The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-14 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Geery RI4IhIOII, 30, Itupert-street, Haymarket, and
Henry Former, porters, were charged with stealing a quan-
tity of essential oils and compounds, a ca.:. containing I l
gallons acichi, a seven-gallon copper, and quantity of
sample botUes containing compounds, of t. total value
of 3001., the property of Alfred Bird, from 20, l'oppin's-
court, Fleet-street.
The prosecutor was examined and stand that he e:se a
dealer in essential oils. Rushton was in liii employ as a
managing man, and he was paid by commission on the
goods sold. Farmer was a porter formerly in his service,
but had ken discharged a fortnight since. lie told ltudi-
ton that he was going into the country on Sunday last, but
he did not go. On Saturday evening be left the shop safe,
and took away the keys. Rushton had a key.
He was then asked some questions as to the position
Rushtoa occupied in his business, when it appeared that the
names over the door were " Bird and Rushton," thus esta-
blishing a partnership ; and so, without going any further
into the facts, the charge was dismissed.
WORSHIP-STREET.

John Meal-thy, an Irish labourer, was charged with
having cruelly maltreated his daughter Ellen, six years of
sge, and also with violently assaulting Taylor, 91 11.
Edward Dalton, a harness-maker, stated that he was
?using through Wentworth-street. Whitechapel, between
11 and 12 o'clock on the preceding day, when his attention
was attracted by the brutal conduct of the prisoner towards
his child, who was walking by his side, and after watching
him for some minutes, ho saw him strike her a violent
blow on the head, which caused her to stagger back against
an adjoining wall. The prisoner then picked up two bricks,
which he flung at her in rapid succession, but they fortu-
nately missed the child, who was protected from further ill- ,
treatment by some of the by-standers, who sent for a police•
man, and gave the prisoner into cu-tody.
A young man named William Lane confirmed the °U.
dence of the last witness, and added that shortly before the
occurrence referred to he observed the prisoner, who was
very much intoxicated, beating the child about the head
with great violence.
Taylor, 91 11, stated that having received information of
the outrage he proceeded to the spot, where he found the
child, who was crying bitterly, and, observing some marks
of blood upon her dress, he at once took the prisoner into
custody. The prisoner, however, commenced a desperate
resistance, in the course of which witneu was thrown down
and severely kicked by the ruffian, but with the aasistance
of the bystanders ho was at length overpowered and
secured.

Police constable Sims, 1I IG3, stated that on reaching
the station-house the prisoner conducted himself with such
outrageous violence that it was found necessary to place a
pair of handcuffs upon his wrists, but before they suc-
ceeded in restraining him he commenced a furious attack
upon the witness, and dealt him such a savage kick that he
had felt extremely. sick ever since, and was still suffering
severely from the injury he had received.
On being called upon for his defence, the prisoner merely
said that be had been drinking to such an extent that he
had not the slightest recollection of anything that took
place on the occasion.
The prisoner's child was then brought forward, and it
having been elicited from her that she had fortunately
escaped without any personal injuries from the brutal
treatment to which she had been subjected,
Mr. WEyncourt intimated that it had been his decided
intention, if the child had sustained the slightest injury
from the brutality of the prisoner, to have sent the case
before a jury, but, under the circumstances, ho should
order him to pay a flue of 31. for the assault upon his
daughter, and a further penalty of 20s. for the attack upon
the police, or to be committed in default for six weeks to
the House of Correction.
LAMBETH. - _

A gentleman residing in Penton -place, near the Surrey
Zoological Gardens, applied to Mr. Elliott for his advice
under the following circumstances :
Tho applicant said that for several nights past strange
noises had been heard in the front of his house, and in the
morning it was invariably found that a safe placed in the
area, in which the cold meat and other articles of food
were kept, had been made free with. On that morning, at
three o'clock, the usual noise was beard, upon which appli-
cant got out of bed and hurried down stairs to the kitchen.
On reaching the place, he distinctly saw a policeman standing
in front of the mfe, with his bull's eye turned on, and cutting
away ai fast as he could at a cold rabbit-pie, which had
formed a part of the family's dinner on the day before.
The constable on his approach at once jumped away front
the safe, blundered up the area steps, and ran as fast u he
could into the Kennington-road.
Mr. Elliott—Why did you not follow him and give him
into custody ?
Applicant—l should have done so, but I had not an op-
portunity of seeing his number, and as there were other
policemen in the Kennington-road, I should run the risk
of fixing on the wrong man. Besides, I did not know
that another constable would take him into custody on the
c harg e.
Mr. Elliott—They must do so if you gave the party into
their charge, but your best course is to apply at the station-
house, and then you will be able to learn the name of the
constable on duty on the beat, and you can then give him
into custody.
The applicant thanked his worship, and finding that his
home was situated in the I' division of the force, set nut
for the station-house in Park-place, Lock's-fields, there to
place his complaint before the superintendent.

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