LIST OF TRIALS. (Part III) 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. 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. E-mail / snail mail me. 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 Josiah Mister, for attempting the life of Mr. Mackreth ;guilty 23 March, 1841 Bartholomew Murray, at Chester, for the murder of Mrs. Cook 5 April, 1841 Earl Waldegrave and captain Duff, for an aggravated assault on a police constable ;guilty, 6 months imprisonment, and fines of 200l. and 20l 3 May , 1841 Madame Lefarge (again), for robbery of diamonds 7 Aug , 1841 The great case, Allen Bogle v. Mr. Lawson, publisher of the Times newspaper, for an alleged libel, in stating the plaintiff to be connected with numerous bank forgers throughout Europe in their schemes to defraud Messrs. Glyn and Company, bankers of London, by means of fictitious letters of credit: damages, one farthing. This exposure, so honourable to the Times,led to the Times Testimonial 16 Aug , 1841 Mr. MacLeod, at Utica, America, for taking part in the destruction of the 'Caroline', commenced: acquitted after a trial that lasted 8 days 4 Oct , 1841 Robert Blakesley, for murder of Mr. Burdon, of Eastcheap; hanged 28 Oct , 1841 Mr. Beaumont Smith, for forgery of Exchequer bills to an immense amount ; pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to transportation for life 4 Dec , 1841 Sophia Darbon v. Rosser; breach of promise of marriage; damages, 1,600l 8 Dec , 1841 Mr. John Levick and Antonio Mattei, principal and second in the duel in which lieut. Adams was killed at Malta: both acquitted 10 March, 1842 Vivier, courier of the 'Morning Herald', at Boulogne, for conveying the Indian mail through France, for that journal, contrary to the French regs 13 April, 1842 Daniel Good, for murder of Jane Jones; the Roehampton murder; found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged 13 May , 1842 John Francis, for attempting to assassinate the queen 17 June , 1842 Thomas Cooper, for the murder of Daly, the policeman; hanged 4 July , 1842 Nicholas Suisse, valet of the late marquis of Hertford, at the prosecution of that nobleman's executors, charged with enormous frauds ; acquitted 6 July , 1842 M'Gill and others, for abduction of Miss Crellin; guilty 8 Aug , 1842 Nicholas Suisse (again), upon like charges, and again acquitted 24 Aug , 1842 Bean, for pointing a pistol at the queen: 18 months imprisonment 25 Aug , 1842 The rioters in the provinces, under a special commission, at Stafford 1 Oct , 1842 The Cheshire rioters, under a special commission, before lord Abinger 6 Oct , 1842 The Lancashire rioters, also under a special commission 10 Oct , 1842 Alice Lowe, at the prosecution of lord Frankfort; acquitted 31 Oct , 1842 Mr. Howard, attorney, v. sir William Gosset, serjeant-at-arms 5 Dec , 1842 Mr. Egan, in Dublin, for the robbery of a bank parcel; acquitted 17 Jan , 1843 Rev. W. Bailey, LL.D., for forgery; guilty: transportation for life 1 Feb , 1843 MacNaughten, for the murder of Mr. Drummond,secretary to sir Robert Peel: aquitted on the grounds of insanity 4 March, 1843 The Rebeccaites, at Cardiff, under a special commission 27 Oct , 1843 Samuel Sidney Smith, for forgery; sentenced to transportation for life 29 Nov , 1843 Edward Dwyer, for the murder of his child at Southwark; guilty 1 Dec , 1843 Mr. Holt, of the 'Age'; libel on the Duke of Brunswick; guilty 29 Jan , 1844 Lieut. Grant, second to Lieut. Munro, in his duel with col Fawcett; Acqui 14 Feb , 1844 Fraser v. Bagley, for criminal conspiracy; verdict for the defendant 19 Feb , 1844 Lord William Paget v. earl of Cardigan, for criminal conspiracy; verdict for the defendant 26 Feb , 1844 Mary Furley, for the murder of her child in an agony of despair 16 