The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-15 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

SOUTHWARK.
Sarah Brame was charged with stealing 1301. in gold
and silver, the property of Thomas Bailey, a hawker of
whips, who lived in the same house with the prisoner and
her husband, in Falcon-court, High-street, Borough.
On Saturday morning, the 29th ult., the prosecutor had
locked up in a tea-caddy 1301. in gold and silver. The
caddy was locked up in a boa under his bed, and when
he went out ho locked his bedroom door and took the key
away with him. In consequence of what was told him by
Mrs. Donovan, a woman also living in the same house,
be returned home about nine o'clock, and found his
door and his box and tea-caddy all broken open, and his
money gone. He immediately told the prisoner of his
loss, and she said, " Never mind ! hold your tongue. If
any one brings you back 1001. 1 suppose you won't mind
the 30/. " Witness said he should be very glad of it. He
afterwards gave the prisoner into cusy on the statement
of Mrs. Donovan that she believed to
thde prisoner had tin
money. He was, however, sorry to do so, as she had beet
very kind to him. She knew he bad the money, for Bill
had counted it over for him not long before.
Catherine Donovan, en old Irishwoman, stated that on
the 29th ult. after the prosecutor had left she heard a noise
at his room, and she opened her door, which was on the
same landing, and distinctly saw the prisoner break open
the prosecutor's door with a screwdriver. She then saw bei
break open the box under the bed and the tea-caddy, fro',
which she took something heavy and carried it to hi
own room.
A detective who had examined the premises said that
none of this story now deposed to by Mrs. Donovan was
told him at the time he was in the house, although she
was in the room with him. He did not think from the
position of Mrs. Donovan's room that a person could see
what she described in the prosecutor's room.
After hearing further evidence,
Mr. Burcham said, after carefully investigating ti
case, he was of opinion that the story told by Mrs. Do-
novan was a fabrication from beginning to end, ands
there was no other evidence than hers against the p(
she would therefore be discharged.

THE G tJILDFOItDMAGISTRATES AND THE BRIO HTOi
RAILWAY COMPANY.—Before the Surrey county magis.
trates on Saturday Arthur Benningfield, of 32, Halford.
street, Pentonville, London, was summoned for assaultir
James Perry, the station-master at the Cranky station t
the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. Mr.
Carpenter, the chief of the police ou the railway, said that
on the Bth of September the station-master at Cranley wa
assaulted under the following circumstances:—Mr. Bet
ningfield was smoking in the waiting room, and this bet
against one of the bye-laws of the company the static
master asked him to desist. Upon this request being ma
the defendant made use of very offensive language. Tb
station-master, standing with his hands behind his coat,
pointed out the impropriety of the defendant
doing so, when defendant made no more ado but stmt
him in the face, making his nose bleed, and cutti
his lip. Three days afterwards, however, Mr. Benningfiei
apologised to the station-master, and expressed his regret
that he should for the moment have so far forgotten hi
self. Under these circumstances the railway company;
instructed him to withdraw from the prosecution.
Chairman : You are not the prosecutor. Mr. Carpent
I gave instructions for the company that this summa
should be taken out. The Clerk : The station-master
here himself, and wishes to take the same course. '
Chairman : Of (aurae the servant of the company wit
to do what the company wants him. The defendant
apologises, and the company listen to him because he is 1
gentleman. Had he been a man who could offer no pecu-
niary remuneration perhaps we should have heard no-
thing about the apology. I think if the Brighton Com-
pany, or any other company, wish to protect their -
vants, they should let the law take its course, and
tamper with the ends of justice. Mr. Carpenter said
was simply carrying out his instructions. The Chairmi
Well, we wish you to convey the opinion of the bend
the directors of the Brighton Railway, and say that
think it is a disgraceful thing on their part not to .
forward and protect their servants.
A somewhat novel occurrence took place on Satur-
day, at the Liverpool Police-court, where Mr. Edward Law.
rence, ex-Mayor of Liverpool, and conservative candidate
at the last Lancaster election, had been summoned to take
his seat on the bench, having recently been appointed a
magistrate by the present government. At the time the
appointment was made it was the subject of comment in
some of the local journals, and the evidence given at Lan-
caster in connection with Mr. Lawrence's candidature was
brought under the notice of the Earl of Devon, the Chan-
cellor of the Duchy. On this, Lord Devon wrote to some
of the London papers, to the effect that the matter had
not escaped his notice, and that he would take some action
upon it. Seeing this, Mr. Lawrence made his appearance
in the police-court on Saturday, but declined to take a seat
on the bench, saying that for the present he did not feel
justified in doing anything which might embarrass the
government. The magistrates on the bench expressed their
regret that Mr. Lawrence felt bound to act as he did, and
expressed a hope that he would, sooner or later, take his
seat as a magistrate alongside of them.
THE RAILWAY FROM CALAIS TO BOULOGNE. —A
letter from Calais, in the Propagattur du Nord, says :
" The inauguration of the railway between this town and
Boulogne is scarcely likely to take place on the 15th, as
announced. The heavy rains during the greater part of
September occasioned several land slips on the section
between Marquise and Boulogne, and delayed the com-
pletion of the works. The opening of the line is therefore
generally expected to be delayed, and, according to infor-
mation which we have received, will probably not take
place before the end of 1866 or the commencement of
1867."
THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—Fair deliveries of
herrings have been made by the Great Yarmouth boats
during the past week. Prices have ranged, according to
freshness and quality, at from 9/. to 201. per last (13,209
fish). Frrm Lowestoft it is stated that one Kesaingland
boat has made nearly 2001., while others have made good
catches.
NEW TREATMENT or CHOLERA.—" During the
last ten or twelve days," says the Propagate-or of Lille,
" the large woollen establishment of MM. Dillies, brothers,
at Roubaix, has received 65 cholera patients, all of which
have recovered by the following means :—The patient is
taken into a room in which are heat-generators. There he
is stripped and wrapped up in an immense quantity of raw
wool, until be is, so to speak, in a bath of perspiration.
At a height of two yards and a hall, a trap is opened to let
the vapour escape, and to renew the air. The patient,
however desperate his state, speedily begins to feel better,
and the vomiting and evacuations gradually cease. At the
factory of Holden and Co., at Croix, a similar result has
been obtained."
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