The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

Mr. Commiedeare Glosibarn sat for the Ent time lime his
vamition today.

ASH r. HA p--A IU2II.WAT MENTOR.

This wu a trader.debtor's summons, takesout by Mr.
Charles Frederick Ash, iron merchant, of Upper Thames-
street, against James Hall, of &About's' House,
Addison•road, Kensiorton, brickmaker, to recover
sum of lON. 2a. 10d. From the affidavit of
Mr. Moore, it appears he did not personally serve the sum-
mons on defendant, because on showing him it he ran away.
Mr. Howard appeared in support of the iaMeDOOll. but
the defendant as being called did not answer to the name.
and it is misted that bankruptcy pnxesdinp will forth-
with be instituted.
fe JONIMI AND lIIIMBRIDOZ. —A GOOD 21ITATZ.

Thie Tire; adividend ;r7eet eb;;liiii ig-.;;1.
mon of Pimlico. Mr. Vents. from the rem of Maseru
"Ablates-, applied for an adjournmentof the dividend sittiak
There we. • remarkably good estete, and the creditors would
receive upwards of 13. in the potted. Mr. Clunseck, the
auctiooeer, had purchased • lease for 7,0001., buts. the pur-
chase money had not yet been received no dividend could be
declared.

adjoarement waa ordered to the 16th of October neat

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

SOUTH WARE.
SINGCHAIt CHARGE Or DOG WHALING.
Sarah Roger; • grd-leekirg young
wit, war pl•esd
at the bar before Mr. Bonham. charged with drli •
Skye terrier dog, the property of Philip Prestos, under the
following singular edreametaaess:
Emily Preston, the wife of the owner of the dog, mid that
she resided at 62, York-med. On the aftersoca Of the 11th
instant she was walking along the York.road, towards home,
when she soddenly mimed her deg. She immediately gave
information to the polio, and offered a reward of 20a. (or
the recovery of the dog, but nothing was heard of it until
Tuesday evening, when the constable pined possession of
it, end the primmer was given into custody.
Mr. Burcham asked the prisoner what she had to lay in
&newer to the charge.
She replied that cia the evening is qnsatioe she was walk-
ing with soother young woman, when they saw the last
witnesa crying, and, knowing her to reside war Hum, they
offered to take her home. They them left her. sad, aseiog
the dog close by, she picked it up sod took it home, and,
sot being elite to keep it, she gave it to a young men is
service in St. Paarneburclipad, sad an soon as Jo brad
it was the prosecutor's dog she told the coestable where it
was. She had no intention of stealing it.
Sarah Hamill said she wee with the whoa, es the woo-
ing in gaieties, sad sew the dog follow the lady, whom she
knew well. The primmer said to her, "Shan I pick the
dog up r WAIN= told her ale might do as she liked.
The prisoner thew took it away.
Is answer to Mr. Barcham,
Witness said that she knew the dog belonged to Mrs.
Prestos, but she said lathing about it until the polies made
iequiries. She then told the officer where to And the pri-
soner. Witness believed that obis oaly took the dog through
• f , sad sot with the Wheelies of stealing it.
Hr. am observed that inch wee his bells( ; bat he
considered Met withers much to blare is allowing ben to
take the dog, as she knew to whom it belonged. She was,
M fact, the most guilt y party. Under all the circumstances
of the ass he should daseherge her, and order the dee to be
gives up to the imemplaisset.
The prisoesr was then liberated, end left the mart with
her friends.

WORSHIP-STREET.
IiOBIZIT AID VTOLISCI.-0/11Offlia AOAIII,
Charlotte Dak• yam,' prostitute, was charged beton Mr.
Cooke with being cesciaresd h etesding from the parent •
valuablerop gold watch and money, toptber with erten
other perty.
Joseph Wiler, whom widens was takes %matt the
medium of aa mid—l am • Gamma, a plait
trade, sad live la Mitnerireet, Aldmate. Os /Pri‘ the e
bib isdaiefoil • late bear of the night, I meal:me in Spitel.
hada what this women, who had just before bees Wag
win amp mat In the skeet, came op to me, sad, so I ea.
dentood bar, wished as to go down a eked (a sotorious
thoroughfare kaolin u Phew delis-street). I rased, and
pat bet away. She wed os,aad saddesly, abash Pre eihrutes
afterwards.' was seined by the throat from behind. • man
inetestly stappsd in hest of me, end eke Lid held al my
throat, while • third engin up my lemma I wen fug to
As groan& Ity east was ton epee, my geld nabob takes
frem mT pone.. ad Si. boa is giddied salver mem from my
bonen poen, as likewise purport. I had as
is my lmad, bald soled rod is may way defied myself, as
two of the men were lying es my awe sad steer& ; pro.
sea* they jumped up and ma at, tehils• with them my hat
and umbrella, and I have not elan men them soft my pro-
pertzies ease.
Wife you injured at all
Proessater—f was very much hurt by being hog dowit,and
also by the mown on my throat and body.
Ifogistrate—W hat do you imagine made the sr so sud-
denly bare you ?
Preesonbar7A petlemn, es I afterwards assertainsd,
wee approssiting, and it is my belief that hod DP some ow
men I slimed is five minutes more bare died.
Magistrate--Now, are you sure that the prisoner I. the
woman who was talking to the met!
Prosentar—l am moat positive—then were three moo
to her, and sal lay I distinctly observed that the
on rob me went the same.
The Nagistaute—Did you see the woman at that time?
Prosecutor—No, I could not She had pained down the
street ; dimly a few yards off looted not have soma her; but
I pre a dircriptioe, and 'wenn her idestin.
happened that prisoner wee apprehended as the day fol-
lowing the outrage, sod remeaded under the belief that the
police would noised in taking the principal offenders, but es
yet their effmte bare been urienocenftd.
Prisoner,when asked whet answer she wished to oder apes
the evidence spinet bar, mid—lt was about I o'clock in the
raeraingmatt wher. eat I was there. caw so men, and know nothing
cflAke

