The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-27 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL.

Jean Alfred Eldridge and Harriet Eldridge, his wife,
ware charged with the kollowing street robbery. :
Alfred Green, a detective ogee., said he saw the pri-
soners in Ludgate-street at five o'clock in the afternoon, and
watched them to the corner of Ave Mariadane, where he
saw the female prisoner follow a lady into a shop, and place
herself by her side. The male prisoner waited outside. In
two or three minutes the prisoner came out rather hastily,
and upon again following._lier he saw her open a purse and
examine the contents. He then took her into custody, and
upon being confronted with the lady who owned the purse
she begged of her not to prosecute her. In the meantime
he lost sight of the male prisoner. Before the female pri-
soner entered the shop the male prisoner directed her at-
tention to the lady, and nodded his head, intimating that
she should follow her into the shop.
Mrs. Ripon identified the purse produced u her property.
Sir F. G. Moon said this was a most heartless ro4bery,
and he was, therefore, determined to send all such cases for

The prisoners reserved their defence.
_ BOW-STREET.
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A cabman, named James Nelsen, was brought before
Kr. Coerie on a warrant issued b Mr. Hall in August last,
in ocesequenoe of his nonatteadanoe to answer a summons
charging him with having, on the morning of the 21st of
July, left his cab unattended. He pleaded
H.ackney carriage attendant No. 96 stated that on the
002111i011 in question he was on duty at the calaatand in
Dancannomstreet, when he found the prisoner's cab iu the
rank unattended. It remained there for one hour, offs
which witless took it to the green yard.
The prisoner said be left the cab on the rank in the
Haymarket while be went to get some supper, having de-
sired a man to take care of it., which be promised to do.
While be was absent, however, the man drove the cab
away, and after driving it about the streets all night, left
it on the stand in Duncannomstreet. He (the prisoner)
waited some time, thinking the man would return, and also
made every inquiry in his power, but without success.
Mr. Corrie—But why did not you attend to the sum-
mons

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The prisoner—l was in gaol when it was served, having
been sent to prison for a day's work. You see, sir, in
cessequence of this man driving away my cab, and of
coarse pocketing whatever money he might have earned,
I was unable to pay the proprietor next morning, so
I was sent to prison. When I came out I could not get
employment as a driver, so I went harvesting, and it
was not till my return that I knew there was any stun-
moos or warrant.
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William Buck, 25 F, one of the summoning officers of
the court, said that from inquiries he had made be be-
keyed this to be true. At all events, there woe no doubt
that the prisoner was in gaol when theaummons was served,
and that he afterwards went harvesting. On learning
that the prisoner had returned be (Buck) called at his
lodgings, when the prisoner promised to attend that morn-
ing, and did so.
Mr. Conic said that as the prisoner had already suffered
imprisonment for this transaction he would not 'inflict a
penalty, but discharge him on payment of coats (4e.)
The prisoner thanked the magistrate with tears in his
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WANDSWORTH.

Lair Smith, a watchman in the service of Messrs. Brassey
and Co., the contractors for the new railway now in the
course of progress over the Thames at Battersea, was
brought before Mr. Inghiun on remand, charged with
robbery.
The prisoner was stopped on Sunday evening by police-
constable Gadd, in Lomed-row, Hattemes, coming from
the direction of the river with two fir boards in his pas.
session. He at first refused to amount for the possession of
them, but afterwards said be found them drifting in the
Thames, and was going to take them to the works. The
prisoner was close to his hone at the time, and was walking
towards it, in a contrary direction from the works. He wee
taken into custody, and upon searching his house the police
discovered two elm boards, 20 bricks, and a quantity of loose
pieces of wuali which worn sicitihr 1., thu zucturicla used
upon the works.
Mr. John Evans, the engineer of the works, said the fir
boards bore the marks of the timber merchant from whom
he had purchased a large quantity of wood, and it was de-
posited on the Middlesex shore, and it was the prisoner's
duty to watch it. If he had found the boards floating, it
would have been his duty to have carried them to the Mid-
dlesex side of the river, and not to the Surrey side, where
he was stopped.
Mr. Ingham committed the prisoner for two mouths' im-
prisonment, with hard labour, for the unlawful possession
of two boards.
William Hatkeicas, in the service of the South Western
Railway Company, at the Nine Elms depot, was summoned
by Thomas Bent for having several trivial srticlea in his
possession, unlawfully obtained.
The evidence went to show that it was the prisoner's duty
to cover the loaded waggons, and ho was employed at that
duty on Saturday last. He was observed to cut off the tail
of a calf-skis from a laid of skins, which he afterwards cut
into three pima, and put them in his pocket. Information
was given to Spice,'aa active officer of the compeny, and
when the defendant left the premises from duty, he stopped
him, and found hi his pockets two bundles of patent fire
wood and four potatoes. It also appeared that there were
similar fire wood and potatoes loaded in the trucks.
Bent said there had been a great number of complaints of
petty thefts at the depot.
Therasriosoirr's defence vie that he picked up the wood
sod po
Mr. Ingham sentenced him to be imprisoned for two
months, with hard labour.

