The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-18 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS•

(THIS DAY.)

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BOW-BMM.
cArruns or • " ammtass."
hem ado, s suspected penes, mrsa brought before Mr.
'woos rimmed, charged with haviag counterfeit coin
hi&
Nr.=l;l; .eanea, eau., meat, and late impostor of
pegooleposed that from information received he bad
modes to sniped the defendaat of being concerned with
me& selorioas smmhera, and he aomordingly watched him.
pie April 7 in 000mpaoy with Inspector Potter, of the
bilks sad other oakum he went to St. Martin's-lace,
id glued Mandl in a shop which commanded a view of
attet. greatly be saw the prisoner coming along
istreet He pared 'Steer, who followed him to the
mist dmeet-street. and then nixed him by the collar.
Tlis primmer attempted to escape, but Tweeter Potter
stew to hie (witness's) aseistanos, and they took him into
nob. They asked him it he had any " bus coca about
ba,b ad he replied " No." Ou searctuag his pockets, how-
WA they took out • packet containing between 40 and 50
oudsdeit shillings, wrapped tip in four small parcels.
pelscesr, in explanation of this cirmimstasoe, mid "he
owl up the picket is the street, sad was going to take it
kMt polioe.ststios, when the officer sooosted him."
the prfeeeer, who appeared quite a young man (about 18
VI Wend no defames to the charge.
He vie folly committed for trial.

111 t ASTIMPIRD NURDRR OF • POLICI.OOIBTABLZ
BY • BURGLAR.
Gans Baker, a tall, powerful fellow, who refused his
dime, wee placed at the ber oa reamed charred with
opu6s4 to break into St. Matthew's Church, Stoke
=me, and also with atteraptiag to murder Polies-
Conway, 110 N.
?Wadi have already appeared, and it will be remain-
Med that the primmer beat the constable about the head
eitk a molar until he was nearly insessible.
Pabuconstable Davy, 144 N, maid that mince the last ex-
=Mike a crowbar had been fooled in addition to the one
tlit me taken from the prisoner. He thee banded in the
Wowing medical certificate :
"Vittoria Cotter, Stoke Newington-road.
"1 busby certify that Policooonatable Conway, 110 N,
k mile to attend the court to-day. He is auguries from
moms meads of the head. "W. R. WOODMAN.
Ara 18, 1866."
Barker remanded the primmer, who was also out
slant the heed, fora week.

WOBSHIPSTREET.
• lIIIIGLat
Charles Parker, a mart young fellow, described as •
nrww, living in Boston street, Bethnal.greeo. was charged
nab attempting to enter the bowie of Mr. Merles Chap-
in, 13, Peel-grove, Mile-end.
Prosecutor mid—Lest eveniog I suddenly entered the
hat prim without a light, and wu astonished to see the
lam al a man at the window. After vainly endeavouring
to reertela by peerieg through the ;loom whether any
woe was within, he Amok a harder match, and an
I reeved forward in anticipation of seising him as be
the window be matt have perceived me for he roe wily
luau down into the front court. AS I opened the street
door I perceived him running, followed, preen alarm, and
be wee stepped. I swear that prisoner is that man. About
Bus mutts sisee my booze was entered by raising the
linden-ma, and Ilart property to the amount of 101.
A inters named Brown deposed to having seen the
primer nuening from the direction of the promenkes
bons • to doming him, and, unable to find • palies•con-
oahle, himself taking him to the station-home. Silent
matches were found in his pockets, and subsequently a thin-
tided knife, supposed to have been flung away by the
winner when pursued, nu picked up on the line of route.
Sorb articles are used by thieves of the lighter due to pooh
Mum window sashes, and enable them to force back the
'hs magistrate remarked that some better method of
raving windows should be adopted, and sentenced the
saner, who pleaded guilty, to three months' imprisonment,
esti hard labour.

ROBBERY BY ♦ RAILWAY CLIRC.
Walter Blakh, on reamed for stealing a pared from the
dm is which he was e clerk at the London termintui of the
(cut Eastern Railway, was brought up. He asserted that
Botha a porter in the same office, had incited him to 0002-
MB AR offence, and then turned principal witness against

The magistrate laid he certainly believed Beadle was as
lei utile primer. bat he waa not charged.
bratanco—Six mobs' imprisonment and bard Wear.
MARLBOROUGH STREET.

