The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-28 00:00:00

CONVICTION OF A POLICE-CONSTABLE FOR AN ASSAULT.

James "mem, a police-constable, No. 71 K. 111.10eu141
before Mr. Benson on a summons, charged with assaulting
Mrs. Mary Ann Rogers, of No. 8, Totnes.temce, Lime-
house, on Saturday night last.
The complainant, who is the wife of a tradesman and
the mother of five children, said she was passing along
Three Colt-street, Limehouse, and while standing on the
footpath, opposite the Victoria public-house, the defendant
came out and laid hold of her. He pushed her violently
and she fell on her face and was insensible for some time
afterwards. She had just before purchased two breasts
of mutton and lost both.
In answer to the defendant the witness said she was
quite sober and that she was not at the Victoria public-
house at all on Saturday night.
Mrs. Jane Sklllerton, of No. R, Totnes-terrace, said
the defendant shoved her friend. and told her she was a
nasty drunken The complainant's face was covered
with blood, and she was one mass of blood. Mrs. Rogers
was not in the Victoria public-house at all.

lu answer to a atueutio'n by the defendant, the witness
acid-1 think any friend was the worse for drink.

Mary Alice Ll'e, a servant girl, saw the defendant take
bold of the wOllllllll, by the neck and push her. There was
a bruise on her forehead when she was raised from the
ground. Mrs. Rogers appeared to be quite sober.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said the com-
plainant was in the Victoria public-house with others at
half-past 10 o'clock on Saturday night, and making a dis-
turbance. He put her out of the house, and she slipped
and fell. She was very drunk.
Three witnesses were called for the defence, who ear
tradicted each other in several material particulars.
Mr. Benson said he was of opinion the assault was
proved. He had given the case his most serious attentioc.
One of the defendant's witnesses said he did not push the
woman out of the Public-house. The defendant himself
admitted he did push her out. Another witness for the
defence said the womanlwas not in the public-house at all.
If a man brought witnesses to purjure themselves he must
take the consequences. There was not a doubt in the
world that the defendant committed the 'assault upon the
woman. He saw no reason to disbelieve the witne-ses fee
the prosecution. The punishment he was about to indict
would be a light one, but quite sufficient without aggra-
vating it by a heavy pecuniary fine. He sentenced the
defendant to pay a penalty of ss.
The money was paid.
GREENWICH.
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Susan Morton, aged M, was brought up on remand,
before Mr. Trail, charged with stealing a NW. Bank of
England note, belonging to Mr• Martha Loiter, a widow,
of New-street, Deptford.
The proeecutrix said the prisoner was in her service,
and on leaving home for the country she left the
prisoner in charge of the house. Atthat time she bad •
501. Bank of England note, which, together with a receipt
she put inside three envelopes, which were placed at the
bottom of • box, but not locked up. She remained in the
country about a month, and, on returning, the envelopes
and receipt were found between the bedding on which the
prisoner slept, but the 501. note was missing.
Alfred John Hudson, foreman to Mr. Davis, pawnbroker,
of Evelyn.strAt. Deptford, said the prisoner brought • 501.
Bank of England note to the shop, and said she wanted
some money. Not knowing the prisoner himself, having
been only • short time in his situation, he informed Mr.
Davis, who said he had known the prisoner for years. The
prisoner said she did not went change for the note, only
a few shillings loan upon it, and witness advanced her 10s.
Two days afterwards the prisoner again Game to the shop,
and maid she wanted some more money, and another sum
of 10s. wee advanced. On coming again in two days,
and wanting more money, Mr. Davis refused no let
her have any, and asked her where she obtained the
note from. the prisoner replied that she had had it by
her for twelve months. Mr. Davis then told the prisoner
he would pay the note into his bankers in order to ascer-
tain whether payment of it had been stopped at the Bank
of England, telling prisoner she could call again. The note
was paid by Mr. Davis to his banker sad hearing nothing
for two days afterwiusis it was concluded all was right, and
the prisoner was subsequently paid other sums.
Mr. Trail—How much money has the prisoner had alto-
gether epos the note?
The witness-45/. in about five weeks.
Mr. Traill—This is very incautious conduct, to my the
least. on the part of Mr. Davis to advance 4.1 f. upon •
Rink of England note to • person in the condition of life
of the prisoner.
The witnene—The prisoner gave her right name an

