The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-30 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

BOWATREET.
STOPPED AT TIM STATION.
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thiond at the Charing-cross Railway-sin cm. I
Ms Reid, South Eastern Railway police,
N• 4, stated that at about 12 o'clock the previous night as
gd bid down train was starting for London-bridge, tat.,
Muss en duty at the herder. The prisoner and another
presented themselves in order to proceed by
ii-og—cooni, but he stopped them saying that they could not
lowto go by the train as they were
be s
di. They insisted upon entering the train
mug they must go by it as it was the last that night. He
them to wait till they had seen the inspector. In-
oolotor Rance came up and said they must not go by the
may, The prisoner wain_ attempted to force his way to
o~ el the
and Rend then said he must go to the
;0000looes offioe and give his name and &Mmes. He
Wool to do so, and threw himself down on his back so
that Reid and another constable were obliged to Garry him
to gm office. The inspector looked at his ticket (an annual
and took down his name and address, saying that
obeAceM summons him under the company's bye-law for
Wag drank on the premises, for which he was liable to •
imoo)ty of 40s. He was then left at liberty to leave the
cafe, and as he was doing so he struck Reid • violent
m i plod n the face.
TM prisoner said he bad been spending the evening
,tap iffy Mends, and no doubt he had taken alittle mare
woo than agreed with him. He tried to insist on going by
the train., as it was the last, and he wanted to get home. At
the same time he did not understand that he was at liberty
oc, go sway. His impression was, that the moment he (d-
-omed • determination to go by that train he was seised by
ibo deicers anddragged to the inspector's room, without any
1 wort:amity being given him of withdrawing. He coma-
dulled thst he was treated very harshly, and bad been
deal pulled about, thoug& of course that
w owing to his own efforts to pass the
constable. He sincerely regretted hiving struck the
afficisl—if be had done so, for he had no recollection of
guit--but when a MAD was " excited in that way" he did
sot know what be was doing. Of course he knew he must
hued, and he should be happy to compensate the officer
for any Injury he might have done him.
IL Vaughan said the prisoner had done very. wrong t'
groa is going. to the station in • state of intoxicaaon, and
goo in trying to force his way into the carriage. It
woo quite necessary for the public comfort that drunken
son should be excluded from the train. The
had • fair opportunity of going away after
~;.mod
was taken, but even then, instead of availing
himself of that permission, he assaulted the constable.
Bo (Hr. Vaughan) could not impose • less penalty than
40•
The fine was paid.
CLERICENWELL
ITSTIOILATIO WISEST BT A BILSVA24T.--00111METAL.
Frederick Dodd, 21, a journeyman baker, wee charged
with dialing from the till in the shop No. 61, Bell-street,
Bt. Lake'', some marked money, the property of his em-
ployer, Mr. James Whom, mutter baker.
Mr.Ricketts, solicitor, attended for the prosecution.
The prisoner had only been in the employ of the prose-
cutor for a short time. After he had been there • few
weeks the prosecutor began to lose money, not only from
kis till, but from his easy-1 ox, which he kept in • desk in
his bedroom. fiuspichn fell on the prisoner, and the mat-
ter was placed in the hands of Police-constable Clay, 268
G. Some money being marked it was placed in the till,
and the constable was so concealed that he
had a full view of it. During the tempo-
rary absence of the prosecutor and his wife,
the prisoner went to the till and took some
money. and pat it in his pocket. He was afterwards
taken into custody, and the marked money was found in
his ?oases:ion, and in a pot the constable found 11. 15e. 6h
in silver, and 2s. 9d. in copper. The constable also found
in the prisoner's box Si. in gold, 34. 17s. 10d. in silver,
and other articles,the possession of which he could not
account for, and he also found in the box • skeleton key
which would open the prosecutor's desk.
The prisoner said he was guilty, and asked for the case
to be at once decided.
His magistrate remarked that robberies by servants
named to be much on the increase, and committed the
pined to the Middlesex session for trial.
The ;meaner applied to be admitted to bail, but the
application was refused.
WORSHIP-STREET.
AN !VELMENT AND UNGRATEFUL BEGGAR.
Patriot kurpAy, an ill-looking fellow of 36, was charged
with stealing from the person.
George Dore, a porter, said—Last. evening I was
.going
sulainComme
tome;iale iisitreoat NlThitechapel, w.hen
ng tilprhuoner
peered in a very disTressead halfpenny.
I gave him a pee lin";
piece. Rs then asked me to make it n halfpenny more as
it would enable him to buy a pint of beer. I told him
I was s working men, and had nothing to spare, but at the
same time I gave him the coin. Instantly he flung his
arms round my neck, hugged me to him, and took a silk
handkerchief out of my coat breast pocket. A constable
took him from me.
Famish, 674 A—l was a short distance from the spot
and saw the robbery committed. I ran up and took the
handkerchief from the prisoner, who was, I think, • little
in Ilium
Prisoner—" In liquor! " Why, the gentleman bad been
drinking with me all day.
Prosecutor—Sir, I never saw the man before he asked
me for a halfpenny in the course of my whole life, to my
knowledge.
Imprisoned with hard labour for four calendar months.
EDGWARE.

lITRAORDLIART ANT) BRUTAL CONDUCT or ♦ CAD DRIVER.
IMPRISONIIINT WITHOUT A FINE.
_ .

