LIST OF TRIALS. (Part X)... This list is a follow up to the first release of execute.txt, listing executions carried out in England from 1606 to 1895 but may not be comprehensive. All the information contained here is extracted from the publication `HAYDN`S DICTIONARY OF DATES`, 21st Edition, to the Autumn of 1895. Published by WARD, LOCK, AND BOWDEN LIMITED 1895. As the list of trials is quite large, I have decided to split the topic into smaller, more compact files to make it easier to download. All files will have the title 'List of Trials. (Part *) * = part number. Where a figure is shaown as 20,000l: the l stands for Guineas, which equalled one pound and one shilling. E-Mail address: paul@yeoldesussexpages.co.uk The capital letters (MI) in the comments section mean that other information is available should it be required. Regulations for conducting trials were made by LOTHAIRE and EDRIC, kings of Kent, about 673 to 680. ALFRED the GREAT is said to have begun trial by jury; but there is good evidence of such trials before his time. Arrangements were made for much more speedy trials by "the Winter Assizes Act," 1876. This is a list of the more remarkable trials conducted at the dates mentioned and as with the list of executions, will not be comprehensive. Some of the names in this text file will also be found in the list of executions where sentance of death was given. NOTE: In order to be able to supply this text file as 'searchable text', I have to scan a copy of the page and resize it; OCR the file and then make whatever corrections are required as I lay the text in a readable format. The condition of the publication also makes it harder to get an excellent scan. As you can imagine, doing all this takes a lot of time and I have much else to occupy my time, so updates on this may well be periodic. Name & Deed Marquis of Abergavenny v. bishop of Llandaff, after much litigation, verdict for the bishop who had refused to induct the Rev. Robert W. Gosse into a living, being ignorant of the Welsh language 22 Feb , 1888 Major Borrowes fined 400l. and costs for assaulting his brother-in-law, lord Howard de Walden 10 March, 1888 Major Templer honourably acquitted of charge of divulging secret information concerning military ballooning, &c. 9 April, 1888 Mr. Samuel Peters v. Mr. C. Bradlaugh, M.P.,for libel respecting cheques given him by lord Salisbury and others for the relief of the unemployed; 300l. awarded to the p]aintiff 18 April, 1888 Warne & Co. v. Seebohm 10 May , 1888 Hutt and another v. The governors of Haileybuly college 19 June , 1888 Wood v. Cox 29 June , 1888 O'Donnell v. Walter and another (for libel in the Times); verdict for the defendants 2-5 July , 1888 Trials respecting electric light patents 1886-88 George and Kelynge Greenway, bankers, of Warwick and Leamington sentenced to imprisonment, &c., for frauds 31 July , 1888 R. P. B. Frost and his presumed wife, Annie Frost (clever and fascinating), who as Mrs. Gordon Bailie and other names, had carried on a long series of frauds at home and abroad by means of fictitious cheques, convicted of cheating tradesmen of goods and money; he sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonnment, with hard labour, she to five years' penal servitude 24 Oct , 1888 Anthony Isidor Glika sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for defrauding his employers, Messrs. Vagliano Bros., and the Bank of England, 71,500l., 27 June,-7 July ; in a subsequent trial the Queen's Bench Division adjudged the bank to bear the loss 2 Nov , 1888 NOTE: [Sentence confirmed by court of appeal, 21 May, 1889; reversed by the House of Lords, 5 March 1891.] Mrs. Weldon v. M. Riviere and others; verdict for defendants 15 Nov , 1888 Charles Richardson anb Edgell: who had confessed to burglary at Edlingham vicarage, near Alnwick, on 7 Feb. 1879; sentenced to five years' penal servitude 24 Nov , 1888 NOTE: [Michael Brannagham and Peter Murphy, who had been wrongfully convicted for this crime, and attempt to murder, had been sentenced to penal servitude for life, April, 1879; each received 800l. as compensation, Dec 1888; the police were acquitted of perjury, and doubts were thrown on the confession of Richardson and Edgell, Feb. 1889.] Lyster, Burdett, and