April, 1844 The will-forgers, William Henry Barber (since declared innocent), Joshua Fletcher, Georgiana Dorey, William Saunders, and Susannah his wife; all found guilty, 15 April: sentenced to transportation 22 April, 1844 NOTE: In 1848 Mr. Barber returned to England with a free pardon, and an acknowledgment of his innocence by his prosecutors : he was re-admitted to practise as an attorney; and on the 3rd of August, 1859, in conformity with the recommendation of a select committee of the house of commons, the sum of 5000 guineas, was voted him " as a national acknowledgment of the wrong he had suffered from an erroneous prosecution Crouch, for the murder of his wife ; found guilty, 8 May; hanged 27 May , 1844 Messrs. O'Connell, sen., O'Connell, jun., Steele, Ray, Barrett, Grey, Duffy, and rev. Thomas Tierney, at Dublin, for political conspiracy: the trial commenced 15 Jan., and lasted twenty-four days : all the traversers were found guilty, 12 Feb. Proceedings on motions for a new trial, &c., extended the case into Easter term; and sentence was pronounced upon all but the clergyman, on whom judgment was remitted 30 May , 1844 Augustus Dalmas, for the murder of Sarah Macfarlane ; guilty 14 June , 1844 Wm. Burton Newenham, for the abduction of Miss Wortham ; guilty 17 June , 1844 Bellamy, for the murder of his wife by prussic acid ; acquitted 21 Aug , 1844 John Tawell, for murder of Sarah Hart; hanged 13, 14 March, 1845 Thomas Henry Hocker, for murder of James Delarue 11 April, 1845 Joseph Conner, for murder of Mary Brothers 16 May , 1845 The Spanish pirates, for murder of ten Englishmen at sea 26 July , 1845 Rev. Dr. Wetherall, for criminal conspiracy with Mrs Cooke, his daughter 16 Aug , 1845 Captain Johnson, of the ship Tory, for the murder of several of his crew 5 Feb , 1846 Miss M. A. Smith v. earl Ferrers; breach of promise of marriage. 18 Feb , 1846 Lieut. Hawkey, for the murder of Mr. Seton, in a duel; acquitted 16 July , 1846 Richard Dunn, for perjury and attempted fraud on Miss A. Burdett Coutts 27 Feb , 1847 Mitchell, the Irish confederate; transported for 14 years 26 May , 1848 Wm. Smith O'Brien, Meagher, and other confederates, sentenced to death; the sentence afterwards commuted to transportation (pardoned in 1856) 9 Oct , 1848 Bloomfield Rush, for murder of Messrs. Jermy, at Norwich. hanged 29 March, 1849 Gorham v. the bishop of Exeter; ecclesiastical case; judgment given in the court of Arches against the plaintiff 2 Aug , 1849 NOTE: The bishop had refused to institute the rev. Mr. Gorham into the living of Brampton-Speke, in Devonshire, alleging want of orthodoxy in the plaintiff, who denied that spiritual regeneration was conferred by baptism; the court held that the charge against the plaintiff of holding false doctrine was proved, and that the bishop was justified in his refusal. Mr. Gorham appealed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which pronounced its opinion (8 March, I850) that " the doctrine held by Mr. Gorham was not contrary or repugnant to the declared doctrine of the church of England, and that Mr. Gorham ought not, by reason of the doctrine held by him, to have been refused admission to the vicarage of Brampton-Speke." This decision led to subsequent proceedings in the three courts of law, successively, for a rule to show cause why a prohibition should not issue, directed to thejudge of the Arches court, and to the archbishop of Canterbury, against giving effect to the judgment of her majesty in council. The rule was refused in each court, and in the end Mr. Gorham was instituted into the vicarage in question, 7 Aug. I850. Manning and his wife, for murder of O'Connor; guilty: death 27 Oct , 1849 Walter Watts, lessee of the Olympic Theatre, for forgery, &c 