The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

(Before Mr. Registrar Roams)

The bankrupt was a bookseller, of High Holborn. This
was the first meeting.
The preliminary statement of accounts, compiled by
Moms. Hart Brothers and Hayles, exhibits : Dr. To credi-
tor, unsecured, 1,Zi61. 7s. 4d. ; creditors holding security, 88/.
Bs. 6d.; liabilities, 4851. fie. 6d.; creditors to be paid in full,
651. 17e. 5d.; total, 1,8751.1&. 9d. Cr. By property given
up, VOL ; property in the halide of creditors, 501. ; defi-
ciency, 1,5351. its. 9d. ; total, 1,8751. 16s. 9d.
Mr. William Marshall, of Regent-street, was appointed
trade assignee.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ounucsous ATTACK ON A CONSTABLE AND BIS WIFE.
David Crowley, James Ryan, and Jane Grady were
charged with breaking open a room door, and assaulting
James Davey, 28 C, and his wife, Ann Davey, living at 20,
Silver-skeet.
Mr. fklward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared i
for the defence.
James Davey, 66 C, said—At a quarter-past 2 this morn-
ing I was in bed, and hearing a great noise of singing iu the
next room, I opened my door, and asked my fellow-lodger
in the next room to have a little more compassion on his
neighbours. The lodger said, " Oh, you are a police-
man. What's it to do with you? I shall do as I like.
Who cares for a policeman'" I then returned to bed,
sad heard the persons outside say, " Let's have the
out," and immediately after the door was burst open, add
the female rushed into the room, followed by the two pri-
soners. The female struck me in the face just as I got out
of bed. The men used me very roughly to get me into the
passage. They got me as far as the door post, and I then
got back into my room to get on my trowsers. The two
men then seized my wife and dragged her into the
purge, and the woman tore her night dress from the
top to the bottom before all the men, there being about
eight or ten persons altogether in the prisoner's party.
By Mr. Lewis—A young man lodging on the same floor
saw it all. I heard several persons come in about twelve.
By Mr. Tyrwhitt—They began the evening at half-past
twelve.
In SUBWIII to Mr. Lewis,

Davey said he had thrown no water on any of the persons,
and gave them no provocation.
Kra. Ann Davey, wile of the first witness, confirmed her
husband, and said they called her husband a Peeler.
The woman tore her nightdress off before all the men, and
then *truck her in the face. The woman was drunk.

James Clark, a lodger in the house, confirmed the other
witnesses, and said that, but for the interposition of the
police, he believed murder would hove been committed.
Jo answer to Mr. Lewis,
The witness said the only thing Davey bad done was to
ask the persons, who were making a great noise, to be quiet.
Two witnesses were called for the defence. A third also
got into the box, but was not examined, being drunk ; and
the witnesses said there was water thrown on the prisoners,
and that one of the prisoners' party, a female, was struck
with setoff, but this was denied
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he thought the witnesses for the pro-
secution more worthy of belief than those for the defence,
as they were in bed, and sober, while the others were drink-
ing and drunk. He did not believe that Davey struck any
one. It was altogether a brutal thing for the prisoners to
do, and the tearing the complainant's wife's clothes off
before the men was atrocious. As there was a little doubt
about the woman's conduct, whether it was her that pulled
out Mrs. Davey or the men, he should discharge her, but
the men would be fined 205., or 14 days each.