The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LAMBETH.
Petrick Corbett and Mary Corbett were Merged on ye-
nned with pada' pockets at the Dramatic Fancy Fair,
held at the Crystal Palace on the 19th Mat.
The female prisoner had been seen by. Ham, an active
officer of the P dinsiou, to try the pockets of six or seven
ladles, sad at last he observed her abstract a purse from the
pocket of a lady., and immediately join the male primmer,
who wee in waiting, and hand bins the puree, which the
°Meer at on salved The two prisoners were secured, and
when searched at the station five other purses and moans to
the amount of upwards of 301. in various coins were found
upon them. Upon the male prisoner there was found
silver watch and guard, which he claimed as his own pro-
Pelf.
Impactor Bond now informed the magistrate that cornets
' had been found for two of the parses.
Mn.. Eliza Chalkley, of Beaufort Vitlas, Norwood, wan
then called and proved that she was at the Crystal Meow
es the day is cissetisci, and on her Mani bogie die Mimed
her p , which bed contained AL 40. The puree now
psodne was that which she had lost os that carman.
Mn.. Smith, the wife of Mr. Frederick Smith. of Beaman-
road, Birmingham, was next examieed, and ideutiiled a
purse produced as one she had been robbed of at the Crys-
tal Palace on the 19th instant, and which then contained
1/. 11X., tottetsr with some bills mode over to her for pur-
chases made at a draper's shop in Birmingham.

Ham, the allow, proved that this was the purse which
Its saw the female primmer take from the lady's pocket
aed deliver to the gala prisoner. Ham stated that be
had discovered the Asap at which the watch the man claimed
as his property had been purchased, and be had ascertained
from the shopkeeper that the kouralteser did not answer the
description given him of the pkroner ; on the cookery, the
watch had been sold tO en oktlrly man, who was accompanied
by has wife, and both rum widen* from the country.
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Mr. Novice thought itunweammey to go into that cam, aft
there was quite own& so mod the prisoners for was
on the charge which had sow been completed. This was
the mart wholesale ease of picking pockets that had ever
come betas the court. The case muss go for u iaL
The primer% who, under the advice of their solicitor.
Mr. Neal*, merged their defence, were then fully committed
for trial at the earning Newington sessions.

TliAbLBB.
Waiter Iliii,agedlearaisa of oolour sad Lido cook and
aseema ea Lend the aen Nevis, from Surinsra, was
amp! with ageingto Murder Hooorah Morris, a
imam of the tows. Wier known as Mad Norab. on Sun-
day mondedg, in that daft of iniquity, Hlnegrata-fields, Mad-
am'', *here so many entrees and robberies have been com-
mitted. _ . _

Janes Haywood, • labourer, said that on Sunday morn-
lag, about a quarter past 5 o'clock, the prisoner and a woman
'were quarrelling at the door of a house, No. 2, Victoria-
plaou BI and he mid she had robbed him of his
enemy and clothes, which the denied. He struck her a
violent blow on the nose with his flat, ran rway, aod went
to hisPedgbegs in Radcliff-highway. He returned with •
knife about twenty minutes past 7, seined the woman by
' the left band in the middle of the road, and said he would
, *wider her. He struck blow after blow with the knife until
'he stuck it into her shoulder. sod could oat get it out
spin. He then ran away. The prisoner was followed,
knocked down, andcaught. The woman was half drank, the
=:was sober. They had passed the night together.
rin.ri get in the room in which they were sleeping and
took all his clothes away, and the prisoner charged the
woman with being eanarned in the theft. Witness saw the
prisoner come out of the home without any clothes on
except his shirt and drawers.
Edward Dillon, • police sergeant, No. 18 K., said—At a
quarter-past seven on Suoday so raing I heard • woman was
stabbed in Bluegate•fields. I went there, agd law the
pri-
soner struggling in the hands of three or folk persona I
took him into custody, and then sent for Dr. Roes, •
physician aod supra in High-street, Shadwell, by
whose direction I conveyed the woman to the London
Hospital, with a knife sticking in her shoulder.
The resident aspen extracted the knife. The
woman was wounded in several places. She bled a good
deal before sbereached the hospital, and was quite exhanated.
She told him at the hospital that the wiener bad pureed
the night with her, and that be amused her of robbing him.
The prisoner had met Witness in the street very early in the
morning almost naked, and said he bad beep robbed by the
woman Morris. BIN mid, "No, I have not robbed
but Irish Annie and Black Sall have taken away his clothes.
Witham directed the prisoner to go Lome sod clothe him-
self, and not remain in the street until people were about.
He went home. obtained • shoemaker's knife and sharpened
it, and then returned to Bluepte-fields.
In answer to Mr. Woolrych, Dillon said the woman Morris
struck the prisoner in his presence and spat in hie face. Hill
had no knife then. He found the prisoner's hoots mad
treason concealed between the bed and the mattress in the
bedroom same hours after the woman was wounded.
Mr. David Hyman Due, house surgeon, I.oadon Hospi-
tal, said • woman named Honorah Morns was brought there
on Sunday morning, at half-past seven 'o'clock, with five
wounds is different parts of her body. Use was oe the right
shoulder-bone, and the knife produced was sticking in the
wound. It required considerable force to get it out. I pulled
it out. There were two wounds on the right aide of the back;
the upper one two inches in length, and the lower one about
one inch in length. There was • long incised wound
in the fleshy part of the right arm, and another at the back
pert of the arm. Mr. Dyte said the shoemaker's knife
produced by Dillon, the Wade of which was stained with
blood up to the hilt, was no doubt the instrument with
which the wounds were indicted.
In answer to questions by Mr. Woolrych, the witness said
no vital part was injured. The use, however was a very
wipes one. The woman lost no blood in the hospital. It
required soonneus foam to get the knife out of the
shoulder. The whole of the blade up to the hilt was in
the shoulder. The blade of the knife wu five inches in

