The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-28 00:00:00

THE. POLICE COURTS.

(TIIIS DAY.)

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, I .4 runnaii_tlit•phice, Rays-
s, • / of Notfolk.simare, were
lief-, Sir fienry, the chief magistrate,
t :
• th.. a.tt ion-master at the South E, tern
t• a., Chat ing-cross, stated that a little
• • I.t•. %ci••11,.. his attention was called to the
1.• .•• :lee. IA in. 311 e I.ly ht'Ull several times rot
• • tia• •t .. per•i•teil in coming hack. She MaS
• ter liquor. Ile told her he could not allow her
co. I lo 'r wit, re she waiittil to go, and
.•• il.• t for her. At first •he would

.• :,• • 1,1•1. I. it ..t Lot .he was waiting fort frienil.
l• r•: • :,•••i: !!“ h- :le :!: foelaitt came into the station.
•!• • 7 ill 11.• t„ hit, threw her arms round his fleck, itiol
lion tl, it with, had insulted her. The nude pri•
•• m •.'s• .1 Inn n hot he meant by insulting the holy.
%Vita: • I: !i• .1 th h.lll not done-o. The Itti,VIKT
!h• I liar I a and :idled, "l ho you
I I .I,in Sir l'hatles (',note ; e r
'iv It' -• 11, the station•maister. mid if tit, de-
f. 'el tr.t Oil, into witness. ottice he would give
ha,: : id titttll. lie refused to do so, awl :,gain
tt Ca,es
11 1,1 a ',taking the lady. and swore at rine.
Ku::, .1, II alt-ti till- lady, upon
a lin. In Sin ~.tr•ak him in th.• chest. Witness then
in., lion in c1,ar,;... to In•pector Parker.
P.ll k,'r. :111,4 tof the Sitlttli Eastern Railway
it..l t1,..1 his attentiou was first called to the
th prison. r •ils oft an hour previously. She was theft
r • WI tlttit flat litrattl., .4101 Was tliStaltilltr; Witll a Cabal:111
ti L,a It ni }Owl-411i L.r itt `t1•• 14.11i011. Ile was
i• :nient of las far. , and also for two wittilows which she
had broken. sine .4.ine the cabman vt•reign which Inc
W I take. 11,114111",, Nllltillttf it Wait a good
eine. K itriets told hint it mots Australian sovereign
w 1,41: in,. ‘ wmild gis •• him change:lt the booking-141M,
The calmi..n ts: it for the change :old •sitiless waited to
:•••i.iw gite it ro t Ise :t1 isoncr, only deducting what he
a• entitl..l to, she then aunt away but returned in
!..ad In minutes. Witness advised her to go away
quietly :.tol oth r, 'I to calla cal, She then balled it
Hansom C.O. awl proceeded to throw her umbrella into
it -missing the first time but succeeding on a second
attempt. She dill n. t got into the cab but walked urn and
tloa a the .tell t a very Ulibtatlilltilig manner, staggering
ml throwing her tire, about. The cabman was
dr in in.: otf when witness stopped him, took the
molirella mint of his cab, and deposited it in
the el...nk•laklllll, ail she was incapable of taking
r ire of it. Silo then went away in another cab
v.,th a woman dressed :is a widow, and in about ten
s iet timed, when witness called the attention
..f the tti.oetnititet to her. Jlr, l'arker then went on
et:mils:tate 'Mr. Richardson's evidence, and added that
a• 111 It lilt, itl ; sir l'hartes from the platform the
utotata t, uck him several times. He put them both into a
cal, to rernmee them to the station, and she again struck
him from within the cob,

