The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-05 00:00:00

TiitIRStoAY E'tEl4tl4-G OCTOBER. 5, 1865.

THE EEGIATRATIONS.

THE SHOCKING CAM OP CRUELTY TO A WIPE
AT EILLIEVTON.

w massas...we ewe.
Mr. Terral. the revising barrister, proceeded
with the revieroo-of the lists of the emend of ie this
hotegh. As on the previous day, the liberal interest wail
repwreeeated by 31r. Gilbert end Kr. Diprote, of the West-
mineral' Liberal Begat:stem Sadist, ; and the conservatives
by Mr. Oldershaw.
Several policemen were struck off the list of this and
the other parishes ou objections taken by overseers as well
al by the 00100111TitiVe agent, who stated that at the late
general election several members of the police force
voted, although specially dlscpudilled by ant of parliamest.
In the lists of the other parishes revised during the day
no point of interest arose.
Ths court adjourned at font o'clock.

CITY OF LONDON.
The result of the reviles of the livery as returned by the
Liberal Assooiatioa is as follows :
Liberal claims allowed 7
disallowed I
Liberal 9. objections 'totals** 42
Ooneervatise objection' austallowl MI
Liberal objections failed I
Ooseervative objections failed
Of Ilene objections 22 were doable.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS•

George Price, whose first examination ou the
'huge of minting the death of his wit*, Franose Prism os
the 22nd of August last, was reported in our columns,
on the 27th ult., was brouslil up yesterday on remand
before Mr. Barker, at the Clerksowell Polies-court, for
reemanilnation. The accused again exhibited considerable
nervosa excitement.
Mr. Chipperdeld, instructed by the Marquis Towosbeud.
as patron of the Society for the Protection of Women and
Chtlthen, appeared again to conduct the prosecution. Mr.
Lewis. Sen.. My-place. was also in attendaeoe for the first
time ou behalf of the prisoner.
Altar the thee had bees called on,
Mr. Lewis objected to the prosecution en the technical
grimed that a society had no right to institute it. A long
Ural discussion ensued on this point, Mr. Lewis basing he
objection on the refusal of Mr. D'Eynoourt in the same
court to hear Mr. Thomas Wakeling in the ease of
Pelittioni op the ground thit be had not been properly
intimated. Ultimately Mr. Barker allowed the case to
proceed on the cusierstandiog that the prosecution was
carried on at the instance of Mr. Writhes, an officer
of the above society, in his personal and not his official
c 26 1ft..0 r. • ken remarked in the course of the discussion that
the statements with regard to sate prior to the subject of
the charge were not material. The following new evidence
was given in suppirt of the charge :
Mrs. Ellen Sellers deposed that she wes the wife of Mr.
John Sellers, a harness maker, of 5, Offordetrest, Berns-
bury-road, next door to the prisoner and his late wife.
Two mouths before the death of the &elated, the pri-
soner, who spoke to her over the garden wall, asked her to
come io and see his wife. Wilma first called on the
deceased about six weeks before her death. The prisoner
came in shortly afterwards, and was not sober. The de-
ceased made no complaint at that time to her in the
prisoner's presence, but on her next visit the deceased did
complain, and said that the whole of her audio, clothisg,
as well as the blsuketa, Lad been pawned by the prisoner.
but she did not say for what purpose. The only remark
the prisoner made 11l reply was to tell his wife to mind
what she was saying. The next time whims visited the
demised was about a fortnight before her death. The pri-
soner came iotothe bedroom very much Intoxicated, reeled
about, and fell ou to the floor, end when asked to be quiet,
and not to disturb his wife, be began to sing, and continued
this gross conduct, although frequently expostulated with
by the wiles's. She (witness) never saw the pptYoner ex.
cep% when be was the worse for drink, sad the deceased had
told her that the prisoner had spent all her (the deceased's)
property in drink. A week before the death of the deceased
the witness again saw her in her bedroom, at seven in the
evening. The prisoner was mush intoxicated and was
talking very loud, telling his wife in a hollow sepulchral
torso of voice that she would be in her grays Wone very
long. She told the witness to the pregame of the prisoner
that he had bocci abusing her the whole of the dos ,(and,
putting up her hands together, she exclaimed, " Oh Gad,
George, have mercy opal me ; have • little mercy upon
pie." The prisoner merely replied, " Have you got some-
thing fresh 1" The deceased responded, "Oh, George, you
are a cruel man to use me as you do now." Witness hail often
heard the &teethed ask the prisoner to supply her with
money to °Maio worth and medicine. He refused, but
was very drunk at the time, as he always was when she was
at the house. On one °mashie, shortly before the death of
the deceased, the deceased asked the primer f r mousy
for the purchase of • dinner for herself, her five children,
and the nurse. The prisoner refused the mosey, but went
rc out and purchased two rather. of salt bosom which be pro-
duced as abasqtrot for the family. He then abused the nurse
for having asked for mosey for food, sod with great solicit+.
lion she (whew') induced him to leave the room In order to
preserve quietude for the patient. In about an hour after-
wards the prisoner returned, and asked if his wife was still
alive. 'The deceased was then awake, and heard him make
the inquiry. At other times the demised bad frequently
spoken to her about the insufficiency of feed, but it was
tot on all occasions in the presence of the prisoner. On the
day of her death tritons saw the prisons, In the garden
thrioitig his house, and be maid to her, " lam glad she is
dead out of kindness to her from the agony she had
suffered."
In cross-examination the witness said that she had taken
the deceased oysters and puddings, bat not so frequently as
she would have done, because she believed and knew that
