The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-25 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

BOW-STREET.
We have received thdiollowiag note :
TO Til BDITOZ OF TUX =PRIM

" Sin,—l shall feel obliged by your allowing ine, through
your columns, to say that I am not the Mr. Valiance men-
tkaisd in your report of proceedings at the Bow-street Police
Court, which appears in your impression of yesterday—
I ass, kb., HENRY VALLANCR.
" 20, Bows-Street, Strand, London, March 24."
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
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wow melte ago.
It will be unaeoesesry to go into the evidenoe, es the
ja=t Iliabodied the merit. of the caw and the garden
Mr. Beeden—ln the eras of " The Vestry of Bt. Georges,
Ha .pear', v. the creepier of 2, liwtford- 'west," heard
Wore >ie shoal Ave weeks woos, the vestry sought teeaeoer
hos the dallswdrat a am of money expanded by then seder
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mount wee the wet, and the fiend and no-
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as it is I think the cue upon the notice before me a very far
stronger one. The only notice in this wee was served on
September 12, 1867, and directed the work to be done in
seven days. It was not done, and the vestry then went in
and perfenned the work under the 85th section of the
Local Management Act, for the Nuisances Removal Act
give' no ,orit to inter in such a case as this, except in
the event of the of an order of justices, and here
there has been no order of justices. (The magistrate here
read the notice.) Now the first thing that strikes me upon
reeding this notice is, that it states that a nuisance exists at
No. 2, Hertford-street. If that is so than the Local Manage-
ment Act cannot apply; and after directing certain things to
be done, the notice continnee—" so that the aforesaid pre-
mime shall not be a nuisance and injurious to health," words
which peculiarly •pp y to the Nuisances Removal Act, and
not to the Local t Act. Again, what IS to be
done, "to properly connect drainage from nicest on drat
landing into WWI, and make a good wall r' the
power to order whiff; I can no where find in the Man-
agement Ara. lam therefore of opinion that the notion
is bad not only for duplicity, and thereby tending to
mislead the defendant, but is also bad es a nodes under the
Local Management Act, if intended to be used asench. The
judgment must, therefore, be for the defendant. I would
here strongly recommend the perusal of the judgment of
vice-Chancellor Stuart and the LordsJuatiLra bathe Wand.-
worth ow to all boards constituted under the Lxel Manage-
meat Aot. Now one question still remains as to costa,
and bad it not been for the benefit accruing to the defen-
dant in this case I should have given them; but I feel cer-
tain that • nuisance existed which required abating, and that
hes bens done without any cost to defendant.
Oa behalf of the parish authorities, Mr. Chappell said the
effect of the judgment appeared to be that aummonace ought
to be lama oat under the Removal of Nuisances Act.
Mr. Hoodoo said it unquestionably was so.
Mr. Chappell replied that wse very important, as a guide
to other parishes in simile: ciscomotonon.

WESTMINSTER.
A women, who gave her name Sarah Sullivan, but who is
known by a number of aliases, wee re-examined, charged
with frauds upon the benevolent.
She was apprehended and remanded upon the charge of
obtaining 6!. from Lady Astley, by pretending that her hua-
band bad just died in the Consumption Hospital, and, sa she
was obliged by the regulations of the establishment to re-
move the body directly, she wanted money for the funeral.
She gave her name on that ocoadon as Mrs. Andrews.
Lord Ilchaster's valet proved that the prisoner tome to the
house on the 31st of January with • similar story, in the
name of Chubb, representing herself is • native of Dorset.
She entreated a letter might be written to the secretary of
the Consumption Hospital to permit the body to remain a
day or two, until abe could procure money topsy the ex-
penses of interment. She was favoured with the letter, but
returned In an hour or so in great apparent grief, with an
answer purporting to come from an official at the hospital,
stating that he could not take upon himself the responsibility
of allowing the body to remain. His lordship then gave her
61. for the funeral expenses, which she waa to restore in a day
or two.

Mr. T. Fish Marion, solicitor, Southwark, said the pri-
soner came to him about the cod of October, in the name of
Brown, of Rickraanaworth, Hertfordshire. Bhe said ahe
ante up to town every Friday to see her husband, and that
day found he had died; in ocrifirmation of which she pro-
duced a printed certificate. Her husband, who bad been
taken into the hospital on the recommendation of Lord
Ebury—caust be removed that day, and she had no money
with her. If she could get a letter from a governor the body
might remain till the next day, and, thinking Mr.
sea., might be a governor. she had come to him. 8111=11
she had found an undertaker who would bury her husband
for 61., with half the money down, and at her earnest entreaty
he advanced her 31.

Mr. Robert Olean, of Bydenhani. said that on the 9th of
October the prisoner called at his offices, 31, H
sad described herself as Mrs. Brown, widow oferca4t=
that name, who hod worked for him at Sydenham, sad look-
ing familiarly at him said, " Don't you know me f" He was
taken off his guard by her samutones and plausibility, sad
lent her 11.65. which she was to bring him that night. Hs
went home, narrated the death of Cooper Brown to his fa-
mily, and on going out for a walk the first person, to his
great astonishment, whom he met was the cooper himself.
He then found a similar trick had been played by a person of
prisoner's deacriptioa a week before.
William Henry Throbald, a clerk at the Conaumption
Hospital, proved that all the deaths spoken of by the prisoner
were fabulous.

Hertford, chief officer of the Mendicity Society, had a list
showing that the prisoner had been committed seven times
for three months, one for ten weeks, once for a month, and,
lastly, for mix months, for similar frauds, which she generally
committed in a thick black veil in order to baffle identity.
Mr. Poynter regretted that benevolent persons parted
with their money without making some inquiry, and re-
manded the primmer for another case to be preferred spinet
bar.