The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-06 00:00:00

NEW COURT.—YESTERDAY
Ibsen TM. Rernamm.
THE LoNDON DOCK ROBBEILT.
Coates Fennell, 38, agent, who was yesterday found
guiltyof stealing some coffee, the property of the London
Dock Company, was brought up for sentence.
The defence the prisoner had set up was, that the coffee
he was charged with stealing was merely sweepings, and
that he took them considering them to be perquilites. The
facts which led to his conviction were very nearly the same
as those which occupied so much time a few weeks ago
in the Court of Exchequer.
The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to 12 months' im
prisonment and hard labour, and in the course of the
remarks he mule upon the dishonest character of the trans-
action. observed that the Dock Company ought to take
better care of their property.
Robert Nyland, IS, porter, pleaded guilty to stealing 48
handkerchiefs, the property of William Leaf, and others,
his masters.
The prosecutors begged the court to deal mercifully with
the prisoner, as he had been a long time in their service.
The Recorder stated that had the prisoner been guilty of
falsifying the books to hide his offence he should have passed
a most severe sentence ; as it was, he should sentence him
to six months' imprisonment.
The cases disposed of by his lordship during the day were
of the ordinary description, and not of sufficient interest to
warrant a report.

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Barons Sta. SKRIRANT AWIEN asineraat Jesus.
PeeNV T Wants.
Frerlerkk WSManse, 38, and John Herbert Hours. 30,
were indicted for having unlawfully kept in the parish of
St. Ann, Liutehouse, an unlicensed place fur music and
dancing.
The defendants pleaded guilty, and the learned counsel
for the prosecution intimated that the parochial authori-
ties of St. Ann, Limehouse, had instituted the proceedings
fur the purpose of putting, an end to a serious nuisance,
namely, " a penny theatre, ' and they would be content if
the nuisance were stopped.
The learned Judge said great praise was due to the
parish authorities who brought forward these cases, for un-
questioned/ these penny theatres were nests of vice, de-
pravity, an infamy, and worse than brothels. Ile said the
defendants must enter into their own recognisance,' in the
suns of 50/. to come up fur judgment when called upon, and
the court would order all the trappings and paraphernalia
of the place to be burnt.
Mr. Prendergast informed the court that the entertain-
ments were continued at a beer shop nest door to the place
in respect of which the dekndants were indicted, and the
names of the defendants appeared in the programme as per-
formers. The trappings had been removed to that house,
and it was there the defendants were apprehended.
The learned judge said the keeper of the beer shop ought
certainly to be indicted.
An inspector of police said the concerts were continued
up to the present time.
Mr. Itibton hoped the court would not hold the defend-
ant: respan,ible ter what had been done whilst they had
been in prison.
The learned judge said that under all the circumstances
he should remand the defendants till the next sewion, and
in the mean time the nuisance might be stopped completely
and the trappings burnt.
Mr. Itibton applied fur the liberation of the defendants
oa bail.—The application was refused
' .harks Hunt pleaded guilty to a similar indictment,
preferred against him by the parochial authorities of St.
George's, Bloomsbury.
Mr. Woraley appeared for the prosecution. Ile said the
authorities for whom he appeared had felt it to be their
duty to prosecute the defendant for keeping a penny theatre
, at 167, High Holborn, near Museum-street, the inhabitants
of the immediate neighbourhood having complained to
them that it was not only a common nuisance, but that it
. depreciated the value of the adjoining property, that it
was injurious to the morals of young persons to whom it
was a temptation, and that it was the resort of thieves mid
, prostitutes. As the defendant would undertake to leave
the place, the authorities would be satisfied if he entered
into his own recogniaaueee to come up for judgment
when called upon ; but they wished it to be distinctly un-
derstood that if this house were again used as a penny
, theatre au indictment would immediately be preferred
, against the landlord.
The learned judge said the defendant hail been dealt with
very leniently. If the landlord of one of these places were
convicted the court would not fail to mark its sense of the
conduct of a man who would let his property for such

pa defendant was then ordered to enter into his own
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recognisance of Mi. to appear for judgment when called