she hail friends. Wither had never sew the brother of the
deceased take her winos, spirits, or other nourishment. She
had sever called in the poriali authorities to interfere in
consequence of what she had seen.
Os re-examination the witness said that she had remon-
strated with the prisoner a great many times with reference
to his cruel conduct to his wife.
Mr. John Thomas Slater deposed that he was a doctor
of medicine of the I: uiversity of Glasgow, sod that on the
21st of August last lie was called to see the deceased pro-
fessithally, and found her is • very low and ainkiog condi-
tion. He called on the following morning, and she was
then dead. He was instructed to make a past mortem exa-
minatioo, the result of which was that he discovered that
there was an effusion of serum under the membrane of the
brain, and that the brain itself was congested. The helms,-
slices that prcthated themselves were the result, et star-
ration. She bad been suffering from fistula, sod the re-
quired more than the usual notilialuireut, with the free
use of stimulants.
By Mr. Lewis—l could sot swear that if the deceased
had bad stimulante she would have lived one
hour looser. If • person were about to undergo as
operation for fistula at was not the practice to keep
the patient from spirits or stimulanta. I chias not his
practice, nor was it the ordinary practice of profession,
to do so. Os the post mortem eternisation he would not
take upon himself to say the deceased died from disease of
the heart. The beset was not in that state of deem'. that
would inevitably have been the cause of death. Deceased
died from ethaustion from natural causes, but these must
have been accelerated by the unkind treatment which,
according to the evidence 1 have heard, she must hays
repaired.
Ily Mr. Chipperfield—l bayonet the slightest doubt that
the treatment the deceased received accelerated Ler death.
Mr. Peter Gowiland was then sworn, and deposed as fol-
lows—l am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, end
reside et 34, Ftusbury-equthe. lam see of the surgeries
of St. Mark's Hospital for Fistula and other Diseases of the
rectum. The deceased lady mime to the hospital on the
ltth November, 1864, and the assistant surgeon at once
took her is. 1 saw hoe cm the 24th, and she was admitted
an in-patient on that day by my order. This with alter I
had atomised her, and found that besides fistula sba had
thtoosive smooth of therectiun. I prescribed, end explained
to her that her CISMI was not • proper one toren opera-
tion, purposely concealing from rear the existence of
cancer in addition to fistula, simply with the view to keep
her mind perfectly at etas. In consequence of my view of
her case there was no operation perfornied. and she re-
quested
to leave the hospital, on the ground that she wished
to go back to her children, she did soon the 28th of Novem-
ber. She remained under my care as as out-patient.
visiting me two days a week oo my cloys of
attendance at the hospital for about three months.
At the sad of the three months she was suffering
violent pains, with a bearing down of the vagina and the
rectum, and there were continuous discharges of blood and
matter, sod it was necessary that she should receive home
comforts and rest. She remained an out.patieot until
February—the date I cannot fix—but on the
22nd of March, the prisoner called upon me and
expressed a wish that I should see his wife at bar own home.
I explained to him the nature of her disease, and told him
that it was a hopeless case of cancer and fistula.
I do not remember telling him the sort of treat-
ment she should receive, but prescribed for her
the use of a hip bath, with warmth. On the 12th
of July or thereabouts the prisoner called again
on me early in the morning, and seemed very
anxious that I should again see his wife as she was rapidly
sinking and getting worse. I visited her the same after-
noon, and found the prisons, there half tipsy. The deceased
was in a sad state, suffering the most agonising pain, end
presenting one of the worst oases I ever saw of omen and
fistula. combined. She
wanting food in her husband's pretence, for he
went downstairs es soon as I went into the room. On
the 18th of July I paid a wooed visit to the deceased.
At that time she knew she yes dying. I suggested
to her an operation that would relieve her sufferings and
prolong her life ; but she shook her head, and said she did
not wish to live another day. I felt strongly in the thee,
and for her sufferings, and left her half • sovereign, which
she put under her pillow, remarking that her husband would
not let her have the mousy for the medicines, because the
medicines did her too much good. A person in her
condition required ample nourishment of the best de-
scription, together with stimulants also, and complete quiet
and rest. I have heard the evidence as to what the deceased
was subjected to during the last nine weeks of her life. sod.
supposing that evidence to be true, in my medical end
scientific judgment I should certainly consider that the
treatment to which the was subjected accelerated her
death. I have not the slightestdouth of it.
By Mr. Lewis—The deceased was not suffering from in-
flammation of the intestines. On the 12th of July the
prisoner seemed anxious for the restoration of his wife's
health. From the evidence I have heard I will not node"-
take to say that she died of disease of the heart, and I form
that judgment not merely from the description I have heard
of the post mortem eternisation, but upon the evidence
adduced to-day, that the death emitted from the exhaustion
caused by the existence of the cancer in the rectum, cam-
biped with the extensive &tube. Anything tesdiog to
depress • tastiest so suffering would increase the malady
bed lead to fatal results.
Mr. Cliipperfield said he should go no further that day,
but should ask for • remand.
Mr. Lewis urgently appealed that the prisoner might be
admitted to bail, but Mr. Barker peremptorily refused and
the prisoner was then removed.

