The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-28 00:00:00

ifiE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

BOW43TRIEET.
• STICK OR A STRAP.
skied green, conductor to one of the omnibuses of the
„ General Omnibus Company, was charged with
• Iftchael Madlipsi, I labourer.
101014 • -
or. sofa, solicitor to the company, appeared for the
wat t elated that at about half-past 11 o'clock 1
a. previous nicht he was returning with his wife, his •
sad two friends, from the Regent's-park, where
epent the afternoon and evening. At the corner of
r7rakiapooart-raid and Oxford-street they hailed the
&karat's omnibus, which was going towards Mile-end.
The debodant refused to take them, all • that witness
ad. brother were drank. He • • upon t
otting on
the sandbox and defendant struck him on the heed with
He supposed that there was a Wade on the
s rire
04, kr his head was out open and bled pciusely. The
desired the coachman to drive to the station-
=lgeseri:d he did so. The conductor wanted to give
vitas Is charge, but as witness's head was bleeding the
irtook hie chine spinet the conductor.
remesexaminstion by Mr. Beard, the witness contra.
airesi himself on Novena points, first alleging that he was
sober, then admitting that he had been drinking,
Zellarrelareing to his first assertion, making similar eerie-
Ifan i• his statements as to his brother's sobriety or the
flotsam end ultimately denying and admitting that the
Imisagere ,attempted to keep him from getting on the
essibisa
Rh brother partly ootroborated him, but he also equivo-
elarbe the question of sobriety.
Two of the pamengers stated that the oomplainant and
brother were both drunk and very violent. They at-
form their way on to the omnibus to the sierra
liZeito
passengers, who fully believed that had they inc-
luded mounting the vehicle they would have flung
We (the peemagers) ea. One gentleman streak him en
its bead with a stiok, with which and not with the strap,
les wound was inflicted.
BM, somplainant denied that any of the passengers
*ask MIL
Mr. Flowers said it was quite clear the prisoner and his
irother were drunk, and the conductor wee quite right in
hiss to let them ride. Whether the wound was in-
field the oondector with the strap, or by a passenger
• ck was immaterial. When a man was *Dwelt-
,* • riot be had no right to be very particular es to the
wpm with which he was repulsed.
Tile defendant was about to make some remarks, bat
Flowers said there was no necessity for another
ford ; it was quite deer defendant was in the right, and
the sharp mast be dismissed.

