The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-08 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Patrick Griffin, a boy of about eight years of age, was
brought before Mr. Vaughan, in custody of Taylor, the
warrant officer, charged with stealing a half-crown from
Mary Jarvis, the wife of a bricklayer, living at 24, Short's-
gardens, in the house of her father, a farrier.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Jarvis went into the shop to
speak to her father, and on taking out her handkerchief,
happened to drop two half-crowns. As she was looking
for them, the prisoner stooped down to assist in the
search, and presently ran out of the shop. The priaoner,
though repeatedly accused of taking the money, denied
it as repeatedly, until Thursday afternoon, when he
went to play in the loft over a cow-shed in the
sime street. Another boy, named George Gibbon,
the son of the cowkeeper, had a puppy which
the prisoner admired, and which he said he should
like to buy. Gibson said, " Oh, you havn't got any money
to buy it with," to which he replied, " Yes, I have. I
earned 2s. 61 yesterday holding horses in Covent-garden,
and gave it to my mother to buy me a pair of trousers on
Saturday night." Gibson having heard of the occurrence at
the farrier's shop, suspected that it was from that
quarter that the money was obtained, and gave
information to Mrs. Jarvis. On further inquiry it
was ascertained that the prisoner bad been more frank
to several others of his companions, plainly admitting
that he had found the half-crown which Mrs. Jarvis
dropped, and had taken it home to his mother. Upon this
it was proposed to give him into custody, but a constable,
who was instructed to make inquiries, was unable to obtain
any information, which, in the judgment of the inspector
on duty, would justify the prisoner being locked up. In
the meanwhile the prisoner's schoolmaster, Mr. Curran, of
the Roman Catholic Schools, in Charles-street, bad ques-
tioned him on the matter, saying that he " could not be
taken up for merely picking up the half-crown." Upon
this the prisoner acknowledged that he took it, still adher-
ing to the statement that he gave it to his mother. The
prisoner bore an excellent character in the schooL
Mr. Vaughan said that Mr. Curran was wrong in his law.
If the prisoner picked it up in the way described that was a
felony.
The prisoner's mother, a woman of decent appearance,
denied having received the half-crown.
Mr. Vaughan was sorry to hear her deny it. The boy
had made two distinct statements, but both ending with

the as‘ertion that he gave the money to his mothel7. He
(Mr. Vaughan) did not believe that the latter part of the
story was fabricated.
The mother said that she should not encourage her son
to thieve.
Mr. Vaughan said that might be, and it was very likely
that she did not know the money was stolen, but that she
had received it from him he was quite convinced. He
should remand the prisoner for further inquiry, and also
to consider what should be done with him.
SOUTHWARK.

John Durk, a costermonger, was brought before Mr.
Burcham, charged with misappropriating to his own use a
dagger and a pair of studs, the property of Mr. Stevens,
gas engineer, Southwark-bridge-road.
John Warrington, 132 L. said that about twelve on the
previous night two lads brought to the station house a
leather bag, which they said they had picked up the street.
The bag was open, and they told him that the prisoner
had gone, but had taken from it a dagger and a pair of
studs, which he did not replace. Witness asked where they
left the prisoner, when they told him he was In a public'
house in Webber-street. Witness proceeded to the latter
place, and saw the prisoner, who war drinking with a
woman. He asked him what he had done with the
dagger and studs he took from a leather bag. He at
first denied all about it, but afterwards produced them
from his pocket, and then he took him into custody. At
the station-house he produced a silver whistle which he had
taken from the bag.
William Roberta, a lad about thirteen years of age, said
that he was disposing of wood in Oakley-street, and when
jumping from his cart to enter a house, be fell over a
lnither bag in the gutter. He picked it up and took it to
the shed, when the prisoner came and looked at the bag,
and suggested that it should be opened. He then forced
*be bag epen, and took several things from It ; among
which he saw the dagger and a pair of studs, which be put
in his pocket. He then aloud the bag, and returned it to
kin sad his oampaoiao.

The Suffolk coast, near where the recent catas-
trophe took place, has been the scene of another fearful
steam-ship collision, resulting in the loss of the Ross D.
Mangles, a powerful iron screw collier, the property of the
General Iron Screw Collier Company. The vessel, com-
manded by Ca Lain Broom, was on a voz,Bfrom the
Thames to the T7ne, to receive a cargo of and be-
tween 1 and 2 o clock on Thursday morning reached
abreast of Orforaness, a few miles to the southward of the
spot where the Bruiser and Haswell steamers came
together, when another steamship, which afterwards
proved to be the Ryhope, a large screw collier,
coal laden, from the Tyne for London, was observed
approaching. What course the respective vessels were pur-
suing has not correctly transpired, but from the way in
which the Ross D. Mangles was struck it would seem that
she was keeping a port helm when the collision occurred.
The two steamers neared each other, and the Rybope's
stem caught the
,port side of the Ross D. Mangles just
abaft the main rigging, cutting into her hull to a fear-
ful extent. The shock is described to have been very
severe, and considering the nature of the mishap it is
somewhat providential that there was not a greater loss
of life. It was quickly discovered that the Rose D.
Mangles was fast filling, and the Ryhope speedily backed
out of the sinking steamer. Some of her hands managed to
scramble on to the bow of the Ryhope before she got away,
and others took to lifebuoys, and it is stated that within five
or six minutes after she was struck she went down in deep
water. The Ryhope, as soon as she got clear, put off boats and
picked up the hands which had not succeeded in getting on
board of her, and on the men being mustered it was found
that a fireman was miming. He wet seen on the deck just
before the vessel foundered, and it is thought that he
perished with her. Captain Broom, who was on the bridge
of the Roes I) Mangled with his chief mate, sustained some
serious internal injury. The Ryhope continued about the
spot for some time, and then proceeded on her course to
the Thames, and landed the crew of the ill-fated vessel at
Blackwell, Captain Broom being removed to have medical
assistance. The circumstances attending the collision will
form the subject of a full investigation by the directors of
the company. It is stated that both steamers exhibited
the usual lights required by the Admiralty regulations.
The Ryhope, which has sustained serious injury to her
stem, has come up to the Victoria-docks. The Ross D.
Mangles was upwards of 500 tone register, and had been
some years engaged in the coal trade, running between
London and the Tyne and other ports in the north. She
is reported to have been insured.

