The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-24 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MANSION•HOU9S

James Mons, John Wynn, and William Cayes tailors,
were charged with assaulting Jeans Enright, reading at
21 Church-street, Minorite.
Mr. Sleigh (instructed by Valiance and Valence, soli-
citors), conducted the prosecution ; the accused were un-
defended.

From the opening statement of the counsel for the pro-
secution it appeared that the defendants were journey-
men tailors belonging to the union, of which the public
had heard so much lately, and that the complainant was
likewise a journeyman tailor in the service of Hr. Poole.
He was formerly a member of the union, but being de-
sirous of earning his breed in any way he pleased without
coercion, he had ceased his connexion with it, hence the
cause of the present proceedings. On the night of Sun-
day, 15th September, between 12 and 1 o'clock, the pro-
secutor was proceeding to his home, when these persona,
who were brothers, made use of filthy language toward'
hito, telling him he was • disgrace to his trade, and that
he was wone than • man-eater, or an informer, or an
Irish Fenian. The defendant James laid hold
of him and gave him • blow on the mouth,
but at that moment a police-constable came up,
and prevented further violence. Prosecutor then
went home, and finding one of his lodgers sick assisted
him to a chemist's or hospital. The defendants James
and John were still on the look out for him, end on his
appearing in the street au onslaught was made upon him,
but he defended himself till • police-constable Gems to
his assistance.

The prosecutor and the two constables who went to his
assistance substantially proved the above statement
The defendants averted that they were prosecuted out
of spite, that they did not belong to the union, that the
whole affair was simply a drunken quarrel having no re-
ference to trade matters, and that the complainant was as
much to blame as they were.
The Lord Mayor said it was quite clear that an assault
had been committed, and that the abuse of the com-
plainant was in connexion with the trade. With regard
to James, he had evidently taken the principal part. He
had struggled with the man, and one of the officers gave
evidence of their being on the ground together. The sen-
tence upon hint would be seven days' imprisonment, and
upon the others a fine of 10s. each.

GUILDHALL.
Martin Senrberovgh, of 3, Farnhamiplace, Gravel-lane,
Southwark, was charged before Alderman Salomon with
picking pockets on Blackfriars-bridge and in St. Paul's,
churchyard.
John Davis, 921, saw the prisoner trying several gentle-
men's pockets on Thursday afternoon on Blackfriarr
bridge, and one of them missed • tobaeco pouch and •
pipe in acase. While he was making inquiries of the
gentleman as to whether he had last anything, the prisoner
got away. The next day he saw him in St. Paul's-ehurch-
yard, and watched him for three-quarters of an hour trying
Indies' pockets, until et last he appeared to take something
from one lady's pocket, and walk rapidly down Ludgate-
hill. Witness went to the lady to see if she had lost any.
thing, and she said she had lost her purse, but she was so
long searching to ascertain the fact that the prisoner got
away. He was subsequently taken, but nothing was found
upon
The prisoner aid he was innocent of the charge, and
the ethos: had made a mistake in the person.
The prisoner's brother came forward and said they were
both at dinner in Southwark at the very time the officer
said the prisoner was on Blackfriars-bridge.
Davis said he now recognised the brother as one who
was working
.with the prisoner by covering him while he
was manipulaling.
Alderman Salomons sent him to prison for six weeks
with hard labour.

Mr. Brett, a churchwarden of the church of St. Matthias,
of Goldsmith•squeze, Stoke Newington, applied to Mr.
Barker for his advice under the following circumstances.
He said that about nine o'clock on Sunday evening, whilst
service was proceeding, a crowd of 400 or 500 people as-
sembled in the square, and were addiconad by some
preacher, and incited to enter the church and mate a dis-
turbance. As this was not the first occasion on which a
similar attempt had been made, the precaution wee taken
of sending for the police, and a strong body of that fortis
having arrived, the mob were with much difficulty kept
out of the church. On the previous occasions the arowds
were, he believed, collected on the Landon Fields and the
Downs by certain preachers, and from those plume led to
Stoke Newington, for therapies of creating a disturbance
at St. Matthias'. He wished to ask the magistrate's ad-
vice as to what proeedinp he had better take splint the
preacher who incited the others to create the annoyance he
complained of.
Mr. Barker declined to advise on any case where he
might afterwards have to adjudicate upon it, but recent.
mended Mr. Brett to commit a solicitor.

Mr. Brett aid il;;;Wki;;iaii;tie masher's name,
and then apply for a gammons spinet bllll. He then
thanked the magistrate and left the court.

WOf.tBHIP.-STRKET.

George Wooding, a liosqused ab driver, William Barry,
William Holise, and William Gibbs, were charged before
Mr. Newton with being concerned in stealing • horse, cab,
and harness, value above 501. the property of Mr. Koss
Nathan, a cab proprietor, in James-street, Mile-end.
Mr. Abbott attended for the prosecution, and from his
statement, proved in evidence, it was shown that on
the 18th instant the prisouer Weeding obtained from the
son of Mr. Nathan, a mere boy, the horse and cab in
question,
by falsely repneenting that his father had de-
siredhim (Weeding) to apply for and take it out
for • day's work. He left his liomse, promised to return
at night, but never did, end when met with on the follow-
ing day at a public-house, denied having seen anything of
the property ; and finding that he was about to be given
into cnidedy, be contrived to asape. It having been
ascertained that Barry had been with him in possession of
the horse and cab, that man was taken into custody. He
admitted the fact, adding that they subsequently sold
both at Bow-common to two men, named Holmes and
Gibbs. Prosecutor, with his son and Barry, went there,
and concealed in • large yard, close to the White Horn
public-house, the cab, with the plates knocked off, was
found. Gibbs at ant denied that the hone was there,
but it was ultimately found in the stable. The prisoners
quarrelled among themselves, and it appeared that Holmes
had given Wooding and Barry 2./. and • few shillings for
the whole bargain, Gibbs sharing in the purchase. The
man Wooding was apprehended, sad now with Barry was
fully committed for stealing, and Holmes and Gibbs with
guiltily receiving, the property.