The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-15 00:00:00

(Before IKr. Cornmiesioner Kerr.)

Thomas William Turner, 25 cook, Junes Atkins, 20,
engineer, and James &lam, 16, labourer, were indicted
for stealing • purse, containing a key and the sum of
2a. gd., from the person of Jane Moore, and Tumor was
further charred with unlawfully asmulting and cruelly
ill-treating William Wines, a constable of the City pollee,
in the execution of his duty.
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Mr. Poland, instructed Dr the City solicitor, conducted
the prosecution, and the prisoner Turner was defended by
Mr. Leigh, and the other two prisoners by Kr. Straight.
William Wines, a plain clothes constable of the City
police, was on duty at the corner of Princes-street, oppo-
site the Mansion-house, about 7 o'clock in the evening of
the Bth May last, when he observed the three prisoners,
who were well kno • n to him, pursuing their avocations.
At last the prosecutrix, Mrs. Moore, alighted from an om.
album, when the prisonerßendon abstracted from her pocket
her purse and hooded it to the prisoner Atkins, the pri-
soner Turner "covering " them during the operation.
The constable attempted to secure Atkins and Bendon,
when Turner seized him by the throat, struck him violently
on the head and face, threw him down, and in the course
of a struggle which continued for several minutes inflicted
such injuries upon one of his eyes that for a length of
time it was doubtful whether or not he would lows the
sight of it. In addition to this he received injuries which
rendered him a patient to the police surgeon for several
weeks. The case of the robbery and assault was proved
by the omnibus conductor, a newsboy, and an intelligent
lad, a messenger attached to one of the telegraph com-
panies, all of whom spoke to the apathetic indifference
with which the bystanders looked on at the struggle
between the officer and his brutal assailant, Turner.
The jury found all the prisoners Guilty.
Warder Ater, from the Holloway prison, proved five
former convictions against Turner, and eight other con-
victions against him were proved by Warder Reeves of the
Middlesex House of Correction and by Mr. Mellor, of the
Kent police ; Reeves proving an incarceration of 18
months, and the latter an imprisonment of two yearsin
Maidstone gaol. Previous convictions were also proved
against the other two prisoners.
Mr. Commissioner Kerr sentenced Atkins and Bendon
to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour, and Turner
to 14 years' penal servitude. The Commissioner also
directed 5/. to be paid to Wines, the officer, as a compen-
sation for the injuries he had receive.), and expressed a
hope that his meritorious, service would be subetin-
Holly recognised by other authorities.

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6.40 a.m. yesterday morning an accident of • serious
nature occurred at Windloy, near Duffield, close to
the Puss in Boots Inn, at the same place where a boy
named Henry Booth war killed three weeks since, on the
railway between Duffield and Wirksworth. It appears
that the workmen employed in constructing the line
were proceeding to their work in a truck which was
propelled by an engine, and some person, at present
unknown, haring maliciously placed a deeper across
the line about 10 yards from the points caused the
truck to be turned over, thereby injuring the whole of its
occupants, in number about 30, the sleeper being un-
observed by the driver, owing to the truck being placed
in front of the engine. Medical assistance was mime-
disiely sent for, and five of the men were taken to the
Derbyshire Infirmary, one of them having his collar bone
broken, and another his jaws broken ; it was found n
to amputate the arm of the third at the elbow ; rtoTria
had to have his finger taken off, and the fifth was cut and
hruired all over his body. The names of the five men
brought to the hospital are Henry Dough' Thos. Wil-
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<crowed being hurt, but the others were ordered to their
homes. Most of the injured persons were middle-aged
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