The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-28 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

BOW-STREET.
William Edtrarvi Darns, a letter-carrier attached to the
West Central District-ethos, 11%. High Holborn. was
charge.' le kb stealing a letter, the proirsrty of her Majesty's
Pcstm,ster

Mr. G.trliner, one of the seolor clerks in the Post-office,
said the prisoner was one of the letternarriers employed at
the I.rancli poet-office. 11.41, }flit Holborn. In consequence
of the nuno.rous Immo of letters from that station, be was
directed to test the honesty of persons engaged there. He se.
cording ly enclosed:. penny postage stamps in an eovelope,di.
reel el it "Mr. HOMO. 10, Great Rusiellntreet, ftlooorderv,"
and handed it to Mr. Claret° post. Witness went to the Neat
Centro I District Post-odice shout 4 o'clock the same afternoon,
and tl.e prisooer was brought into • private room and is-
form-.I that a letter containing postage stamps was miming,
addres-ed .a above. He denial all It oowledge of the letter,
hot ca triog searched by the OftiCAC • leather mirse was
taken from one of his pockets, in which was found 57
Lr store it .trips. On the priarmer being rpostioverf sa to
ow he c.nte into prase...ion of the atampa, he amid he bad
purchased them on Saturday aftsrooos of a friend in the
street. The stamps were those be (witose) enclosed in the
test letter.

)11r.ifillie Clare, inspector of letterearriers, said he
posted the letter in question in the early pars of the day at
the West Central Mee in High Holborn, calling the atten-
tion of Mr. Cook to the einiumatance.

Mr. Thomas Cook, inspector of letter- mere at the West
Central District, said, in 000stquence of whet be hesid from
Mr. Clare he went to the letterbox at the office and took a
letter addreesed to Mr. Boras, 10 Greet Russell-street,
Bloomsbury, from the box. He afterwards placed it amoimsa
those to be delivered by the primmer, although the letter
was not properly in his own delivery. He ought to have
placed it aside, in order that it DAUM he delivered to the
lett. r•rarrier in whose delivery Great Ruseelletreet was
included. He did not dom. The prisoner hid been in the
service of the Post-office four or live yews, and received a
salary of 21a. per week.

Y reaker the orwelahht stleehed to the West Cud& Pert-
odic* slid be searelied t primmer sod towed the property
produced io • pane in one of his pockets.
The prisoner, who wide so defence, weirdly committed
for trial.

The solicitor to the Post-office, in answer to the issa4iir
bale, said the prisoner was about 24 years of age. There
ma s silver watch and abont 18e. found on his perms, and
as they had no reams to Inspect that they formed say por-
ticos of s robbery. be booed they might be delivered to the
primmer% wife, the poor woman being very near her con-
finement.

Mr. Flowers said there would be no objection to such
canna

WORSHII'•STREET.

Joseph Glad= 26, described uof 3, St. Jai:outer-
rice, Celedenian-rod was charged with stealiag • crioo-
lied, value 46. 9d., from the ihop-door of • tradesman
named Kemp, in Uedell-row,gingsland.

Mr. Kemp swore that he last evening saw the • ner
deliberately take the article down from • nail and kick it
away before him. Other young men were in his company.
The prisoner assured the magistrate that he was ace the
person who had untied the crinoline, nor did be know at
the time where it emus from. Certainly when he saw it
before him he kicked it. He wished to call a witness.
Frederick Sharp, of Robert-terraco, King's-raid, Chelsea,
came forward and said upon oath—l was with this gentle-
man (prisoner) at the thee in question ; in fact, there were
several of us. If arm one ought to be standing in that dock
it should be myself, for I poatively took the crinoline. but
it was not with any felonious intention ; merely out of a
lark, nothing more. I intended to put it over the heed of
one of my (needs.
lit. Mime—The prosecutor has sworn that be saw the
;winner take it down, but whaler he or you it was an act
that jeopardises the liberty of those who did it. To say the
least, both of you have behaved very shamefully. Ge about
year business, and kit this be a warning to you ; but you
must pay 7a. 6d., the expeosee of the prosecutor, for hie
attendance here.
After a further strong reproof, which made the prisoner
and his friend appear very foolish, they left the court, and
the magistrate then cautioned the tradesman respecting the
practice of displaying goods for sale outside shop doors.

