The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-16 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
STABBING.

Jereatiak Donorrn, a tailor, living at No. 10, Heddon-
court, Regent-street, wan charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
with stabbing James Manor, another tailor, living at
No. 3, Meard's.etreet, Soho.

On 'the case being called on, Cordon, C, said the in-
jured man was in attendance but the medical man who
hail attended him stated that he was not to speak for •
few days in consequence of the injury he bad received in
his mouth.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would hear any witness who was
in attendance.

Samuel Sharman, a tailor, living at No. 1, Market.
street, Haymarket, said—l was in Crown-court, Regent-
street, last night, and saw the prisoner with an open
knife. I saw him stab a man named Meager in the face
with it, and tben run away. The injured man bled
dreadfully, and cried out " I am stabbed." I ran with
others after the prisoner, and he was afterwards given
into custody.
Prisoner—Did you see me with the knife.
Witnese—Yee I did.
Gordon, C (after banding Mr. Tyrwhitt a certificate
signed by Mr. G. F. Keys, of Warwick-street, surgeon, to
the effect that Meager had received a severe incised wound
of the mouth), said—l went to Heddon-court this morn-
ing, and found Mawr bleeding very much, and I after-
wards found the prisoner in a dust bin, covered over with
dust. He said he had no knife.

The prisoner—Hagar knocked me about very much,and
took an advantage of me. He is a more powerful man
than me.

Barns (the gaoler)—That is not the csae ; there is no
difference in the size of the men.
Mr. Tyrrwhitt—You will be remanded for a week. This
comes of using the knife.

SOUTHWARK.
LAM ZNTABLE CAKE

George Smith, a young man whose connexion. are highly
respectable, was placed at the bar charged with robbing
his employer, Mr. Jenkins, the extensive ironmonger in
the Blackfriars-road.

Mr. SAM Cohen, tool factor, 15.5, Waterloo-road, said
that about 6in the evening the prisoner entered his
shop, and producing from his pockets a dozen files, quite
new, offered them to him for sale. Witness was looking
at them, when he took from his pockets 11 new padlocks,
and offered them also for sale. He said they were his own
property. Witness expressed • surprise that he should
have 11 padlocks en that state, when he said that he had
taken them for • bad debt, and the party had used one of
them. Suspecting he had stolen them, he detained him
until a constable was sent for, when he gave him into
custody.
The magistrate here observed that he wished all dealers
were like Mr. Cohen, then there would be fewer robberies.
He had for some time noticed Mr. Cohen at this court
friving evidence against young men whom he had detected
rn plundeilng their masters, and he must say his conduct
on each occasion was praiseworthy.
Mr. William Jenkins, ironmonger, 90, Blackfriara-road,
said that the prisoner was one of him assistants and had
free access to all his extensive stock. He could not swear
to the files and padlocks produced, but he had no doubt
they had been taken from his tool-house. He kept such
an extensive stock that it would be impossible for him to
miss them.

In answer to the magistrate he raid that the prisoner
had been in his employ sic weeks, and he always believed
him to be honest.

ThepiisO;;r7begged his worship's mercy, as it was his
first act of dishonesty.
His sister came forward and pleaded for him, stating
that be had pist lost his father and mother, and was now
without a friend but herself. She hoped his worship would
not brand him as a felon, as that would ruin all his future
preepects.
The magistrate, after consulting with Mr. Jenkins, de-
cided on not committing him as a thief, but he sentenced
him to two months for the unlawful possession of the
ProPert'f.

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WANDSWORTH.
VIOLENT AISSAULT UPON A WOMAN BY A 01PBY.
William Cooper, a gipsy, living in the encampment on
Wandsworth-common, was charged with violently assault-
ing and wounding his wife.
Mr. William Hewett, of St. James's-villa, Tooting, said
—last night I saw the prisoner knock a woman down and
cut her eye severely. I went to the police-station and gave
information to the police. She would not charge the pri-
soner. The woman was sober. I did not see her do any-
thing to provoke the prisoner.•
Prisoner—Did you see me strike the woman at all ?
Witness—l did.
Prisoner—What time was it?

Witness—A quarter to II o'clock.
Prisoner—lt was dark ; how could he see me ? I did not
strike the woman at aIL My wife and another party fell
out and she got a out somehow.
Sergeant Haynes—l went to the place and saw the
woman lying on the footpath. Her face was very much
cut. She was afterwards taken into a tent and her face
was lathed with water. The prisoner's hand was covered
with blood and also the front of his smock frock.
The witness produced a boot belonging to the prisoner,
and said the toe had blood upon it.
Mr. Ingham (to the first witness)—Did you see him
kick her?
Witness—l did not see any kick.
Prisoner—l did not hit her. I took my wife's part.
Mr. Ingham—Call your witnesses.
Prisoner—l have none.
Mr. Ingham—Seven days imprisonment with hard
labour.
The prisoner was then locked up.

Drnurnow rim MAns vox BOMBAY VIA
MARMIIIIB.--GIBRIAL Pour-ornex, Aran 16, 11A.m.—
In consequence of an injury to her machinery the mail packet
China will be unable to leave Marseilles on the morning of
the 20th inst. The mails for Bombay, which, in due
course, should be despatched from London on the evening
of the 18th instant, will not be made up until the even-
ing of Saturday, the 20th instant.

The Romagna Gazette states that Ricciotti Gari-
baldi, returning from Greece, passed through Bologna on
the 12th, on his way from Anemia to Milan.

THE COLCHESTER MURDER.—Yesterday morning
Henry Page Draper, who is charged with the murder of •
married woman, named Mary Ann Pettitt, at Colchester,
on the 23rd February, was brought up for examination be-
fore the mayor (Mr. V. 0. Papillon) and a full bench of
magistrates. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. H.
Jones, while the prisoner was represented by Mr. H.
Goody. Mr. Jones, in commencing the proceedings, stated
that he had applied to the Home-office for authority to have
the body of the deceased woman exhumed. The inquiry ex-
cited considerable interest, and the court was crowded dur-
ing theda7. It was proved that the deceased woman had been
in the society of Draper all the early part of the evening
on which she was drowned in the Colne, and agonising
shrieks and cries were heard by the side of the river near
• spot known as the Mill-yard. In this neighbourhood
the body of the deceased was observed Boating in the river
on the 4th of April. The cries of the deceased appear to
have been drowned in the rush and rattle of a heavy goods
train which passed on the railway, while there was elm
evidence that the shrieks awl exclamations bad previously
been becoming fainter, as if the assailant of the woman was,
in local phraseology, " quackling" her—that is, throttling
her. Strangely enough, no trams of a disturbance could
be found afterwards at the spot whence the cries pro-
ceeded. Both parties—Draper and the woman—appear to
have been drinking rather freely on the night in question.
Draper seems to have made contradictory statements as to
the woman, admitting at one time that he had taken im-
proper liberties with her, and then let her go, while at
another time he denied that he had meddled with her at
all. The inquiry lasted all day, and at its close the pri-
soner—who reserved his defence, although he protested
his innocence—was committed for trial at the next Essex
assizes.