The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-26 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

MAY AND DECENDZIL-AN UNFORTUNATE WIFE.
Thomas Henry Lankford, et 30, North-street, Clerkel'
was charged with violently assaulting his Will
Rachael.
Mr. H. Allen, prosecuting officer of the Associate Insti-
tute for Improving and Enforcing the Law for the Pro.
tection of Women, conducted the case.
The wife, who is much younger than her husband, mid
that her husband wan in the habit of getting drunk
and Musing her, and once before she bad to lea"
him because of his violence. On the night in goes-
tion she went home and found her husband drunk,
and he then kicked her out of doom. At about 12 o'clock
she returned jthinking that her husband was asleep, and ce
opening the door she heard a female in her bedroom with
her huAand. She fetched • policeman, and on opening
the door she saw a woman, who had her boots off, get ors
of bed. Her husband Teas in bed. He got out of bed and
again assaulted her. This was not the Stet time she hod
found him with other women. She had now left him, and
wee determined to get • divorce from him.
Police-oonstable Wilson, 196 G, said that he Was called
by the previous witness, and saw her husband in bed. He
saw a woman jump out of the bed •. she had her boots off.
He saw the defendant push his wife.
The defendant did not deny the charge, but said that he
would allow his wife an allowance.
The wife said she did not want an allowance—she could
keep herself.
Mr. Barker said the defendant wan a shameless fellow,
and ordered him to find two sureties in the sum of 901.
each, and himself in 401. to keep the peace towards his
wife for six calendar months.

The defendant wee locked up in default.
THE VOLUNTEER BALL.
There was not a single charge heard at this court arisisi
out of the volunteer ball last night at theAgricultural.halL

SOUTHWARK.
TITO 00011TRTKAIN AHD THE SHARPER.
lduard Nall, described as a betting MAU, residing st
26, Union-street, Borough.rond, eras placed at the bar for
Snalexaminstion, churl* with being concerned with a
other not in custody in robbing George
Gooch of 9/. 10a.
under the following circumstances :
The presenter, • farm bailiff at Egham, met the I'n'
toner in the Wfttainirter-bridge-road on the after.
o
non of the 111 h, when the former asked Lim if be c 05441
toll him the way to the Tower of London. He told hir
he wee a stature in London, and did not know. 'Thore
'
toner then asked him to go and partake of a glans of al

• They then entered a beer-shop close by, and
; bulking a count lucking man came in and got into
with them. He ssid that he had just come
, fortune, and he intended to distribute some
money to the poor. At the same time he said, as
,ud the prisoner were respectable men, they should
_ . run, and IW. for the trouble of distributing
poor. Ile also said that before be handed
• the money be must have a bond legally drawn up and
The prisoner offered to become his surety, when
c.untry man took from his pocket a large roll of notes,
; h vreareil to be Bank of England notes and a bag of
~mad to be sovereigns. It was then suggested that
put W. lOs. in a pocketbook with the notes and
coins while they went for a bond. The
then took possession of the pocket-book, and
went out of the house, and he and-
e e missed the prisoner end the countryman.
..,,ti-stied he had been done he spoke to a constable
ts.. the prisoner into custody. Since the last exami-
• ~twe the prisoner's friends bad settled with the prawn.
sal he could not be found.
The magistrate expreued his surprise that any man
,01,1 he so foolish as to be duped by such a trick which
,'.most an every day occurrence, and exposed in the
„ all over the country. However, as the prose-
; s.is not in attendance the prisoner must be dia.
THAMES. _

