The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-28 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

CLERKENV7ELL

THE ("FUROR OF STEALING ON! HUNDRED SOVEREIGNS.
Ellen Rice, aged 29, was charged on remand with steal-
ing 100 sovereigns from a box in a room at 54, Barnsbury-
road, Islington, the property of Mr. Joseph Troufiat, a
chemist and druggist.
Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, appeared for the prosecution.
The prisoner bad cohabited with the prosecutor for some
years, and she bad had one child by him. Last week he
placed 100 'ova. in gold in a box under his bed, and then
went out for a walk. On his return be found that his
money was gone, and that the prisoner was absent. On
her return he accused her of taking the money, but she
rid that she knew nothing about it. As her child bad
told the prosecutor that he had seen the prisoner at the
box, he called a constable and gave her in charge.
Mr. Ricketta said that every endeavour had been made
to discover the money, but without effect. Taking into
consideration the relations between the parties ; the fact
that the prosecutor was the father of the prisoner's child,
and that the prisoner bad been confined in the Howie of
Detention for a week the prosecutor did not wish to go
further with the charge,and,with the consent of the court,
it would be withdrawn.

Mr. Cooke said he would allow the course proposed to be
adopted, and the prisoner was then disahaiged.

WESTMINSTER.
TITTABLE CONDITION OP A WIDOWED MOVIE&
A very respectable-locking woman, about 30 ran o(
age, with an infant in her arms, applied to the magistrate
for protection from the violence of her step son, a boy only
15 years of age.
Mr. Humphrey., an inspector of the B division of police,
said the case was one of an exceedingly flagrant charac-
ter. The applicant had recently buried her husband,
a policeman of that division, and her distress was much
aggravated by the disgraceful conduct of the boy in ques-
tion, towards whom she bad always done the duty of •
mother. She bad three children by her husband, and
these were all much younger than the boy complained of.
Mr. Arnold directed that the applicant should be sworn,
and that having been done, inquired what was the last act
of violence complained of.
Applicant said she was sitting last night ouckling her
infant, when he came up to her, knocked her off her chair,
and swore he would murder her. His ill-treatment of
her was shocking.
Mr. Humphreys said he was perfectly uncontrollable, and
besides behaving disgracefully at home associated with the
worst of characters out of doors.

Mr. Arnold immediately granted • warrant for his
apprehension.
BOITTHWARB.
UNPOCIMET) CHARGE OP MONT.
Henry Drirer, a very respectable young man, a com-
positor, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Bnrcham, charged
with stealing half.a.sovereign, the property of John
Nolan.

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The prosecutor said he was an engineer, and resided at
No. 5, Lent-street, Borough. Between 4 and 5 on the
previous afternoon he was drinking in the Half-way House,
Webber-street, Blackfriars, when be sot into conversation the prisoner and two or three other men. Witness
tigda half-sovereign on the counter to pay for some
and while turning round to light his pipe the prisoner
snatched it up and walked out of the house with it.
Witnem went after him, and asked him to return the half-
sovereign, when he denied all knowledge of it. A con-
stable then came up, and he gave him into custody.
In answer to the magistrate witness said be was under
the influence of liquor, and hardly knew what he was
about ; but he was sure the prisoner was the man who
took his money up, although he did not see him.
In cross-examination by the prisoner, he said that he
bad been betting with some men in the public-house ; but
be did not know what it was about.
Sergeant Greenfield, 17 L, said that he weaselled to take
the prisoner into custody. The prosecutor was under the
influence of liquor, sad be persuaded him to go home.
Witness had made inquiries about the transaction and it
was hie opinion that there was no pretence for charging
him with the felony. The prosecutor made bets with some
strange men and lost his money that way.
Mr. Burcham expressed his regret that the prisoner
should have been locked-up on such a charge, as there was
not the slightest pretence for it. He ordered him to
be immediately discharged.

WANDSWORTH.
DESERTION OP • NORSE CHILD.

A working man, who waa accompanied by a genteel
looking boy, six years of age, entered the court and pre-
sented a letter to the magistrate, who, upon reading it,
said he was very sorry for him, but he could not help him.
In reply to the magistrate, the man said he went to the
board of guardians on Tuesday last but they refused to
enter into the merits of the case. It was entirely out of
his power to keep the child. His wife had deserted him,
and he now had no home.

The magistrate said the man was under no legal obli•
gation to keep the ohild, and if he were deserted the parish
would be bound to take him into the workhouse.
The man said he was willing to give every information
about the boy, who was born at Epsom. He did not know
his father. He had heard that the mother had a brother
who was a surgeon in Brighton. He had not received any
money from the mother for two years, and he did not
know where to find her. _ _ _

The magistrate instructed Sergeant Dudley to lee the
relieving offioer, and told him it appeared that the boy
was a nurse child left with his wife, who had since gone
away from her husband.
Ultimately it was arranged that in the event of the
parish officers refusing to receive the boy he should be
brought before the magistrate again, with a view of being
removed to an industrial school.

At Stockport, a lad named Williamson has been
fommittcd to the Chester assizes on a charge of attempt-
mg to upset the London and Liverpool express train near
to Stockport, on the night of the 14th inst. The prisoner
and several other boys placed ten " chairs," or iron girders
by which the rails are secured to the sleepers, on to the
down line ar the express was running at the rate of 50
miles an hour ; but such was the power of the velocity of
the engine that it 'unshed each " chair" in two, and thus
happily averted a frightful catastrophe. The engine bad
its springs broken, and the prisoner admits that he in-
tended to have " a spill and a smash."
The boiler of a flax mill at Randalstown, county
Antrim, burst yesterday afternoon, killing Mr. Barnett,
the owner, and five of his men. Four others were seriously
injured.