The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-02 00:00:00

'RESS, .-RIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1864.
TEE POLICE COURT&

BOW -STREET.

Henry Poysey, a carpenterin the employ of Mr. George
Frederick Graham, builder, was *treed with stealing •
dusting lased value 2s. 6d., the property of his master,
from a house where be had bees at work, He was defended
by Mr. L. Lewis.
Hugh Ross. a painter, deposed that he had Wee at work
for Yr. Graham at • hood:, in Gordon-ttreet, where the pri-
soner ado had been doing some work. On the 30th rat.,
witness and anotberpainter missed t wodnating brushes from
one of the rooms, and the out day, the 31,1 (Wednesday),
found one of them bidden in • espboord in the lobby. They
left it there, and kept a look-out. Is the afternoon the on.
loner was at work in the lobby,and on his leaving they mimed
the brush from the cupboard. They then followed the pm.
sonar, but lost sight of him in the street. They gave in-
formation to the prosecutor, in ooneequence of which be
was apprehended.
Police-constable Stevens, E 71, deposed that on Wades.-
day afternoon he was sent for by Mr. Graham, who directed
him to watch the prisoner when he left his work at • hones
in Enetoe-equare. Witness accordrogly waited there till
half-pest 5 o'clock, when the primmer left, and west to Mr.
Graham's office. He had only bola there a moment, when
he =Mealy rushed out and nu as fast ea he could back to
the house he had left. Wiliam followed him thither, and
caw him come oat again after a few minutes. Witness
then took him in charge. Witness afterwards found the
mining brash in the sob-pit of a blast furnace at the how.
in Ruaton-square.
Rai being recalled, identified the brush as being the oda
which had been missed from the cupboard.
Frederick Walker, the other painter mentioned by Roes,
corroborated his evidence, and concurred in identifying the
brush. At the time when the brushes were first missed
witness and Roes spoke to the prisoner about them, and he
denied all keovrlske of theheaelase.

Mr. Lewis, in &lanai, said that it was a common practice
for workmen to borrow each other's tools, and no
doubt the prisoner had removed the bras. to the
house where he was at work. But he did so without any
felonious intent. He took it to sue in his work, and when
he had done with it he would have replaced it. With re-
gard to the other brush which was missing, that wee not in
any way traced to the prisoner.
lb. Vaughan had no doubt about the felonious intent. If
the prisoner had not meant to steal the brash he would have
given it up to the painters, who told him it was missing. As
to the auggestioa that he used it in his work, it did not ap-
pear to be a carpenter's tool, but a painter's. He should
commit him for trial, but admit him to bail, in his own re•
cognisance* for 501., and two sureties of 25/. each.

CaAtilt Cordell, a young woman, was charged with
stealing a coat, a shawl, and a petticoat, rained in all at
24a., the propaety of her parents.
It app from the evidence of Mrs. Shen. an Mos-
ta:NY woman, the mother of the prisoner, that she left the
prisoner and soother daughter at home while she was at
work In the market gardens In Essex. The old woman en
returning from her work missed the articles seined above.
which her ungrateful daughter had stolen and pawned. Oa
the prisoner being taken into custody by Henry Hayward,
No. 401 K, she stated that she sent her sister to pawn two of
theartioles, and went to a pawnbroker's shop with the third.
The old women was represented to be a sober, industrious
woman. Her daughters. os the contrary, were idle dimi.
paled persona, who preferred to live on their parents'
industry.
The articles pawned were produced and identified, and
the prisoner, who made no defines, sou committed for trial.
Ann Rogers, a very old thief, who said she was 50 yens
of age, but looked like one of 70, was charged with stadia'
three-halfpence from William Ilene, a seaman, of No. 7,
Hmberstone-street,l3t. Cileorge.in-th-Esst.
The complainant, a very respectable and steady man,
wes on his way home, and saw the prisoner ap-
parently in great distress and much agitated seated on
a door step. She called out, " Protect ms, sir, I have
been insulted." He offered to semi her along the
road, and she proceeded ad, few yards loaning on his arm,
when she gave unmistakeable Indianian of her calling by
asking him to treat her at the public-house they were ap-
proaching. He refund, and she then asked him to mom-
pan, her to her lodgiap. He said, "No, I will sot;
ha,. a wife of my awn at Dome." He was preparing to leave
her when she put °ea of her hands in his pocket, from
which she took three halfpence. It was all the money he
had. He called the police and the prisoner was taken into
custody. The many was found upon her.
The case was clearly made out, and the prisoner was com-
mitted for trial.

