The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-08 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

James born/am, a well-known character, was charged
with • burglary in the villa residence of Mr. Harvey
Lazenby, the sauce manufacturer, at Dulwich-common,
and stealing • quantity of jewellery and bank-notes. About
5 o'clock on Saturday morning, Police-constable Osborn,
P 203, according to his evidence, saw the prisoner in a
field near Peckham rye, with a bundle under his arm.
There was a pathway, and when he passed witness be said,
" Good morning." The prisoner walked on, and he turned
and followed bun to the side of Nunhead Cemetery, and
be asked him what he had got there. He threw down the
bundle, and witness asked him whether be was going
to " pitch " there; meaning whether he was going to
lie down. The prisoner asked him what he wanted with
him, and be told him he should take him into custody for
the unlawful possession of the articles in the bundle. He
resisted being taken into custody, and they struggled
together for some time. He felt something hard in the
bundle. The prisoner said, " Act like a man, and we will
square it. No soul shall say anything about it." He
found a quantity of silver spoons in the bundle, a silver
and gold watch, and six 5/. -Bank of England notes. After
a desperate struggle, another constable came up, and the
prisoner wan secured and lodged in the station.
Mr. Lazenby stated that he was alarmed on Saturday
morning, and found that his house had been broken into
and the articles now produced stolen therefrom. The
property was worth 120/.
A remand was asked to produce evidence as to the ante-
cedents of the prisoner.
The conduct of police-constable Osbornwas commended
for the capture of the prisoner, who, it was stated, had
been previously sentenced to 18 months' for a burglary.
Mr. Norton remanded him to Thursday.

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THE TRADES' UNION INQUIRY AT SHEFFIELD.

The commissioners resumed their sittings for the
twentyfourth time on Saturday, when the evidence taken
had chiefly reference to the nail trade.

Frederick Jackson, secretary to the nailmaken' union at
Helper, said be was not aware there was any rattening in
the nail teed°, unless they supposed that cutting bellows
was rattening. If that was fattening, then he had heard
it reported that the union bad done so, but he was not
aware for certain it had been done by the authority of the
union. He had no doubt, however, that the reports
he had heard were true. A man named Southall, of Bel-
per, bad had his bellows cut • short time ago, but he
WY not aware that the union had ordered it, but he
had no doubt they paid for such things. That sys-
-1 tem had been adopted in their trade for years. He
knew of no cases of gunpowder explosions except one
at Thorpe Hesley, but he had no knowledge that that was
done by the union. He would swear he had never paid
sapling for such things. .11e had never heard such
things talked about in the union. It was rather too deli-
cate a question to be talked about there. Isaac Emma-
Duel Watson, of Rotherham, said that in 1861 he lived at
Chesterfield, and worked with Joseph Tomlinson. On
the 21st December he went with Tomlinson and Proctor
to Hattersley's, at Thorpe Healey, and put some powder
down the chimney, and put • fuse to it, which, ex-
ploding, blew the house roof off. They did the saute at
Charles Butcher's. The reason for their doing this was
I they were working for lees than the Rotherham men.
He received • letter from Belper, with no name, saying
a job wanted doing and if they did it they would
be paid for it. He did not know from whom the letter
came. He bought part of the powder at Chesterfield ; the
other be got from a man at the station, whom he went to
meet at the train in obedience to • letter sent to tell him
to go there for • parcel. The cans he also bought at Ches-
terfield. He carried one of the cans, and Proctor the
other. They went by train from Chesterfield to Mashro',
and walked to Thorpe Healey ; theyeameback from Thorpe
Healey another way. Tomlinson was now working in
London, but Proctor he did not know where to find.
He made no inquiries at Healey for the people he wanted,
bemuse, knowing Hanley well, he knew where they
were: The Monday after he went to Rotherham, and
in a public-house saw a man from Helper, a
stranger, who gave him 21. He did not know Charles
Webster, but believed it was be. Charles Webster was
here called, and witness said that he believed that was the
man who paid him, but he would Dot swear it. He was
to have 31. for the job, and Proctor got the remaining
11. Witness and his brothers and Tomlinson were
tried for it, and called fifteen or sixteen wit-
Deana to show he was not there. Frost swore for
his brother, and they were right, because be was not
there. One swore for him, which was false, and four'for
Tomlinson, which was also untrue. The police and prose-
cuting witnewes were all wrong in the time, but not in the
facts. They were committed, but afterwards set at liberty.
Witness had nothing to do in the case of Lima. Butcher's.
Charles Webster, • district secretary at Helper in 1861,
was then called, and admitted the facts *awing him
deposed to by .he last witness.—Henry Bridges said in
1861 be was • brickmaker. On the night of the 21st of
April of that year be had about 10,000 bricks destroyed.
Rome of them were pressed bricks, and the value of
them would be about 4W., but that also included the
destruction of five or six barrows, and a pressing machine.
There were some five or six men engaged in the affair. The
men take up the bricks and break them over their knees.
He did not know to what cause to attribute the rattening,
but be nought it mast have been done because he would
not pay is. a week. Witness haul since joined the union
and had not at all been molested since that time. The court,
after some further evidence, adjourneed till to-day.

ANOTHER SERIOOS ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON
AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—Thu frightful accident
near Warrington has been followed by another, but for-
tunately without such fatal results. At • late hour on
Friday night the Post-office van of the limited mail on the
London and North Western Railway got uncoupled near
Wolverton. A coupling chain, we are informed, broke
about the centre of the train, and the speed at which the
engine was going caused a portion of the train to pro-
ceed at a greater speed. The forepart of the train, after
running some distance, was brought up by the driver, who
thought there was something wrong, owing to the "light
pull." This action on the part of tae driver has been at-
tended with very lamentable results. The darkness of the
night must have misled him as to the distance at which he
stopped after the coupling iron parted. It turnedout that the
coupling-iron broke at a spot where the train was descend-
ing an incline ; and the Post-office van and the carriages
attached continued their descent alone. If any attempts
were made to arrest the progress of the latter portion of
the train they proved futile, for while the engine-driver
was shutting off steam the hinder portion of the train
came down the descent with increasing velocity. The con-
sequence was that this portion of the train dashed into the
stationary part with a terrific crash. Several of the pas-
sengers were severely injured, three or four of them
having their legs and arms broken. One of the guards was
so mash hurt as to be disabled from further duty, while
another received a fearful contusion over the left eye.
There was considerable delay on the line after the disaster.
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