The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-26 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

WESTMINSTER.

A MIL fiabiosablyiiireMed pence, described as Mrs. Kale
Hayes, of 3, Archbutt-terrace, King's-road, Chelsea, was
charged under the following circumstances :
Inspector Howard, of the B division, said that at half-
peat one that morning he was with Sergeant Brett, 2'J B,
when he heard screams and shouting near Eaton-square.
They went to the spot, from which, aa they approached, a
cab wee driven sway, and found the defendant, who ap•
peered to be quarrelling with another cabman who was
there. She bad two Vernal. friends with her, and there
were several other persons around them. She coin.
plained that the cabman bad nearly run over her
and her friends, and upon complainant's inquiring
whether she had taken his number, she replied that she
had sot, adding, " Such uses ea you, when you are re-
quired, are never here." Complainant asked her who eLe
willed "ayes," when she turned round, and, pulling off
her left dove, struck him in the breast. She was much
excited, and appeared to have been drinking.
Paynter inquired how she had described herself.
The inspector replied that she said she was a lady, and
that her husband was abroad.

Defendant said that ;i:i.d properly described bereelf
she was a lady, living upon her husband's means, and she
could produce letters to prove it, if necessary.
Mr.-Payater. suggested that it was rather unusual to find
• lady out so late, and charged under such circumstances.
Defendant did not nee any great impropriety in being out
with her friends at such an hour, and declared that the
inspector bad perjured himself.
Sergeant Brett, 29 B, confirmed the inspector's account.
Defendant was very violent, and at the station applied a
most disgusting epithet to him.
Defendant positively denied this. She admitted that she
pushed the inspector, but said she really did not know that
he was one. She declared that there was no truth in the
assertion that she was under the influence of liquor, and
asserted that the appellation of "woes" was retorted by
her after being first used to herself and friends by the
police.
Inspector Howard also said he was in uniform, and that
the uproar caused by the defendant brought no less than
five constables to the spot.
Mr. Paynter inquired whether he bad heard the din-
suiting expression imputed to the defendant!
The inventor replica that he did not, but after she had
made some remark to the sergeant. she heard him say,
" That is not the language of a lady."
Defendant's Water' who was with Ler, was called on her
behalf and confirmed her statement.

Mr, l'aynter said that both the inspector and sergeant
were known to be very respectable men, and in interfering,
upon bearing a disturbance at that time is the morning,
they were only doing what was lawful and right. It was
quite obvious that there had been some irregularity, and
there was a disturbance going on in which it would hardly
Iz:roted that a person of her deacnption would be en-
She had admitted that she bad pushed the inspec-
tor, which she was not jwiliified in doing. and what one
would call a push another might deem a blow. He should
fine defendant 54%.

The money was immediately paid.
WANDS WORTH.
A tall, soldier-like-looking man, who gave the name of
William Brown, but whose right name is Joky ayes, was
brought before Mr. Ingham for final examination on a charge
of forging a soldier's certificate of discharge.
The original charge agaiust the prisoner was for begging
in Clapham on the let instant, and for vaulting Police-
coestable &Mill while in the execution of his duty. In
his ien yea found a certificate purporting to be the
discharge of Sergeant William Brown from the 59th Regi-
mento Foot, and signed by Colonel H. H. Graham, and by
the authority of the War-office. The prisoner claimed the
discharge, and said he was • discharged soldier from the
59th. Subsequently it was discovered that the whole of the
certificate, Which was printed upon parchment, woe •
forgery, and the prisoner was remanded for the attendance
of a witness to whom he had uttered it.

residing at Mandarin-villa, Abbey-
road, St. John s-wood, said the prisoner called upon him
about the end of June, 1861, and rerrented that he knew
him when he was in the Ceylon Rifles, at Hong Kong, and
that he was in the 59th. lle stated that be wee without
aristanos and asked him if be could afford him any, as he
had nothing to eat. Witness interrogated him rto how be
was out of the regiment, and he said that he was discharged
on account of bad health. The prisoner also said be was
Sergeant Brown, and banded him the certificate of die-
charge. Knowing that Colonel Graham was not likely to
certify the conduct of the man as good, as the certificate
did, unless it was so, he symprhieed with the prisoner, and
gave him la., and also recommended him to go to Colonel
Graham.

Colonel Henry Hope Graham, of No. 9, Holies-street,
Cavendish-square, now an inspecting field officer, maid he
wee formerly in command of her Majesty's 59th Regiment
of Foot, and ceased to be so on the 30th of June, 1860.
He left the regiment about the 22nd of July, 1859, on leave,
the regiment being then at the Cape of Good Hope. The
certificate of discharge wu dated the 14th el October,
1859, after be bad left the regiment at the Cape, and when
be had no authority to sign it. He *lao proved that the
certificate was a forgery, and that the prisoner was
charged from the regiment as an incorrigible.
Mr. Ingham committed the prisoner for trial for obtain.
leg money by false postman'.

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