THE BOILER EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE AT
CHATHAM DOCKYARD.

CHATHAM, FRIDAY.

The inquest on the bodies of Robert Willian; Stanwood
and Frederick Edward May, the two men killed by the
accident this morning, was held by Mr. T. Hills, the co-
roner, and a respectable jury, at Melville Hospital this
evening.
Previously to any evidence being taken the coroner and
jury proceeded to the dockyard to inspect the locality of
the accident, and were occupied in this duty some time.
The boiler lay in the same position it occupied in the
morning, surrounded by rubbish, and this, as well as the
top portion, which lay between the foundry and smiths'
shop, was minutely examined, the jury remaining at this
portion of their duty until quite dusk.
On their return to the hospital, mere formal evidence
of Mr. Edward Rowland was taken to prove the identity
of the bodies, after which the coroner adjourned the in-
quest until next week ; • drawing of the boiler, boiler.
house, and adjacent buildings being in the meantime pre-
pared for the information of the jury.
All the sufferers are going on favourably, and hopes
are entertained that neither Mr. Hooper nor Shackleton,
two of the persons injured, will require their limbs ampu-
tated.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A WOMAN.—Yesterday
Dr. Hardwicke, deputy-coroner for central Middlesex, held
an inquest at the King's Heed, Broad-street, St. Giles, on
the body of Elizabeth ,McCormack, aged 61, whose death
occurred in such a manner as to make it impossible for the
jury to return a conclusive verdict. James McCormack,
who was husband of deceased, said he lived at 11, Totten-
ham-place, Tottenham-court-road. On Friday night last
his wife was quite well and Bober. He gave her 7e. Bd.,
telling her to buy him a working shirt and a pair of
stockings. She went out, but he met her afterwards with
a female friend and they all went into a public-house in
the Euston-road, where they had a pint of 6d. ale amongst
them. When they left the public-house he parted with
his wife ea he had somewhere to go. He could swear Lis
wife was perfectly sober. That was about 10 o'clock at
night. They only had one pint of ale amongst them.
He saw no more of his wife till he found her
in St. Giles's workhouse insensible, on Sunday.
His son first told him where his wife was.
He has been committed for trial for highway robbery
with violence the night after his mother was missing.
Police-constable Wilson, 27 F, said that at about a quarter
past 2 on Saturday morning last, he was on duty in Upper
Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy-square when he saw the deceased
lying on a door-step, insensible. She had been vomiting,
and smelt very strongly of drink. He partly roused her,
when she exclaimed, " Oh, don't ! oh, don't." There
was a quart-jug beside her three parts full of beer, which
he upset in trying to rouse ber. The deceased was coon-
,
veyed to the station-house, and locked up in a cell all
' night. From the evidence of the sergeant on duty at the
I •
tune, it appeared that as deceased did not seem to recover
at half-past 8 in the morning she was sent to St. Giles's
workhouse. She was conveyed there in a wheelbarrow.
It was subsequently sworn that the deceased did not pos-
sess any such jug as that found by the police. The
pauper nurse at the workhouse said that deceased was
admitted into the infirmary of the workhouse on Saturday
morning. No money or property, beside her clothes, was
found on her. Mr. Bennett, resident medical officer at
St. Giles's workhouse, said the deceased was in an on-
conscious state all the while she was in the house. She
died at 1 o'clock on Monday afternoon last. Upon ex-
amining the body after death, he found a slight
wound on the left elbow, an extensive abrasion about the
size of a hand on her back, and upon internal examination
an extravasation of blood beneath the scalp, and 6oz, of
clotted blood on the left ride of the head. This was
caused by a blow or fall on the left ride of the head. The
vessels on the right side of the head were injured through
the force of the blow on the left side. Death resulted
from the injury to the bead. He could not say for
certain how that was produced. No further evidence was
forthcoming, and after a long deliberation the jury re-
turned an open verdict, that deceased died from injuries
to the head, received whilst under the influence of liquor,
but that how such injuries were produced there was no
evidence to show. The coroner remarked upon the practice
of the police, of treating all persons they found insensible in
the street as merely drunk, and locking them up without
sundial man seeing them. He thought there ought to be
some great change made in the system, for it daily turned
out that persons locked up for drunk were not drunk at
all, but were suffering from fractured skulls. He hoped
public *Startles would be directed to the subject.