1860 Cornwall Quarter Sessions and Assizes
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1860 Cornwall Quarter Sessions and Assizes Table of Contents 1. Epiphany Sessions .......................................................................................................... 1 2. Lent Assizes .................................................................................................................. 19 3. Easter Sessions ............................................................................................................. 64 4. Midsummer Sessions ................................................................................................... 79 5. Summer Assizes ......................................................................................................... 102 6. Michaelmas Sessions.................................................................................................. 125 Royal Cornwall Gazette 6th January 1860 1. Epiphany Sessions These Sessions opened at 11 o’clock on Tuesday the 3rd instant, at the County Hall, Bodmin, before the following Magistrates: Chairmen: J. JOPE ROGERS, ESQ., (presiding); SIR COLMAN RASHLEIGH, Bart.; C.B. GRAVES SAWLE, Esq. Lord Vivian. Edwin Ley, Esq. Lord Valletort, M.P. T.S. Bolitho, Esq. The Hon. Captain Vivian. W. Horton Davey, Esq. T.J. Agar Robartes, Esq., M.P. Stephen Nowell Usticke, Esq. N. Kendall, Esq., M.P. F.M. Williams, Esq. R. Davey, Esq., M.P. George Williams, Esq. J. St. Aubyn, Esq., M.P. R. Gould Lakes, Esq. W.H. Pole Carew, Esq. C.A. Reynolds, Esq. F. Rodd, Esq. H. Thomson, Esq. Augustus Coryton, Esq. Neville Norway, Esq. Harry Reginald Salisbury R. Johns, Esq. Trelawny, Esq. The Hon. and Rev. J. E. Coode, junr., Esq. Townshend Boscawen C.G. Prideaux Brune, Esq. Rev. T. Phillpotts. R. Gully Bennet, Esq. Rev. A. Tatham. W. Morshead, Esq. Rev. J. Glanville. D.P. Le Grice, Esq. Rev. C.M. Edward Collins. S. Borlase, Esq. Rev. S. Symonds W. Michell, Esq. Rev. J.J. Wilkinson. Rev. R.B. Kinsman The Hon. John Cranch Walker Vivian qualified as a magistrate. The following gentlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury: - Mr. William Oatey, Wadebridge, foreman; - Luke Biddick, St. Breock; - William Brown, St. Columb Major; - Peter Brown, Liskeard; - William Burt, Liskeard; - Thomas Broad, Liskeard; - John Buzza, Liskeard; - William Cock, St. Breock; - John Chapman, St. Columb Major; - Stephen Cummen, St. Columb Major; - Richard Cardell junr., St. Columb Minor; - Richard Clogg, Liskeard; - Thomas Cummen, Lanivet; - Robert Dunstan, Liskeard; - James Henwood, St. Breock; - William Harris, St. Columb Major; - James Hawken, St. Ervan; - Edward Johns, Lanivet; - Charles Jago, Liskeard; - Thomas Key, junr., St. Breock; - Henry Lucas, Liskeard; - Wm. Wedge Menear, St. Breock; - Thomas Paynter, St. Ervan. The following gentlemen answered to their names:— Mr. J.R. Rickard, Wadebridge; - Wm. Roberts, St. Columb Major; - Simon Rickard, St. Columb Minor; - Enoder Rickard, St. Columb Minor; - H.J. Rowse, St. Columb Major; - J. Sandry, St. Ervan; - J. Strongman, St. Ervan; - W. Truscott, junr., St. Columb Major; - Thomas, Wadebridge. After the Clerk of the Peace had read the Proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue and for the preventing and punishment of vice, profaneness, and immorality, the CHAIRMAN proceeded to deliver his CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY:—[not transcribed] THE COUNTY GAOL. VISITING JUSTICES REPORT.—The CHAIRMAN read the following Report:—The Visiting Committee of the County Gaol have much pleasure in reporting their satisfaction with the good order and cleanliness of the prison; and credit is due to the Governor and his officers under the circumstances in which they are placed. Notwithstanding the great inconvenience which arises from the new buildings, &c., the prison discipline is kept up most efficiently. The report was adopted; and the following magistrates were re-appointed the visitors of the gaol:—Mr. Kendall (chairman), Sir Colman Rashleigh, Mr. Sawle, Mr. Hext, Mr. F. J. Hext, Mr. E. Coode, jun., Mr. Neville Norway, Mr. Thomson, Mr. Foster, and the Reverends C. M. E. Collins and Vyell F. Vyvyan. THE NEW GAOL.—The New Gaol Building Committee reported that the Government Inspector has certified for that part of the building which is to be appropriated to the male prisoners, and the Committee are led to hope it may be permanently occupied before the next Quarter Sessions; and this being done, immediate steps must be taken to remove the old buildings, and to sell the materials, so that no time may be lost in proceeding with the Female wards, the Male Debtors' prison, &c. The Committee ask for the necessary powers to carry out the same.—This Report was also adopted without discussion. ARCHITECT'S REPORT.