The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-26 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Serjeant Dowling, Deputy Assistant Judge.)
Jam Leslie, 43, dyer, was indicted for stealing 71b. and
upwards, of a outaM dye called cudbear, the property of
Peter Alexander Higgins, his master.
.1% Mocarth, an the service of the prosecutor. said
abot. t sevt.n o'• xic in the evening of the 990th of Septem-
ber he saw th.• prisoner come out of a closet, and seeing
him rather bulky, he had suspicions, and watched him into
the Baton-road. He invited the prisoner to go with him
into a public-house, and when there aaked him what he had
got about him. He said he had not got anything, but he
was told by witness that he had, upon which the prisoner
said that it was something that he was going to sell to Mr.
Higgins. He was asked to show it, but at first refused. At
length he opened his waistcoat and took out a l,which
contained 31b. of cudbear, an article used in the dyeing trade,
and he said that was what he was going to sell to Mr.
Higgins. He was told to give the oudbear back to his
master, and after some hesitation he gave it to Mr. Hig-
ons's son, said that it was all right, and that Mr. Higgins
knew all about it.
Peter Alexander Higgins said he lived at No. 127,
Caledonian-road, and was a dyer. The prisoner was in hie
employ, and he used a dye called cudbear in his trade.
About half-past eight on the night in question he met the
prisoner in Great Portland-street, and he said to him
(witness) that a email parcel of something had been found
on him, that it was oudbear, and weighed 71b. Witness
went home, and having opened the drawer where the cud-
bear wee kept he missed a quantity of it. That found on
the prisoner would make up the quantity he had lost.
Upon finding this loss he gave the prisoner into custody.
William Lordly, 160 Z, proved taking the prisoner into
custody on this charge.
The prisoner, in his defence, said the cudbear was his
own property,. nd that he had bought it on the previous
Sunday morning It was an inferior stuff to that used by
Mr. Higgins ; if .he had been a practical man be would
have known the difference in the quality.
Mr. Higgins said he was a practical man, for he had been
a French dyer the greater part of his life.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Serjeant Dowling sentenced him to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for six months.
Robert Pinnock, 19, milkman, was indicted for em-
bezzling the sums of Is. 10d., 2s. 6d., and 7s. 6d., received
by him for and on account of Samuel Hoskins, his master.
The prosecutor is a dairyman, living at Princes-street,
Westminster, and the prisoner was in his employ since last
Christmas, and it was his duty to carry out milk to the cus-
tomers and to account for it to his master twice a day. In
two of these cases the milk was delivered at the Rolls Court,
Westminster, and at the residence of Sir Edward Vaughan
Williams, which was duly paid for, but for which he never
accounted.

-The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. rierjeant Dowling sentenced ikim to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for 12 months.

SECOND COLTBT.
(Before Mr. Payne, Deputy Assistant Judge.)

Samuel Draper was indicted for assaulting John Ben-
nett, a constable of the metropolitan police force, in the
execution of his duty.
Mr. Cooper (instructed by the Treasury) prosecuted ; the
prisoner was undefended.
John Bennett, police-constable 132 K, said he was on
duty in Whitechapel-road at half-past two o'clock in
the afternoon of the sth of September. He saw the
prisoner and another man turned out of the Queen's
Head public-house, and they were both drunk. They
went down the road and annoyed several people, and
got a crowd round them. He asked them to go
away; the other man did, but the prisoner re-
fused. He told him if he did not go he should have to
take him into custody. The prisoner 'then tripped him
up, and threw him on the ground several times, fag on
lira, and hurting his arm very severely. He had not been
able to use it since. Two other constables came to his
usiztarice, and the prisoner was very violent, and kicked
them. .

• William Chapman, police-oonstable 167 K, said he went
to the assistance of the last witness, and saw him on the
ground with the prisoner on the top of him. Witness
pulled him off, assisted by another constable, when the
prisoner violently kicked witness on the ancle. lie was
very violent on the way to the station, and the other con-
stable was disabled. Witness told him if he was not quiet
he would strike him with his 'truncheon. lie continued
kicking, and be struck him on the head.
Thomas Brown, police-constable 198 K, corroborated this
evidence.

Mr. James Roleh, surgeon, proved that both constables
had been very seriously injured.
A witness was called on behalf of the prisoner, named
Agnes Standon, who said she was passing Mile End-road
on the afternoon of the sth of September, and saw the pri-
soner in conversation with the constable Bennett. She
saw the constable push him twice. The prisoner did not
appear to be the worse for liquor. The third time he
began to struggle, and the policeman took hold of the
prisoner by the collar, and nearly choked him. They fell
down together, and she saw the prisoner was nearly
choked. She told the policeman that he was killing, the
man. _ _ .

Mr. Payne summed up the evidence very minutely.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Payne sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to
bard labour for six months.

THE CASE OP EMMY SIMMONS.

In this ease a mistake occurred as to the order of the
court with regard to the prisoner. M. Payne intimated
that if the mother could get proper rareties, the court
would accept thew, and the prisoner would then ho libe-
rated upon condition that she should came up for judg-
ment if called upon. After the case was over it transpired
that the sureties offered by the mother were not satisfac-
tory, and therefore the prisoner was yesterday brought up,
and sentenced to two months' imprisonment.

THE POLICE COURTS

MARYLEBONE.

Mr. Tubbs, the assistant overseer of Marylebone, at-
tended before Mr. Mans/kid to make the following state-
ment. He said, that morning Mr. Overton, one of the
out-door inspectors of poor, called his attention to a very
peculiar case. From the information be received he was
induced to go with Mr. George Benson Baker, one of the
parochial surgeons, to N 0.12, Dorchester-place. He knocked
at the door, which was opened by a stout middle-aged wo-
man, and he asked to beshowir a lunatic whom he had heard
was in the house. She said she was the person spoken of,
and was she not in her right mind and senses! She
was questioned very closely and equivocated veep much in
her answers. Ultimately they got access to the back attic,
and there they saw what completely horrified them.
Crouched in a corner was a female, whose age he bad as-
certained was 53. She was almost in a nude state, having
only a dirty piece of rag to cover her. Her flesh was be-
grimed with dirt and covered with vermin. She was
blind and deformed, and weighed no more than a child
nine or ten years of age. Her language was exceedingly
bad. She swore at the woman they first saw, and, calling
her cousin, shrieked for seine food. Her right arm was
covered with coagulated blood, and her left arm and other
parts of her body were very much excoriated. In the room
were found a small bit of fried fish, a piece of stale bread,
and about a quarter of an ounce of sour smelling cooked
not. The object of his application now was for his wor-
ship to issue his order for the medical gentlemen to exa-
mine into her state of mind, as there could be no doubt as
to her being a lunatic. She could then be legally removed
to the workhouse infirmary.
Mr. Mansfield made the necessary order.
SOUTHWARK.

Mr. Phmita* MM., a master baker, carrying on business
in High-street, Poplar, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Woolrych, charged with indecently assaulting Emma Bar-
rett and Elizabeth Beckley, tee respectable married wo-
mea, in the pit of the Surrey Theatre.
Hr. Henry Allen, the prosecuting officer of the Asso-
ciate Institute for Enforcing the Laws for the Proteaion
of Women, watched the ease on behalf of the society.
Mrs. Emma Barrett said she lived with her husband is
South Lambeth, and on the previous evening they accom-
panied several friends to the Surrey Theatre. They sat near
back of the pit, and for some time the prisoner stood near
them, in the house was excessively crzwded. After the
first piece was over witness and a female friend left the
seat to probsed to her husband, who was at the refresh•