The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-14 00:00:00

14, 1851.

THE POLICE COURTS.
BOW-STREET.
iVilliarn Lipseorwb,l7, was charged with a misdemeanor.
Prisoner had been in the service of Mesas. Chaplin and
Home, general carriers, and had procured a quantity of
their delivery labels, which he had pasted on parcels made
up of brown paper, and, having directed and delivered
them, obtained sums of money from various persons.
Mr. John Ridge, East-street, Lamb's Conduit-street, said
that on Saturday, the ith of June, he received a parcel
from prisoner, t n whom he paid Is. 2d. as carriage. On
opening it he found tt composed of waste paper.
The clerk to Mani. Chaplin and Home stated that Mr.
Ridge's name was not down in the company's books, which
would have been the case had any parcel been sent to them
for delivery.
John Carpenter, pollee-constable, stated that in prisoner's
lodgings, Is, New-street, Horton, he had found a quantity
of Messrs. Chaplin and Home's delivery tickets, and a
parcel of brown paper similar to that received by prose-
cutor—Prisoner, who said nothing in defence, was then
committed.
Reuben Harwood, brother-in-law of Lipscomb, was then
charged with the same offence.
The evidence showed that prisoner had obtained delivery
tickets from Lipscomb, with whom he lodged. On Friday,
the 6th inst., he obtained Is. 2d. on a parcel composed of
waste paper, from Elizabeth Stamp, 56, Lineoltes-inu-
lields.—Committed.
James Ryan, Gearle Spencer, and Charles &palmy, were
charged with imposing upon the audience leaving the
Opera House and Drurv-lane Theatre on the previous
night, obtaining money from them by acting in collusion
with cab drivers.
It appeared from the evidence of the constable, that the
defendants, who were not licensed watermen, pretended
that cabs were wanted by gentlemen leaving the Opera
and theatre, and thus secured plucs near the doors for the
cabs, taking money from the. passengers whom they
handed in.
Mr. Jardine said that the. cab drivers should be fined
heavily when detected. it was a question between the
defendants and the public.. Ryan and Spencer should each
PRY a fine of de., or be Sasmraitted to prison for five days;
and Ramsey should r 4 10s., or be imprisoned ten days.
MAR'..BOROUOH-STREET.
Mr. Charles P eonlagton, of 20, Cumberland-street,
Portman-square, made the following complaint against a
number of the I olice : He stated that on Thurnday lie and
several other S..mtlemen went to Hampton Races stab a
drag, and was• returning about eight o'clock ; ho was driv-
ing very do' sly round the corner of St. Jamee's-atreisit into
l ell-mail. He heard no caution whatever, hut he saw a
man run to the leaders' heads, and immediately aPaerwarde
the hor *es were all or • heap. lie then looked and saw two
er thr re constables at his horses' heads, pushing them back
with'. great force. The wheelers, in conaequesice, ran into
the• leaders, and it was a wonder all the hc,r„es were not
tl .town down and the carriage upset. He at last pulled up
and then got down and took the numbers of the eon rubles.
For the defence, police-sergeant Barnes said, in conse-
quence of an order issued by the police slimmer-inners, he
went last night at a quarter to 9 with two constables to the
Oranite Gate, St. James's Palace, as hex Majesty had signi-
fied her intention of going to the Opera. At this moment,
her Majesty's carriage, with the Quem in it, was coming
out at the gate, and he gave instructsione to the other con-
stables to stop all vehicles that mi%tht chance to pass. A
four-herse carriage just at the sae moment was et-oiling
from St. James's-street iuto Pall. soot, a man being at the
hack of the carriage blowing a trumpet, lie gave
direc-
tiensto the constables to stun 'she carriage. All three con-
stables held up their hand., a nd culled out at the top of
their voices to the driver of *4,e carriage to stop. Mr. Pm.
sington, the complainant, t' ens driving, but he took no heed
of the warning. The cone cables and himself took hold of
, the horses and stopped th a carriage• which, had they not
done so, must have come Soul collision with the carriage :ti
' which her Majesty was jested.
Mr. Pennington here. begged to be allowed to make his
ntateoent. I want to show (said he) how excessively dan-
gerous it is to take he Id of leaders : nothing else can occur
than au accident. 1 i you take hold of leaders while trot-
ting, there can be hilt one consequence. Take hold of
leaders, and you a.t overturn the whole thing. 'there
can only be that o /le consequence, and I want to show the
incautious way the constables acted. The constables
seized my leader s. What is the use of catching hold of
leaders? You can't stop a drag that way—you can only
upset a drsg. What's the natural consequence of etching
hold of lenders? Why, that the wheelers run into the
leaders, and throw them down. Imy the constable must
be igncr ant of his duty.
Mr. Hardwick said—The constables appear to have acted
atria); ni the execution of their duty. The complain-
ant's carriage was turning into Pall Mall just the
soya. carriage was coming by. The conetablee, who had
received orders to allow no vehicles to 1).1,11 while the Queen's
cariage was in the etrect, shouted out loudly to the corn-
plrinant, who still continued on ; and utile complainant did
• net stop bin carriage, which it was admitted was going at a
moderate puce with no great violence, but by simply holding
the leading horses. All danger would have been obviated if
, rlue attention hail been paid to what was goine on. The
lights in the street were sutlicient to show that the royal
; cortege was pining, and the shouting of the constables
, together formed a auflicient reason to pull up, and you
failed to do this; in such an emergency the constables were
justified in seizing the horses. lam at a leas to see bow
the officers could have conducted themselves otherwise than
they had done. The charge must be dismissal.
Mr. Pennington wished-
to know whether the nangistrain
thought there was no danger to the wheelers if the leaders
I were laid hold of?
Mr. Hardwick would give no opinion on that point, but
would sty that in the crowded streets of London it might be
o ails isaiiij for gentlemen not to drive four horses.
Mr. Pennington could not concur iu the value of that
advice.—Mr. Ilardwick Then :Mr. Pennington
must by prepared to take the consequences.
WESTMINSTER.
William £Ui dl, police-constable li9 B, was charged with
, violently assaulting a female.
' Louisa Preston, a middle-aged woman, whose head was
enveloped in a linen bandage, and who, in consequence of
weakness, was seated near the clerk to give her evi-
-1 donee, stated that she resided at 4. York-court, York-street,
Westminster, and between 11 and 12 o'clock on the night of
the 10th of May, cane out to look for her husband. She
L was standing at the bottom of the court, where there were'.
also three other women, when the defendant and a man
; came by, and the latter pushed her up against the lamp-
, post, upon which she asked him what he did that for, as
, there was plenty of room for him to pats ? Defendant im-
mediately
.said, No, warm, there's not, and you must
' move on sod immediately caught hold of her arm and
molted her down. As she was getting up he kicked her,
and then seized her by the hands and dragged her across
the road, saying that he had watehed her from
nine o'clock, and that she was dead drunk. At
that moment her husband came up to the spot,
find asked what she had been doing, when de-1
fendant declared that he would serve him in the 1
santl, way, and was going to lock her up. He then struck
her husband across the back with his truncheon, and let-
ting go of her, seized him, but loosed his hold to put the
' truncheon in his pocket, and her husband got away and
went home. The defendant followed sad brought him
out into York-terrace, but being. told by a person that he
was doing wrong, let him go again. Complainant stooped
down to look for her husband's cap, and, when she rime
again, defendant, looking her full in the face, said, "So
you are here again, I have caught you at last," and im-
mediately struck her with his truncheon upon the head.
She immediately became insensible, and remembered nu
more until brought back from the hospital that night.
She was, in consequence of the injuries ahe received, an
in-patient for some days, nod an out-patient ever since.
Mr. Charles James Spearman, house surgeon at the
Westminate.r Hospital, proved that the complement had re-
ceived a scalp wound an insh and a half long on the top of
the head, such as a severe sharp blow with a police-
man's truncheon would indict. It would be necessary to
perform an operation before she could recover. She was
also hart in the side.
After two or three witnesses had been heard in support of
the defence,
Mr. Burrell observed that he had paid every attention
to the evidence on both sides, and it did not appear to him
that anythiog had been made out to defend the extreme
violence of the &dadaist. Ile felt bound to convicts, the
defendant, and &maid fine him 64, or k default commit
him for two menthe.

