The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-12 00:00:00

LAW INTELMGEN&E.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF 11211sTICAUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IS RI TARBZEINIM—ADJoDwArort.
A ;ear:Dent debtor summons had been taken oat under
the 76th section of the Barilwaptey Act, 1861, against
damn Load Table:mar, deeeribed as a contractor,
0( Leatherhsad, Surrey, and elsewhere. The officer
in thugs of the summons not having been able
to serve it, by reason of concealment on the part of the
debtor, who it was Stated never Mae out of his house
except on Sundays, an order wan made by Mr. Commis-
sioner Winslow authorising what is called substituted
wide., and the summons was returnable for to-day, but
the defendant did not appear,
Mr. Taylor appeared for the creditor, sod asked that
adjudication of bankruptcy should be made against the
debtor, asprovided by the B:3.rd sac. of the Act of 1861 in
the use of non-appearance to a summons.
His Honour said the ogly question was whether it could
be shown that the defendant had, in the language of the
seauko, " any lawful impediment" which could be allowed
by the court.
Mr. Chiclley, who appeared for Mr. Tabberner, stated
that he had been prevented from attending by • threat
on the part of the creditor that he should be arrested,
obeyer rightly or wrongly. Besides, the defendant bad
executed a deed of arrangement, which bad been signed
Vls. Alton, for 2,0001., and be dulyregistered within
28 days.
Honour held that that was not • sufficient exams
for the non-appearance of the debtor, and adjudicated
him bankrupt under the 83rd suction.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
CHARGE OP STARS/MG.

An old man, 'milked .74eS;;;;;;,;;No brought before
Alderman T)akin. oh erred with stabbing hie wife with in-
tent to do her bedikrinjury„
It appeared from the stmement of the complainant that
the pnaoner was a shoemaker, and they lived together in
IVidegateetreet,Bishopsgate-etreet. Yesterday afternoon,
about 3 o'clock, she went home, and her husband began to
abuse her and tali her foul names and struck her two violent
blows in the mouth, and he then stabbed her in the shin '
with • knife he nand in his trade. She said that she ran ,
out ot the room and her boot was filled with blood, and
she called a polieenam and gave the prisoner into custody.
The police-constable who took the prisoner said that he
was quite sober, end the complainant appeared to him to
be drunk.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, denied al her
having used a knife, and he said that his wile came home
drunk and abused him, and he admitted that he was
aggravated to strike her. He added that the complainant
was constantly drunk, and she sold everything she meld
lay her hands upon to procure liquor.
Alderman Hilda told him that even supposing all he
said was true, stabbing her was not the remedy.
The prisoner declared that he had not used a knife, and
he said that the complainant was quite +capable of inflicting
the injurf upon herself.
A woman named Mary Donken, who stated that she
was related to the complainant, or, as she herself expressed
it, WAS " her own flesh and blood." was examined, and
she said that Mrs. Sweeney brought in two pots of beer,
and they drank it together. The prisoner was endeavouring
to cook some bacon, but his wife would not let him, and
they bad a scuffle together, but she saw no knife used by
the prisoner.
Alderman Dakin ordered both parties to enter into a
recognisance to keep the peace towards each other, and
the charge of stabbing was dismissed.

THE ST. GILES'S MURDER.

