The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-16 00:00:00

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IiVILD2 v. HOBSON.—SLANDZIC

This was an action brought to recover damages for slan-
derous words spoken by the defendant concerning the
plaintiff. The damages were laid at 6001. The defendant
pleaded Not Guilty.
The plaintiff in this action, Miss Wilde, is a milliner and
dressmaker, at Manchester, and the defendant is a com-
mercial traveller, in the employ of Mr. Dunn, draper, of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Some time ago the defendant went
to the shop of Miss Wilde, in Cooper-street, and behaved
in the most scandalous manner. He said to Mies Wilde
before all the young ladies in her employ that his name was
' Hobson and be wanted 601. Hiss Wilde said, " What,1
6011" He replied " You know very well I know what
you danon Ik
neuno indeed." Defendant I;erfeynoduaa. "t
said,l .VAdee toldrePl replied,
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you would deny it." Plaintiff asked who sent him. He
said Mr. Dunn. The plaintiff said slte did not know Mr.
Dunn. The defendant said, "He has had you in prison
six ca ago for two years, for forging a bill upon him."
The evidence of the other witnesses showed that the con-
duct of the defendant wee of the most scandalous descrip-
tion, and it was distinctly denied by the plaintiff that she
either knew Mr. Dunn, or had had any transactions with
him. Indeed it appeared that the defendant had shown
that Is was what is commonly called rather " fact" with
his
tl= T defence was that the defendant had made a 'mistake,
and bad offered an apology.
Thepiry marked their opinion of his conduct by giving
• verdict for the plaintiff—damages, 1001.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

YESTERDAY.

Charlotte Carder, a respectable-looking young woman,
surrendered to the ber trial upon an indictment charging
her with concealing the birth of her child.

.
Mr. Sensation prosecuted. Mr. Parry was counsel for the
defendant.

It appeared that the accused lodged in the house of a
person at Putney, and that while he was engaged in
repairing a drain upon the prenskies, he found the dead
body of a child wrapped up is a handkerchief. He went
out to give lamination to the piles, and upon his return-
tag with •semshibis, be ihoovessi that the body had been
taken away, =I aettilog moo transpired until nearly a
month afterwards, when the bodyof a child about the same
age and sire was found in a basket in the Thames at Chel-
sea. There was some evidence that the basket in which the
body was found had been taken frooesthe house where the
defendant lodged, and it was also proved that about the
time the body was found in the first instance she presented
appeuencee of being in the family way, bat there was
notblrg like positive testimony either to establish this fact,
or to show that the body taken from the river in the basket
was the same that bad been in the bundle.
The jury returned a verdict of Noe Guilty.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—YEsrERDAy.
The August general session commenced this morning, at
Clerkenwell, before Mr. &leant Adams, Assistant Judge,
and a bench of maaistrates. The number of prisonen for
trial was -three, forty-four charged with felony, and
nine with
The Assistant Judge shortly charged the Grand Jury.
Thomas Light Ladgrore, 20 pleaded Guilty to an in-
dictment, In which he was charged with having stolen a
cash box, a 101. note, a 61. note, and other moneys and
goods belonging to the guardians of the Stepney Union.
Mr. Cooper, fez the prosecution, said the prisoner was a
clerk in the employ of the guardians, and he stole the cash
box from the office, and went to Jersey, where he was
taken. The guardians wished to recommend him to mercy.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced the prisoner to one year's
imprisonment with bard labour.
Edward Barkiaggoa, 40, was indicted for having felo-
niously embeu.ed the sums of 11. 14e. N. and 9/. 6s. 3d.,
which he had received for and on account of Charles Frede-
rick Walker and others, his employer*.
Mr. Huddleetane prosecuted ; Mr. Metcalfe appeared for
the prisoner.
The prosecuton were brewers at Ratcliffe, and the pri-
soner was in their employ as a collector. It wu part of his
duty to collect orders from the shipping in the Pool, to see
that the orders were executed, end to receive payment. It
appeared that he received the two sums mentioned in the
indictment, and that he had not accounted for them ; but
the manner in which he had been allowed to keep his ac-
counts so far excluded the supposition that he intended to
permanently deprive his masters of them, that
The Assistant Judge, at the conclusion of the case for the
prosecution, asked the jury if they wished to bear the coun-
sel for the prisoner ?
The jury replied in the negative, and returned a verdict
of Not guilty.

TSB POLICE COURTS.
_ _ GUILDHALL

Wm. Poole, an omnibus driver, was charged with caus-
ing the death of a Inas, whale name was unknown, ►y
driving his omnibus over him.
' A gentleman who witnessed the accident said he observed
the deceased making his way through Newgate-street, on
Sunday evening in an almost helpless state of intoxication,
and just as the prisoner's omnibus approached, the deceased
made a lurch on one aide, as if about to cross the road, slipped,
and fell under the splinter-bar, when the fore wheel of the
omnibus passed directly over him. The prisoner pulled up,
and the deceased was picked up from between the fore and
hind wheels, and in five minutes after, he expired.
Alderman Salomon' inquired if the prisoner was in any
way to blame ?
The gentleman said—Certainly not. lie was driving at
the rate of not more than for or five miles an hour, and
could not by any possibility have avoided the accident.
Ald. Salomon. said under those circumstances he would
remand the prisoner, on his own recognisances in 201 in
order that the verdict of the coroner's jury might be ob-
tained.

