The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-27 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS•

LAMBETH.
William /3fackteeU, a young fellow with • wooden leg, who
bee bete freqoently in custody foe allterest offeeiesit err
charged before Br. Elliott with Waling abut 265. in Ober
sod rapper, the propety of Babel Lawman.
From the *video°, it appeared thd on Sondapf&iliald
the prisoser sod ea asnociet• of Ns entered the of tha
prosecute', • graingrooer is Inmbieth-walli. sad * he
different aorta of bat at losgth Axed on a
couple of bloaters. The daughter of the prcosinber watt
to • different put of the shop to psocues • piss. ol_ Mee
to roll the herrings in, sad while thus waged a ess-
taking about 25a. in silver and uppers, the tiddap ad the
day, disappeared, and with it the prisoner, leads seam.
union behind. Tits boy was at once mimed, and his saw
paws was asked whit bad &cow sf him. wham her
plied he knew nothing of biro, sad unfortnnately
fellow was allowed to go away.
Search was then ma& fee the primmer. gad he was fond I,
at a publio-house it Lambeth-walk, treating a number of
his friend', and being searched. newly 6s. in sliver sad
race were found on lira
Wetly denied the charge, and was Ti.
sanded for • week.
Considering the extent of the district, and the double
holidays, the number of &ups broaght hobos the magis-
trate yesterday was very limited.
THAMES.
The number of "drank and towable," and "d sad
disorderly " ea the charge shuts yesterday morning did not
exceed 20. although • Saturday night, • Sunday. and •
Christmas-day had elapsed sines the last sitting of the
magistrate. This is an unusually small number for the
day after Chrbitmaa-day in the police court of a district
slumbering more Ow 360,000 peruse. The *minutiae
is the number of drunken chaps erases oat so much from
the diminution of intemperance as in the orders of the
Orannimionsre of Police to the coutandos not to take any
notice of ordinary owe of drunkenness at this forties
sews of the year, and to diffsprd all attaches ex
Moos palms attended with Mohnen. The M
Police Force were she wanted sot to indulge Soo freely,'
and to refine liquor, which tadiotrut pews, paillasse
and beer. shop keepers would attempt to fora upon than.
In one initacoe which cams before the maghtrate the
warning whit* emanated from Sir B. Kayos, and wait
raid to orders to all the men, was disregarded. A Germ*
named Curaik_was •&urged with ammulting • mutable. on
Irishman. 695 K. who swore that the prisoner cat him with
• knife woes the right band, which was in a bandage.
The policeman endeavoured to make the most of his sass,
and said the prisoner made • deliberate stab ad his brad.
Inspector Deady, • respectable came of the H Menton,
said the cut was a very Miffing aw isdeal, sod he thought
it was dons in dritinog • knife from the prisoner's head.
The constable was intoxicated that morning. when he twe.
ferred a charge against the prisoner of &Memphis to
stab his wife, bra mid meads. Arab the assault upon him-
self. He had reported the erastable.
Mr. Partridge said be mu mach obliged to Mr. Deady,
whose conduct wee highly creditable to him. He should
act on the evidsnoe the issisetor, and sot on the set-
' —ins of • &Wow policeman. He Wearied tie praeonse.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDI Or • PRISONER. —A neoOmd
edition of the Leeds Mercury of yeeterthey says :—" Wsloth.
limbed this morning, so far se we had been able to gather
them, the circumstances connected with tbo attempt to de.
strop bisself lure by Eli Sykes, who lest presoak
°osier at
the gaol et Armley under meteor of death for the
of Hannah Brook. We have since btai oned some.=
tionsl and more accurate particulars. The primmer, after
his conviction, was placed is the cell which was crettpled by
Sergisre, one of the men executed ohm the fret assises
held is Leeds. This is a comer ciell os the first
story, and is appropriated as the 000demned eel
because of its being somewhat larger then the others, and
being therefore better suited for the reserica of more
than one iumate. The rule adopted by Mr. Hers, the
governor, in such ears Is to place is the cell with the coo-
demned prisoner a warder. The cell is doubly tailor from
the outside, and it is the duty of any pore leaving it to see
that the door is properly secured. Os Samar leveeing the
chsplau of the pol, in the discharge of his edam duty to
ordemned men, visited Sykes. Daring his visit the warder
also continued in charge. The rev. petlemes retired from
the cell about half .past sixo'clack. By some inadvertser the
door was left slightly open, and Sykes, who seems to have
her ready to avail himself of the first opportunity which
Fronted Itself of camping from the atrial death which he
knew awaited him, rushed pest the warder, ran np to
the scrod leading, sod deliberately threw himself over the
balustrades to the err beneath—the fell being rest
twenty-6year tweethaix feet. The caw is charge bring
recovered from the surprise which the waded of Byre bad
produced ran to his assistance,. and found him lying is-
sensible. He was taken up aid conveyed to his ea% end
Mr. Price, the surgeon of the gaol, sad subsequently Mr.