EXAMINATION oi. J As Row-emsgr
POLICE-COURT. T IS DAY.)
John Richard Jeffreys, who described himself as
of Iliimingale, in the West Morley division of the
Wiat }tiding. el . Yorkshire, sad of 111, Halfpaud-yard,
Salisbury-square, Fleet-strut, and of 15, Great White
Lionartreet, Seven-dials, tailor, was brought before Mr.
Vaughan, in custody of Inspector West, of the F dit ision
of Police, on the charge of " wilfully murdering his son,
Arthur Richard Jeffrey., on the 30th of July last, by
hanging him in a cellar, at No. 1, Neale's-paasage, Great
Earl-street, in the perish of St. Giles."
A considerable crowd of persons bad assembled in Bow.
street at an early hour in the hope of catching a glimpse of
the prisoner in his passage from the station house to the
court, or rather to the board room of the Strand Union,
where the magistrate's sittings are temporarily held dueng
the cleaning and repairing of the court. The mob, however,
was not so great as on former occasions, when there
has been a prospect that some portion of the
assemblage might be enabled to penetrate into the court.
No each expectation could be entertained on this occasion,
as it is well knows amongst the class who total the
audience at the police oourt, that owing to the small
accommodation afforded by the board room, only those
concerned in the proceedings, or having business at the
court, will be admitted as any examinations held in that
apartment.
Notwithstanding all that has been stated as to the extra.
ordinary excitement prevailing in the neighbourhood, and
the feeling of abhorrence with which the prisoner was
regarded, it mast be said that when at last the prisoner was
escorted across the street by the police, no yells, groans,
or other expressions of indignation escaped from the crowd-
There wee a little shoving, accompanied by that peculiar
murmur which always comes from &London mob in motion,
but which can hardly be said to express interest, much less
passion.
Mr. Edwin Levy from the office of the Society for the
Protection of Women and Children, attended to watch the
ease on behalf of that association.
The prisoner was placed at the bar shortly before 12
o'clock. He is a man of middle height, slender, and of
email but sharply defined features, of sallow complexion,
with a quantity of shaggy black hair, and a slight black
moustache and beard, apparently of recent growth.
Police-sergeant James Kay, F 13, deposed—On Monday,
July 30, at a quarter-past 7 o'clock, I went to a cellar in
Neale's-passage, Great Earldtreet, and found a boy banging
to a poet. He was apparently about eight years old. I
measured him, and found his height 3 feet 6 inches.
He was dead, but slightly warm. He was hanging
with his bead about five feet from the ground,
and his feet about 18 inches from the ground. The rope
I now produce was round his neck. His bands were tied
loosely. I could put my two fingers between the rope and
his neck. I caught hold of the body and held it up, and
not having a knife I called for some one to cut the rope.
This was done. The rope was cut just above the knot, and
then it all seemed to slip through.
By Mr. Vaughan—The end was only once round the
boy's neck. His head was against the walL His hands
were tied loosely behind with a handkerchief. The boy
was dressed, Wit his clothes were old and shabby. The
poet ran up the side of the cistern from the ground.
There was a nick in the poet to which the rope was tied.
He was hanging with his face against the post. The
cellars are dark. In the cellar where the boy was
hanging there is a window, but the door of a watercioset
being thrown back against it obscured the light so that I
did not see there was a window. The place is called
Neale's-passage. It is let out in tenements.
This house has no connexion with the home No.
13, Great Earl-street. I sent for Dr. Harvey who
arrived in a few minutes, and pronounced the boy to
be dead. By his direction 1 with assistance removed the
body to the dead-house at St. Giles's Workhouse. I
could have got two of my fingers betwcon the rope and
the boy's neck.
Dr. Alfred Harvey, 3, Southampton-street, Strand—On
the 30th July last, at about half-past 7 in the morning,
I was called to the house at the corner of
Great Earl-street, and found a boy hanging in the cellar.
He was dressed. His hands were tied loosely behind him.
There was a mark round his neck. His face was pale and
placid. I saw him about a quarter of an hour afterwards,
and examined him particularly. Upon undressing him I
found that there were no other marks of violence. The
mark round the neck was round about two-thirds of
the neck, as if it had been produced by a cord. The mark
was red, the skin discoloured. It was the same size as
might have been produced by such a string as that
produced. The cord was so placed that it might have
produced suffocation by pressure on the wind-
pipe. The pupils of the eyes dilated. There
was nothing else which I observed externally requiring
to be noticed. On a post-mortem examination I found tho
lungs collapsed and congested. The brain was congested.
The stomach contained food. The other organs were
healthy. There were no marks of poison. Having made
that examination, I attribute the death of the child to
suffocation. The pressure on the windpipe which I have
mentioned would be sufficient to cause death. I should
think the age of the child was 7 or 8 years.
At the commencement of Dr. Harvey's evidence the pri.
soner interrupted, in order to request that the witnesses
should be ordered out of court.
Inspector West said they were already out of court.
Jane Edwards—l am a widow, and live at 5, Eagle-
street, Holborn. On the 30th of July I was living there.
My daughter was the prisoner's wife. I have not seen her
for ten months, but I believe she is still alive. At about
half-put 8 o'clock on the 2'Jth of July he called at my
house. His son was then living with me, and had been for
about five months. He was in bed when the prisoner
called. He said, "Dress that child," three times.
Tho child said, " Don't dress me, granny ; I don't want
to go." The prisoner gave no re.rson for wanting the
child dressed. I said, " Don't dress him ; leave him till
to-morrow morning, and then come for hint." The prisoner
again said, " Drew that child." I did so, and the pri-
soner took him away. He did not say where he was going.
I followed as far as I could, and lost him in Holborn. I
asked atpoliceinan to follow him, saying that the pri-
soner was 'not a proper parent. The policeman
would not interfere as it was the boy's father. The next
day from what I had heard I went to the dead house
between 12 and 1, and saw the body of the child. I did
not know where the prisoner was living at that time. The
child's names were Richard Arthur Jeffery.. The pri-
soner had never paid one halfpenny towards the main-
tenure of the child, though when he went
away he agreed to pay me 4s. a week. I ap-
plied to him when he was at Gravesend, and
he wrote to me saying he would not give me a farthing ;
I I 'night do my best and do my worst. I have not got the
letter. He came to town the following Sunday, and see-
ing the letter on the mantelpiece, be took it up, tore it in
pieces, and threw them in the fire. The hos had cam_
plaided to me that the prisoner ill-treated him shame-
fully, and threatened to kill him if he told me or his
' mother. I was very fond of the child, and should not
have asked the prisoner for money if I had kept the child
till now.

