The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-27 00:00:00

Ithe affidavit malt sot bays been planed before the wort. as
witness had not been morn to it.
Mr. Wiry we tires sworn, and said that 'when be list wail
engaged is laltbututoa, some montharisro, he was hastrected
by. an attorney, who ohould be aumeleas but to hie worship's
private ear, who paid him. Robo-taon and the other
bail, who maid it had already cost him 161, so complained of
having been thus robbed, that witting, as a kindness, under-
took to be of any service he mild to them without as at-
torney, and wham they spoke about his charge left it to their
Own means. He sketched out the necessary affidavit sad
took it with him to the court, telling his clerk to look out We
the parties and send them So him. He was engaged all day
at the emu% until becoming lU he was obliged to tarn over
• brief he bad to another gentleman at the bar and leave.
I. reply to an inquiry from lir. Payater, witness said
'that although he did not authorise his clerk to demand the
mosey, barmaid take what be wished or considered right.
Mr. Poynter said he did not think that in this case that
had been • sufficient daviadea trots truth to oonstituts a
fable pretence, and tbenfon discharged the accused.
The prosecutor said that tiers were two „other porton'
making complaints of a similar character against the
&ceased, and according to his account he had drawn his
affidavit, and not Mr. Horsy. The prosecutor thought it a
very hard ease.
Mr. Papaw said be should 'spiv a reepeetableattorney,
and_ pot deal with people pt pruoner's appearance and
description at a public house.
Mr. Hon apologised for lb. appearance of his clerk by
O I Oaths( that s had bean leaked up Waco ffiiiiurday night.
At the feet ,of tke *barge against the prisoner oa the
polies sheet were the words "Drunk ttbsa taken into
custody."
LAMBETH.

Juan Capers, u youngiaSi of respectable apparana,
whe.naid ha • shealiore in, dm Matra Tekgroph-
dace, was charged with isamsnittisi an assault on a parson
whp did sot appear.
When asked what he bad to say for being drunk and
eammitting an assault, the prisoner replied that on the
morning betas*, .en passing a church, he-sikas solicited by a
wedding party to giro away the bride, aid, basing coc-
aina, be was trattoria somettring to dealt. and this, sad
Oa a:chemist of an nneapsotod wedding, set him tight
eft and, having drunk a good deal, heloansa unomacums
of what'll' die
Kr. Norton—Did you *lurk it quite right to set the
father to • young lady of whom you lam nothing ?
Prisoder—She am not a Jaw lady, sir. She was
between 60 and 60, sad named so wino &boat it, your
wassails, that I felt I °meld apt do lass than do the needful.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Norton—Well, I cannot help Waking that it was
imprudent on the, pat of a Orange/,to do that which should
only be dons by a father cad near relation, or particular
triad. However, as regards the sharp spinet you; rho
complainant is not hero sad SOU are therefor* discharged.
CIitaNWICH.
Joseph Burgess, camas in the sada of Messrs. Tilley,
anaMilarre, of Aar-town wee charged, at the lamas of
tballpiety for the %ion of Cruelty to Animals, with
*skim* bread treatment of &valuable hones belonging
M his
It talsolgdZrtstr Matasasst of Mr. Forster, which was
Itrrna,crat , that, on the 26th ult., defendant,
and aimaamaanasead Harris, in the same service, was
NOS with two carriages to the Surrey Canal Docks, to load
with timber. Davis had shut out his two le
nding bore*
the shaft heardiidersa .rentaining ameba while the ng
was being loaded. The noise of the planks, as they
were deposited on the arrive, alarmed this urinal,
and Harris ailed pat to defendant, who was stand-
* by. Id- “glimi him a touch sad keep hint
quint." Dahadant immediately wind a birch batten—
s piece of wood four feet long by four inches broad,
and three-fourths of an lash thick—and, using a cans ea-
peados, with the united force of both hands, dealt the
hone a tremendoa Mai on the had, the effect of which
was to make the salad reel round ea far a the shafts
would allowi. and thus fall deed. No a:planation of the
transaction was, offend by the dafendant p his rotan
home. Binh told Messrs. Tillsy's forearms that the boric
had fallen dead, bat nothing wee heard of the injury it bad
naiad from defendant's violence until soma days after-
wards, when diddiWatafaiiiieaser-ont.
Itifthat Astra urged in his defence MA, *albs did
Oil, maid in lael Woad hone: •
Mr. Traill sonsidand the charge fully proved. Had the
act been wilfully atadad, dos snellint might has been in-
dicted, sad would hate been liable to two years' imprison-
meet As it stood, the casaaas one of great brutality, and
he adjudged the defendant to indorign six weeks' unplea-
sant la the House of Correction, with hard labour.

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