The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY

- 1 INSOLVENT DEL COURT.--JAN. 5.
(Bator Kr. Co me& Murphy.)
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This isesimmo who bed kept • Mamie mylarn at Hyde,
VW etyma he N,. Dowse end Yr. Served for several err
dimes. Ik. P..Onl.heesyyatwt.
The ere had tees wrsrd Wass before the court ; and the
esimisie, is appeared. dill net estate all the debts.. The In-
solvent had bees • military otiose, and married the daughter
al Dr. Corned y, on white It, want into the establishment.
The property Led been add Rader • bill of sale.
After • bon droweeion the ease wee adjourned, with an
ionisation Om az rassermat was made with the opposing
creditor the pinion scald be dismissed.

The meltable (P 146) proved that the complainant tree
The prisoners said they had test the premontor in a publia-
laoy
Inters he strut the loom= In the bee.
The nomplainant said this use not true. He bed not ma
the prisoners ull they otopiad tdes in Nersu•stret.
Hr. Hell ordered Ropes to Fey a flee of 408., or be
Imprisoned for a month ; sad the woman 6s. or MIMI days.

WESTMINSTER.
JAN Daiwa's, a man about 6) We of age, was charged
with the following desperate conduct:
Margaret Donovan, a very respectable-looking woman,
Raid she had been enamel to defendant thirty-two
years, and heed at No. 2, Alexander-place, Bromp-
eme. Shortly before nine o'clock the previous night,
she sent her niece' a girl about 14, into the kitchen
for a small kettle and hearing her screaming, she followed
' her, and asked dm huaband for the bride. Be said she
I should not have it, end struck her a violent blow on the face
with his fist. He than seized the heavy kitchen k.okar, and
made several blows at her with ft, but hie dieter interposed
and prevented him, and two gentlemen lodgers &Imam' to her
assistance, when he tore the dress off one, and struck the
other. He was drunk at the time and the moment he got
any money was in the habit of spending it in drink. She
had ben subject to continued ill-ireatment from him for the
last three yean, and he was at the present moment bound in
hie own receptionists to keep the peace towards her.
Mary Manny, the niece, deposed to going to fetch the
kettle, when defendant took it from her and struck her with
it in the stomach and on her head several times; she acreemed
and her SUM came, wan he conduced himself in the man-
ner his wife had described, acing very bed language.
Mr. William Maynard, shipowner a lodger la the house
proved going into the kitchen on being called, and findini
the defendant aiming blows at his wife with the poker, his
miner sodeavuurieg to keep him back. He used very bad
language, and on witness interfering he struck him, and was
znvi wtennt.
t Britten, 1 B, said be war called In, end the de-
fendant given into hie custody for assaulting has wife. She
was is great agitation, bleeding from the fees, and her neck
VW swollen. The home was in greet confusion, and the
inmates complained that defendant was so violent as to make
them fear for their lives.

Mr. Arnold said he must consider what was to be done
with the accused, whom he remanded till Tuesday.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
di red Boasy, about twelve years of age, woe summoned
for that " hedid unlawfully, wilfully, and maliciously commit
di..., injury, and to and upon 300 printed circulars,
tho property of —,' &o.
Mr. Idlward Lewia appeared for the defendant.
Mr. John Neal, of Edgware-road, jeweller, acid he took
the dadindant and another boy into his service, and entrusted
both to deliver circulars of hie badness. From information
conveyed to him be found that about 300 of these had been
throws If the defendant down a drain, by white he had
as a lees of shout 61.

Coma-sasmimmi—The boy (defendant) was in the habit of
*mini b his shop at ten in the morning. He was oat till
/.arse Iv% sod it had been as late as sight o'clock, ea-
pied le the delivery of circulate. He paid the boys foe thh
sesnatimee sizpsuos and sometimes ninepesee, according to
the sober delivered. The coat of them, having his name
oe the saveloys., was 375. 6d. per thousand, and his loss was
vet, etesidgeshie.
. .

