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The Express. — 1867-12-31 (London, England)

SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER NEAR CHELMSFORD.  Considerable excitement was caused in the county town on Sunday as the congregations were leaving the various places of worship by the report that the body of an infant had just been found in the horse-pond, Springfield-lane, in such • condition as to leave little doubt that it had been murdered under circumstances of great brutality. Upon inquiry the report as to finding the body proved to be too true ; and there can also, we think, be little doubt that foul play has been practised, though it yet remains to be seen whether the evidence to be adduced at the inquest, which will take place at the Duke's Head, at 2 o'clock to-morrow (Wednesday), will be sufficient to justify a charge of murder. It appears that at half-past 12 on Sunday noon a man living on the wharf, named Benjamin Mead, in the employ of Mr. Samuel Turner, basket soaker, observed something floating in the pond, which, on closer inspection, he believed to be the dead body of • child. He at once acquainted the police with what be bad seen, and Sergeant Peagrain, with other officers, was soon on the spot, and the body having been got out was found to be that of a newly-born female child quite naked, except for a piece of sacking fastened by a cord round the waist, and in which were a brick and a bait brick, evidently intended to sink the body. The head was frightfully crushed, but the police think that this may perhaps have been caused by a cart or waggon wheel passing over it as it lay at the bottom of the pond, it being the frequent custom to drive through the pond in order to "water" horses. In the presence of a crowd which had speedily congregated, the body was removed to the Duke's Head inn, and Mr. 0. Copland was sent for, who, on attending, gave it as his opinion that the body had been in the water three or four days, and we understand he will snake • post mortem examination prior to the inquest to-morrow (Wednesday).— latex Herald.  The Sport says that the sale of the Grand Hotel and the Hotel du Louvre to an English company has not been effected, owing to the conditions of payment failing to be accepted. The English offered 21 millions of francs in cash and the balance in shares of a French company. The failure of the treaty is due to the rejection of the latter stipulation. The Paris committee of the Voltaire statue have decided by a majority to have an enlarged reproduction of the one by Hoodoo, the chef d'reurre which is placed at the entrance of the Comedie.Francaise. Messrs. Money Wigram and Son's ship Lincolnshire, Captain Henry Skinner, from Melbourne October that has passed through the Downs for London, brings 84,538 ounces of gold, 82 passengers, and a full general cargo, principally wool, wheat, and tobacco. She rounded Cape Horn November 8, and crossed the equator Deoember 2.  A ---
The Express. — 1867-11-01 (London, England)

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1867.  ATROCIOUS ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POLICEMAN.  About 11 o'clock last night Police-constable Thomas O'Brien, number 752 of the A Reserve, and mounted, was proceeding along Smeeton-lane, near Friern Barnet, when his attention was drawn to a match being struck close by a hay-stack, in the corner of a field. The stack was surrounded by railings. O'Brien dismounted and tied his horse to a gate. He then got over into the field, and approaching the stack be met two men and asked them what their business was there. They aid they were minding the haystack. O'Brien knowing this to be an unusual thing, requested them to get over the rails and let him see if he knew them. After some little hesitation they came over the rails and he noticed that one had a black leather portmanteau. The constable told them he should like to see what it contained. The man who was carrying it, said " There is the key (holding one out) for you, you can look for yourself." O'Brien said that would not do for him. They must open it, and then he would look. The man with the bag said he would see him in -- first, and would not be interfered with, and that he (O'Brien) had better do his own dirty wort. The constable said, then he must take him and his companion for being there for some unlawful purpose. He took hold of him, when his hat, as well as a wig, fell