The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-07 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

George ArtiieirTrcrr,i;rtiT;;;;R:.4; A rcher- st reet,
Ficcacilly, Edmund Sturges:, draper, 2, Cockspur-street,
and RicArad Neerforth truss, draper, 2, Cockspur-street,
were charged with assaulting the police while in the execu-
tion of their duty.
Fulicc-constable Turner, C 77, said—Last night a large
number of persons assembled about the Dials, and were
letting off fireworks. A good many fireworks were dis-
charged, and witness, in obedience to instructions, pro-
ceeded to disperse the m b, with the &mistimee of two
other constables. In consequence of the great number of
persons present, witness and his brother constables were
unable to disperse them ; but witness. seeing a boy with a
lighted squib in his hand, seized him, and was about to take
him to the station-home, when a mob collected about them,
and began pelting witness with stones. Finding himself
beset on all sides, witness obtained assistance, and told
another constable, C 46, to disperse the mob while he took
the boy to the station house.
Police-constable Smith, C 64, said be misted the last
witness to take the boy to the station-house. There was a
great mob about the constable, obstructing him. The three
defendants knocked witness down, kicked him when down,
and declared that the boy should not be takes to the sta-
tion-house uhe had done nothing. Witness took hold of
Sturgess and gave Arber into the custody of C 46. In
Brewer-street witness uses with another constable and then
gave Cross, who had been following them to the station-
, house, into custody.
To questions from the bench,
Witness said Sturgess knocked him down before saying a
word. The ether two fell upon him. St umm had hold of
Turners arm, and Craw had hold of Turner's collar.
Sturgess then hi the constable go and struck witness.
William Loosely, C 46, saw 'Turner take •-boy named
Denton into custody. There was a great mob followhig the
constable. Saw the three defendants among the crowd.
Saw two of them lay hold of Turner by the arms and the
back of the neck. Saw C 64 pushed and knocked down
by the three defendants. Sturgess first struck the constable,
who fell backwards, and the other two fell upon the
constable.

The three defendants in the moot solemn manner pro-
tested their entire innocence of the charge. They were to-
gether on their way home, and seeing • crowd they went up
to ascertain what was the matter when they were immedi-
ately seized by the constables and taken to the station-house
on a charge of assault. A friend was with them, who
' would depose to the trutn of this statement.
Mr. George Platt, No. 2, Maddoz-meet, was walking
with the ,two elder defendants towards home when they
went up to a crowd to see what was the matter. A con.
stable immediately laid hold of Sturges' and charged him
with an assault. Sturges" had not touched a constable, or
interfered in any way. The two other defendants oohed
why Sturges" was taken into custody, when they were also
laid kold of and locked up.

lie. liardwiek world not decide a case in which the testi-
! ninny wu so omit( re on both sides. If the defendants were
to be credited it would be impossible to believe the con-
stables in future.
The defendants were then sent to the sessions.
SOUTHWARK.
A summons was applied for against a printer in the
neighbourhood of this court fur refusing to deliver up a
manuscript on Bloomerism entrusted to him to be printed.
The applicant said that he had recently arrived from
America, with the view of carrying out the principles of
Bluonierism in this country. Ile had written a pamphlet
on the subject, and delivered it into the hands of a printer
for publication. Although a considerable time had elapsed
he had not been able to obtain possession either of the
printed work or the manuscript, but he had found that the
printer had converted it to his own advantage by delivering
lectures on Bloomerism at various places, and used the ar-
guments snits favour precisely. similar to those in the manu-
script, and to further his views had engaged a woman
dressed as a Bloomer to give them effect.
In reply to the magistrate, the applicant said he valued
the manuscript at 151. The summons was granted.
HAMMERSMITH.

Win. Harris, aged 23, and Henry Round, aged 20, who
stand charged with shooting and wounding Police-sergeant
Edwin Earthy, T division, at Acton; and also with having
committed two highway robberies in the same neighbour-
hood, were brought up before Mr. Poynter for final-exami-
nation on all the charges, no evidence relative to the high-
way robberies having been previously gone into.
Sergeant Earthy, the officer, who was now sufficiently
recovered to give evidence, said : On the evening of Weil-
-1 neaday, the Bth of October, about eight o'clock, I met
Police-constable William Dailey at East Acton. We pro-
seeded down the lane, and when we had gone about two
hundred yards I observed two men standing under the
shade of some trees. I made towards them, and by the
light of the moon could see that they had
their faces covered with something dark, like masks.
I went up to the shortest man, the prisoner
Round, and taking hold of his collar said, " Ilolloa! what
are you up to here, with your faces covered ? " at the same
time lifting up the cover of his face. Almost at the very
moment a shot was find, and I believe it to have been
done by Round. I felt myself wounded in the thigh; it
was benumbed, and I fell. I heard Bailey struggling with
the other man, and on turning round I noticed them on
the ground, and the flash of a pistol. It was the prisoner
turns he had hold of. I cried out, "Bailey, Bailey, the
pistol, the pistol." I contrived to throw myself on Ilarris,
and seizing the muzzle of the pistol endeavoured to wrest
it from him, but could not ilo so until Bailey had struck him
with his staff, when he dropped. lie was then conveyed to
the station, and finding I was shot through in the left
thigh, and wounded in the right, I went home, and have
been confined to my room ever since.
William Bailey, police-officer 2.50 T, repeated the evidence
he gave on the first examination, and the prisoners were
remanded for the completion of the depositions on this and
the other charges.