• Hyde-perk constable proved seeing a men draw out
from a MIS sear to Grosvenor gate, on the 24tlf ultimo, a
large somber of circalart on whioh were the complainant's
muse awl address (the lame now produced); and on the 27th
Ye sew • farther quantity collected hum toe lame drain. A
num is dm eemplainant'a employ came with the dab:admit
the wee tia_y, end more were recovered.
Gawp Dittos, the shop:nen, proved dimoverhag some al
the drawlers In the dram. The boy told him ha had put
them thin.

Mr. lonia, in defence, alluded to the youth of the deka-
dent, and submitted that there was not sufficient In the use
to show wilfulness or maliciousness. The rot wee the
time alluded to was the bite severe hest, and then ring
mar skating and recreation on the frozen river la the park,
the' defendent,tempted to the sport at their, thooght.
issWy got rid of his incumbrener —the circulars he had been
ratout with—andjuined the aliders. The act wits wrong, bat
the bask of a boy, and oould not be called maliciousness. He
thsaghtit would have bean far better if Mr. Neal bad soospted
the emanatef drugs from the boy's father, who waswil~g,
though poor' to make all good in reason, end, If not so, the
County Coastwr open to him without bringing ths led be.
fore a magistrate. A bigger boy was present with the other
what the circu/sre wets got rid of, end the sot wee a joint
one.

--Mr. Bingham said the defendant's advocate had treated the
matter very initeniouely, but he was of opinion the boy had
acted malklossly, but be would consent to • settlement.
The amount ol damage, variously stated by the complainant,
war eventually laid at 16e., and the father of the boy agreeing
to lailrt,Ljt, the case was dlsmisetd.
Lwow, • young man in the employ of Mr. Chas.
Aeprey, dressing-ems menufaciurer, 166, New Bond-street,
was charged with • series of forgeries.
The prosecutor said it was the prisoner's duty to fetch ma-
tarts's for his workmen; after obtaining the amount of cash
required from one of his cashiers.
William Oirady, ambler in the house, produced • bill
wbkh be received from the prisoner for half • hundrri
weight of glee, the Gamut he which, 2!., he bad the day
before given him. It hears date 4th January, and is an
Invoke from Mr. Heady, the dieter.
Henry Beetty, anemone to his father, 63, Great Queen-
etreet, dammed to the pismire orderiag a
Tarter of • hundredweight of glue, which he supplied,
receiving the amount, 11, for which he made out the Invoke
produced, which had been since altered to half • hundred
weight, 2!.
Tie prosecutor said this was but one case. Ho bald ht lila
hand another bill on which money from his cashier was ob•
Wised by the prisoner, which was false altogether, and if
time won allowed him by remanding the primmer, he should
be shin unfortunately, to show many inch ones. The
=was an apprentice to his foreman, and he took both
amnia, togolber.
Thlenzammter, who entered into no defence, wee accordingly

MARYLRBONE.
Peter Iced, lateerivate in the 2nd Regiment of the LW
Guards, was char Oslo,. Mr. Low with stealing a qua-
thy of property aging to Lest. Bruce Alleyne, of the
same regiment, to whoes mink* be was at the time.
The prosecutor stated that on Saturday Isar, upon looking
into hie cigar tree, he totted several duplicates In it which he
thought referred to property he had mired. He took them
to the pawnbrokers' where the articles had bees pledged,
when, upon their being shown to him, he ideatilled them se
part of the property be had lost. He took them with kin to
the barrack, in Albany -street, where the regimes& is quar-
tered, and met for dm primmer, whoa la otasequeses of
what he admitted he was pieced in the gesrd-room. Primo
anew that met for the pawnbroker, who ideatified the pri-
mate es the person who had pawned them.
la newer to b(r. Loaf, prosecutor stated the articles
which bed bees pawned, sad w Moll consisted of venous de-
seripticas of geatlemee's wearing apparel, and he added
that may more duplicates hen been found which referred to
"hor PeoPerlY rg.d.
kr. Low— hat is the value of the whole of Use
I=Lor—About 201
• _