awl her statement was she wanted the money to
•:,11 house to let out in lodgings.
I.l,TrAll—All I can lay is the pratecutrix has Mr.
111 to blame for the low she has sustained.
t-on, a plain clothes constable, who took the pri•
into custody. said the prisoner had taken a house at
;:, ti..nl sod furnished it.
fhe prisoner denied stealing the note, and said she
. it up near her mistress's house.
Traill committed the prisoner for trial at the next
• sessions.

siNCKING TREATMENT OF A DYING MAN.

Mr. Richards, the deputy-coroner, held an

8 Loaf , „airy .ot night, at the ugarTavern, Church-
‘t. Mile-end New.town, touching the death of John
?I:a ray, aged Ali
years.
Murray, the widow of the deceased, said—Last
• 14,t I clept in the street. I had no home. My husband
a fellowship porter, and he had bought the freedom
• tat: City cf London. lie got consumption, and lost
I, k. Nine weeks ago the doctor told him to go into
ti. workhouse. We went into the Whitechapel Union,
1 prayed very much to come out. He had worked
.4 he could, and he sold paper hats made out of
t' .• rims of paper-hangings, for a penny each in the streets.
1k could hardly creep about. When in the workhouse be
Anne, 111 newel die here." I said, "You shan't."
.1 6,• doctor said, " lie is not fit to move." He came out
en Tuesday.
Coroner-- You brought him out to die in the street.
Witness -He had his wish. I should have had it on
1.. y conscience if he had died in a workhouse. We went
to Ift. I korge-street, Spitallields. We went to bed. At
I o'clock he woke up and said, " Anne, pray for me.
live we a light." Ile died shortly after.
Tao witness wan cross-examined, and she admitted that
a'. n she and her husband left the "house," they went to
a t_,vem and spent cal. out of Is. lid. that they had. She
but also refused to put a mustard poultice on her husband
when a doctor ordered it. She said, ' What is the use of
putting a plaster on a dying man. He is nothing but bars
houo sus:,
. . .

A pulice sergeant said he knew the witawn as an habi-
tual druukard.

A jar r said that she used to go into publicdicaumes and
r.,1l for .pints, and then rush out and pay for them.
ste but been imprisoned fur drunkenness.
Edwin l'erry, deputy at the lodging-house, said that the
aV aan was drunk when her husband was dying. She
34noyed him very much, and although be was dying he
took up a shovel to try and defend himself. He struck
ter three times. After her husband's death she remained
up until the public-houses opened.
Margaret Sennett said that when the deceased was
dying he cried out to his wife, " For God's sake leave me
alone ; let me die in peace." She would not let him lie
and he was compelled to strike her.
►lr. S. Syer, surgeon, proved that the deceased died
from inflammation of the lungs. He ought not to have
icon taken out of the workhouse.

The coroner addressed the wife and said, "You have
helped your husband into the grave. You leave the court
dis;race to your sex, and if you do not give up your
la.astly propensity for drink you will either end your life
by suicide or you will go to the gallows." He then told
the jury that he thought it would be useless for them to
formally censure a wretch of that kind.
The jury returned a verdict of "Death from inflamma-
tion of the lungs."

ATTEMPT TO I,PERT THE LIMITED MAIL
NEAR WIGAN.