(Before Mr. Payne.)
Jana Savory, an old marl, was placed at the bar, in-
dicted for =lawfully and malickiusly indicting grievous
bodily harm upon Richard Oarr.
Mr. Abramsprosecated ; Mr. Montagu Williams defended
the prisoner, whet pleaded sot guilty.
Richard Our stated that os the 4th of September the
prisoner, with whom he had previously bad SOON little
differeues, stabbed him in the left hand.
The prosecutor's wife confirmed his statement, and after
soon further testimony,
The ittry Warned a verdict of Guilty of acciamou assault.
sad reoommended the prisoner to the merciful coasidera-
tion of the court.
Sr. Montagu Williams addressed the court, and said if
the puttee could come to some amicable arrangement, he
hoped the court would be minded.
The parties thee coasulted together. and the dairia
arrangsrosat was made.
The pr.soner entered into his own recogniseness to come
up for judgment wilco called upon, and was discharged to
ha evident joy.

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out of gear, end renders ns unfitted both for work and raw-
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for the pear and re worst, the soldier sad satier. and prim.
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ie checking feverish attars, bilious comrirns,..zed inflatema-
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stirrers serer pest the Nor of inedrine.

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tibsdencantifiessial thetbatwaeutchune
pietist
and some dead, he not baying previously obtained a license sod
sows which h bee, lo c'utaet • ith another cm dimmed, r Fenny.
so to do. IThhee of ten
Formal evidence having been received completely pretrial! day week the prisotor gave himself up to hi t
the mannissiou of the diem% which however sestemist the watch end wide twat his lodging
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attributed to hie foreman,roach 1864. see tooma al
Mr. Ellison remarked that during the prevalence of this The rime, eag eery gem in his
devastating plague he felt it an imperative duty to indict that ha had bees very unhappy is hit reord,mt.
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the highest penalty be we eeePeweredte beneelh namely, menthe !past on account of it. opp
20f., or in default an imprisonment of three months. I Mr. Elliott told him that his conduct was reset a.
The money was paid. honest and improper, and committed him for throe wow
Frederick Brown, • brother of the defeedmit, sod car. lava labour.
rylog on bedew of • like kind in Old Mootagurestrest,
Bpitalfields, was called to answer • SUMMON, but sot ay.
peados. a warrant was kissed for hie appreheesion.
Beveled shopkeepers inhabitants of the parish of Bethnal-
' green, wars fined se. each for sweeping the refuse of their
shopp particularly saw-dust, across the pavement into the
gully holes, thereby tending to choke up the mouth of
the sewers at such spate.
MARYLEBI)NE.
Witham Baker we charted with the following offences:
Mr. W. Beard, 57, High-street, Camden-town, fieh•
monger and poulterer, said the prisoner was in his employ,
and it was his duty to go round in • pony emit for orders,
and also to take goods out.. On Tuesday he came back very
drank, and was requested to leave the shop. After he
had gone several customers came to the shop and said
their orders bad not bees assented, although prisoner had
taken the goods, consisting of dab and poultry, from the
shop. On going to the stable wittiest, found that a valu-
able dog belonging to his wife had also been taken away.
This was afterwards traced to the prieoeer's possession.
The prisoner had also received several sums of money from
the customers, for which he bad not accounted.
Polimeergeant Mason, 25 8, stated from information
he
received he went to the prisoner'? residence at Kinplsod,
said told him he was charged with stealing his master's
deg
_Hesaid be knew Dothisg of it. Witness told him
baked made inquiries, and found be had sold it for lie. On
touching him some of hie matter's ceder books were
fated, and al;o • lobster. On the maotelshelf waa • large
sole. The lobster and solo ought to have been delivered to
crostoiners.
A gentleman was present who produced the dog, sod
mid that he gave the ;sooner 15e. for it at the Chalk-farm
station.
Mr. Mansfield remolded the prisoner for • week,
