The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

COWARDLY AS.,AULT.—A '4l, sturdy-looking man was
charged wit. assaulting John Wyatt, taibr, 43, Store-street.
Toe prosecutor stated that the prisoner had worked fur
bun off and on for a period of neatly four years. and that
during the latter portion of that time he had lived in the wit-
ness's house. He had militated him to leave the house
several times, but he refused to do so, and ye terelty he
came into the room where the witness was slenpMet; and,
al,houg be was naked at the time, and had his wooden leg
off, he assaulted him furiously, and struck him several times
on the head and olh.r parts of the body. Witness gave him
no provocation.
The prisoner, ii his defence, said that the prosecutor hrd
Nut assaulted him.

Mr. Henry said he could not believe that the proscenia,
who was a cripple, and had his wooden leg off at ilia time,
could possibly as-sult the prisoner, and he would thezetwe
line him M., or six weeks' imprisument.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ASSAULT OTITiuITCE6OirerinLS7-7aeo•w Miller, a
labourirg mon, who stated tint he raided at 2, Royal Tent-
court, Kent-street, B irougn, was charged with being a sus-
pected person g about New Bond-street, in company
with two othe rs not in cur oily, with a hone and cart, for the
purpose of committing felony. He was also charged with
violently assaulting the police-constable with a lice-prat eve:.
Tottman, 319 A. taeposed that about half-put seven
the previous night he was on duty in Bundgerett, is plain
clothes, when he saw the prisoner, with two other men,
in a hone and cart, driving up the street. He watched
taem for some time, and saw them come back from Ox-
ford-street. When they arrived at the corner of Union-
street they stopped the cart, and the prisoner got out and
walked up the street to where a cab with a portmanteau on
the top was standing. The prisoner then got up behind the
cob, and did something to the portmanteau. At this mo-
ment the cab drove off gri h the prisoner still needing be-
hind. At the corner of train street he got down, and one
of the other men got out of the cart and followed the cab.
The prisoner ar.d the other man then drove down the a'reet
after the cab, as far as New Bond-street, where a woman
stopped the cart and spoke to the prisoner, who immediately
drove off at a furious rate. Witness followed them, and
called upon them to stop. They, however, took neoheed of
him, but drove atill faster. Wi.ntes, after a sharp chase,
succeeded in coming up with than at the coma !of
Sheppard-street, and was in the act of getting on the
cart when the prisoner struck him over the head and
face with a life-preserver, and continued to do so till they
got into Oxford street, when the prisoner's companion paid,
"Give me hold of it, and 1 will smash his brains out." The
prisoner then took the reins, and the other man, aftt r heat-
ing him with the butt of the whip, jumped out of the oart
and ran away. Witness then contrived to get into the cart,
and told the prisoner that he was a constable, and he must
consider himself in custody. The prisoner made no reply,
but lashed the horn, and cleave at a terrific rate down Ox-
ford-street, when the cart came in collision with a eab. They
were both thrown out, and the cart turned over on the tap of
them. Some other constables then tame up, and the grace
sec was conveyed to the station. Witness added that the
prisoner belonged to a wail organised gang of thieves, and it
he was remanded, no doubt other charges would be brought
against him.
The prisoner was then remanded until Tuesday next.
WESTMINSTER.

CHARON OT RoB3lllti • POLICIMAX.—
.RicAord Fidler, a polias.ourstable of the D division, and
William Wheeler, a man in the employment of Mr. Fraser,
a timber merchant at Peddington, underwent a lengthened
examination before Mr. Broderip, the former chugged with
stealing a cheque f. r 351, • 61. note, Dome son reigns and
silver, under cireurnstanews of an aggravated nature, and
the latter with feloniously receiving the cheque.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial at the Cen-
tral Criminal Cetus, Mr. Broderip refusing to accept bail,
which he ersa solicited to d. for Fidler.