THAMES.
Bartholomew irCale, a stztage-looking maa, about 25
years of age, who has given ea immense deal of triable to
his father and family, to the polioe, to his neighbours, end
to the magistrates of this court is the muse of the lest
seven years, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with
being on the premises of Mr. William Joseph Porter, coal
merchant, of No. 2, Devoupartutrest, Ratchff, for an nu-
, lawful purpose.
The protectitor said ho
prisoser was a neighbour's son.
That morning, between one so two dock, he wee loathed
up by the polioe-oonstable, and he sew that t►e gate lending
to the stables was open, and the prisoner in custody. He
had repeatedly warned the prisoner off the premises. He
had List fowls, rope, harness. brass off his van, and other
property, after the prisoner's visite, bet as he was a
neighbour'seon he did not take any legal mouldings against
him.

WiDiam Bear, a police-constable, No. 108 IC said that
at half-past one o'clock that morning he saw the p oseca-
tor's gate open and the chain undone. He tamed on his
light and saw the prisoner ()owing from the stable. The
palmier, who had bean drinkisg a little, threw himself on
the ground and said he had only just come into the place.
The prisoner had been in custody repeatedly for robbing his
father, a tradesman in Devanport-street, and was lastl4
convicted for a burglary and robbery in his father's pre-
mises, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

/I;:Pagee—Flow long hubs been out of prison
Wiener—About Iu months. _ _

112111priaos;;;;idht7O;1;came out of the workhouse on
Mondtiy morning, and he went to Mr. Porter's premises to
have "lay down." Mr. Porter was a relation.
Mr. Paget—What relation
Prieoner —His wife's husband's brother married his
daughter. (Laughter.)
♦ sad history was given of the prisoner's Career in his
parent's home, and Mr. Paget believing that be went to
Mr. lbrter's premises for a felonious purpose, seotenood him
to three month's imprisonment and hard labour.

Joliet Squarry. 38, and George Watson, 2" the Ent and
@wood mates of the ship Crouch Brothers. from Demerara,
were brought before Mr. Paget on remand, charged with
cruelty to a sailor boy, named John Carter, at see, in the
mouth of June last and afterwards. _ _

Mr. Charles Young. solicitor, conducted the prosecution
for the Society for the Welfare of Seamen ; Mr. Joseph
Smith defende.t Squarrey ; and Mr. Lewis, asp., of Fly-place,
appeared for Water*.
It wee arranged that the ease against the chief mate
should be first taken, and Mr. Paget read the evidence
taken before Mr. Partridge on Saturday last. It imputed
great harshness to the defendant, who repeatedly struck
the boy with a rope, caused him to be put into a tub filled
with a brine composed of salt water, soft soap and soda, and
roughly scrubbed with a piece of canvas, cutting his ear,
compelling the lad to swallow the vermin he took off his
person, and kicking him.
The complainant, a lad of 17, and two seam., named
Lamming and Macdonald, who confirmed his statement, in
miser to questions by Mr. Paget said they never made
known the cruelties practised on the lad to the captain.
Mr. Smith said the filthy state of the lad was a terrible
infliction on board ship, and that the passengers complained
of it. and among them were ladies. There was no doubt the
boy's hair was cut close. and that he was scrubbed, but to
cruelty was practised. Thecae, was cooked up by the cow-
plaingust and seamen, and the captain believed that the
whole matter wee arranged between the three to bring the
two mates into trouble.

