The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-30 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

CLERK ENW ELL.
DISCGOSCIUN OF 1/111011.11J7T.

Mrs. Mary I,rliSai,;l Law;1iia;;;;;O -stre,t, r,.
enwell. was charged with assaulting Mrs. Mary
103, Whitecross-street.

di r. Lewis appeared on behalf of the defoodszt.
The complainant said that she was sitting in a ;
Leather-lane, when she received • violent blow •
shoulder. She turned round and saw the defendant tt.tr .
and she abased her, and called her vile MEM. SAa •:
know what the defendant struck her for, bet abn:• •
months ago she had had some words with her. ,tt.
say that the defendant was drank.
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In newer to Mr. Lewis the witness said that .1
not lived with bet husband for the Last 10 years.
should dachas to say who she was living with.
not lived with five different men in eight months. k i
the peat year she had not cohabited with a man
name of Smith or Wheeler. She was now living ,
man of the name of Connor. Her husband's Lel., .4
Toomey. . .

Mn.—Dormsny, of 5. Leather-Uwe, rid she raw 0
defendant strike the complainant, but rt wu not s 1241.!
blow.

Mr. Lewis—Are you not separated train • F. Irbsul :
Witness—l shell not answer you any It: (10
the magistrate.) .lm I bound to answer itat •aertioo
Mr. Layncourt—Not without you pie...,
Witoses—Then I can tell you I sla.b.t that
questioo.

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Mr. Lewis—Now is it not a fact that you I tie un.i.
pleinaut are living with two men, father ALA....,
Witness—Sappose we do, what can Ova I ~,re to do
with this cam ? We are no worn than the defendiot.
Police-sergeant Hamm, 5 G. said he was call,: to the
house, and then the complainant did n,t. say °ad w.rd
about the assault.. The only complaint mu?, wai that al
a disturbance.

Mr. Lewis said bis chant was a respectai.ls nisreiel
woman, and this charge had bean only made out of ittelino
of spits.
Mr. D'Eyocourt at onciediamiased tbs complaint.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE THSOUGM DIATZLBB OF MIND.

Beniambt Epici...selt, aged A of 5, Smith-street,
watchmaker, was charged with attempting to edam: .nssss $
by cutting his throat with • razor at Clerkanwell on tt.,
2nd of September.

From the evidence it appeared that the polka were called
to the house in question, and fond the defendant tier. in
a dying state. The defendant was cowered to St. Ihrttr,
lomew's Hospital, and the surgeon elated that the wont'
the defendant had inflicted on himself was so severe that
the vessels of the throat were exposed. The defendant in-
formed the surgeon that he had stood in front of a looitier.
glans and had cut his throat with a razor. Had the erotica
been straight it must have been fatal.

The defendant, who still appeared very weak, said that
he had been very much depressed in consegnence of h..
having lost hie mother, and aim* then be seemed to hsre
lost himself. He was Low afraid that be should lose his
work through his eyesight failing him. If he woe now di.•
charged he would take care that he never committed such a
foolish set again.
Mr. D'Eyncourt asked the defendant U be was now
stronger in his mind.
The defendant replied that he waa, and that he should
take care of himself for the future.

Mr. inynooort discharged the defendant.
M R I,BOROUG H-STREET.
A SHAN DUCCTIVE.-EXTRAOHDIXAILY CABE
Felts Twnpsett, a weh•dreesed young man, wu charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with falsely representing himself to be
a oonstable.

