The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-05 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OP BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN as H. W. SILCOX.—APPLICATION FOR &FLEAS'.
The bankrupt, who was formerly a dealer In musical
instruments, had since carried on the business of a green-
grocer, in Elgin-road, Notting-hill. The debts are 2281.,
and the bankrupt states that his assets are worth 3/., sub-
ject, however, to the payment of 201. for rent. He bad
been arrested at the suit of Messrs. Metzler and Chapple,
of Great Marlborough-street, who had supplied him with
musical instruments of the value of 73/., and he nowapplied
for his release. _ _

Upon examination by Mr. Lucas, who appeared for the
detaining creditors, the bankrupt stated that he gave up
the music business because he found it very unprofitable,
and he took a greengrocer's shop, for which he understood
there was an opening. Upon one occasion he sent the
detaining creditors 10s. on account ; it was not from im-
pertinence, but because it was all the money he had, and
he thought they would not arrest him if he sent them
something. He had been obliged to dispose of some of
the musical instruments in order to meet the demands
upon him.
His Honour said that as the application wee opposed the
bankrupt must remain in custody until after the letting
for choice of assignees had taken place.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. fierjeant Dowling.)
ROBEIRT OP MIRIAM. RICK LIT AM) MUTH, COAL srmicumeve.
Jana Rogers was indicted for riesling • 9nantit7 of
coals, value 4s. 9d., the property of Mews. Rickett end
Smith, his masters ; and JoAn Timmons, 54, was in.
dieted for receiving the same, well knowing it to have
been stolen.

Yr. Begley prosecuted (instructed by Mr. Thos. Beard)
Mr. Collins appeared for Rogers, Timmons was unde-
fended.

William Barrett, police-constable 148 N, said at 1
o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of August he
saw the prisoners on the canal, New North-road, in two
barges. Rogers was in one laden with coals, and Tim-
mons was in an empty barge receiving colds which Rome
gave him. He went to them and detained them. He then
examined Timmons's barge, and found 4 cwt. 5611*. of
coals in it, and they were of the same quality as those con-
tained in the other barge.
Charles Warner, weigher at the Times Wharf. New
North-road, produced a sample of the coals from the barge,
and a piece of that found m the other barge. The coal
belonged to Masora Rickett and Smith.
The polioe-constable, in answer to questions from Mr.
Collins,said,when he first saw the prisoners dealing with the
coal he was standing on a bridge 240 yards off, and then
went immediately to them and took them into custody.
Mr. Collins then addressed the jury on behalf of the
prisoner Roger,, who had that morning surrendered in
discharge of his bail, and contended that this was • case of
mistaken identity, as it was impossible to distinguish the
features of any man at a distanoe of 940 yards, especially
as all coalbeavers were dressed much alike, and were in
the same dirty state from the coals they had to remove
from one place to another. It should be borne in mind
that Rogers had been for upwards of ten years in the
service of the prosecutors, and without • stain upon his
character.

Several witnesses were called who gave him an excellent
character.
Timmons made no defence.
The jury found both the prisoners Guilty, and the
judge seatenced them to be imprisoned with hard labour
for three months.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-BOLTS&

THE FORGERY ON TOL BANK OF INOLANUX

William decry Hodgson, 22, wan brought before
Alderman Sir R. Carden, for further examination
upon the charge of feloniously forging two transfers for
the delivery of 1501. and 2231. coma stock standing in the
names of certain parsons in the Bank of England, with
intent to defraud the Governor and Company of that cor-
poration.
Mr. Freshfield, solicitor to the Bank of England, con-
ducted the prosecution ; Mr. Wontner, jun.. of the firm of
Wontner and Sons,Bucldersbiu7,appeared for the prisoner.
The whole of the evidence in support of the charge was
given at the former examination, and the prisoner was
fully committed to Relegate for trial.

BOW-STREET.
♦ TOO CLEViII TOONG LIMIER WRITZR.

