I left her and went to Mr. Hart's room, and at a later period I went to prisoner again. I asked her how she was, and she said that she should be better soon ; she was then sitting in a chair. I sat beside her, and in a few minutes she got up and went to a chest of drawers, against which she stood and seemed ready to faint. I led her to the bedside, and heard a noise which seemed to come from the prisoner's box ; it was like a gurgling in the throat of a child. I said to the prisoner, " What's that noise ?" and the answer she made me was, "Oh I it's only my inside." She got up from the bed and went into the next room, and I still heard the same noise coming from the box. I went down for the lady's maid, who came up with me directly, and we both went into the prisoner's room. The noise I have spoken of continued, and the lady's maid asked for the key of the box. Prisoner gave it to her, and on her opening it, I saw an infant wrapped up in two petticoats. There were also several towels ; and upon the whole of the articles I have named there was a considerable quantity of blood. The lady's maid asked her what she had been doing, and she told her that she had miscarried. She (the lady's maid) took the child out of the box, when its head fell back, and then I saw that it was bleeding from a wound in the throat. The lady's maid screamed, and instantly the prisoner seized hold of a pair of scissors, with which she attempted to stab herself in the neck. We took the scissors from her, and I went down to my mistress. A doctor was sent for. On the following Monday the prisoner and the baby were conveyed to the Paddington workhouse. Behind the prisoner's box I found another pair of scissors, upon which were marks of blood. It was stated that the child lived until Thursday last, notwithstanding the serious nature of the wound. The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was remanded.
The Sun. — 1853-04-27 (London, England)

ITALY.  A telegraphic dispatch from Turin, dated Monday, says :—" In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, M. Brofferio put some questions to the Ministry on the subject of the seizure of journals lately made at Genoa. The Ministers of Justice and the Interior replied, and maintained the legality and the opportunity of the measures which had been adopted. The Chamber passed to the order of the day pure and simple." The Piedmontese Gazette of the 23d has the following article in its first column " T,,e Milan Gazette of the 20th quotes an article from the Sentinella Cattolica of Nice, of the 13th' respecting a pretended stay of Garibaldi at Nice, and imaginary connivance at it on the part of the authorities whose duty it is to provide for the safety of the State. Before the said article was repeated by the Milan Gazette, the Government of the King had considered it its duty to inquire who was the author of it, and having learnt his name, to invite bins to declare what proot's or what circumstances he had in support of his allegations ; upon which he confessed that his statement was solely founded upon vague rumours, the origin of which lie could not even point out. One fact alone alleged in that article is true, substantially at least. A British schooner did indeed pass a few days in the port of Nice, and when she dot under weigh she fired off five guns at about a mile's distance from the port, for the purpose of saluting a joyous company who were at supper, and with whom the captain of the schooner had passed the evening. The schooner belongs to one of the members of the British Yacht Club." The Giornale di Roma of the 19th contains a notice from the Peruvian Legation at Rome, announcing that orders have been received to have an equestrian statue of General Bolivar executed for that government, besides twelve statues more, and inviting artists to address themselveS to the Embassy for further particulars. A letter from Naples, dated March 24, stating that news had been received there of a soldier having been murdered at Palermo, and that to the dagger with which he had been stabbed was attached a paper with the words, " Vengeance of Mazzini," that a great number of arrests had been made, that five persons had been immediately shot, and that General Filangieri, the Governor of Palermo, had published proclamations announcing severe measures for the repression of any attempt at insurrection, which was published rather more than three weeks ago in one of the Paris journals. The Constitutionnel now publishes a letter from Palermo, dated the 15th, and signed Caldareira, in which the writer asserts that the murder spoken of was never perpetrated, and that no proclamations of the nature alluded to had been published. All that was true in the letter of the 3d, says M. Caldareira, was the fact that arrests had been made of some conspirators against the Government. Four of them were condemned to death for having concealed arms, but the king almost immediately granted their pardon.
The Sun. — 1853-04-27 (London, England)

ITALY.  A telegraphic dispatch from Turin, dated Monday, says :—" In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, M. Brofferio put some questions to the Ministry on the subject of the seizure of journals lately made at Genoa. The Ministers of Justice and the Interior replied, and maintained the legality and the opportunity of the measures which had been adopted. The Chamber passed to the order of the day pure and simple." The Pi-edmontese Gazette of the 23d has the following article-in its first column " The Milan Gazette of the 20th quotes an article from the kFentinella Cattolica of Nice, of the 13th, respecting a pretended stay of Garibaldi at Nice, and imaginary connivance at it on the part of the authorities whose duty it is to provide for the safety of the State. Before the said article was repeated by the Milan Gazette, the Government of the King had considered it its duty to inquire who was the author of it, and having learnt his name, to invite him to declare what proofs or what circumstances he had in support of his allegations ; upon which he confessed that his statement was solely founded upon vague rumours, the origin of which he could not even point out. One fact alone alleged in that article is true, substantially at least. A British schooner did indeed pass a few days in the port of Nice, and when she got under weigh she fired off five guns at about a mile's distance from the port, for the purpose of saluting a joyous company who were at supper, and with whom the captain of the schooner had passed the evening. The schooner belongs to one of the members of the British Yacht Club."  The Giornale di Boma of the 19th contains a notice from the Peruvian Legation at Rome, announcing that orders have been received to have an equestrian statue of General Bolivar executed for that government, besides twelve statues more, and inviting artists to address themselves to the Embassy for further particulars. A letter from Naples, dated March 24, stating that news had been received there of a soldier having been murdered at Palermo, and that to the dagger with which he had been stabbed was attached a paper with the words, " Vengeance of Mazzini," that a great number of arrests had been made, that five persons had been immediately shot, and that _General Filangieri, the Governor of Palermo, had published proclamations announcing severe measures for the repression of any attempt at insurrection, which was published rather more than three weeks ago in one of the Paris journals. The Constitutionnel now publishes a letter from Palermo, dated the 15th, and signed Caldareira, in which the writer asserts that the murder spoken of was never perpetrated, and that no proclamations of the nature alluded to had been published. All that was true in the letter of the 3d, says M. Caldareira, was the fact that arrests had been made of some conspirators against the Government. Four of them were condemned to death for having concealed arms, but the king almost immediately granted their pardon.
The Sun. — 1853-04-27 (London, England)

