The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-08 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

lU*LI!OR9UGH-STBEET,

Varna, Heerard, the keeper of a night refreshment
bones, He. 51, Haymarket, was brought below Mr. Knox
for final examinatioe, charged with taking Minnie Wilson
from the custody of her parents, she beiig then under
16 years of age.
Mr. Edward Dillon Lewis, from the offioe of Mr. E.
Lewis, Great Marlborough•street, attended to prosecute on
behalf of the Society for the Protection of Women and
Children ; and Mr. Orridge attended for the prisoner.
Mr. E. D. Lewis stated that the charge, which it will be
recollected cossisted In the statement of ifinaie Wilson, to
the effect that when about 15 years of age, while seeking •
situation, she was accosted in the street by the prisoner, sod
induced to accompany ham to • house in Repert-irtreet, on
the pretence that he would get her • situation, that she
wee there drugged, as she supposed, and then ruined ;
that she remained away from her home with the prisoner
until she bore • child ; that the prisoner refused to contri-
bute to its support ; that she got as affiliation summons,
and then when it was beard, having stated the above par-
ticulars, the magistrate granted a warrant against the pri-
soner for abduction.

The father of the complainant was now hated in evi•
dance, but be pee a very mdiffereat account of hie
daughter. character.
The complainant, on the other band, maid that her father
bad not treated her well at home, and bad threatened to
turn her cot of doom if Ate did not get a situation.
James Hider, waiter at the Raglan Music-hall—l have
been in the prisoner's house at different times. I received
this letter. Ido not know that it war written by Howard,
but it is signed Howard.

The paseenttrix, on looking at the letter, said she be-
lieved it was in Howard's hardening/.
The letter we. to the following effect:—" Dear Sir,—Will
you tell Minnie that if she is sorry, and does cot biased
being there, she mast writs a letter to-night to the magis-
trate, so that he will bare it early to-morrow. In this letter
she must retract all she stated up at the court, and say in
the letter that eh* is sorry for having said so, but that s►e
did it out of spite, and that it was sot true, sod she can say
that she has left leindon, end she must not post it anywhere
near when she is stayieg, or else they will arrest her for
perjury. Mind th►t you do see that she writes at axe, so
that the court will have it to•morrow, or else I shall be kept
in prison for God knows how long, under the plea of want-
ing evidence. If lam not out to-morrow, I shall probably
take a final leave of this mese or. long, so if you want se
to exist you will lose no time in earrying out my wishes.
JAMES Thomas Howuw. To James Hider, waiter, Raglan
Mnsie-halL"

Mr. KSOT, after the above letter had bees read, mid he
must leave the cam for a jury to decide, as there was
doubt is the matter.

The iriaoiserW:siheu committed for trial at the Central
Criminal Court, Mr. Knox consenting to take two bail in
1001. each for the prroDeis
Precienct T iptaj, one of %lirwarden at the Hones of
Correction, was then brought up, charged with atteniptieg
to compound a 1:12WOIDINU1002% The prisoner, it will be
recollected, was charged with offering 501. to Minnie Wil-
son to keep out of the way in the above case.
Mr. Miles, one of the visitiag magistrates, wished to
date that Tiptaff had not bees fifteen yeses a warder ; he
had not been more than as many weeks on probation, and
his appoistmaet am warder bad not yet been confirmed.
Mr. Maynard said the error occurred entirely through a
mistake on his part.
Mr. Mille wished also to state that the present charge was
the only use that had ever been made against a warder, sad
he wished this statement to go forth to the public, in order
to correct an erroneous impression which otherwise would
be entertained.

There being no additional evident*, the prisoner was /re-
manded on bail as before.