The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-12 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

The person who refused his name and address, charged with
exposing obscene photographs at the Alhambra, Leicester-
square, was again brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt.
On the prisoner being placed at the bar, he gave the
name of George Chambers.
After hearing the evidence, Mr. Tyrwhitt committed
the prisoner for three months, with hard labour.
Colonel Peach Hicks, of Southwick-crescent, Hyde-park,
an officer in the Italian service, appeared before Mr. Tyr-
whitt to answer a summons taken out by Colonel George
Knox, of the Soots Fusiliers, residing in Wilton-place, for
an assault. There was a cross summons against Colonel'
Knox for assaulting Colonel Hicks.
Lieutenant Colonel George Knox, of the Soots Fusiliers,
examined—About 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, the 2nd
June I was riding from Hyde-park-gate across the drive
to Rotten-row, when I found a string of carriages going
towards Albert-gate from the Marble Arch. On seeing a
convenient opening I tried to passthrough. Colonel Hicks,
who was driving a waggonette sad pair, drove deliberately
on to me. I put np my whip hand to check the near horse
and to save myself from being knocked down and run over.
Col. Hicks, whohad twoladies in the waggonette, struck at
me several times with his whip. I was struck several
times and also my mare. I was struck on the back. I
rode after Colonel Hicks, and asked him for his name.
Colonel Hicks refused to give it me, and tried to jam me
in with the other carriages. I passed him, and requested
a police-conetabletoget me the name. A constable spoke to
Colonel Hicks, and Colonel Hicksaaid, "I shall notgive my
name ; what is his name!" The constable afterwards got
the name, but with difficulty.
This last statement having been confirmed by the con-
stable, Mr. Gould, late of the Buffs, Sir Edward Turner,
of the Conservative Club, and Mr. George Cooke, of the
Conservative Club, bystanders, who witnessed the occur-
rence, gave evidence which entirely bore out the statement
of Colonel Knox..

Mr. Tyrwhitt then went over the evidence carefully
and said on the whole he was bound to say that the
balance of testimony was entioely in favour of Colonel
Knox, the parties who gave that testimony being quite
impartial, and of the first respectability in life. With
regard to the penalty, heapprehended there was no wish to
inflict any pecuniary suffering cn the defendant, the object
of Colonel Knox being to show that he had not been guilty
of an ungentlemanly act, and that having been insulted he
had resorted to a public court for redress.

Mr. Cooper begged to say that if any penalty was in-
flicted, and it could be so appropriated, his client desired
that it might he placed in the poor box.
Mr. Tyrrwhitt said his opinion being that Colonel Knox
was right in what he bad done, he should inflict a penalty
of 3!. on Colonel Flicks.

The penalty was immediately paid, and the other sum
MODS thMll. _

LAMBETH.

Mary Wheeler, a respectable-looking young woman, and
who bad been in custody since Saturday-night week, was
brought up on remand, and charged before Mr. Elliott, on
a charge of stealing a shawl, the property of Mrs. Jane
Grinsley.
From the evidence in the case it appeared that on the
'sat examination the prosecutsix and her daughter swore
distinctly that on Thursday week the prisoner called at
their house, represented she was about to married in a few
days to a man of 5001. a year, and solicited the daughter
to be one of her bridesmaids, and when she was gone a
shawl was missing. Joseph Pryor, 164 L, deposed that on
the Saturday night after the alleged robbery the prisoner
was pointed out to him in a house in Chelsea as the per-
son who had stolen the shawl, and he took her into
custody.
The prisoner merely denied the charge, but beyond her
denial there was nothing whatever to weaken the evidence
or show her innocence, and she was in consequence re-
manded for a week, to give time, if possible, to trace the
stolen shawl.

Mr. Bickley, the solicitor, attended on her behalf,
and on the prisoner being placed at the bar, he de-
clared, from his investigation of the case, he believed him
client, the young woman at the bar, to be as innocent of
the charge made against her as any individual in the
court. He was prepared, he said, with the most conclu-
sive testimony that the person who bad stolen the shawl,
and who had also been guilty of committing similar robbe-
ries by similar means, was a young woman named Hall,
and that the young woman at the bar had never been to
the house of the prosecutrix, and did not know even where
it was.
A respectable tradesman and his wife who had been