Hayden, a drover, of South Oekenden, Ewe: was
charged with stealing on the 7th of July last, five heifers,
value 881. Ms., the property of Mr. Clarke, of North
Ockenden.

The prosecutor's solicitor staled that Mr. Clarke pur-
chased the five heifers at Newcastle, and employed the
prisoner to drive them to London and consign them to the
care of a salesman in Smithfield, to be sold in the open
market. The heifers were sold and the prisoner, instead of
following out the instructions he received from Mr. Clarke,
said he sold them and paid the money into Pocklington's
bank to Mr. Clarke's account ; but it was found on inquiry
that no such money bad ever been paid in. As Mr.
Clarke had not been able to attend, his solicitor applied for
• rse•ad.

On being naked if be had any objection to an adjourn-
' ment, the prisoner said that the heifers were bought of •
man named Comber, who afterwards sent them up by rail
and desired him (prisoner) to sell them for him. He had
done so, and handed the money over to Comber.
The prisoner was remanded.
Mr. Alderman Moon attended the court yesterday morn-
ing, and stated with regard to a cab case last week, in
which he tined the driver 10a. for misconduct, that he had
received several letters from parties complaining of his de-
cision. lie said, as the case read in the report, it would ap-
pear that he had decided somewhat too severely ; but as he
doubted the driver's statement, " that he had finished his
day's work when hailed by the complainant, and was re-
turning home," and no evidence being put forward in
proof of that statement, and taking also into consideration
the fact that he refused to let complainant see his badge,
and hid it under his arm when requested to show it, be
(the worthy alderman) concluded that the driver had
urged in his defence a statement he could not substan-
tiate, and one that was without foundation. He was
always most anxious to temper just;ce with mercy, and
no person could be more desirous than himself to promote
a proper feeling of humanity in cab drivers respecting the
treatment of their hors s, and he therefore hoped the public
press would allow him, by the above statement, to correct
an erroneous impression.
CLERKENWELL.
Charles York, a drover, was charged with the manslaugh-
ter of Richard Thomas Moss, formerly a constable attached
to the O division of metropolitan police, and the detective
department.
Mr. Richard Perkins, provision merchant, of High-
street. Holloway, deposed that on Saturday after-
noon, about five o'clock, he was in his shop, when he saw
'he prisoner pass by his shop. The deceased followed him,
and when opposite the Pied Bull public house the prisoner
and deceased commenced fighting. The prisoner struck
the cleceas.d a violent blow. They got up and resumed the
fight, when the prisoner struck the deceased, and he fell
with his head against the door-post of the Pied Bull, and
he (witness) heard the sound of the fall at a great dis-
tant!.

Elizabeth Adams, of Brand-street, Islington, confirmed
this evidence. Moss (deceased) was in the Coach and
Horses, Holloway, when the prisoner entered and inter-
fered with some parties who were present, and asked to be
treated, which led to a squabble and blows. Moss followed
him, and the result already described took place.
Mr. Raymond Haynes, a surgeon, of Holloway, said that
the skull of the deceased was fractured, which must have
been caused by a severe blow on the head, or coming in
contact with the aide poet in the fall, through the said
blow.

Other corroborative testimony was given.
Mr. Wakeliag reserved the pri.oner's defence, and he
was fully committed to Newgate for ow.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A labouring man who said his name was Reynolds, pre-
sented himself before Mr. Hardwick yesterday, to state
that be could not get the relieving overseer of the parish to
do anything for his sick wife and himself, he being without
employment in consequence of having joined the late dock
labourers' strike.

Mr. Hardwick—Where were you employed ?
Reynolds—At the West India Docks.
Mr. Hardwick—And why did you strike?
Reynolds—l was obliged to do so. I did not want to
strike. I got pretty good wages for my work, and would
have kept at work if it had not been for the Irish labourers.
The Irish latiouren came round in a body, and half mur-
dered any one that would not join the strike. I did not
want to have my head smashed or be half kicked to death, by
refusing to join the strike, as 1 knew the law gave me no
protection, or what was the same as no protection, for what
satisfaction would it have b..en t me if crippled to learn
that somebody had been fined a few shillings for Injuring
met When t..e strike was over I went back to the Docks
to get work again, but everything was slack, and there was
no work for at least half of us. The Dock people had got
all the hands they could to do our work while on the strike,
and when we got back there was nothing to do. I stood at
the chain waiting ever since Thursday for a turn. I could
siot get on, and as my wife is sick and starving, and so am
I, we tried the parish, but could get nothing.
Mr. Hardwick believing there might be some truth in
the applicant's statement, ordered him 2s. from the poor•
box.

Leon Nathan, a Dutch Jew, was charged with stealing a
puree containing 431. in geld, and seven shillings in silver,
the property of Mr. J. Solomon, of 21, Poland-street.
On Saturday morning last the defendant, whom he looked
upon as a friend, partook of breakfast at his (prosecutor's)
residence, and while there prosecutor had occasion to take
some silver from a purse, which contained the sum named
in the charge, and which he afterwards deposited in a table
drawer in the room. The prisoner having finished kis
breakfast left the house, and directly he was gone he missed
the purse and its contents. He immediately procured the
usistance of King, an active officer of the C division, and
they both went in pursuit of the prisoner, whom they
traced to London-bridge Wharf, where he was taken into
custody. A portion of the stolen money—amongst which
was a cracked sovereign, which prosecutor identified—was
I found upon him.
On the application of Police-constable King,
Mr. Hardwick remanded prisoner for a week.