The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-08 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
ALLEOED CARE OF PRAWN:MOM BILLS OF LADING.

This morning Henry Berliner, described as of Worship-
street, agent, was brought up on remand before the Lord
Mayor, charged with being concerned with a man not in
custody in obtaining from Mr. William Parker, of 81,
Lower. Thames-street, auctioneer, the sum of 4f, on a false
bill of lading, which represented that 80 bundles of straw
bran. value '2O/., had been shipped on board the ship
Vulcinus, then lying in the river Weser, and bound to
the vat of Loudon, with intent to defraud.

It. may be remembered that the prisoner, who was pre-
viously known to the prosecutor, called upon him with
another person, who was represented by the prisoner as
being the owner of the goods named in the bill of lading
he produced. On the faith of the representations made,
the prosecutor advanced, on the lath March, the sum
asked for by the prisoner and his friend. The ship had
never arrived, mid no such vessel was registered at Lloyd's,
and in consequence, after some didiculty, inchnling one
escape over a wall at the rear of his house, the prisoner
was taken into custody.
Mr. (ann, of Worship-street, again attended on behalf
of the accused.

Mr. Thomas Beard, who again appeared for the prose-
cution, informed the Lord Mayor that in consequence of
the great difficulty in perfecting the evidence, including
proof that no such ves..el nu the Vuloanus was registered
m any foreign country, coupled with the expectation that
the principal delinquent would be made amenable to jus-
tice, the prosecutor declined to proceed further against the
prisoner.

The Lord Mayor, in discharging the prisoner, said he
must consider himself a very lucky man in getting off so
easily.

BOW STREET.
A SHOCKING SCENE IN DHUHY-COURT.

Michael Regan, a labourer, Honor(' Regan,hin wife, and
Mara Skarn, their daughter, were charged with violently
assaulting Thomas Sheen, the husband of the younger
woman. _

James Welch, no F, deposed that he was on duty in
the Strand this morning at a quarter past 5 o'clock, when
a young man came to him and said murder was being com-
mitted in Dunham-yard, Drury-court. Witness imme-
diately proceeded them, and saw the prisoners quarrel-
ing in the passage of a house. The complainant,
goorsa Sheen, was lying in the yard weltering in his
blood. The prisoner Sheen (wife of complainant)was stand-
ing over him with a fiat iron in her hand in the act of
striking him with it. Witness rushed at her and prevented
her. The two liegans were there at the time—the woman
with a broken iron pot in her hand. He took that also
away from her, with the assistance of twoother constables.
He lifted up the man, who was lying on the
Moor ; he was bleeding from five distinct wounds on
the head. Witness got some cold water and threw
it over his head. Witness took the three prisoners
into custxly, while the man wan conveyed to the hospital.
Witness produced the certificate of the house surgeon at
King's College Hospital to the effect that the man was too
much injured to attend at the court at present. In
answer to Mr. Vaughan the witness sail that the three
prisoners and the injured man were all sober.
Edwin Shaen, a bricklayer, living in thesame house, but
not related to the female prisoner, said that the young
man came and knocked at the door of his father-in-laves
room at about ten minutes past 5 o'clock. He said, " Get
up you —," and seized his wife by the hair. The father-
in-law got up and interfered, and a le ensued.
Witness went out and called a policeman, Selling him that
if he did not come murder would be done.

Mr. Vaughan remanded the priaoners:
The case had attracted a large concourse of auditors, in-
habitants of Drury-court and its purlieu s, seeming to take
great interest in their neighbours' domestic affairs.
Amongst them conversations took place outside, before
and after the case, and some were heard to declare that the
man was not expected to live.

WORSHIP-STREET.
SENT ON DEATH.

Charles Laurence Brown, a master hatter in Susannah-
row, Curtain-road, was char Fed before Mr. Newton with
attempting his life by cutting his throat on the ith of
April last.
Wyman, 341 K, while on duty at that date in
King-street, Mile-end, was called to the house of the
prisoner's sister-in-law, in which he had inflicted
a frightful gash immediately beneath the knob of the
gullet, and completely across it. A razor he had since
admitted to have purchased for the purpose was
lying on the floor, which was nearly covered with
blood. The weapon had apparently slipped frogs his hand,
and his efforts to regain it were furiorik, failing
in which, he got his fingers in the wound,
and tore it open, thereby increasing the flow, nearly satu-
rating the constable's uniform. After being conveyed to
the hospital, he, when able to make himself understood,
implored the constable to lay open his skull with his staff.
For eight days the surpon had not given any hope of his
life. and during that time he had continued delirious. The
occasion of all this was drink.

Prisoner now said that be feJt very penitent, and if al-
lowed to be discharged would return to his business and
offend no more. Drink had so preyed on his mind that he
believed the " polioe were after him."
Mr. Newton remarked—Certainly not, this enonuity of
crime demands an interview with and advice of the chap-
lain. You will be brought up again in a week.