The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-19 00:00:00

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appeared to get his livelihood by giving people into custody
on charges of felony.
Mr. llEyncotut maid he should commit the primoners for
trial, to give the police an opportunity of finding out some-
thing about them. It looked very suspicious that they both
refused their addresses.
Mr. Ricketts applied that bail might be taken, but the
applimtion was refused.
The witntes Thorn applied for her day's expenses.
Mr. lYEyncourt said he would have the ordin►ry expenste
allowed him.
Mr. Ricketts mid he thought the witnees's address should
be inquired into, ea whop. he had only given it over the
water to get extra allowances.
Mr. Safford (clerk at Worship-street) said that he bad
taken six or seven mass, in which the witness had always
given the address be now did.

MA RLBOROUG Fl STREET.
DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OP A SOLDIER.
Charles Humphreys, • private of the lot Battalion of
Coldstream Guards, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
most disgraceful conduct to a married woman, named Mary
Ann Alain, living at 32, Queenetreet, Edgware-read ; and
the prisoner was further charged with assaulting Joseph
Alsop, the husband of Mrs. Alaop.
Mrs. Alsop said about twelve the previous night she was
standing at the corner of North Audley-etreet talking to
her husband and his sister and two friends—having been out
to spend the evening with them—when the prisoner
passed by and put his arms round her neck, and then throat
one of his hands up her clothes. Her husband told the
prisoner not to do it again, when the prisoner up with his
fist and knocked him dove.
. . .

Joseph Alsop, the husband, said that on telling theprisoner
not to repeat his conduct the prisoner gave him a violent
blow on the nose, knocking him down and smothering him
with blood, and rendering him insensible.
Maria Alter., the sister of the last witness, gave corro-
boratory evidence, and
Mr. Charles Brooks, of No. 1, North-row, Grosvenor-
square, said that he saw the soldier strike the husband, and
seeing that it was a most cowardly and unmanly smolt he
went for • constable.

P0we11,214 D itad the prisoner was quite sober.
Prisoner maid that he was called over by some of the party
and then told to " take his hook. "

Mr. 'Tyrwhitt laid the prisoner seemed to think that he
could do u he liked with the female, and when he found
that he could not, he knocked the husband down. It was
most shameful attack on the woman.

iheprlson;reras than committed for fourteen days for
the assault on the female, and ordered to pay 404., or a
month, for the assault on her husband, but subsequently
Mr. Tyrwhitt altered the term of imprisonment for the as-
sault on the husband to fourteen days.

HAMPSTEAD.
ASSAULTING A MAGISTRATE AND OBTAINING MONET

;vim. Holmes Sumner, aria, Jong, .7. charged on re-
mand with obtaining money under false pretences.
Mr. Humphreys (Humphrey. and Morgan) appearei to
prosecute on the part of the Metropolitan Drinking Foun-
tains Association. _ _ .

Several witl;Bmeg were called on the present occasion, and
Inspector Webb had been in communication with several
ladies and gentlemen. Owing to the publicity given to the
proceedings several had sonie forward.

The prisoner, it appeared, had been a collector to the asso-
ciation, but had not been connected with it for some years.
On the let of August he had called on some persons and
obtained subscriptions for troughs for the "poor dogs." In
the early part of the ppreeesseennt month he waited on Mr.
Prance, one of the Middlesex magistrates, and represented
that he was seat by the Rev. Mr. Bickersteth. Mr. Prance
suspected his statement that he was a collector to the
association, and wished him to go to the Hampstead police.
station, retaining the book in his possession. When they
got outside the house the prisoner assaulted Mr. Prance, and
endeavoured to take the book from him. In the scuffle the
coat of th►t gentleman was torn. The prisoner had been
twice remanded.

After several witnesses were called this day,
Mr. Lee, the secretary of the emaciation, said the pri-
soner was not authorised to collect subscriptions. He was
discharged from the aseociation two years ago.
The prisoner said he was not discharged—he left of his
own accord.

Mr. Humphreys produced a letter, which the prisoner had
written to Mrs. Sam-el Gurney, from the House of Deten-
tion, Arnitti-g hi, . nd praying her kind interference
wit, Ir. , lhochairman of the association.
on account of his I y. He asked for the commitment of
the prisoner.
The prisoner declined making any statement. He was
sorry for his conduct to Mr. Prance ; he did not know who
he was at the time.
_ . _

The bench committed the prisoner for trial at the Mid-
dlesex sessions on several oases, and Mr. Prance and the
other witnesses will be required to attend.