The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-17 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

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Michael Dialer, an athletic man, was charged with
having been concerned, with another man not in custody,
in breaking into the premises of Mr. Henry Bateman, a
wheelwright, in Holywell-lane, Shoreditch, and also with
haring assaulted and wounded the prosecutor with intent to
murder him.

Mr. Bateman stated that between 12 and 1 o'clock on the
night of Friday, the 15th February last, he returned home
and found the door partly open, and heard a low whimpering
of men's voices inside. He immediately clamed*, dear,
sad retreated underneath the window of the bedroom in
which his brother slept, to whom he was calling loudly by
name, when two men suddenly rushed out spa him
through the street-door, one of whom dealt him a violent
blow on the head with • life-preserver, which gamed him to
stagger beck, and before he could recover himself the Mawr
attempted to knock him down with the butt =I of • bane
pistol. Witness instantly closed with tbe tremoser at bit
assailants, and a desperate Menges ensued between them,
in the course of which the other man kept beating him
incesmatly over the head with the life-preserver, inflicting
severe wounds, from which the blood flowed down his face
and person; but he still pertinaciously retained his hold of
the first man, and while grappling with him they both
rolled over and felt into an adjoining borsepond. The
struggle was then resumed between them, and alter re-
ceiving repeated blows from the pistol which almost
deprived him of consciousness, he at length succeeded in
wresting it from his assailant; and two or three policemen
having now made their appearance at the front of the gates
and demanded admittance, the two burglars hastily made
their way on to the top of the external wall and effected their
eessaaaaypes. The constables were then admitted by his brother,
wholad been disturbed by his cries, and in searching the
pond and yard they discovered the horse pistol and life-pre-
meet now produced, the latter of which had been sur-
mounted by the head of • heavy bronze eagle, which had
been broken off from the handle by the force of the blows
inflicted upon him, and the beak of which had eat through
his hat in different places, producing several deep wounds
is his bead and forehead. The odium oleo found a
" jesnaty "or crowbar lying in the nekshbourbood of the
same_ eget, sad the skirt of one of the burglar's coats which
be am is Mt during the contest between them, and the
esmalmise of which coat was afterwards picked up in the
Amt. ladle rake of which was found • silk handkerchief,
mod had been stolen from the premien. Witness was in
the meentimellealreyed up stain to bed, where he remained
emir do ewe of a surgeon for a considerable time in •
wry damewees *edition, and upwards of two months had
dogged Win is had entirely recovered from the effects of
die Wolin Is bad sustained.
la answer to questions from the magistrate, the prosecu-
tor stated that he was himself unable to identify the pri-
stoner, the sudden and desperate nature of the attack hay-
afforded him no opportunity to scrutinise the person of
eid_ew et kis emailants.

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