The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-26 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

M 018101 f -HOUSE.

Ca/brim Dristoreen wee charged with being drunk and
assaulting Jane Barham.
The proseculdi is • cripple, and to Whim' to a large
waned an her forehead, which had bees recently plaistered,
els augured es he suffering from extreme debnity. She came
We smut wen crutches, and sat while giving her evidence.
whisk she tild Is each • low vole. that en dim of the court
me dirge. he repeat it. She said that she wee at the door
IkeptAlesktriert about 9 o'clock on the previous evening,
whim the planer cams tap, knocked twice at the door, and
then enact bar • violent blow on the forehead with a large
elleeLlalletieg • wooed, which had since bans donned by
Dr.
Lama Kr. (chief clerk)—ls the stick which the police-
men Was the ese she struck you with
Prinsestrlx—Yea.

lir. GOo;iroauLiihy, It is heavy =ought° fell =cc with.
Melt et/ Cotildiy deposed that aloe resided In Bogsr.loel-
emit, end was standing at her door ma Wednesday avowing,
when shame the primmer at the top of the court, drunk, and
\seed her say she bed lost a shilling. Some boy picked up •
farthiug end gave It to bar, telling hethat that was what
she had dropped, upon wbloh she became excited, and Weak
mere boys, who continued to tea= her, with a large stick
which she was eirryiag. She afterwards west up to the
doorway when the proomutriu was standing with her father,
sad the latter told Mr to go away. She replied that If she
Ira a man she would moil, do for him, and then the peer
semis civilly &dried her to go out and be quiet. The prumst
thee .track the wall tyro with her stick, and the tbltd time
struck the prmecutrix on the toralteed, indicting a wound
which ionsdlately =reed her fame with blood, sad reduced
bar to • rase of complete bait= aka having quitted the
M= U Ulmer, at Bow ca
Police-remtarele 427 said Met he was seat from the statics
to Sapcdeateeart, where be heed the proessatrix is •
agate of 4rnet sediese from be wooed, and the primmer
dealt =I veep sash eared. She we wry robot, and it
V:Sine after to tsar her to the rade&
Load Mayer WWII the prises, idea she had to say ?
no prisaase, whose ISMS (11W111 ate food) Bowed
pleafeemly, mid, in • sr biebi yoke, that she was very
gory Ise abet she hal ber, bee It was all as sorbet
Si. melte% Wore seal a pear stipple as that, as, est he
eerie. Ire was on, rush erred at shs ear, *rift to
the eeriest of the boys, who Wind Par 0 thSi as deb%
brew riot orbwee doiag ; het sir was eely berialdeg
the dicat ahead so frighten be her when It seckleetrip
streak lie par cripple en the (sou d. His l
coeliett deskare bow ee
lry sir sree, red she hoped tie=
. deal Me her gal
he
bens de irr int the is bar a aims
doe. art ems wirier cake mid astde It rib Or prows-
sela ; red she was rim le the 'Mavis rase Sr that pur-
ge" bet was wee ries beceght bask to the her with se le-
steriss liet eie rebeel to de 10 re the pen ot poverty.
we bed all be sepolisl this, for lie aka if the par.

eicutrb ; but am it wee impossible to pear over each an un-
provoked and aggravated assault committed upon so defence-
Um • tresture =our must pay a Ins of We., or go to
pima far airs
No mew bibs brilmining she was again locked up.
GUILDHALL.
.Leureme ihmkowth learkw, deemibed se an repast, a
tall, powerful h akes =a, about 40 years asps, with a pro-
fusion of beard sad mouteche, was charged in the follow-
inia=atabbing.
Edwards, &middle-egad woman, who appeared in
a very week and emated abbe, deposed aa follows—l live
at leuslo
a. llt Shomnaker-row, Bleckfriars My husband is •
alabourer. Tho; primmer resides at the Biaokfriars
School, and kb wile Is gamma them. He threw a pail of
water over my child and several other little ones, and on
seeing it I oaths down stabs. I found the primmer outside,
and eaw him strike a woman with hie Made A mob got
round him, MI I them mw him with a life. preserver in his
bend, and he began to lee it. He struck ma with it in the
chest. I did Let me any bled* in the weapon be Mrs& me
with, but I bit sum sharp inetrument pierce me, and i
though ft wee my etayMna, and that my Me ware broken.
I was liken to the ho*tal.
Crees-ezmalned—nie coeurred in an inekeed space. You
have &quart, thrown water over my childrm for being
them during the last twelvemonth'. I Mow you have struck
them It was three weeks era ZIKSSII ego that a eimilm
disturbance occurred at your gets, but It did not continue fur
two loan before you took any nodes of It. The parents inter-
fered directly. You on that occasion came down with a
carpet bag in your hand, and them was a mob collected
there. The parent of cue of the children you almost drowned
pointed
you Lem
out, bat I did not see him Ilia blow et your
I em bound over to keep the pesos towards
you before Alderman Phillips.
Edward Langford mid—l live at 3, Shoemaker-row, I
wee stesding at my window to-day, at half-past 1 o'clock,
when I saw some little children come out of Church-entry
sad half-drowned with water.
Aidernrr Carter—What sem were the children
Witame—Froca 3to 4 years old. I suppose they went and
told their parents The first pima Imy after that wm
lira. Beans who came to me about ft. I looked round the
must sad saw the rimier strike one of the two women that
wets at the gate of the wheel, but which I could not my.
There wee a mob there, sad I went round and saw the lid-
NW with the l b.pemener produced (a bamboo ease about
14 lathes long and 1 inch thick, loaded at either and, and at
the and opposite Mahar:die a among steal blade projected, and
was fixed by a epilog). I raw the prisoner strike the old
mom (Kr. Edwards) over theabotalder with the life-preserver.
I my bre. Edwards outside the school-gate, and in
the squabble I any the prisoner knock her down.
With the amiebieur the police I got her into
my shop, and Oise took from the left aide al
her chef Ws bide, which was broken off the end of the
lei buds! in a slanting direction to the depth
cd in bass `be abeet. There was only half an Inch of
the binds • and sans one drew my attention to It,
end I tit iris cmly a 'Mgt:one. I any him take the
Illispiesemer from a side pocket and put the string mad
his wrist More miss it.
Alba= Carter—Had he the life-preserver In hie bend
at the time be struck Hrs. Edwards first?