to the ground. His companion at this instant presented a pistol at, the officer, who let go of the first man and seized hold of the pistol with his left hand. He had no sooner done so than it went off and wounded the officer. He fell and could not see for some time. When he recovered his consciousness he could not see anything of the man. Ho went to the gate where be had left bis horse, and he found that had been taken. O'Brien went on along the road, screaming and shouting, but could make no one hear at a farmhouse close by. The place where the occurrence took place is a very lonely spot, and O'Brien, with much exertion, managed to get to some cottages about a quarter of a mile away. His shouts and cries awoke a carpenter named Simpson, residing in Tatterdown-cottages at Priem Barnet. Simpson at once took the wounded officer in, and with the assistance of Mr. Harvey, his landlord, as well as his wife, they bound up his left hand, which was in a shattered state and bleeding copiously. By this time the constable was in a very exhausted condition, and they gave him water and bathed his head. Stevenson then obtained a fly and took the poor fellow to Highgate policestation, where Dr. Forshall was sent foi, and was at once in attendance. He found the officer exceedingly low, and his left hand in a shattered state, so much so as to necessitate the immediate removAl of the fore-finger and the metacarpal bone. Mr. Forshall deemed the injury so severe, and the shock to the system so great, as to endanger the life of the officer.  LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGEN CE  (sr minium)
The Express. — 1867-03-15 (London, England)

FATAL FRACAS IN A WORKHOUSE.  Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, held an inquiry :it the Prince of Wales Tavern,Victoria-park, but evening, relative to the death from alleged violence, of Elizabeth :bed 81 years, an innate of Bethnal•grven Work. how.e.  The evidence of the witnesseswas given with a grotesque demlay of feeling. and it affonled • curious glimpse of the bitteniess of the feuds and jealousies existing amongst pee ons whose age and circumstances might have been expected to deprive them of all desire to render each other more misenible.  Elizabeth Trainer, an aged inmate, said that she knew the deceased for four years pact. On Saturday Mat, at h:df•µa*t •1 o'clock, the deceased was in the needle-room holding on to the Err•guard to warm herself. Sarah Charrison was airing a handkerchief at the fire, and to get more room the +truck the deceaaed four " digs" with her elbow in the side. and then put her list in her face. The deceased hot to be taken at once to the infirmary. (She died on the staircase.]. . .  Sarah Charrison, an infirm old woman. nearly NO years of age, said that the witness did not see her strike the deceased on the side. She told a parcel of lies. Susannah Gill gave an account of the matter similar to to that of the first witness. She said that Charriaun was avoided and shunned by everyone, for she was always quarrelling when people would not give her her own way. When witness said to her, " Ain't you ashamed of yourself to strike the poor old woman r she said, " I ain't ; I would have served you the same if you had been there." The deceased was in good health until she got the blows. She had just cleaned her shoes to go out on Sunday. She shoved Charrison's handkerchief away before the latter struck her.  Dr. E. H. Moore said that he was called to the deceased immediately after the affair in question, and he found her dead. She had ruptured an aneurism of the aorta ; the excitement and the blow most probably hastened the rupture. ....  Sarah Charrison add that she had no malice towards the deceased. Every one was ready to tell lies of her, and she was awoke by one of the inmates chat morning, and told she was a murderer, though she would not murder anyone if she could help it. She never murdered the deceased.  The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased came by her death accidentally from a push inadvertently given her by Sarah Charrison."  The Coroner and the jury suggested to Mr. Wakelin, the master of the workhouse, that it would only be buni.the to remove the old woman Chanison from the other women, who it was evident would now never let her have a mommit's peace. Mr. Wakelin said that be would endeavour to get her relief out of doors fora while, so as to let the affair blow over.
