The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-23 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-YR9TEIWAT.

Smuts Ms. 1411.JtetT ADMAN AMMAN? Jesus.
THROWING A MISSILE AT THE JUDGE ON THE BENCH.
A ruffianly•lookinsit young men, whose real name was
stated to be Nansuel James, and who was well known at
Cheltenham as a thief, was indicted in the name of Wm
Jones, for having stolen a purse and the sum of 11. Is. 6d.,
the property and money of Mary Ann Fry, from her
person.
It appeared that the prosecutrii, Miss Fry, arrived at the
Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway, by
train from Berkshire, on the evening of the 29th of May,
and the prisoner was taken into custody on the platform
shortly afterwards by James Linden, the company's detec
tine officer, when he endeavoured to make away with a
purse containing money. It was not ter stealing that purse
that he was apprehended ; but, having no doubt that he
had stolen it from some one of the passengers, Mr. Collard,
the supesintendent of the company's police, devised means
to find out the owner, and the result was that he disco-
vered that Miss Fry, who lived at Newbery, bad been
robbed of it on the platform. She identified not only the
purse, but the coins.
The jury returned a verdict of (May.
It appeared that the prisoner had been convicted twice
at Cheltenham, and had bean four times committed for trial.
The Assistant Judge sentenced him to be transported for
ten years.
As soon as the sentence was pronounced the prisoner
left the front of the dock and walked to tho top of the
staircase leading to tho cells below, when his position was
directly facing the judge's seat, choosing this spot, so that
he might be away from the officer in charge of the dock,
and in order that his movement might be unperceived by
the judge, he slipped a penny ink bottle ramie of stone out
of his pocket and threw it with great violence in the direc-
tion of his lordship's head. Most fortunately, however, at
the instant it left the prisoner's hand his lordship happened
to incline his head a little to the left, and the missile passed
by his right car and struck the back of the temporary
canopy over the chair, producing a deeply indented mark
that left no doubt that if the bottle had struck him, as was
intended, the consequences must have been most painful
end serious to the learned serjeant. Mad he been sitting
upright it would have struck him close by the right rye.
The learned judge then calmly ordered the prisoner tobe
replaced at the bar (which order was at once complied
with by Leckycr, the officer, who, on seeing the occurrence,
sprang over the dock and secured the prisoner with so iron
grip), and sentenced him to bo transported for the term of
fifteen years.
The prisoner wee flea sieved, and was immediately
handcuffed.

THE POLICE COURTS.
C LERK EN W ELL.
Mr. Was. Kelly, a master leather gilder of Red Lion-
street, Clerkenwell, and Louisa Kelly, his wife, were
charged by the police with being drunk and disorderly.
Police constable, No. 128 0, being sworn, said that at a
quarter to 2 o'clock on Tuemlay morning he was on duty,
when the defendants were C r++uk and disorderly, and he took
them into custody, and thet were locked up.
By Mr. Wakehog—l did not, with sit oath, call Mrs.
Kelly a " very fine piece." She mid, " Yonloare a puppy."
She was not knocked down, but she struggled, and fell
down. Did not hear Mrs. Element say, "You ought to lse
ashamed of yourselves to beat a woman so ; I will swear it."
She was not kicked. They were not sober. Mrs. Kelly
did not complain of being bruised. 91. 18s. were found on
Mr. Kelly, and M. 13s. on his wife when they were searched
in the station house.
Taylor, of U division, beard a row in Nortbampton•row.
He proceeded to the spot, when Mrs. Kelly said, " I pay
for such puppies as you. You arc scamps and puppies. She
flew at Serjeant Martin, 18 0, and she fell down. Wit-
ness advised her to go. She was drunk, and Mr. Kelly
tiPsY•
gee Martin, 0, gave similar testimony, and added
that Mr. Kelly struck him on the breast, but he believed it
was not intentional. . .

Mr. Wakeling, for the defence, said a more gross cue
never occurred on the part of the police. His clients, who
were respectable persons, were returning home peaceably
from a concert, held at the Seckfordc Arms, Seckforde-
street, Clerkenwell, when Mrs. Kelly wu pointing out
to a Mrs. Element, het friend, some premises her
husband had taken in Kosamon-street. A policeman
tame and turned the light of his lantern or
bull's-eye upon them, and said to Mrs. Kelly, who hap-
pened to be a portly fine-looking woman, " You are a tine
piece," using an oath. She felt indignant, and certainly
did retort upon him in the language described. Her hus-
band interfered, and they were degradeu and locked up in
the station-house. They were the aggrieved parties, and

ought to be the cconplaaiants in the age. lle called
Mr. Edward radii', landlord of the Seckforde Arms, who
said that the defendants soil their friends were perfectly
sober when they left his house, at twenty minutes past one
o'clock.
Mrs. &rah Jane Element said she was with Mrs. Kelly
with her baby in her arms when the policeman turned his
bull's-eye upon Mrs. Kelly, and said in a rude manner, and
with en oath, " You are a fine piece of goods." Sho
replied, " You are en impudent monkey." We wero not
making any noise, and were quite sober. They seized her
violently, and I was frightened.
Mr. John Element, her husband, confirmed this evidence.
Mr. Kelly begged of the police not to ill-use his wife.
There were two policemen ; they said, " We will take you,"
and he was taken also to the station-house.

Other evidence, of a confirmatory description, was Riven.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that after such evidence it would be
impossible for hint to convict defendants. Tho police must
have been mistaken es to the persons they had interfered
with; and he could easily excuse Mrs. Kelly for feeling in-
dignant at the language used towards her. He should cer-
tainly discharge them. It was a contemptible case.

ComPENhAnort TO AORICULTURE.—The followinA
is Sir liulwer Lytton's opinion of the project propound
by Mr. Disraeli for giving compensation to agriculture for
the iota it is alleged to have suffered from free trade by re-
vising its taxation ; the passage is taken from his " Letters
to John Bull Have you a compromise ? You have,
theoretically, two; practically but one. Theoretically, you
have the option of revising your whole taxation, national
end local; and readjusting those burdens, which, under
protection, you laid sr continued to enforce on the agricul-
tural interest. 1 believe any systematic and wholesale
legislation which should aim at dividing fairly amongst the
community the burdens which now rest unduly on the laud,
could not be carried into effect ; and therefore this compro-
mise with the agricultural interest is not practically in your
power. Compromise in the way of taxation, be my amor-
tises ever so tree, and any calculations I might found on
them ever so accurate—l am convinced that every financier
would cancer with me in ooneldering wholly impactlcable."