The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-31 00:00:00

::OECMBER 31, 1864.

THII-POLIG'I ZIOURIS.

LAMBER.
William M'Laren was pissed at the low Were the Hon.
G. 0. Norton, for anal sizamineMon. on a asap of skulks
two fine ducks from the kitchen of Mr. Henry Stokes, of
the Bell public•honse, in the Wandsworth-teed. There
was also • 'mood charge against the poisoner tj having
three counterfeit mi.:pewee in his. pomession.
Police-constable John Westwood, 239 P, said that milts
eight of that day week, at about 9 o'clock, he met the pd.
weer in the Chipharn•roatt carrying two ducks, and on ask-
ing him where he got them he said he bought them at
Leadenball-roarket He told him it was curious if be
bought them then be should be going in a contrary direc-
tion ; and he than said he got them from his sister. He
refused to give his address, and witness took him Inks
custody ; but in doing so he had much difficulty, se the
prisoner struggled hard with him, and said that bad it not
bean for his stick he should have served him out.

Stokes said that on the afternoon of that day the
ETZ, another man, and three women were drinking at
e, and were in his taproom for some time. While
their the prisoner had been out into the yard, and after
they were gone be mimed four couple from nine couple
of ducks that were in the kitchen, and be bad no doubt
whatever the two docks produced were two of those that
had been stolen. The ducks he (witness) bed received from
his brother in the country on the day Wore, and were
worth 6s.

Tbs prisons, who on the former examination 'tautly de-
clared the ducks wore his own, now pleaded guilty to steal-
ing them.
The oMoer from the Mint said the prisoner was not known
as a passer of had coin, and if therefore committed for bar-
ing tbs three sixpences in his possession his COUViCiIOII would
doubtful.
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-176-7Nohii hoped the eentencie he was about to pas on
the prisoner would have the effect of mekieg him more
honest for the future. He set him for three months' bard
labour to Wandsworth House of Correction.
THAME3.
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A well-dressed morns; ;anted Hannah Craysion, aged
45 the wife of a carpeater, wee brought before Yr.
Paet-
charged with attempUng to commit suicide.
ohs Nome, a police constable, No. 283 IL, stated that
be was called tato the Peruse; Arms, public-house, in
Jubile►street, Stepney, where he found the primmer. who
had a glass of ale and sugar of lead before her.
Mr. Partridge—A carious mixture; did she intend to
drink.it I
Witoe.—Yes, sir. She appeared very much excited,
sad said she intended to destroy herself sad wee tired of
her hie. I took her into custody, cud seized the glass cad
the mixture. _ _ _ _

Amniii:looking fluid, a combination of ale end onlio
add, was bore produced.
An intelligent boy, named Charles Kest, of No. 19&
JubileaUreet, Stepney, laid be was in a beerAop and saw
she pima,. who had a paper containing poison, sod said
she wee going to poUu on He followed her and maw
her go into the Noreen' Arms and put it tato the ale. She
wee about to drink it, sod be spoke to a gentleman, who
took the glees from bet, and called in a police mutable.
'Depictor Grinin, of the K division, here add—The pd.
MAC was here yesterday morning, and Emd for being drunk
and incapable of taking care of herself.
The prune's-1i is all throlgh my husband. He has
left me.
Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner for • week.