Mr. Lcog—L the broker here f
Patios oat/table 191 8, sad be wee sot. Witness took the
triinto away at his lodgings, 1, Albeerstreet, wham
es residing with his wife. Wars stated the °harp
rhim, upon which he said that he pledged the arti-
ha:mum his master owed him maw. The priaseer'a
wife are him twelve duplicate'. (They were mama by
the aka)
The pasta Wei remanded for • week.
Tun Rammumaer OF Mx. Laaa.—Kr, Long net for
the ha time at the liarylebone Polar Court, the emat
was arta by the resat demonstration of regard and re-
meet. The worthy magostrate, who as smanted sheet 18
years ago to this oast, was for about two pare • atiatists
at Malborough•istreet, and for a oonsidamble aria ban
his appointment as a police magletrate h London, was
Recorder of Coventry. He was called to the be, an the 11th
of February, 1811.
Afier the disposal of the night charges,
Mr. Ha da sddramed the worthy smears* strong that
as one of the oldest practitioners sac solicitor at the court, be
begged on the part of hiumelf and others in the profession to
express his deep ',Trot at his (Mr. Loog's) verhement. He
thanked him for many acts of courtesy and hiatuses, and
wished him many years of comfort in his ristiramat Gem
active duties.

The worthy meeistrata returned his most =did 'beaks to
the learned gentlemen for the kind expressions to which be
had given nttersitoa and be wee glad to dad that he had en-
joyed the °audience of thoee who bed attended before bha to
oaten connoted with the court.

Mr.Oraat, late inspector of the D, but now of the C, divislae,
Mr. Faller, solicitor to the parieh of Paddington, and fumy
other gentimmen coonect,rl officially with the court and parish
aerate sad other oollector., expressed their high respect for
Mr. brag OD his retirement.
SOUTH W AR K
Two lade, armed lf'Ponald and thirtieth were charged
with stealiag a pair of hoots trout the shop of Mr. Franklia,
boot and shoe maker, No, 29, Bermondsey-street.
Rliasbeth Larkins, ac intelligent girl, stated that she lived
in the procreator's house end on toe previous evening she
was to the be room, wile abs saw the prisms," looking
into the window. Hartley thee watered the door and toot •
pair of boots from a hook, and headed theettoll'Donald, who
wee at the door. She hietantly went and called Mr. Franklin,
when they threw the boots away sad ran uff.
Davies Clarke, 109 M, said that be paused the prisoner",
and took them into melody. They were both young thieves;
ked bees convicted.

TM prisoners leaded guilty, and were sentenced each to
throe month. herd arbour.

Edward Bcer6orougA, another lad, wee next churned with
stealing tan psira of home trace the shop of Mr. Medway,
boot end bhoensatar, 49 Wulf,lars.roed.

Mr. Kidney said that on the previous *sealer he missed
ix yoke of boots has a basket at the doe, sad sew the
primmer and several Wove mauls, frogs the door. He
amen bail el the primmer, and found a pair of the boob is
Ids posemks.
la weer to lin chirp, the riecoor said be 4M mg sisal
die boots. They were gtv.a to him by soother ink As. nit
away. He was an honest lad, end had ben la livable
before.

Ms. Combs reuteDeed bioa fora weak to at able duo ponce
Y mike taelier *twee.

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aill IDALOTID

At the Mansion-hoaee yesterday, Aaron Blake,
City police-constable 646, appeared in answer to a .stintnions
obargwg him, upon the cotapidut of James Griffith, with
violation of his duty.
Mr. J. Butler, Juts , solicitor, 191, Tooley-street,
to Rapport the complaint; sad Weidner for the .
lir. Batter said he had a }vadat duty to perkirse, whisk
was neither wont nor lees than that of charaiag the defend-
ant with having eommittsd a violent assault upon the com-
plainant, wbo was foreman and manager at a timber-yard
Toole -street, and a highly reipectable man. There bed
alraidy bean proceedings in the care upon I oanplaint mad*
to the Police •Cormaisetorter, which had resulted in the pre-
sent amnions. He (Mr. Butler) knew that the police had
often most unpleasant dutim to perform, and he regretted
that under the act the detaudant could sot give evidence, bat
if it could be dons by consent he was willing that it should
be so.