Wheelbuoss, won celled is. Sykes repismd coonsiornses
in about half en boor, and although seriously injered be is
not, it will be seen, frem the letter we subjoin, is that hope-
less condition which the exaggerated repasts which
hare been eircalatel might lead the public to suppose :
' Having observed the paragraph in the Leeds Mercury of
this morning respecting the Injuries sustained by Eli Sykes,
at the gaol, I regret that your informant was sot careful
to neoertsin the true facts of the are. I have oily to do
with its medical aspect. ' Both legs are' not ' shattered
from the ankles to the knees.' The feet have sustained
soots injury : in the left ankle there is • oompouad fracture
of or of the bones, and there is some contusion and • small
wound of the right. Not oak. is the brain not exposed, se
stated, but it is vet doubtful whether the skull is seriously
fractured at all. So far from his being at present insen-
sible, believer was so for more than half an hour, and he is
now perfectly clear and intelltgest.—l am, ha, Wm.
NICHOLSON Paws, Sargon.—Borough Gaol, Leeds, Dee.
26, 1865? "
SaocKraa DEATH.—On Sunday morning a ,
shocking case of wife murder occurred at Wide Open • I
small hamlet Dear the Star& Bridge oaths turnpike rood I
between Newcastle and Morpeth, the unfortunate victim
being Margaret Cook, the wife of John Cook, a hied, in the
employment of Mr. John Davidson, of the Wide Ore
farm. Deceased and her husband bad been out drinking I
over night, and about 3 o'clock the former was found about I
• hundred yards from their hour covered with blood and
bruises. She was taken into the house, and later in the
morning died. It was then found that her left arm 1
was broken, and the hose protruding through the skis ;
four or fire ribs were broken, and her face was one mass
of bruises, the skin being off in many places : on the
left side of the head there were two severe cute, and
the hair on that side of the head had all been torn out;
the rest of the hair being matted with blood. She was a
stout made woman, about forty years of age and rather
comely looking, but' her face was now swollen, disfigured,
and discoloured. Cook remained about the place after his
wife's death until he was taken into custody, sod in reply
to some iuquirom by the neighbours said when he went to
seek her be fell is with the deceased lying drunk in the
field, and fell over her once or twice. During their resi-
dence et Wide Open the prisoner and the deceased had
often got drank, but they were not known to quarrel
MADAME TESSADIAL—This exhibition was, as much, and we understand when they left Mr. Davidson's
usual at holiday times, crowded with visitors. The farm they seemed quite friendly. Both being the worse
numerous new additions have among them the late Bing of liquor they add probably quarrelled on going home,
of the Belgians, Charlotte Wineor„ and Southey alias and words had ened in deadly blows. The cottage
stands is • somewhat lonely place, and ore it then is •
For
large pond.
THE HEALTH OF LONDON.—IS appears from the STRANGE AND FATAL OCCURRENCE —A sad occur-
return issued by authority of the Registrar-General that in reuse took place yesterday morning et the residence of Mr.
Loden the births of 1,037 boys and 1,072 girls, in all Charles Bromage, • retired tradesman, No. 5, Morpeth.