WESTMINSTER.
Shortly before the tieing of the court, Mr. Rogers, clerk
to the parish of St. George, Hanover equate, accompanied
by Mr. litaiderly, assistant overseer, applied to Mr. Self"
for a summons agaiost Mrs. Brach for cruelly neglecting
a staid named John Riley, aged 5 years, under her care aud
control.
Mr. Rogue said the matter bad received the fullest in.
vestiption by the board that morning, sod they considered
it one that should not be allowed to drop. The man,
Roach, was held to bail, and it was deemed expedient also
to have the emote, so that the atom setting aside any
legal technicalities that might arias, should be brought home
to one or the other.
Mr. Self, acceded to the request, but said there were
difficulties in the way, and to overcome them he thought if
he soot the case for trial both must be placed before •
jury.
Mr. John Keene, formerly Secretary of the Pearl Life
Assurance and Sick Benefit Society, was summand by Mr.
John Tidd Pratt, registrar of friendly societies, for that
be did unlawfully neglect before the lest day of
June last, to transmit to Mr. John Todd Pratt, the said re-
gistrar, • general statement of the funds and effects of such
society during the past twelve mouths, or a copy of the last
manual report of such society, against the statute, tic.
Mr. J. Tidd Pratt preeecoted. and Mr. Metcalfe, in.
etructed by Mr. A. Coltman, of St. Martin's-OmM, de-
(aided.
Mr. Tidd Pratt, in opening the case, stated that the ere-
medicos were instituted under the 18th sod 19th Vic.,
cap. 93. see. 13. and the 23rd and 24th Vic., cap. 58, sec. 7.
The 18th sad 19th Via clearly stated that if such societies
wished to dissolve, or amalgamate into other societies, they
must first draw up an agreement of such dissolution, signed
by two-sixths of the members, or by three menthols and
the secretary, and declared before a justice of the peace.
and that being dose, forthwith transfer it to the registrar.
The act then west on to state that for soy infringement of
the statute any persona or officers siding and abetting in
such infringement should be liable to three months' impri-
sonment. The society to which defendant wits secretary
had amalgamated with the Pearl Life Assurance Loan and
Investment Company (Limited). The society was re-
gistered in November. 1862, and the amalgamation
took place in August, 1864, and there had sot
been the dorms/its supplied to him (Mr.
Pratt), for the disedution or amalgamation on the Ist of
June, 1863, am was required by the statete. A letter had
been seat by defendant, Mathis that the society had amal-
gamated, but the necessary documentary evidence was sot
forthcoming, limos the present proceedings. The new
society was registered under the Joint Stook Companies Act.
The defendant produced a document purporting to be the
dissolution, to which all the members were agreed, and all
claims settled, ke., but Mr. Pratt objected to it as tad.
Mr. Self. agreed with Mr. Pratt that it was not in con-
formity with the statute.
Mr. Tidd Pratt said that under the 23 and 24 Via, cap.
58, sec. 3, It was °twenty provided that any agreement
for the dissolution of • society by sec. 13 of cap. 93 of the
18 and 19 Vic. should be submitted to the registrar, and
should he advertised in the London Gazette. It was with a
view to rooted the working clams. that these proceeding
were taken, and more especially because in this in-
Mimeos various applications had beso made to him for copies
of the dissolution or amalgamation deed, whieh he would
have furnished. with the state of funds and effects of the
society, but which he had not been ab'e to furnish through
thedefendant's neglect. He did not wish to prase for • heavy,
but merely for a nominal penalty.
Mr. Metcalfe said if the secretary had in his ignorance
not cooformed to the requirements of the statute, he was
willinz to do so now, and suggested an adjournment for
that purpose.
Mr. Pratt preened for a ooeviction.
Some diecuesion followed as to whether • case should
be reserved for the judges ; but
The defendant did not wish tabs putts any pest expense,
and preformed • verdict.
Mr. Selfe said there was no doubt in his mind that the
requirement' of the act had not been carried oat, and con-
victed the defendant in the nominal penalty of la. and coats.
LAMBETH.
John Davis, alias Rao Dowell, late • ticket-of-leave
