The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DIY.)

TEUNES.
TO RICCUTE PRTBOXIM BY TEM GOVIIIIOR Or SHE

HOUSE Or CO662CTION.
l'Ace•sergeant Baker, of the K division, wbo has charge
rf cue of the vans which convey piasters to and from the
~.rious gaols and this court, returned to Mr. Paget two
signed by the magistrate yesterday afternoon,
.tearing two men maned Henry flown and Chas.J nuiper, to
..onths' imprisooment and hard labour for noc.payment of
-oars en orders of bastardy. Roche, the gaoler of the court,
,:misted to the magistrate yesterday that the prisms'
...Ad not Ds received in consequence of an order
from the Middlesex justices, who have the mule-
lions of the gaol, not to receive pries:leen committed
on civil processes. An order was tatted by the
mations for prisoners on civil process to be removed to the
Debtors' Prison in Whitecrusestreet, and the justices, &ti-
los' on the opinion of the City Solicitor, refused to receive
any such prisoners committed by the magistrates of the me-
tropolitan police courts.
Mr. Paget asked what had become of the prisoners
Dien and Juniper. . _

sergeant Baker said, when the Governor of the House of
Correction refused to receive them Le had no alternative
but to release them.

Mr. Paget expressed his amtonishment at the state of
things which existed in the county, and maid he should
write to the Home-otEoe onesbject, and forward the
two c.imrnitmeots to the y of Slat&
An arplication is to be made to the Court of Queen's
the first dav of Easter term for a mandamus
ectiir,t the governor of Whitecross-street prison, and upon
the .leci•ion of the judges will depend whether prisooers oa
ri‘,li,rocees from the polite court, are to be confined in
the House of Correction or in Whitearommetreet Prison.)

GREENWICH.
ITITALING RAILWAY FOG ILIGNALL
C wn,litis Shwa, (Aurae Reardon. and Wm. Swarm% lade
at nit 14 yearn of age, were placed in the dock before Mr.
Twill, charged with breaking into • hot sad stealing 12
aiguala, the property of the Loodon and Brighton
Railway Company.
Mr. Inspector Carpenter, the chief of the oompany's
police, attended to prosecute, and said that the primmer.
hal not only broken into the hut and taken the fog signals,
but bad placed signals on the footpath in the public roads
04.1 diacbargei them, so IS to alarm the midst:to and
fnghten Lome. _ _

George Adams said he ti a brickmaker, and was em-
ployed in a brickfieldl at the side of the railway between
New•cross and Forest•hill, when he saw five boys crow the
lite and go to a wooden hut under the bridge which cremes
the railway. A train came along at the time, and they bid
themselves behind the hot until the train pissed. He thee
saw one of the boys break the lock of the door with some-
thing which he bad in hie hand, and all the boys west into
the box. coming oat soon afterwards and recrowsiog the line.
Witness went after them and eaptured Sheen, but the other
Moe got away.
.J..Ln Huotiogdon, a lad, used he wagon the railway banks
near Newcrom, when the prisoner; Harris, and another boy
ft td. •• Let os go sod get some fog signals mad let off." They
then crossed the line together, and Harris broke the lock of
the hut open with the piece of inn now produced.
Tivo other lads were called, sod gave similar *sidearm
Hickson, a gauger of platelayers in the employ
nt the railway company, deposed to the building having
ken left safe, and that the sigmas placed therein were de-
upon in the event of fog suddenly Dottie' in.
Inspector Carpenter said that Sheen bad been convicted
f felony, and the other prisoner had also before been in

Traill said the prisooers' conduct might haws coca-
s.noed a great amount of mischief. and Sheen was thee sem.
t-ired to two months', and the other two to fourteen days'
r woment each.

"IM WINO AMIDENT AT • RAILWAY STATION.--
. ilt 1 This morning, shortly before 11 o'clock, • shock.
.• happened at the Greenwich railway station, to
T• I, is Edpir, a porter, employed on the line. It appears
t'-,t he was engaged in his ordinary duties, when an
which bad been shifted on the turn table,
1:i; the station knocked him down, the wheels of the
rros3ing his legs, one of which was eompletely se-
r—od. The sufferer was immediately placed in • carriage
conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where Ms remains with
• .'.,;ht hopes of recovery. The unfortunate man was
man ir d about 6ve weeks since.
`!t gin,: SUII•IDE OE A WOMAN.—An inquiry
• L,'.l I.st night, at the Green Gate Tavern, City-Ned,
I Mr. llumphreys, Middli ex coroner, respecting the
*; of Mrs. Horriet Hushes, ard 32 • oars. Robert
li 2; Great Arthur-street, said that. deceased was
• ,*.,p-dauzhter. She ler • married, but was living with a
I .'ter. named Willoughby. at 14, Crown-court, Oldiarest,
' dais since Willoughby left her, and said that he was
• to be married, and this drove her almost beside her-
`` 1 (in S.iturday morning • :teem went to see her, and
entering the room he found her lying dead
the door. Her lips were black and charred
• . the action of poison. and a broken phial and a mug
her hand. It was proved that deceased had swal-
, • I the poison on the premise evening immediately after
• ha I an interview with Willoughby. Dr. Crofts
! that the stomach and intestines were shockingly in-
"•I by the action of oxalic acid, of which she bad taken a
oantity. Verdict, " Suicide while of naeonnd mied."
1;1;1!,17 EAsritsx RAILWAY.—The property re-
for this company's proposed City station consists of
• I hon.•s in the parish of St. Ilotolph Bishopeipte dia-
g
333 persons ; 60 houses is Chiisit Church, SpiW
ligt PO pepsins . • and 186 booms is Si, Matthew's,
• • ',nal,green, and 57,8 plenums.
l'rlog ttr BREAD.—The prices of wheaten bread
tht• metropolis are from 61d. to 7d. ; of household ditto
to std. Some bakers are selling from 41d. to sd. per
t, loaf, weighed oa delivery.
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