Mr. Charles Roberts. of No. 9, Old Comptonutreet, this.
tricot agent, said—Some time ago I employed a men maned
/Idioms in my °aloe. I discharged him, and he after-
wards applied to me for some books and papas. I
refused to give them up, and he said be would asa-
phial at the police-court. The next day he came
to 'lay house, accompanied by tit; C iavy) and the poi.
loner. Darr told me that Billoree had applied to the ma-
gistrate to obtain possession of some hooks, and asked me if
I was willing to give them up. I said I wee not,. and Davy
then left. As soon as Davy bad gorse the proionei said.
" Now, Sergeant Cole is going back before Mr. Knox, and 1
advise you to settle the matter se you may
get in trouble. I have come from the magis-
trate, and you had better arrange." At this tam
I thought Davy—whom name I did not then know—was
Sergeant Cole. The prisoner then began questioning me,
telling mete mind what I said as be should report it all to
Mr. Knox, and all the time he wee writing in • kind of
short hand in a book. The prisoner then read what be had
written, and said that was what I had stated. but 1 told his,
it was not. The prisoner then went into my bedroom and
looked over all my clothes, and papers and books, and after
being in my place about two hours he got isµ and I then
gave him some pictures and books, which Blllww claimed,
ref using to gi roans book which Bilking wan tad. Billoree then
claimed some money for • cost, and by the prisoner's
order I gave him 84. for it. The than said,
" If you settle the matter new, I'll go and tell Mr.
Knox, and there will be an end of the matter."
The prisoner then wrote os • piece of paper • same which
on looking at subsequently I wee unable to decipher, and
the addition "A 1 Sergeant, Detective Yates," and the
LIMBO of some "yard." I also gave up to Billow • copy.
ing machine by the prisoner's order. Daring all this time
two professionals were in my °Mos waiting for me, and they
heard all that occurred. The primmer had twice told me
that he we, • detective officer. and that is why I gave
up the articles claimed. The prisoner afterwards
,t. 1.1 he was thirsty, and I treated him to a glass of ale
and while he was at the public-house, he mid he wee one of
the "chief "detectives—wiui employed in Malls?. cam, and
that he believed be should have him in custody the follow.
ing day and get the 300 f. reward. I told the prisoner that
I hoped he would succeed in getting it, and be then west
a IZ.. Tyrwhitt—Giving you his blessing on &putted.
(Laughter). . . -

1117.liel;irts—The next racraieg, on looking over my pa.
pen, I mired the identical one I had refused to give op.
In the hopes of recovering it, I looked at the papers
the primmer had given me, purporting to hear
his name and address, and went to the dithre•t police-
stations in London—speeding 14s. in cab fare—but nothing
was known of the prisoner. 1 then saw Sergeant Cole, who
said he knew nothing about the renter. I then came to
this court, and saw Davy, &i C, who told me that
he knew nothing of the prisoner, and that I had beta
regularly done. Last night I taw the prisoner i• •
mune-hall, and I asked him if he kuew me, and he denied
doing so, and on my asking him if he knew No. 'J,
Old Compionotreet, at first he said he did not, but
subsequently that he did. I then gave him in charge.
The prisoner croaeuxamined the prosecutor in a style
showing that his was not quite a stranger to poLconourt
practices.

James Davy. 66 C—l went to the prosecutor's to see if
he would give op lame books. sod he refused to do so.
The prisoner weut into the boom at the same time that
1 did. The prisoner did not my in my bearing that be was
• detective, bat had a great deal to say. I hit the pri-
soner there.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—l shall nimuid the prisoner for a week.
The charge against him is more serious than be thinks, for
besides represeotiog himself to be a detective be obtained
the books, by false representations.
The primmer was remanded.
SOUTHWARK.
CONCEALMENT IN • RAILWAY CARRIAGE.
Peliz 3l•Corthy, a dirty-looking young fellow' was placed
at the bar before Mr. Maude, charged with conoesling him.
self in a third-class carriage on the South Eastern Railway,
and refusing to pay the fare from Dover when requested by
one of the eompany's servants.
Henry Dyne, ticket inspector is the company's employ,
said that he was on duty at the ticket collectieg station at
East Croydon. About o'clock on the previous *riming, on
the arrival of the fast train from Dover, one of the ticket
collectors came to him, and told him that a man was con-
cealed under the seat of one of the third clams carriages and
he refused to come out or deliver up has ticket. Waimea
proceeded to the compartment is question sod sew the
prisoner huddled ender the seat, and hewn compelled to
pull him out. When witness demanded his ticket be
shammed drunkeenes• and refused to satisfy him in any
way. Witness aoeordisgly seat him up to Loudon to be dealt
with by his superior °nicer.
Mr. Maude inquired whether he asked the prisoner for big
ticket!