Yesterday morning, at the Bounty police-court,
Iloothalls, Wigan, Michael Flatly, a navvy, a stranger in
the town, was charged with placing an obstruction on the
London and North Western Railway, in the township of
Ince, with intent to upset the limited mail. The charge
was not gone into, as inspector Peters, who had only taken
the prisoner into custody at midnight, applied for a
remand, which was granted.
The offence, which was committed last Sunday evening,
was of a most diabolical character, and it is satisfactory to
know that the information in the possession of the police
goes far to bring home the crime to the man in custody.
between 10 and 11 on the evening named Flatly and
another man rambling with a workman named Herne
in the neighbourhood of the spot where the recent
attempts were made to throw the down mail off the
line, just outside the boundary of the borough of Wigan,
when Flatly and his companion resolved to have a
" good jump," and with that intention they placed
one of the heavy sleepers which was lying in the road
acmes the up line, and then two others on the top of
it at right angles to hold it in its place. Herne remon-
strated with the men for committing so das:ardly an act,
and he removed the obstruction but the fellows threatened
him with personal violence if he interfered, and he left
them, moving oil in the direction of Wigan, as they were
replacing the sleepers. He had not gone far before he was
overtaken by the prisoner,who informed him with glee that
he had not only refixed the three, but added a fourth. All
the men came on to Wigan, and Herne seized the first
opportunity of writing a note to the station-master, in.
forming him that an obstruction had been placed on the
lane somewhere between Wigan and St. Helen's, informa-
tion too vague to be acted upon, and received too late to
prevent the pas-age of the limited mail over the dangerous
spot, even had the precise locality been pointed out.
Ever since the late outrages two men have been kept
on the look out nightly at this part of the line, and
it was not thought possible that any fresh attempt would
be made there. The up mail, which passes through Wigan
without stopping, is due soon after half-past 11, and on
Sunday night it appears to have passed about the usual
time at full speed nod, happily, in safety, though how it
reaped snot have been next to miraculous. The follow-
ing morning the person whose duty it is to inspect the line
between \I man and Spring's Branch was unable to explain
several indications which he met with, and it was not until
they were led by the light of the letter received the previous
evening that it was discovered bow narrowly a terrible acci-
dent had been escaped. About 150 yards on the south
of the place where the engine was thrown off the rails
a few months ago by miscreants not yet detected two
sleepers were found lying in the up line parallel
with the rails, while a short distance away was a
tbird sleeper, one end of which had been chopped
elf, while at the other end was a mark which had evi-
dently been made by the life-guard placed in front of the
wheelie( the engine. The position of the sleepers showed
pretty plainly that the one which bad been first placed on
the rails had fortunately been the first caught by the
engine, which had driven it from its position before the fire-
box reached the couple placed on the top, and these
dropped quietly to the ground harmless. Had they pro-
jected a little further it is believed nothing could rive the
train from destruction, as the oollision with the fire-box
would have thrown the engine off the rails at once. But
Flatly mentioned to Herne that be had added • fourth
sleeper to the others, and there were indications along the
road that 1b.., had been carried for three-quarters of a mile
in feint of the engine until at Spring's Branch it had
been caught by a wing rail, which splintered a piece from
one end and threw it over so as to project into the six.
foot, which was ploughed op a little for some 30 or 40
rude, and then luckily the engine threw aside the last of
the obstruction. It is most remarkable that, so far as is
known, neither engine-driver nor passengers appear to
have been aware of any impediment to their progress.
The police were promptly communicated with, and,
having heard Herne's statement, they kept a sharp look-out
for Flatly, whom they succeeded in apprehending at mid-
night on Thursday. His &winter:it in this diabolical " fun"
de, it is believed, left the neighbourhood. Both men
I ,ve been employed for • short time in the construction
tf a ram at the works of the Wigan Coal sad Iron
Company.