Seesni game were 'rouOt before Hr. Tyrwhitt this
min charged with being drunk and disorderly,
it. Where the offence charged was only that of being
Brost, the magistrate discharged the primers, bat in the
otter MOB imposed light fines, taking into coeriderstion that
it was holiday time. Oots man named Edward 11`
iisitlitioa to being charged with being drunk and liZerier;
Ins also charged with wilfully brealdng two alabaster
sew of the value of 21., and other articles, at the Queen's
Had, Little Polteney street, the property of Mos. Harriett
Stott. the landlady. It appeared that M'Swesoey want
'alto the house while in a state of intoxicatioe, interfered
with the customers, and at last got fighting with one of the
admen for the love of the thing, and while fighting
late the vases, acs.
The prisoner said he had taken " the dhrop," and that
damage was done in a fight.
Tyrwhitt ordered him to pay the damage, and fined
ore month in default.

HAMPSTEAD.
NAYTKR ANOSOICITB ON ?HZ HUTH.
William IloWen and John Morris, donkey driven, were
bred before Mean. Marshall, Prance, and Reid by Mr.
W. Love, the chief officer of the Royal Society for the Pre.
main of Cruelty to Animals, with having cruelly ill-
tatrd and tortured two donkeys on Hampstead-heath the
"noes afternoon.
The evidence of Mr. Love, and the society's officer
Rundord, went to show that the first-named prisoner
wet out driving four donkeys upon which four boys wore
wftsg, and one of the animals was so weak that it lagged
, .etably behind the rest, the prisoner following It,
°end it mon unmercifully over its hocks and bind-
o-enerally causing the animal to stager at
ech bl The primmer uttered the soon disgust-
% oaths as be not along. The beating was kept up some
ens or four hundred yards. The prison: Morris was
trying another donkey and carrying the heaps of a canoes
"iii) about a yard lou, and after heltheeriell the left"'
or WO. time about its hock he knocked it down in the
rod, and before it could recover itself again beat it moat
Ths magistrates, after commenting in severs terms epos
Lle wieners' brutality, observed that it would be MOWS to
did 60a in these oases. They therefore committed both
Monis to the House of Correction, with bard labour, fot
Nan,
free other eases of furiously riding hangs whilst in a
ierthed state, and to the common auger of the piddle
stei the heath, were brought forward by the polies, and
etch of these oases, the defendants heieg strangers to
les, locality, were let off on payment of ANS, ands severe
"he from the beach.

ALLamixo Fia&—Two Hosms Burin To
ugni.—Let night, shortly before 10 o'clock. a fire bunt
wt ie the stabling of Mr. Dexter, of 212, Keetish-tows-
not The stables, which are at the rear of the home. wore
,ftlaziate mus of fire, and, although the Kentish
ad o-town volunteer fire brigade (who were
lenwinaied by Mr. Foster, their 'urge* Win
(4 the spot within a few minutes of the outbreak,
no valuable hones were burst to death. The
11410 the stabling was onumed and it wu with &R-
-oily that the fire could be prevented from spreading to
Lioldjoieng premises. The came of the fire is gal:sows.
the building was insured in the Law Firoogges.
'CHARGE OP FRAUD AGAINST A LONDON AND NORTH
~...112E13 RAILWAY Orricux.—A yams was. John W.
bookievelerk, in the semis* ef the Leaden and
'lrti Wotan Railway Company, at the Lime-street alm-
law, was yesterday (Moaday) charged, before the Liverpool
'-wry Magistrate, with embenlieg about 701. or
I°l, the property of the company. Kithira had for mate
/ow been employed u booking dark at the thee-ukase
mks, station, at a Wary of 501. a mar, sad it wee ellegol
t_ at hiked, by mesas of fake entries. nursed pollBoll6llll
"nosey paid to him for fares. Although be was
yak_ a
abrunkag, it traaapired that he bad leleftW 10.litt
usk- The primate ma remanded for mai day%