The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUEStcAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1867.

charge of stealing a hone and cart from his stables, and
suggested that the prisoner might be brought up on the
same day with them, as there warn no doubt he had been in
league with them
Mr. Vaughan asked if there was any legal proof of his
complicity.
Mr. Ball thought not.
Mr. Vaughan said in that cam it would be useless ;hut
the circumstance might be mentioned to the judge before
sentence was plumed. He should commit the prisoner on
both charges to the Central Criminal Court.

CLERKE.NWELL.
SERIOUS CHAROZ OFRTARBING.

Thomas Yorag,,aged 11,rf 3, Mount-Court. Liverpool-
road, an ink maker, was charged before Mr. Barker with
feloniously stabbing Henry Franks in his left arm with a
knife, at Sermon-lane, Islington.
The complainant, who seemed very weak from the
effects of the injury he had received, stated that he re-
sided at 1, Mount Sion, Sermon-lane, Islington, and
yesterday the prisoner swore at him, and he then asked
him what he did so for. Instead of answering him, the
prisoner ran away, and he followed him. The prisoner then
picked up a brick, and on his endeavouring to take hold of
him to prevent him throwing it the prisoner pulled out his
knife and stabbed him in the arm. He lost a great deal of
blood, and was taken to a surgeon, who saw the wound
and sewed it up.
Police-constable George Reyden, 78 N, said from infor-
mation he received he took the prisoner into custody, at
his residence, andon tzlling him the charge,and asking him
where the knife was he said he bad thrown it away. He
took the prosecutor to the surgeon, who said
that the wound was a dangerous one, and remarked that
if it had been two inches higher up he would have bled
to death in less than twenty minutes. The knife had gone
quite through the flesh of the arm, having come out of the
other side. . .

The prisoner, who treated the matter with the greatest
indifference, said be had no defence to make at present.
Mr. Barker remanded the prisoner to the House of De-
tention, and refused to take
The prisoner was removed laughing.
SOU'rHWARTS.
ELOPEMZET AND ROBBERY.

William Sower 4G, Trtelasui at the bar before Mr.
Woolryoh, charged with • a writing-desk, containing
twenty-nine sovereigns, and other property, belonging to
Robert Kent. Mr. Edwin appeared for the awaited.
The facts appeared in the Express of Tuesday last.
Other evidence of a confirmatory nature having been
given, the magistrate committed the prisoner for trial.

THE HOLBORN Vienucrr.—At the Lord Mayor's
Court yesterday, • compensation case, " Walton v. the
Corporation of London," was not concluded till nearly half-
past 6 o'clock. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Horace Lloyd,
and Mr. Legard, were for the claimant Mr. Charles Wal-
ton, wine merchant, in the Fan-intim-road, whose pre-
mises were required for the Holborn alley improvements.
The ease was heard before the Common Serjeant and •
special jury. The claim, as appeared from the precept,
was just over 42,0001., and was made up of various items.
The jury went to view the property, and on their ref tun
the ease was opened by the Solicitor-General, who called
witnesses in support of the claim. and afterwards summed
up the evidence. Mr. Hawkins addressed the jury on
behalf of the Corporation, suggesting that about 21,0001.
would satisfy tee justice of the case. The Common Ser-
jeant went through the evidence, and left the question of
compensation to the jury. After an absence of half anhour
they gave a verdict for 243,1168/.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. —On Saturday evening a
lad tamed James Fossey, aged 16 years, the son of •
pawnbroker and salesman, carrying on a large business in
Salmon-lane, Limehouse, made • determined attempt to
commit suicide on the Blackwell Railway. He went down
the line by the half-past 7 o'clock train from London,
came out at the Limahouse station, and remained on
the platform. On the arrival of the next train, •
quarter of an hour afterwards, he raised his arms and
deliberately threw himself on the line in front of the
engine. No one expsciA to sae him alive again, but,
singularly enough he escaped the rails, and the wheels and
tender never touched him. The 'Amin under the engine
caught his body and twirled it over and over until the
Lain was brouget to a stand. He was lifted, dreadfully '
injured, from the line and conveyed by Mr. Barry, an in-
spector of police in the service of the Great Eastern Rail-
way Company, to the London Hospital. On examination
it was ascertained that both bis leas were fractured, and
amputation followed soon afterwards. Yesterday on Mr.
Barry making inquiries at the hospital, he was informed
that the lad was going on favourably, and that he was
likely to recover. Young Foney was in the employ of •
silveremith in the city, with whom he quarrelled on the,
day of his attempted suicide. At home he was described
as a lad of morose and stubborn temper.
MELANCHOLY Accumarr.—Grest sorrow hasfallen
upon the family of Mr. Dennis, of Billericay, caused by
the untimely death of his youngest son, aged 22—an
amiable young man of considerable method talents--
while out rook shooting at Wrexham, Deubighabire, on
Saturday, the 18th instant. He had been appointed or-
ganist at St. Mark's Church, Wrexham, last autumn,
and had gained the esteem of • large circle of friends in
that town, and also of his clergyman, the Rev. J. C.
Roberts, who writes in the highest terms of his character
and conduct. On the above day he had the permission
of the Rev. T. Williams, of Birse, to shoot in • rookery
on the glebe lands at Birse, and took a friend with him,
about 6 o'clock in the evening, hoping to secure some
rooks to take with him to London, where be was going on
the Monday. He had shot about half-a-do:en, and climbed
up • high beech tree to disturb some from their nests for
his friend to shoot ; but having ventured too far along
a bough in the dusk he fell from • height of 50 or 60 feet
upon his head and shoulders. He wee taken up insensible
and conveyed in the Rev. T. Williams' carriage to Wrex-
ham Infirmary, and thence to his own rooms, where two
medical men attended him. Everything was done to
relieve him, but in vein; he did not rally, and died about
10 o'clock. An inquest was held on the body on the fol-
lowing Monday, and the July returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental death."—]roes Herold

