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 shown 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 Maitland Francis Morland, a law tutor at Cambridge, not connected with the university, charged with sending threatening letters to extort money, pleaded guilty; sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude 11 March, 1892 Miss Mary E. T. Knox v. canon Hayman, D.D., and co-directors of the Canadian Pacific Colonization corporation; verdict for plaintiff; to be repaid 258l., the amount claimed 25 March, 1892 Concha, pauper, v. Concha and wife; a series of intricate suits respecting property, which commenced in 1858, closed by tha house of lords varying the decision of the court of appeal, 28 March, 1892 Frederick Charles, Victor Cailes, John Westly, William Ditchfield, Joseph Deakin, and Jean Battolla, anarchists, tried for unlawfully possessing explosive substances (with evil intentions) at Walsall, 1 Nov. 1891-7 Jan.; Charles, Battolla, and Cailes, at Stafford, sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude, Deakin to 5 years penal servitude, Westley and Ditchfield acquitted 30 March-4 April, 1892 Hansard Publishing Union, sir Henry and Mr. Joseph M. Isaacs, Mr. Charles Dollman, Mr. Horatio Bottomley, directors, charged with defrauding the company and applicants for shares;11 days' examination; committed for trial 6 April, 1892 NOTE: [Trial, 24 days ; against sir Henry Isaacs and Mr. Joseph Isaacs no case, 20 April; Mr. Dolllnan and Mr. Bottomley acquitted; Mr. Justice Hawkins and the jury urgently affirm the necessity of amendment of the law relating to the directors of public companies, 30 Jan-28 Feb.; 17-26 April, 1893.] Mr. Lane Fox v. Kensington Electric Lighting company for infringement of patent; verdict for defendant with costs 30 March, 1892 Mrs. Montagu sentenced at Dublin to one years' imprisonment for cruel manslaughter of her daughter, aged 3 years 4 April, 1892 David John Nicoll, journalist, sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for inciting persons to murder Mr. H. Matthews, the home secretary, and others, by writing in the 'Commonwealth', condeming the punishment of the Walsall anarchists (Jan.) 6 May , 1892 Walter (the 'Times') v. Steinkoppf (the St. James's Gazette), to restrain the copying of articles;verdict for plaintiff with some of the costs 13, 17 May; 2 June , 1892 Mr. Henry de Vere Vane's claim to the ancient barony of Barnard in Durham vacant by the death of the duke of Cleveland; granted by the house of lords 30 May , 1892 Mrs. Carlill v. the Carbolic Smoke Ball company, claiming 100l., whichl the company engaged to give to any person who had tried the smoke ball as a preventive of influenza, without success (by advertisement 13 Nov. 1891); verdict for plaintiff 4 July , 1892 Mr. Bottems, contractor v. corporation of York; the court of appeal decides (against the plaintiff) that the terms of a ruinous contract must be fulfilled 16 July , 1892 "International Society of Literature, Science and Art " started Dec. 1890; 4 days' trial for frauds ; sir Gilbert E. Campbell, bart., sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for conspiracy; William James Morgan and Joseph S. Tomkins (organizers) 8 and 5 years, for fraud; William H. Steadman, 15 months; David Tolmie, 6 months ; Charles M. Clarke, 4 months 27 Sept , 1892 Margaret J. Smith sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude for forging a deed, in which she claimed part of the property of the late Mr. Park; her accomplices : William Micklethwaite, 7 years; John Paul, 5 years; Thomas Allistone, 12 months; Sarah Ingram, 6 months 27 Sept , 1892 Thomas Neill, alias Cream, M.D. Am., convicted of the murder of Matilda Clover (an unfortunate)by strychnine, at 27 Lambeth road, on 20, 21 Oct.; 17-21 Oct. 1891 ; executed 15 Nov , 1892 NOTE: [He was accused of the murder of 3 other women.] Mrs. Claudine Olivia Leader (wife of lieut. H. P. Leader) v. Mrs. Eleanor C. Smyth (wife of major general J. G. Smyth), for slander, in accusing her of stealing a diamond brooch; Mr. Justice Day, Queen's Bench ; Mr. Lockwood for plaintiff; sir Edward Clark for defendant ; verdict for plaintiff, 500l. damages 1-4 Nov , 1892 NOTE: [For comments adverse to the plaintiff in the 'Morning', 31 Oct., 1 Nov., Mr. Bennett, editor, was fined 100l., and Mr. Boyle, publisher, 50l., 2 Nov.] Manslaughter of Dr. William P. Kirwan, 12 Oct., at Whitecross-st., S.E.; Edward Waller and Charles Balch sentenced to penal servitude for 20 years; John James Noble to 14 years 18-19 Nov , 1892 Mr. Charlewood, registrar to the bishop of Manchester v. the rev. J. P. Foster, for libel; verdict for plaintiff, 