The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-26 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

ILANSION-HOUSE.
UNLAWIMLLY 1,08810181110 A eITOLI2I MAIM
A shabby-looking young man, named Otorpe Curti"
fa !dor, was brought before Alderman Lusk on the charge
of being in possession of a cheque for 201. that had been
mien.

It appeared that in September last a lady named Scott
bail her pocket picked of the cheque in question, which
vas drawn upon the Union Bank, where she
kept an account. The cheque was stopped at the
bank, but nothing was heard of it until Thursday
afternoon, when the prisoner presented it for payment NW,
on his being questioned, he said that he had received it
from a lady, who had purchased a sewing machine of him
for 101., and he gave her ten sovereigns an change, and he
said that this lady was an entire stranger to him and he
dal not know where to find her. It appeared that the
hay who lost the cheque bed since gone to India, and was
tot likely to return to England for several years.
Alderman Lusk committed the prisoner for oue month.

ROW-STREET.
CALLAN? RESIWPANCE AND CAPTURE OF A ROBBER.
Williams Webster, a smartly-dressed young man, was
charged with highway robbery with violence.
Mr. John Wolf, an elderly gentleman, residing in Bed-
ford-squat*, stated that between 9 and 10 o'clock last night,
be was on his way home, and when turning from Oxford-
street into Csrolinestreet, he noticed that three or four
men were hovering about bins. At the corner of Tsvistock-
'beet, one of them (the prisoner) rushed suddenly before him,
twoof the others stationing themselves to his right aud left, so
that he was brought to a stand-still. The prisoner then
seized his watch, and tore it from the hair-guard. His
eyeglass fell to the ground, and was smashed. Witness
determined not to loom his property so easily, and snatched
it from him again. The prisoner then ran away. Witness
pursued him, and though tripped and thrown to
the ground by one of the prisoner's companions,
was "up again in • second," and continued the chace.
He thought he must have hit the man in the face; at all
events he staggered back and fell down, leaving wit-
ten at liberty to continue his pursuit of the pri-
soner. The prisoner, finding that witness was gaitt:sai
na him, lay down on the pavement. The
constable of Hanway-street, attracted by witness's cries
el" Stop thief," came up and seized ham, and after •
desperate straggle succeeded, with the help of a police-
man, in conveying him to the station-house. The watch
was worth 531., and witness had about 4,0001. upon him
U the time.
Middleton, the local constable, and Seymour, 76 E, cor-
nAorsted.
The prisoner was remanded.
WANDSWORTH.
.LLEGED DEATH OP A WIFE TROY THE VIOLMCCE OP HER
HUSBAND.
Richard Roberts, • shoemaker, of No. 10, West Ponton-
tad, Nine Elms, was brought up on a warrant, granted
Yeatenlay by Mr. Belle, charged with assaulting and beat-
% his wife, Maria Roberts, who died on Sunday last.
In this case it was observed that Mr. Carter, the coronet.,
std refused to hold an inquest, though the surgeon bad
kr,nell to give a certificate as to the cause of death.
The first witness examined was Eliza Roberts, an in.
kilatent little girl, aged 9 years, the daughter of the
Intner, and she stated that on Tuesday before her
%other died she was at No. 10, West l'onton-road. She
tkooght it was in the morning. Her mother was in the
hot room on the sofa. She woe lying down with the
'AI in her arms as she was sleepy. Her father said
3' would hike the baby to some one to be washed.
Her mother said he should not have it. He tried to
the child away, and her mother attempted to bite him
the shoulder. He then knelt upon her and squeezed her
tr',.r"t• He got the baby from her and gave it to witness.
c. 614 kneeling upon her, and witness believed that he
th'e put both his d
enpon her throat. Witness wise
fnglitened that she down stairs and gave the baby
. little girl, and went and told her grandmother.
alq!ier had no black eye when witness went away, but
when her grandmother came she had one. She had not
seen her mother since, as she could not bear to go.
The prisoner said he did uot kneel upon him wife ; it was
mutate. Three medical men bad seen her, end also the
cor'ner's officer, and there was not • mark upon her.
Eliza Snellin, the grandmother, said that when she saw
qe deceased al; had a dreadful black eye. The prisoner
t,ldthe doctor who attended her that it was done sect-