The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MARLBORqU9H-STREET.

Ants Williams an7lEliiiii4;tisi'airrior---Weie charged with
steeling ninety yards of flannel, value 41. 10s., the pro-
perty of Mann. Adams and Co., linen drapers, 7, Leicester-
square.
Win. Arnold, assistant to Messrs. Stagg and Mantle, silk
mercers, Leicester-square, deposed that on Saturday even-
ing he was standing at his employment, when he saw the
prisoner on the opposite side of the way with a large roll
of flannel in their ponession. Suspecting from their man-
ner that they had stolen it from a shop in the neighbour-
hood, he went up to them and asked them where they were
going to take the flannel. The prisoner Williams said she
found it in the square, and was endeavouring to find an
owner for it. At that moment an assistant of Messrs.
Adams came up. and the prisoner were given into custody
for stealing the flannel.
Alfred Davis, assistant to Messrs. Adams and Co., Men-
tilled the flannel produced as the property of his employers.
Witness had seen the prisoners lurking about the shop
done about six o'clock on Saturday evening, at which time
he had seen the property standing, with other goods, near
the door. - - - -

—Theprisonere, who denied the theft, were committed for
trial.

Eliza Averey was charged Vritlici;itlng and wounding
her husband, Thomas Averey, by striking him in the
cheek and woes the roof of his nose with a chopper.
Mr. J. B. Aylea certified that Averey was brougbt to
him on Sunda at 2 o'clock a.m., with an incised wound
upon the left cheek and across the roof of the nose, pro-
duced by some cutting Instrument.
The complainant stated that he came home from his
work on Saturday night, bringing home provisions to last
the ensuing week, &salsa some fustian to mend his troweere,
and afterwards went to a public-hence close by, where he
met an acquaintance, named Parsons, and he asked him
home, taking with them two pots of beer. His wife came
home between 12 and 1 o'clock drunk, called him a filth
name, and rased hire. by his hair, dragged him down, and
then ised a chopper ae the magistrate could see.
The magistrate remanded the prisoner for a week.
Sergeant Eastman, of the V division, produced a cer-
tificate, dated the 16th of December, 1860 showing that
the defendant then assaulted and wounded her husband
with a knife, in his house in Southampton street, Nine
Elms-lane, and was ordered by Mr. Seeker, the police
magistrate, to find two sureties Ia 101. each to keep the
peace for three months.
THAMES.

Maks Crawky, a respectable looking man, aged 40, of
No. 10, Langley-street, St. George-in-the-East, cooper, was
charged with cruelly ill-treating his wife Mary, an Irish-
woman.

Police Sergeant Armstrong stated that about 4 o'clock
on Sunday morning he was pasting by the prisoner's house,
when he heard the screams of a woman, and cries of
" murder." He knocked at the door, and it was opened
by a little boy, who directed his attention to his mother,
who was lying on the boor, in the middle of a room, in a
state of nudity, in a most lamentable condition. Her
hands, legs, and feet, were made fast b handkerchiefs and
cords, the blood was towing from her eyes, nose, and
mouth,and there were extensive bruises and contusions on her
face, back, and abdomen. He immediately released her,
and covered her over with his greatcoat. In answer to his
questions, she said her husband had ill-used her, and that
sbe haJ been laid up for five weeks. He, therefore, took
the prisoner into custody. The woman had since been in
the workhouse.

The prisoner said he had been almost driven to a state of
madness by the drunken and dissipated habits of his wife,
I who had broken up his home several tures, and was an ha-
bitual drunkard. His earnings as a cooper had for some
time averaged 11.18 s. per week, sufficient to support his
wits sod obildrea to respectability, bat owing to the coa-