ITALY.  A telegraphic dispatch from Turin, dated Monday, says :—" In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, M. Brofferio put some questions to the Ministry on the subject of the seizure of journals lately made at Genoa. The Ministers of Justice and the Interior replied, and maintained the legality and the opportunity of the measures which had been adopted. The Chamber passed to the order of the day pure and simple." The Piedmontese Gazette. of the 23dthas the following article in its first column : " The Milan Gazette of the 20th quotes au article from the Sentinella Cattolica of Nice, of the 13th, respecting a pretended stay of Garibaldi at Nice, and imaginary connivance at it on the part of the authorities whose duty it is to provide for the safety of the State. Before the said article was repeated by the Milan Gazette, the Government of the King had considered it its duty to inquire who was the author of it, and having learnt his name, to invite him to declare what proofs or what circumstances he had in support of his allegations • upon which he confessed that his statement was solely founded upon vague rumours, the origin of which he could not even point out. One fact alone alleged iu that article is true, substantially at least. A British schooner did indeed pass a few days in the port of Nice, and when she got under weigh she fired off five guns at about a mile's distance from the port, for the purpose of saluting a joyous company who were at supper, and with whom the captain of the schooner had passed the evening. The schooner belongs to one of the members of the British Yacht Club." The Giornale 'di Boma of the 19th contains a notice from the Peruvian Legation at Rome, announcing that orders have been received to have an equestrian statue of General Bolivar executed for that government, besides twelve statues more, and inviting artists to address themselves to the Embassy for further particulars. A letter from Naples, dated March 24, stating that news had been received there of a soldier having been murdered at Palermo, and that to the dagger with which he had been stabbed was attached a paper with the words, " Vengeance of Mazzini," that a great number of arrests had been made, that five persons had been immediately shot, and that General Filangieri, the Governor of Palermo, had published proclamations announcing severe measures for the repression of any attempt at insurrection, which was published rather more than three weeks ago in one of the Paris journals. The Constitutionnel now publishes a letter from Palermo, dated the 15th, and signed Caldareira, in which the writer asserts that the murder spoken of was never perpetrated, and that no proclamations of the nature alluded to had been published. All that was true in the letter of the 3d, says M. Caldareira, was the fact that arrests had been made of some conspirators against the Government. Four of them were condemned to death for having concealed arms, but the king almost immediately granted their pardon.
The Sun. — 1853-09-21 (London, England)

ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—Edward Butler, aged 39, described as a labourer, was indicted for feloniously casting and throwing John Thomas into the Rivet Thames, with intent to kill and murder him. The prisoner pleaded "Not Guilty." Mr. Robinson appeared tor the prosecution, and gr. O'Brien defended the prisoner. Mr. Robinson, having opened the case to the jai, proceeded to call the following evidence : John Thomas :I am the acting mate of the gent steamer, which carries passengers acro,s the river to and fro at Woolwich, from the Eastern Counties Railway Saturday night, the 20th of August, we had some pleted our last trip for the day to the Essex side of the river, and, after all the passengers had landed, 013served the prisoner loitering about the bows of the vessel. I said to him, " Now, then, if you please, g° ashore," but the prisoner did not make me any further answer than that he'd be d—d if he would ; nor did he move off as he was requested. At this moment the captain of the vessel requested me to go aloft and make her fast, and while I was stooping to pick up a coil of rope the prisoner came behind me, and, lifting me uP by the legs, he deliberately threw me overboard. Fortunately, however, in the fall I caught hold of the outer rail °I the vessel and escaped falling into the water, but the prisoner perceiving my situation, began striking 0.17 hands and fingers, and I was compelled to call out lustily for help. At length Mr. Allen, the captain of the vessel' came to my assistance and I was dragged on bogy' again, but not before the prisoner had resisted the eaP; taM, and threatened to serve him the same as be had served me. The tide was up at the time, running very fast, and if I had dropped I should have fallen into twenty feet of water. Cross-examined—The prisoner was not so drunk at the time as not to know wha.:-, he was about. I had never seen him before this night, nor did I know who or whrt he was.  Captain Allen, the master of the ♦essel, confirmed the evidence of the previous witness.  Cross-examined—The prisoner appeared to have been drinking, but he knew perfectly well what he was about• He was a total stranger to witness. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. O'Brien was proceeding to address the jury for the defence, but failed to make out the intent alleged, when he was interrupted by Mr. Baron Martin, who told the jury that if they did not believe the intention of the prisoner was to murder the prosecutor, they would have no alternative but to acquit him on this indictment. The Jury, however, were not satisfied upon this point, and therefore  Mr. O'Brien proceeded with his address upon it, and insisted that the intent was not made out. Mr. Baron Martin summed up, and. The Jury retired from the box, and, after a lengthened consultation, returned into court with a verdict of Not Guilty.  The prisoner was detained for the purpose of being indicted for a common assault.