The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.. _
CTWS DAY.)

EQUITY 001110.
(Before Vim Chancellor Sir R. T. Kinderaley.)
won v. CITY OP LONDON RILL PROPEXIT COMPANY.
yent wan given to-day upon the motion for an
to restrain the defendants from props ng with
the emotion of certain new buildings between -lane
sad Biocing-lane, which it is alleged will obstruct the
lot of the plaintiff's ancient windows. The plaintiff is
the owner of No. 37, Mincing-lane, and the question
woe the court related to certain rooms at the back of
hie house which were used by colonial brokers for the
may of West India produce.
Br. Osborne and Mr. Bristowe were for the plaintiff ;
sat ffr. Glasse and Mr. G. N. Colt for the defendant.
Tin Vice-Chancellor felt very great doubt as to whether
incase was one of those in which the court ought to
*One, there being great difficulty in eliciting as to the
=sirlight which would be shut out by the new
. The question between the parties would have
to be determined at the hearing of the cause, and in con-
wiring how he could beat deal with the present motion be
het come to the conclusion that the mischief of panting
tyei4unction would be far lees than refusing it. The injune-
e* therefore would be granted until further order or until
*hearing of the cause, the plaintiff undertaking to be
uswerable for damages, to give notice of a motion for a
does, and to accede to any reasonable application for
steaming the hearing of the cause. He suggested that in
Os meantime an experiment which had been made in the
*once of the defendant& to test the obstruction by
rising sail cloth or tarpaulin to the height of the proposedwilding' should be repeated before both parties, awned
by a number of scientific men.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
HAWIESLIT e. BARROW.—JUDGICIENT.
In this case a wife, who had been twice married, Me-
Mod under her mooed coverture a paper revoking a will
which she had mad* during her widowhood. The repreeente-
tires isf the second husband prayed that probate might be
granted of both papers, contending that although the de-
mised had power to make a will under her first marriage
isttlemsnt, she had no power to make one when she had
spin become a married woman.
Sr J. Wilde, however, decided that she had, and
granted probate of the later instrument only.:

COIJRT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN RE J. C. DALTON.
Mr. Reed appeared for the assignees ; and Mr. Lawrence
for the bankrupt, at this adjourned sitting for examination
mad discharge. Mr. James Carter Dalton was • solicitor,
practising at 3, George-yard, Lombard-street.
The accounts filed in this case disclose debts and liabi-
lities amounting in the aggregate to 20,189/., of which
in,1301. were incurred on account of Matthew Shield (lately
bankrupt) • the assets consist of property surrendered,
Mk; good and doubtful debtors, 1,5671.; and property
i. the ebaannds of creditors, 2,1451.
By consent of all parties an adjournment was ordered
aria the 13th July, pending the completion of certain
special accounts which Mr. Dalton had been required to
famish.

Mears. Hart and Co. are the acoountanta engaged in
the Yes
es.
and Mr. James Cooper the manager of the estate.

Ili RE °SORGE GARRAWAY.
The bankrupt was described as of Riches-oourt, Lime-
And, merchant. He was adjudicated upon the petition
of the Fore-street Warehouse Company (Limited) ; and at
the first sitting Mr. Slater, one of the directors of the
company, was elected assignee by the votes of a large body
of the creditors.
This was the sitting for examination and discharge.
In the absence of the necessary accounts an adjourn-
ment was ordered.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before the Recorder.)
DARING STREET ROBBERY.,

Williams Robe*,Lors:2B, Stet Green, 21, and Charlotte
Green, 14, were charged with stealing a watch, the pro-
perty of Charles Bluntly.
The prosecutor was a country gentleman, and on the
23rd inst., about 12 o'clock in the day, he was looking
into a shop in the Poultry, when the prisoners placed
themselves near him, and the two women covered the
man while he put his hand into the prosecutor's
pocket and took out his watch. A constable belonging
to the City police saw what wee going on, and seized all
the prisoners, and it was then found that the swivel of the
watch had been broken and the chain was hanging down.
The male prisoner then handed the watch to the constable,
and said that some one had put it into his hand.
The jury found the prisoner Robinson guilty, and
acquitted the two girls ; and evidence was then given that
Robinson had been several times convicted, and had been
sentenced to penal servitude.
The prisoner, who li a cripple and walks with a crutch,
said it was true that he had been before indicted, and he
had passed seventeen years and a half in prison. The
police were always after him, and he could not get any
honest employment, and he had several times thought of
committing suicide.
The Recorder sentenced him to seven years' penal ser-
vitude. .