THE POLICE COURTS.
BOW-STREET.
Ele:a Ariaroll, an Irishwoman, was charged with obtain-
ing, by fraud, the sum of 21., from Messrs. Fox and Hen-
derson, contractors for the Exhibition Building, Hyde-park.
Mr. B. Dunn, a clerk to Messrs. Fox and Henderson,
/fated thst the defendant, in April last, called at the other
in Spring-gardens, and stated that she was the widow of
Denis Mark, lately in the employment of the firm, and
killed on the Eastern Counties Railway. She said that she
wanted the sum of 21. to purchase a pony to carry on the
business of a greengrocer. She made use of the name of
the principal partner at Birmingham. Witness desired her
to call again. Mr. Henderson consented to let her have
the money on her own terms, to pay it by instalments.
Yesterday another woman made a similar application,
which led to the detection of the prisoner. Witness could
not say if prisoner was the widow of Mark.
Mr. Robert Desire, also a clerk to Fox and Henderson,
proved having paid the money to the prisoner, who was to
repay it at 105. per month. She signed her name as " Ann
Denis Mack."
Id 9 K proved former convictions against the prisoner,
and apprehended her yesterday evening. She was nut the
widow of Mack, but of Martin Driscoll.
Defendant denied the charge.
Ann Mack, widow of Denis Mack, was married to de- i
ceased in a Roman catholic chapel. Had not authorised
prisoner to receive money for her.
Mr. Henry committed the prisoner for trial.
THAMES.
Roger 31' Grath, an Irish labourer, residing at Ashby-
place, Ratcliffe, was charged with the following dastardly,
and apparently premeditated, outrage on another Irish
labourer, named John O'Brien. The prisoner's wife was
included in the charge when it was first brought before the
court, on the 17th ult., but owing to the absence of the
prosecutor, who lay in a very precarious state in the Lou-
den Hospital, a sufficient Rise was not made out against
her, and she was discharged. Yesterday tFe prosecutor
was able to attend, bat he gave his evidence with great
difficulty, being scarcely audible. He was pale as a spec-
tre, and had evidently undergone much suffering, his shorn
head adding considerably to his woe-begone appearance.
It seem, that on the 11th ult., the prosecutor attended this
court to answer to a warrant taken out against him by the
I prisoner's wife, but was discharged on the payment of costs.
This so nettled her that on leaving the court she assailed
him with stones, and he had to seek the protection of
a constable. On his way home afterwards she threw a
brickbat at him. He left his lodgings close upon 12 that
evening, and in passing through Brooke-street, he saw the
prisoner, his wife, his cousin (also named Roger M'Grath),
and a man named Kelly, standing opposite. The prisoner
said, "Why do you not speak to me? Is it because my
wife indicted you? Come, have a drop of beer and make
it up." O'Brien declined, saying that he wanted to get
home. The prisoner, who had his hands in his jacket
pockets, affected to weep, and drew out his right hand as
prosecutor thought to dry his tears, but instead of that he
drew out a small hatchet, the head of which was in his
pocket and the handle up his sleeve, and hit him with the
back of it a heavy blow on the mouth, which caused hint to
reel across the street, when he fell on his elbow, whilst the
blood gushed from his mouth. lie then made a second
blow, and one of the sharp corners of the hatchet caught
prosecutor over the right eye near the temple, indicting
a wound from which the blood spirted out copioualy,
and he was again stretched prostrate. lie attempted to rise
once more, when the prisoner's wife rushed across and
struck him with a brickbat on the back of the head. Ile
staggered and fell, calling out " murder" and " police," on
which the female wrapped her cloak about his mouth to
@title his cries. Whilst down the prisoner's cousin kicked
him in the mouth. He tried to get up once more, when the
man Kelly knocked him down, and the prisoner's cousin
again kicked him in the jaw. Henderson, 95 K, alarmed
by the cries, then approached,when the party moved rapidly
away. The constable found the prosecutor leaning against
die wall in a very excited state, and took him to a surgeon,
by whose direction he was conveyed to the London Hospital,
sere he remained ever since, his life being fur a consider-
able time in imminent danger and where he was insensible
and almost speechless fur four days. On the following
Monday Potter, 212 K, took the prisoner and his wife into
letutody, when tho latter (as already stated) wax discharged
by the magistrate, in consequence of absence of evidence.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that O'Brien was con-
stantly taunting him about his wife, calling him a cuckold,
mad her a w—e. On the occasion in question lie was
particularly abusive, and struck prisoner on the chest.
Being very much excited, he admitted that he did strike
the prosecutor, and, determining not to give him a chance,
followed it up 3 or 4 times ; but his wife bad not interfered,
nor had he (prisoner) used the hatchet. The injuries the
prosecutor sustained must have occurred by his heed coming
Ilut contact with a kerb stone.
Potter produced the hatchet, which he found at the pri-
miner's house, and which O'Brien identified as that with
which he had been assaulted.
The constable said he was unable to conclude the evi-
dence, as the medical gentleman hid left the hospital, after
serving his six months as house surgeon. He, however,
would be able to have hint in attendance on Saturday next ;
to which day the case was remanded.
Mr. Ingham, at first, refused to accept bail in a case so
very serious; but on the representation of the prisoner's
master, a respectable builder in Stepney-causeway, for
whom M'Orath has worked for 16 years, he accepted his
own security in 100!. aad two sureties in SOl. each, for his
appearance an Saturday.

We understand a vacancy is about to occur in the
Wardenship of Dulwich College. By the statutes of the
college the candidates muct he of the name of Alleyn or
Allen, not lea than 21 years of age, and unmarried.