200l. damages 26 Nov , 1892 Will of Miss Ellen Roe, sometimes a lunatic, sustained against medical opinions 9 Dec , 1892 Mr. Harry Parminter (a promoter of the unsuccessful Edison phonographic toy and automaton company) v. London stereoscopic company, for alleged slander; verdict for defendants, with costs 13 Jan , 1893 Rev. Wilding v. canon Hayman and Mr. Fortescue Harrison (similar case to that of Miss M. E. T. Knox, 25 March, 1892) ; verdict for plaintiff, 450l. 23 Jan , 1893 Messrs. Samuel Hope Morley and Arnold Morley, executors of their brother Henry Morley (epileptic), who, when insane, committed suicide v. Mr. William H. Loughnan, and his brothers, Alfred and Henry Loughnan, members of the "close order " of the Plymouth brethren, and Mr. Charles Sleeman, not called, to recover about 14o,000l., alleged to have been obtained at various times by undue influence; 7 days' trial; painful evidence; verdict for the plaintiffs 27 Jan , 1893 Coxon (family) v. Mrs. Schofield; the voluntary settlement in 1879 on a boy, falsely asserted by Mrs. Schofield to be the son of herself and her late husband, F. C. Coxon (killed while hunting, March, 1877), set aside, and the money received by her ordered to be repaid to the Coxon family; Chancery division 26 Feb , 1893 Charles Wells, engineer (a large winner at Monte Carlo), for fraudulently obtaining money (about 30,445l.) for bogus patents; sentenced to 8 years' penal servitude 9-15 March, 1893 Lord Howard de Walden's suit for divorce from his wife rejected, and judicial separation granted to her and Custody of the child 8-II March, 1893 Worth (the celebrated Paris costumier firm, established 1858) v. Mrs. Bradley, for inserting in her advertisement "Worth et Cie;" compromise 17 March, 1893 Edward S. W. de Cobain sentenced to 1 year's imprisonment for gross misdemeanour at Belfast 21 March, 1893 Liberator building society; trials, 17 March et seq.; James W. Hobbs and Horace Granville Wright sentenced to 12 years' penal servitnde for forgery, and to 5 years (concurrently) for fraud; George Newman to 5 years for fraud 27 March, 1893 The dowager duchess of Sutherland ordered to pay a fine of 250l. and costs, and to be imprisoned for 6 weeks, for contempt of the probate division in burning a letter brought to her for inspection (on 12 April); 18 April; arrested 21 April, 1893 Hansard publishing union (see April, 1892); trial closed 26 April, 1893 Charles T. Gatty v. Henry R. Farquharson, M.P. for W. Dorset, for libel ; queen's bench ; damages awarded 5,000l., 20 June ; appeal 21 June , 1893 The dowager duchess of Sutherland v. the duke of Sutherland, respecting leases; her case dismissed 21 June , 1893 Aime H. Meunier convicted of the murder of Charlotte Pearcey, aged 71, at Longeye, near Bromsgrove, on 13 Jan. 28 June , 1893 Mr. Hormuzd Rassam v. Mr. E.A. Budge, for libel and slander in 1891 ; verdict for plaintiff ; damages 50l. 28 June-3 July , 1893 Dr. Edwin W. Alabone v. Mr. Henry E. Morton, at first associates, afterwards rivals in professings to cure consumption by bogus remedies; verdict for plaintiff; Mr. Justice Wright hopes that further legal notice will be taken of the case in regard to both parties 8 July , 1893 Mr. J.H. Wilson, M.P., general secretary of the Seamen's and Firemen's union v. Spottiswoode and another, for libel in the 'Shipping Gazette'; verdict for defendants 26 July , 1893 Messrs. Allan & Co., steamship owners v. Mr. J. H. Wilson, M.P., for libel in a handbill and pamphlet ; damages awarded to the plaintiff ; 200l. 9 Aug , 1893 Daniel Phelan and his wife Constance sentenced to 6 and 9 months' penal servitucle for brutal cruelty to their 2 children, aged 3 years and 21 months, Chester 19, 20 0Ct , 1893 Miss J. Mighell v. the sultan of johore Nov , 1893 James Barber Edwards (a trustee), 76, pleaded guilty of defalcation of 70,000l. ; sentence, 8 years penal servitude 21 Nov , 1893 Paul Joly, aged 25, and celestan Joly, aged 17 (French), sentenced to 20 years' and 5 years' penal servitude respectively, for extorting 650l. from Mr. Pardoe, of Brighton, by threats of false accusation 29 Nov , 1893 Alfred John Monson tried at Edinburgh for the murder (or attempt) of lieut. W. C. Hambrough, at Ardlamont, Argyleshire, in Aug. ; a mysterious case connected with insurance; verdict, not proven 12-22 Dec , 1893 Zierenberg and wife v. Labouchere, for libel in 'Truth' respecting St. James' home for female inebriates, charging the plaintiffs with cruel tyranny; 20 days' trial; verdict for defendant 13 Dec , 1893 The Nobel's Explosives company v. Dr. Anderaon 30 Jan. 14 Feb , 1894 Martin & wife v. trustees of British museum 27 Feb , 1894 Trial respecting