The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-18 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MANSION-HOUSE.
NIP hew Do ROM was plead at the bar on remand,
Charged with having been in • cab with • youne woman
samed Sarah Wildest', from Sheerness, on Siitarctey night
!•et.
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The facts of the case were folly detailed in the report of
the caul which appeared to the Expresi of Wednesday
last.

Kr. Lewis appeared for the prisoner, and was about
soak* a 'teeniest ors his behalf, when
Tie Lord Maim said he had attentively coaliderrd the
etas, and he though: be might save time bygiviig his °prelim.
There were malty eiresestseare in the cue which were
doubtful, end be could not seriously believe the charge. The
woman bad 5... t boa injured, and there was so proof that she
bad brio drugg d 11 there bad been such Golden*, be
stould hive committed the ',dieser fur trial for tetras
There was soother poiat which he must eons:der. The
releaser might have made his escape if he ple3sed, bat as
far from doing so, he went bask, I. (odic to ascertain
rebottle, be could render the young weans any further as-
sistant*. H• frit boned to say that if the young woman
bed suffired any injury it would have served h.r right. for
abs ought to have been more upon her guard. The time
bet seen 9 sad 12 o'el.a:k was unaccounted ter, sad that
afforded plenty of apportanity far them to get drank. He
behaved both the map end the won's were drunk.
His lordship thin discharged the prisoaer, and ordered
tee rebates who wee engaged to be paid fir two days' loss
el time.

GUILDHALL.

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George Mho" was chatted with stealing a pito' of silk,
Ow progeny of Rosen. Rate and Rverington, of St. Paul's
Cbeirehvard.

Mr. Parker appeared for the proseeuta.
Joseph Rile 44ii Co was in the employment of the pro-
eiscator., and cc T .urelay aftercoon he saw the prisoner
coerce from the shawl department to that in which be was
anther, co the ground Nr,r ; and on passing a pile of silk
he saw boon take up a piece of 40 yard., and corneal it ander
hie coat. Witness called out to Lim, but the prisoner
walked guiciily oat, sad on genic, the door commenced
punting. Witness followed, and saw him drop the .ilk is
Ihas.'reourt, Dretors'-eommons. He, however, peened
the prisoner, sod ultimately brought him back. The silk, is
the mean ion., hat bees bikes to the prosecutors' premises
by a ring mat who caw it fall from the prisoner as he wet
Tsang.
Ti.. crisaner call he did it through want; but Sprisgate,
tb. Jana, said b. see almost Innen the whoa, had hew
Infos* convicted, and that he had served hie sentence is the
GUI o:lt.puestriet Counter.
Tha ici.cner was committed for trial.
WESTMINSTER.
It2lnlla ry Jolley, a respectable-looking WOll3lO 41
year. old, was plazed at the bar, ow sapicion of being
warder.° hrr mtthcr.
Sarah Eamon,, swns—l am servant to the prisoner, at
33, Rill•nreet, Raightsbridge. The family consisted o 1
Moe Jalloy sad ber wither, who was a widow, genies oa
for 90. She wee very nano, but sot bedridden. I bad t•
help sinews sad get ber into bed. I did so at us on W.d•
aside, sight Megrims., came home at eleven. I west

