The Express. — 1867-06-10 (London, England)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.)  7h- June session of the Central Criminal Court was hy the Recorder, Alderman Hale, Alderman Sir F. Itoon..tlilerman Carter, Alderman Allen, and Alder. liesley, the Sheriffs, Uniler•Sheritfs, &c. first edition of the calendar contains the names of  • and hi female prisoners. Of this number 25 are , %matted from the city of London, 87 from Middlesex, Essex, Kent 8, and Surrey 18. The offences are clasdtie.l :—'Murder, 2 ; feloniously wounding, 5 ; • •... ; arson, ; burglary, tffi ; furgery, b ; horse steal,. larceny, SS ; letter stealing, 4 ; manslaughter, 1 ; •••.•ni.; counterfeit coin, bigamy. 1 perjury, em•,l,ll,ent, 3 ; misdemeanour, 7 ; and robbery, 4. Tht• Recorder, in his charge to the grand jury, observed 3 the calendar for the present sessions was rather heavy, some of the charges were of a serious description. Ti.a.• were two cases of wilful murder, besides some of oislaughter, and others of stabbing with intent to uirder. The first charge of murder was that of Eleanor i.. 1. to whom was imputed the wilful murder of her son, :...talc boy nine years of age. The case was of a most I,.nful character, but it was to be hoped that on an in...tigAtion before the court and a petty jury it would ;,,!pear that the priaoner at the time of the commission et tie• offence was not a responsible agent; but with that question the grand jury had nothing to do, and therefore it would be well if they returned a true bill, so that the natter might be fully inquired into, and means provided for the prevention of the accused being guilty of any similar act in future. The other case of murder was charged against a man named Moody, in which the evidence before the magistrate was somewhat contradictory. The death. that of a boy, the prisoner's son, resulted from injuries caused by burning, and the question for the grand jury would be whether the injuries were caused by accident or by the act of the prisoner. There was a charge of arson against two persons, named Bond and Nye, which would require some attention. Bond had been the tenant of a house which had been burned to long ago as the month of August last, : ndl for that he made a claim for 1501. on the insurance  . Oho., and stated that at the time of the occurrence he had I..ft the premises in the charge of a person named Noland, .nd this was the other prisoner Nye, on whose representations a portion of the claim was paid to Bond. It subseIneptly transpired, from information given by a female mined Hutchins, that there hail been a guilty act, in which :he prisoner had participated ; and hence the prosecution. The testimony of the woman Hutchins was open to suspicion ; but the grand jury would see whether in the main ,he was not corroborated by other evidence in the case. The learned recorder then directed the attention of the grand jury to charges against several persons arising ,ct of the tailors' strike. The charge was that of using threat, and intimidation to induce persons to quit the iervim of the master by whom they were employed. It vas clear now that workmen might legally combine together in order to obtain an advance of wages, but it ma equally clear law that if men so combining used :meats or committed acts of intimidation,they would be ..senable to punishment for an illegal act. The law had ma been distinctly laid down by the late Lord Chief Isties Tindal, in his charge to a grand jury at a special omission in which the present Lord Wensleydale and bcd I 'nutworth were associated with the learned judge, sal who concurred in the dictum laid down by him on the ..-iject. After a few general remarks the Recorder slimed the grand jury to their room for the commence-me of their labours.