the collision of the 'Ibis' and the 'Fortuna'; 6 days; verdict, not caused by wilful action of Henry Rumbell or incitement of Mr. Henry Smethurst 19 March, 1894 Anarchists possessing explosives; Farnara sentenced to 20 years' and Francis Polti to 10 years' penal servitude 4 May , 1894 New Zealand loan and Mercantlle agency company in chancery April-May , 1894 Hopegood v. French (will case); 7 days' trial; settled by arrangement 5 June , 1894 The case of the duke of Sutherland and the dowager duchess in the probate division settled by arrangement 7 June , 1894 Mr. Henry J.B. Montgomery (author of 'The British Navy', published in 1885-6) v. prof. Laughton and others, for libel ; Mr. Montgomery's book is described in prof. Laughton's article in the 'Army and Navy Gazette' as "a mass of impudent and scurrilous falsehoods ;" verdict for the defendants; with costs 12 June , 1894 Ella Gillespie, nurse, sentenced to 5 years' penal servitude for cruelty to children in the Hackney workhouse school at Brentford 20 June , 1894 Miss Trebelli-Bettini v. the Royal Academy of Music; Madame Trebelli's will, bequeathing property to the academy, affirmed, with recommendations ; 10 days' trial 28 June , 1894 Paul Koczula and George Schmerfeld accessory (respited), sentenced to death for murder of Sophia F.M. Rasch, Beeper of arestaurant in Shaftesbury-avenue, 28 July; Koczula, executed 14 Aug , 1894 Trial of 30 anarchists begins 6 Aug , 1894 James Canham Read (very depraved), for murder of Florence Dennis, one of his victims, at Prittlewell, Southend, 24 June ;Chelmsford, 12-15 NOV.; executed 4 Dec , 1894 Mr. George Edward Brock, Mr. George Dibley, Mr. Morrell Theobald, major John Thomas Wright and Mr. Frank M. Coldwells, died 29 July, 'the Balfour group" directors of Liberator building Society and the Lands allotment company, &c., prosecuted for conspiracy and fraud, 11 Feb. 1895; committed and bailed 4 April, 1895 Patrick A. Chance v. William O'Brien, M.P., for debt; verdict for plaintiff, 407l. os. 11d. 14 Feb , 1895 Henry Frederick Nash, secretary of Bayswater and Kensington building society, pleads guilty of misappropriating 196l. 17S. 9d.; sentenced to 5 years' penal servitude 26 March, 1895 The marquis of Queensbery charged with publishing a libel against Mr. Oscar Wilde, author; acquitted, the case being withdrawn 3-5 April, 1895 Mr. Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor tried for misdemeanours, 19 April; partial acquittal; jury disagree; new trial ordered, 1 May; Mr. Wilde bailed, 7 May; Alfred Taylor convicted, 21 May, and Oscar Wilde, 25 May; both sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment with hard labour 25 May , 1895 Dunham v. Russell; claim for 40,183l., the property of Mrs. Mabel L. Theobald, an intestate widow of Mr. James Theobald, M.P. ; an intricate case; verdict for the defendant, Miss Kate Russell, sister of Mrs. Theobald 9 April, 1895 Countess Russell v. earl Russell; verdict for defendant; judicial separation decreed, 24 April; her appeal dismissed 7 Aug , 1895 Jabez Spencer Balfour, ex M.P., prosecuted for conspiracy and fraud at Bow-street, 6 May; committed for trial, appeal set aside 1 July , 1895 House of lords: appeal of Mr. Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie for divorce from his wife, Minnie Amy, for desertion (4 years); appeal dismissed, the desertion being justified by her husband's great cruelty 16 May , 1895 Georgina Priestly Salisbury (born April, 1894), claiming property of alleged father, George Henry Salisbury (died 7 Jan. 1894) Rawson (chancery division), 23 May et seq. ; on 14th day a statement was read from Dr. Capon asserting that the claimant was the daughter of Miss Florence Wright; Mr. Jelf, the plaintiff's counsel, gave up her case, and Mr. Justice Hawkins adjourned the trial, 17 June; verdict for defendant (18th day) 7 Aug , 1895 Mr. W.T. Stead fined 100l. for contempt of court for an article in 'Review of Reviews' against Jabez Balfour; appeal set aside 1 July , 1895 Michael Cleary and others tried for murder 9 July , 1895 John Lynchehaun, a bailiff, for attempt to murder his mistress, Mrs. Agnes M'Donnell , in Achill island, Ireland, by thrusting her into a burning building, &c., sentenced to penal servitude for life 17 July , 1895 Messrs. Wright & Co. v. Mr. Daniel Hennessy, secretary of National association of plasterers, for interference with their business and libel; verdict for plaintiffs, 800l. damages 26 July , 1895 Frances Rose, lady Gunning, sentenced to 1 years' hard labour for forgery 10 Sept , 1895 Robert A. Coombes (13), murderer of his mother, acquitted as insane 17 Sept , 1895 ------END OF FILE-------