The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-29 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

James Arthur, a waidrerreil macsof about 50, was ram-
mooed before Mr. Flowers, by the police, to answer the
following complaint :—William Goodbody, F M, deposed
that the defendant kept a coffee-bones at 5, Wellington-
street, Strand, opposite the cab-rank, near Waterloo-bridge.
Witness was on duty at a quarter past 1 o'clock on the
morning of the 17th instant, when his attention was
directed to the defendant's house, upon which he walked
inside. He found the place all lit up with gas, and saw
two prostitutes and three men partaking of some refresh-
ment. They had cops and racers before them, but he
could not my what they contained. He spoke to a young
woman, who appeared to have the management of the
house, and she then looked up at the cloak, and
affecting amazement at the lateness of the boor, pro-
ceeded to clear the room. Witness knew the house to be
a place of neon for the purpose of prostitution.
The defendant, with an air of respectability, mid these
aspersions were unjust If improper characters had visited
the house it was entirely without his sanction or knowledge.
He had let the hour to his moo ; and if the magistrate
would kindly look at the agreement, which he had himself
drawn up, has worship would observe that there was a special
clause therein strictly prohibiting his son from allowing
improper or immoral practices in the house. For himself,
he could only say that he was a person of unblemished cha-
racter and well known in the district.
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Impactor Brennan mid it was true that the defendant
was well known, for he kept two brothels in the district,
and his houses were the subject of constant complaint to
the police. One of them was in Brydgee-street, and it was
one of the worst deerription.
Defendant—l will not allow my character to be maligned.
The coffee-house in Brydgeastreet is kept by my wife, from
whom, unhapplly, I am separated.
Inspector Brennan—Yes, be has pot his wife into one
house, and his son into the other ; and I am sorry to my
that the money is taken at the doors by his own daughters,
young girls of about 14 or 15.
Defendant—And I am to be condemned because my
children have gone wrong? I cannot live with my wife ;
and my children, also, have brought disgrace upon me. My
own character is unblemished.

Impostor Brennan—Unblemished! Why, your wor-
ship, he has been fined 101. before for keeping • brothel
within the precinct* of the Savoy. lie is one of the worst
men in the whole division.

Defendant (taming round to the inspector)—My ohs
ratter stands higher than yours, Mr. Breonan. I should be
sorry to exchange with you. Why, your worship, I have
lived Iti years in Paris, and although I may have been un-
fortunate with my family, and wrongly accused through
them, my own character, I manure you, is without stain or
blemish. Look at the bottom of the written agreement with
my soe. Read it. Is not the admission of prostitutes to
the house expressly forbidden? really I am a persecuted
man.

Mr. Flowers—l am afraid you are a very bad man, and
the word' of this agreement may be intended as a mere
shelter for yourself from the eousequenoes of proceedings
which you may be at the mme time aiding and abetting.
It seems to me that this is just one of the cases which the
new act wee intended to meet. I shall, therefore, inflict
upon you the full pesalty of sf.
Defendant—l cenoot pay it. It is moss *net.

Mr. Flower►—lt you ao'Dot pay the fine, jou mast go to
prima for smooth.
_ _ MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Thompson, of No. 5, Kilroan-square, Kilburn,
described as • commercial traveller, was charged with
assaulting two young women, named Caroline Knight and
Ellen Davis, at the Aoglesea Tavern, Haymarket.
Caroline Knight said she went into the Angles.* Tavern,
Haymarket, that being shortly before one, when she saw
the prisoner strike • female. She made a remark by way of
axpanclation to the prisoner, when he struck her in the
eye with a stick, and also cat another female scrims the
mouth with the stick. The prisoner then made his escape
into astable in Angleme.yard, and on his leaving it at three
o'clock she gave him in charge.
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In answer. to Mr. Knoi, the constable wbo took the
prisoner into custody (Connell, 109 C) said the complainant
Davie was not in attesdanoe. She had been hart a good
deal.

The primmer mid he was extremely sorry, hut be was
inebriated et the time.

Mr. Knox considered the prisoner bad behaved in a very
cowardly manner, and intoxication was no excuse for crime.
He should fine the prisoner 54., or in default a mooth's
imprisonment.

Jane Carlo. an elderly lame woman, who hu been on
many occtsions very troublesome to the police, was charged
with bagging and using ►busive language towards Yr. Fer-
dinand Swift, 91, Princes-street, Hanover-square.
Mr. Swift said. at an early hour that morning the prisoner
asked him for alms in Princes-street. He gave the prisoner
a halfpenny, that being all the change he had, when she set
to abusing him in the foulest manner. He then gave her
into custody.
James Fryer, officer of the Mendicity Society, said be had
known the prisoner as an incorrigible begur for about 15
years, and she had been convicted at several police courts.
The prisoner said she had a few articles for sale, end it
was hard an honest person could not live without being
interfered with.

The constable said the prisoner had not got scything for
sale.

Mr. Knox committed her tore month, and as she was
leevieg the dock she threw up her eyes sod exclaimed,
"Thank God, we shall all meet in heaven, some day."
LAMBETH.

Mr. Walter Kimber, the manager of the operatic company
engaged at the Bower Saloon Theatre. Stangste, waited on
Mr. Norton, and complained that be bad suffered much in
mind and character by the publication of the complaints
made to his worship by some of the persone employed at the
theatre, and which complaints were not strictly true. He
, (Mr. Ximber) assured his worship that he bed cot only paid
away every shilling that came into his hands, but something
' beyond it, a. would be .M 0 be the written statement
be bad drawn up, though he bad to rest under the odium
r of pocketing the money and withholding it from the ap-
plicants. He did not deny the admission of the public on
the night of that day week, and receiving the money at the
doors though there was no performance, but said the
audience, with the exception of a few, were satisfied with
his explanation and offer of giving them an order far an-
other ntbt. The theatre would be open on that night, and
the performances renewed, and he did not despair of hang
able to pay every one connected with the theatre in full.
Mr. Norton sincerely hoped it would be so. and M did
not wonder at the poor men complaining, as they had
ones to do. He (Mr. Norton) did not consider it quite
ooesideat with respeelabaity to engage a Dumber of Per'
aces without the means of frying them their just week's
guru
Mr!iimber. replied that this was not his fault, bat that
et Yr. phis principal, whoa he had not bees able to ewe
for