10 May , 1850 Robert Pate, a retired lieutenant, for an assault on the queen 11 July , 1850 The Sloanes, man and wife, for starving their servant, Jane Wilbred 5 Feb , 1851 The Board of Customs v. the London Dock Company, on a charge of defrauding the revenue of duties; a trial of 11 days ended in a virtual acquittal 18 Feb , 1851 Sarah Chesham, for murder of husband, by poison; she had murdered several of her children and others by the same means; hanged 6 March, 1851 Thomas Drory, for the murder of Jael Denny: hanged 7 March, 1851 Doyle v. Wright, concerning the personal custody of Miss Augusta Talbot, a Roman catholic ward of chancery,before the lord chancellor:protracted case 22 March, 1851 The murderers of the rev. George Edward Hollest, of Frimley,Surrey;guilty 31 March, 1851 Achilli v. Newman, for libel; tried before lord chief justice Campbell in the Queen's Bench: verdict for the plaintiff, Nov. 1851 31 Jan , 1852 Miller v. ald. Salomons, M.P.,for voting as a member without having taken the required oath ; verdict against the defendant 19 April, 1852 The case " Bishop of London v. the rev. Mr. Gladstone:" judgment of the Arches court against the defendant 10 June , 1852 Lord Frankfort, for scandalous and defamatory libels ; guilty 3 Dec , 1852 Richard Bourke Kirwan, for the murder of his wife; guilty 10 Dec , 1852 Eliot Bower, for murder of Mr. Saville Morton, at Paris; acquitted 28 Dec , 1852 Henry Horler, for murder of his wife; hanged at the Old Bailey 15 Jan , 1853 James Barbour, for murder of Robinson; hanged at York 15 Jan , 1853 George Sparkes and James HitchcocK, for the murder of William Blackmore at Exeter; guilty 19 March, 1853 Five Frenchrnen (principal and seconds) for the murder of a sixth Frenchman in a duel at Egham ; verdict, manslaughter 21 March, 1853 Moore and Walsh, for the murder of John Blackburn, at Stafford; hanged 21 March, 1853 Saunders, for murder of Mr. Toler; Chelmsford 30 March, 1853 The Stackpole family, four In number ; two of them females, and wives to the others, for the murder of their relative, also a Stackpole; hanged Ennis 28 April, 1853 Case of Holy Cross Hospital, Winchester, decided against Rev. earl of Guildford 1 Aug , 1853 Smyth v. Smyth, ended in the plaintiff being committed on a charge of forging the will on which he grounded his claim 8, 9, 10 Aug , 1853 The Braintree case respecting liability to church rates, decided by the house of lords, against the rate 12 Aug , 1853 Case of Lumley v. Gye, respecting Mdlle. Wagner; decided 22 Feb , 1854 Mr. Jeremiah Smith, mayor of Rye, convicted of perjury 2 March, 1854 Duchess of Manchester's will case April, 1854 Mr. Carden, for abduction of Miss E. Arbuthnot, and assault upon John Smithwick; convicted 28, 29 July , 1854 Mary Anne Brough, for murdering her six children; not guilty (insanity) 9 Aug , 1854 Case of Pierce Somerset Butler v. viscount Mountgarret; verdict for plaintiff, who thus came into a peerage, defendant being proved illegitimate Aug , 1854 Courts-martial on lieuts. Perry and Greer; sentences reversed by lord Harciinge 29 July-Aug , 1854 Courts-martial on sir E. Belcher, captain McClure, &c., for abandoning their ships in the Arctic regions ; acquitted Oct , 1854 Emanuel Barthelemy, for murder of Charles Collard & Mr. Moore (executed) 4 Jan , 1855 Handcock v. Delacour, otherwise De Burgh (cruelty to Mrs. Handcock, and charges against lord Clanricarde); compromised , 1855 Earl of Sefton v. Hopwood (will set aside) 3 April, 1855 Luigi Baranelli, for murder of Joseph Latham(or Lambert);(executed 30 April)12 April, 1855 Charles King, a great thief-trainer; transported 13 April, 1855 Wm. Austin (governor), for cruelties in Birmingham gaol; acquitted 3 Aug , 1855 ------END OF FILE-------