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George Murphy, 19, was charged with a robbery with
violence, in company with two other persons, upon
Liuie Magee.
Th.; prosecutrix in this ease was a respectable lady, the
wife of a clerk in the city, and in the evening of the
19th of April she was about to go into the Commercial
Hotel in Skinner-street, Spitalfields, when she was
attacked by two men, one of whom struck her a violent
blow in the eye, which made it bleed, and the others
kicked her, and she was robbed of a brooch, and some
saver. The prisoner and his companions got away, but the
prisoner was taken into custody on the same night, after a
violent resistance, and he was positively identified as
having been concerned in the outrage.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was ordered
to receive twenty lashes with a cat o' nine tails, and to be
kept in penal servitude for five years.
(Before the Common Serjesnt.)
AN ARTFUL IKIIIGER.
Thomas Jones, 24, labourer, was indicted for feloniously
stealing divers gold coins, the moneys of John Wilfred
Seller, under the subjoined singular circumstances.
Mr. Poland conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Daly
defended the prisoner.
The evidence disclosed that the prosecutor is the land-
lent of the Burrage Arms Tavern, in the Plumstead.rodid,
Woolwich, and from the testimony of the barmaid it
appeared that the prisoner caul,: to the bar between 5 and
6 o'clock in the evening of the 9th of April last and
called for a glass of ale, with which she served him and
then retired into the bar parlour. The prisoner had a
long whip with him and there was a quantity of silver
coin piled up on a shelf behind the bar, together with
seven sovereigns and half-sovereigns ready to give change
to customers. The barmaid heart the coins rattle and
then saw the prisoner extending the butt end of the whip
towards them, and very shortly afterwards he left the
house in a very hurried manner. The barmaid at once
missed two sovereigns and one half sovereign from the pile
on the shelf, and alarmed the prosecutor, who went forth-
with in pursuit of the prisoner, who was running away
down the road at the top of his speed. The prisoner was
stopped by Mr. Bell, an ex-inspector of police, who
intuit him by the throat, and a sovereign dropped from
his mouth. He was conveyed to the police-station,when
lin mouth was again examined, and the officer saw
in his mouth two gold coins, one of which, a half-sovereign,
dropped on to the floor, and the other, supposed to be a
sovereign, the prisoner swallowed. The half-sovereign
vas found to be marked with bird lime, and so also was
the butt end of the whip, and on the prisoner there was
found a tin box containing bird lime of so strong a cha-
racter that on being tested it was found to be capable of
raising a half-pint pewter pot, and it was clear that by
these means the gold coins had been abstracted from the
shelf in the prosecutor's bar.
The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of
Guilty, and
The Common-Serjeant sentenced the prisoner to be
kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for the
term of two years.

SURREY SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. J. K Johnson, Chairman.)
RfirIBEHIES AT THE CHTsTAL PALACF-
Fbrtry JoneA, SS, and Jitn. Thomix, 34, were indicted
for stealing a purse containing a quantity of silver from
the person of Sarah Rvlett, in tie Crystal Palace.
Kr. Joyce prosecuted on behalf of the Crystal Palace
Company ;
red from the prisoners were undefended.
it appeared the evidence of Sergeant Ham, an
active detective officer of the P division, that on the after-
noon of Good Friday last he was on duty in the Crystal
Pallet, when he saw the prisoners pushing about the
Crowd. Knowing them to be thieves he watched thew,
tad saw them press upon tho prosecutrix. Thomas put
bis hsnd into her pocket and withdrew something, which
be banded to the other, when witness seized hold of the
'tier, and found a purse on him containing some silver
said a railway ticket, which the prosecutrix identified as
her Property. In capturing the prisoners they had a
"wre struggle, but eventually they were conveyed to the
*doe house.
The jury found them Guiltu ; and
The Chairman sentenced each to 12 months' bard labour.
Morgan, 30, described on the calendar as a tailor,
twided guilty to stealing a watch from the person of
w.,,,ry Wiseman on the platform of the Crystal Palace
Aualway, Sydenham.
41143eareci that on Good Friday evening the proeestitor
the act of getting into • carnage at the Crystal
Palace station when he felt his watch go. On turning
*Tied he saw the prisoner leaving him with the watch in
110 band. After some difficulty he was secured.