The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-30 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

CLERKEpTWELI..

John Allen 19, Thomas Tribe, 16, Hiram Craden, 16, and
Jame Corr, 14, were charged with being concerned in a
violent and indecent outrage upon Emily Arnold, aged 10.
The prisoners decoyed the child, who was playing in a
brick field, into a roared place, where the offence was com-
mitted. . .

Mr. Tyrwbitt discharged Craden end Cm for want of
evidence, and committed Allen and Tribe for trial.

MARYLEBONR.

Mr. James Dames, the master of a school in connexion
with the Salisbury street, Portman-market, Chapel, was
charged with having committed a violent assault upon
Elisabeth Reynolds, an infant, two years of age.
A boy named Charles Challis deposed that on last Wed-
nesday week tho little child Reynolds, who had been
brought there for the first time with her sisters' cried, and
wanted to go home, un which defendant laid hold of her
and shook her violently, and also struck her several times
with a strap on the bead and arms. The blows were very
hard.

The mother stated that upon the child being brought
home she examined it, and found that the arms were black
and blue through the ill treatment to which she had been
subjected. There were also marks upon her bands.
The child was produced, and although a week had
elapsed since the infliction of thu blows, their traces were
still apparent.
Prisoner in defence produced a leather strap about half al
yard long, and an eighth of an inch thick, and admitted
having, as the boy had stated, struck the infant with it on
the head ; he felt that be was bound to maintain his authority
as a muter, while in the presence of 80 or 90 pupils.
Mr. Elphy, the master of a sunday school connected with
that which defendant keeps, came forward to give him (de-
fendant) a good character, believing that he was quite in-
capable of anything like cruel behaviour.
Mr. Long expressed his surprise that any person should,
after the admission which defendant had himself made,
come forward to justify him in any way whatever, and
inflicted a penalty upon him (defendant) of 20s. and
Data

SOUTHWARK.
Amelia Bennett, a showily-dressed woman, was charged
with stealing 30 sovereigns, several gold rings, brooches,
and a gold guard-chain, the property of Mrs. Mary Leaman,
a widow, in Hattield-st;ret, Bluckfnars-road.
Six weeks ago, the prisoner and her husband engaged fur-
nished apartments at the complainant's house,
saying they
came up from the country to view the Exhibition in Hyde-
park, and were strangers in London, which would account
for their being unable to give references. They, however,
had not been more than a month in their new lodging,
when the landlady having occasion to go out upon business,
left prisoner and her husband in the house. The com-
plainant returned at the expiration of two hours, and on
entering her bedroom found the lock had been forced during
her absence, her boxes and drawers broken open, and the
money and articles of jewellery above enumerated stolen.
She then went to the apartments occupied by the prisoner,
and discovered that she and her husband had gone off, and
she heard no more of them until the preceding day she met
the prisoner and gave her into custody. None of the jewel-
lery had been recovered.
The prisor.er asserted her innocence, and said that the
reason she quitted the complainant's house so abruptly was
in consequence of her having discovered that her husband
had three wives living, and that she determined upon
leaving him. That she was quite ignorant as to where he
was, and that she had not seen him since the day she left.
When asked if she would account where she went to after
leaving Hattield-street, she declined answering that ques-
Von, as well as from what part of the country she came
from to view the interior of the Crystal Palace.
The magistrate said that he should send the case before a
jury, and accordingly committed the prisoner for trial.
WAN DS WORTH.
Henry Charlton, pointsman at the junction of the South-
ampton and Richmond and Windsor lines, was charged
with being asleep on his post and neglecting his points and
signals, and thereby impeding the transit of the trains, and
subjecting them to a collision.
Mr. W. Young, assistant superiotendant of traffic, said
that defendant had charge of one of the most important
points on the line, viz., the junction of the two branches at
Battersea Rise, and his duties were mo t clearly defined,
and therefore they pressed the ease against him. Mr.
Young then called the following evidence:
George Duckett, the guard of the Guildford goods train,
elated that about twenty minutes after twelve o'clock on
Tuesday morning the train arrived at that point of the line
approaching the junction, where it became necessary for
the engine-driver to sound his whistle to warn the signal-
man they were coming, when the signal which at other
times denotes danger is moved in a position signifying " all
right." The whistle was continuously sounded, but the signal
was not moved, and as defendant's red light could not be
seen, it was supposed something had happened on the line
that pre vented their present approach. As soon as the
train had stopped, witness sent his breaksman down the
line to stop the Southampton goods up-train, and the engine
driver sent his fireman, to make inquiry of the defendant,
and found him in his Wu asleep. In • :manic: or two after-
wards the 121 down Richmond train passed them on the
main line, through the defendant not attending to the points,
actually stating that at half-past 12 o'clock he looked at his
watch, and finding no train was coming, although two
were due, he dosed off again.
In answer to Mr. 'leaden, the assistant manager said,
the defendant had only been employed two months by them,
but be had been previously employed by the contractor on
the same duty.
Mr. Hendon said, had a complaint been made previously,
he should have sent the defendant to prison without fining
him, as it was his first offence, he should convict him in a
penalty of 31., or imprisonment for one month.