The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-04 00:00:00

EVENING, OCTOBER

to the house of the prisoner Burgoyne, and said be came to •
make inquiries about some handkerchiefs which had been
stolen. -Burgoyne, on being questieeed, said he had pledged
one or two pieces of silk, and bad sold the tickets, but cm
being taken into custody for receiving stolen porpigiy,be
said he did not see why he should get into tequila for
other people, and he would therefore speak the Sidi. He
then said that a short time previously the Mons, Cie&
win brought a bale of silk handkerchiefs to his bone, mei
said the goods had been signed for by the railway carman.
and left behind. The bale was directed to Mr. Godwin, 1,
Ramsgate, whither he said he was going, and in a few
days he took the goods away again. Witness then went to
Mr. Fenian s, and told Godwin all that Burgoyne had said.
Godwin said it was all false, but witness took him into I
custody. Godwin and Burgoyne were brothers-in-law.
Mr. Philip Richer, warehouseman to Messrs. Baker,
Tucker and Company, said be selected the goods of whiei
the hale was composed. They *assisted of 136 pieces of
silk handkerchiefs, vain 1511. 17.. 6d. The pieces pledged
by Burgoyne were of the same description.
Geo. Meth, employed at the Great Northern Railway,
said he checked the caravan's load of parcels with the way-
bill, and noticed the deficiency of the bale of silk addressed
to Messrs. Philips, of Manchester.
Mn. Russell mid Burgoyne lodged in her house. She
remembered Godwin coming in a cab early one morning with
a bale of goods. Godwin called on the two following days,
and took away the goods in bags.
Lewis Nstban, a dealer in unredeemed pledges, said Bur-
goyne called on bum and offered to put money is his way
by- the sale of some silk handkerchiefs, which he said was
bankrupt'. stock. Witness declined to do any business
with such goods unless he could have bills and receipts. and ,
was assured they were what be called straightforward
goods. On the same evening Godwin called and offered
him similar goods, and showed him samples of them. 'l3
declined to buy them.
Inspector Williams, of the Great Northern Itailwa=
pany, said, since the prisoner had been in custody
sent for him and made a emitemion,to the effect that he found
the bale of goods in the office, and that it had been signed for
by the Great Northern Railway carman. He cut the can.
vaas with his knife, and the bale having been praised in
pecking, the handkerchiefs burst out. He then packed
them io three bundles and put them into one package, and
took them to Bargoyne's hones, where be left them with
him to dispose of, but when he called again he found some
of them gone, and Bourque drunk, so he took them away,
sod sold 121 p•eon to a man in Potticcatdane, to whom he
was referred by Burgoyne, for 211. If there were 136
pieces, Burgoyne must have taken away the other 15 piecea.
He also said that he gave Burgoyne 31. 10s. for assisting
him. He said W. Nathan bought the goods, and sent two
men for them. .

Vhepria;;; ;no vim committed for tzial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A cab-proprietor, named /name was summoned before
Mr. Knox for sending out an unlicensed driver three conse-
cutive days.
The police having proved the charge,
The defendant said he was placed at a disadvantage in
consequence of his regular driver having left him soddenly.
Not being desirous of ending out any ruffian, who might
insult and impose on the farce, he preferred to send out an
unlicensed man of good conduct until he oould suit himself.
Mr. Knox said it was well known that cab-proprietors
generally had been making • great deal of money out of
their cabs during the present Nelson, for they had raj:A
the daily charge to the cabmen very largely. He considered
that no difficulty would be found in getting licensed drivers
of good character if sufficient inducement was held out. It
was a venous offence to employ an unlicensed driver for more
than one day, and u the defendant had sent out an us.
licensed person several days in succession he should fine his
20a and costs.
THAMES.

Lieutenant William M'Rae, of the 40th Foot, was
brought up on remand before Mr. Woolrych, charged with
attempting to murder George Pavey, cook and steward
of the ship Northumberland, at sea, on the 19th of last
month.

Mr. Charles Young, solicitor conducted the prosecution ;
Mr. Rrewin, solicitor, defended the prisoner.
Mr. Young called the following additional witnesses.
Captain Alexander Small, the master of the ship Nos,
thumberland, from Madras' and now lying in the St.
Katherine Dock, said—On the 19th of last September
my attention was called to the galley or cookhouse os desk
by a noise forward, in consequence of which I went upon
deck and maw the prisoner with my steward under him,
and blood flowing from the steward's forehead. I called
upon the crew to secure the prisoner, and they did so while
I looked after the steward. Directly afterwards a knife,
which had been taken from my own cabin table, was found
counseled upon the prisoner, and for the safety of all hands
on board be was put in irons. On the Name day, after
breakfast, and before the prisoner attempted to hll the
steward, the latter said he could Dot get on with his work,
as Lieutenant M'ltise was iumoying him, following him
about the decks, and threatening to make away
with himself. I spoke to the prisoner, and said he
had no right to be annoying the steward while
he was doing his duty. The prisoner said that he wished to
have a settlement with the steward. I told him if there
was anything between them they must settle it another
time. The prisoner said if he had not a settlement with
the steward he would rue a knife through his own body. I
have beard the prisoner say he was sick, and bad been
poisoned. I hard him tell the steward that he was drugged
tan years ago.
Mr. Young—Did you see anything in the prisoner's con-
duct that indicated insanity ?
Captain Small—No, sir. I have found knives in his
possession. I ordered him to give them all up. I locked
bim up until I found I had all his weapons two weeks before
he knocked down the steward with the maul. I thought be
was conniving with the crew for purposes of mischief.
Mr. Young said the prosecutor had come unawares upon
the prisorer in hie cabin and fouod him committing • most
improper act, and that, furnished the motive for the pri-
soner making the attempt on the steward's life.
Mr. Woolrych—That has already been given in evidence
by Poesy.
James Spencer, ordinary seaman, said—On the morning of
the 19th of last month I saw Lieut. M'Rae lift the maul
and with both hands strike the steward • swinging blow
with it on the head. The steward guarded his heed with
his arm, but be was severely wounded and bled most fear-
fully. Mis hand was bruised. Both fell on the spar, and
the steward was undermost. It appeared to meths prisoner
meant to kill the steward.

