The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1847.

defendant was the proprietor of a publioltouse is Air-
street, Piccadilly, ar,d • prize-tightor. It appeared that
on the 19th of 'November the prosecutor tete at the de-
fendant's Caren, after being at a foot-race at Battersea, and
offered to back some one to run against another, but refused
to place the stakes iu the hands of the defendant, alleging',
that he had acted dishonestly en former emeasione; and on
his repeating his assertion the defendant struck him and his
eye was .omuch injured that he was under medical for
six months,—The learned judge directed the jury to find •
verdict of " Guilty," which they accordingly did, and his
lordship added that it was probable it would not be necessary
to call up the defendant for judgment.
Several other common jury eases were tried, but nose
were of any public interest.

POLICE. v
- _ EaTERDAT.
NAN 5101.1.110 USE.—Rons RT.—A foreign Jew, named
Morris Fryer, was brought before Mr. Ald.lduegrove, charged
with having stolen a great number of (told end silver watches,
diamond rings, &c., the property of Hoesch lAndsberg.—
Mr. Daniels attended as solicitor for the prosecution.—The
prosecutor said : I reside at No 5, New-street, Bighopegate,
and ass • dealer in jewellery. The prisoner lodged in the
same how. I had deposited in a travelling box 65 or 66
gold and silver watches, several diamond pins, rings, and
brooches, sad °tine property of considerable value. I saw
the property safe on the 25th of May, at 5 o'clock in the
afternoon. The prisoner saw the contents of the box at the
same time, and asked me when I was going to the country.
I told him it was my intention to go next morning. Soon
afterwards the prisoner, another person, and myself played
cards in my room. We went out together at the same tune,
and I left my box locked in the room, but the door of the
room was not locked, there being no key to it. When we
left the house, the prisoner and the other man asked me
which way I was going, and when I told them, they went in
a contrary direction. Upon my return, at nice
o'clock, I mimed the travelling.hox, which I had deposited
in a blue bag' Ateleven the prisoner returned, an I gave him
into the custody of an officer.—Mine Parish, (laughter of
Mrs. Parish, of No. 5, New-street, Biahopagate, I indlaey of
the house in which the prisoner and prosecuter lodged,
stated, that after they left the house, about five minutes, the
prisoner came back and went into the prosecutor's room.
Witness knew that he entered the prosecutor's room, in
conwmenee of the peculiar noise made by the opening of
the door. He went not afterwards.—Mrs. Parish, mother
to the last witness, said she heard the steps In the prow-
cutor's room after the prisoner returned to the house, and
expressed surprise at so odd s circumstance.—John Sullivan,
a boy 13 years of age, stated that he saw the prisoner come
out of the house on the evening in question, and, joiaieg
another man, turn round the corner and pan away rapidly.
The man who accompanied the prisoner took off his hat and
put on a cap. The prisoner had with him a blue bag, which ap-
peared to be at the bottom four•cornered. Both of them ran
so fast as they could, and witness tollowed them, but they got
down a court, and witness lost sight of them. Witham went to
the Compter afterwards, and from amongst 12 persons easily
picked est the prisoner as the man he had seen with the
tour.eornered blue bag. He observed that the primmer and
the person who accompanied him appeared to be friehtened
when he saw them on the day the robbery was committed.
Toilet, a porter, who was in the Compter when the prisoner
was charged, deposed as to the remarkable conduct of the
prisoner there. The prisoner upon that °cession stated,
that if he was dimhftrged, as he expected would be the case,
he would try the weight of the box, and that if it users broken
up, it would not produce more than half the value of it. The
prisoner said he knew nothing at all of the goods, and that
all his conduct towards the prosecutor was influenced by
nothing but fair and honourable feeling.—The Alderman
(aid the evidence, although merely circumstantial, was such
that he considered it to be necessary to send the case to a
jury.—Mr. Daniels said the prosecutor had every reason to
believe that all the property had been melted down by this
time, so that there was no chance of the recovery of any
part of it —The prisoner was then committed for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Duct PlEViwrrn.
Allan Menzies, Esq., and Robert Tayler, Esq., were charged
with having intended to commit a breach of the peace by
fighting a duel with each other.—Dr. Mackenzie produced a
letter from Mr. Menzies to Mr. Tayler, which the magis-
trate considered to be couched in such terms u to re, der
it necessary that both parties should be held to bail.--Dr.
Mackenzie offered himself as surety (or Tayler, who was
released on his own recogniiances to keep the peace for
a year, and Menzies wu ordered to find two suretie. in
2001. each, or one in 4001., sad himself in 2001., to keep the
peace for a like period.

