The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-04 00:00:00

LAMBETH
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JuicyA Bailey arid Wm. Robert, the lacier s tioketati-
have mac, ware placed it the bar, before Ilr. Wheal, on a
charge of being found loitering in the neighbourhood ol
Bastes, on the night betook with latest to coma
felonies.

Pollosoonstable P saki that about seven o'alook as the
evens' bakes be brut saw thorn's:men lark* about cable
beat, and looking Into and about every house without •
her.htauSvapeoting them, he followed them for some ea-
Oro% and his suspicions being onflrined by
their conduct be stopped and questioned them m to
their bedew in the neighbourhood. Their replies to
bis quinine was that they worked In the docks cam-
eloeally, and had no settled place of abode, but gene-
ally slept at coffeehouses in the neighbourhood of
Shoreditch. He then took them into custody, and et the
ststioe-house Serpent Hammond recognised the Omen
Roberts as the son of a parson living in the neighbourlised.
After they were locked op, he (wrings) went to the rest.
done of Roberts's father, and learned from the latter that
his son had stolen from him on the Wednesday before two
its, a knife, end other property belonging to him, and he
(the father) Made! to him the life-preserver which he found
in the prisoner's room after he wee gone.
Sergeant Hammond, 10 P, said ha knew the primmer
Roberts to have been convicted of felony end ssetemed to
tour years' peel servitude, and had ultimately beer dis-
charged on an eight months' tiont-af-leave.
The father of Roberts crobrated the statement of hie son
having robbed him of two nate and a knife, and ideoldfisd
the knife found oa his son es his property, and alp mid be
had fend the lifeweserver in his son's room.
The primmer ito was committed for trial, satlßailey
warennaded for • week.
THAMES.
Mr. Jeffreys, one of the relieving dhows of the Poplar
union, came before Mr. Partridge, with Mary Hayes, aged
37, Lad John Hayes, bar brother, aged 12, and requested
him to sign an order for their removal to Limerick, their
native place,
Mr. Partridge said the law prohibited the removal of Irish
paupers se deck peassagers during the whiter season.
Mr. Jeffreys said the two paupers before the bench would
be forward to Limerick as cabin passengers In a steamship
which would lone the river to-morrow morning. The
guardians had entracte& to pay 10s. extra for each pauper
seat to Ireland during the winter months.
Mr. Partridge said that acne had lately been investigated
by his oolleapie, Mr. Paget, where it appeared that theguar.
duns of the Greenwich union had sent paupers to Cork ea
deck passopes in the month of December, 1864, and on
of them was a young woman who had been cooked •
month only. He could not ioo strongly condemn such •
rine of things. He 'eked if the two paupers for whom
orders of removal were sand were in good health.
Mr. Jeffreys—Yes. air.
Mr. Partridge—And able to undertake the voyage to
Limerick I
Mr. Jeffreys—Pas, sir, and willing to go.
The wane, who did not look more than 20. and her
brother were then sworn to the place of their legal settle-
meat, and the magistrate signed the orders for their re-
moral on being asonsed that proper care would be taken of
them on the voyage.
GREEN W 1 Cll.

William Fletcher, a young man very respectably connected.
and 'voiding in liothethillimstreet, Rotherhithe, apposed
to a 11111110100 s charging him with threatening the if. of
Calvin Austin.
Mr. Litton attended in support of the summons; and
Mr. Cockle for the defames.
The complainant is • butcher, carrying on business at
liotherhithewall, Itotherbithe, and according to We own
statement it appeared that on the 27th alt., while waiting
at the railway station with bis father and mother andsitter,
the defendant commenced abusing him, radon the following
day called upon him at his shop and challenged him outride
to fight, and on declining the challenge, he threatened "the
lint time he ought him out he would give him one what
would do for
Mr. Cockle cron-examined the complainant, with the
view of showing that he had been instrumental in what
was termed "spiriting" • bridegroom away from •
newly-married wife. From this it appeared that a
brother of the complainant's married • first cousin of
the defendant's at St. George's Church, Southwark, on
the 10th of March last, bat that in the evening of the
nom day some members of the complainant's family
andeletily made their appearance and carried the bear
groom away, since which time he had neither been
seen nor loud of b the newly-wedded wife. It was
denied that the defendant had used the threat sworn
to, but meeting the complainant and other members of the
family, sod feeling an anxiety respecting his cousin, who
had been so mysterioudy devoted mince the first day of her
marriage, he had asked complainant and hie sisters if they
had heard anything of their brother (the husband).
The complainant denied knowing where his brother was,
or that he was married to the defendant's cousin, except
from hearsay.
Mr. frail said be thought it right to require the de-
fendant to find bail in Mg for three mouths, and this
having been immediately tendered and accepted the partite