STNOI7LAR CHARGE 07,BICIANIT.—At the Derby
Borough Police-court, yesterday, before the mayor and
other magistrates, • respectable-looking woman, named
Fanny Taylor, wool brought up on a warrant charged with
bisamy, she having married on the 15th October, 1869,
Jarvis Humnston, her former husband, David Taylor, • pri-
vate in the 68th Regiment, being still alive. Mr. W. Briggs,
who appeared for the accused, said when the magistrates
heard the facts of the ease they would dismiss the charge.
Prisoner, when only 19 years old, got married to Taylor
in the year 1862, he being then a private in the let Derby
Militia. After they had been married some time, Taylor
deserted her, and volunteered into the line, and she heard
no more of him until he bad been gone about three years
when his sister came to the .soner as she was leaning
m
work at • mill, and tald her that her husband (Taylor)
had been killed at the explosion of • powder mlii in
India. That was in the year 1858, and in 1859 she got
acquainted with Jarvis Humpeton, a respectable man, and
contracted • second marriage. They had since lived on
terms of peat affection, and bad had several children.
The first husband (Taylor), after an absence of fourteen
years, turns up again' used threats to the accused, has
her apprehended, and now maks the mmdstretes.to com-
mit her on the charge of bigamy. Taking into considers.
tion all the circumstances of the care, he apprehended the
int:ra would discharge Mrs. Taylor. A circumstance
at:our was that when she was married to Humpston
she then described henelf as bent • widow. The first
husband appeared in court to prosecute, and produced
his marriage certificate, he having married the accused
at St. Alkmund's Church, Derby' on the 14th De-
cember, 1852. He also said that, after be volunteered
into the army, his wife lived with hitn for some
time at the Sheffield barracks, and also at Weedon, and
that when the regiment was ordered for India she spent 10
days with him at Shorncliffe. She also drew It. 1811. from
Captain Balguy which was due to him when he left the
militia, and whilst in India he sent her money regularly.
In the year 1858 he sent her 21. Os. 105., but in 1859 he
heard she was married again, and he not her no more
money. He arrived from India on the 27th April last.
The bench remanded the accused.

Tee WEATHER AND Till CROPS.—The weather
of the past fortnight has greatly checked the progress of
vegetation of every description, whilst in many instances
it has done a good deal of damage. Fruit tress of all de-
scriptions have suffered more or less, and the young
potato haulm has in many exposed situations been cut off
and blackened. In fact a further recurrence of the ex.
treme cold must have been productive of really onion. con-
sequences. It is to be hoped that the present agreeable
change is an indication that we have at length taken leave
of our long dragging winter and spring, and that we have
at last entered upon a steady COIII.IO of summer weather.
The meadows and gram lands are looking well,
and will now, no doubt, make grass rapidly. The amounts
of the wheat and spring crop, are budiv so satisfactory as
a fortnight syo, as the cold winds and trods have affected
them, and the wheats have in many places begun to look
yellow and ripped. Carmine summer temperature, how-
ever, would speedily rectify matters, as there appears to
be no reason for believing that any important damage has
yet been done. From the hop district. our reports, most
of which were written on Saturday, previous to the favour-
able change in the temperature, spelt of the check given
by the late sharp frosts and cold winds, and of injury to
the head of the'bine. The old enemies, dy and lea, have
as usual put inan appearance ; hut as yet not to any serious
extent. The change of temperature sines Saturday night
is, of course, greatly in favour of the plant, but hops are
now entering on that particular_ plume of their precarious
life, when their progress is daily watched with mach
anxiety.—Sumez Adrertierr.
THZ TOOTH OF A MAIIMOTH.—A large fossil lump
of gli• lower maxilla of a mammoth has been discovered
in Nottingham. A labourer, named Edwin Cox, was at
work in St. Michael-street, exeavatirg some sandstone
rock, when he came upon • stonelike piece of substance
which greatly surprised him. Having picked it up be put
it aside, and it was banded over to the members of the
Nottingham Thilevephleal llacietv, by whom it has bees
examined with much interest. The centre of the stump
is greatly woe aby most int mastication, but the enamel
lines of the series of pinders are very and clear.
The tooth was found in the and deft 8 fest gin. below
the surface; it weighs about 411 b., and would form a
creditable addition to say anise= ia the kingdom.