SALOMONS, MAYOR.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE,

Taken in Short-hand,

BY

JAMES DROVER BARNETT

AND

A LEXANDER BUCKLER,

Rolls Chambers, 89, Chancery Lane.

VOLUME XLIV.

SESSION VII. TO SESSION XII.

LONDON:

GEORGE HEBERT, 88, CHEAPSIDE.

WILLIAM TYLER, PRINTER, BOLT-COURT, FLEET STREET.

1855-6.

LIST OF JURORS.

First Jury.

Thomas Mears

George Burdon

Henry Norman

Alfred Webb Miles

Joseph Baker

Henry Augustus Bedwell

William Cox Bennett

Charles Powers

George Butterfield

Henry Peat

Gilbert Gray Manson

William Beavers

Second Jury.

Henry Stephen Matthewmam

Peter Steele

Vaughan Craddock

Samuel Mullett

Charles Dyson

John Over

William Nash

William Fletcher

Amherst Hawker Renton

George Richmond

William Mason

James Olivier

Third Jury

Thomas Knight

Richard Dumbrell

William Mavor

William Newman

George Miller

William Fletcher

George Oakeshott

Charles Bates

William Ecoleston

Samuel Mullett

Jain Over

William Nash

Fourth Jury.

John Page

John Prosser

Thomas Payne

Thomas Murray

Richard Dennis

James Hicks Gower

William Owen

Charles William Barber

James Biddle

James Rivett

James Olivier

Henry Ricketts

Fifth Jury.

Charles Ogle

William Martin

William Eccleston

George Oakshott

Jacob Ash

John Beard

Henry Pratt

Thomas Holmes

Jacob Mansell

George Mills

William Nicholson

Robert Mizen

Sixth Jury.

George Burdon

Joseph Clitherow

Henry Parsons

Henry Norman

Charles Powers

Edmund Peckover

George Mason

George Butterfield

James Avery

John Bruce

Henry Augustus Bedwell

James Rivett

Seventh Jury

Alfred John Mellish

John Mason

Alfred Nash

John Brazier

Edward Ryde

James Batchelor

Francis Reeves

Alfred Webb Miles

John William Beaver

Gilbert Gray Hanson

Charles Dyson

Joseph Raymont

Eighth Jury.

James Moorhouse

Samuel Barnett

William Belton

Joseph Clitherow

Robert Medway

Henry Pardon

William Cox Bennett

Jeremiah Ricketts

Vaughan Prescott

George Butterfield

Peter Steele

James Butler

THE

WHOLE PROCEEDINGS

On the Queen's Commission of the Peace,

OYER AND TERMINER, AND GAOL DELIVERY,

FOR

The City of London,

AND GAOL DELIVERY FOR THE

COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, AND THE PARTS OF, THE COUNTIES OF ESSEX, KENT, AND SURREY, WITHIN THE JURISDICTION

OF THE

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT,

Together with the ease of "WILLIAM PALMER," removed from the county of Stafford, wider the provisions of 19th Vict., c. 16.

HELD ON MONDAY, APRIL 7TH, 1856, AND FOLLOWING DATE.

Before the Right Hon. DAVID SALOMONS, Lord Mayor of the City of London; the Right Hon. John Lord Campbell, Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench; Sir Edward Hall Alderson, Knt., one of the Barons of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer; Sir Cresswell Cresswell, Knt., one of the Justices of Her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas: John Humphery, Esq.; Sir James Duke, Bart, M. P.; Thomas Farn-comb, Esq.; Thomas Sidney, Esq.; and Sir Francis Graham Moon, Bart., Aldermen of the said City: The Right Hon. James Archibald Stuart Wortley, Q. C., M. P., Recorder of the said City: Thomas Farn-comb Esq; Sir Robert Walter Garden, Knt.; David Williams Wire, Esq F. R. S; William Cubitt, Esq.; William Lawrence, Esq.; and Edward Eagleton, Esq., Aldermen of the said City: Russell Gurney, Esq., Q. C., Common Serjeant of the said City; and Michael Prendergast Esq., Q. C., Judge of the Sheriffs' Court: Her Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City, and Judges of the Central Criminal Court.

RICHARD HARTLEY KENNEDY, Esq., Ald.

WILLIAM ANDERSON ROSE, Esq., Ald.

Sheriffs.

DAVID HENRY STONE, Esq.

JAMES ANDERSON ROSE, Esq.

Under-Sheriffs.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

SALOMONS, MAYOR SEVENTH SESSION.

A star (*) denotes that prisoners has been previously in custody—two stars (**) that they have been more than once in custody—an obelisk (†) that they are known to be the associates of bad characters.

LONDON AND MIDDLESEX CASES.