The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-13 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MARLBOROUGH43TREET.
Charles Agretoii, • young man, having the aliases of ',map.
sett, Clifton, Ito., was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
obtaining by false peetenoes the sum of 10a. from Mr.
str Reginald Yorke, of No. 45, SR James's-place, St. Jainis'a•
eet.

Mr. Yorke said that on the 12th February he left the St.
James's Club, and when he got to his door some one said,
" Well, old fellow, I must offer you • thousand apologies
for stopping you, bat I want to speak to you." On twniog
rained he saw the prisoner, who told him • long story to the
effect that he was a gentleman, and had been an officer
in an Hussar regiment, and that, like many other Twang
men, he bad kept • young woman, led a dissipated
life, end gone " down the hill.* The climax of the
story was that he had forged his father's name to
• bill for 4501. He said Cox and Co., the army
agents, knew all about him end would speak of him, and
on hie &eking for some money he gave the prisoner 10s.,
believing his story. The prisoner again saw him, and on
telling him that he was going to see Mr. Woodgate, one of
the Oxford boat, at Richmond, he gave him sums cleans
'to assist him in going. The prisoner also told him that
his father kept • hall in Sussex, and his brother a villa at
Venice ; but from inquiries be (Hr. Yoshi) bad =tab*
found that he was not ]mown at Cox's, neat the War-c ;
and no molt pence of that name had a hall is Sussex, and
instead of his brother being at Yanks, he was in prima for
an omnibus robbery. He had also ascertained that the pri-
soner had so far isgratiated himself with • gentlemen, a
member of a club, as to be invited by that pntlemansto
dine at the *b.

the prisonNze.r.

Mary Harwood, an inmate of Narylebons Workhouse,
was charged by /fr. Douglas, the muter, with robbery.
Oo Sunday moroirg prisoner bad leave go out for the
day, sad from her bulky appearance the matron's suspicion
was aroused. She was searched, and under her stays were
found a pair of shoes, and wound round bet body were a
pair of sheets, the property of the guardian'.
Prisoner, who refused to plead, was fully committed for
trial.

Jane Pollard was charged with drunken and disorderly
conduct.

Staid'll, the porter and doorkeeper, deposed that on
Sunday afternoon the pneoser returned slightly the worm
for liquor, end was allowed to go into ber ward. She had
not been there long before she oommitted an assault upon
another woman, and was then placed in the casual ward.
liereshe shouted and shrieked in inch a frishtfol mouser
as to canoe several housekeepers living close by to come to
the gate and complain. Prisoner refuted to desiat, and was
looked up.
Three days' imprisonment.
LAMBETH.

Charles Pearson, who has bi;e;sin custody for a week on
a charge of burglary and robbery at Lambeth Palace the
town residence of his Grace the Archbishop of Contorbary,
wee again placed at the bar before Kr. Elliott, for final
examination. Nothing was known of him, bat ho wan otgn-
raitted for trial.

MANlnetrairrEa.—Last evening an inquiry was
held by Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, on the
death of John LOTMAN. aged 30, as omnibus driver,
alleged to have been killed by Thomas Brown, a pugilist.
Police-constable John H. Thompson, 307 Y, said that at
IS o'clock on the evening of Sunday February 11, he saw
a man named Thomas Brown, trying to force his way to
the top of one of the omnibuses at was etas 'lug outside
the Archie,' Tavern, near Highgate-hill The deceased.
who wee WI omnibus coachman in the employ of the Lon-
don General Omnibus Company, said, 'I shall not let
you get upon the omnibus, because you are drunk." Brown
!then ran round to the from% of the omnibus, mad the
deceased said, " You shan't get up there. You hare
' mosey, take a cab and ride home. You shan't ride here."
Brown then said, "I shall ride in spite of you. I ate
Toppee Brown, the fighting man of Caniden-town.* Brown
thee attempted to get up on the front seat of the omnibus,
and in trying to do so he threw his arms round the de-
ceased, who fell. While the deceased was on the ground
he said,'" Take that man into custody, for he has broken
my leg.' Brown then swore a great deal, and he was
removed to the Highgate police station. He was drunk at
the time. He is a journeyman bootmaker, living in New
Oxford-street The witness took the deceased to King's
College Hospital. Other witnesses corroborated the evidence
of the police-constable. Dr. Evans said the deceased died
on the Bth inst. His leg had been broken by the vicileue
which he had received. A poet mortem examination of
the deceased had been made, end it had been feud that the
cause of death was epilepsy and inllsmmation of the lung
" eructated with the injury which he had received to his
leg." A juror said the medical witness placed them in a
very awkward position by not stating whether the buten
• leg was the cause of deceased's death. Dr. Evans said he
could not positively state whether the injury to the leg
accelerated deceased's death or not. The coroner having
rammed up, the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter
against Thomas Brown for feloniously killing and slaying
John Lowman.*
THE WIGAN MIIIIMIIt. —The search of the mid
for the watch of James Barton, the mine tester, who was
murdered at the Button or Bawkhouse-pit, Haigh, near
1= on the night of the 2d of January, 1033, was Pol-
and nearly completed on Sunday last. A
to the confession of one of the prisoners now lying =-
dale gaol, this watch was thrown into the Leeds and Liver-
pool minal, about 20 yards from a row of henssa which stand
seer to Pendlebury-bridge, some two and a ball miles from
the borough of Wigan ; and at the last Liverpool anises
an examination of the bottom of the canal was ordemed by
Baron Pigott. After much delay the inspection was fixed
to be made on Sunday week, but, owing to the water not
having been properly dammed, another week bad to pass
before the task could be performed. Oa Retarder work-
men employed by the canal company fixed the customary
" sheeting ' at Gibson's-bridge, about half a mile from the
Button-pit, and by means of new stop planks they also
dammed tin water at Arley-bridge, nearly a mile farther
; north. This time they were strong enough, and neat morn-
ing at daylight 107 navvies from the Wigan Waterworks, in
charge of Mr. Hunter, the borough eogiseer, to whom
had been intrusted the management of the search, as well
as 38 men furnished by the Canal Company, arrived at
the spot to commence operations. They were armed with
rude', riddle', barrows, and rakes, and they bad alms
plentiful supply of planking with which they at once began
to erect platforms upon which the mud could be thrown a°
as to be conveyed more easily into the adjacent fields for
subsequent examicatioo. Mile some were thus engaged
others were raking the side nearest to the towing-path and
carefully inspecting the gravel there. After these came
a party who raised the mud from the bed of a little stream
which ran down the centre, and scattered it over the
gravel, and then these were followed by rakers again. All
these bad a powerful stimulus to exertion in the shape of
an offer of M. to the mu who should discover the watch.
but though all worked bard from daylight to dark no one
was successful enough to earl the reward. Still, however,
it is quite possible that the watch may be found, for the
whole of the mud which was removed has yet to be ex-
ambient, and this week it will be passed through sieves care-
' fully by
.the police. There was a large crowd of specta-
tors during the day, bat none were allowed upon the canal
bank, where a large body of police from the Wipn, Bolton,
and Warrington divisioas peered anxiously into the said
as it was scattered by the workmen.
Serious complaints are about to be made to the
limited States government in consequence of the New York
Port-office sending English malls in such slow steamers u
the Arago and Fulton. These vessels occupy about four-
teen days in crossing the Atlantic. Steamers, each as
Cunard s, often now make the passage in nine days.
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