The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-10 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

BOW-STREET.

JosiaA Lilly, who had beel7;b7irmaion sumicion of having
embezzled certain mums of money, in his capacity of pub-
lisher of the M. Jaw's Ciirocick„ spin attended on bail,
and was acquitted, his solicitor, Mr. Lewis, jun., having
stated that the amounts bad been mode up sod explaiped to
the satisfaction of the prosecution.
CAarles Allen and Mary Allele, of HarAstreet, Covent-
garden appeared on a wamnt obtained on the application
of Messrs. Sheen and Co., solicitors to the Society for the
Protection of Women, and were bound over to answer en
indictment at the next sessions, bail, if procurable, being
accepted.
It was stated that nearly all the known houses of a similar
character in the district had been proceeded spinet in a
similar manner, on behalf of the pariah, and the owners of
several had already decamped to avoid prosecution.
Mr. Lewis, jun., mid a client of his—a lady then in
attendance—had lately taken a coffeehouse in Bridges.
street, Covent-garden, for which she bad paid upwards of
7001.: and she wished for some advise ma to certain
threatened proceedings against her. It was her wish to
conduct the boccie respectably, and she made every effort to
do so • but she could not be responsible for the moral elm.
recta; of every lady and gentleman who visited her house,
and there was no means of guarding against occarionel
deception.
Mr. Cowie—You mean that people can't be expected to
produce their marriage certificates. (A laugh.)
Mr. Lewis—Two persons of ill•repute might go to the
Star aid Garter, at Richmond, without being detected.
Mr. Cowie—Weil ; if your client conducts her bunkum en
respectably es they do there, she need not fear a mum
cutioo.
The solicitor uodertook to say there would he no pro
reeding* against the lady in question, without a previous
complaint from the inhabitants.

LAMBETH.
Captain Willis's DraeL., on beN•psy, residing at No. 8,
Priaceerterreee, Westminster-road, was urged before Mr.
Elliott with violently assmilting Francisco Eacbio, en organ
grinder, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
The complainant said that on that morning while playing
his or he received three or four Nevem blows on the head
with a stick, one of which had cat his hat through and
mused a wound cm the top of his heed, but he mold not
point out the person who struck him.
Hr it, Elisabeth Hamlin, a lady residing sent dear to Cap-
' taihi Haulm, said she had beau in the habit el giving the
==• erpramplapers • few pewee. hot zirmositakehail

sig diesentimed doing so. Os that morning while upstairs
she beard an organ playing live or six houses beyond the
primmer's, and in • few minutes saw Captain Dundee strilse
him es the bead several violent blows with what appearod
to her to be the thick end of a hunting whip. The men-
=Swould have fall's if some persons had not clams to
tance.
In assegixamination the witness said that in her opinion
the man did not play mom thin five minutes, • y sot
ten minutes, and she did sot see any one go to wars hins
Two other respectsLae witnesses 'emigrated the
portion of the testimony of the last witness, and one silstsrit
added that seeing the complainant bleed profusely from whet
appeared to her to be a deep wound or the top of his heed,
she took him some hot water to wash sway the blood.
These witnesses, is cross-examination, admitted that
the stick then in the bead of Captain Doodads (a stoutish
ease, with an ivory hook to it) wes the one he had used.
Oise of them also admitted that she had seen a young lady
point towards the complainant, and heard him play one or
two times after that. _

e-coesTable /leery Morton, 83 L, said he was et
Towevehreet elation on that morning, when the com.
Oakmont wee traieght them by one or two pumas with •
wooed oe his hied from width the blood wee stall Sowing,
and on learning the muse and being told the particulars of
the aleault he west to the residence of Caoain Dundee and
took him into custody. The witness added that the pri.
muter was not aloes the terror of the orpn•pinden, but of
his neighbours also. He was in the habit of firing off •
seven-banal revolver, and at other times conducted himself
in so eccentric • mama as to quite alarm the inbabitaate
about him. . . . _ .

li;ccefenee it wee urged that Captain Dundee, who was in
a weak and nervous state, tent a young lady, his nine, to
request the organ-player to desist, and when the man coa-
ti:mad grinding, be, in a moment of irritsition, struck him,
and, unfortunately, with much more force then ha had
intended. He, the solicitor, should call a witness to prove
the fact of the complainant having been waned off, and his
treating such warning with indifference, and ale* the pri-
laser's being in a nervous and weak state of health ; end
having dope slit he hoped his worship would rounder the
case one that might be settled out of court.
Mr. Elliott objected to such a course, and observed that it
was not to be permitted to pencils to take the Jew Wu
their own hands and commit snob outrages with impunity.
If the complainant had acted improperly in persisting in
playing his organ after being requested to go away, the
bad his remedy by soWim far a constable to
L`Therim removed or give hum into custody. Such eats of
violence could net be tolerated, and for the offence the
prisoner meet pay a penalty of 51., or in default to be im-
prisoned ter one month.
The parity was at mos paid sad Captain Dundee set at