The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-29 00:00:00

TBB POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL.

The court was yeeteriey occupied Per a very emmiderable
r!riod is investiptiali a charge preferred molest • Mr.
Mellier, of hating attempted to poison a Mrs. Holly, by
mingling some deleterious substance to her in arrow•
root. A great deal of evideace was heard, as upon a former
otsasio• ; the whole of which west to show that the prose-
cute.: was • foolish, Imaginative woman, if not mad, as
some of the medical men conjectured. It was abundantly
shown that there was nothing in the arrowroot more pot.
'ennui than potato starch, and the summons was dismissed
without the defendant being celled upon fur any tefutation
of the charge.
MARYLEIIONR.
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Dennis Cr !Comte, a labourer, who has upon fernier occa-
sions bees ia custody for assaults of a brutal description,
was charged with a murderous outrage upon his wife, who,
in eonseguenee of the shocking injury indicted upon her,
was unable to attend to give evidence.
Police Constable Wyatt, 122 D, deposed that on the
same morning, at 1 o'clock, as ha was oa duty in Baker-
s Portman square, he heard loud sorsa= of a female,
which proceeded from Blannford-mews. He hastened to
the spot, and on arriving there saw the prisoner knock
down his wife by giving her a tremeadoue blow on the
face with his fist; and while the poor creature was lying in
a state of apparent iosensibility upon the ground, he kicked
her with all his might upon different parts of her person.
Had he been kicking at a horse with the view of punishing
it, he would sot have used more violence. Witness
lifted up the poor woman, who was bleeding profusely, and
led her to her home, at No. 18, in the mews before named.
Had not be (witness). come up at the psoment he did think
the prisoner would to all probability have murdered his
wife by kicks and blows.
Mr. George Wilson, surgeon, stated that when he at-
tended the prisoner's wife at her lodgings he found her in
bed suffering severely from bruises on the breast, face, and
side. Kicks and blows would produce such appearances as
those which he had described. He could not say that she
was out of danger. Witness added that the woman bad
expressed to him that elm had no wish Of inclination to ap-
pear. against her husband, es in the event of his being
punished she and her children would necessarily be left
without any means of support.
The prisoner upon being asked what be had to say, ro
plied that be was vary sorry.
Mr. Broughton remarked that the assault was one of a
most brutal nature, and that notwithstanding the disin-
clination of the wife to punish her husband, he could not
let so gram and unmanly an outrage upon her be passed
over. The worthy magistrate directed the constable to
communicate with the parochial authorities, who would no
doubt take are that the family should not be in want.
The prisoner was remanded.
WORSHIP-STREET.
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A powerful fellow, named ise;;;;llayes de Bribed as a
railway labourer, was charged with • series of brutal and
unprovoked assaults upon three respectable married women.
Mrs. Mary Anne Belford, the wife of a tradesman in
Bethnal-green, stated, that, whilst passing through Shore-
ditch, in the oompeny of two female friends, on the pre-
ceding bight, the prisoner, who was an entire stranger to
her, suddenly eleaseed towards them, and, without utter-
ing a weed, amok her a violent blew on the face, which
knocked Ire aim sad renleied her lasemdble. On recover.
ing her OlWlNdownwo she fogad lambi supported in the
arms of a pelissman. turd sessearined OM her eassilant had
been given late emu* by bar tie ice. both of whom
had also bees maltreated by dm minas, immediately after
he had stashed her in as misialr dm bad dsseribed.
Two other married imams. asamil Ostbseine Perry and
Mary &aim, fally esembeeMed the elitism of the last
witness, sad added, Mat shir be bad bushed down their
friend, the primmer eimmeasal essawilleg Ibsen with the
most oppeibrions sad etre* them
two heavy limes ea tbfriti ler.l4swesessise, but before
he bad time la peened to Maras, Aisne% a Olieentan for-
tonately idealised leek hint fats aeseedyrere
wholly at a less te accent Sir melt a Mufti , as
neither of them bad ever before sari the , and,
although be was 'Manly rather iaoleiNed, he was evi-
dently perfectly massime M what he was abed.
Polierreenstellie 0 iffli stead that, bating been attracted
by the cries of "rams" and "Merdir"-he hastened to
the spot, when he Osumi the GIN lenplela sat lying sense-
less on the pavemplat, sad AO who was in the
act of making ethieing few parted eat as the
man who had loamiml bee deram lad sin ill-
treated two edme be at ease tech him
into custody. The whams was in Use meantime
raised from the mead by radar dicer, but several
minutes elapsed Wire she rearmed her muses and was
enabled to patesed te the station-house to prefer the charge
against the prisemer.
Oa Miag telled upon for his defence the prisoner pleaded
intoxicatioy sod add that he had sot the lighten recol-
lection of beabeg seatteeted himself in the manner described
by the WitOOWWL
Mr. D'iyaemat mid that the prisoner had been guilty of
a gross sad wallies outrage, for which his plea of drunken.
ness was as pealeillem whatever, and he should order him
to pay a peneity eV., or to be oemmittod in default for tic
weeks to the Home of Correction.

Mr. D'Mysimart announced the receipt of a donation of
51. for the poor.box, which was forwarded by an anony-
mous correspondent to bis private address. The nasal an-
nual remittance of 101. 10s. was also received from the Mer-
chant Tailors' Company.

Henry Webster, alias Thompsm, alias Chnsiss, waa again
ammined upon charges of defraudiag ?If WU/ parties, mili-
tary often, of sums of money by false 'Menses.
The Hon. P. C. ficarlatt, Captain J. Searle, Lieutenant
R. W. Fraser, and other gentleman, appmred and gam evi-
dence, and the prisoner was commit od for trial.