2,109 children, were registered in the week. In the oorre. road, Victoria.park. Mn. Bromage bad been almost bed-
eroding weeks of 10 years, 1855-64, the average number, ridden for several months, arising from an internal
corrected for increele of population, was 1,900. The deaths tumour. They kept no servant, Mr. &camp atterieg ee
registered in London during the week were 1,590. It was the domestic affairs about the house. He left home ae
the fifty-first week of the year, sod the average number of Saturday evening about six o'clock, and returned soon after
deaths for that week is, with a correction for leaser of eight o'clock, is company with two strangers, wheel Mir
Population, 1,415. The deaths now returned erred the vited into the front parlour and handed them soma rano&
intimated number by 173. Measles increased, sod the ments. How long they remained in the hoeae is air
deaths from this complaint were 60, of which 9 occurred is knows, but it is awned that a greet noise and cries
Chelsea, 4in the Belgrave subdistrict of St. George. Ea- of murder were heard In the course of the
nover.square ; in which subdistrict there were also night. About 10 o'clock yesterday niacin, Mr. Bromagege
7 from whooPing.oongh. Typhus was fetal hi 79 called in one of the neighbours, who found Mrs. Bromage
came, diarrhoea in 17. There was no death from lying dead ta the purge, She was in her night dress, with
cholera. The wife of • labourer, aged 25 years, died et 13, her heal testing on some pillows on the stairs, and a
Hill-street, fiboreditch, on the 25th November, of " disease i blanket was thrown over her. Mr. Storey, surgeon, of
of the lunge, accelerated by want." Oa the 1664 December, South Hackney, was art for, and, on examining her, was
at 5, Fryisippan.alley, Spitalfields, the widow of a general of opinion that she had died from cold and exposure. The
dealer died se the age (ea registered) of 101 years- The body was mach bruised. and the floor about the back kitchen
following four fatal carriage radiate were registered is and paaeage was covered with blood, which appears to have
the week :—ls Regent-circus,Wiser at macs' seed 80 come from Mr. &omega whose bead exhibits several
years, run over by • cab ; died on 17th Der
December in contused and lacerated wounds. He states that they wen
Charing-crop Hospital ;in Exmouth-street, Clerkenwell. inflicted by one of the strangers who came home with hire,
on llth December, the widow of a bookseller, aged 83 but this statement is doubted, as no property whatever is
nen, ran over by • coal van ; the sou of • sailmaker, missed from the place. As to how his wife came dorm
aged II yeah, run over : died cai 15th December is stairs he state* that he renot afford the least idea. He
London Hospital. In Blackfriarercad, a butler, I found her lying at the bottom of the stain, and tried several
32 years, fell when alighting from • fab i 1 times to get her op, but owing to her great weight, for she
don 16th December in St. Thomas's Hospital. The : was as exceedingly heavy woman, be cord sot do es. He
annual rate of mortality last week was 28 per 1,000 i•• Lon- never thoughtrre (slits; lo &misuser, but got rouse pilloere
don, and 23 in Edinburgh; .44 is Liverpool, 37 is 31••• 1 I and plaeed them soda her head. sod put a blanket over
rester, 34 in Salford, 39 in Leeds, 29 in Bristol, 32 is Hull. I her. err then riot to bed, and slept till IP o'clock, when
and 32 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 23 per 1,000 be found her • corpse.
As inquest will be held oe the body
during the week ending the 18th inst., when the tempers- j to.n.oggna,
tore was II deg. 3 min. Fahrenheit lower than in the ern I FATAL A .o,
week in London, where the rate was 25 per 1,000. le Liver. 1 CCIDENT.— A fatal accident took klsee
pool the births in the week were 383, the deaths 404 ;ha °° Christmas morning to la r• William li?/1°. of Na 7,
Manchester the births 271, the deaths 274 ;is Sauced ht., • Alexandrie.terrace, Victoria-park, South maser. Mr.
births 75. the deaths 72 ;in Leeds the births 172, the deaths I Doyle is believed to have returned lose between 12 and 1
168 ;in Bristol the births 114, the deaths 89 ;in Hull ra : o'elriek in the morning, and about 2 Ado& be was die-
births 71, the deaths 63 -in Edinburgh the births 114, the , es„ covered his brother Ws( en the tima meal Inthe eme h
deaths 78 ;in Glasgow the births 340, the deaths 259. ' front eft brute. He was the in a dying state, bovine
There ware 263 deaths in Vienna daring the week ending ' austeieed • fearful scalp wound in the heed. Is removing
the 16th blatant. him into the house he expired. The street deer of his
A WOM.LIV KILLED BY A STAG. —A melancholy I residence ie spprotolied by a steep flight of stoats steps from
I the front
ciroumstauos happseed on Tuesday st Mamma:err Strath. ;It h gala"' wiah:amael, "7 P"Ucti" °° °MP" ath
gown. The body of one of Mr. Fowler's sarnina, earned i some l:=1 tatol_taw_r°2,l72'_°ll; °Loth
/7f user lthenuit
Betsy Clark, was found in the deer park there very much . the o „Air h;1174 70/o;ra'as,___ joot• to
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bruised ; and from the spectacle it presented there is too Is hirl_.°ll H. ~ I. j. ___, ~.. .„,....
good reason to believe that the girl was killed by one of ~.,, ``'"'''''' '''' "s .".• a widow "'"'" """ 1"—•
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