The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
hismiss Winslow presided for the first time
ioceacation, and heard a short list of applications.
Honour will remaan In town for a fortnight, and Mr.
c7onissioner Goulburn will then sit in Chambers until
the lit of October, when the regular sittings of tlte court
vig be resumed before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.
The business dispose dof to-day did not ss any
figure of sufficient interest to call for a de 'tai ed report.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
Waller Watson, 17, the lad who was convicted on
wedneedity of a rape upon a respectable young girl named
*oh* Hunt, was brought up for judgment.
The learned judge said that the prisoner had been con-
victed of a very serious offence upon the clearest evidence,
sadbut for the recommendation of the jury he should
passed a much more serious sentence than the one he
was about to inflict, which was that he be kept in penal
lei/Rude for the space of five years.
(Before the Recorder.)
Preto Loren o, an Italian sailor, aged 30, was charged
pith feloniously wounding William Ward, with intent to
murder him.
Daly prosecuted.
The prosecutor in this case was a police-constable of the
division, and it appeared that in the night of the sth of
July he wad on duty in St. Oeorze's-street, formerly Rat-
cliffe-highway, when he saw the prisoner and a number of
other persons standing at the corner of a street quarrelling
sad making a noise. He went up to them and asked them
to go away , and put his hand upon the prisoner's shoulder
sad asked him to pro home. The moment he did so the pri-
weer drew a knife and made several stabs at him, but
the prosecutor warded them off with his truncheon.
While this was going on some one in the crowd called out
to the prosecutor that one of the prisoner's companions
was about to stab him from behind, and he turned round,
and at the same instant the prisoner thrust the knife into
hie belly. He then ran away but was pursued and taken
into custody. It appeared that he was somewhat the
worse for liquor at the time the affair took place. The
prisoner said he was so drunk at the time that he did
not know what took place, and he was Coneided of un-
lawfully wounding and sentenced to 12 months' hard

]•boar.
Edward Rirharthon, 23, was charged with feloniously
assaulting John Francis Mitchell, and robbing him of a

watch.
Mr. Thompson prosecuted, and Mr. Griffiths defended
the prisoner.
This was rather a singular case. The prosecutor was a
palioe•constable, belonging to the City force, and it
appeared that on the evening of the 30th of July
be was in High-street, Aldgate, in plain clothes, when he
saw the prisoner and another man hustling several women,
and apparently attempting to rob them. After having ob-
served was going on for some time, the prosecutor
went up to the prisoner, and told him that he was a
police-constable, and that he should take him into
custody for attempting to pick pockets. The moment
he said this the prisoner exclaimed, " What's your
Dmr and snatched at the prosecutor's watch and
broke it from the guard and threw it to another man,
who ran off with it. The prosecutor then attempted to
secure the prisoner, but he made a most desperate resist-
ance, struck the constable several times, and finally laid
hold of him and threw him over his shoulder, and he fell
with great violence upon his head. The prosecutor called
upon the bystanders to assist him, but none of them did
so. Fortunately, however, while the struggle was going
on, another constable came up, and the prisoner was
secured.
Mr. Griffiths made an ingenious speech to the jury for
mere ly defe
beence. He endeavoured to show that there ha
an d
n a scuttle and struggle between the parties d
that the watch had been stolen by some one in the crowd,
sad strongly pressed upon the jury the great improba-
bility that the prisoner should have robbed a man whom
he knew to be a policeman.
The Recorder having summed up,
The jury, after having deliberated for a considerable
, expressed a wish to retire. They were absent about
sa hour, and on their return into court they found the
rigour Gni/le.
Evidence was then given that the prisoner was a well-
known thief, and that he had been twice convicted of
felony, and on the last occasion he was sentenced to
eighteen months' hard labour, and he had only been at
liberty twenty-four hours when the present offence was
committed.
The prisoner was sentenced to seven years' penal ser-
vitude.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