Witness replied that he did, when he said that he had
neither ticket nor money.
Henry Hay wood, a constable in the employ of the South
Eastern Company, mid he was on duty at the London-
bridge terminus on the arrival of the taste, mid as soon as
the door was opened the pricier rushed out, kuockiag the
guard who bad charge of him down and attempting to escape.
Withers, however, seized hold of hint, and took him to the
statioa-ma•ter's office, and as be ref used to pay the fare he
was given into custody,
ln aaswer to the charge the prisoner said he had been
hopping with a family, the falter of which undertook to pay
for his ticket. He accordingly got in the carriage, Gad
being drunk he got wader the seat to be out of the way. He
did not know what became of the others.

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asLytwari England and .N °rail Sea.

FALL OF EARTH AT WINDSOR CASTRE.—YeAter-
lay morning, at an early hour, one of the sides of the deep
excs.ation which has been made near the wall of Wolsey
Windsor Castle, became loosened and fell into the
cavity which has been du; for the purpose of containing
the Beating apparatus for the chapel The opening, which
had Iren carried down to the chalk of the hill on which the
Cutie i. built. is vartial!y tilled with some tons of earth
el..y from the side which has given way. Hail the
.cc !- at occurred a little later it is probable that some of
ch, workmen, who wound then have been io the hole, would
b.,re suffered by the slip.

A, ENT OF 'SALIS/;-rEY CATHEDI:AL Snaz.—On
We,:nesday lest James M tttbew., a workman in toe em-
tlov of Mr. Frederick Rtehard Fisher, builder, of the High
street. performed his annual feat of ascondiag to the sum-
mit of Salisbury Cathedral spire, for the purpose of oiling
the vane. The spire, as is well known, is upwaids of 400 ft.
or about 34ft. 10in. higher than St. Paul's, which is
:+.;ft. front the ground, 3'04 from the floor of the church,
zt7sft. from that of the crypt; but, notwithstanding
this altitude, he. with the utmost portable coolness,moutited
the eroas above the vane, and turned the latter rotted with
ki. ford as be sat upon it. The mom, from the weather
is accomplished outside by means of twenty or mom
still iron handles, firmly fixed to the spire.
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SKILFUL Stlto. Eta-:—The surgeiy of this army
is reaciiing an estasordiemily high scale, as weapons reach
Perfe-tioc. Men wounded in the head or neck are fed for
weeks through silver or rubber tubes. The following is an
Matinee of the wonderful cures made by our surgeons. A
to,u e,th threat cut from ear to ear was thought to be
mortar,- wounded by a council of surgeons ; but the one
tinier whose immediate care the man was thought,
he was to die, Le was jostifiad in making an si-
ft:: rt..: for the good of others, at the same time
h.,i,rl -rest hopes of saving the man. Hs first
.Thr..enced his task by cutting through where
•• 'pryer rib. meet the sternum, and through this
ern e !or forty days this man had bees fed with 6rs gallons of
n.... per week, and sometimes his appetite required five
iLy. lie
ts. weeks he hare him able, and the inside of hie
to .it an nearly as to allow him to swallow by the
•ral passage. He at first introduced a stomach_ pump,
ani thus fed his patient, and after a few boars would deer
'..• voniach by the same means, thus producing artificial
until it sr.s no longer necessary. A silver tubs

•• '• tr‘ed to feed him, and-such is the progress made by
tht 1,-Iv:4i department io these parts that half of a maa's
br a boll or piece of atoll is replaced by a
" • • fee: RereAliran.
I. BF:I'7)M Altitl/ER OF A BOY AT At,.
tr f:-.—Yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. shortly after
.I,lc, a brutal murder was perpetrated at Alvestoo, near
t...r6,1-03-Avon. P appear, from such information as
been able to collect, that a boy named Bayliss,
4', It t.-1 yenta of me, was stabbed through the neck with a
nat.!, fort by a tuau named Jobe Wagstaff, a groom in the
t : lir. J. Townsend, of Abrasion House. After corn-
rte deed the :.erased, who is only about 18 yearsof
-oorled, and was traced io the company of some
reto Warwick It is rumoured that the boy refused
se:ne gin. which Wagstaff wished to sire him, and
;.• ,Vi1)1.1.4 Inn. wkhoat receiving any provoc
I.p.av P • '.