A youth named Edward William Lane, a porter at
Messrs. Cogswell and Harriman's, gun-makers, 224,
Strand, was charged with stealing four revolvers, valued
at U. 101. each, from his employee' premises.
Mr. George Lewis, of Ely-plane, conducted the prosecu-
tion. He stated that the prisoner had been some time
in the service of Messrs. Cogswell and Harrison,
at first as errand boy, but latterly as light porter,
which was • position a step higher, both as to
the trust reposed in him, and the amount of
wages. A few days ago, however, Mr. Stallman, book-
keeper to the prosecutors, received information from
Messrs. Lawley, pawnbrokers, Fatringdon-street, of the
following circumstance :—A lad, representing himself
as being employed by the prosecutccs, bad called at Messrs.
Lawley s shop, offering • pistol in pledge, and presenting
• letter, purporting to be signed by Mr. Harrison, autho-
rising him to pledge the revolver for 2/., or sell it for 4/. ;
or, if that amount was refused, to take what he could get.
Mr. Lawley's assistant, Mr. Henry William Baas, desired
him to bring his master's card. The lad went away, and
returned with the card in about • quarter of an hour.
Mr. Bass detained the pistol, and gave information to the
prosecutors. On being confronted with him, Mr. Bass at
once identified the prisoner, who was given into custody.
He was remanded for • few days, and wrote in prison a
latter to his masters confessing that be had stolen two
other revolvers, and pawned them at two pawnbrokers'
ships which he indicated, and another which he concealed
at the back of the warehouse, not being able to find an
opportunity of removing it from the premises. He added
that he had now confessed everything he knew, and that
he had nothing to do with two burglaries recently com-
mitted on their premises. He declared that at the time of
the burglaries he had never thought of doing anything dis-
honest, which he had been subsequently tempted to in
consequence of the expenses he had incurred by joining •
volunteer corps.
The revolvers were produced, and identified by Mr.
Stallrean, upon which the pawbrokers gave them up to the
prosecutors.
The prisoner had nothing to say but that he had con-
fessed everything.
Mr. Lewis said if the prosecutors believed that they
would not press the prosecution beyond this court. But
as they bad good reason to apprehend that he knew • great
deal more than he acknowledged they must ask the magis-
trate to send the case to a juq.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

WESTMINSTER.
OROSU4 OUTRAGE BY WOMIN.

Matilda lritzatorris and Ellen Gilliam, two young women,
were placed at the bar charged with committing the fol-
lowing outrage:
James Massingham, a very respectable looking middle-
aged roan, said—Last night I was on my way home, when
I was very strangely stopped by these two women. I was
quietly passing Hyde-park-corner, when they suddenly
rushed upon me, and seizing my umbrella, tried to take it
away from me. They both called me very bad names, and
punished me about.
Mr. Arnold—Were they strangers to you ?
Prosecutor—Perfect strangers.
Mr. Arnold—Had you had any conversation with them
before this occurred ? _ _

Prosecutor—Not a word had passed between us. After
what I have described one of them took off her shawl and
nicked it in my oyes, so that it hurt them. I said I would
give them in charge, when they gut into a cab and laid
down in the bottom of it, but I found a policeman and
gave them in charge.
Mr. Arnold—What became of the umbrella?

Prosecutor—l succeeded in keeping it.
Policeman William Watling, 197 B, said he found the
women in the cab and took them in charge.
Mr. Arnold—Were they sober?
Constable—Yes ; one had been drinking a Mlle, I think.
Mr. Arnold—Was prosecutor sober?
Policeman—Perfect)
Mr. Arnold—What did the women say when you took
them ? . .

Policeman—They accused one another about trying to
take the umbrella.

The women said they had nothing to say.
They were each committed for one month to hard
labour.

SOUTHWARK.
DEFRAUDING A RAILWAY COMPA2tI.

William Freer, a singular-looking young man, described
on the charge sheet as a merchants' clerk out of place, was
placed at the bar, charged with defrauding the London
and South Western Railway Company, by travelling from
Fareham to London without paying his fare.
Charles Cook, one of the ticket oollectors at the Wa-
terloo terminus, said that on the arrival of the 10 o'clock
train on the previous evening, he was collecting the
tickets, when he saw the prisoner concealed in one of
the second-class carriages. He roused him up and demanded
his ticket, when be felt hie pockets and said be had lost
it. Understanding that he had come from Farebsui, he
demanded 10s. 6d., the fare from that place, when he said
be had no money. Witness took him to the superinten-
dent's o6loe, and on the way be told him that he had not
paid his fare, and did not intend to do so. He was ac-
cordingly given into custody.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he was out
of a situation, and came up to London to see his friends
with the view of getting a place. He intended to have
gone to Hampstead and obtained the money and paid his
fan.

