The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-04 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANBION.IOI7BII.

George Brown, a solrli-Z•presea on furlough, was
brought before the Lord Mayer, charged with hating rob-
bed Maria Liadasy, the wife of a sailor, in San-square,
Biebegegate, of s gold watch sad chain of the vales 0181.
The rowans said—The winner lodged with me about
two awe ago, sad afterwards enlisted la the army. On
Saturday he called to see me, and he wse latoxisettri. 1
bad it my packet at the dais • geld watch and Asia which
my ma had given me to take eon of. Whilst the prisoner
was is my room I seined the watch and chain, and accused
him of Linn, takes them. He dude' having does so,
epos which lent foe a Wilma&
Mn. Straehan, • friend of the proseeatrix, said—l was
present when the watch sad shale wen mimed. The pl-
aner was mewed by the protentria of having stolen them,
epos whisk ha tried to Into the ram, bat she closed the
door sad /invested hiss. He then sat upon the soh, and I
saw W take the watch sad ellen from his paint, and pass
them seeder the sashimi of the rota. I saw the chain
amella, down, sad as soon as the policeman eatend the
nom I took it and the watch sad gave them to him.
The a:sone, who tinted the charge sad said he °mild
furnish evidence of the good character he had hitherto
horse, was remanded.
As the Lord Mayor was on the pent 'Cleaving the beach
a retinue stood forward sad said that he attended in
entrequease of having had his at eaties directed to what
bad Una from Mr. O'Couiell la the jastice-room cn Satur-
day last, in referent. to the practice which had existed of
late yens of parading the *Hey of • Roman catholic bishop
shoat the street* of LmWoss on the 6th of November. The
gentlemen, after stating that be himself was a protestant,
said that Mr. O'Connell bad omitted to mention that the
exhibition complained of bed been provoked by the Roman
ostbdica, who in the year 1860 had parcelled oat land into
bishoprics la defiance of the authority of the Queen sad the
legislature.
'The Lord Mayor expressed himself in eimiler terms to
titres to which be gave internee on Saturday last, and the
applissat left the court.

GUILDHALL.
Jame* Henry Wright, a boot sad shomnaker,was charged
at the footnote of the OVIIIIOIIIII of tbs precinct of Whits.
friers, with having committed wilful sad corrupt perjury.
The prisoner had bets • pauper is the City of Ltattou
Union for many years, sad a storm of moult trouble sod
impose*, be navies been lama tines pat is the way of
earalag hie own itchy, sod baring am of,sa returned to the
anion. Oa the 19th of eepMaibrr, 1640, the prisoner was
apprenticed to a shoemaker la Lambeth, wan► whom be
lived about 16 or 16 moutt a, sad t►en absconded. The City
of London Union, on Saturday lam, brought the primmer
before 134 Kelm. W. Cordes sad Alderman Laurent*, for
the pawpaw of remiss ►im to •be Lambet► Units, bat he,
preferring tee City of London Cato., demigod that he be-
longed to Lambeth pariah. By act of parliament it regain*
a reettleace of 40 days la a pariah ►y as apprentice
under as lodestars to seastitsta a teithomeat, sad
Um primmer, being aware of that fast. dalibssoW7
swore Wit ha only Won with ►is mow t►ose weeks whim

M absconded. He was esatlatusd, and every opportunity
given to him to withdraw that statement, but be would
not. He wee confronted with his master, his muter's son,
and his muter's littler, and recognised them all, and they
Identified him, but still he persisted in the same 'tumult.
and solemnly swore that he had absconded after he had
boos with his macer three weeks.
It was clearly proved that he had lived with his master
fifteen or sixteen months, and he wee accordingly committed
for trial.

VT vaaona r-o 80121.
Ludwig Theis, a young Hungarian, who bad been re-
unify discharged from the German Legless, was charged
with cutting and wounding police constable Warner, H 33,
and Henry Moons, &porter in Spitallield•market, whereby
their lives had been seriously endangered.
Sarah Bryant. residing with her lather, in Vine-court,
Spitallielde,sall—Shertly before twelve o'clock on Saturday
night, I was standing at the corner of Commercial-street,
Whiteebopel, in conversation with Henry Monies, when
the prisoner came up and asked us, in broken English, to
get him acme water. Oa telling him that be would be able
to get it himself at the public tiouse close by, the prisoner
suddenly seined me by the um end tried to throw me down,
bet was prevented by Mauler, who dragged him away
from me. In the course of the struggle that took plea
between them, the prisoner made a snatch at the militant
pocket of Monies, as if he meant to rob him of his watch,
and at the same moment pullsd out a long-pointed knife,
resembling a dagger, with which he attempted to stab him.
I Immediately celled ant " murder," bat was so terrified at
the violent conduit of the prisoner, that I ran away, end
saw nothing of whet afterwards took plate.
Thomas Harris, a journeyman shoemaker, said—l was
passing through Casanercial street at the time in questior,
when I saw a crowd of german surrounding the prisoner,
who was brandishing a knife over his head and threatening
to *tab any one who ventured to come near him. Almost
immediately afterwards the policemen Weiner made his
way through the crowd sod seised hold of the prisoner,who
instantly drove the knife into his breast, and afterwards
stabbed him twice in the upper pert of his thigh. Oa re-
ceiving the latter wound., the policeman fell to the ground,
on ebeervisg which I ran forward, end, after an unsueceis-
ful effort to wrest the knife from the primer, I forcibly
threw him down, and snapped eff the blade against the
pavement I kept hold of the prisoner until the arrival of
another policeman, who succeeded in securing him, after •
desperate rotate... and ultimately conveyed him to the
station house.

PoliaeoaaiablePlo d,Hll4,statedthatonreaehiogthe
spot, be found the officer, W , attempting to ((nipple
with the prisoner, but be was evidently in • state of en-
tracte exhaustion, and exclaimed, " Oh, what shall I do,
the villain bus stabbed me, aced my boot is full of blood."
Witness immediately seized hold of the prisoner, who cosi-
rammed a violent residues, and " jobbed" at him several
times with the handle of a knife, the blade of which had
been broken off; but he war ultimately overpowered and
taken into custody.
Mr. Robert Habash= house surgeon of the London
Hospital, stated that both of the rosecutors were very seri-
ously iojured. Hopes were entertained of the policeman's
recovery, hat M;nles was in a highly dangerous condition.
The prisoner, who deaied the charge, through en inter-
preter, was rsassadsd.