Clarke convicted of burglary and attempt to murder Mr. George Atkin at Muswell Hill; sentenced to penal servitude for life 7 March, 1888 Mrs. Sophia Irwin v. Pall Mall Gazette for libel; damages awarded,1,000l. 9 April, 1889 Sir George Chetwynd v. the earl of Durham, for libels relating to racing transactions, the damages claimed, 20,000l. After some litigation and much discussion, the case was referred to the arbitration of the stewards of the jockey club, Mr. Jas. Lowther, M.P., the earl of March and prince Soltikoff; they awarded sir George Chetwynd 1 penny. damages, each person to pay his own costs 20 June , 1889 NOTE: [sir George Chetwynd, who was exonerated from the graver, but censured for the lighter charges, quitted the club, 5 July, 1889.] W. O'Brien, M.P. v. the marquis of Salisbury for libel in a speech at Watford, 10 March; charging him with inciting to crime in a speech at Ballyneale, near Clonmel, 30 Sept. 1888; damages claimed, 10,000l.; trial at Manchester; verdict for defendant 20 July , 1889 NOTE: [New trial refused by the queen's bench, 21 Dec. 1889; appeal disallowed, 8 May, 1890.] Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick charged with poisoning her husband, James Maybrick, at Aigburth, by arsenic, tried at Liverpool by Mr. justice Stephen; convicted 21 July-7 Aug.; sentence of death commuted to penal servitude for life 22 Aug , 1889 John Watson Laurie (at Edinburghj convicted of the murder of Edwin Robert Rose, his fellow traveller, in the Island of Arran (on 15 July), 8, 9 Nov. 1889; respited as of unsound mind, 28 Nov.; sentenced to penal servitude for life about 1 Dec , 1889 Rev. Percy G. Benson, vicar of Hoo, Kent, suspended from duty for one year for excluding Mrs. Swayne from the commumion, for schism, 25 Oct.; directed by the bishop of Rochester to receive her, yields . 29 Nov , 1889 Mr. Herbert J. Gladstone v. Colonel George B. Malleson, for libel in 'Allahabad Morning Post', damages awarded 1,000l. 16 Jan , 1890 Mr. Ernest Parke, sentenced to one year's imprisonment for libel against the earl of Euston in the 'North London Press' 16 Jan , 1890 Crewe murder ; Richard and George Davies, youths, aged 19 and 16, convicted of the murder of their father, Richard Davies, a clothier, on 25 Jan. while riding home in a pony chaise, 20, 21 March; Richard executed, George reprieved (penal servitude for life) 8 April, 1890 Miss Florence Jennie Day v. Mr. Morris Roberts, for breach of promise of marriage, Birmingham; damages awarded, 2,500l. 26 March, 1890 Miss Emily Mary Hairs v. sir George Elliot, M.P. (aged 75), for breach of promise of marriage; damages claimed 5,000l. ; jury disagree 18 April, 1890 Lord Dunlo (son of the earl of Clancarty) v. lady Dunlo and Mr. T. E. Wertheimer, six days' trial; divorce refused 30 July , 1890 Miss Gladys Knowles v. Mr. Leslie Duncan, proprietor and editor of the 'Matrimonial News', for breach of promise of marriage; damages awarded, 10,000l. 11, 12 Aug , 1890 Reginald John Birchall convicted of the murder of Mr. F.J. Benwell, 29 Sept.; executed 14 Nov , 1890 Capt. O'Shea's 'suit' against his wife, Mrs. C. 0'Shea, and Mr. C. S. Parnell, M.P.; divorce granted 15-17 Nov , 1890 Catherine Theresa Riordan sentenced to six years' penal servitude for attempting to kill Dr. James Frank Bright, master of University College, Oxford (6 Nov.) 15 Nov , 1890 Mr. R. Buchanan v. Mrs. Langtry, respecting a, non-accepted play; damages awarded, 150l. 21 Nov , 1890 Mary Eleanor Wheeler (otherwise Pearcey) convicted of the murder of Mrs. Pheobe Hogg and infant 1-3 Dec , 1890 NOTE: [Mrs. Whekler had been connected with her victim's husband, Frank S. Hogg, before their marriage; she invited Mrs. Hogg to her rooms at No. 2, Priory-street, Kentish-town, and there murdered her; she then in a perambulator conveyed the body of the mother to near Crossfield road, Hampstead, and that of the child to a field near Pinchley-road, 24 Oct. 1890, her motive appears to have been jealousy, executed 23 Dec. 1890.] Bellarmy v. Wells, proprietor of the Pelican Club, Gerrard-street, Soho, to restrain a nuisance by noise caused by boxing matches, concerts, &c.; justice Romer, in the chancery division, forbids the assembly of crowds and calling cabs between midnight and 7 