The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-10 00:00:00

POLICE.—YESTSZDAL
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Muaorasoce Asimet.r.
.—ThOWI4I Connellan was charged with having fractured
the skull of Thomas Canadian. his relative, with • poker.—
Thehad quarrelled on Wednesday at the house is
witkEuttel lodged, in Jobn'somart, Hanway-street. The
injured seen was standing at the parlour-door, looking into
the street, when he mewed • blow which it was
.at first
thought had killed him. He was removed to Middlesex
Hospital, and his wound was dressed, but as it was found
that his skull was broken in, and that there was a probability
of death ensuing, the prisoner was token into custody.—
Mr. Bingham, on beim informed of the probability of a
fatal result, went on Monday afternoon to the Middlesex
Hospital, to take the injured man's deposition, which was as
above given.— The prisoner was remanded.
MARYLEBONE.--ißrieree ASSAULT. —John M'Gee,
residing in Henry-stmt, Hampstead-road, was placed at the
bat before Mr. Rawlinson, charged with having brutally as.
saahed Bridget his wife.—Complainant deposed that she
hod been married upwards of ten years to the prieoner. On
the previous uight he came home at a late hour, when he
dragged her out of bed and dashed her against the walls of',
the room with as much force as poseible.—Mr. Rawlinson :
How did he lay bold of you ?—Complainant: He seized ma
with his bands, and nearly rtrangled me and put hie hiarie
upon my throat. I thought at first that ray eyes were Amami
out, as 'parka of fire seemed to come from them.--Gcaliag,
339 8, mid that, hearing loud cries of " Murder," he west
into the house, and saw complainant, whose hair was
hanging ditshevelled over her eyes, and her face was
completely covered with blood. He (prisoner) said be would
have six months for her before he kad done with her.—
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said his wife was of
a had temper, and was continually annoying him, with-
out any reason for doing so. Mr. Hawlineon said he was
fined in the full penalty of bl.; in default of pal meat, two
months' imprisonment in the House of Correction.
WORSHIP-STREET.—AsseeLT.—Frances Norton was
=before Mr. Broughton with having violently
eti a young woman, named Eliza Smith, and bitten off
the greater portion of her ear. The complainant stated that
she was passing through Whitechapel between 11 and 19
o'clock on the preceding night, when the prisoner suddenly
emerged from a public-house, and, without the slightest pm-
vocation, attacked her in the most furious manner, and after
tearing off her bonnet and a quantity of hair out of her beak
ultimately threw her violently upon the pavement. The p.B.
goner then again seized her by the hair, and dashing Mamma
repeatedly upon the stones, fastened her teeth into her right
ear. and bit • large part of it complelely off. She was at limes
rescued by several by-sanders, who called • policeman sad
gave the prisoner into custody, and withess was conveyed to
the London Hospital, where her wounds were dressed.
Serjeant Colman stated, that upon taking the prisoner into
custody he found her lips and teeth covered with blood, and,
upon asking her what had become of the miming portion of
the complainant's ear, he understood her to say that had
swallowed it. The prisoner, at the grime time, expressed her
exultation at the act, and said that she was only sorry that,
instead of her ear, the had not been able to bite off her head.
When called upon for her defence, the prisoner stated that
she bad acted under feelings of strong provocation, in cease-
quence of hating been first struck by the complainant, but
she had no recollection whatever of having bitten off her
ear, or torn out her hair, in the manner she had described.
Mr. Broughton said that it was a most brutal and atrocious
outrage, for which he should commit the prisoner for trial.
LAM BETH. —lx e taaree Ho nu eur es in LAMBETM
CHUBCll.—Yesterday, henry Jones, Williams Allen, end
Elizabeth Btlloyd, all exceedingly well.olrepaed ponons, wen
placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, and charged with being
suspected persons, and found in St. Mary's Church, Lam-
beth, where they had gone for the purpose of committing
felonies.—Police-cocstable William Combos deposed that •
short time before, while statioued in one of the galleries of
Lambeth Church during the confirmation, he saw the three
prisoners come up stairs, and observed their lips move, as it
they had said something to each other. The prisoner JOON
at on one side of an old gentleman and the female on the
other, while Allen steed close by. Witness, knowing them
all to be thieves, and having no doubt they came there for the
purpose of committing felonies, communicated the feet
one of the gentlemen connected with the church, sal the
prisoners were, in consequence, requested to withdraw trim
the church. They did so, and witness followed them, and
with the assistance of another constable, took all of them
into custody. He subsequently learned that several ladies
in the church bad been roobed of their purses, and that in
I one of the stolen purses were nine fourpenny pieces, •
number exactly corresponding with those found on the
prisoner Jones. Serjeant Gaff, 8 L, deposed to having
apprehended the primness Jones and Bello yd at the Epsom
Railway terminus, on the Derby day, on a charge of robbing
a lady and gentleman of their purses. They were subse-
quently committed to and Vied at the Surrey Sessions,
but were acquitted. He had na doubt, however, that
they were practised thieves. Romaine and other constables
I swore to having seen the prisoner Allen, who gave his
address No. 3, Finsbury-square, and who is about sixteen
years of age, in company with convicted thieves. Lockyer,
the gaoler attached to the station-house in Kennington-
lane, and who takes charge of all the prisoners previous
to their being takeu before the magistrate, was here sworn,
and stated that after locking the prieoners up. the female
in one cell and the two males in the other, he heard the
farmer call out and my, " Fred, do you think we shall be
remanded r. when Jones replied, " No, we shall be all right,•
the ' skins' ar'nt found," Witness was aware that " skin"
the fish 11111110 for purse, and had no doubt the prisoner
roma pumas when be mentioned skins. In reply to the
meadow' of Mr. Games, who attended on behalf or the pri-
@mien, the witness admitted that he had shut the door lead-
astothe mils In such a manner se to lead the prisoners to
that ha had gone away before be had heard the con-
versation he bad repeated, and that he had done this, and
'topped in thesesage for the purpose of hearing anything
the prisoners ht say. Mr, Games spoke in terms of high
reprobation of e conduct of the officer in resorting to such
disreputable means to get up evidence against an accused
party, declaring that a person capable of acting so was totally
unworthy of credit, and hoped that tte magistrate would not
dim his statement to remain on the minutes of evidence.—
Mr. Elliott, without offering any opinion on the subject, re-
manded the prisoners to a future day.