Goodies* (chief clerk)—The act does not permit it.
James Griffith said-1 am foreman to Mr. Eldon, timber
merchant, Tooley-street. On the night of the 11th Novem-
ber I wee in oompsay with • (deed named Martin in Omer
church-sweet, about 11 o'clock. There visa some mimic in
the street, and my friend crested over to listen to It, while I
waited for him on the kerb. After • minute or two defandaat
came up, and asked me what I was lounging about for. I
said It vu not his business, He said it was; upon which I
said, " Well, my friend has just cramped over; he will be
back again in a minute, and if you stay a minute I expect
you'll see him." liesaid, " That won't do for me; that is
not satisfactory." 1 said I should tell him no more. Boma
words passed, and he Galled me a blackguard several limas.
Mr. Martin came up and said, " What is all this about r'
sad when I told him be said, " Take his number." I had
some difficulty in doing eo, and I just put my finger on
defendant's 'boulder to hold his collar so that I might take
his number. When I had got his number I said to Martin,
" It really is too bad that we are compelled to pay police
canatablee to come up and insult us while standing quietly
on the pavement." With that the defendant turned
and said, • You, you --thing, you pay police con-
stables r said, " Yes, 1 pay towards it," sad I walked
away, he following me, and again calling me "blackguard."
When 1 and my friend had got about ten yards away
the defendant struck me from behind a violent blow on
the back of the neck, at the same tints saying, " Take that,
you tanks) —; that's how I serve such lackey —as
you." I was on the middle of the pavement when be struck
me, but the blow staggered me into the middle of the road.
When I bad recovered myself, he placed himself in a regular
fighting attitude, and said, " What will you do now ? ' By
the advioe of ray friend I walked on till we meta policeman.
The Lord Mayor—What is your impression; was ho
sober ?

Complainant—l thought he most have been In liquor, and
said so, when I went directly afterwards to the Seething-lane
station, but the inspeotor said it was impossible, ea the man
only went on duty at nine o'clock. Several days after I came
to this court for a summoos. and from the dyke I got I
wrote to the polka commissioner.
Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—You came on the 21st Naves.
bar, ten days after, and that is why we did not biros the
IPIUDOSOON. - .

By Mr. Wontner—l wrote to the oommissioaer on the
23rd November. I was standing on the weeniest three or
four minutes, not more, after my friend crossed the read. He
had been for a walk, and not in a pubile-houes all the while.
I met him at his place of hosiers near Southwark-bridge,
about 8 o'clock, when we walked slowly away to the Eastern
Counties Railway, to see some improvem.nis stopped there
about half an hour, and then walked slowly back. We had
• glue of stout each at a public-house near tke station, and a
piass of gin each at "Dirty Dick's," on our way home.
That wee all we had to drink, and we did not stay at the two
public-houses more than ten minutes altogether. I was per-
hialy civil to the defendant, aed did not use one improper or
Isralting word to him. He made use of bad languagessveral
times before I said I had to pa for the police.
Wm. Martin, foreman to- Mr. Bostic, at his timber-yard,
Bankside, Southwark, was examined at great length,
substantially corroborated the evidence of the cam t,
adding that when he returned to complainant and found him
talking to the policemao he asked what wee the matter,
and, being told, said to the defendant, " Well,
new, you find he has told you the truth, that he
was waiting for me, and why don't you let him
go on 'r" but that the defendant kept following them
notwithstanding. Had known the omplainant fur six or
seven yens, and bad never heard him use bad languages
With regard to the blow struck, this witness saint-M
policeman wits walking between me and Mr. Griffith, who
was In front at the time, and, suddenly lifting up his hand,
he struck him a violent blow on the back of the neck, which
sent him staggering live or six yards Into the road. After
that the defendant planted himself is a fighting attitude, as
if to challenge him to fight, and said, "There, that's how I
serve lanky -- like you ; what will you do now ?" When
he recovered himself Mr. Griffith was going to strike him in
return, but I got between them, and perenaded my friend to
go away, sad we walked en till we met • policeman, who
advised en Os go to the station and we did so. We were
both perfectly amber at the time.
The bad Mayor—Do you think the defendant was
intoxioated f _
.

Witness—lt is my impreasion he was. He would never
have acted en, I should think, if he had been sober.
By Mr. Wcatner-1 he altercation between them WWI
about 20 minutes, and my friend was very much excited, but
I did not hear him use any bed language at all.
Mr. Butler mid this was his ease.