The Express. — 1867-01-15 (London, England)

AUSTRIA.  V !ENNA, TAN. 15.  The semi-official Vienna journal of this morning publishes an article censuring the agitation being carried on against the convocation of the extraordinary Reieharath. The article concludes thus :—`• The government abandons the ground of the February constitution simply because the present position of affairs allows solely of its theoretical maintenance. To advocate the February constitution is only to desire to defend masked absolutism."  The government has convoked an extraordinary Reichsrath, not because it wishes absolutism, but because it is anxious that the parliamentary co-operation of the representatives of the people should be resumed at the earliest possible period. In view of the opposition of political leaders who themselves declared the February constitution partially impracticable, but who nevertheless demand the execution of that which, according to their own declaration, they considered unfitted to restore constitutional rights to the people, no choice remains to the government but an appeal to the people themselves. It is asserted that Russia intends to appoint a consul at Lemberg, in Galicia, and that General Nerenzer will be nominated to that post.  room was smoking. instead of ringing fur his servant he got out of bed himself, to make up his fire, and being several minutes walking about in his nightshirt during a very coil night, he caught a cold, which settled on his lungs, and he died stiiled, not having strength to expectorate. M. Cousin, the academician, the philosopher, the translator of Plato, is dead, at the ligC of seventyfive. He was, during the greater part of his life, a Voltairean, but a great change is said to have come over him of late years, and the catholic church now claims him for her own. M. Cousin died at Cannes, where he had been for some time in a bad state of health.  Marshal Serrano, whose mysterious disappearance from Spain after his proscription by Narvaez has been mentioned, is hourly expected in Paris. lie is accompani,d in his flight by a nephew, who is one of his aides-de-camp. M. \'e•'a Armijo, once minister of Pimento wider O'Donnell, has already arrived in Paris ; and M. Bermudez de Castro, an ex-minister of State, who has safely reached Bayonne, will doubtless be here shortly. In spite of the intense frost there is a crowd of two or three thousand persons to be seen every morning at sunrise on the bleak plain of Vincennes hoping to see the execution, by shooting to death, of the two Corsican soldiers, sentenced to capital punishment for the Champerret murder. The Bourse was heavy. Rente fell 10c. for cash, and 1211 c. for account, closing at 69fr. 00c. in each case. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50c. This is the day of the general meeting, and in spite of the great ability which will be used to glaze over matters, the revelations likely to be made are expected with apprehension. Comptoir d'Eseompte fell ofr. 25c. The news of the subscription to the Spanish Loan brought out under the auspices of this society are far from brilliant. Italian rose 30c.
The Express. — 1863-07-22 (London, England)

TRIAL FOR MURDRR IRRLAND.—The trial of Mr. Burcham—Was he intoxicated' John Bodkin for the murder of Michael Benoon, which tom. I Wituess—Yee, sir, very much, and I believe he would menced before the Chief Baron at Mulliogar on Friday have done me a serious injury had not the prisoner come to morning, terminated on Monday evening in the disagree m Resistance. When they fell 1 rushed between them and mast of the jury, having lasted three days. The deceased told the prisoner to go away, as my husband seemed nearly WAS found deed on the 3rd of December last in his own stunned. He was brought into the house, and when he refield, his body mutilated, and his had broken almost to a covered he complained of pains in the bottom of his jelly. Sus-nee:in fell upon the Prisoner. He was arrested, stomach. and blood was found upon his clothes. There had been ill- Mr. Burelzarn—When they fell, do you think the prisoner feeling between him and the deceased about the management fell oo the top of your husband' of a farm belouging to a Ilia Coughlan,whichwassupposed to Witness-1 don't think be did, because when I ran to supply a motive fur the crime. &anon, who was an elderly them he was lying by his side. man, had been some months married to Mrs. Coughlan 's Mr. Burcham—Did your husband seem in much pain? daughter, but they did not seem to have agreed very