' Inspector Hewlett, of the company's detective police,
said that the prisoner gave false &diktats, and put the
officers to considerable trouble.
The prisoner said that he lived at Farehsm, and had
forgotten the name of the street at Hampstead where his
friends resided.
The magistrate told him he had wilfully defiswied the
railway company, therefore he must pay a fine of Ms., or
go to prim tor woo days.
The prisoner, not being prepared to pay the money, was
committed to gaoL

BOW PWOrtil 11#1LED IN Till TOXIC lITIZETIL
Janes Coale, a man about 30 years of age, was brought
before Mr. Paget charged with furiously and recklessly
driving a horse and cart in the public street' to the danger
of pa angers and vehicles.
Charles Stroud, a police-constable, No. 270 K,
stated that last night between the hours of
9 and 10 o'clock he saw the prisoner in a cart
which contained seven or eight men and women.
The prisoner was driving the hone at a furious pace along
High-street, Shadwell, from Ratcliff-high way. People were
screaming and shouting in all directions and several called
to the pnaoner, who took no notice of them, and
at the rate of eleven or twelve miles an hour.
fie called to him to stop but no notice was
taken. He ran alongside of the horse and out
for some distance, and at last caught hold of the
reins. At the same time a young man caught them on the
other side of the horse, and at the imminent risk of their
lives the hone and cart were stopped. A cab driver came
up and complained that the cart had run against his cab,
and injured it. The prisoner was very drunk.
The prisoner said he was tipsy, and was returning from
Barnet fair.

Mr. Paget—More 'ham for you.
The prisoner was sentenced to pay a fine of 20s.
GREENWICH.

BUICIDZ ON ♦ RAILWAY.

Lawton Robert Ford, a man about 45 years of age, who
deanibed himself as a plasterer, residing at Sydenham,
appeared in discharge of his g
racognisances' to answer •
e c of unlawfully trespassin on the London and
B ton Oompany's line of railway, and attempting to
commit suicide.

It appeared that on the afternoon of Saturday, the 6th
July the defendant way observed to climb a fencing bre
feet in height, dividing the line of railway from the public
roadway in the neighbourhood of Forest-hill, Sydenbam,
and, getting on to the line of railway, be
laid himself across the metals of the up-line,
his face fronting an approaching train. Just as the
train reached the spot where defendant wee lying
he rolled over, and the engine passed without touching
him, but the step of the succeeding break van caught him
at the beck of the neck and hurled him into the six-foot
way,where he was picked up in an insensible state, bleeding
from the mouth, and was corned off the line apparently
dead. He had since been under medical treatment for
injuries sustained.
Inspector Carpenter, the chief of the railway company's
police, said the defendant had bees summoned by order of
the company, the polite not having taken him into
custody, as he had not only endanger his own life, but
might have been the cause of the train being overturned
and the injury or death of the passengers.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, said his mind
had given way under depression, owing to his being
unable to find money to register the patent of an inven.
tion, and also to his being reduced from living in •
house with two servants to the occupation of a room
7ft. square with his wife and five children. He had
suffered greatly, and now regretted what he had done, of
which he had no knowledge at the time.
Mr. Trail said the defendant bad is the most deter-
mined manner sought to destroy himself, and had most
miraculously escaped being cut to pieces. He should
therefore require him to find bail in the sum of 461, for
his good behaviour during the next three months.
The required bail was tendered and accepted.

WANDSWORTH.
NARROW ISCA.PI PROW SUFFOCATION.

James Peptoe, an elderly looking man, wee charged with
attempting to commit suicide in Battersea•park.
Poynter, one of the park constables, said that on the
previous afternoon he was celled to the water, when he saw
the prisoner in about three feet. A quantity of mud had
collected at the bottom, and the prisoner was stuck in
it. He must have been suffocated in two or three minutes.
His hoe was downwards under the water, except
• small portion of the back of his head. Witness got him
out, and in about 10 or 15 minutes ho came round. He
said it was all a mystery how he got there. Afterwards be
said he did not know how it happened, except that be had
been very much worried. On the bank lay his coat and
hat, and handkerchief of mussels. He was out in the
water a distance of 15 or 16 yards, but there wu no
current.

The prisoner said be bad been in great distress. He had
been out of work for 17 weeks, all his goods had been
seized for rent, and when he came to Battersea to borrow a
sovereign he failed to obtain it.
The magistrate remanded him for inquiries.

The thunderstorm of Tuesday night appears to
have extended to most parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire,
and, unhappily, was attended by fatal consequences. In
the neighbourhood of Chesterfield, the lightning struck a
house occupied by a person named Dawes, and killed a
boy eight years old. A sister of she deceased, who was
also sleeping at the time, was likewise struck with the
lightning, and was so much injured that it is doubtful
whether she will recover.

