The Express. — 1851-10-22 (London, England)

MAONTAATZS.) ATTEMPTING TO DIPHAUD THE SOUTH WESTERN RAIL WAY COMPANY.  IV. Wantell, 36, was indicted for having attempted to defraud the South Western Company of the sum of 201., under false pretences. Ile was also indicted for stealing several articles silver plate, the property of Joseph Hayden, banker, at Onildford. From the evidencri it appeared that the prisoner entered the service of Mr. Ilaydon about a month ago. After two or three days remaining at Guildford, he was sent to London to transact some business, and on his return to the railway station he went to the secretary's office, and said that he had lost his carpet bag, containing property worth 207. Inquiries were instantly instituted, and it being ascertained that the prisoner's story was doubtful, a police-constable was called in, and he was given into custody. Mr. Hayden was made acquainted with the facts, when he examined the plate, and missed two dessert foriss and other articles, some of which were found in the prisoner's possession. It was also ascertained that ho obtained the situation by means of a false character. The prisoner, who pleaded guilty, and threw. himself on the mercy of the court, was sentenced to be transported for 15 years.  A Dar.orn. CASE OF CHILD MURDER wits discovered in Wakefield on Monday. Shortly after 5 o'clock on the morning of that day one of the porters, named Jackson, employed at the railway-station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, went to his work as usual, for the purpose of seeing the government train despatched to Manchester, which leaves the Wakefield station at half-past five. A young man named Park, employed as a clerk in the telegraph office, wits also in attendance, and booked four persons to go by :the train, namely, men and two females. On the departure of the train, Jackson, as was his usual custom, went into the passage° leading from the railway yard and to the platform, where passengers were passengers were booked to go by the trains, and took away a ladder, and proceeded to extinguish all the gaslights. The passage at this time was perfectly clear ; but after an absence of tire or ten minutes he returned to deposit his ladder in its proper place, when he found a common blue band-box rather clumsily tied with cord, lying in the passage. He took up the box and carried it into the booking-office to show it to the other clerk, and their curiosity or suspicion being aroused by the weight and appearance of the band-hoz, they opened it, when they found it contained a child, wrapped up in a white cloth, with its throat cut from ear to ear, the head being almost severed from the body. The booking clerk states that about ten minutes after the departure of the half-past five o'clock train • man and woman came to the booking-office window, and requested to know if the train had gone to Thornhill. On learning that it had, and that there was nu other train until half-past eleven, they went away, and he saw nothing more of them until th, y were afterwards taken into custody, when he positively identified the woman as the person who made inquiries respecting the trains at the booking-office window. The man and woman are also identified by • porter, named Thomas Smith, who met them in the railway yard, on their way from the station, as be was going on duty, about twenty minutes before six o'clock. The porter, Jackson, swears that the box must have been placed in the passage while he was extinguishing the gas-lights, and if so, and the fact of the man and woman being at the station at the time fixes suspicion on them as being implicated in the diabolical transaction. The man and woman, whose names are James Doyle and Ann Smith, were taken into custody about seven o'clock the same morning. They were brought before the magistrates on Monday, at the Court-house, and remanded for a week, to give the polico an opportunity of obtaining further evidence respecting this mysterious transaction. The coroner's jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." "