hilted:and about three o'clock was awoke by the prisoner
*waist fanny new 89st bad no light, and vat not an-
denied. She told me I need not get up before seven
.'eleek, when I was to make breakfast sod take it up. I
nee et the hour named, and woe takirg the breakfast up to
he reemd B ht. front room when the old lady slept, when
the prisoner told me I must siot go in there, but mu.t
thin It late) the neat room. Privo...er and her mother
slcpt in the front room, sad it was in that
✓oom I had put the old lady to bed the night boron. I was
trying to open the door of that room whoa the prisoner
spoke to me, and I found it looked. She had ben oat
about 9 o'cloca, and name up the stairs at that moment.
She said she did not wish it to be opened, because .4 pansy"
would go in there. I said, "That is very strange, for
misses is so food of the cat." She went into the room with
the breakfast, and I weal down stain. A little while after-
wards I went up into the back room, and then I !nand the
tea things. They were dirty, end both cape hail been used.
Prisoner went oat again, shortly after I bad taken the
tongs down. She Oka./ ie about 10 o'clock. When I
asked her If she woull have the usual washing done, she
told me she would not. I west down stain, and remained
there till a policeman caw.
Mr. Arnold—Who first told you of her death ?
Witness.—The policeman. Prisoner then came down to
me, and I said " It was very wrung of you sot to have said
anything abort mime being dead." She said, " Fanny,
don't speak.'
Mr. Arnold—When she came to the room to you, at
night, did ate say &entities else besides what you hate
told me.
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Witness—Yes. I kad given her notice last week to quit,
and she said that I might go to a lady to see about another
situation, and she said her brother had told Ur that she had
better take her mother to the salt-water for the benefit of
Iher health, and that Mrs. Crapp would take Cu. of the
Louse. She said, "De you think you will go and look for
a place to-morrow ? There will be nothing to hinder you."
I have been is the habit of going into the deceased's room
witL the breakfast, and cutting her bread and butter. I
found the door locked betore.
Prisoner, upon being asked whether she wished to pat
soy questa:int to the witness, said, in an almost inaudible
tone that she did not go into the servant's room after 11
on Wednesday night, and then merely went to give some
instructions ab at breakfast, thinking that her mother
would want something early.
Witness repeated that the trait was after she bad been in
bed as described.
Mrs. Muy Crapp, of 17, Hill-street, the wife of a builder,
said—l know M•s Jolley. I passed her pulrur window
when she tapped at it at a little after 12 yesterday more.
lug. I stopped, and she said, "I am mad—l am almost
mad ;" and, bending her hands to her head, appears.! a a
moist agitated state. I went in end she said something
about her poor mother, and added, " She is dead." I said,
Was she 1" and she said something about a rssor and
cutting her throat, and of her (prisoner) having put her
mother's feet up on a chair, and her dying quietly, and
about something wet, something about the =giber having
said, 'Don't trouble lam very wet," and of her putties her
bead to her tartest sad saying, "I am dying. Frisian
told me she tried to eat her own throat, but could not for
the lite of her. She kept putting her hands up to her head
in a very strange manner. She said the occurrence took
piste about the morning. She said she was cad and stiff
then. She maid the servant did not know it. Bee did not
like to tell her because eke was a catholic. Ido not know
what that had to do with it.

Mr. Crapp, Sergeant McLeod of the B division. and a
Mr. Haggard, were severally earunieed. Their united Wh-
simony was to the followtog 'Let :—Atter the prisoner in-
formed them that her mother was dead, she observed Ser.
geant McLeod, who had entered the passage a moment after
the other two, and appeared very much alarmed, and said
that Mr. Crapp should not have told • policeman. They
went up stairs to the second Amor front room. Prisoner un-
locked the door, and they went In, and saw the deceased
lying across the bed with her feet on • chair, and her threat
cut. Prisoner said that about day light she heard some-
thing the matter with her mother, who said " I am very
wet." and when she pat her hand upon I er she discovered
that it was blood. Bhe asked deceased what was the matter,
when she replied lam dying. Prisoner said she then laid
her beck upon the bed and pat her fest upon a c►air and
she immediately expired. The police urgeaat asked what
deceased's throat was cut with, when she replied
• razor, and pointed to the table drawer. The
policeman took the razor out of the drawer, and
examining it paid, it is quits clean. She replied,
" I have washed it, and I have taken it out this morning
and had it sharpened." She said she had tried to cat her
own throat, bat the razor would not act upon ber. Prisoner
requested the constable cot to tall the servant, as she was •
oath 'lie whom prisoner did not like, and that she would
swear anything.
Some additional evidence having been given,
A brother of the prisoner solicited an adjournment, in
order that the accused might be provided with legal as

Mr. Arnold immediately assented, and the accused wes
remanded till Thursday nest.

FROM M. LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, Augusll7.

OSBORNE, AUGUST 14.
The Queen wu this day pleased to confer the honour of
knighthood soon Junes Shaw Wills', Req., one of the
judges of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas.

CROW/COFFICE, Auovar 15.
Members returned to mine in this present Parliament:

BOROUGH 01

The Right Hon. Robert Lowe. of 34, Lownderequare, in
the county of Middlesex, Vies President of the Committee
of Privy Connell for Trade.

DOROVOIL OF lIIIITFORD.

The Right Hon. William FM1614 Cowper, President of
the General Board of Health.

WAR OFFICE, Acourr 17.
Royal Hone Ou.r.ta—O<nenl Vutcount Omsgb,
tram 87th Foot, to be eoloael, Tun Field Kwltal Lord
Riglan, 0.C.8.. doomed.

WAR-OFFICE. Auourr 17.