MUSD= AT ALDERSHOT.—Yeefferdlty morning a
hesitate murder was perpetrated in the Booth Camp, Alder.
Mot, by an artaleryenati named Thane. Iftimphy. It !ip-
pon that this man has hese lately enifering from inanity,
sod was oonlned in No. 7 Hut, Hospital Wards, Z Linos,
Booth Camp, near the church. He wan under the airreil-
lance of two men helmets; to F Battery, 9th Briipde,
Royal Artillery, named Dinkel Burns and Frederick ray.
Just. after 6 o'clock in the morning Dunphy got out of
bed, and seizing hold of a heavy poker lying at the fire-plies,
began beating the Boor with it, and making a loud now.
Burn immediately went over to tete it from hire, whoa
the madame, seeing his intention, lifted the deadly intro-
moot, sad with rapidity and iMIO•00) faros, dealt the en-
fors:mate man two blows on the bead, breaking hie skull,
and easteerieg portions of blood, hair, mad brains in all
chrections.lBsiing his comrade attached, Gray ran towards
the hifonated mamma, bat the latter vistaed to meet him,
when Gray, beings unarmed and with nothing at hand to
defend himself, jumped through the wiedow of the but,
which stands shoot five feet from the Fouled, and thus
escaped with his lite. He quickly procured amistemos, and
the mad tomato of the hit was secured. Assistant Burgeon
Simons, D. battery,ftl. H. A., was almestimmediately after
on the spot, and attendedi to Buns, but the poor man only
existed • few mintiest, mid died in great agony. The man,
who had been under the medical treatment of Assistant
Burgeon Faught, E battery, 9th Brigade, Royal Artillery,
was egun placed under the surgeou's care, with six soldiers
to geoid him. Immediately after the affair Demph ap.
peered to became quiet sod harmless,
it
will, of Boone, he taken against him, but it is probable that
he will be mint for coufinement to one of the crizniaal lunatic
aeylums.
ANOTHER CHARGE or BRI7TALITT AGAINST TEI
POLICZ.—An inquiry was held last evening by Mr. W.
Payne, ism
Jame City ol Loudon. respecting the
death of Mr. es Pasoan, aged 46 years. The he-
mmed wee a &smile' wseetionseman in the City. Oa
boxing-day he took a parcel of maw, cakes. and • bottle
of whiskey to Bishopagatesisst, to catch an =nib= to
Hackney, where be was to have dined with his atm While
pja=the parcel on the top of the omnibus the vehicle
and he was pitched headforismost to the grated.
His skull was fractured, and he had to be removed to Guy's
Hospital, Mrs. Ann Vosh•Wn 4, Devosehissequaris, said
that she was attending the wards of the hospital, studying as
a nurse. She my the deceased brought la by two policemen,
used whom pushed him doers es the Boor between the
I beds when he could not stead. The game officer then !melt,
or fell epee his chest, and caught hi arm, and twisted it
amend so much, that wittier heard the bones crack. /tr.
Roberts, the dresser, seeing the co stable so brutally ilium
the gentleman, cried out," ,Gently gently," and went to the
spot, sad attended to the deceased. Witness believed that
Polieereoestable Hitaboock, now present, wee not the man
1 that Quad the deceased, bat she could not be positive.
00f0041' : Send for the house surgeon again, that we may
r•-examine him, and see whether the fracture of the skull
and injury to the brain might have been caused by the de-
reacid's bang thrown doers in the hospital ward. (To
I Hitchcock) I will cot ask you if you were the ma* who
intimated the deceased, bat I will hear any explanation you
may. offer. Folkeconstable Hitchcock, 680, City polies,
said • I was present, but I was not the man. Comae: :
What is the name of the other °Mors !—His number
I. 560, but I do not know his name. I did sot see him
throw the deceased down ; .
the domed fell dews. The
twisting of the arm happened in to get deceased's
coat off. It would have been impossible to take deceased's
coat off in any other way. Mrs. Vonbellin said that other
bad seen what she described. It wee stated that
mAray, the house surgeon, was not able then to attend.
The coroner said that the charge against the police was one
for investigation before the police committee. It could
hardly be held that the treatment which deceased had an-
, dingoes in the ward had been the cause of his death. The
court was adjourned for further evidence,
A CHILD SHOT AT ITS BRUTE= —01:1 WeClllBll-
- reeving Mr. J. H. Church, borough coroner, held en
I inquest at the White Lice Inn, Magdelecetneet, Col-
cheater, on the body of Harriet Scott, aged two years and
two months, the child of a labourer, living in Cluldwall.
place, Megdelcinetrest, who met its death by being acci-
dentally s
layingy its brother Harry, aged six years, while
be was p with a loaded gun which his hither had
inesutioosly left in the house on Tuesday afternoon,
Bash, wife of Joseph Hansmoed, said—My husband
is a brasier and finnan, and I live in the adjoining house
of Samuel Scott, the father of the deceased, situate is
Childviell-place. Yesterday morning, about a quartet-
te's one, I was sitting in my house preparing for dinner
and beard the, report of • gnu ; I st first thought it was in
Mrs. Burrows gardee, sad almost immediately afterwards*
little boy, brother of the deceased, named George, came
late my house and said, " My little brother Harry has abet
mysister." He appeared to te very much frightened. I went
isolontly late tlesit'a loom ; I saw the decessed lyisg upon
its right side in the middle of the room ; so other pence
was in the room. Mr. Worts, surgeon, 'compassed by
soother gentleman, arrived in about five minutes ;
Worts examined the child. While I remained in the room
the little boy, George, aged 9, came in, and.he told me that
kis brother Harry, aged 6, had paid the trigger with his
sleeve, bows it should not hart his hand, and that the gun
wont off. The lather, who is • woodman in the employ of
Mr. Farina, stated that on Monday he had tried to fire
the gun, bat it would not go off, and he placed it with
another in the corner of the room, having taken the caps
off, sad be believed the hammers were down. on the nipple;
the boy had told him that he got the gus and laid it on the
table, and vies going to shoot to the chimney, when his
sister tamed her face round and was shot; each of the
boys said the other put the cap on. The mother and Ser.
met Langley, of the police, were examined ; and Mr.
Worts, surgeon, stated that the charge bad entered the
cheek sad bad lodged in the gland under the left ear ; he
thought the gun when discharged most have been within
half • yard of her. The jury retuned • verdict of " Acci-
dental death," and expressed their sense of regret at its
occurrence. The coroner thee told Soott, the father, that
be could not be considered free front censure in having left
the loaded guns in the way of the children, whereby the life
of one of than was escrifund._

DZIMIA;ATIONS OF THE 11171XERELI LP TREASURER.
—Yesterday, Kr. Thomas Paine, treasurer of the Holm.
Relief Committee, appeared before lb. Manchester mug's.
trates, charged with the misappropriation of about 2,0001.
of the funds of the committee. Mr. Edwards having been
heard for the prosecutioo, and Mr. Pope for the defence, the
oottrt decided, without bearing witnesses, that there was no
hope of a cooviction, u there was not sufficient evidence of
an impress trust, although no doubt if the facts were cor-
really stated there had been groan misappropriation. The
ease was eoeseqsmstly dismissed.
In the coarse of 1863 three sailing vessels, of the
aggregate hordes of 1,084 toss, and 30 steam vends of the
te hordes of 16,236 toes, were built I. the United
rierXom for foreigners. Of the sailing sesiele am was
birth at Gloucester, end two at Ball. Of the steam vessel@
two wore built at Cow seven at Hull, two at Liverpool,
seven at Leedom Ave at Newcastle, foe, at Olugow, two
at Gressorik, sad sae at Port Otsego,.