A MAN KILLED BY • FALL OVER THE CLIFFS NEAR
Sosariono`.—On Saturday night or Sunday morning,
In • man named Patrick Clark, aged 49, residing William-
street, Scarboro', met with his death by a fall
over the cliffs a few miles south of Scarboro'. It appears
the deceased collected • kind of seaweed, locally celled
" denis " which is used by some as food, and then dried
it upon the top of the cliffs to be ready for sale. On
Saturday night showers fell, and while the deceased and
hie little boy were out covering the weed, to keep off the
rain, somehow or other he fell over the cliffs. The boy
descended the cliffs in the darkness, and found the body
of his father dead im the rocks below. He then returned
and went for assistance to the nearest dwelling, and the
body was removed as soon as possible. The wife of the
deceased travelled amongst the towns in Yorkshire and
Lancashire selling the material which the husband col.
lasted, and was out in the country at the time of the
accident.—Lrede Mercury.
A MAN KILLED BY LIDHTNING. About half-
past 10 o'clock on Tueday night, a violent thunderstorm
broke over Oldham and the surrounding districts, and
continued for about an hour. Next morning, about 6
o'clock, a man named William West Hint was found
dead on the road at ()shay, in Saildleworth. He was
lying on his face, and had a small electrical machine on
his back. It appears that the man, who worked at Ren-
shaw, was returning from Hohnfirth, when he was caught
in the storm. His hat was torn into pieces, and found
in an adjoining field about fifteen yards from him, and
one of his boots was also cut into shreds. It is sur
posed that the electrical machine he had with him was
struck by the lightning, as there were marks on his
body as if the fluid bad radiated from it.

THE MURDER AT LElGH.—Notwithstanding
that the jury strongly recommended to mercy the man
Farringdon, sentenced to death at the recent Liverpool
assizes for the murder of his wife at Leigh, Captain Gibbs,
the governor of Kirkdal• Gaol, had not, up to yesterday,
received from the Home-office any information that the
sentence was to be commuted. The only persona by whom
the prisoner has been visited since his condemnation are
his brother, and a Scripture reader from the town where
the murder was committed. They saw him on Saturday,
hut nothing remarkable transpired during the interview.
Farringdon apparently pays earnest attention to the
exhortations of the Rev. R. Appleton, the chaplain of the
gaol, who attends him daily. The unhappy man has evi-
dently made up his mind for the worst. In the ordinary
course the execution will take place on Saturday week.
NARROW ESCAPE.—Between eight and nine
o'clock on Tuesday morning, an accident occurred on the
London and North Western Railway, at St. Helen's June•
tion, whereby a young man named James Tighe received
injuries to his spine, but to what extent is not at present
known, and a carriage which he was driving was thrashed
to atoms. Two homes which were drawing the carriage
escaped unhurt. The horses and carriage were passing
over the first line of rails at the crossing, which is a level
one, when Tighe perceived that an engine was close on
him. He had not time to draw back, but gave the homes
a lash with his whip, which caused them to start forward.
and they escaped from harm ; but the carriage was caught
by the engine and literally smashed to atoms. Tighe was
thrown to the ground with great violence, and sustained
severe injuries to his spine.

LorregvirY IN ENOLAND.—Among the deaths re-
gistered in England in the year 1863, for which the returns
have just been completed, we find that there were 21 men
and 68 women who, when they died, were above a hundred
years old, viz. 5 men and 25 women, aged 100 ; 4 men and
15 women, aged 101 ; 5 men and 11 women, aged lie;
3 men and 4 women, aged 103 ; 1 man and 7 women. azed
104 ; 2 men and 4 women, aged 105; 1 woman. aged Wis.;
1 man and I woman, aged 110. These long.lived 'venom
were not by any means squall', distributed over
the country. If we draw an irregular line across
England, from the northern extremity of Norfolk
to the northern extremity of Cardiganshire, rep.
Wing the line by county boundaries, and placing en
the southern side Herefor&bire, Woroeetershire, Wars ick-
shire, Northamptonshire, we have a population (according
to the last census) of 11,229,000 on the southern side of
the line, and 8,837,000 on the northern side. But the south,
with its 11,000,000, bad no less than 60 of these cente-
narians, and the north, with its 9,000,000, only 29. Or, if
we include all poisons dying in England in the year, aged
95 or upwards-6'l in number—we find that the Routh,
with its 11,000,000 of population, bad 448 of them, anti the
north, with its 9,000,000, had only 2.15, or little more than
half. London had Be share of old people ;10 women
above 100 years old died in London in the year, and 70
persons 95 years old or upwards. In Lancashire, with a
population only about an eighth less, the bills of mortality
showed only 27 persons of 93 years old or upwards, and
only four persons of 100 or upwards.
LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY (LIMITED).
—Traffic receipts week ending Sept, 1, 11,5271. ltie. 9d.