left the court.
Mr. Henry Nagle, a gentlemanly-looking middle-aced
man, of ii, Crescent-road, Park-roa4 Clapham, describing
himself as travelling agent to the Society for Missions to
80111721111, appeared to a summons calling upon him to show
sans Irby an order should not be made upon him to contri-
bute towards the maintenance of the illegitimate child of
Susannah Ann Salmony, of which he was alleged to be the
putative father.
Mr. Coelde, solicitor, who appeared in rapport of the
summons, said the complainant was • ling-houari-
keeper in the town of Greenwich, and towards
the latter end of May, 1863, the defendant, in his capa-
city of agent to a Society for Missions to Seamen,
took up his abode at the house for • few weeks.
During that time an iotimacy took place between the
parties, which resulted in the birth of • female child on the
16th of March in the last year. Sons after the defendant
left Green wich,the complainant, tindieg herself ia the homily-
way, wrote to the defendant, apprising him of her situation,
and in return received a letter from him, enclosing an ceder
for 10e. At the time of lodging at the complainant's house
the defendant represented himself as a widower, although
it turned out that he was, arid still is, • married man with
a family. A great many letters had paned between the
defendant and the complainant, and which letters he (Mt.
Cockle) would hand up for his worship's peruml. After the
birth of the child the complainant again wrote to him, and
received a letter in reply from Dover, and also from
Ramagate, Eastbourne, and Folkestone, where he was
enraged in his duties for the society, in which he pro-
posed that she should avail herself of the excursion trains
that were then running, promising to meet her and to pay the
supremos to which she would be put, and also a comfortable
time while there. He had also suggested that she should
take • house at Ramsgate for the purpose of letting, sod to
represent herself as being a widow with one child. In
another of the letters sent by the defendant he had threa-
tened, in the event of being summoned before a magistrate,
to put his case in the hands of an experienced barrister,
being determined not "to die eat," sddisg that in the
event of such an exposure taking place he would destroy
himself. Subsequently to the summons being taken out
the defendant had written to the complainant proposing au
interview with her at Leaden-bridge. The interview took
place, and the defendant, as he should show by • card
produced, wrote on the back of the card the terms of an
agreement which he proposed the complainant should have
copied and to sign, releasing him from all pecuniary
deration in respect to the child on paying her 10s. then and
10e. a month afterwards. This agreement was written out
under one of the railway arches iu Toolepstreet.
Defendant denied that any improper familiarity had ever
taken place, and accounted for sending money to the com-
plainant after leaving the lodgings by saying that he had
left owing her some 01. or Os., and had written the letters
suggesting the taking of a lodging-house by her at Rama-
gate owing to having been written to by her upon the sub-
ject, and, taking an interest in her welfare, he had procured
for her all the information he could.
Mr. Maude, having perused the letters written by the de-
(indent, said the act of parliament required in all such cease,
ILIA very properly too, some corroborative evidence, anti
that the evidence of the mother, however truthfully it might
be given, or respectable the person, should not be taken
alone as conclusive. Taking the defendant's own admis-
sions by the letters he had written, what did be nod ?
After receiving a letter from the complainant charging him
with being the father of her child, not acting with that
indignation which an ionocent man would have done
on having such a scandalous accusation, if false,
made against him, but sending her molter,
and afterwards masking to induce har to compromise the
matter by signing au agreement after appointing a meeting
in London for that purpose. la one of the letters he ob-
served that in asking the complainant to take the Sunday
excursion train to Ramsgate be had not only promised to
pay be hack the fare she would have to pay, but likewise
to provide her with "plenty of grog," and "to make her
comfortable." His worship having given many other
similar quotations from the letters of the defendant, said
that no one with any experience of the world could fail in
coming to a conclusion that the defendant had formed an
attachment for the complainant, which had resulted in the
birth of the child, and for whose support the usual order,
with mute, would be made.
The court was crowded during the hearing of the case,
which occupied some considerable time.

VIZ MURDER AT ALDERSHOT.—Yeatertlay morn-
ing Mr. Clarke held an *see at the Queen Hotel, Alder-
shot, on tine body of Daniel Barns, a solider, who wen killed
on Friday morning by a patient suffering under insanity,
whom, with another man, he was guseling, coder einem-
stances already reported in our columns. The jury, after
some deliberation, returned the folloviog verdi "We
find that Daniel Borns was killed by the said Thomas
Dumphy, by means of a poker, bet that the latter was In s
lunatic and unsoiled state of mind at the time, and did Dot
feloniously nor of malice aforethought slay the said Daniel
Burns." The jury further added, that proper prorbion
should be made at Aldershot Camp for the reception of all
military patients suffering from any species of insanity, lc
as to guard against the recurrence of any catastrophe similar
to the above for the future.