The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-01 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
AGuII•VATED ASSAULT ON A WIZ.
I Grorve, a young man, was charged with an
..,,roateil assault on his wife, Mary Ann
'NI, Edward Lewis. of Great MarlberoGl:grntreet, age
,Ted for the prosecution, which was instituted bLthe.
'ay for the Protection of Women and Childreu,uks
;reef. St. James's.
iAr, Ann George said—l live at N 0.6, Whits Liou-court,
and the ;inane/it is my husband. lam 21 years
~1 ~ge, and have been married 18 months. On the 21st of
krch, between 5 and 6 in the evening, my husband met me
where we live, and told rest° come upstairs. He then
what I had been speaking to the landlord about, and
Lui .bout the rent. He then took hold of me by the
bumped my head against the wall and kicked me,
then struck me in the face, bled:keens( both my eyes.
" Yon shall not go out of the room alive. I will
your head off your shoulders." I asked him to Ist
for the make of my child which I had in ray arms. He
t. :Sale to put the child down, and bar* a lilts in his '
L 0.. d be said, " 111 bare your life. up year mind
to go out of the room alive." As I would not put the
,Lll down he threw it out of my arms, and on mz stooping
up he caught hold of my log, and in doing so cut
it. H.ereamed for &matinee, and some peewees cams and
the door open and liberated me, and then my husband
iri.l to get over the bannisters shoe me. He has often
belie]] me before, and the things I got together to make •
..e be breaks up.
Mr. Lewis—He has been in prison, has he not!
ecuplaumnt—Yes, air, once for an assault and once for
Levied.
Like Welsh, living in the same house, proved hearing
cries of Murder" proceeding front the room occupied by
the pi Liouer and his wife.
Mr. Lewis—How long have you known the complainant,
,L,l what sort of character does she bear!
Witness-1 have known her nine years, and she is
,:early, bard-working warner'.
?Ir. Charles Dowd, of Poland-street, surgeon—l my the
~.gliplaisant some days after the 21st, sad bar fees wee much
ocuued. She has had black syes. 1 saw a waned on her
het. an incised wound, but in ammoniac, of its being
orals. healed cannot my positively how it was erased. A
rude like the one produced would soak • wound.

;rife mixes up with the people in "the
I cak." and because I have brought some of them to justice
~e has an ill•feeling towards me. I wish to call Sergeant
i'o!e to peak to my character.
sergeant Cole was called, bet his evidence was far from
f.socrable to the prisoner, inasmuch as he staled that be
knew the prisoner as a thief, and believed he bad robbed
hr.: (the sergeant).
Prisoner—My wife aggravates me and calls me a " ad."
'.he was very violent. I did strike her, but it was because
,he dropped the child.
The prisoner was committed for six months with hard
labour, and ordered, at the expiration et the sentence, to
rid one bad in 201. for another six months to keep the
ve.ce towards his wife.

WORSHIP-STREET.
ILLIOALLT PLZDOING.
Short was charged with having illegally pledged
eight pairs of boots, entrusted to him to finbih.
!dr. John Greaves, boot and shoe manufacturer, Hackney-
ro..J. proved having entrusted the prisoner with the pro.
perty, and to discovering subsequently that it was pledged.
The pawnbrokers now produced the goods, and the prisoner
expressed his contrition for the act be bad committed.
Prosecutor assured the magistrate that he entiered from
g-eater lora from the system of illegally pledging than by
tad debts.

Mr. ('oohs remarked that he full► believed the assertiois
and added that he considered the Wham in question so bad
as to determine him on sentencing all f stare asses of the kind
to the most severe punishment within his jurisdiction. Ile
should now order the primmer to pay a floe of 40s. or suffer
in default two months imprisonment.
Prisoner said he trusted the punishment would be a warn-
ing to him.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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