The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-12 00:00:00

POLICE.

WORSHIP-STREET. THE Goose Cum. SAVAGE
ASSAVLT.—A young man, with his face bespattered with
plaister, and who described himself as a poultryman, ap-
plied to Mr. Broughton, the sitting magistrate, for a war-
rant against Amelia Morris, and another woman (whose
name he could not then tell), for scratching him in the face
and otherwise ill-treating him. He said he had a goose club
at the " Bell," Shoreditch, where parties, paying 6d. aweek,
were entitled, at Christmas, to &goose. Some acquaintances
of the parties complained of were in that club, which, it
would seem, had induced the latter to presume upon the
philanthropy of complainant, by prevailing on him to sub•
scribe rather larger than his means would permit him, to-
wards raising a sum for the release of ene of their husbands,
who was at present suffering incarceration, in default of
paying a fine levied upon him for an assault. In come-
vence of his refusal, the women flew at him like two
tigresses, and one of them hit so savagely and severely in
the fleshy part of his arm, that he verily believed had it
not been for the thick velvet coat he then had on, she would
have bit the piece she laid hold of completely out. (The
complainant here exhibited his arm, which bore severe
marks of the teeth.) Mr. Broughton granted the warrant.

TEIE LATE FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE IN KENT-
sTaErr.—CORONER's INQUEST.—This forenoon an inquest
was held at the Royal Standard, White-street, Borough,
on the lody of Ellen Sharp, aged 18, who lost her life at the
recent fire in Kent-street. Mr. John Maize, surgeon, of 274,
Kent-street, said he was called in to see the deceased on
Friday evening last. She was then quite dead. He bad no
doubt that death was caused by suffocation. Mr. John
Sharp, printer and bookseller, of 30, Kent-street, said, that
on the night in question he left his house at about nine
o'cleck ; the deceased was then sitting in the back room
along with his wife and several other parties. As soon as
witness got to the bottom of the street he heard a cry
of fire. He went back and saw signs of fire in the
shoo. He made an attempt to go in, but was
pulled back by the crowd. He however succeeded in
getting into the hack-room where he heard a noise. The
apprentice Centel! was then calling to the others to creep
'keg the floor. He appeared almost exhausted. Witness
CI: thim into the passage. He then opened the window,
eing nearly exhausted himself he fell down, and after-
wards crept to the shop, but he did not see the deceased.
He went back to the parlour and found a child, which be
rescued. He then went into the yard and found some per-
sons getting another daughter over the back wall. Upon
their getting upon the roof of the wsshhouse their weight
forced in the roof. and the tiles fell upon witness's head.
When he returned again to the front shop the body of
deceased was pointed out to witness. She was in a sitting
position. There were some fireworks in the drawer under
the counter near the spot where deceased was found.
When witness went out all the children were employed
with his wife in tying up squibs. There was a
large pan on the hob of the stove, which contained a
pound or a pound and a half of composition. The apprentice
and his daughter Emma are still in the hospital, both greatly
injured. Mr. Henderson, foreman of the brigade, was of
opinion that the fire originated in the back parlour at the
stove, and extended from thence to the shop. Several other
witnesses were examined, whose evidence was merely confir-
matory of the above, when Emma Kipps said that whilst
Emma Sharp was a putting some powder into the pan
out of a saucer, a, out of the fireplaa and set the com-
the fireworks in the shop. The

engaged
... spark flew on.
nmition on fire, which exploded