The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-24 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

N. Louis Otero, described as • solicitor. • native of
Monte Video, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with im-
proper conduct, by bathing in the Serpentine daring the
prohibited hours.
It a that Y. Otero, whose mind is said to be
&Sected, left Spain maidenly on the 11th inst., upon which
his friends communicated with the police authorities of
this country, forwarding also a description of him. Yes-
terday Sergeant Horsley, 64 A, seeing a person bathing in
the Serpentine, Hyde•park, about 10 o'clock—the hours for
bathing of a rning between 6 and B—vent up to
him, and told him was prohibited at that hour,
and took him into y ; and afterwards finding he
answered the description of the gentleman missing, com-
municated with • gentleman who knew M. oWro, and
found that it was him.

The gentleman n, who was introduced by Inspector
Hindi+, of the D division. having made a statement to the
above effect,
Mr. Tyrwhttt said be considered the beat Bonne that
could be adopted would be to remand the prisoner for •
few days.
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WBSTMINSTIGH.

Lake White, alabisitzTr,ZiiicalTea with basting his
wife.

Complainant said she lived at 26, Georgealrest, Chelsea.
On Saturday night the defendant, when he came home
beat her without any provocation, and gave her the injuries
she at present exhibited (her face was much swollen and
she wore a bandage over the left eye).
Mr. Selfe—What occurred before he alma you?
Complainant—Nothing whatever.
Mr. Selfe—No words?
Complainant—None. I was in bed with my little child
when he came home.
Defendant—She fell out of bed. That is how ohs hurt
her face.

Complainant—l did not. I found he was drunk when
be came, and I got up and sat on the edge of the bedstead,
when he came and struck me.
Mr. Selfe—He has been here before.
Complainant—That was not for beating me ; that wee
for cruelty to animals.
' The poce li explained that defendant bad been driver to
a contractor named O'Connor, the condition of whose
cattle turd been the repeated subjectof magisterial inquiry.
Defendant said his wife bad her faults, and pawned his
things. She had pledged his shirt leaf week.
Complainant admitted It, but said she was driven to
that course to procure food. He left her without a far.
thing while he got drunk with his earnings. Complainant
said be wan ber second husband. She had only been mar-
ried to him ten months, and berme six weeks from the
time he beat her severely. He frequently got drunk for
four or five days at a time.
Mr. Selfe committed him for one month to hard labour
in the House of Correction.
SOITTHWARB._
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Isaac Stephens, 17 ,;•;placed et the bar charged with
dealing fire handkerchiefs from the shop door of Mr.
Trewby, draper, at the corner of the Waterloo-read sad
the New-ant._

appeared from the evidence of a guard in the employ
of the South Eastern Railway company that between 9 and
10 o'clock at night be was pp
H Mr. Trewby'e shop,
where there were, among other , a number of bend-
kerchiefs exposed outside for e. eMr the prisoner
deliberately snatch some of the latter, and pot them under
kis coat, and was about to ran off with them, when witness
caught hold of him and detained him until the owner came,
and he was given into custody.
The magistrate strongly condemned the practice of shop-
' keepers in exposing their goods outside the shop without
ashy proteation.
One of the prosecutor's assistants aimed his worship
that every precaution was taken. A lad was employed
specially to look out, and the primmer must have stopped
until his back was earned.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, stating Qat howas "ay
hoed up, cc Ye mid mot have bass Ara