The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-18 00:00:00

18, 1866.

THE

IVRTS.

CLERKENWELL.
A gentleman attended before the sitting magistrate to
complain on behalf of the inhabitente of St. Pancras-road
and the surrounding houses of a stench maiming from the ex-
cavation going on at the St. Giles's Cemetery, St. Paperer
road, for the formation of the London Extension oft holes'.
land Railway. It that within thellpeat few days
excavations have been going on at the east corner
of the St. Gilee's Cemetery, which, it is stated,
is the pauper portion of the burial-ground, for the
formation of the Midland Railway, and that several 00SOI
and • large quantity of bones have been exposed to
public view. In some cases the coffins were perfectlysound,
and on one of them being taken out it was broken,and it was
stated that the body of a female was almost ea perfect and
sound as when it waa first buried. In many cases decayed
bones and skulls have been thrown up and about the
ground, and In other instances they have been placed in a
large box, but not buried. As there was no doubt that
this was a desecration of the dead, and such an act ought
not to be tolerated, it was considered by the inhabitants
of the district that the matter should be made public.
The stench was such that it was likely to be injurious to
health.
The applicant was referred to the sanitary department
of St. Pancras.

MARYLEBONE.
Harriet dans, aged 33, of 20, Cumberland-street,
Pimlico, milliner, was charged on remand with committing
wilful perjury in this court on the 30th of May last.
Mr. George Lewis, jwi. appeared for the prosecution;
and Mr. Wilding defended the prisoner.
It will be remembered that the prisoner gave a gentle-
man named Moseley into custody for indecently assault-
ing her in a carriage on the North Western Railway. The
charge was dismissed, and the present charge of perjury
was thenyreferred by Mr. Moseley.
The evidence went to show that the prisoner had lived
I at various places and under different names, but she was
generally known as Mrs. Villiers. She had cohabited off
and on for two years with a person named Dyer, who
stated he had run through his property, and now lived on
the profits he made at races. During the time she had
known him she had brought from 20 to 30 charges against
him at the different police offices, which had invariably
been dismissed. She was always following him about and
bringing these charges, chiefly because he would not con-
tinue to live with her. At the time she made the charge
against Mr. Moseley she had a bouquet of flowers in her
hand, and several persons who saw her at the time deposed
that the flowers were not in the least rumpled, nor was her
dress disarranged. She made no complaint to the check
taker at the Camden station, nor to the guard at any of
the stations where the train stopped. Mr. Moseley, when
accused, seemed to be (greatly astonished and indignant at
the charge made against him, and was in an excited
state.
Further evidence proved that the prisoner was well
known to the police as a companion of prostitutes, and
was in the habit of frequenting the Victoria Railway sta-
tion for the Rurpose of talking to gentlemen, and she had
been seen going away with different men from the station.
The prisoner, who reserved her defence, was committed
ter trial, and bail was refused.