well, Witness—Yes, sir. There was a complete stoppage and she was not living with him at the time of his death. ' inside, and the doctor attended him three times before he Thomas Moran swore that be had been repeatedly solicited I died. He was not able to paw any thing. by the prisoner to shoot Bannon, and had been supplied Mr. Bumham—Was his stomach distended? with a pistol for the purpose. (Me of the witnesses ex• , Witness—Yes, sir, very much, and he complained of amined was the prisoner's daughter, who deposed that her great pain there. father was out on the night of the murder, and that next • Mr. Burcham mid he had no doubt that by the violence morning she assisted in washing his trousers. While under .of the fall and the drunkeu habits of the deceased the examination she broke out into hysterical sobs, sod it was bladder was ruptured, and death was the result. some time before the could answer any questions. The pri- I The prisoner here said that he was as innocent of the soma said, " Don't cry, May, and with the blessing of God crime of causing the man's death as a baby. He knew I will be at home with you tonight." The jury were nothing at all of him or his wife, but be was going home locked up for some time, but as there was no likelihood of on Sunday morning, and in passing down the Mint be saw their agreeing they were discharged. I a man rush out of a house after a woman, and knock her Tun
The Express. — 1863-11-09 (London, England)

THE ADDRESSES OF LOYALTY FROM  LITHUANIA.  The Cuts publishes addresses to the National Government, signed by 249,646 inhabitants of Lithetnia, protesting against the measures adopted by Mouravieif in extorting from the nobility addreams of loyalty to the Czar. The following is a translation of the address from the palatinate of Wihut :  The inhsbitante of the palatinate of Wdas to the National  Government.  In the midst of the bloody war of independence against Buse* in which all classes of society in Lithuania take an heroic part, the Into marshal of the Wilna palatinate drew up an address to the Cm of Muscovy, expressing sentiments of loyalty on behalf of the nobility, after which the Muscovite authorities called upon the nobles to confirm this base document by their signatures. The noble-hearted men who by refusing to sign unfired the loss of their property, exile to Siberia, or a martyr's death, have already given to the world a glorious testimony of the means used by Muscovy in obtaining signatures. Their blood innocently abed, their boundless sacrifices. proved on the one band bow hfuscovy feels herself deprived of every lawful footing in Lithuania ; how, having no real rights, she Mires to invent imaginary ones ; and how she can only obtain these by the use of the most savage corm =Won— arid on the other hand, that addressee and signatures which are obtained by armed force, by threats of Siberia or the gallows, by murder, destruction, and imprisonment, lose all the significance they might otherwise have had. But even an apparent abandonment of the country's cause is painful to the hearts of Poles, in whom the love of their ' country has become almost a religion. We, therefore, the 11 undersigned inhabitants of the Wiles palatinate, both those who have been forced by Muscovy to sign this false document and those who have not yet been exposed to that dreadful trial, hereby protest officially against both the spirit and the letter of the address which has been forwarded to the Czar, and withdraw and proclaim to be null the signatures which have been extorted from us by force. We reject all connexion with Muscovy, which is opposed to our national spirit and the development of our civilization and the waste of the country. We renew our oath of fidelity to Poland, to whom we are united by an indissoluble bond, sworn to by our ancestors st Horadlo and Lublin, and confirmed by a mutual glory and happiness of five centuries, and our subsequent mutual sufferings. We wish to serve this our dear country until death, and we place for the recovery of her independence our persons, our possessions, and our blood at the dia. posal of the NationalOovernment,which is the only authority we recognise in oar country as lawful. We confirm this deehustioe by our signature, in the preen= of God, One is the Holy Trinity, and in the presence of our country and of Europe. Dieted the 13th (2.5 th) September, 1863.  Here follow 89,315 signatures, the authenticity of which is certified by the civil government of the palatinate of Wilna. The other addresses express similar sentiments.