WORSHIP-STREET.— UNFOlerr ATE ATTACHMENT.
—Yesterday, a young woman, named Lucretia WiLkiLson
Hendricks, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton,
charged with having stolen five sovereigns from her mother,
a widow of property, residing in the Hackney-road ; an I a
smartly-dressed young-man, named John Barnett, was also
charged with haying incited the first-named prisoner to the
commission of the robbery.—Mr. H. ritage, who appeared
fee the prosecution, stated the case, and called the proecu-
trio, who gave her evidence with much emotion, and slid
that the female prisoner, who was her only child, and had
been brought up with great care and tenderness, would be
entitled upon cominget ago to considerable (undid property.
For some time put, however, she had reason to suspect that
her daughter had formed • degrading connexion with the mile
prisoner, who was • potman in the service of an ed-
Joining publican, aid in the habit of bringing beer to the
house, and on making this discovery she repeatedly wsretd
her daughter of the ruinous consequences of such an icti-
meg, but withsut producing any effect, and it was at length
necessary to resort to the extreme measure of locking up the
veratscertrart, herevaepnptarheelr, actlnlleepinneiya
te..lo7inwgazti,iptheie
object of her in to rtuation. The nrecsutionary measure she
adopted appeared to be attended with success until the
evening of Thursday ae'nnight, when, in consequence of
her daughter's protracted absence she proceeded to
her bedroom on the second floor, and found the
window wide open, and a long knotted rope, one end of
which was attached to the bedpost, hanging down in the
street, into which it was manifest the young woman
had contrived to lower herself and make her escape.
Upon afterwards examining the house she discovered that
the prisoner had taken away no clothirig but what she had
upon her person at the time, but upon opening a drawer
in which she kept her loose cash, the discovered that
five sovereigns, which had been safe a short time previ-
ously, had disappeared. Feeling satisfied that the male pri-
soner had incited her daughter to her flight, she employed
several persons to watch his master's premises and follow
him, in the hope of finding the young weman's retreat, and
on the preceding evening he wastraced to a low lodging-house
in Peter's-street, Friar's-mount, Bethnal-green, to which the
witness subsequently proceeded with a movable, and having
found them together gave both the prisoners into custody.
On interrogating the woman who kept the house. sho was
informed that the rent of the room in which her daughter
had been discovered had been paid by the male prisoner,
who had engaged it the same evening the young woman ab-
wended from home, and that he bad also paid her frequent
visits during the time she had lived there. No portion of
the stolen money had been found in the possession
of either prisoner, and, although she should be able to
prove that the man had been lavishly spending money
that it was not likely a person in his inferior position
would be able to command, she had no wish to press
the charge if she could recover possession of her daughter,
and effectually break off the cinnexion she had formed.—
Mr. Broughton, upon this, asked the daughter if she was
willing to abandon her intimacy with the other prisoner,
and go back to the house of her mother, who had exhibited
such an earnest anxiety for her welfare ; but the girl shook
her head, and answered with a decided and peremptory
negative. When called upon for his defence the male
prisoner admitted having hired the room in question; but
said that he had done so at the earnest rrqui-st of the young
woman, who had come in a state of great mental distress to
his master's house and begged hint to do so, and for whom
he had such a strong attachment that they had not only
determined to get married as soon as possible, but the
banns had actually been ores published already. The
male prisoner's master, who was in attendance, having
stepped forward and stated that he believed the prisoner
to he a very honest, sober, and industrious young man,
and that he had conducted himself with great propriety
during the time that he had been in his service, Mr.
Broughton suggested to the mother, whether, as matters
had proceeded so far between the prisoners, it might
not perhaps be advisable to allow them to adept their own
course, consent on ler part to their union, and set them up
in some respectable line of business, by which they might get
• comfortable subsistence? The mother, however, declared
that nothing could induce her to consent to an alliance with
the male prisoner, as she had been credibly informed that ho
was a man of wild, irregular habits, and had been wandering
about the country for several years with • gang of Gypsies.
—Mr. Broafghton then said, that although there was no pea •
ties evidence to implicate either of the prisoners directly in
the robbery at present, he considered the circumstances of
suspicion deposed to sufficiently strong Us justify his detention
of both upon the charge, and he should therefore order them
to be brought up again to answer it, but in the meantime
would accept substantial bail for their future appearance.
The hail for each was shortly afterwards procured, and both
prisoners thereupon liberated.
BOUT HWARK.— C•LCOLATINO BOY.— Yesterday a
clerk in the employ of Mr. Wheatley, a coal-merchant at
Bankaide, voluntarily attended to answer a charge of utile.-
fully detaining from his parents • lad possessed of extra-
ordinary genius as an arithmetician. It appeared that the
boy in question is the son of • disbanded soldier, and that
having in early life exhibited extraordinary powers of calcu-
lation, and his family living in poverty, he was sent by them
to miens public-houses for the purpose of displaying his
knowledge of arithmetic. On one of these occasions the
individual complained against happened to be present, and
observing with astonishment the boy's precocious merit es •
rapid calculator of figure., and perceiving at the same time
that he was in a state of destitution, being clothed in rags,
and having neither shoes nor stockings on his feet, offered to
take him into his employment. The boy gladly availed
himself of the offer, and he was accordingly employed in
light work about the wharf, receiving weekly wages, besides
his board and lodging. The father, however, was discon-
tented with the change, and endeavoured to dissuade his
son from remaining where he was, preferring that he
should continue to exhibit his cleverness as a " scholar,"
which was more profitable than to remain in his situation.
The boy, however, expressed his unwillingness to leave his
place for the precarious living that he was formerly obtain-
ing ; and as his employer observed that he he was averse
to quitting the situation, he accordingly consented to attend
before a magistrate to settle the point with the father.—
MT. Seeker, having been put in possession of the above
fiefs, addressed the father of the boy, and said that the
little fellow teemed to be perfectly reconciled to his present
condition, and would it not, therefore, be better for him 43
he allowed to reins& than to take him away for the purpose
of collecting pence from house to house by the exhibition
of hie powers of calculation ? The father, however, said
that be wanted the boy at home, and that he did not wish
him to be employed about a coal-wharf. He added that
he had been a soldier, and that rather than his son should
remain where he was, he would make a soldier of him.—
The boy cried incessantly during the inquiry, and seemed
to be alarmed at the idea of returning home, expressing
how comfortable he was ever since he had been in Mr.
Wheatley's employ, and dreading the notion of being com-
pelled to leave it. The father, however, said he should insist
on it as a father's right —Mr. Seeker again advised the
father net to disturb the boy in his situation, but admitted
that be, as the father, by law bad the custody of his son, a
boy of tender years, and had a right to claim him, but if he
intended to send him about the streets in a destitute con-
dition to collate money by his atkulating powers he was
an act of injustice, vlialso if he was periditiodio so,
. . . .