THE RECTOR OF TCRWE9TON AND THE Doo.
Ile following appears in the Times:—" exagge-
rated report appeared in your impression of Monday hut
of a ease that was helrfl by the magistrates in petty
sessions at Buckingham, and as I have received a number
of letters on the subject I must ask you to have the kind-
ters insert my explanation of the transaction. I bad
fora length of time been annoyed by the flog frequenting
prandays, and I thought the application of a small
quantity of turpentine applied on the back might cause
Liu' a moderate amount of pain and prevent his annoying
rein futon ; a thrashing, I believed at the time and
Lelia., now would have caused much more pain, and
nobody wonld have thought of accusing me of cruelty for
that. The evidence of the veterinary surgeon was that
iirpentine would canoe pain and irritation, but that the
rfeet would pass off in an hone. As to the statement that
the owner feared the dog was mad, it was certainly so stated
by the oofinsel for the society, but there was not a word of
Proof of it ; on the contrary, the owner's daughter stated
that though the dog ' hallooed' when he came home, he
Kan became quiet, and slept in the house. I am cer-
tainly sorry that I used the turpentine at all, as
the action has exposed me to be the 'object of so
much exaggeration; but I did not do it with the slightest
nitration of torturing the animal, as I was particularly
careful not to allow it to touch any tender parts. I simply
wished to scare the dog away without doing him any real
M_y own unconsciousness of evil may appear from
the fact of my own statement being the chief evidence
against rce ; and it could not have been considered a bad
ease even by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, as the secretary offered to withdraw from the
prosecution on the morning of the day when the case was
beard by the magistrates; but to this I could not consent,
HP character having been, as I thought, so unjustly as-
aaded.—l caw, Ina, W. VARLET.—Turweston, Bucks,
bstd. 2f1."
WE IN THE FAR WEET.--SAlf. VANCE SHOT.
—Tbi.lnan, well known in Nevada, where he bore a bad
Rotation, was shot at Austin, August 3. The Reese
r R,eeille gives the following particulars :—" Vance
antetel the Bank Exchange saloon, and seeing Irish Tom
stsndiug outside he asked him to drink with him. The
latter refused, saying he bad enough. Vans* replied,
you don't drink, I'll take a shot at yen," and drawing
a derringer pistol, he tired at but missed Irish Tom. Tom
instantly drew his revolver and fired at Vance, but the
boa missed him and lodged in the jamb of the door. Vance
was caught by officer Marshall as Torn fired the second
shot. The ball took effect in the lower part of the fib-
dotuen, and indicted a dangerous if not a mortal wound.—
rosette fifer.

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning the Board of Trade returns for
the month ending August 31 were issued. The fol-
lowing shows the declared value of the exports of
British and Irish produce and manufactures for the
month of August in the last three years :
August. 1865 E17,450,4,158,648
„ 1866
„ 1867

It will be seen from this statement that the ex-
port trade again exhibits a large increase over the
corresponding period of last year.
The comparison between the first eight months
to which the returns extend is as follows :
Night months, 1867, 1:102,400,096
1866 125,263,820
Of 1867

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.

(THIS DAY.)

This afternoon, the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, alder-
men, and other members of the corporation of London as-
sembled in the Guildhall for the purpose of electing •
Lord Mayor of London for the ensuing year, in the room
of Alderman Sir Thomas Gabriel, Bart., whose year of
office will expire on the Bth of November next.
The members of the Corporation proceeded in state to
the church of St. Michael, where prayers were read and a
sermon preached. by the Rev. J. Russell Stock, M.A.,
of St. Joan's College, Cambridge, rector of Allhallows,
Thames-street. . .

After service the Lord Mayor and aldermen proceeded
to the hustings at the eastern end of the Guildhall, when
the rewly-elected sheriffs (Mr. Alderman Stone and Mr.
W. M'Arthur), in virtue of their office, presided over the
election of the future chief magistrate.
Shortly afterwards the names of those aldermen who
have served the office of sheriff, and who alone are eligible
to fill the office of Lord Mayor, had been announced, the
Lard Mayor and aldermen retired, so that the freedom of
election might not be interfered with.
The livery returned Mr. W. F. Allen and Mr. J. C.
Lawrence, two aldermen below the chair, and their
names were communicated to the Court of Alder-
men, who, in the course of a few minutes, reentered the
hall and formed in procession, declaring that the election
had fallen on Alderman Allen, who will be Lord Mayor
for the year 1'467-8.
The announcement was received with cheers, and the
Lord Mayor elect briefly thanked his fellow citizens for the
honour they had conferred on him.