—viiim:=Niciii: liitiiiiftc;taleivards to strike the
old ma.

Seal Evans said—My child coma to me this morning
cameedwithwagr, sad fa oceteeqaence of whatl heard I went
I mad to Chankreatry, and the primer came down. I said
to him, " lon bras, to throw water over than little
eAfld-
rn." Ha made no same, but pat his head Into his pocket
sad drew out this lie-preserver. He streak me and knocked
me down, bat I cannot tall whether he struck me with his
Sat ar the life- . I became ineemdble sad was
carried away. Whin I recovered myself I now Mn. Edwards
bete; takes sew, but I did not see her dabbed.
IldwiWa, ea old man alma SO pate of ege, who
spewed with one of his sere mock isesseted and him heir
saturated with blood, mid—l was limbs my dinner about
I ballast meta-dry se I was wades aloe( ftreentaker-row.
when I now my tisaghter-ta-lew (Ma. Edwards) ran out
heckwarde. I west down Church-entry to me whet was the
make, and tits prisoner woe Weide the gate. My daughter-
la-law was kies from the mouth. &mai
sousere
malling the prisoner by calling him names for he
bed dons. I add be ought to be ashamed of himself, sad he
ought to be lotooked over, upon which he struck me with
the likppresarver sad not my ear half off. He also *truck
me no the knuckles. I got hold of the life-presertra as soon
as I Feebly could, and stuck to It until the poltreinaa came,
far I coal lot get it entirely from him.
Aldermen Carter—Did you observe the blade at the end of
the_mosarvert
Witmer—No, sir I did not.
Inmates Lemuel mid the =er admitted having used
the Ille-presirver fa his awn
Alderman Carlar—Viess appear so have been very savage
amsalts out of a most sassily proceeding towerde
the Hale and as the police ars not prepared with
any farther 'Adams to-day, I shall remand you till Wed-
motley next for further examinatrcia.

it-timer—WM you unapt bail foray appaaranosP
AI/km= Cut—Certionly not.
- - CLWtHENWELL.
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Cowde-1T 7,Zi. iiiZill Yr..fferwerd , • t and ggrroeeyzigrocer,
on business at 6, Copeutagen•street, le ton. was
bakes Mr. Tynrhitt with unlawfully wee dog and
34ward Collins.
Mr. ohn Wakeling appeared for the defendant.
From the evidence it appeared that the complainant had
bean deist some wort for the defendant, and being short of
the defendant if ha could let him hays some.
ThaMarisat said when the wort was completed he would
pay, spas which the complainant became very noisy, and

The complainant stated that the defendant snuck him
violently, but Mr. Wattling called winemees who swore that
all the defendant did was to .resove the complainant, who
from the now he made wen disturbing the badness, not only
alas defendant, but of the whole neighbourhood.
Mr. Wakeling stated that this chugs was only made to
annoy the defendant. Three was not the sl ghtest founda-
tion for the complaint, and be asked for the dfmissl of his
client.
Mr. Tyrwhitt dismissed the charge.

LAMBETH.

William Denbigh Sloperll;;i7Oft, alias Yen/mil, was
charged on remand with bigamy. TM mat was crowded.
The marriage hayloft been weed,
Mrs. Heys., the lady whom the miaow pirouetted to '
marry Malty stating that M w the sea of a nobleman, ,
&c., mad—lt ham been stated, atr, by tits primmer that he
had been drawn into the woad mining*, mad I went to
know why he should say so. It dem set leek very much
like ft when I did riot even 'abed** bin to a single one of
my trim& er respeetable 'glade's; bat the fact wee, he
made use alma dins& that I was baba emogh to halm
what f
him, il mime I wee bee here I bees remimeil a Letter from
Yr. his mine fee Its had mid.
laasaremillitoa—. Where b that Meer?
Mrs. Bayer—Ustortusately I have deetmeyed it.
Primer—Why yogi know I amid not go any where that
r were not after me, and my life was such a misery to me
Isms that I was obliged to go out for a change—a
(Multhletl
Mrs. Hayes—What has become of the casket and its very
mind& emirate with which you said you had been pee-
meted by ?
Primer —I °moot say now.
Mr. Nodes—lt has been mated, prisoner, that you have
• third wife; indeed, your own mother has Mated that you
bed been nmeohd d or 7 yaws iigo, end if that is the case
yea mad bare mania • third wife. Now, the only ropers-
:4r eonmite these ladies primat, whom you has so
elsosieed, Is to Male like a man whether you have
soother Mk befog.
Primmer—As God is above ms sad say judos, I have not
mid (poiating to Mrs. Dames) that is my firm wife, and I
am very wary for what I have d, us.
Mr. Norton—l find by the marriage certificate that you
described yourself on Mrs. Dawson as late an offices in the
army. Is that bar—have you been in the army ?
If,. Cowles—Hs has never been in the army, your
worship.
The pelmet, after receiving the customary caution, said—
Tea, I am guilty of the charge. I know I have done very
wrong, and I throw myself on your mercy.
The prisoner was then fully committed for trial at the
ensuing melons at the Cestral Criminal Court, and the wit-
assess bound over to prosecute.