A.M. 6 Dec , 1890 Thomas Macdonald, convicted on his own confesion of the murder of Miss Elizabeth Ann Holt, at Belmont, near Bolton 12 Dec , 1890 Mr. Harry H. Marks (editor of the 'Financial News') v. Mr. George Washington Butterfield, for libel respecting gold mines, verdict, not guilty; libel proved, but publication justified 8-17 Dec , 1890 Walter Alfred Hargan, tried for murder, convicted of manslaughter, for killing two roughs in Kingsland, London, N.E., in alleged self-defence; sentenced by Mr. justice Charles to 20 years penal servitude, 8 Sept.; commuted to 12 months' 17 Dec , 1890 Charles Lyddon, acquitted of the murder of his half brother, William Recks-Lyddon, of Faversham, who had been much ill-used 18-21 March, 1891 Baccarat case; sir William Gordon-Cumming v. Mr. and Mrs. Lycett Green and others, for slander, charging him with cheating in the game of baccarat, in the house of Mr. Arthur Wilson, Tranby Croft, near Doncaster, Sept. 1890; counsel for plaintiff, sir Edward Clarke; sol. gen. for the defendants, sir Charles Russell, and others; queern's bench division, lord Coleridge; evidence was given by the prince of Wales; verdict for the defendants 1-9 June , 1891 Coombs v. Barber and others, in relation to the Great Eastern Steamship company; queen's bench division; the case stopped; Mr. Barber exculpated from criminal charges 26 June , 1891 The Cathcart case; after 17 days' investigation, Mrs. Cathcart is declared to be of sound mind by Mr. Bulwer, a master in lunacy, and a special jury, and ordered to be released from custody 23 July , 1891 Mr. Francis Du Bedat, president of the Dublin Stock Exchangre, pleads guilty to charges of fraud relating to bankruptcy and breaches of trust; sentence, one year's imprisonment with hard labour, and seven years' penal servitude 20 Oct , 1891 The Rev. James C. Clutterbuck, D.C.L., an inspector of workhouse schools, convicted of obtaining money on false pretences, on his own confession; sentenced to 4 years' penal servitude; Wells [he died 18 Nov. 1892] 21 Nov , 1891 The petition of Mabel Edith, countess Russell, to the divorce court, for judicial separation from earl Russell, on account of cruelty, dismissed with costs 1-4 Dec , 1891 Pinnock v. Chapman & Hall, for libel in "West African Stories," by major A. B. Ellis; 200l. damages awarded 7-9 Dec , 1891 Miss Ethel Florence Elliot' (afterwards Mrs. Osborne) v. major and Mrs. Hargreaves, for slander in charging her with stealing jewels while their guest at Torquay, 9-18 Feb.; verdict by consent for the defendants 15-22 Dec , 1891 NOTE: [It was proved that Miss Eliiot sold the jewels to Messrs. Spinks, in Gracechurch street, for 550l., 19 Feb. that she cashed the cheque at the bank of Messrs. Glyn, Mills & Co., receiving gold, 23 Feb.; that through Messrs. Benjamin, of Conduit street, W., she changed gold for bank·notes, at the National and Provincial bank, in St. James's square, early in March; and that she endorsed one of these notes for 50l., and paid it to Messrs. Maple, which note was passed into the Bank of England. Information was given to the judge, Mr. Justice Denman, and the trial was suspended, 19 Dec. It was admitted by all the parties concerned that capt. Osborne, the plaintiff's husband, had acted throughout as an honourable and chivalrous gentleman. Mrs. Osborne, at her trial for larceny and perjury, was sentenced to 9 months' imprisonment, with some hard labour, 9 March ; released in the summer, 1892. The jewels were sold by auction for major Hargreaves for 1,076l., 29 March, 1892.] Mr: Alexander Jacob, a jeweller of Simla, charged at Calcutta by the Nizam of Hyderabad of criminally misappropriating 23 lakhs of rupees (above 100,000l.) deposited by his highness as earnest money for the purchase of the gem known as the "imperial diamond," after a long trial, was acqnitted 22 Dec , 1891 Nettlefold (limitedj, Birmingham screw-makers v. Reynolds, an American agent, for alleged infringement of patent; 14 days' trial; verdict for defendant with costs 22 Jan , 1892 Mr. George W. Hastings, M.P., misappropriating to himself, a trustee, about 20,000l.,the property of the children of Major John Brown, pleaded guilty ; sentenced to 5 years' penal servitude 11 March, 1892 ------END OF FILE-------