The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-16 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Mr. Thomas Ordish, a publisher, of Paternoster-row, was
summoned before Alderman Carter for unlawfully :ening
fraudulent imitations of certain registered photographs
belonging to Messrs. Southwell, photographers, of Baker-
street, Portmenequare.
Mr. Grammell conducted the prosecution.
After hearing the evidence adduced,
Alderman Carter said he could only come to the conclu-
sion that the defendant had erred through igoorance, and
as he did not continue the sale of the spurious photo-
graphs after be became aware of their real character, be
should not feel justified in convicting a respectable trades.
man of such an offence under those circumstances. Re
therefore dismissed the summonses. . .

Mr. Gnienwell asked for • ease to enable him to appeal
to the Court of Queen's Beech on the question.
Alderman Carter said certainly, he should be pleased to
have the point argued by a higher court.
George Elmore, age4l7, described as • carman, was placed
at the bar before Sir It. W. Carden, charged with assaulting
Robert Savage, with intent to do him some grievous bodily
harm.

Lewis, jun., conducted the defence.
Robert Savage, • carman, said the prisoser was his
step brother. He went home about eleven o'clock at
night ad had some angry word' with his mother,
whereupou the prisoner struck him with his fist, and
then run out of the room, but immediately afterwards re-
turned with a hatchet, with which he struck complainant
oo the heed, intluctirr; a severe and, as it was at first
thought, dangerous wound.
Cross-examined—He had not threatened to murder his
mother. He was quite *ober. His mother was Ditties on
the stairs screaming, and all he did was to take hold of her
hands to pull her icto the room. He had since found the
wound was not so aerials as it was thought to be, and as
he was able to resume his work he did not want to press the
charge.
For the defence the mother of the complainant end
the prisoner was called, who said the complainant come
home tipsy. and she therefore induced the prisoner
to remain up to protect her from the violent* she appre-
hended from her son Robert, who first cursed himself
and then abused her, and afterwards held her by the hair
of her head with one had while he beet her with the other.
A neighbour corroborated the last witness's testimony to
tome extent, after which,
Mr. Lewis submitted that as the assault had not proved
serious, and the parties did not press the charge, it was •
we fora summary conviction, if iodeed it ought not to be
entirely dismissed.
Sir R. W. Carden declined to deal with the ease in either
manner suggested, as he believed it was merely a matter of
accident that the assault had not proved fatal ; for no one
could look at the weapon produced and believe that the in-
tention of striking any one with it on the head we, not to
commit murder. The prisoner was therefore committed
for trial.

THE MURDER IN THE WATERLOO ROAD.—The
inquest on the body of Maria Green, who was murdered on
Sunday last by her paramour, Samuel Wright, under the
circumstances already familiar to our reader., was held
yesterday by Mr. Carter, the coroner for Southwark, at
the Feathery Tavern, Waterloo-road. The (+video°, was
substantially the same as that taken on the examination
of Wright at the police-court on Moodav, and at its con-
clusion the jury at once returned a verdict oI " Wilful
murder" against the prisoner. Jape Gaunt, who was one of
the witnesses, said she knew the deceased woman, Maria
Green, who wont by the name of Wright. She last
saw her on Saturday night, standing at the corner of
York-road quarrelling with a woman. Wright, who
was with her, and the witness succeeded in getting
her away. They all three proceeded to the Feathers
public-house, where they had some gin. They were ell sober,
but the woman was excited. The witness aooompanied
them to their home, and remained with theme quarter of PO
hour, after which Wright let her cut at a little after 12.
They had words while in her presence. but she did not
kaow what they were about. When she left the house the
woman was leaning on the bed crying. The brother of the
deceased woman then identified the body as that of his
sister, who was about 40 years old sod unmarried.
RAILWAY COLLIMIuN NEAR WOLVERHAMPTON.—
A railway collision took piece Deer Wolverhampton yodel.-
'day morning. Between six and seven o'clock the 5.10
a.m. luggage train from Birmingham had passed the
Wedingdeld-heath station, on the Grand Junction line of
the London and North Western Railway, and had arrived
within two or three hundred yards of flushbury Junctioe.
Here it was Mopped by an adverse signal, in order to allow
a passeriger train to pies the Bashbory station. It waited
between two signals, one in its front and one in its rear,
• knowing that another luggage train was not far behind.
The guard was about to signal to it. He had just stepped
out of hie vas for this purpose, when the expected train
came up, ran into the rear of ire sister train, broke short
the iron buffers of its own eogiue, smashed the van, rednced
to match-wood the next truck, and severly damaged two
or three more end tracks, throwing them off the line, and
iajuriog a disused policemen's box which stood near. At
the time of the accident daylight had scarcely broken, and
this, added to a thick, hasp atmosphere, of course prevented
the driver of the second ban from perceiving the impedi-
ments before him. Fortneately, however, knowing that he
was nearing Buahburv, he had slackened speed, and when
the collision took place the stoker was applying the break.
Had it sot been for this circumstance it is probable that the
nesse would have reared itself epos the guard's van, and
that the eughseer and his eoespanioa, if sot killed, would
at Mast have been seriously island. Al it was, the two,
though thr had not time to spring to the ground, were
unhurt. Beth the trains consisted of trucks heavily laden,
some of them with sheet ins. No damage wee does to the
permarseet way, arid thermal traffic was unimpeded.
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