The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-30 00:00:00

TSB POLICE CO UB TS.

WORSHIP STREET.
UNMANLY Oviquoz.—Charks Taylor, described as a
French-polisher, was charged with the following brutal
attack upon a young sempstress, named Charlotte Cooke.
The complainant stated that the yrisener bad been paying
his addresses to her for some time past, but circumstances
having transpired which caused her to appreherd that their
union would be productive of anything but a happy result,
she had been induced to discourage his attentions and to
shun his society. In consequence of these proceedings she
had incurred the resentment of the prisoner, who kept watch
for her on the preceding evening as she was returning from
her work, and, after assailing her with the most opprobrious
epithets, inquired what she meant by her heartless conduct
in deserting hint. On telling him that she conceived herself
at liberty to consult her own feelings and interests in the
matter, the prisoner inenantly struck her with ouch force in
the face that the blood gushed from her mouth and nose,
and her lip was cut and swollen. The prisoner followed up
the blow with 'trend others, until she was rescued from
further in-usage by a policeman, who was attracted by her
cries, and who conveyed the prisoner to the station-house.
On being called upon for his defence the prisoner, in an
excited manner declared that the complainant had wantonly
1 trifled with hiiteelings, and he only hoped what had ixt-
curred would operate as a warning to her for the future
and teach her that she could not pursue such a fickle and
capricious course of conduct with impunity.
Mr. Arnold said that the prisoner had resorted to a very
extraordinary mode of endeavouring
.to recover the lost
affections of the ycung woman by beating her in the cruel
end cowardly manner she had described, and he should
order him to pay a penalty of 605., or to be committed in
default for six weeks to the house of Correction ; in addition
to which, he must enter into his own recogfiizanoes in 201.
to keep the peace towards her for the next six months.
CUAMITY.—The magistrate announced his receipt of a
letter inclosing 61. in aid of the poor-box from "W. H. C.,"
wht requested an acknowledgment through the medium of
the press.
MARYLEBONE.

CHARGE OP DEFRAUDING THE LONDON AND ROUTE-
WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. A smartly
j dressed
young woman, who gave her name Elizabeth alms, was
placed at the bar on a charge of having defrauded the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway Company of 15e. the
amount of her tare (tad class) from Birmingham to
London.
It appeared from the evidence that on the previous after-
nor u, at 3 o'clock, upon the arrival of a train at the Cam-
den station, the prisoner was asked by the collector for her
ticket, when she alleged that she had lost it at Coventry, as
which place • friend of here alighted; the sum mentioned
was demanded of het in accordance with the regulations of
the company under such circumstances, Du; she had no
more than a few shillings in her possession ; she was then
taken to Mr. Barker, the superintendent of polio. at Via
Euston Station, who ascertained, bey ,red a doubt, through
the medium of telegraphic communicalion, that the prisoner
could not have taken a ticket at Birmingham, as the same
number issued there to second class passengers agreed
exactly with those collected at Camden-town.
The prisoner repeated her story that she had lost the
ticket at Coventry ; her object in coming to London was
that of seeking for a situation.
Mr. Broughton, who considered the fraud to have been
fully proved, gave the prisoner to understand that she had
rendered herself liable to a penalty of 405., or two mouths
imprisonment ; he should not, however, go to that extent,
but order her to pay 10s., in default of which she would go
to prison for • fortnight ; she was then locked up.