Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1892-03-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE MURDER OF A LANDLADY IN  CUMBERLAND.  PRISONER SENTENCED TO DEATH.  fht Thursday, at the Cumberland Assizes, before Lsrd Chief Justice Coleridge, Joseph Wilson, quarryman, 23 years of age, was tried for the minder of Marion Graves Crossman, wife of a ri.:ner at Milion', at whose house he lodged. Toe evidence was to the effect that the prisoner bad had a' (retch" with Mrs Creasman about his Lo:akfast on New Year's Day. The husband Lad left home about half-past seven, and the prisoner Lad followed Mrs Crossman to a neighbour's Louse, where she had hidden in a coal-cellar from Lim. She left it on being observed by him, and some words passed about his breakfast not. being ready. They had some drink before leaving I .e neighbour's house, and after Mrs Crossman ! wit the prisoner said, " Someone will have thrir breakfast in two hours." He went back to the Loose and got down a gun, which he had . trought down Wire that morning, and, following Mrs Crosernan into the parlour, he shut her dead, her head being blown almost to pieces. The prisoner told the tie ghbours who assembled,"l might as well do it hs be done" The Bev. Mr Bird asked what had indwuri him to do it, and he : '1 won't tell you; she is happy, and I am happy. I know what I did it for.'—For the defence a plea of insanity was set up.—The father of the prisoner, a hawker at Kendal, stated that his wife was sulkiect to fits, end SEW out of her mind for sir months Lefore the birth of the prisoner.—Dr. Campbell, of Lariand's Asylum, and Dr. Lediard gave evidence efioning that the accused was of stunted growth Ited deucient both physically and mentelly.—The Judge having summed up, the jury found a verdict of t.uilty," and recommended him to mosey.— Jw4gia,', gimped 1---1,1*••17 prnsieUe knsd ekurgirliir2=-I'le cisc f fimth tip c usubi form.  Each of the candidates thanked the electors for their support, and Mr HEnuty proposed • vote of thanks to Mr Carrick, which Mr lino seconded.— Mr fledley then retired to his committee-rooms in the Town's Hall, when addresses were de. livered.  On Thursday, at Castle Eden Police Court, before She Bev. John Burdon, Thomas Goodhead, alum Clements, a miner, who stands committed for trial on the Coroner's warrant for the manslaughter of Evan Evans, miner, was placed in the dock charged with causing the death of the said Evan Evans. Superintendent Webster prosecuted. The evidence was She s.i.nie as given at the Coroner's enquiry held at Thornley on Friday last week. —Prisoner was committed for trial.  In the Queen's Bench on Thursday Captain Hyacinthe Daly Devereux, said to be the son of an Irish landowner, and formerly an officer in the British Army, sought to recover £l,OOO from }fours Clarke and Co., publishers of the Literary World, for an alleged libel published in that paper in June, in the review of a book, entitled, " Roughing it for Gold," written under the pseudonym of " Raz," but purporting to be a true account of the adventures of the plaintiff, the author, in America. The words complained of wore that Rux, by his own confession, was a most barefaced s.dmitted that Joe Trotter, in other words, plaintiff himself, was represented in the book as having obtained 2.50 dollars by Mary rooresantina