The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-22 00:00:00

NEW COURT.—YEsTEIDAT.
BSIFOIi 1 111 RZOORDUt.

MOM°. St I' t, 21, engineer, pleaded guilty to an iedict-
meat charging him with boring unttwful,y, and with it tent,
applied and put on, upoe the 14th of September, a
break to the wheels of a carriage on the London and Black-
well Railway, ot aato eadanrr the safety of persons con-
veyed upon the said railway.
Mr. Bodkin prosecuted, and said that the prisoner, when
taken before the willow', admitted the act imputed to
his, and that he was drunk at the time he got into the
break carriage. Ilia act was fortunately not attended with
very serious consequences, but it might have been other-
wise had they come to any part of the line where the course
was to be altered, as it would then have had the effect of
throwing the train off the rails, and thereby endangering
the lacy of the passengers. Mad it ouly been a matter
of inconvenience to the company's servants, they would
have felt satisfied with the matter being adjudicated upon
without being sent here.
The Recorder said, that having read over the depositions
it seemed to bOu that it was very culpable neglect to all ,w
any one to get into a break carriage.
Mr. Bodkin said that it was allowed when the other
ea-rianes were fall.
The Recorder said that it was bad enough to allow a
drunken man at all to get into a carriage of ary class to
the annoyance of the other and more respectable class of
passengers, but it was gross to a degree to anew suck a per-
son to get into a portion of the carriage where he could
have the chance of endangering the lives of his follow-
passengers, and he should require to know how it had taken
place.
Mr. Bodkin called John Young, the guard of the Man,
who said that all he knew that the prisoner got in
between Shedwcll and London. There were more bri sh
carriages than one attached to the train. lie was not in
the carriage in which the prisoner was, but felt the break
applied. Neither he nor the other guard saw the prisoner.
ide might get into the break carriage from the station plat-
form. The directors authorise persons getting into those
carriages when the others are full. There was not any
person in charge of the break, which was turned down.
The Recorder—Am I to understand that the directors
know and unction such proceedings ?
Witness—The superintendent knew it.
The Recorder—lt was a Cild's mercy that no accident
occurred. The practice is most reprehensible, and the ne-
glect very
Mr. Bodkin
iesaid the company wished to recommend the
prisoner to mercy.
The Recorder in sentencing the prisoner said that he
thought the company had done no more they they were
bound to do, in recommending him to mercy, as they were
as much or more to blame than he was. They had no right
to let a drunken man into the carriages at all, more parti-
cularly a part where he could have access to the machinery
upon which the safety of the train depended, and he hoped
that after this exposure steps would be taken that might
lead to better regulatiors. Ile should punish the prisua:r
more for his drunkenness than the act, and he should sen-
tence him to one month's imprisonment in Newgate.
THIRD COURT.-YESTERDAY.
UZFORIB Tea COIIMON bVSJILAPT.

James Kelsey, 20, boa-maker, and John Ford, 32, grocer,
were indicted for stealing a mare valued at 10/ the pro-
perty of Peter Mellish.
Mr. Carteen prosecuted.
It appeared from the evidence of Ford, who pleaded
guilty, end was admitted as a witness, that the prisoner
Kelsey, who had been in the service of prosecutor, who was
a packing case maker in Wardour-street, upon the night of
the 31st of last month told him that if he bad a
mind to steal a horse be could let him know where to get
one, and took him to the prosecutor's stable, which they
broke open and took out the mare in question. As Ford
was going through Smithfield with it a constable stopped
him, and he then called to Kelsey who was following to
give an account. which being unsatisfactory, the officer de-
tained them.—The jury found KeheyGuilly.
It wee proved by the police that Kelsey bad only a few
days before the cominissien of this offence been tried and ac•
quitted at the sessions holden here in August for bring con-
nected with others in obtaining a quantity of carpeting, and
that he formed part of a gang, the chief director of whom
was tried and convicted in the New Court on Monday.
Kelsey was sentenced to 18, and Ford to 12 months hard
labour.
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Lteponan, 24, spinster, an ordinary-looking young
woman, of the Jewish persuasion, wao indicted for endea-
vouring to conceal the birth of her infant child.
Mr. O'Brien prosecuted, and Mr. Parry defended.
Mr. O'Brien having stated the case, called
Bridget Toomey, who said that up to the 29th of
July, the date of this occurrence, she lived ser-
vant with the prisoner, who kept a fried fish
shop, No. 32, Cable-street, Whiteehapel. She had lived
with her about twelve months. They occupied the shop
and parlour, and slept in the latter place. The prisoner
always used to go home to her father's upon the Friday.
On the night of Thursday, the 28th of July, she c =plainest
to witness of being very unwell and in great pain. On the
next day she sent witness to her father's, who lived in
Leman-street, to say that she could nut come that day, and
in the evening prisoner sent her there again, and when she
came back she found the shop abut up. Prisoner came and
opened her door, and then walked back to the parlour.
Witness smelt a strong smell, as of hair burning. The fire,
which had been lit in the parlour, was out. Prisontr sent
her next door to get a kettle of water, and when she came
back told her to light the lire in the grate. Witness
went to do so, and there maw amongst the firing the
bead of a baby partly burnt. She was so frightened'
that she ran out and told a neighbour what she'
had seen, and then came back and told prisoner that
she wanted to go home. Prisoner asked her why. Witness
said you know you hare been burning your baby. Prisoner
told her she would gve her half a sovereign not to say
anything about it. The police then came in and took the
pnsoner away.
Foay, the constable, proved finding the charred portions
of the skull of the child, but no other parts. After the
prisoner had been charged at the station she was sent to
the hospital.
Dr. Ryan, who attended to examine the prisoner, proved
that she had been but recently confined, and from the
examination of the head of the child and other circum-
stances, he came to the conclusion that the full period of
gestation had not been arrived at by two if not three
months. He knew prisoner well ; she was subject to
hysterics.
The jury found her Guilty, recommending her to mercy
on account of her infirmities.
Sentence postponed.