The Express. — 1863-07-06 (London, England)

THE POLICE COURTS.  WORSHIP-STREET.  Brobams Ha//owes, 37, a very respectable-looking person, of military appearance, was charged before Mr. Cooke with violently assaulting Sarah, his wife. The complainant, whose right eye was frightfully bruised, gave her evidence manifestly in great distres, of mind. She said---On Friday night my husband returned home with me, being then, as usual, very much the worse for liquor. I begged that be would go to bed, bat had scarcely uttered the words when he struck me a heavy blow in the face with his fist, injuring my eye as it now appears. I fell to the floor, and when I was able opened the window and called for assistance. I don't know how many times he struck me. My right ear is also cut. 1 know that he struck me once as I lay oo theground. It is a common practice with him to beat me. Wehave been married four years, and during that time have occupied twenty different lodgings in consequence of his violent character. He says that he will not live with me, but allow me so much a week. A police-constable who entered the house, upon bearing screams of "Murder," said the defendant warlike a madman. He was without a coat, and his. shirt sleeves turned up; he was drunk, and talking incoherently. His wife was sober, crying bitterly, and bleeding from the eye. Defendant—She first picked a quarrel with me as we returned from seeing the Fairlop boats, and when at home renewed it. I did not touch her. She was in liquor, and fell against the latch of the door. Mr. Cooke—Your conduct is greatly aggravated, if such is possible, by your being, as I perceive, marked on the police-sheet as a lieutenant in the 18th Royal Irish —a position that might well be supposed to have taught you better than thus to treat a woman, and that woman your wife. I order you to find two sureties in 501. each to keep the peace towards her and others for the term of four calendar months. Henry Gee, the landlord of the Sidney Arms, in Finsbury Market, was summoned, at the instance of the Commission en of Police, for harbouring a police-constable while en duty. The constable was seen by a sergeant of police sitting in the parlour of the public-house at half-post 12 at night. The sergeant knocked at the door, and asked whether there was not a constable in the house. The defendant denied it, and the sergeant then obtained the assistance of two other policemen, returned to the house, and knocked for admittance for half an hour, when at length the door war opened. The defendant then admitted that a man was there, and the man was found in the yard. The magistrate considered this a very grave offence, as it not only kept the constable from his duty for so long • time, but it would also lead the constable to favour the landlord in his business. The constable would be dealt with by the Commissioners of Police, but he should fine the defendant 31.
The Express. — 1863-03-06 (London, England)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.  (Before Mr. Jostioa Williams.)  William Rigby, 24, greengrocer, was indicted for • cri • mind assault on Elizabeth Maciartby. Mr. Oppenheim prosecuted ; Mr. Collins conducted the defence. . _  It ap that the prisoner is • married man, with a wife three children, hying in Gurney-street, 1, oplar ; and the promentriz, a girl of 19 years of age, was their domestic servant ; and the assault was alleged by her to have been committed on Sunday, the Bth February last, during the absence of the prisoner's wife, and after the children bad been put to bed. The details were utterly unfit for publication ; and after a very disgusting inquiry, The jury, after a few momenta' consultation, returned a verdiot of Not Guilty. James Kingston, 19, gsafitter, was indicted for burslarionaly breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Edward George Chapman on the 12th February, with intent to steal therein.  Mr. Grantham conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was not defended by oouriseL The prosecutor is the landlord of the Buck's Heed Tavern, Stucley.terraoe, Hampstead-road, and it appeared that in consequence of • previous attempt to break into his promises the police were on the alert, and on the morning of the 12th February, about four o'clock, the attention of two active officers named King and Woolnoth was attracted by the sound of the smashing of glass in the rear of the premises. One of them called up the landlord, while the other kept watch at the bar ; and while doing so he saw the prisoner come from the back door and hide himself in the dust bin in the yard, where he was found and taken into custody. On being searched there were found upon him a piece of candle, • quantity of inciter matches, six keys, and • pair of broken scissors, which corresponded with marks found on the parlour window, which bad been forced. The interior of the parlour bore evident mark' of • burgiarious visit, and that the intruder had been disturbed in his operations by the alarm given to the prosecutor by the police. The prisoner protested his innocence of the charge, and stated that being out of work he bad gone into the dust shed to sleep, being without the means of laying for • bed. The jury found him Guilty, but recommended Dim to mercy. Mr. Justice Williams sentenced him to be kept to hard labour for one year. Catherine llama, who on the previous day bad been acquitted of the wilful murder of her child, but had bees convicted of the minor offence of concealing the birth, was brought up for jodgmeot. Mr. Justice Williams said the court was ready to act upon the recommendation to mercy with mhich the jury bad accompanied their verdict, and the sentence war that she be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for the space of six weeks. . . . . . .  John A !drill , 50, draper, whobad been convicted of having unlawfully concealed and made away with his property after he had been declared bankrupt on his own petition, with intent to defraud his creditors, was also brought up for judgment, sod sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 15 calendar months.