It appal, that the woman that got into the cab with
the• fena..h• da feriulant was recognised as a thief by the
pet issiiian en ditty in the Strand, who hinted to her that he
should ...tell or. suspecting that she meant to rob the
lady. Upon this she got out of the cab. The lady's
rose was art.-mania found in the cab by a gentleman, an
M.P.. who hind it to go down to the house, and who on
at the king-street Police-station left the purse
there. It was sithsopiently returned to the prisoner.
Sir tliarles Coot, admitted the assault ; hut said he was
provoked to it, believing that the lady hail been insulted.
Ile did not think she was intoxicated, though she might
have taco lit tie excited. She was a very sober woman.
In fact, he had u.•ver seen her the worse for liquor during
the six Yeats they had lived together in Pans. He had
;•r ~l to take her over to Folkestone, and, not having a
I:raulshaw. they mull not tell the hour at which the train
started. She thought it was four o'clock, and
arriving at that time had to wait till six. Our.
ing the interval no doubt she bad some refreshment,
including some sherry, which perhaps did not agree with
her, as clue aas lust accustomed to it, being only in the
haluit of ilrinkiiez light French wines. All this would nut
have happened if they had known the correct time, and be
must say it showed the danger of a lady going anywhere
alone in London; she might have waited two hours at any
station in Paris without the least chance of being insulted.
There were several other witnesses, but Sir Thoinais
Henry thought it unnecessary to call them, being satisfied
with the evidence of Mr. Richardson and Inspector Parker.
It was quite clear the female prisoner was drunk,
and that the station-master hail acted with great
forbearance towards her. lie thought Sir Charles haul
acted in a raid, 141111 hasty manner, and had come to the
conclusion that the woman had been insulted without suffi-
cient ground-. At all events he was not justified in
using such offensive language. He must pay 5/. for the
assault, and V. for the abusive language; anul the female
must toy !W. for the assault on Mr. Richardson, or three
weeks' imprisonment each. _

The fines of Clllllln. were paid.
CLERKENWELL.

THE LVIC REM AT MT. PANCHAM.—nECAVERT Or A
roittloN OF STOLEN PiIoPERTT.
aged 4,4, who wail described as a laundress
having no holm, was charged with being in the possession
of a Loge quantity of clothing belonging to the directors of
the poor of the parish of St. Pancras.
From the evidence of Riley, one of the constables of the
pariah, it iippeared that the prisoner had beenan inmate of
the workhouse for two years, but last week she left, and
WAS supplied with scone clothes, and half-a-crown. From
information he received be went ton house in Kentish town
and found that the prisoner was lodging there with her
son. He searched the place and found 31/articles of wearing
apparel.consist ing of new ahawls,night.dresses, linen sheets,
linen pillow-case,., and other things, all bearing theparish
mark, and all of which had been stolen from the work-
house. He also found some pawnbrokers' duplicates, and
on going to the shop of Mr. John Mills, pawnbroker, he
found a new dress and a new petticoat, with the parish
mark on it. He nest went to the shop of Mr. Tomlinson,
pawnbroker, and there found three articles belonging to
the parish. At night the prisoner applied to be admitted
to the casual ward. and then Riley took her into custody,
and when he toll her the charge she said that she knew
nothing of it. He had no doubt if a remand was granted
that he should he able to find more property.
Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Fry saidthat the prisoner was her
mother-in-how. tine day last week the prisoner brought
home a large bundle of clothing, which she said she had
stolen from the workhouse. She told the prisoner that
she had done very wrong, as the parish had behaved very
kindly to her on which the prisoner said she had worked
long enough for the parish, and as they had not paid her
she hail paid herself. When Mr. Riley came to her house
and naked for the property, she at once gave itup to him.
The prisoner said she ;lid not wish to ask him any
questions or to mike any defence, and was remanded.

WANDSWORTH.
FA LSE WEIGHT&
Jam,. Refdlnwl, a baker, carrying on business in Wanda-
wortfilane. Potful, appeared before Mr. Ingham to an-
swer a summons charging him with using, in hia shop, an
incorrect weighing machine.
Mr. Dart, the impector of weights and measures for the
Wandawortli .iial l'roydon districts, stated that he went
into the defendant's shop on the day named in the sum.
mon.. and on potting hi-, hand on the scale he immediately
found it was incorrect. On examining the scale to ascer-
tain the cause he found two penny pieces placed on the
cross bars, causing it to weigh two ounces against every
purchaser.