length.
The prisoner asked a few unimportant questions of Dillon
relating to the loss of his clothes.
Woolrych—That has nothing to do with your
stabbing the woman. 1 shall not go into the defence now.
I shall remand you until Tuesday, the 6th of August, and
again if the woman is then unable to attend.

WANDSWORTH.
Yesterday was appointed for the hearing of the ad-
journed summons easiest the Duke of Sutherland, for
arnaultiog Mr. Metcalf, the barrister, by striking him over
his hat with a whip, but none of the parties attended.
Shortly Wore the closing of the court, Mr. Ingham
announced to the clerk that the summons was further ad-
journed until Wednesday, the 6th of August.
Mr. Taylor observed that be undeestood the ease had
been settled.
Mr. Ingham said it was, but the parties intended to ap-
pear at the court on the 6th of next mouth.
The summons stands adjourned accordingly.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT. Yesterday morning
young man, aged 30 years, whose name was moertained to
be George Street, and one of her Majesty's beembold ver-
vains at Osborne, was attended at Westminster Hospital by
Mr. Arthur Bend* the house surgeon, where be had bees
received under the following circumstances :—lt seems that
the unfortunate MAO obtained pertuianon to come up to
Landon for the purpose of visiting the International Bald.
On returning from thence on Saturday, and while
riding on the roof of an omnibus, be suddenly lent his
balance, and fell with fearful violence on to the roadway.
Before he meld be picked up a cob tame along, and two of
the wheels passed over him. Ifs wee then removed in a
senseless state to the hospital, when it was found that his
skull was fearfully injured, and his right head sad arm
hook= in a shocking manner. lie has never been eensibio
since the occurrence, and scarcely any hopes are estertaiami
of his recovery.
SIMPICTOUR DEATH 07 A WOMAN Ire LIVERPOOL.
—LFIRRPOOL, MONDAY.—Early4OTesterday morning the dead
body of a woman, apparently years of age, was found
lying io Randle-court, off Leedretrret. The parties who
made the discovery at saes gave information to the police,
when the body was removed. On examination several revere
wounds were found on the had and face, while the throat
was marked with the impression of a ringer and thumb,
which gave rims to the sespicson that the unfortunate woman
' was strangled ; and it further transpired that the demesed
had cohabited 'with • man named Daniel id'Teague. with
whom she wee men quarrelling on Saturday night. Search
was thee made for Il•Tengue, and about o'clock in the
evening he WAS apprehended at a public-house in Vauxhall.
road. At the inquest today the coroner's jury returned an
opts yarded.
PROVINCLAL Music ire TVS Murmurous.—For
the hot few days several brass bands have made their sp-
in the streeta of London, with the words, " From
gterl7l3ridge, Lancashire," " From Blackburn. leiseashirti,*
exhibited on printed placards. The members of those
bends are amateur mmicians, until lately employed in the
cotton factories of Lancashire. Many of these operatives
have for years peat been in the habit of employing their
leisure hours in the practice of music, and the state of pro-
ficiency at which they have arrived may be fresh in the
recollection of the readers of this journal, from the brass-
band contests is which tbsy have for two or three years
taken part at the Crystal Palace. These mita having been
tbrewsrout of Seploymisat by the aiming of tits settee
factories, rather that become recipients of the relief fated,
have now turned their musical talent to a practical account,
and have visited the metropolis with that purpose.