WESTMINSTER—AN Arne!. EXTEDIIINT.—Yester-
day, Henry Spicer, a person who has been repeatedly com-
plained of at this court, was charged with wilt ally damaging
a shawl belonging to hire. Esther Butler—Defendant was
employed to dated° upon complainant's goods, and in order
to obtain admission to the house, resorted to the expedient of
going there with some men, and commenced painting the
outside of the house with red lead. Complainant came out
and indignantly inquired what they were doing, when de
fondant's man slipped into the how. Complainant, who
was a tall, powerful woman, immediately ejected him, and
then went out to see some Mends. On her return to the
door, defendant came up and laid hold of her, and a scuffle
ensued between them. when defendant wilfully dabbed the
paint-brush on the back of her shawl and disfigured it with
a red mark about the site of the crown of a hat.—De-
fendant said the female struck him with an iron bar, and
and in the scuffle she touched against the fresh-painted wall.
He called a witness, who, however, gave a different ver-
sion of the affair, and whose evidence did not at all assist
him. Mr. Broderip said that defendant commenced with an
unlawful act in painting the outside of the boon, and,
usual, when persons began with illegal practices they gees-
rally finished in the same way. He adjudged defendant to
pay 205., the value of the shawl, or be imprisoned for four-
teen days.—He was looked up.
COMBINATION or WORIMBN.—Henry Hill, • marble l
mason, was charged with assaulting Isaac Clifton, a man
engaged in the same business. The defendant had been
foreman to Mr. Pinkerton, proprietor of the Pimlico
marble works. Defendant and the whole of the men,
about a week ago, struck fur higher wages, when Mr.
Pinkerton called in fresh workmen. On the previous
eveesqcomplainant, who was one of the new hands, was
rzin g home immediately after leaving Mr. Pinker-
toffs establishment, when the defendant stopped him, and
asked if he was not the young man he had seen at the
Bricklayers' Arms. Compkinant replied that be had dined
at a public-house, but did not know the sign of it, when de-
fondant made use of • wane expression to him, eddies, " I
know you are one of them," after which he caught defendant
by the collar, but immediately let go of him. He. however,
followed him to the door of his own house, again collared
him, dragged him down some steps, and struck him on the
left ear.—Defendant made no reply to the 'result, but merely
eontented himself with remarking that he sever hin-
dered anybody from going to work at Mr. Pinkerton's.
—Mr. Brotlerip remarked that workmen might strike for
higher wages if they thought fit. but the law very properly
prevented them intimidating or interfering with other work-
mem, who were perfectly at liberty to labour for whatever
wages they pleased. Although the case was not sufficient to
=in en convicting the defendant under the statute for
tion, it was quite clear that the assault, which was
perfectly unjustifiable, arose out of the previous transaction
of the strike; and taking this into connderatioa, he should
fine defendant 31. for the assault, or is default commit him
fat ix weeks. He wished the workmen who had turned
oat to understand that if any of them were brougbt before
him for intimidating the men at present in Mr. Pinkerton's
employment, he should deal with them with the utmost
rigour of the law.
SOUTHWARK.—ROBBERY BY A CLlRX.—Thornas
Arundel, a young man in the employ of Mr. M'Kenzie, a
merchant of the city of Cork, was placed at the bar charged
with 'tooling 1001., the property of his employer. The com-
plainant stated that about a fortnight since the prisoner was
sent to the Bank of Cork to get a 1001. cheque cashed. He
did not return, and upon inquiries being made at the bask-
ing house it was ascertained that he had received the money
and absconded with the whole. From subsequent inferno.
don it was found that the prisoner, on receipt of the produce
of the cheque, which he got in bank-notes, had come to
England, and complainanthad traced him from Liverpool to
London, where he lost all sight of him. He made the
polies acquainted with the circumstances; at the same Ham
offering a reward for his apprehension, and this led to his
being taken into custody on the preceding night. Th.
[ complainant added that the prisoner held a madden-
dal situation, and up to the period of the present
transaction he had not forfeited the good opinion
entertained of the honesty and integrity of has character.—
Serjeant Derry, M division, stated that he got through the
window of the bed-room in which the prisoner was
asleep, and secured bins, and also succeeded in find-
ing 781. in bank-notes, and bl. more in sovereigns.—The
prisoner acknowledged that the money found in his possession
was the produce of the cheque, and he further mid that since
his arrival in Busload he had transmitted la of the money
to hie mother in Deland.—The magistrate said that as the
offence was committed in Ireland, he should send the pri-
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named Anne Fonda. The evidence has been already so