Thedelendant's answer to the ease was that his wife
placed the penny.piece,i on the scale to deceive him with
regard to tie: w.•ighing of milt. He denied all know-
ledge of the poloty•piecee being placed on the scale.
Mr. Ingham o.iid that whenever there was an evident
intention to commit fraud he tined the full penalty of rd.
The defendant ,aid that not an atom was served to a
customer with the scde.

Mr. Ingham then orderl him to pay Si. and 2s. costa.
The defendmt, in paying the money, complained of the
excessive nature of the sentence.

CASES OF NEGLIGENCE.
Mr. Dart had s number of other summonses against
shopkeepers in the district for harieg incorrect measures,
weights, and machines; but inasmuch as there had been
no fmml committed in either case, but only negligence.
small tines with costs were imposed.

CAUTION TO U. NEKCHANTB.
Mr. Cleuunt,, a coal merchant, of Putney, and hie car-
man, a rll.lll naoml W,,Clh, g, were also summoned by
Mr. Dart for sending out end delivering coals without pro-
vidir; the carts with a weighing machine and weights.
Mr. Clement, the coals were delivered close to his
preuli‘es, and the machine and weights were ready in
case they were
Mr. Ingham did not attribute any fraud to him, if he
did he should have lined him the full penalty as he had in
the cn' of thi• ii,ker. It was a case of negligence, and
he tined him and 2s. costs, and his carman ls. and 2s.
costs.

AeI•II,F.ST %I. PtIf,ONINO.—On Saturday last an
labl before W. S. Hughes, Esq., county
coroner, at the Wheaalleal Inn, Droitwich, on the body
of Mr. W. E. Allen. groeer, who died from the effects of
he had accidentally taken. It appeared from the
er ldenee adduced that the deceased was in the habit of
taking sal volatile, :mil on the above night be went
into las shop fur the purpose of taking sonic, and after.
waid. went op.dairs. 11)n getting to the top of the
at m. he called out to his daughter, " I am a deal man,
send for Dr. Rodeo." The daughter asked her father what
w.s., the matter, but he only said again " Send for Dr.
1:,.1en," and she did so. When Dr. Roden arrived, in
about twenty minute., he ascertained that the deceased
had taken kona• oil of almonds. Every means were taken
to get the dee round, but all efforts were futile, and
die.l in alarit an hour. The bottle containing the sal
volatile was on a shelf neat to a bottle of oil of almonds.
v-rdict isa. recorded that the deceased died from the
vffeet. of poison supposed to have been taken by mistake.—

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WIN Gy.NERALs 011NIBI-S1 COMPANY (LIMITED.)
tr abt- receipt,* for the week ending Feb. 24 were
10,1;72/. 10s. lid.

DINt:EROUS ILLNESS OF ARTEMUS WARD.

We regret to learn by a telegram from our
".:ontbalortun correspondent to-day, that an unfavourable
change has taken place in the illness of Mr. Brown—
" Art, mil:- Ward "—and that no hope is entertained of
I.is recovi y. Nothing that physicians or kind friends can
think of to mitigate his suffering has been left untried.

THE FIRE AND LOSS OF TIMER LIVES IN

nonouu"

iNvvEsT. :ants DAY.)

At noon t,e.lay Mr. W.. 1. Payne, the ilepnt
coroner. to nm inquiry at /lily's Hospital, respecting the
of a tired No. 19, White-street, Borough• by which
Mrs. Mary Anne Toomey aged years, Michael Toomey,
ag, lo years, and Elizabeth Toomey, aged 3, lost their

The jury haying been sworn, proceeded to view the
hiolies of the deceased persons. They saw that the
bodies of the two children were frightfully charred; that
of Mrs. Toomey was only slightly injured by tire. It was
stated she had lost her life in consequence of leaping from
one of till' windows, with it child in Ler arms, while the
house wan in dames.

