The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-30 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESITADAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—CitvELTY TO Hoed s.—
RAILWAY OMNIIICSES AND CARRIEILIL—George Cloake,
the conductor of one of the South Western Railway omni-
buses, was summoned for cruelty to a horse.—Mr. Thomas,
secretary to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, attended to support the case.—Frederick Vane,
Esq., of No, 20, Jermyn-street, said, on the 20th of October,
he was passing along.Regent-street,whev, he saw an omnibus
very heavily laden with luggage, and crowded with passengers
inside and outside, toiling up the street. The horses were
in a dreadful state of exhaustion, from the enormous load
they were compelled to draw ; and, as it was quite evident
that if the animals once stopped they would never be able to
start again, the driver kept continually lashing the wretched
animals, in addition to which the conductor (the defendant),
with a strap having a buckle attached to it, beat them inces-
santly. Witness had seen many instaaces in which horses
employed in public conveyances had been overloaded and
overdriven, but he had never seen a worse case than the one
before the court. He was unable to witness such cruelty,
and he remonstrated with the defendant. The defendant
used great insolence to him, evidently with the wish to irri-
tate him so far sato make im strike him. A policeman came
up, but he would not take charge of the defendant, on the
plea that he had not witnessed the cruelty.—Poliar-constable
C., 122, said he was applied to by the complainant, but he
did not think he was justified in taking the defendant into
custody. He saw the state of the horses in the omnibus ; the
horses were smoking and greatly exhausted. The omnibus
was loaded with luggage and passengers.—Mr. Thomas said,
the cruelty exercised by railway omnibus proprietors, and
the principal railway carriers, in overloading their vehicles,
andcompelling the unfortunate animals under their control to
do double the work which they ought to be required to perform,
was a matter of hourly occurrence and of constant complaint.
Mr. Vane said he was surprised that no one interfered in the
CUM before the court. Everybody stopped at witnessing the
cruelty towards the horses, 'but no one interposed. This,
however, might have occurred from the feet of the specta-
tors haring shrunk from exposing themselves to the abuse
and, perhaps ill-usage of the parties exercising such cruelty.
—The defendant said the coachman's whip was broken, and
he merely assisted the coachman to keep the hones on the
move by using a very small strap. With respect to over-
loading the omnibus, he did not see how that was to be
avoided. These vehicles were for the accommodation of the
railway passengers, and, as a matter of course, they must
take the luggage also.—Mr. Hardwick said, if railway om-
nibus proprietors chose to take such excessive loads, they
must employ sufficient power to draw them, and not compel
two horses to do the work of four. The evidence sufficiently
bore out the complaint, and he should therefore fine the de-
fendant the full penalty of 40s. and costs.

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LAMBETH.—THE EXTENSIVE ROBBERY Or A BANK-
RUPT'S EPPECTIL—TRE GLOVE STEALING CASE: On Wed-
nesday evening Mr. James Galloway, the cheesemonger in
the %% alworth-road, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott,
for final examination. It will he recollected that in his ex-
amination,Mr. Wright,the landlord of the Horse and Groom
public.house, the principal witness in the case, swore posi-
tively that he had not offered the gloves for sale to any per-
son, and more particularly had not offered them to Mr.
Elgee, landlord of the Swan in the Old Kent-road, while
the parcel had been at his house.—Mr. Elgee has since ap-
peased as a witness, and deposed that some months ago, Mr.
Wright, with whom he had been well acquainted, told him
he had some glove* left at his house for sale, and he could
have some of them if he liked.—The whole of the evidence
having been put into deposition shape, the accused was fully
committed to take his trial on the charge of receiving the
goods, well knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Ham-
bore, one of the messengers to the Bankruptcy Court, and
who had to pay the amount of the goods stolen, was bound
over to prosecute.—Mr. Games then called forward a Mr.
Head, a butcher in the Walworth-road, and Mr. Durdon,
the proprietor of the Greyhound-inn, at Kingston, Surrey,
as bail. In reply to questions, the former deposed to being
worth 1001. after the payment of all his just debts. His
property he said, consisted of household furniture and some
' stock which he was feeding, and he had never been a bank-
rupt, nor taken the benefit of the insolvent debtors' act. In
reply to Mr. Hamboro, he acknowledged that some months
since he had compromised with his creditors and paid 10s. in
the pound. Mr. Durdon, who had been described as an old
" playman," admitted that he had a month's imprisonment
for being found with others in a common gambling house at
the west end of the town, and that he was under reeog-
nizassees for assaults committed in gambling booths at Epsom
and Hampton Court, and further, that within the last fort-
night he was held to bail, himself in 300/., and two sureties in
1001. each, to tako his trial at the next Surrey Sessions for
an assault, with intent, upon a young woinap who lived in
his service. However, he said he was worth 2,0001., and
had been offered 8001. for his house. In reply to a question
suggested by Inspector Haines, and put from the bench,
Durdon admitted that the prisoner Galloway was one of his
sureties in the latter case, but since his apprehension he bad
been obliged to substitute another bail in his stead.—Mr.
Elliott, under all the circumstances, refused to accept Mr.
Dunkin as a security.—Mr. John Pople, the landlord of the
Duke of Gloster public-house, in the Old Kent-road, was
subsequently offered and accepted, and the prisoner was
liberated on entering into his own recognizance' in the sum
of 2001.

SOUTHWARK. —PCNISIBIENT FOR NOT ROBBING.—
Yesterday, John Boulticriyht, a tall, well-dressed young
man, and John Smith. a diminutive boy, were charged with
attempting to rob a lady in passing along the Waterloo-road.
—Coombs, a policeman of the L division, stated, that on the
preceding night he observed the prisoners and another man in
company together near the Victoria Theatre, and knowing
them to be bad characters, he watched them for some time.
At length he saw a lady walking along the road, and when
she trot near the stage entrance of the Victoria theatre, the
hot: Smith went behind her and rubbed down her pockets,
witch attracted her attention, she turned round, and at
this moment the other prisoner came up and pushed the lady
against the wall. lie was about to rob her, when she called
out, and witness ran to her assistance, and seized the younger
prisoner, whose companion was secured by another pohee-
man. Tho lady, however, was so alarmed by the threats
held out by some of the prisoners associates on the way to
the station-house, that she was prevented from appearing
against them.—Boultwright declared thafthe policeman had
told falsehoods ; that he was a respectable man and not a
thief. He did not know the latter prisoner.—The policeman
said that both the prisoners associated with the swell mob,
and were to be met with daily in the " flash houses " on the
south side of the water. Boultwright, however, dented this
imputation on his character, and said that his mother had
property and that he lived with her: that he also had the
care of empty houses, in which capacity he had been em-
ployed by the Hon. Mrs. Morton, Lady Gordon, and several
other persona of high respectability. lie added, that if the
magistrate sent to make inquiries relative to his character in
his mother's neighbourhood, he would bear a most favour.
able account—The policeman said, that four years ago the
prisoner was in custody for a robbery; and that on a more
recent occasion he was summarily convicted for felony.—
The prisoner said that he had reclaimed since, and had never
put his hands into another person's pocket —Mr. Seeker had
no doubt the prisoners' intentions were to rob the lady, who