This morning at the petty sessions held in the Town-
ball, Edgware, before Mr. Cox, recorder for Falmouth and
Bodmin and other magistrates, 3Williass Biggs, a muscular
young fellow, a cab-driver (badge 15,016), appeared to
answer the charge of having grossly ill-treated a horse
under circumstances of an extraordinary character.
Mr. Love, from the office of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, prosecuted, and stated
the facts as follows :—On the 28th ult., at about 7 in the
evening, the defendant was seen to drive up to the Old
'Welch Harp, in the Edgware-road, with a horse and four-
wheeled cab, and directly the horse stopped the defendant
stood up on the box and lashed it with all his might
for a considerable time, under the flanks prin-
cipally, and until the lash of the whip was
destroyed. He then beat the poor animal with the handle
of the whip till be broke it into splinters, and lastly, be
used the butt-end and beat it with such force about the
ribs as was calculated to break them. The poor animal
trembled so that it could scarcely stand, and it
was afterwards found that its flanks were scored with
deep cuts from which the blood trickled freely down its
legs ; there were immense lumps and bruises along its
beck, swollen up, which had been made with the whip-
handle—in fact the horse presented altogether a pitiable
appeerance. The defendant's conduct was witnessed by
several individuals, and whilst acme went in search of the
police others remonstrated with the defendant. The
defendant got off his box and struck one man in the
mouth and knocked him down, cutting his mouth, and so
injuring him that he could not get about for several
days, and another man, who went to the
assistance of the first, was thrown by the defendant, and
bis ankle was dislocated, and he had been upon crutches
ever since. The language made use of by the defendant
was of a most obscene and wicked character. Unfortu-
nately no policeman could be found, and the prisoner thus
escaped for a time. He (Mr. Love) said these were the
brief facts of the case, and he would not any a word in
Mitration, but merely call the attention of the bench to
that clause in the act of parliament which provided that
offenders might in the discretion of the justices be com-
mitted to prison without fine for any term not exceeding
three calendar months with hard labour.
Mr. William Elwick, a gentleman residing at 32, Glou-
cester-crescent, Regent's-park, and other witnesses, were
called, soil their evidence bore out the foregoing.
The defendant, having craw- examined the witnesses in an
impudent tone and manner, denied that he had been guilty
of any cruelty at all. He was set upon, he said, by about
a dozen people, and what be did was to defend himself.
The chairman said the bench were unanimously of
opinion that the defendant had been guilty of a great
amount of brutality. They did not remember having ever
heard a case surrounded with circumstances of so flagrant
a character. They dealt with him for the cruelty to the
animal alone, as there was no other charge before them ;
and for that they committed him to the House of Cor-
rection for one calendar mouth, with hard labour, and they
telt it right publicly to express their opinion that the con-
duct of Mr. Elwick and the other witnesses was most
Praiseworthy.
The prisoner was then removed.

PETROLEUM AND SHALE OIL AND MARINE ,
BOTLEES.—This morning was issued a parliamentary paper
giving the results of experiments conducted at Woolwich
dockyard, with the view of testing the value of petroleum
and shale oil as substitutes for coal in raising steam in
marine boilers. The report says that if a great reduction
were to take place in the price of these oils they might
Probably under some circumstances be advantageously
used instead of coal ; the experiments as far as they have
gone showing the great evaporative power of these oils
and the practicability of burning them.
DERTRUCTION OF A HAT MANUFACTORY BY
FIEL—RIG DAY.)—About a quarter before 1 o'clock this
morning a destructive fire happened on the premises of
Mr. John Bath, hat manufacturer, Garden-row, London-
mad, Southwark. In spite of the torrents of water
scattered upon the Mimes they could not be axtin-
gaisbed until the premises and the stock in trade, together
with the furniture and other effects, had been destroyed.
The origin of theirs is at parent unknown. It is under-
stood that the sufferer was insured.
CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SNELLING
WEDNESDAY, AUOUST 29.—Admissiosa on payment. MOS ;
ditto by Demon tickets, 756. .Total Miter% 3,364.