The first witness called was Charles W. Honeyball, who
said that he lived at No. 7, Winchester-street, Bermond.
y. ttn Monday morning he bean! a policeman in Long•
lane calling out " Fire, tire :•' and a woman was screw ii iff g.
Witness till% ran to Whitmstreet, Borough, and he saw
smoke proceeding from the house No. 19, in that street.
Witness was the first person un the spot, and it was then
a few minutes after 4 o'clock. Witness then saw the back
pail of the house., and it was in one body of dame.
‘Vitness then saw a Man standing in his shirt :it a fire escape.
Witness then roused the people in the shop next door
told them to get out and save their lives, and ho
palled four ci,ildten out of that house. When he came
out into the street he saw a woman in the middle of the
roadway. Witrisa saw Mr. Toomey in the street, and he
said, " For 17ml'a sake, save my eldest son." The
enginom then arrived, and played upon the blazing house,
which looked " like a red furnace tire." By the light of the
fire witness Mow a woman in her nightdress seated on a
box at the corner of thp street, shivering with cold. Wit-
liras said to her, " Will none of the neighbours let you
in •:" but he himself was unable to attend to her, as he
was saving life at the time. Ile saw Mrs. Toomey after
she hail leaped from the window, and she said, " Look at
the state I am, in."

Fire,scape Conductor Wheatley said that when he
was called to the fire Mr. Toomey was dressed in his shirt,
anal he said, " For Cod's sake save my wife and
children." The whole house was in a blaze.
While witness was coining up the street with his e
he saw a woman drop from the second-floor window of
the
burning house into the street. She had an infant in her
arms, anal the window front which she leaped wan, sur-
rounded by flames. The woman and child fell on the pave-
ment. It was then impossible to save life by means of the
escape. If a Boren people had been in the house they must
all have perished.
William Burrows said that he bad been a lodger in the
burnt house. Mr. French was the landlord, anal he kept
a general grocery shop. Mr. French anal his wife occu-
pied the room at the back of the shop, and they slept in
the room over that one. The stairs were in the
centre of the house, and underneath the stairs there
was a large cupboard, in which there was a ton of coals
anal at quantity of firewood. There were 18 people in the
house at the time of the lire. Witness was awakened by
the smoke anal sparks in his room. He rushed to his
window, and burst it open. He then went to the door,
anal saw the fire rushing up the staircase. Witness then
called to Mr. Toomey, and ho went back again to the
window, and he called out to the man who
lived in the room underneath his. Witness then
got out of his window, and lowered himself
from his window, which ass on the second door, on to the
sill of the first Moor window. Viney, the man living in
the first Moor mono, assisted him to take a child from wit-
ness's wife, and handed it down into the yard. Witness
clung to the window sill, for that was the only way
he had of saving his wife and two children,
from perishing by fire. Witness got down from the win-
dow after he saved his youngest child. A ladder wasthen
got, and Mrs. Burrows and the eldest child were then got
out of the house by means of it. The window was 30 feet
from the ground.
After other evidence had been heard,
The Coroner said that while he was holding the court
he had received a letter making a charge against a certain
person. It would, therefore, be necessary to examine the
writer of that letter on oath, anal inquire fully into the
charge made. The charge was a very serious one, and he
should fully investigate it.
The court was then adjourned.

