The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-13 00:00:00

THE POLICE COUBTE.

GU I LD EALL
A ranhtituous AMUR. —A determined-looking little
fellow, named Smith, who had apparently received a formid-
able blow on the head, was charged with having committed
a very saver, assault on Ann Smith, who lies in a precarious
state in Sr. Bartholomew's Hospital.
It appeared that the female and the prisoner were at the
Coach and Horses, in Holborn, when a skirmish took place
between them. A murderous onslaught followed, the priso-
ner's head was cut open, and the unfortunate female shock-
ingly maimed all over her body by blows and kicks. She
was taken to the hospital, and the medical certificate stated
that, in addition to the several bruises ab iut her person, she
bad sustained a fearful blow or kick in the abdomen, which
prevented her attending.
The prisoner was remanded.
WESTMINSTER.
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CHAD.OII ost BOTIBESt77OAieIeT 11URGEON.—Mr. Jonh
Daly, of Providence-place, Vauxhall bridge-road, surgeon,
was placed at the bar upon the following charge of robbery :
Mr. Moles Morgan, of Millbank-etreet, Westminster, che-
mist, stated that on Monday wee k he left London in com-
pany with the prisoner, and proceeded with him to Aber-
deen, where they arrived on Wednesday, the Ist of August.
After dining teetcher they engaged a sleeping room be-
tween them at Mrs. Drummonit's, a private house, in Upper
Kirkgate. Before proceeding to this place they went late
in the evening into a tavern, and had two bottles of Sooteh
ale, and, while drinking it, prosecutor made a remark to
the prisoner that the liquor tasted as though it had lauda-
num iu it. They then proceeded to their lodgings, between
ten and eleven o'clock, and being in a strange place, pro
seeutor, not content with the ordinary fastenings of the door,
placed a chair between it and the foot of the bedstead, so that
no person could enter without the chair wasremoved by some
person inside. Prosecutor having placed his waistcoat, con-
taining a 201. note and five 5/. nom, under his pillow, his gold
watch upon the table, and his troasers containing some sove-
reigns and silver, on a chair, went to bed and fell asleep.
Tne prisoner at that time was sitting up in the same room,
smoking. Pecs-cutor on awaking, at four o'clock en
the morning, found the prisoner gone, and also his
notes, his watch, the money from his trousers, and the num-
ber of the notes from his card case, which he had left in his
cost pocket. He immediately instituted inquiries, led found
that a person answerirg the prisoner's description had started
from Aberdeen by the mad, at twelve oa the night of the
robbery. The prisoner had never expressed the slightest
intention of leaving Scotland, but was to have continued with
the prosecutor, and returned with bins to Loudon on the
Saturday following.
The police proved that they had been in quest of prisoner,
and that they apprehended him on Saturday morning.
Twenty-four sovereigns were found in prisoner's ho•sse.
Prisener, when called upon for his defence, entered into a
lengthened account of the object of their visit to Scotland,
when Mr. Burrell observed that all he had stated was per-
fectly irrelevant.
The orison( r again entered into a rambling story, and did
notreply to the charge against hint. He was then remanded
to enable the officer to obt tin additional evidence.