The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-18 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MANSION HOUISE.
•..I.IIAVT 111111P0!L MSG DRUNK.

Hairrey•reapectsbly. dressed, but not very fast•
looking Flit( fellow, We charged lath tisiog insulting
husgsag sisieraltini Maria Langley, and with asiatilting
(Large Estcoart. He waa also charred with being drunk.
Tbs diner abet had the private in charge said there were
:omearatore pram; and be thought the case had Leen
Lard Mayer—Very likely ; but I want to know something
ahead IL Let me bear your evidence.
0111mr—Last night about 9 o'clock I beard o disturbence
' b Lswreaceolate, and on going there I found the prisoner
and des prosecutor rolling together on the ground. Toe
prissiest maid the prosecutor bad struck him, but the facts
restasd to be the other way, and so I took the prisoner to the

TIM Lard Msyor—Was b. drink ?
011esei—He had been driskiag, my lord.
The Lad Hayor—Did he go quietly to the MeV.= P
Olga—Qedte. He didn't make the least resistance,
The Loyd Maymi—Has he been locked up all night t
o'clock sib
Officee—Yea
rtlng , my lord, bat he was bailed out at eight
me.
The Lord Hamm—What are you, prisoner ?
Prime/at--I am • clerk.
The Lord Heyier-1 shall not punieh yen for the assault,
but for being drank. You must pay 40s. or go to prison for
Theeemer appmeed to be quite astngsbed at the amount
dair the penslty, bat pald the money nevertheless, and wee
charged.

POILOIRT IT A CHILD.
Japes JoAnson, aged 11, Aloe boy to Mr. W. A. Thomp-
son, 15, Queenbithe, waa brought up on remand, charged
with forgery and uttering' cheque purporting to be signed
by his master, with intent to defraud Mews. fiapte and Co.,
beakers Loorbard•otnet.
The irgery bad bees primionaly proved. but the prosecu-
tor, out of regard to the tender age of the priw nvr, forbore to
mem the charge, and be wee low Mimed up to hie mett
Ow being suitably weaned and adnicanahed by the load
Mayor.

TEE DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN ST.
PAROBAIL-THE IS QUEST.-/THIS DAT)

This morning the adjourned inquest on the bodice
of Anne Croft. seed 26, and her two children. was bah' at
the King's Head, Swinton-street, before Mr. Wakley. It
will be recollected that the unforttusate woman, after catalog
the throats of her two children, committed suicide by mats.
her own throat.

Butte Clark deposed to finding the bodies on Wedoesday
the 16th. in the beck parlour of 62, El wintontetrest. lied
worked for demigod [mahout eft months. Never saw her am
her children cruell . On the Tuesday noticed eomethiag
wasp about the ,• she told tritceia that boss head
was Baas; that it felt quite light. Noticed something Arm*,
about her epee. Deceased was particular in keeping the chtl-
drennisea, and was temperate in her habit& She remarked
to witness that iike Levee could gat 'deep attar the firet hoar ;
she thought she was enceints, and said it was wicked of God
to lot her be ia that rate again so secs, and that God mast
be ol grp with her; it was that which guyed oa her mind.
aa-masebbi. •461, seated that he was called to No.
62, Swiateatetresib ea Wrorday. sr os electing r

entrance into the hick room he fotitd the three b dial"; he
found a mew between the legs of the woman. The children
termed they lied beset asleep.
)(airy Thompeoe, aged 12, deposed that she had beetsereset
to Mrs. Craft fur two months; she did not sleep in the home.
West to the hooee at half-past nine on Wednesday morning.
Saw Mrs. Craft in the back parlour ; she was having
breakfast there with the children ; she sent entree
to fetch the girl's shoes. She told her to hasten back, but
not to run. When witness came beck, she fount the door
fastened, and could not get in. She then spoke to Mrs. Clark
about it. Mrs. Craft was very fond of her children. She
sees in the habit of singing and saying that she would soon
cis. fibs said that nobody eared anything about her. Mr.
Croft usually lift home before Ale arrived. Deceased said
she felt better than usual on the Tuesday.
Mr. George Craft, the husband and father of the deceased,
examined—lYan • goldsmith and jes eller. Saw his wife and
children alive, for the last time, at half.past sight on Wed-
nesday morning. He left them in bed. Did not notioe any-
thing strange shoat her that morning. She was in the habit
of keeping things dose, and lately used some strange ex-
pressions. Took no notice of theta, er tried to torn them
ale She said that if she put herself out of the
weeld it would relieve him. She lost her milk for
the lest fortnight, and that teemed to prey on her mind.
She Mid witless before marriage that there or four of her
mess, by the father's side, committed reek acts—suicide.
She wee very electionate. and fond of be children. She
asked witness on last Saturday rooming which um the beat
way of destroy bag herself ; he told her not to talk like that, and
everything would become right. She performed berdomestic
duties as usual. Oa the Wednesday morning he got up
about seven o'clock, and asked his wife whether she would
get up ; she mil she would, but when he went two the loom
he found she was still in bed; be was fretted st the,
sad made a remark upon it, bemuse if else had told him
she (sit ill he would have got the breakfast himself, as
be bed often done before. He had no notion that
W wille would commit the set she had. The RIM
howl vas his, but he bad not used it for two or three rime
The insbar of the deemed woman, who seemed deeply
eileted, was then mamined—The deceased was his daugh-
ter. Saw her last before bar confinement. Was on the best
terms with his daughter. He had no complaint to make of
saypwra respecting he daughter's death. Ills tether was
eoatlaed is a lunatic asylum, and his brother committed
suicide.