SUSPECTED MURDER IN EDINBURGH.
At a late hour on Tuesday night a very myste-
rious occurrues took place in • house in Rem-street, Min
burgh. The tragedy, if inch it may be termed, has aroused
grave suspicions among the dwellers of the neighbourhood
ia which it was perpetrated, and has led to the apprehensioo
by the police of • young matt on the serious charge of
aggravated moult. So far as we have yet been
able to learn, the following are the particulars of
the matter ; but as the whole affair is at present pending
investigation by the authorities, some caution must be
scorched in receiviog the statement. as thoroughly authen-
ticated facts :—ln the second storey of • large tenement
situated at 156, Rose-street, there has lived for several
yearn an old man, about sixty Team of age, named
Lindsay, a shoemaker by t side, who bee occupied
a home consisting of a room, kitchen, and Decl-
aimed. Lindsay is a married man without family
but owing to some disagreement between haw and
his wife, he has for some time past lived separate from her.
His habits would seem to have been somewhat ecceetric,
from the fact that he lived entirely by himself in • sort of
lonely seclusion. He kept DO servant ; but cooked bin own
victuals, and performed, without assistance, the domestic
duties of his small household. His secluded and somewhat
irregular mode of living was not the result of poverty.
He was a man of means ; bad purchased three storeys
of the tenement in which he resided and was
regarded by the neighbours as occupying a thriving worldly
positioe. Recently, he had not been in the habit of work-
lug regularly at his trade, but whoa he did so he laboured
in his own house. Oa Thursday last, a young man, aged
25 years, named George Dawdle, an ivory turner, who is a
distant relation of Lindsay's, arrived in Edinburgh, and took
up his abode with the oM man in Rose-street Dowdle,
it appears, has only recently returned from Australia,
but for what purpose be came to Scotland has not
transpired. Since aThemeday, Dowdle sod Lindsay
had been living together and going about the city
in company. On Tuesday, they had been out as usual, and
returned about half-put 11 at night. At this hour Dohdle
knocked at the door of one of the neighbonn and requested
his assistaoce to convey the old man up-stairs, as he was the
worse for liquor, and stumbled oa the stair. The seighbour
refused, stating in a careless way that Lindsey had often
hue in that condition before, and would easily manage to
get up to his bed if left to himself. Nothing more occurred
till about a quarter past twelve, when the neighbours were
alarmed by hearing • loud noise proceeding from
Lindsay's bedroom se of men engaged in a violent struggle.
This hated long enough to rouse several from sleep; and
just as some were on the point of dernandieg admittance to
the house, the window of the shoemaker's house was sud-
denly thrown up, and Lindsay appeared in his nightclothes.
His neck was streaming with block, and he was beard
making vain attempts at articulation. By this time
the police had been attracted to the spot, and were on
their way upstairs when Dowdle ran down and
told them that the old man, his relative, had cut
his threat. On entering the place, Lindsay was found
lying on the sofa with a deep gash across his threat ; •
pillow estimated with blood was "yin in the middle of the
room, and a razor with a white handle, also displaying
marks of blood, was toned not far off. The old man was un-
able to speak ; but, in reply to question gotta him, be wrote
down answers on • slate. The substance of hie communication
was to the effect that on entering his house that night,
along with his relative, he had gem immediately to bed,
and had been awakened by feeling a rase drawn across his
throat by Dawdle. Springing from his bed be seised
Dowd* and the Wesel, oomenenold which was beard by
those in the adjacent bosses. Dowdle's undon of the
story is that the old man bad been in a desponding
state of mind for the last three days, and bad threatened
to make away with himself ; and after 'Wittig himself
the previous day be had put the razor in his pocket,
carried it about with him, and on entering the house
on Tuesday night had cut his throat with it. Medical
usistaam was promptly procured, and Lindsey 's
wound dressed, and, up till late last eight, he was
going on favourably, although in • precarious condition.'
It is rumoured among the neighbours that Lindsey kept •
considerable amount of money, book cheques, he., is his
house ; and it is also said that, when taken to the polioe-
office, about sixty sovereigns were found on the person of
Doodle, who carried them in • belt strapped mead his waist.
Dowdle war on Wednesday brought before the police, court,
and remitted to the Procurator-Fiscal, haw is at present
engaged making investigations into the matter.—Scotsman.

