The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-01 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

CRUEL ROBBERY.
Dogma Donohan, a thickset young fellow, was charted
before Mr. Cooke with the following robbery.
Mary Ann Jones, 12 years of age, said that on the 11th
instant she and a younger sister got into a swing placed near
the wild beast vans in the Mile-end•road, and that prisoner,
who was pulling the ropes, snatched from Ler apron a
packet of money just as he started the swing. He ran off,
and when she could get out she told a police-constable. She
was certain that prisoner was the man who robbed her.
Fervent, 192 K, said the girl gave him so accurate a
description of the thief that he recognised him by it when
he apprehended him near the spot where the robbery had
been committed more than a week after wards.

The mother mother of the complainant stated that the money in
question amounted to lls. 7d., she having given it to her to
take to a baker who had not only allowed her to run treat
daring the past hard weather, but had also kindly lent her
ss. The loss had nearly rained hey, she having with the
greatest difficulty saved it up for repayment. She lived in
Devonshire.street, Mile-end.
Mr. Cooke remarked that this was a most heartless and
cruel robbery from the child of persons in a humble sphere
of life and asked prisoner whether he would plead guilty or
go for trial ; daring the remand not anything bad been as-
certained tending to show he bad been preciously charged.
Prisoner replied—No, I never did a robbery this
kind afore and never will again—indeed I'm very sorry for
what's happened ; but the fact is we were doing bad at the
swing and the other chaps said as how if they caught hold
of any one with mosey they'd have it and so, you see, I took
this from the girl.
Sentence—Three months' hard labour at the House of
Correction.

MARY LEBONE

EITABBLNO A BOLDIER.-THE PRIAORIE SENT FOR TRIAL

A tall, powerful young Irishman, named Connell,
was charged with stabbing John Moore, a private in the
2nd battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards,
The prisoner has been remanded a week is eon/ell:mace of
the soldier's being compelled to remain in the hospital. The
came was now gone into, and it appeared from Moore's evi-
dence and that of a boy named George Clarke, that
on the night of last Saturday week, prosecutor
was in the Apollo public house. in Psddingtoo-
street, drinking with a comrade. The prisoner and
several more of his countrymen entered and forced their
conversation upon the soldiers. Some angry words shortly
ensued, when Moore was struck by the prisoner. The blow
was returned, when a general emiMe ensued. in which pri-
soner and Moore fell to the ground. On the latter regain.
ing his feet, he found he had been stabbed in the cheek
and throat. The lad Clarke distinctly saw pis•
goner use the knife, which was of terwards taken
from the prisoner by a young man named Clancy.
Samuel Vousden, 173 1), took the prisoner to the station.
house, where the soldier's wounds were dressed by Dr.
Clarke, the divisional surgeon, after which he was sent in a
cab to the military hospital at Chelsea. The cut in his
cheek was four inches long, and is a dangerous place. There
was!' jagged wound iu the throat.
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Theprieoner. who had nothing to say, was fully committed
to take his trial.

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NOTTINGHAM MEET! NG. -Tut,DAY.

TRIAL STAKE.

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STAND PLATE.
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7 ran.
INNKEEPER'S PLATE. flee mile.
Cutler, Jack's Alive, Quadrille, Redcap, Idle Girl, and
Dumas are here.

NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP. One mile and a half.
Cariabrook. Donee Canoe. Duakeld. Revolver, Teo janne,
Dr. Syntax, The Clown, Cedes., Jack's Alive, Redcap,
Tailor, Guerilla, and The Abbott are here.
MACCARONI STAKES. Two miles.
Kies me Quick, Whitefoot, Meteor. Bob, Lucy, Keep-
thorpe, Yellow Dwarf, Harry Cleaver, Gotb, and the
Warrior. Nearly el the above home are expected to run.

ADDITIONAL A RRIVALS.—Z.zi, IA Mecham., Clairvoy.
sate, ?ribcage, Zipleo, Ross Lye, Talent, Tourist, GlaiAD,
David Aim, and Neophyte.

Suiclnt IN THE num= Trxszt.—Yesterday
morning, soon after 8 o'clock, a man owned George Mudd
oomniitted a frightful act of suicide in the Wapping shaft of
the Thames Tunnel. It appears that the unfortunate man
paid the tlllll,ll toll of on. penny to the collector at the
entrance of the shaft, parsed the turnstile, and began to
descend the stairs. A moment after he precipitated himself
over the balustrade and fell on the ground below. His
death was iestaitaceous. His head was frMhtfully crushed,
his left srm broken, and other injuries were inflicted. The
height from the top of the staircase to the bottom of the
shalt is about 80 feet. The mutilated remains of the
deceased were placed in a shell and removed to the dead
house in Weppieg churchyard. The deceased was raid to
have been a tailor, and to have left his home, No. 16,
Little Turner-street, Commercial-road, St. George'sin-the-
East, only an boor before he committed the rash act. The
deceased was 64 years of age, and a very heavy man,
weighing at least 16 stone. He bad brought up a large
family, and was formerly in affluent circumstances Myer-
cities had overtaken him recently, and he had been some-
what depressed.
AFFRAY ON BOARD A SHIP IN THE MERNEY.—
Andrew Courtenay, mate, and Francis Matthew Brennan,
boatswain, of The Craige, lying in the Mersey, wen brouitht
before Mr. 'tattles, on remand, at the Liverpool Police'
court, yesterday, charged with an assault upon Nicholas
Bosnia, a seaman on board that ship. The prosecutor
stated that he went on board The Craigs on Thursday last,
sod misted to haul up the fenders. He supposed he did
not do the work quick enough to *see the boatswain, who
thereupon kicked him at the back of the head, and also
beat him with a belaying pin, The mate also kicked him
as he was on the main hatch. He tried to jump over
the edge of the vessel into a boat alongside, bat the mate
pulled him back again, recommenced kicking him, and made
him return to his work. About 9 o'clock next monde(
Brennan struck him spin with the belaying pin while he
was at work, without any provocation. The prosecutor then
jumped overboard, and was picked up by the Woodside
ferry steamer Liverpool. Charles Baker. a seaman on board
The Crates, deposed that he saw Brennan beat the com-
plainant with a belaying pin, and when he called the mate's
attention to it the mate bit him (witness) is the mouth
with a belaying pin. Bemires head was very severely cut,
and be appeared in the witness box with it bandaged up.
His face was also cut end wretched. At the close of the
case Brennan was committed for trial for an assault, with
intent to do grievous bodily harm ; sad Caertesay far a
common assault.

121 YEARS Otn. —A woman, named Madeleine
°sari, has just died in an asylum at Rome, aged over 121,
baring been born ill November, 1742. She retained her in-
tellectual faculties to the list.

ROYAL FREI HOSTIVAIA GRAY'ri-INN-ROAD.—Tho
Dumber of patteete relievod at this baepttr.l during the week
ending Feb. 27 was 3,763, of which 1,169 were mew cases.