_
A pang tumbler. J.l,g Barlow, aged six years, was
ro3;ht before Mr. Benson, charged with throwing
-n...T....ti1ts in the Commercial-road, and begging of
?erson, riding on an omnibus.
y •4lingsby, a police constable, a'tt K,said numerous
compLunts had been made of the tumbling boys in the
Conanerci.d-road, and many of them bad been arrested and
put.ished. The practice was attended with danger to life
snd limb. The prisoner was tumbling alongside omnibuses
i,,,t night, and when he made his last somersault be
bet his balance and nearly went under the wheel
of a cwt. The poor little fellow was without
oboes 'tackiest, and shirt, and covered with filth last
night. He took the boy to the workhouse, and he was
cleansed and provided with clothing. He understood
that whatever the boy had earned by tumbling somersaults
he _men to hie mother.
111 r. Itobston, one of the relieving overseers of St. George.
itthe-East, said the mother received relief from the
for herself and children.
Mr. Benson asked the boy (who was put on the soli-
c:oes table for his inspection) wbo taught him to tumble.
The prisoner replied—Some big boys taught me to throw
monersaulti alonfside the 'busses.
Mr. Benson-1 on will be killed if you continue this
C.,ngerous pursuit.
The mother was called, and said she got her living by
tedlework. She had two other children to maintain, and
retired three loaves and Is. rid. weekly from the parish.
sometimes she earned Is. 6d. per day, at other times Is.
le day. She had been three years a widow.
Mr. 'Benson—l cannot allow you to send this boy into
the street to tumble and beg money of omnibus passengers.
Toe should send your boy to school.
The mother said she could not afford to send the boy to
school.
Mr. ll,lston said the family received outdoor relief on
the express condition that the mother sent her children to
school. There was an excellent school under the control of
that excellent and zealous philanthropist, the Rev. Mr.
of Christ Church, Watney-street, and be would
educate the children gratuitously. If the boy would go
to school Mr. Sl`Gill would receive him.
Mr. Benson lectured the mother of the boy for neglect-
ing her child ; and upon her promise that she would send
him to school discharged him.

SINGULAR DEATH OF A CARPENTER.
(THIS DAY.)

This morning a carpenter, named William Pratt,
expired in Guy's Hospital under circumstances of a very
singular character.
It appears that on Friday morning some policemen
brought the deceased to the hospitaL His leg was broken,
and he had received severe internal injuries. He
said that he lived at the Lady Well public-
house, Lewisham, and that on Friday morning two
navigators attacked him in a most savage and brutal
manner. The men beat him severely and broke
his leg. They then lifted him up off the ground and car-
ried him into a stable adjoining • publie.house. He stated
that his assailants then dragged him up into the loft over
the stable and there left him. He lemma insensible,
and he recollects nothing more until he found himself
in the hands of the police. He was at once placed in the
hospital ward, and Mr. Taylor, the house surgeon, at-
tended him. All efforts to save his life were of no avail,
and the unfortunate man gradually sank and died this
morning from exhaustion, caused by injuries.
The police have investigated all the surrounding circum-
stances connected with the deceased's death, and they hare
arrived at the conclusion that the statement as to how he
came by his injuries is not correct. They say that the de-
ceased was found at half-past 5 o'clock last Friday
morning lying in an insensible state underneath •
year-tree in a man's garden at Lewisham. They
believe that he had climbed up the tree to get some of the
pears, and that he suddenly fell from one of the branches
on the ground and broke his leg.
The Coroner (Mr. Payne) has ordered an examination to
be made of the deceased's body, and he has also ordered
that several witnesses shall be summoned to give evidence
as to what they know of the real facts of the ease.

THE PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD.—( THIS DAY.)
The Pan-Anglican Synod assembled for its last
day's consultation, at Lambeth Palace, this morning, when
the Bishop of Salisbury presented a memorial, rigned by
Dr. Posey, Dr. P. G. Lee, the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie,
the Bev. T. W. Perry (one of the Ritual commissioners),
sod a large number of other clerk/men, expressive of
sorrow at the long continued divisions in Christendom.
They pray that steps may be taken to promote inter-cora-
mullion between the church of England and the orthodox
March of the East. It has been determined that the ter-
%lces shall close on Saturday with a choral celebration of
the Holy Communion in the parish church of St. Mary,
Limbetb. The sermon will be preached by the Right
Bev. Dr. Fulford, Bishop it Montreal and Metropolitan of
Canada.