MARLBOROUGH-STRZET.
P011tlEL) ULU/EN.4.-0 AIIiTTTAL.
William Henry Aston and Thomas Hian, the two young
men charged with obtaining goods by means of forged
orders, were again brought before Mr. Ty rwhitt.
Itappears that Aston, who was formerly in the employ
of Hews. Mackay, Burke, and Wheeler, military tailors,
Bond•treet, went to Messrs. Scott Adie's Scotch ware-
bow., Regent-street, and obtained a quantity of cloth by
means of an order purporting to be written by Masers.
Mackay and Co., but which was proved to have been
mitten by Hiatt, who was his companion and lodged in
the 'erne house with him. The prisoner Hiatt wee
charged with obtaining a quantity of paper hanging' from
Mr. Silas Tucker, of High Holborn, by means of an order
purporting to come from his father, but which was in
a altty eigned by himself. Sinai tho last examination the pri-
sour Hiatt's father had gone round to the persons where
bison had sold the paper-hangings, and got • quantity of
them back with a view of screening his son, and he had
gone so far into the case as to threaten to give • person
into custody if he did not give the property up.
Several persons proved purchasing paper-hangings of
the prisoner Hiatt, and subsequently on has father's call-
ing giving them up to him.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the priponers for trial.

WORSHIP-sTRHET.
TEE RAKERS' ACT.--,1 FATHER CONVICTITI POS WOBLING
HIS TWO SON&

Peter Satobery, , of No. 1, Lamb-street, Spitalfields,
muter baker, answered a complaint for having unlawfully
employed in his bakehouse, between the hours of 9 of the
deck at night and sof the clock of the morning, certain
persons under the age of 18 years, to wit—one Peter Saw-
bery, of the age of 15 years, and John Sawbery, of the age
of 16 years, his sons, of which said bakehouse he wee then
the occupier.
Mr. Vann prosecuted, and called a workman formerly in
the employ of defendant, who swore that on the 19th,
20th, and 21st ult. the lade were worklng in the bakehouse
during some portion of the prohibited hour., and to the
knowledge of the' t. father.
Mr. Abbott, for the defence, asserted that the bad and
drunken conduct of this very witneu had brought
aboht the complaint in question. Unable to accomplish
his work on the dates named, Mr. Sawbery was compelled
to all his sons up from their beds that they might over-
look it, and prevent the batch being spoiled. The man
dented the alleged intoxication, or need of the youth's pre-
enee ; and Mr. Vann called attention to the importance of
requirements of the act (26th null 27th Vict., c. 40). The
penalties for the offence are front 40s. to 10/. and de-
fendant had previously been fined at this court for a si-
milar disregard of its provisions.
The younger lad was called, and Mr. Abbott remarked
en his appearance, which certainly was the epitome of
health and content.
Mr. Vann said that doubtless the defendant had taken
care since the matter came into the hands of the society
that all should be done likely to repair the pernicious
effeete of working in a bakehouse at such hours.
The lad confirmed the statement of the first witness
being drank, and himself and brother having worked from
that sense.
Mr. Poole, a baker of Norfolk-street, Shoreditch, who
had instituted these proceedings, was asked by the magia-
-rate whether he had any pecuniary interest in preset's-
hu them.
Mr. Poole said that he had not the slightest—but he
belonged to the society.
The magistrate remarked that clearly an infringement
of the set had been made, and defendant must pay a fine
of 10e, in each case, together with all coats, which was
immediately paid.
WANDSWORTH.
PARTRIDGE SHOOTING.
