The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-03 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAY.

BOW-STREET.— DisraxesiNa Caae.—After the Zia-
Neal of the night charges, an elegantly-droved female,
evidently in a high state of excitement, was brought before
Mr. Henry. Serpent Corr said that lust evening, while
on duty in the Strew.' about 12 c: click, he saw the female
wandering about, and, being. aunoyed by other females, she
appealed to him for protection, and he entered into conver-
sad ni with her. She toll him that she usually resided in
Yorkshire, but that she came to Birmingham about a week
ago in company with her brother, and remained there till
yesterday, when they came to t own, reaching the Bestow
ammo station atieut o n'cloea in the everlag. itcr arother.
who was very tipsy, tusk her to the Adeiphi Theatre, and
about 11 o'clock they CRTIV/ out and he called a cab, jumped
in and lett her, telling her he would call on her in the
morning, at a coffewsleap is. Russell-street, where they had
been, and left a carpet bag, and some ether thing.. Carr,
seeing she was perfectly.sober, and finding that the women
in the etreet were annuying her, he took her to the station-
house, and afterwards got her n bed at the Globe Tavern,
next door. In the mornnr she asked him to accompany her
to the coffee shop. He del cs; and, when there, finding
that her brother had not arrived, she began tearing her bon-
net, completely destroying it, and waned to become all at
once frantic. When in the charge room, she walked up and
down threatening every one with the vengeance of her
father, and saying that she did not linear her own father even
to enter her room, and ordered all the men out.— Mr. Henry
said it was quite useless to speak to her in the present excited
state of her !Wad, and directed the serjeant to take her to
Mr. Basswood, the relieving officer of the Stroud Union, with
a request that she should be taken care of and kept quiet for
a day or two, and that she should he seen by a eied.cal man,
and, when more rational, he would again see her. She then
walked away with the air of a trag,di.queen.
CAI:MN vet tnan eight cab-drivers
appeared before Mr. Henry upon summonses charging them
with having left their cabs unattended. It appeared, from
the evidence of Mr. Burnaby, the chief clerk at this office, at
whose tristanca the summonses were issued, that on Sunday,
Sept. 27th, about 7 o'clock in the eveuinet, be was passing
up Seymour-street, and wanted a cab. Ile passed a great
many cabs without finding one with a driver. Ile thought
it a duty he sewed to the public to take their numbers, and
have them patished. Atter having taken several nambers
ho cam_ to ease, tPe driver of which came out of a coffee-
'hap. He had no badge on. Mr. Burnaby asked him what
hie number was; he replied very insolently, and held the
badge up in his f.ce. Tiley all paaele.l guilty, and Mr.
Burnaby sold t .at as it was the first time they had been
summoned, perhaps a small fine weall be sufficient, and
would ;waive a warning to them.—Mr. Honey said he should
at:cnd to that recommendation ; hut he had had so many
complaints about cab-drivers leaving their cabs unattended,
that he hal determined to punish all who we re brought
bef ere him. Ile should, however, make a el:fere:ice between
the men who behaved rudely and insolently. He should fine
him 10.. and costs, and the remainder ,as. each and costs, or
seven days' imprisonment.
CLE RKEN WELL. CICEiTIONAELE BENEFITS. A
For :dew named Wells applied to Mr. Broughton fur a
eurnuanne against the secretary and treasurer of the United
Tr is, Brothers Be nefit Society, which meets in a public-
lions, in Ohl-etreet, under the full ..viola' circumstances. The
applicant, who seemed to be suffering ercat distress of mind,
stated that ler husband, who was a waiter, had been a mem-
ber of the eusiety for several pare, awl had punt...wally paid
in the subscription money up to tie* time of hie death, in
July last. According to the rules, she was entitled to 121.
then, fur nhial; she applied ; but although she made repeated
application., she could not get a fart:deg. She was reduced
to the greatest distress; her husband hosing been her
chief support, awl one of her children ;Voice died, which
made her still more wretched. A near relative of hers now
lay dead ; and in she::, she k .cw not w!.at would become of
her ii his worship did not inteifere on her behalf. She had
applied to Mr. Greenwood, who referred the mater to the
chief usher, Mr. Duke.—Mr. Duke said it was a very hard
case indeed. There could be no doubt but that the
money was lawfully due. lie bad, according to the
magistrate's enders, gone to the eecretary, endeavouring to
get something for the poor woman, but he treated him in
the meet cavalier and haughty manner, and refaced to glee
any satisfaction. The magistrate= had referred thase mattors
very often to him, and in mane c he found that where
poor I ebuuring men had beta' deloweitiag their savings fur
'tars, they were in the end cheated out o: them, the greater
part of the money being swallowed up by offiecrs. Tacre
were tour or five benefit eocietie, held in the public-house in
which this on, weis, and the Ptme two periwig ottioi 'wed as
secretary and treasurer is each. The society to which the
applicant's husband belonged, adverti.e.l the greatest ad-
vaatagew to paar urn, thus inducirg theme to pay what they
could hardly afford, in the relief that their widows and
orphans would have something to rely naan after their death.
(The officer handed in one of these puelaa handbills, which
set fartle that the hands were in a newt tiourisning condition,
lied it Was protected by act of parliament, etc.) Trio magis-
trate directed that the s crctary and the treasurer to the
society should be sammoned before teat court.

WORSHIP-STREET. ALLEGE POLYGAMY. Mr.
Clerks Bitolfey, who was formerly is expasiva husiness as
silk manu'actaree in Cuagel-attic:, %%;a finally
emend:nal before Mr. Bilghon, fir haling intermarried with
Ann Dewyss, he Laving, as all two other wives still
living. As pnlice-rmstabie Jone. G t.i9, lea. on duty in
liig::- tact t, Share:Leh. cm that tray s..'n-,131it, he was ac-
cost:4 by a young men named Dewyrot, who informed him
that the pcsoner, about six weeks since, had contracted
marriage with his aunt, a widow, carrying of faminess in the
silk trade in Cuurcla-street, tihoreditch, an l that ai it was
well kn"wu he had already two other wives who were Loth
living, he wished to give him lute csstody ea a charge of
bioassay. While they were an conversatisu he observed the
psis mer apprewhing, with a carpet bag in his band, and ac-
companied by a y.mr.ve woman, also equipped for travelling ;
and his infermant intimated that the latter we, the second
wife, with whom the prisoner was about to leave the coun-
try. The prisoner was thereupon taken into custody, and on
learning the charge against him, he gated that the object of
the pr. eat cution wee to procure his arrest on account of debts
incurred by the young man's aunt, old that he would at
once admit the criminal charge rather thin satisfy Vu,
demaach of her creditors. After he had been leaked up in
the cell the prisoner further acknowledged that he had a wife
liviug at Nuneaton, ha Warwickshire ; that he had also been
subsequently married to another woman at Shoreditch
church, and finally to Mrs. Desvyis, at Stepney church, in
the preceding month. On learning these facti, the constable
la (acceded in quest the second wife, but, oa making
inquiries at the house at her aunt, he was infurtu,l :hat she
hail purposely atsented herself, to avoid ;,Isea:Eng 2+ a wit-

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