The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-25 00:00:00

OCTOBER 25, 1867

to a doctor's, where the wound in her back was dressed.
A constable came up. and took the defendant into custody.
Police-constable M produced a long-bladed Spsnish
knife, very sharp at the point, and last witness identihed
it as the one the prisoner was working with when she
threw the boot at him, and the same that the prisoner took
oat of the wound in her back.

George Mogen, a marine store dealer, 85, Friar-street,
said he occasionally employed the prisoner, who was half-
witted, and unless provoked was harmless as a chill The
girls and boy*, however, very much annoyed him at times,
and the complainant frequently played with him. When
sbe was in the shop, she throw a boot at him, and he threw
the knife he was working with at her, and it stuck in her
back.

The magistrate uked if he had done anything of the kind
before?

Witness replied that he had thrown his brushes at the
children who annoyed him, but never each a thing as
knife. The prisoner was not in his right senses.
The magistrate remanded him, so that ha might be exa-
mined by a surgeon.
THAMES.

Charles Jaws Westrro;l,a cab s:srietor and driver,
was brought before Mr. Benson cha with stealing oats
and chaff, the property of Charles arrington.
The prisoner rents a stable of the prosecutor in Crisp-
street, Bromley, and Mr. Harrington also is in possession
of a stable there. Both open into the same cart shed. Mr.
Harrington had for a long time past missed oats and chaff,
and at last began to suspect the prisoner. He consulted
police-sergeant Williams, 53 K, and acting under his advice
he deposited small fragments of wood among the oats and
chaff in two bins, and some wisps of straw in the door of the
chaff bin. That morning the prisoner came home with his
horse and cab at half-past one o'clock, opened his stable
door, and put his horse and cab away. The prisoner was in
the stable 20 minutes, and then left. Mr. Harrington and
the police-sergeant then went to the corn and chaff bins.
The straw had disappeared from the door of the chaff bin,
and some chaff was missed ; oats were also missing from
another bin. The prosecutor and the sergeant then
examined the manger in the prisoner's stable, and hie
two horses were feeding on Mr. Harrington's oats and
chaff. The prisoner, who had gone home, was sent for
and given into custody.
Samples of the prosecutor's oats and chaff found in the
prisoner's manger were produced. There were fragments
of wood among them.
The prisoner, on being called on for his defence began
crying. He said be was very sorry for what he had done.
The offence of that morning was his first one, and he
would not repeat it.
Mr. Benson—No, it is not your first offence. You are
adding falsehood to felony. Yon have been systematically
robbing Mr. Harrington of his corn and chaff, and feeding
your own horses with the stolen provender.
The Prisoner—No, I have not, sir. It's my first offence.
I was hard up for oats and chaff for my horses this morn-
, ing, and—
' Mr. Benson—And stole your landlord's oorn. It is •
very grave offence, and I have not the slightest doubt you
have been plundering Mr. Harrington for a lengthened
period. Do you plead guilty or not guilty, or do you prefer
the case going before a pry at the sessions'
The Prieoner—Settle it here, sir—l plead guilty. Don't
send me to prison, sir ; if you do, I shall be ruined. Let
I me go, and I will pay for the corn.
Mr. Benson—l cannot allow anything of the kind. How
much oats and chaff did you miss last night?
Mr. Harrington—This morning, your worship, after the
prisoner left the stables, I missed • bushel of oats and
chaff, which I value at 2s. I bare mined a similar quan-
tity day after day.
Mr. Benson said the prisoner had taken advantage of
the confidence reposed in him by his landlord to carry on
a nefarious system of plunder. He sentenced the prisoner
toga weeks' imprisonment and hard labour.