man and notorious thief, was plaited st the bar before
Mr. Elliott on • charge of ropreasetiog himself to be
a detective officer of police, sad stesliag • jewel case cos.
Mame •
• brooch and earring, of the vale. of 101., the pro-
perty ef Mr. L. Bora.
Mrs. Amu Bars said she was the wife of Herr Lemon
Berk and resided at Standard-villa, Clittoemad, Peckham.
About three weeks ago her husband put an arivertisemeat
in the newspaper respecting • brooch which she had bat,
offering a handsome reward to any one who might
restore it. Two or three days after—the 11th of last month
—the prisoner knocked at her door, and on her op it,
be said he was • detective officer of police, and she at once
admitted him. He then asked her for the deeeriptioe of the
brooch she had lost, sod said that it had been stoles frees
her by tae of two boys in custody. She (witness) took out
her jewel cram containing a valuable cameo breech and a
pair of earring. and showed them to the prisoner as being of
• similar pattern to the articles he bad los t. Thereupon be
told her it was rtecessery that she should at once moompeny
him to the police-station, where one of the boys who bad
stolen her brooch was in custody. She said she could mot
go until her husband returned. The prisciser, however.
urged that unless they west at ones the boy would be dim-
charged from custody, upon which she consented to lot
taking with her her paws' ease and the articles she hind
mentioned. The prisoner got into s cab with her, and after
driving some distance he called out to the driver, got oat
at the end of • street, saying he was going to sew his
brother officer and take the jewel case mid the property in
it to the police ,cation. Before going_ away the pawner
told the cabman he was • " detective," that he should mos
be back, and that he was to take care of her (witness) till he
returned. He had not been gone many moons (said the
witums)whon 1 felt assured that I had bees imposed upon,
sod toy imprint= was confirmed by the priaaner's sot es•
turning.
Mr. Elliott—When did you me him again
Witness—Not until this morning at the Police-omit
(Clerkenwell), where Ithe house wat coot recogoined him sad he said
be would take mu to here my property warmed
get it for ma.
The witness here imploriogly, and weeping bitterly, re-
quested that the magistrate would seed the prisoner with
two officers to a bowie is Spitalfiehis, where her property
was, to get it for her. as be promised, the articles bang of
priceless value to her ; bat the magistrate could not, el
course, comply wish bar request.
From the evidence of the constables it appeared that the
prisoner had been all his lifetime an expert and clever
thief, and that he had bees frequently in custody, and net
to pesos on summary *moieties', and mos bah
six months from the Old Bailey for picking pockets.
Ho bed also been tried at the Middlesex Sessions sod sew
tamed to three years' penal servitude for representing him
self to be • detective officer, and his ticket-of-leave bed
only expired last month. His last armee was that of oar
Wang 10i. from • lady by promising to get backs favourite
dog that bad been stolen from her, and on this charge he
was taken into custody, and was on reamed at Clorksawall
Police-court when Mrs. Bert WY taken there end identified
him.
The prisoner was fully committed to the Surrey Seams,
sad the prosecutrtx bound over to persecute, but be will be
brought up again Ia a week in owe other offseoes can be
proved against him.
Preens Palkwer, respectalgolooldog young man was
charged before Mr. Elliott, on hb own 'colonial:with
steeling a gold watch and chola of the valor, at 81., the
property of Tel Will
Fbe wife of the peceseetor mid theme Is the month of
Febeuary, 1864, the eriseser lodged her home, sad
abecooded without giving any saline, and after be was gone
she discovered that • gold watch and chain had been steles
from her bedroom. She gam Mfantatiou of her less to
the police at the time, but she had sotto of her pro-
perty shim, nor bolshevism the primmer hst time to
Mthe t.
mene
Maria Lewis, the wife of • publless at Ewell, mid
that last Jaw twelvemonth she purebred the duplicate cot
• mach sod Math frogs ties prllowse for Eve
sad after dais( so Mak the &stash* sea ef philm. The
watch she now produced, bat the Asia her son had taken
with him **Australia.