The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-16 00:00:00

THE POLICE 00111178.

YANHION•SOUI

A yotiLman named Alfred Willirmss. who was stated
on the sheet to be 20 years aid, was brought before
air H. . Carden, charged with big drunk aad incapable
of taking care of himself.
It appeared from the evidence of C•ITOU. • City police-
man, tt oa Sunday evening be found the prisoner on
Loodombridge with a bone and cart. He waa helplessly
drunk, and quite incapable to take care either of himself or
the horse and vehicle, and be therefore locked him up, and
took the horse and out to the tiremi.vard.
Sir R. Carden asked the defendant what he had to say to
the charge?
He replied that he had hired the horse and cart to have •
ride in the country, and paid ea for it, and he could not
deny that he got drunk ; and he said he know nothing of
what had happened until be came to himself and found he
was in the police.ststiou.
Sir H. Carden told the defendant that he ought to think
himself very lucky the affair had turned out as at had. He
might have run over and killed some one, and then he
would have been tried fur manslaughter, mid his state

drunkenness would have been no Jowl
The father of the defendant stood forward and Kehl that
he was an apprentice, and had always bean a good led, and
he never know him to net drunk before. lie went away
from him on Sunday afternoon, and he bad no idea that he
had any intention to hire a bores sad cart.
/Ur Carden inquired what the Unien•yard charges
would be?

Partridge, the gaoler, said As. 6d.
Sir R. Carden then addressed the defendant, and said he
would find that he had had a very dear and, at the same
time a very unprofitable, day's plemure. He should fine
him for being drunk, be would have to pay tic 6d. at
the Oreen.yard, and lie. for the hire of the liorse and cart,
which would amount to nearly a sovereign, and he hoped
this would be a warning to bim not to get drunk again.
The lad's father paid the fine, and he was thou rammed
from custody.
William Devil, 17, was charged with the following daring
rubbery :
James Simko, the complainant, said that on Sunday
morning he was in Cutler'astniet, Houndsditch, when the
prisoner rushed up against him and snatched his mach from
his pocket awl broke it away from the guard. He seised
him and held him until a policemen came up, wine he ghee
him into custody.
Sir K. Carden made some inquiries respecting the pri-
sourer, and he was informed that siuoe he was nine yens of
age he Mid been constantly brought to this court upon
charges of felony, and bad been summarily tmovicted timer
out of number.
The worthy Alderman said that nailer these circumstances
the may noun left open to him was to commit the pri-
soner for trial, and he at the same time directed the officer
to mocure certificates of all his previous convictions, in
older that the judge at the Central Criminal Court might
know how to deal with him.
It will be recollected that last week a young man named
Cheeks Prow was charged with assaulting a young woman
named Amelia Wilkinson, and it appeared that she bad had
two children by him and that he had deserted her. The
matter stood over, in order to afford ae opportunity for the
defendant to make some sr:smarmed for the support of the
chlldrea.
It wee stated yesterday that the parties had entered into
such ansagemeet, sad the summons was consequently die•
mined.

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