Rebecca Freeman deposed that the family of the Craft,
bed lodged with her since October ; Mn. Cruft behaved
most kindly to her children, and appeared to live ex adroitly
happy with her husband; she appeared troubled about losing
her milk. She complained of bee head several time., but
never spoke of suicide; she also said she could not sleep
at sight.
Mr. Josiah Henry Selwood, surgeon, examined—Resides
at No. 31, Great Percy-street, Clerkenwell. Ar.eoded the
deceased for the Rat three months in her oonenemeot. Woe
sent tor on Wednesday morning at shout • quarter past
eleven, sod found the deceased persons with incised wounds
in the throat. They were the most determined wounds
he ever saw In his life. There were two drip wounds
in the elder child, penetrating even to the vertebra:.
There was • double cut in each cue. Examined the brain of
the deceased woman. Found nothieg peculiar. The brain
was dry and firm • the skull wee thicker than usual. Ex-
amined the stomach end found no trace of poison. Examined
the uterus and found that she VIM not pregneat.
Sew her • week before her death. She com-
plained of slams+ in the morning, and said that
she must wean the child. Told her she ought not to do eo,
and that if she went into the country she would fled all
right. He saw the deceased last on Friday, and proesiaed to
call again on 3londay. Did not do so in conne quartos of ili-
um in his own family, which kept hour entirely et home.
Mrs. Craft was a very mild and gentle wom en, and to dt the
grestat care of her children. Had no doubt whatever attar
the evidence he had baud that she committed the act whilst
In an insane state of mind.

Mr, Wakley said that if the jury clinked if, he 'mull read
over the evidence, bat he thought there could be no diubt
as to the stet* of the woman 'a mind whin she oonnuitted
these terrible and ferocloiss acts. It woe certsin that there
was no disease so hereditary u Menai y, end it wee very
deplorable that persons should marry into families offend
with that dimwit. The deceased woman appeared to have a
kind dispotition. She took the greatest cer, of her children
eM place, end yet, in a moment of fury, she committed this
&Indio! deed. _

Tha Jury at once came to the conclusion that the mother
was insane, and that she murdered tier children whist fa a
meta of amenity,

TIER BOAT ACCIDINT AT WATCHET.—The in-
sert as the toadies of the maws by this unfortunate cc-
wenrce woe oesemeneed as Thursday, before the &trial
asset, Mr. Ilesektrie, at the Bell Inn, Wateher. Greet
Wrest we. manifested is the profs...frogs. Thejury having
yawed the bodies, which were thoge44 James Levi,, Saar
Lewis (his wife), Creme Mart, Harry Lerkham, jan.,
Samuel Venn, jun., and Sarah Seymour, Genre Leekttem
deposed to having been one of the party. When the acci-
dent happened the steamer ear lying off front the pier, and
the tide wee coming in. Five er sir ran were engaged in
carrying the pathengors off to the packer. Witnese, hie re
Beery, Seer Seymour (with whore the eon wag keeping
eamessy), end some others, got faro one of them. There
were twelve of them is the beet brides the two Barron.
They hod not got ler wten Ws. Lewis aid they would ell
he drowned. One of the sailors replied, "We shell all be
ere enough." She said she was doubtful of It, and in a ral•
auto or two of er the boar we, swamps', and they all went
down. They were all sitting when the wthir caw. in. Tee
boat appeared ti go down owing ta the weight in it. Whoa
.421.11 Brietid they understood that they would have to be
in bare. Witness was told ihat the boat was sada
Tice fare was Si. Edwin Edward, deposed that he lived at
Brietol, end ear one of the voyagers by the Near Abbey,
wed was ashore at Watch. t, sad cur off in or of rho boats.
After the boat was off the west pretty well for a time,
though there was a heavy era moving. Ono of
the peweegers, a young women, mentioned that
three was some water in the boar, but witness meld
only as •my little. Soon aftwererde nee of the sailors said.
What or be the matter with our boat r After that
she tares bit of a throb on the port aide, and thee smother
os the starboard side, and then eke west right sway from
under them. Three or four pewee a inset wittier's. mackin-
tosh es be was etreiglins in the water, Out he broke away
from them and swam invade the Arse. Tb. boat be wee
in was vary crowded, end he heard a person say that she
had too many per is lam. Before ai.meas *rid rock
the beach, he wee palled sett of the water by mice men in •
beet belonging to the Near Abbey. Toe Inquiry we.
priweediag Thee our reed wee drepalei.
THE DRAMATIC COLLROZ.—We are glad to learn
that, at • meeting of the vitt-wive commit' 'e of the Royal
Dramatie College the charter eflecorenration was preempted,
by virtue of which the present enemies commitre beenem•
the cowbell until the ltd anou .1 meeting, wni-•h will be
held is Iley, 1660. We understend that the wawa will at
wow take Immediate steps for determining the rate of no
collage, and make arreagenilate for laying the foundation
woe, de..—lre.