Regimeat of Dragoon Guards—Surgeon Willies Green
Treenail, M.D., from the 60th Foot, to be surgeon, vice
M'Culloeb, appointed to the Staff.
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant P. Pinckney to be ape
tale, without perchers, vies Hawker, deceased; Conn
H. A. Wight to be lisationast, without purchase, vice
Pinckney.
Bth Light Dragoons—Gurney Hanbury, gent., to be arced,
by purchase, vin Sawbridge, promoted.
10th Light Dragoon—Lieuteuant Charles Potts ROM, to
ha captain, without parolean, vies Bowles, deceased;
Cornet 0. S. Davies to be lieutenant, without purchase,
via Reran
The undermentioned Gentlemen Coins to be arpointed
Lieutenants in the Royal Artillery:—John Robert Lyn,
Beneath Moan% Rinsed Stanley, Wallace Gilmoar,
Robert Preston Lewis Welch, John William James Dew.'
eon, Henry Edmeades, John Maevicar BIM, Stuart
James N cholson, William Smith, Walter Newman, Ed-
mund John Tremlett, Thomas Auriol Robinson, George
Murray Campbell. George Edwin Mauls, Willis. Dobree
Carey, Alexander Grant Miller, Edmund Charles Matte
slightest', Lauren.. Hector Undress PUIIOOII, Ramsay
Weston Phippe, James Charles Cavendish, Robert Ben-
ham, Os yge Erskine Cullaarler, Algernon Auguste.
Stewart, Hoa. Robin Villiers Dillon, and Edward Sidney
Barnett.
The uridesasentioasd Gentlemen Cadet to be appointed
Li.nteuants in the Royal Eogionre:—Gorda Dangiu
Pritchard, Eisen &omens Tyler, Edward Thomas
Brooke, Charles liaised Wynne, Rinsed Harrison, Ed-
ward Henry Courtney, Richard Mainlining Forman
Sandford, Richard Dollen, Henry Hahne Jones, Arthur
Tallied Storer, John Thomas Twigge, Reginald °other
Tharald, Norge Bathyal/1 Berkeley, Oa tavue liohnes
Brooke, Edward Mitchell, and John Garner.
E in " Gaa ats "of May 8, 1863 i—r or Gentleman
Cain Edward Pritchard Minitel! to be lint in the
Royal Artillery ; read Edward Prichard Marshall
Erratum in t" Gantt. " of May 11, 1855:—For Sergeant
William Henelyside, Royal Artillery, to be quartermaster
is the Lend Trenton Corps; read Company Sergeant
WiUum Handyside, Royal Artillery, to he lieutenant and
adjutant of the Royal Engineer Field Equipment.
Soots Fusilier Regiment of Fein Guards—Lieutenant and
Captain C. Holder to be captain and lieutenant colonel,
by purchase, vice Hon. C. G. Scott, who retina; Ensign
and Liniment A. C. Campbell to be lieutenant and cape
taia, by parches*, vice Holaer ; John Frederick Buller
Elphiestne, gent., to be easiga and lieutenant, by pur-
itans, vies Campbell,
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant T. J. Gregory to be cap-
lets, by purchase, vice Vansittart, who retires; Ensign
J. P. (hinters, from the 40th Foot, to be lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Campbell, who resigns.
4th Foot—John Precut James, gent., to be snags, by pur-
chase, vies Fags., promoted.
13th Foot—Lieutesaat C. P. Long to be captain, by par.
abase, vies Lovell, who retiree.
14th Foot—Ensign A. A. Le Meunier to be lieutenant,
without purchase; Peter Below, gent., to be ensign,
without purchase, via Le Mintier.
18th Foot—Basigu L. 8. Rooks to be lieutenant, by par
chase, vise QaaatrWe, who retires.
18th Foot—Lieutenant C. 0. D. Anneeley, from the Ceylon
Rifle &linear, to be captain, without purchase, vice
Wilkinson, who
19th Foot—Captain r who,
F. Strafe, from the Slit Foot,
to be captain, vice Mortises, who exchanges; George
Douglas Harris, gent., to be ensign, without purchase.
20th Foot—Easiga John Carden to be lieutenant, by par.
chant, vice Dickies, promoted.
21st Foot-41mnd Lieutenant William Pollock, from the
Ceylon Rills Regiment, to be liesteniat, without w-
aken yin Fowler, who resign; Gleartermasur Sergeant
J. Grahams to be quartermaster, vice Cassidy, appointed
paymaster of a depot battalion.
30. k .Foot—Lieutenant Lubin Macpherson to be eeptale,
without parolta.e, vies Brevet Major Bayly, when brevet
ink An been converted into substaatlve rank ender the
Royal Warrant of Oa 6. 1854; Ensign G. A. Benders to
be limatintast, without aerobia, vice Meephenon ; E
Ara Jobe Bina Macke man, frees the let Royal Lanark
Militia, to bonnets, wittiest purchase, vies Snare.
34th Foot—Range Richard Leine to be lieutanantorithont
punkas*, vase Itammy, dammed; Arthur Wheatley Oil-