George Driver, a well-known waterman, and William
Simpson, a bricklayer, were summoned for unlawfully com-
mitting a trespass by entering and being in the day time
in certain enclosed lands belonging to John Augustus Beau-
mont, Esq., at Wimbledon-park, in search and pursuit of
game.
Several witnesses were examined, from whose evidence
it appeased that early on the morning of the 3111
instant the defendants were seen in Mr. Beau-
moat's fields, each carrying a gun and followed by
two doge, one being a retriever. After " hunting*
the ground over they came out on to the road when they
were cautioned by George Cooper, bailiff to Mr. Higgs,
who was in the occupation of one of the farms. The
defendants were subsequently seen by other persons
searching for game in other fields on the same property.
During the time two partridges flew up, and one of the
defendants fired at one but did not kill It. Both of the
defendants were seen shooting on the Saturday before,
being the commencement of the season.
The two cases being heard separately, though the evi-
dence was the same in both summonses,
Mr. Ody, who appeared for the defendants, called Simp-
son as a witness for Driver. lie stated that on the let of
September he was with Driver, when they met Cooper in
the Merton-road. Driver asked him if there was any game
about, and he replied, " A little." He also said
there were some hares in one field and a brace
of birds in another, and that there would not be ,
any harm in going over the ground so long as
they kept out of the governor's sight. They walked it
over, but could not find any game. They met Cooper I
again, and be said, " You have been among them." Driver
replied that be had not had a shot. Witness pulled out a
hint and said, "Is that your sort!" Cooper replied
" Yes." and put the bird in his pocket. Witness said,
"No, thank you ; I'd rather keep it, as being the first
blot of the season."
Cooper was queationed, and he denied giving the de-
fendants leave to go on the grounds. He admitted being
asked whether there were any birds on the grounds, and
he told them that there were, but that they most not go
On the grounds to shoot them.
Mr. Ingham fined each defendant 40s. and 10e. costs,
which were paid.
According to the last game act a license for sheaths:held
by Sampson beeuee forfeited.

Cross-examined by the prisoner—You did not leave the
child with me with a new suit of black, nor did he say
that I had pawned his things. When you left him he was
dressed in the acme clothes that he bad on when yen
fetched him. I had left his hat with your sitter. I did
not tell you that your sister had pawned the jacket.
To Mr. Vaughan—The boy had told me that his sister
bad pawned his jacket.
The prisoner—Did we not go to a pnblichonse and
have some gin, and the child a halfpenny cake, and I some
beer, together
Witness—No, I did not. I watched you into a public-
, house. Yon (lid not give me 3s. and a pint of shrimps
when you came from Gravesend. I don't remember it. It
might have been when I was asleep. You did not give me
You did not say that you were told I had begged 14s.
in one week because I had the child, sand that the child
' should not live by beggary. I never begged a f trthing. I
don't recollect that you 'Reigned any reason why you did
not choose to pay in the letter from Gravesend. You only
said you would not. When you took the child away the
first time you did sot bring him back. I found him on
the door step. Faster brought him round. He was not
I dressed in a new black suit. He lad old cloths on which
were dirty, and he was scratching himself.
To Mr. Vaughan—When the prisoner called for the

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