Mr. Wontner said he had several witnesese to call for the
defence; but before he did so, he would remind his lordship
that In Graoschurch-street, owing to the number of ladies
and gentlemen who go for the purpose of taking omnibuses,
the number of thieves who frequent it, and the numerous
robberies there committed, the police constables have a most
difficult duty to perform, one part of whichwas to prevent im-
proper characters from loitering about so as to prevent robbe-
ries, and It was impossible for them to know who was a thief
and who wee not. In the present case, two men were seen to
enter the street, one of them crossing there'd, and standing on
one side, while his companion remained standing on the other.
This wee • favourite mode of action of thieves, and naturally,
at eleven o'clock at night, excited the suspicion of
the officer who consequently asked the complainant what
he wee loitering there for. If he had at once said
that he was welting for his friend who wee listening to the
magic, when all would have been well, the complainant
Mood upon his dignity, sad wanted to know what busi-
ness It wee of the policemea's. Besides that, it would
be shown that he used Magnus calculated to excite
the defendant, and that instead of striking • violent blow,
the defendant only put his hand to the complainaat's back,
and pushed him gently onward.
The learned gentleman then celled his witneems.
Inge= Guns, liemused victuals; Grua Dragon, Glue-
ohnrch-streer, said—On the 11th of November I closed my
house at eleven o'clock, and went into Orsoechurch-street. I
beard an altercation between the defendant and • tall man.
Defendant said, " Go en, what are you lurking about here
for r' 1 heard the other say, " It's men such se me who
feed and clothe such things as you." Blake than shoved
him at the back of the neck, and I went away thinking they
wore going to make a noise of It. Before I went I heard
complaisant say, " I should like to punch your heed," but
that was after Blake had pushed him. Complainant was
pushed off the pavement Into the road.
By Mr. Butler—l did not see any friend with the com-
plainant ; end did not see the complainant try to take defend-
saes number. Defendant only gave • push, and the °em-
planeit did not go off the pavement more than two or three
fest. I believe they were both sober at the time.
Benjamin Draper, driver of • Brixton omnibus, said he was
in Graescharchostrest on the night of the llth November,
shout hat-pest 11, and row an alterciatic n going on between
Ike dehadeat and the coutplelaut. Heard the latter say ft
was such wee as he who clothed and fed such —thief' as
the policeman; sad that he should like to punch the pollee•
maa's head for him. Saw complainant in the road, but could
not say whether he Wan pushed there or not as (witness's)
attention was taken off for a minute by his horses.
Crosioexamined—Was quite sure the complainant need the
words " things." Heard nothing Improper sad by the
policeman.
Francis Spratley, oonductor to the omnibus driven by the
lea winter, also said 'he heard the complainant say that he
helped to keep each things as the policeman, but he did
not see any bluer struck or push by the policeman. The
policeman wee quite sober.
Mr. W.:easter said he bed no further witnesses to cell.
The Lad Mayer—Well, Blake, 1 can but CCM* to one
concluaion, widths& is that you exceeded your duty In swing
as it is proved you did not. You bad a perfect right to ask
the oomplelaset `a proper wry who and what be was, if—of
which, however, the evidence certainly does tat satisfy toe—
he wee waiting about for an unusually long period, bat then
you should have does so M • courteous tone, and not, as I ant
sorry to say you did. in a manner extremely impertinent, for
it would be very had If two respectable working men,
taking a walk after their day's wink was over, could not go
:lmthe streets in • quiet strolling way, without being
oagitly queetloned as to why they were " lounging or lurk-
ing about," and although these two men exhibited violence,
yet they are so evidently respectable that I am surprised that
with your experience ;you did not at mace see their real
character. Your language was altogether most unjus-
tifiable. Upon evidence perfectly clear it appears that
three times over at lust you celled the com-
plainant • blackguard, and that, not outset with
that, you afterwards struck him • violent blow on
the back of the neck, which drove him several yards
into the road. Thee I must refer to the conduct of the
witness Martin, who did himself great credit by placing him-
self between you and his friend, and so preventing
the latter Eau returning the blow, as your conduct
was calculated to excite him to do. Your witisesess say that
the complainant used exciting language to you, and I an not
at all eurprised if suck was the cue, for it is natural for a
man to feel excited and Indignant after befog fretted as you
had treated him. It is very loss that it is your duty to bolt
after people whom you may surest to be Lerida, about for
improper purposes, and you may sousetimes lad that duty
difficult in ita performance, hut there Is nothing in lbe cir-
cumstances a this cue at all re justify your ocadteet, you
clearly exceeded year duty, and I therefore tine youlffe., or
to be Imprisoud fee seven days.
The defentlest wee then taken in custoiy, but soon after
paid the mow sad wu discharged.