ROW-STREET.
NOW CRUELTY IS MADE TO PAT.
Thomas Salt, proprietor and driver of a four-wheel cab,
appeared to a summons preferred at the instance of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, charging
bite with ill-treating a horse when in an unfit condition to
work.
Mr. Love, the chief officer of the society, said this was
a case of a kind too frequently arising amongst small cab-
owners. Old and worn-out horses, really past work and
only tit fur the knacker, were purchased at little more
than knocker's prices, and worked until they fell, or until
they attracted the notice of some constable, on the calcula-
tion that they would fetch pretty nearly as much when
ultimately slaughtered as they had cost. If detection
could be evaded for a long period the success of the
" dodge" was hi,,thly encouraging, but if it could only be
carried on for a few weeks it was still much cheaper
than hiring a horse. Of course when detected they were
willing enough to have the animal slaughtered. Lately,
however, the inagistrates had adopted the course of im-
posing a penalty in addition to the destruction of the
annual. The present case was aggravated by the
circumstance that the prisoner was well aware of the
unfitness of the horse for work, for when re-
monstrated with by the officer he said that be
knew the horse was not fit for work, but he was only
using it for a while as he was short of • horse, but
that he could now do without working it any more, and
would have it killed. Ho did, however, work it on the
following day.
Mr. Curling, of King's Bench-walk, solicitor, and
Frederick Young, one of the society's constables, described
the state of the horse, which was lame, in poor condition,
aged, and completely worn out.
The defendant said he had the horse killed the second
day after the officer spoke to him.
Mr. Flowers fined him 200., which he paid.
CLERKENWELL.
CONEITTAL FOR STEALIM: A WATCH PARRY:VIED ST THE
LATE. SIR ROBERT FREI..
Ellen Cnrrisan, described as a domestic servant, was
eharod with stealing two gold watches, the property of
Mr. William Rose, licensed victualler, and proprietor of
the King's Head public-house, Great Mitchell-street,
St. Luke's, of the value of 50/.
Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, attended for the prosecution ;
sad Mr. Harris, barrister, defended.
Mr. Ricketts opened the case at some length. He said
that the prisoner had been in the employ of the prosecutor
forsbout a week, and on Tuesday, the 7th of the present
*oath, between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Mrs.
Sou went out, leaving the prisoner in her bedroom, clean-
ing it Before Mrs. Ross left she told the prisoner that
when she had finished the room she was to lock it, and take
the key to her niece, the barmaid. At that time the watches
weresafe under glass shades. Mrs. Ross had not beenabsent
asxe than five minutes when the prisoner went to the bar
without her bonnet and asked the aid if she might go
at to the surgeons for about five minutes as she felt very
111. Mr. Ross canto home about ten minutes afterwards,
tad being informed of the absence of the prisoner he
Ile to see if the watches were safe. He was informed
ikit they were gone, and as the prisoner did not
return he gave information to the police, and in
the course of tho evening police-constable Miller,
HS G, an active plain-clothes constable, met the prisoner
at the corner of Great Wild-street, Drury-lane. She was
very violent and drunk, an 1 it was with the greatest diffi-
culty that she could be got to the police-station. When
eke was told the charge, she said the constable would have
a job to find the witches ; and at the police-station she
sead she was innocent. Every endeavour had been made
to find the watches, but without success.
Yr. Harris said the case was only one of suspicion, and
mud that had the prisoner returned there would have been
be Pretence for charging the woman with robbery. He con-
leaded that no jury would convict, and it would only be
Potting the county to unnecessary expense to send the
etae for trial.
14. Ricketts said that one of the watches had been pre-
sented to his client by the late Sir Robert Peel. If the
Prisoner or her friends would give information where the
watches were they did not wish to press the charge, or the
Prosecutor would oven pay to recover the watches.
The magistrate committed the case to the Middlesex
Sessions for trial, and refused baiL
MARLBOROUGH STREET.
CAPTURE IF M.:VIRILE BEROLARB.
John Williams, 17, described as a carpenter, and Alfred
Croft, 16, errand boy, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
mull attempting burglariously to break into the dwelling
house of Mr. Foster, tailor, No. 46, Poland-street, Oxford.
street and Mr. Cloak, watchmaker, of No. 16, Tyler-street,
nefent-street.
~Sergeent Cole, an exphrt officer of the C division, said—
quarter-put quarter-past 10 o'clock last night, I saw the two
Prisoners and two others not in custody, in Little Wind-
mill-street, near a public-house, and knowing all of them
I followed them into Silver-street, and afterwards into
Maddox-street, Regent-street, when I saw them go into
the doorway of No. 17 ; after standing talking a short time
iim7, all left, and went to Foubert's-place, Regent-street,
where they stood in conversation together for • short
,time. M
They then walked away, and • few minutes
DE 12 they went to the door of No. 46, Poland-