The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-12 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAT.

GUILDHALL. —A BRUTAL HVEBAND. W. CNifey
WE: summoned for assaulth g and ill-using Ids wife. The
pros. 'mule was married to the defendant ou the 2n I of Ja-
nuary lot, and on the night following their weJding day he
commei.ced a regular system of brutality, by dr.. wing
her rnd he bed on to the Him. shaking her until her
joints an , sinews were loosened, and at last he, on ;he
2nd of Jer te, flung ter so vicoently against the banieters
that she was confined to hrr tied for a fertniaht,
which perion he continued his ill treatment until, on being
able to mote about, she succeeded in making her escape,
being convinced that if she remained any longer with him he
would take her life. The defendant afterwards found out
btr retreat, and in the night time broke down the wall, and
used most dreadtul lsnguage. It was under these circum-
stances that the prevent proceedings were taken against him.
Evidence in proof of these facts was then given.—Alderman
flumphery said it was clear the defendant was most inhuman
to treat a woman in the manner he had done, and be Otur.lei
kold him to bail, himself in 1001., and two sureties of 50/.
each, to keep the peace towards his wife and all her Ma-
je-ty's subjects for 12 months. In default of bail the defend-
ant was locked up.
CLERKENWELL—A BENEFIT SOCIETY.—Thos stew-
ards and secretary of • benefit society intituled the " United
Brothers' Friendly Society " were summoned to show cause
why they expelled George Bowles', one of their members,
and r. fused to reinstate him so as to receive the benefit aris-
ing out of their funds. Complainant had been a member of
the society nine years, and had regularly paid in his sub-
scriptions prior to the 14th of June lama He went on a
pleasure party to Hampton Court, where he met with an
accident and sprained his knee, which incapacitated him
from work, and he declared on the funds of the
society. The rules of the society specified that
every sick member who declared on the funds
should be relieved during his illness, and visited by
the stewards, and if he was discovered absent from home
after eight o'clock in the evening, doing anything to impede
his recovery, he was to be fined hall-a-crown, or expelled
from the society. The stewards visited his house at the
above time, _nd ascertained that he was at a beer shop,
where one of them treated him to some beer. It
was also alleged that he was drank at the time
when he met with the accident. Mr. Tyrwhitt
thought it rather hard to exclude a member from
their society under such a frivolous excuse. It would
be too severe to prevent a man on a party of pleasure in-
dulging himself in a dance ; such amusement was encou-
raged in other countries, and why not in this? He was cer-
tainly found away from Dome alter eight o'clock in the
groin& contrary to the rule, which empowered the inflic-
tion of 2s. 6d. penalty, or his exclusion from the society. He
(Mr. Tyrwhitt) suggested the former as the milder and more
consistent course, and ha would order him to be reinstated,
as paying that tata.

SOUTHWARIE.—Audsnau AIII,ITTION —T. Craven,
a medical student, was charged with the abduction
of Jessie Cobb, a girl 14 years of ege.—Tae girl's
mother said that on Monday afternoon she sent
her daughter to her aunt's, in the Hackney-road, on an
errand, and that,not returning, when inquiries were made it
was ascertained that she bed left Hackney early the same
evening, but no tidings were heard of her until that (Friday)
morning, when she returned home. The day following that
on which her daughter left borne it was found she had been
seen in the company of a gentleman resembling the accused ;
and, acting upon this information, she (the mother) called
on him, and having represented the facts relative to her
daughter's absence, and intimated that she suspected he had
inveigled her away, his reply to her was that she was a nice
young girl; that he had been tampering with her for the
tut three weeks, but found money was of no use; and he
added, that the girl was safe, and that she (the
mother) might go home and make herself easy, for
her daughter would return home to her in a month.—
Jessie Cobb, the young girl allude d to, was then sworn, and
in accounting for her absence from home since last Monday
efternoon, she said that after leaving her aunt's house at
Hackney and when she was walking along Shoe/ditch, a
gentleman Clime up and spoke to her. That after walking
by her side a short distance he went into a pastry cook's
shop and brought her out some sweetmeats, which he de-
sired her to eat. That soon after she had partaken of some
she became sick and retched very much, and that the gentle-
men remained by her side, and that she did not know what
took place afterwards, as she became insensible, until
the following (Tuesday) morning, she found herself lying
in bed alone, in a house in one of the streets leading out of
Bleckfriars-road; and having got up she I. ft the house.—Mr.
Cottinghem here questioned the girl, and in reply she said
that she Pow a woman in the house, but she said nothing to
her, nor did rho ask her for money for permitting her to
sleep there. How she came there she could not tell, nor
could she say whether the gentleman who gave her the
sweetmeats had accompanied her to the house.—Mr. Cot-
eingham desired the girl to look at the accused, and say
whether he was the person whom she had met on
Monday evening.—The reply was that she had previouely
seen the accused in the vicinity of the Borough hospital,
hut that lie was not the petson whom she des.ribed.—
Mr. Cottingham then asked her where she had been since
Tuesday. and she said that ehe had been walking about the
parks and the west end of the town, and hail not lain on a
heel since Monday night •, nor had she eaten anything.—Mr.
Cottingham said that she did not look as if she had been
atarveu, but fed well piece her absence; that there was so
much improbability in her statement that lee must confess
he did not place much reliance on what she had stated.
He, this magiitrate,:however, was persuaded that she had
been enticed away from home by some heartless seducer,
with whom she had Peen until that day, and that lie had
hound., her down not to di. ulge the Mecum' Lances that trans-
pired during her absence. The magistrate then addressing
Mr. Craven, explained to him that the reason the warrant was
issued against him was owing to the words which it was alleged
he had used to the mother of the girl, but that the girl's
own statement hod completely exonerated him horn any
participation in her abduction.—Tlee ecrused denied that
he had aver uttered the words attributed to him, and com-
plained that his character had suffered in cons, quence of
the unfaunded reports propagated about the affair.—Mr.
Cottingham informed the mother of the girl that in the
event of her discovering the person who had inveigled her
daughter from h. me, he would grant a warrant for his ap-
prehension, and punish him to the extent of the law.