Captain George Alei-ander, the roaster of the Crouch
Prather', said the lad Carter had never complained to him
but once, and be then said he was driven about the deck.
He told him to be a little smarter. The lady passengent
and the mates oomplained of the filthy condition of the lad.
He was afterwards informed Carter's hair wee cat. The
vessel was one of 33b toes, barque rigged.
In crose-examination by Mr. Charles Young, the witness
said that he was a band short at Gravesend, and shipped
Carter as an ordinary seaman, sot beiag aware that he had
never been at sea before. He did not entice the youth's
right band wan crippled, but the mate told him afterwards
that the boy's fingers were not straight. He did not remem-
ber Carter saying be was kicked by the chief mate.
Mr. Charles Young urged that themes ought to be sent
before. a jury at the Central Criminal Court for trial.
Mr. Paget could sot believe the WItOOIIIIIS, who said they
never brought any of the cruelties described by them under
the *Mice of the captain, or mentioned anything to him
abut* it. He could not help thinking it very strange that
sate of the circumstances mentioned came to the knowledge
of the captain. He discharged the prisoner.
The are against the second mate was then gone into, bat,
after hearing the evidence,
Mr. Paget said he bad not the slightest doubt about this
case. There were no grounds whatever for the complaints
Artier the two mutes. It was iocumbent on magistrates
to be more careful and patient io the investigation of sea
ears than soy others. They were very pailful and Lou-
blesonse cars, sod in almost all the investigation did not fol-
low the offenceuntil sometime after it was committed. They
were very painful cases indeed. There was the risk of
tyranny on or side and combination on the other. On the
first blush of the case he thought it was a very serious oue.
He had read the depositions attentively, he had examined
the captain, and he believed if Mr. Partridge was tben sit-
ting he would come to the same conclusion as he (Mr.
Paget) had done, that it was a trumped up cane and must be
dimired.
The primmer was discharged.

GROSS TREATMENT or AN APPRENTICE. —On Sun-
day week a poor orphan lad, aged 18, wee admitted into
the Maidstone Union Workhouse, at Linter', io such •
state of emaciation that be was usable to walk. It appears
that he bad been sent from his master, William Simmonda,
• shoemaker, residing at 4i, Union-street. Maidstone. From
the appearance of the lad the medical officer of the union,
Mr. Stokoe, was of opinion that be was suffering from
the want of proper food and the common neces-
saries of life, and the lad, on being questioned,
admitted that be had been half starved by his
master and ill-used by his mistress, in whose service Imbed
been upwards of two rears. Proper nourishment and medi-
cine suited to his condition were administered, bat on Tues-
day his life was considered in inch danger that information
was given to the chairman, Mr. Whittaker, who, with Mr.
Ottaway, the clerk of the union, and Mr. W. Pearson, at-
tended at the union at a late hoer in the evening, for the
purpose of taking the lad's examination. This, after some
considerable care and trouble, was accomplished, sad the
lad detailed various acts of cruelty, both on the part of the
mistreat sa well as of the master. He stated he had been
frequently fed on nothing but breed mid water
for days. that his mistress had pulled handfuls
of hair out of his head at the time, that he had beth
.mpelled to stand (being • cripple) on one leg on
a stove os several occasions, that be had been often beaten
by both, and that bia mistrese threw water over him
sod had beaten him with his crutch, and that he had not
been allowed to go out of the house the last ten weeks, sod
bad taken his meals in an upper room away from the other
apprentices. Mr. Stokos having given corroborative
teatthony as to the lad's appearance, stating that
he found Lis whole body emaciated to an extreme de-
gree, so that his booth were literally almost through
the skin.; and that he found bruises on the shoulders,
and abrasions of the skin, and ill-conditioned sores on both
elbows and left knee. The magistrate, considering it •
proper case for further investigation, issued a warrant for the
apprehension of Wl' Simmondr and his wife, and they would
bays been examined in the boy's presence on Wednesday,
but on Supt. Maloney going to the house in ['pith-street, he
found that Sinsmoods family were suffering from scarlet
fever, that be had buried one child on Monday, that
soother lsy dead, and two others were infected. Under
these circumstances, on receiving a certificate from Mr.
Levey. surgeon, that it wouhl he dangerous to apprehend
the wife or her husband in their present condition, he re-
trained from doing so. On Thursday the man attended at
the Coxbeath Usioo to hear, in the presence of the lad, the
aocusatioes modest him for cruelly Miming and neglecting to
supply him (the lad), as his apprentice, with the commas
necessaries of life. The examination of the lad was nos.
tinned, and Mews. F. Fry and H. P. Stokes having sloe
given 'vides**, the inquiry was further adjourned for •
week, I. order that Mrs. Simmoods might he in attendance.
Her hothead, in the meantime, was required to enter into
his own recognisanoes of 101 N. for to. appeanum at the
proper time.