Xr. Cooke—l shall further reamed the pruowr for a
week. sad
improbably in that space of farce nun nay be
apprehen

LAMBETH.
OMIT 1112•011.110 ASP POCK= PICIONG.
Chartea Wrigld, Edward Butler. sad Henry Break%
three mart fovre, and sespected chagnekeen, weave shemad
before Mr. Elliott with picking pockets.
Hansa, a detective officer belonging to the P division, mid
that on the evening before be mew the primers Is the
neighbourhood of the Elephant and Castle, aad knovriag
their characters be determined on watching them. H.
followed them alarm the Kenningtoe-rced, where there was
• large crowd of persona listenieg to a renting member, and
the moment they got up to tbe people they commenced
picking pockets.
The prisoner Wright—lf Toa saw us *kin pockets why
did sot Ton take us then ?
Hams—Because I had no anlamme, sad I looked out
for asather wasetable that I might mecum the three of
Ton. You know you saw me aninopt the crowd. sad thee
went away, bat I got on an omnibus, and saw you all three
Audio( at • lamp looking at something shiny. I again
followed you till I met two other cometables, sad took
you all three.

Mr. Elliott—Are the princes looms?
Hams—Yes, year worship. At het Surrey SeIII;0011
but ale Wnibt was hied /ors with* robbery ; and though
the ease was quite clear. his cormael beefed the prosecutor,
so that the jury acquitted him. The other prisoners are
also well knows.

Mr. Elliott—l Ain reessod them for a week to give time
for further ioquirionalueling them.
The penmen were accordiugly remanded.
THAMES.
Amami THTTVU AND ADULT 111C11,7111A,
Sarah Bateman a mania women. of No. 3, Doris-strut,
Bromley. was brought before Kr. Wriohyth, charged with
felooirowly reerivieg 10016 e. of Goal, the property of the
North Ludo. Railway Compaoy.
The case was a dltar one. This morning, between the
boors of 3 and 4o' k, a police-constable earned Thomas
Wakelfsg. is. a herr moored right wow
the Lisiebouie Out, a branch of the River Lea. at Bromley.
The barge farad a kind of poritooo bridge, and four boys,
each lades with large piece. of coal were running atoms the
barge from the emit to the west aide of the "cut" Use
boy went into the prisoner's bowie on the went bank of the
canal, the others lets bowies adjoining. The ocoatable par-
oled the boys acme the barge bet they all temped. Re wade
aa immediate search is the hone he had seen the boys miter.
lo the yard of one be discovered between 700Ibe. and 8001bs
of coal in lumps, sad in the kitchen cupboard of the wi-
llow's dwelling he found 10011 e. more. The primmer wee
theaad la bee sight draw. A hoc melted eat of
house directly after the eneetable mitered. He
asked the prisoner when hoy was that, and
she maid, "It is my mos." Rbe could give so amount what.
ever as to how she become resseeced of the coals. There le
a wharf in the neennerion of the North London Railway, oo
the seaters side of the cut, and a siding from the rail-
way, over which oral trucks ere propelled. The mole
are discharged from the trucks into barges. The
bum which had been werverted Into a bridge, wee elms
a chortle the bask of the canal and under the cc& tusks.
readiness to receive the outwit. of the trophy. About ball
• too of coals had bees stoles from one of the trucks lo the
mane of the night. The trucks or waggons on the railway
adios were laden with Sraveley coal. The $ cwt. of noel
hoed in the yard of one howie and Ow kitchen cupboard of
the Prisoner's dwelling corresponded exactly with the male
in the wagger's. The barge was shifted from it. position.
Mr. Wooluch Unshed if soy retail dealer, in the min-
bourimo.l of the place where the prisoner lived sold Ineveley
MAL sit di the answer was hi the negative.
The prisoner made so defence.
Mr. Woolrych said a very daring robbery was committed
in the night.tinio by several boys. who Maio half a too of
coals from one of the tucks, sad surted their but,' to the
opposite ride of the oat, sad were noddy denoted by the
dot or' the wharf harking feerfallr. The primmer wee mach
worn thee the tblevea She was the reriver, sad wee a
vali wicked women. He seeteeeed bee to six 'weeks? In-
Prtmemeet sad hard labour, ter the unlawful poeueles of
tae coals found in bar Wave cupboard.