THZ CRIME or MIIRDER.—The Manchester City
Council has forwarded the following memorial to the Home
Secretary :—"To the Right Hon. Sir George Oornewall
Lewis, Bart., M.P., byMajesty's Secretary of State for
the Home lepartment.—The memorial of the mayor,
aldermen, and citisens of the city of Manchester in
council assembled the 24th day of October, 1860,
showeth that your memorialists are deeply and pain-
fully impremed with the recent prevalence of the trim.: of
murder. That in the opinion of your memorialists it is of
great importance that an inquiry, either by means of a par-
tary committee or otherwise, into the operation of the
present law of punishment for such crime, should be insti-
tuted. Your memorialists, therefore, respectfully but
earnestly pray that you will be pleased to take such steps as
shall secure an early sad mreftil inquiry into the operation
of capital punishments, with u view of ascertaining whether
other punishments would not prove equally, if not more
effectual in the repreesing of the crime of murder. And
your memorialists will ever.prty, Sze."
ROBBERY FROM THE WATERLOO STATION OF THE
LONDON AND NORTH-WWII= RAILMAY.—AA the Liver-
pool Police Court yesterdey (Friday), a porter named Mor-
rison, in the employ of the above company, was sentenced
to two months unpriionment with herd labour, for stealing
some soap from a case lying at the Waterloo station on the
above line. _ . .

SERIOUS BolLilt EEPLONION.—About one o'clock
y_esterday afternoon three men were seriously injured by
tU explosion of a boiler, in the waggon-shop of the Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire Railway Company's locomotive
woke, at Miles Platting, near Manchester. The boiler
was one of a pair of 310-horse power, horizontally, fixed.
Bach is about 23 feet long and ti feet diameter, and
aninufactitred by the company. The one which burst (both
ends giving way) was the one nearest the engine, which
was just being started again after the dinner hour. The
men injured are James Garner (store-keeper), 52, Charles
Matthews (fitter), and Henry Sutton (iron turner), all
severely bruised and &added, Matthews having a compound
fracture of the left thigh in addition. All were conveyed
to the Infirmary. The cause of the accident is not yet
discovered.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT SOUTHAMPTON. —A young
man named Carta, in the employ of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company, was killed yesterday at Southampton,
on board the Delta, which is appointed to leave that port
to-day with the Bombay mail. Curtis was down in the
hold assisting in loading the ship. Owing to some accident
to the winch or chain with which some heavy bides of goods
were being put on boani, one of the bales fell on the %odor.
tunitte young man and daahedhim against au iron stanchion,
which cut hie head open in a frightful manner. He fired
but a short time after the accident.
Gatures.—A correspondent at Athena writes
that " the tribunal has decided that a criminal provocation
cannot be sustained 'pima Colonel Karatamoe, bat that
his affair merely bears the form of apolice tomegremirm.
The accused and the peocarour-royal have both apps
against the decision. As you already know,
Kunnas**, haying organised a band of liellesime wader the
pretext of volunteering for Garibaldi, meant in reality to
cross the Ottoman frontier and revolutionise Epinat He
was brought before the tribunal on the demand of Cone-
menus Bey, Chargk d'Affaires for Turkey, who had dis-
covered the nature of the project."—L•rant Herold.
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B.—Barometer corrected and leqiu-ceClio 32 deg. at maw sea
level : each 10 feet, of vertical rise, canting one-hundredth of en
inch dimlaution ; and each 10 deg., above 82 deg, causing three-
hundredths increase (nearly,. E.—Exposed thermoineter in
shade. St.—Moistened ditto for evaporation and dew point).
D.—Direction of wind (true—not magnetic;. F.—Force .0 to 12
--estimated). C.—Cloud to T. letters :b, blue sky;
c. cicada (detached: ; f, fog; la, hall; 1, lightning; m, misty
hat 7( o, overcast (dull: r, rain: a, mow t, thunder. A
letter repeated augment.—thus, rr. seack Ma.