The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

Thomas Waterman, superintendent of the casual ward
at the St. Margaret's workhouse, Westminster, was re-
examined, charged with assaulting Elizabeth Cook, a
casual pauper.
It appeared from the prosecutrix's statement, that last
Monday night week she went and asked for a lodging, and
wasgiven ► ticket of admission tothe workhouse. She was
ordered into a dirty bath, and because she refused to take
it the defendant seized her by the shoulder', threw her
with her clothes on into a bath, and turned a cold water
tap on her, by which she was deprived of breath and
shaken very much. She was then very roughly handled,
and taken up to bed. For the defence, it was contended
that the complainant was drunk at the time, and upon
coming into the bath-room was ordered to take a bath
which another person had washed in ; she refused to take
it, and also a clean one which was offered her. She then
sat down on the edge of the dirty bath, and when she got
up was so drunk that she fell into the other
Our, and in so doing, caught hold of the tap
and turned it on. The defend:tot pulled her out. tihe
was very abusive, and tried to assault the defendant's
wife, and had to be carried up to bed. The witness, how-
ever, who deposed to these facts, was very confused and
contradictory in her story ; and Mr. Arnold adjourned
the coo for further evidence.

Mr. W. D. Smyth, of Rochester-row, defended the ac-
cused, and cross-examined the complainant, by which it
appeared that she had been charged with attempting to
committ suicide, and taken to Marylebone workhouse by
order of the magistrate. She was there in the insane
ward for three months, but family matters had preyed
on her mind. She had been lined 405., and suffered a
month in default, fur assaulting the porter at Marylebone
workhouse.

For the defence, Mr. Tubbs, assistant overseer at
Marylebone, was called, and said she was a notorious
drunkard, and had suffered from delirium tremens. He
would not believe her on her oath, and stated as his
reasons that she bad deceived him and other people. He
had known her ten years, and drunkenness had affected
her intellect.

A wallow named Napoleon McCann was called, and said
he had her boy, 14 years of age, with . She was a
drunkard, and upon more than one occasion had taken
the boy's wages and spent them in drink, deserting him.
Evidence was also given to show that her two boys had
been clothed by the parish. She had sold the clothes, got
drunk, and gone out to beg with them.
Mr. Arnold stopped the case. From the woman's cha-
racter and general conduct he felt sure no jury would
convict the defendant upon her unsupported testimony ;
at the same time, one fact was left unexplained, and
that was how the porter came to give her, drunk as she
was alleged to be, a ticket for the workhouse. He thought
that matter should certainly be inquired into by the
parish authorities. He then dismissed the summons.

At the Dull ingdon Divisional Petty Sessions,
holden at the County-ball, Oxford, on Saturday, Job
Colwell, labourer, of Stanton St. John, was charged with
cruelly ill-treating and torturing a dog, on February 2.
The case, which was prosecuted by the Royal Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was clearly proved,
and the defendant sentenced to three months' imprisonment
with hard labour.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH G.—The North German
Lloyd steamer Hermann, Captain Weake, from New York
on the lard nit., arrived this evening. She brings 148
for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 37 bags of
miMesnigoenr London, also specie 221,419 dollars for England,
500 dollars foe Bremen, and a full cargo of 1,500 tons for
the latter port.
ADMIRALTY, MARCH O. —APPOTNTNENTS.—OOIII
menders J. W. Webb, to be captain ; R. E. Tracey, to the
Rodney, additional, for instruction of the Japanese. Lieu-
tenant B. H. Key, to the Achilles.