ditioc, Roder this dreadful blow, maybe easily imagined, bat
language would tail to convey an adequate idea of her heart-
' broken condition. The eldest child of the family is only
egad about 13 s' 14 years.
• The prisoner, it is understood, baa passed no remarks on
the dreadful tragedy ia which he acted mo preeminent • pert,
not even whoa informed of Mr. M'Crossan's death. He is
• married man, well up to fifty years of age, and has the
reputation of being • civil and obliging tradesman. He
commenced life as • blacksmith, but, being &good workman,
he subsequently set up in the coach building line. Mr.
leCrossan was about forty-flee years of age when be was
murdered. All the shops is Omagh on Monday bad their
shutters up—many of them were closed out of respect talks
deeemed--ead a general gloom pervaded the town owing to
this sad catastrophe.
Mr. 3Verossan's remains will be interred on Thursday.—
Derry Sentinel.
LONDONDIRIT, WIIIIIZSDAT.—The inquest on the body
of the lam Mr. John M•Crosean, solicitor, Omagh, termina-
ted last night. The jury found • verdict of " Wilful
murder" against the primes', John Mlainghlio.

THE LATE EXPLOSION ON THE NORTH
LONDON RAILWAY.

At the inquest yesterday,
Captain Tyler, the pessimist inspector of railways,
in answer to questions by the jury, mid he ooasidered
hydraulic pressure the beet to teat the strength of
• boiler' and firebox. There was no perceptible weak-
ness in tba firebox, with . the exoeption of the rivet
beads. They were to • great extent burnt away. Some of
the screws of the bolts were entirely ded through.
These were no means of amertaining the ens of the
firebox without taking it oat. lam 'ism to waderstend
that the Nimes on the North Loudon line work on the
Sunday, and that would give a seventh more working, but
might not lead to the accident. 1 think the stays should
have been examined before. I (sent my that there is
anything wrong is the original construction of the engine.
I have no doubt but tie original thickness of the firebox
was auffieteat far safety. It is the stays, and not the plates,
of the firebox that have given way. I undo:stead that the
engine driver could not get at the mooed safety valve, and
therefore Ido not think there was too much pressure put
upon the meas. It was rather • question of weakness
than of over pressure.
By the Caroms—There have been many other cues of ex-
plosions of locomotives. Since 1850 there have been about
40, bull sever knew • similar case to the present.
Mr. Adams, locomotive euperintendeat, was malted, and
denied a statement that No. 4 engine had been at work 16
hours per day for 10 years. It was • great portion of time
in the shed. It had not exceeded the average working of
other engines. The consumption of fuel was at the rate of
25Ibe. per mile when travelling at 20 miles en hour. la
goods trains the average was from 35 to 40 lbs., and
nothing bat coal was used.
Mr. Sleigh here repeated his offer to call Mr. Craig, Mr.
Siteoz, and other scientific gentlemen ; but the jury thought
they had heard sufficient to throw light upon the real MUNI
of the explosion. .

The Corea's that proceeded to sum up the "widows, sad
called upon the jury to twinkler whether, after hearing the
evidence of Captain Tyler and the other witneemes, they
cwiaidered any ate to be guilty of any culpable neglect, or
if the occurrence was an accident.

The jury retired, mid, after 'Mouth& an hour's abeam*,
returned and said they had agreed to a verdict, "That the
deceased had died from injuries received by the explosion
of a firebox of a locomotive engine oc the North London
Railway."
The Coroner—Theo I most record it as • verdict of
" Accidental death."

Many of the jury said they did not consider it u an
socideutal death.

The Coroner said they mast either return a verdict of
" Accidental death," or if they considered any one culpable,
one of " Manslaughter "—whether it be the directors of the
company, the manufacturers of the engine, the locomotive
superintendent, or the driver.
A juror wished to know whether a verdict of "Accidental
death" would not absolve all parties from liability.
The Coroner did not °milder that it would.
Mr. Sleigh said it would absolve them from criminal pro-
ceedinp but not from any civil action.
. .

After some further discimaion, the jury again retired, and
came into court with a verdict that the death of William
Davis had beau caused by " fiLieadventure,* bat they ap-
peoded thereto the following resolution :
The jury empanelled on the 18th of August and the Ist
September, to inquire into the cause of the death of William
Davis, having returned a verdict of death by misadventure,
are of °Make that the firebox of the locomotive engine
that exploded and killed the said William Davis ought to
have been more thoroughly examined, considering the age of
the engine and the appearaece of the rivet heads.
The said jury also recommend to the North London Railway
Company for the future a more atria examination of the
fireboxes, especially as the rivet heads of the days of
the firebox which exploded show sunk evidest sigma of
weakness."

Mr. Sleigh said the recommendations of the jury should
be laid before the directors of the North London Company,
and he bad no doubt they would receive the fullest thew-
&ration. lie also intimated that as the deoseeed had an
aged mother depsodeet upon him Ilse company would not
lose sight of her being cared for.
The CoroGer said thew remarks were no doubt se pithily*
to the jury as they were to him.
The proceedings then terminated.