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1, 1860.

ROBBERY AND CLEVER CAPTURE.

•
One of the cleverest and meet prompt capture,
which we have had to lewd has best efteoted by inspector
Yearn and Sergeant Davis, of the Derby borough polies WOG.
On Monday everting Inspector. Fesma reseind saforsetimi
of a robbery that had been elected at Mrs. Leeds', Gouge
Hotel, Swims-street, Liteiturert, hem • copiloted int that
I hones, and that 261. or 274 lad tweet taken. rid mid
silver. Foam promptly securest the aselatance of 'fadeout
Davis, and the two officers went 11111 their way to the some of
the robbery, but st the same time kept their eyes open.
Fortunately their professional aptitehaverved them well, and
in the Morledge they not two ospeotably-dresiod men, who
answered to the description given of two suspected persons
who had been seen in Mrs. Leeds' house. The
two men wets queetioned by the officers, who did
sot consider the answers satisfactory, and accord-
ingly they ran their prisoners into the Coach and
Horses. Here the impactor searched one, whilst the sergeant
opmated on the other. Feint's man gave the name of Chas.
Hearts, of Coventry ; whilst the man attended by Davis I
boasted at intervals of the names of George Edward., and
Jeans Davidson, of Manchester. They, of course, denied all
knowledge of each other, but they were separately searched—
' Henri* by Fatten, and Edwards by Der's. Ia the coat side
pocket of the prisoner Henna wee found 41.9.. in hose silver.
Amongst other pisees,• remarkable half-crown, which, as it is
split on one of the Nola, ato be safely identified by the loser,
and which a witans will swear he read to Mrs. Leeds. Oa
searching Edwards, Davis found 111. 10s. in gold labia waist-
coat pocket ; a crown piece, four half-crowns, and a sixpence
1 in his coat Bap pocket, and In his trouser pocket 16s. Bd.
principally in =penny coins. The mosey thee taken Eros
these auspicious characters answered to the description of
that lost by Mrs. Leeds, and they were therefore looked up,
and it was *forwards discovered that the prisoners had
visited Kra. Leeds' hoes, oa Sunday and on Monday. There
can be little doubt that they see aocompliabel thieves, for
when it is anderatood that the hotel wee about to change
hands, it must be seen that they selected • ratable tine.
for their visit. On Monday, when the prisoner, left in the
day time, they promised to pay a farewell visit to Mrs. Leeds,
and have a final glees at her hotel. This they did about nine
o'clock at night, and a slight disturbance having culled Mrs.
Leeds' attention to another part of the house, the
whorewe seen near the cupboard, most have avaitrtheermt
selves of that opportunity for abstracting the bag of mosey
there deposited. On Tuesday morning Inspector Yearn
apprehended a female near the lock-up door, who is supposed
to be eonnecled with the male poi oors. She was imme-
diately searched, and on her was found a brooch containing a
photographic portrait of the prisoner Davidson, who she said
was her husband, and whose nano was Thompa•n. Ste was
thou locked up, and Superintendent Hilton, in company with
Inspector Foam, went to the Odd Fellows' Arms. Bag-lane,
where she had been staying. Amongst a boodle of her
wearing apparel wens found a dozen of the most skilfully
made skeleton keys half-a-dozen picklocks, and a superior
jemmy. This discovery is quite sufficient to prove the nature
of this woman's avocation, and the timely seizure of these
elaborate instruments for burglary (which are beautifully
made) wid probably says us the duty of recording some
extraordinary feat of housebreaking and robbery. The
greatest credit is due to Superintendent Hilton, Inspector
Fears, and Sergeant Davis, for the admirable promptitude
with which this dangerous gang has been ersized.—,Derby
lenntry.