The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-24 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

Mrs. Derry, a shabbily •dieMsii;romen., the wife of a per
son who keeps the " Suney Servant.' Horne," at No. 195,
13Ieckfriare-row, Minded to a summons, pertly beard on •
former day before the Hoe. G. 0. Norton, oberging her
with giving falai characters toe young woman lamed Ann
Davis, alias Bridget M'Grath. The case occupied some
time in hearies, but the brief facts are them:—ln the
month of May last the young woman Davis bad been dis-
charged from the service of Mr. Higgs, a tradesman in Ken.
eington-park, and who also keeps a post-office, in cons.
queers of • quantity of property being mimed, and a wows
suspicion of her being a thief. In July following, Mrs.
Humphreys, the wife of a pawnbroker m Walwerth, ap-
plied at the " Home " of Mr. Derry for the ohmmeter
of Darts, when Mn. Deny represented that she
had been in her senior as • domestic servant
for four months, and that the reams for her
leaving was that Mr. Derry mere desperately at her—a
habit, she said, he was unfortunately is the habit of is-
deities in, and which she (Devi) did not like. and gave
her an exoellaut character for cleanlinem, honesty, sad
sobriety ; and on this character Davis twat once hired. Is
two months after sbe was again discharged by Mr. Ham-
phreys, in oomequeece of property having been mimed, she
being out one night, and she bevies bees seen fremiently
in oommunketion with a man admitted on the premises.
After her discharge a valuable pair of cuffs were missies
from • drawer in the warehocusi,aad Serjeant Ham,who bad
been ommulted on the molter, went to Derry's " Home,"and
oar searching the box of Davis he not only found the cuffs,
but a shawl and some towels belonging to Mrs. Deny. The
officer also discovered that on the day he made this disco-
very the young woman Davis was about to ester the ser-
vice of • mat respectable family, named Aenerley, in the
Clapham-road, on Umtata:actor given tocelti=dMrs. Deny.
Davis
was brought to this court, and guilty to
having stolen the cuff., end was senile to three months'
hard labour, the magistrate directing,at the same time, that
summonses should be taken out against Mrs. Deny, the
present defendant, for giving • false character on two co-
CIMIOO/.

Mr. Norton remarked thot the evidence adduced efts&
lished them taste—that Mot Derry had. in the fillt instance,
recommended Davis to Mn. Humphreys ea an honest and
respectable servant, without tusking the 'lightest inquiries
as to the reel character from Mr. Him, and had also stated
that she had been in her service four months, when it was
only two, which wee • false representation. The defend-
ant had also represented to Mies Annecley that Davis bad
lived with her three mouths, and the reason of her Ida.
leg was the had not power to control the young women In
the Home to conform to the rules; she bad had her from
the post-office in Kennington-park, and that she was booed,
Gleam, sober, and steady ; and all this wee dope without the
slighted reference being made to Mrs. Humphreys, whose
service she had left • day or two before, as to the ones of
her discharge.
Mr. Neale, in addressing the bench for the defendant, ad.
mined that his nitwit might have acted with carelessness
in the matter, but certainly she had committed no offence
under the act, which made it oeceseary that the charades)
must be in writing to justify • conviction.
Mr. Norton Awned that there was such • difficulty in
the matter that he would nut convict. In fact, the act op
the subject was • vary old one, and one through which •
coach sad four might be driven ; but as the subject was one
of the greatest public importance he hoped that the neat
session of parliament would not be allowed to pass without
the act being altered, and • more stringent measure
adopted to meet cases like the present.
The summonses were thee discharged, and Mrs. Derry
hurried out of court.
SOUTHWARK. _
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Dora Fielder, suss Wayland, wee placed ai the bar
before Mr. Surchani for final examination. charged with
cutting sod wounding Michael Berri/an in so serious a
manner that for aurae time his rd. was (impaired of.
The complaisant, who Wooded from Ony's Hospital
with the lower part of his face and wok strapped up, said be
lived at No. 12, Unios-plaos Southwark-bndge-rced. On
Saturday n4bt, the let hist., be went with his brother to a
music room in the Slackfriara-raid, and while sitting down,
the pmeeser mon up to them and kaocked big brother's bat
off. Witness asked him what he did that far, when the
prisoner @track him, aid they had a scuffle together on the
Maks. He tried to get away from Was, bat the =
fah
red eat Ida waft limp oar with 'Mtn