DEATII OF MR. JOHN PHILLIP, R.A.—While vet
iia the prune of life and in the height of his faine, Mr.
Phillip has been sudden! taken away. About live weeks
ago he suffered from low fever, from which, notwithstand-
ing his gloomy fears, he gradually recovered, and there
seemed every probability of his enjoying a long career
of health and prosperity. Unfortunately his inatinct was
inure true than the hopes and wishes of his friends. On
Tuesday, the 19th inst., while on a visit to Mr. Frith, he
was suddenly seized with paralysis, and was removed home
half senseless and speechless. From that moment his con-
stitution, never strong, gradually gave way, and yesterday
at 5 p.m. he died. Mr. Phillip was born in Aberdeen in
the early part of 1817. Like many other celebrated
artists he commenced his career as a house-painter. Dur-
ing his apprenticeship he painted some studies of heads in
his leisure hour., which attracted the notice of the late
Lord Panmure, by whose liberality he was enabled
to prosecute his studies in London. He entered
the Royal Academy as • student in 1837, and
astonished his fellow-labourers by his amazing dex-
terity, especially with the brush. From that day
to the present he has been a constant contributor to the
exhibitions of the Royal Academy. But, however skil-
ful and dextrous was his work, Mr. Phillip never became
famous until a happy thought led him to Spain, and
the influence of Velasquez and the habits and costumes
if the people amustal his latent powers. His first
Spanish picture, "The Letter Writer,' in the possession
of her Majesty, at once placed him in a conspicuous
position, which his subsequent works enhanced. He was
made an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1857, and
two years after he attained the full honour. This is not
the time to enumerate his works nor to discuss their
special merits • suffice it to say, that as • painter he was
justly respected and admired. Of the many works he had
in hand, two, at least, are sufficiently finished to allow of
their being placed in the forthcoming exhibition of the
Royal Ac.uletny. They will show that his powers, so far
fro-n being impaired, were in greater force than ever, and
make us the more regret the loss art has sustained through
his untimely death.— Tioies.
EXPLORATION OF PALESTINE. —A meeting in aid
of the Palestine Exploration Fund was held in the Shel-
donian Theatre, Oxford, yesterday afternoon, which
was well attended by lima of houses and other uni-
versity authorities, a large number of ladies being also
present. The Rev. the Vice-Chancellor presided, and
after a few well chosen remarks introduced the Rev. Dean
Stanley, who dwelt at some length on the necossity of
thoroughly excavating the city of Jerusalem, which,
having been destroyed no less than seventeen times, was
now one vast accumulation of ruins, and as it now stood it
was perfectly impossible for any one to make efforts at all
satisfactory to themselves as to the exploration of the
surface, because of the knowledge that travellers coming
after them would by dint of further research discover
more interesting relics of anterior date. Having alluded
to the great and interesting explorations at Athens and
Rome, the rev. gentleman jointed out the vast field that
presented itself for similar works throughout the
land of Palestine. Sir H. C. Rawlinson, also strongly
advocated the claims of the society, and was
followed by the Rev. 11. R. Tristram, who gave an inte-
resting description of his travels in the Holy Land ; anal
a vote of thanks having been awarded to the various
speakers, the proceedings terminated.
MERCERS' COMPANY.—Laat evening the Master
and Wardens of the Mercers' Company entertained the
Earl of Kimberley, late Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, end a
number of gentlemen, at dinner, at their hall in Cheap-
side, on the occasion of the completion of the audit of the
Irish estates of the company. The noble earl, who was
very cordially received, in responding to the toast of " The
House of Lords," proposed by the Master (Mr. Watson),
said whatever changes might be desirable in the House
of Commons, he believed it would be admitted that the
House of lads performed the duties devolving upon
them with judgment and patriotism. In his capacity
as Loral-Lieutenant of Ireland it had fallen to his lot to
carry out what might have been considered harsh and re-
vere measures. It had been his fate to imprison many
persona charged with participatiou in Fenianisni anal con-
spiracy, but he believed on his conscience that none of
those persons were innocent of the charges imputed to
thew. He was of opinion that the measures taken by the
late anal the present government were thoroughly justifi-
able, and that they had effectually defeated a movement
which, taken altogether, was one of the greatest possible
folly, anal which never could have been expected by any
reasonable person to have even a momentary success. Mr.
R. P. Dawson, M.P., responded on behalf of the House
of Commons, anal after a number of complimentary toasts
the company separated at an early hour.
A RAILWAY CARRIAGE ON FIRE.—An alarming
fire occurred on Wednesday afternoon to the express train
which leaves York at 12 40 p.m. Soon after leasing the
Newark station it was discovered that a second claws car-
riage about the centre of the train was on fire. The atten-
tion of the driver was immediately summoned by aid of
the rope communication, anal the train as soon as possible
brought to a stand. t ;ear& anal passengers immediately
vied with each other in their energetic endeavours to ex-
tinguish the flames, anal although the supply of water was
very limited, they having to procure it from the engine
and ditches along the line, success crowned their efforts,
but not before the whole of the luggage on the roof, to-
gether with the carriage straps and part of the carriage
roof, was destroyed. The passengers in the carriage, it is
reported, escaped unburnt. The origin of the tire is sup-
posed to have been a spark from the engine.