DEsPLRATR AFFRAY WITH BURGLARS. AT TwlX-
erze.—Abont one, am. on Tuesday last, the dwelling-
house of Mr. Cook, sea., a farmer in the above parish, was
burglariously entered by three men. An attempt of the
like icharacter haying been made on the same premises
about a mouth ago, the police have vigilantly guarded
them, and on Tuesday. night were on the watch, when the
parties appealed. Having tried at several places ineffectu-
ally, with a long ben chisel, to gain an entrance, they at
last succeeded in removing an iron bar from a back kitchen
window, and entered thereat ; one of them proceeded to the
front parlour, followed closely by a second, who on being
stopped by a policeman, indicted a terrific blowon the officer's
head with a chisel. The robber in the parlour was then at-
tacked by a labouring man in the employ of Mr. Cook, and
for some minutes the parties were engaged in a most
desperate encounter, blood flying in all directions. The
constable succeeded in getting his man down in the
passage, and handcuffing one of his wrists, whilst the la-
bourer called loudly for hi. master. Mr. Cook hearing
his cries hastened to their assistance with his leaded
gun, and when in the act of crossing the passage, the
robber seized the gun, and in the scuffle discharged
the contents, which unhappily entered one of the arm, of
the labourer. The gun was then wrenched from Mr. Cook
who received a blew from it, and the policeman now had
to contend with both the burglars, with whom he fought
single-handedlin a most gallant manner, though sorely be-
laboured by them with the gun and his own staff. The
report of the gun brought to their aid police constables 33
and 45, on discovering whom the two burglars retreated
with a third who was watching outside the premises. In-
formation was iamirliatcly forwarded to the police station
at Sudbury, and -medical aid was procured, when it was
found * amputate the wounded man's arm.
Law amides to to announce the apprehension
I of three wipslll,Bo4B by Cram, a constable, at Sudbury.
Their unman Mogi* Prike, William Paolo, and James
Damns, all of wham, we believe, will be identified by the
police. Noble hind was se math cut that he could not be
removed, sad the liaailem. seem still on Dawson, so that
little doubt reesalas that the activity manifested for the
detection of the guilty parties has had a successful issue.—
tAinssford Chronic*.