The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-09 00:00:00

be 4°0,1 require him to find substantial bail to be of good
beihavionr for the next four months.
MA RYLEBON R.—THREATS/IED APIAAARINATION IN A
RAILWAY CARNIAOY..—E. Vllermot, a master cutler at
Sheffield, was charged with having presented a pistol,
loaded with powder end barl, at a passenger in a railway ear-
risge.—Mr. Boyd, of Paisley, on being sworn, said :
Yesterday afternoon at a quarter to four I got into
a second class carriage at Leicester, at which time Ike
prisoner was seated therein ; he seemed to have partakes
freely of drink, ar.d on our progressing along he put
many questions to me in such a way that I did not feel dis-
posed to answer him. After paring Rugby he asked me
what I thought of Mitchel; to which I replied
iomewhat sternly, " I think but very little of him,
and we are well quit of his consparfy." Upon this he re•
marked that he (Mitchel) would not be long abroad, for
France and America would interfere and get him his liberty.
He then pulled out a pistol, and asked me if I wee a gentle-
man, at the same time holdirg it up to my face. I observed
that it wait hel'-cocked. An elderly gentleman, who, like
me, was much terrified, laid hold of it after some difficult),
and put it under the seat ; but the prisoner speedily re-
g iined possession of it.—Mr. Long Are you certain that
after you expresaid your opinion as to Mitchel the pri-
soner put the pistol towards your face ?—Complainant I
am quite sure of it. The muzzle was not far from me. 1
saw that it had not a percussion cap on.—Other evidence was
gone into, showing that the complainant and the rest of
the passengers in the carriage were very much
alarmed, and that the prisoner was given into custody
at the ltlisworth station, from wherce he was brought up to
the terminus, Bustoe-square, when he was rent by Mr.
Barker, the company's superintendent, to the police station
of the 8 division. Mr. Barker produced the pistol, which
wait a single-barrelled one ; he was directed to eseertain
whether it was loaded or not, and he left the court to satisfy
himself SA to the fact; on his return he produced the charge
which he had extracted. viz., • quantity of powder and a
bullet. —Mr. Long, to the prisoner: This is a very serious
matter alleged against you, what have you to say 7—Pri-
soner. I had no knowledge whatever of the pistol
being loaded ; a gentleman gave it to me to carry
it to Deptford fur him, and I should have done so
had I not been locked up—Complainant said that
at Blieworth the prisoner, when given in'o custody,
alleged that the laws of his country allowed sf his carrying
arms for his own deft nce.—Mr. Long, after remarking upon
the various facts adduced in evidence, said that th•- case was
one of a most serious and aggravated nature ; the offence,
howl ver, was perpetrated in a part of the coui.try which was
out of his jurisdiction, and the prisoner would therefore be
sent into Warwickshire, where the investigation would of
course be fully gone into.—The prisoner was then removed
from the bar, end shortly afterward, he and the witnesses
left London by railway; the complainant, who had so nar-
rowly escaped, being resolved upon following up the case.