—This report, from Mr. Porter, was read by the chairman:—”Gentleman (sic), I have the honour to report to you that on the 15th December last, Mr. Perry made his inspection of the gaol, and I am happy to say he has granted his certificate for its occupation by prisoners. So soon therefore as the necessary arrangements can be made for the removal of the prisoners from the present old gaol, the new one may be occupied. So short a time has elapsed since the sessions that I have but little further to report as to the progress of the building, the Chapel fittings being the chief work remaining to be done, and from the nature of the fittings, it is necessarily a very tedious operation. Mr. Thomas, the contractor for fitting and supplying the bells and locks, has applied to me for a payment on account, and I have granted him a certificate for £250. It will be very material that the female and the remaining buildings should be commenced as early this year as possible, to enable them to be covered in before next winter." GAOL EXPENSES, for the past Quarter:— £ s. d. Subsistence 202 12 8 Clothing 78 19 4 Bedding 14 19 6 Fuel 81 12 0 Lundries (sic) 75 4 4½ Salaries 323 13 6 Pensioned Watchman 1 5 0 Paid prisoners on discharge 7 13 0 Expenses at Michaelmas Sessions 6 3 10 Postmaster of Bodmin (letter box) 1 1 0 Female Singers 1 0 0 Incidental Expenses 3 3 794 7 5½ Credit by cash received for maintenance of a deserter and another prisoner 2 12 0 791 15 5½ Repairs 2 19 0 794 14 5½ This was rather less than the Gaol expenses for the previous Quarter. Hall Expenses 7 9 11 Expenses on account of the New Gaol 56 4 8 GOVERNOR’S REPORT.—The report by Mr. Everest was as follows:—I have much pleasure in reporting the orderly conduct of the prisoners since the last sessions. The new prison is in a very forward state, and will, I hope, be soon fit for occupation, as the Prison Inspector has certified the cells to be conformable with the requirements of the Act 2 and 3 Vict. cap. 56, sec. 4. I beg to attach the usual certificate required from me.—The certificate stated that the rules and regulations for the government of the prison had been, as far as practicable, complied with; and that the several defects and dilapidations before reported continued to exist, but under present circumstances he did not recommend any repairs of consequence being undertaken. COUNTY ASYLUM. The CHAIRMAN read Annual Reports from the Visiting Committee, the Commissioners in Lunacy, and the Medical Officer. They were lengthy documents, and we shall publish them in a future number. The following magistrates were elected the Visiting Committee of the Asylum for the ensuing year:—Lord Vivian, Lord Valletort, Sir Colman Rashleigh, Col. Coryton, Mr. Sawle, Mr. E. Coode, jun., Rev. C. M. Edward Collins, Mr. William Colston, Mr. F. J. Hext, and Mr. Brydges Willyams. [CORONERS’ BILLS.—not transcribed] BRIDGES. EASTERN DIVISION.—Mr. SYLVANUS W. JENKIN, the Bridge Surveyor of Bridges of the Eastern Division, presented the following Report:— Wenford Bridge:—I have to apply for a grant of £1. to make some repairs to the North side of this bridge, rendered necessary by the late floods.—Calstock New Bridge: I have to apply for a grant of £2 15s., for the purpose of providing granite posts, and a granite curb to protect the approach road to this bridge.—Trekerner Bridge—Some quay work at the side of the approach road to this bridge requires to be renewed, the cost will be about 15s.—Callington New Bridge:—A covered drain is required on the western approach to this bridge, the cost will not exceed £2.—Lostwithiel Bridge:— Referring to an order of last Sessions. “That Mr. Jenkin, the surveyor of bridges for the Eastern Division of this county, be requested to give a plan and estimate for such repairs of the eastern part of the Lostwithiel Bridge, as he may deem necessary for the safety of the public in the existing traffic.—I have to report that I have been unable as yet, to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion as to the best mode of making such repairs, and I have to ask to be allowed to defer my report thereon until the next sessions.—Greystone Bridge.—It was ordered at the last sessions, “That the surveyor of bridges be instructed to inspect and report to the court at the next sessions, an alteration suggested by the Trustees of the Launceston Turnpike Roads, of an alleged dangerous corner at Greystone Bridge, and the probable cost of making the said corner safe.—In accordance with this order I have inspected the approaches to Greyston (sic) Bridge on the Cornish side, and have communicated with the Surveyor of the Launceston Trust thereon. I have not yet been furnished with particulars of the alteration proposed by the trustees, and in the absence of such information cannot express any opinion as to its probable cost. I shall require two levies at this time. The several sums applied for by Mr. Jenkin were granted, and his report was adopted. WESTERN DIVISION.—Mr. THOMAS HICKES, the surveyor in the Western Division, reported as follows:— In laying before you this report, I beg to say that on the 19th of November I succeeded in finishing the laying of the pipes for the draining of the Longbridge marsh, and very soon the water was lowered a sufficient distance from the western guard wall to commence repairing it.