Croinexammed by Mr. Brewin—l noticed anything
the matter with the , or anything curious in his
conduct, except that he used to come upon deck at ll
o'clock at nighk
Mr. Brewin and the prisoner's brother-in-law unwed the
magistrate that Lieutenant 3l'lthe had been labouring under
morbid delusions, and that his °Deduct in India was most
extraordinary. The prisoner was sent home invalided after
two years' service in India.
Mr. Woolrycb said he could not try the question of the
prisoner's sanity or insanity.
An application was then made to the magistrate that
some bills of exchange, one for a million sterling sod
another for 600 f., made out by the prisoner on board the
Northumberland, should be given up to Mr. Brewin.
Mr. Young—They are made out in favour of the steward;
they are not stamped ; they are not worth a farthing. They
were made out by the prisoner to cajole the steward. The
prisoner was carrying out his motive.
The prosecutor said that when the prisoner made out the
sham hills of exchange, he said, "There is a present for you ;
I don't want to be exposed."
Howeroft, a police-constable of the Thames division, No.
43, said that when he took the prisoner into custody be said
"I struck the steward where I wanted, but I did not intend
to kill him." He asked the prisoner how he came to com-
mit such an act, to which he replied," Because be attempted
to poison me."
The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, said—
" I would rather not say anything."
Mr. Woolrych committed the prisoner for trial at the
next Old Bailey Sessions for attempting to murder Piney.

Two young men, who gave the mines of William Atkins
and Jahn Frankling, were brought before Mr. Ingham, on a
charge of being ooneerned in stealing a puree containing
about 21. from the person of Mts. Maria Beneath, a widow
lady residing at Norland Cottage, Priam-tool, Notting-bill.
It appeared from the evidence that on the afternoon of
Friday, the 26th ult., the prosecutrix was walking alone at
Notting-hill, when she was stopped by the prisoners. Atkins
spoke to ber, while the other premed against her. The
prisoner bat inquired the way to Hammenimith.gate, and
after directing him, he said lie wanted Shepherd's-bmh.
She told him that they were on the right road to
and they then quickly walked away. After they were
gone she felt for her purse and foiled it missing. She gave
information to a aentleman named Champion, and they
both followed the prisoners into the Castle public-house, at
Nottioghill. They were taken into custody, and after they
were locked up at the station Inspector Hepburn searched
the back premises of the public•houes, and he discovered
some Factious of the stolen purse.
Pollee Serpents Holmes, F, and Joy, 0, divisions, iden-
tified the pneneem as notorious thieves, end proved former
oonictions spied them. Frankling, whams right name is
Arundel', had served three years' peed servitude for a
similar offence, and bad returned about six months.
Mr. Ingham fully committed the priecuers for trial.

ALLEOZD EIVICIDI AND MIIRDRIL—On Thursday
morning information was circulated in the City police eta.
boos that, about eine o'clock the previous sight, a young
woman mounted the parapet of Blackfriars-bridge, with an
infant in her arms, and jumped into the river, and that
both had been carried away by the tide. Yesterday after-
noon a waken= belongiog to Chelsea, in pane* along the
river, dissovered near the piers of Blackfriambridge the
body of a female, apparently about twenty-five years of age,
deemed in a light notion gown, white petticoat, brown
stockings, and side laced-up mote. No infant was, however,
found ; but what're" the doomed was the female who
threw herself into the river on Wednesday night is unknown.
CRYSTAL Pairca.—Leotard performs at 4 o'clock
thin aftereooa. About 1011-pad 4, Moyerbeer's Fahlitioa
and other musk will be played by full military and or
ehestral hands. At desk the Palace will be lighted up with
pa amiable% Mailer in design to those used in Paris on the
amasses of the Zetperees fête.
Gentlemen who require good and fashionable
use ma depend ee um ben materials sad latest Nets (et
Windt wenn= sarreents are kept for Inspection or sale) at
HWtten and notes% lea, Strand, opposite IneteraaL—
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