The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-13 00:00:00

BOBbiNG cialuAims.

Jaws Pord,:t9e46ean of age, was placed at the bar
charged with a large bundle of hosiery from a
commercial carriage w in motion.
This offence has been very much upon the increase of
late, and the police were directed to be upon the alert. The
prisoner is well known at this court, and has been recently
charged with the commission of a similar offence to the
present, but escaped through the nonattendance of the
prosecutors.
The short facts are these :—About half-past 10 last night
a gedtleman came up to Police-constable Goodman, 342 B,
in Ebury-street, and informed him that a commercial car-
riage had just been robbed of a large parcel, and that the
perpetrator of the offence had handed the property to the
prisoner, and that they had then parted in different direc-
tion,. Goodman and another conatablethen went in pur-
suit, and Lovelock, 336 B. after a smart run,
overtook the prisoner and conveyed him to the station.
Goodman saw the prisoner throw the parcel away at Mr.
Gibbs, a grocer's. A gentleman who came up to the police
said that both the prisoner and another man bad been en-
gaged in robbing the carnage.
Mr. Selfe inquired what had prevented the whole of the
witnesses attending
The police said they had been told to mane.
Mr. Selfe directed summones to be taken for their ap-
pearance if necessary, and remanded prisoner until Friday.
WANDSWORTH,
CURIOUS CASE OF ABUSE.
John Bail ershall , of No. 6, Richmond-terrace, South
Lambeth, appeared before Mr. Dayman to answer a sum-
mons, charging him with using abusive and insulting
words to Elizabeth Fidkin, whereby a breach of the peace
might have been occasioned.
Mr. Wilson, in stating the case for the complainant,
mentioned that the defendant had been paying his ;
addresses to her daughter, he representing him- s
self to be a widower. As he said he should
come into possession of some property which was worth le
about a thousand pounds, the mother very naturally 84
thought he would be a good catch for her daughter, and so :
favoured his suit. However, his wife made her appearanoe
in veritable flesh and bloool, and put an end to all the a,
mother's great expectations, and, upon upbraiding him for 84
his deceit, he committed the offence with which he was 81
charged.
The defendant (who was represented by Mr. Haynes,. :
jun.) conducted himself before the magistrate in a very
unbecoming manner, frequently interrupting the proceed- g
ings by his remarks, and he was called to order, not only 81
by his worship, but by both legal gentlemen. S
The complainant was examined, and stated that on the to
defendant coming to her house she asked him what he 8
meant by paying his addresses to her daughter when be ;
was a married man. He then called her by at
an offensive epithet, and said a man named Riley could Si
sleep with her at any time. The defendant had previously 11
tried to ruin her and also her daughter. 11
By Mr. Haynes—The words were used in the street at LI
her gate. 11
The daughter was examined, and corroborated her a
mother's statement. She said she went out several times
with the defendant. to
Mr. Haynes—He took you to church at the request of 8111
your mother, I believe? 81
Witness—He took rue to Spurgeon's. (Laughter.)
For the defence, Mr. Haynes stated that what language sj
was used took place in the parlour. Si
Mr. Dayman thought the case was proved, and judging Bi
from the manner in which the defendant had behaved in 81
court, he was not surprised at his conduct. lie then :I
fined him 40s. and 40s. costa. 8
The defendant, who had only 3/. 10s. in his possession, it
was allowed time to pay the remainder. 11
GREENWICH. 8 a
CLEVER CAPTURE OF A BURGLAR.
Charles Stevens, aged 26, refusing his address, was Si
brought up on remand, charged with burglariously enter- 81
log the premises of Mr. John Myldll, landlord of the Old SI
Galley Wall beer-shop, Rotherhitlac.
81
It appeared that between 1 and 2 o'clock in the 14
morning Richard Taylor, an engineer employed at
a manufactory adjoining the prosecutor's house,
left his work for the purpose of smoking a pipe off
the premises, and while doing so ho observed a flickering
light in one of the bedrooms of prosecutor's house. Know-
ing that the house had been once burglariously entered
and property stolen, he waited until Police-constable Seward,
120 M, came along the beat, and lie then communicated to
that officer his suspicions that thieves were in the house.
It was then arranged that Taylor and another man
should obtain a ladder, and get over the wall at the rear of
the prosecutor's premises to capture the thieves if they
attempted to effect their escape, when the constable 8
rang the house bell, being stationed at the front S
door. The bell, however, was rung rather too 1
quickly, for while Taylor was descending into the SI
garden, the sound of two men dropping and running o
away was heard. A search was made and the pri-
sonar was sound by Taylor crouched behind the door of /
a watercloset, and on being laid hold of he indignantly I
asked why he was being held so tight, asserting that he 1
had seen two men get over the wall, and believing them
to be thieves he had got over the wall to capture them. Ice
The premises were then examined, and it was found lop
that an entrance had been effected by forcing bask no
the fastenings of the bedroom windows. Some drawers St
had been opened and property disturbed, and a screwdriver 20
and some silent lucifer matches left behind. 20
Mr. Traill said he had not the slightest doubt whatever st
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that the prisoner had been guilty of burglariously entering st
the prosecutor's house, although neither was seen inside at
or making his escape from it. If the prosecutor chose he 20,
would commit the prisoner for trial, or he could deal with 20
the case himself by punishing the prisoner for being found 150
upon premises for the purpose of committing felony. 19
The prosecutor said he would leave the case in the ma- st,
gistrate's St.
Mr. Trail (to the prisoner)—And I suppose you would St.
prefer my dealing with the case rather than be committed
for trial! St'2R
The prisoner—l most decidedly prefer that you should 6°
100
dispose of the case at once. (Laughter.) 100
Mr. Trsill—No you du. You will be committed st
to tlte I louse of Correction at Wandsworth for three months st
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with hard labour.
The prisoner turned round in the dock and communicated
the term of his sentence to some female in the body of the
court, and was then removed in custody.
DANISH LAW IN AN ENCLDAI row.
A gentleman from tho office of the Danish Consul at-
tended the c me. to ask advice under the following cir-
cumstances :—The captain of a Danish ship, now lying in
the Commercial Docks, llotherhithe, had placed a seaman
in irons for mutinous conduct, as authorised by the law of
Denmark ; but a police-constable had gone on board the
ship and informed him he was doing wrong, and as there
was no desire to act contrary to the law of England if it
applied to such a case, the Danish Consul had directed
him to attend with the captain and seek his worship's ad-
vice.
Mr. Trail said there could be no doubt the captain
had the right of placing in irons any of his crew whose
conduct was likely to occasion mutiny or insubordination
on board his ship, and before a magistrate could act
application would have to be made to one of the
judges of a superior court to bring persons so confined and
ironed up on a writ of habeas corpus. The policeman had
exceeded his duty, and ho (Mr. Trail) had no power to
interfere. In fact, it was a question for the Danish Consul
to determine.
The applicant thanked his worship, and, with the cap-
tain, retired.

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SHOCKING SrienlE 05. A SOLDIER.—On Thursday
afternoon Mr. T. T. Delasaux held an inquest on the body
of a soldier, who had shot himself in the camp at Shorn-
clitfe. This is the third suicide in the camp within a
month ; and in consequence a good deal of interest was
felt in the proceedings. The following evidence was taken :
—James Pompey, a private in the 2nd Battalion of the
20th Regiment of Infantry, stationed at Shorneliffe,
said :—I knew the deceased, and bad done so for about
two years. He was in the same regiment and occupied
the same room as myself. I saw him alive on Wedues-
(by morning at about 10 minutes past 9, and he
was very low hearted. He complained of his feet
being very sore. He refused to let me sponge out his
ride, and said he should not have it sponged out any more.
I almost immediately heard the report of a gun, and on
looking round saw the deceased lying on his bed with a
wound in his neck, produced by a bullet discharged from
his rife, and he died in about three minutes. The deceased
has recently lost his wife and from that time became low
and melancholy. I have no doubt he shot himself inten-
tionally. He was 21 years of age. Francis Pointon, cor-
poral of the same regiment as the deceased, deposed—The
deceased lived in the same room as myself, and I have
observed a lowness of spirits for the last 10 days, that is
from the titue he returned from burying his wife. The
jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity," and
the inquiry then closed—Darer Express.
LIKENESSFA AND Pourrtmrs. matter-of-fact
portrait is almost an affront. When Humboldt. the
diplomatist, who refused to sit to Isabey, afterwards saw
his portrait in the picture of the Congress of Vienna, he
exclaimed, " I determined to pay nothing for my portrait,
and the rogue of a painter has taken his revenge by making
it like." This notion of painting a man at his best and re-
presenting the inner life and character, and not merely a
map of bin face, is really more specious than strictly true ;
or, at least, such truth as it contains is often used to give
currency to much that is fallacious. The inner life and
character may be suggested : the " mind, the music
breathing o'er the face, may be embodied in a painting.
But when this is attempted by altering in the slightest de-
gree the features, a false and conventional—however pleas-
ing—portrait must be the result. Many painters have cer-
tain tricks of their own whereby they conceive they add to
the beauty of the countenance. Sir Thomas Lawrence, for
instance, gives a special curve of the eyebrow to all his
sitters ; and society admires these prettinesaes. But it is
easy to bring the matter to a stern test : is is not tolerably
certain that we should prefer to see a good photograph of
Shakespeare or Milton, of Luther, or John Knox, or Oliver
Cromwell, than all the paintings in which the artist gave
us his notion of the best self of his sitter ? Of Cromwell
we have, probably, one of the beat of existing historian
portraits : his stern injunction, " Paint me as I am, warts
and wrinkles as well," checked, doubtless, the softening
touches of the artist ; and Samuel Cooper's head of Crom-
well is a portrait to study.—British Quarterly Review, new
number.