IO U DEATHS FEON CHOLERA HI runmeoff /HOE 01'11-
CROW= DWILLINOS.—INFLICTIOS OF THE ETU
MALTY.
William Brereton, the occupier of the premises No. 4,
Frederick-place, Caledonian-read, Islington, was sum-
nued for having his house so overcrowded as to be
iangerous or prejudicial to health.
Mr. Layton, solicitor and vestry clerk to the parish of
tilingfoa, said that these proceedings were taken under the
szc
daring the
of the Sanitary Act, which came into operation
the present month, and es this was a very
Dad case, and as the defendant wee • man
d means, and could not plead that he allowed the
overcrowding through distress, he should have to ask for
en immediate order for the suppression of the nuisance
semplained of, and also an order for the payment of costa.
There had been a death from cholera in the house, and yet
the defendant allowed the evil complained of to remain,
sad that, notwithstanding that he hail been served with
the statutory notices to do away with the nuisance.
Mx William Mayes said he was sanitary inspector and
impactor of nuisances on behalf of the veetry of the parish
of St. Mary, Islington. On the 22nd instant be received
information that a death from cholera had occurred at
the defendant's house. Upon examining it he found its
medition to be as follows—the premises generally
very dirty, the drains untrapped and stopped, the
pis being half full of excrement, the cistern filthily dirty,
led without a cover ; and, in addition, the house was much
overcrowded, containing (with two rooms empty) seven-
teen persons. There were four families, one of
shin, consisting of seven persons, lived in the
lost door back, the measurement of which only
allowed 123 cubic feet of air for each, whilst the lowest
avenge allowed for each was 300. He at once disinfected
the drains and destroyed the beds which had been used in
ths cholera case, and served notices upon the owner of the
yawn to cleanse and disinfect the house.
Dr. Ballard, medical officer of health for Islington, said
that the Souse was in such a state as to be dangerous
and injurious to health.
Mr. Layton, in asking for the infliction of the full pe-
nalty, said that it was positively cruel to allow young chil-
drea to be huddled together and to be made to breathe
sash a foetid atmosphere ; it injured them for life. He
she drew the attention of the court to the 311th section of
the est, which provided that if two convictions for over-
crowding occurred within three months, the magistrate
uttbority to close the house.
The defendant said he had now got rid of some of his
lodgers, and would clean the house.
Mr. Barker said he considered this a very bad case, and
fined the defendant 40e. and oasts.
The fine and coats were at once paid.
TEE LATE MURDEROUS ASSAULT AT THE RAGLAN MUSIC-
MALL.—COMMITTAL.
law Barry, a young man, who described himself as a
printer residing at 32, Viych-street, Strand, was charged
before Mr. Barker, on remand, with violently ammulting
Jacque Polake, picture-dealer, of 178, Great Russell-
drat, Bloomsbury, at the Raglan Music-hall, Theobald's-
reed, Gray's-inn-road.
The urticularsof this case appeared in the Express of
Thursday last.
Dr. Paul, of Burton-crescent, divisional surgeon of the
division, said he had attended the injured man since the
night of the assault. When he first saw him he was in •
req. weak sad exhausted state from loss of blood ; he was
suffering from concussion of the brain, • wound on the top
of the head, and there was also a wound from the forehead
down to the nose. The complainant was at one time in
anger but he was now recovering and going on well.
Kr. Barker committed the prisoner to the Middlesex
Bassions for trial, but on the application of Mr. Ricketts
he consented to take bail for the defendant—one surety
in the sum of 301., and the defendant himself in 601., and
the necessary noognininces having been put in the de-
fendant was liberated.

PAUL ACCIDENT AT THE THAMES EMBANK-

MENT.

An inquiry was held by Mr. Wm. Payne, the 1
City comer, at the Rose and Ball Tavern, Benet's-hill, .
iliameestreet, last evening, touching the death of Hugh
Augustus Newton, aged 12 years.
Richard Fladney, an engine boy, at work on the Thames
embankment, near Waterloo-bridge, said that the de-
ceased was at work on the engine last Tuesday. He
sus piece of timber floating past the works, and al-
though it wu not his duty to pick it out of the water he
let a hitcher and jumped on • barge for the purpose of
WC-ft it. While he was striking the wood with the hook
ki foot slipped and he fell into the river. When in the
ester be threw up his hands and then sank.
Inspector Tricker, Thames police, said that he found
UIII body of the deceased on Saturday night in the Thames
Mar Paul's wharf. The people at Paul's wharf would not
allow the body to be brought on shore by Paul's-wharf,
I'd the men had to walk with it through the mud of the
Liver for a considerable distance. Palmer, the pier-man,
'l4 " The pier is private property, there is no thorough-
bre for you.
Coroner—Send for Palmer. There is a common notion
OW the passing of a corpse will throw open • thorough-
fare.
The pier man Palmer stated that he did not know the
tenon why bodies were not allowed to be carried along
the pier. Re acted under orders received from the corn-
Pm). No doubt Captain Bustell, the secretary of the
mapany, could explain it.
Mr. Thomas Newton, of 14, Groom's-hill, Greenwich,
Mid that deceased was at work at the engine in order that
be might learn engine-driving.
Mr. W. Stevens attended for the contractor, Mr. Ritaon,
1 and he laid that the father of the deceased bad formerly
i been • large contractor, and Mr. Ritson having been his
fiend wee the reason why the deceased was being
trained up as an engineer.
The inry returned a verdict of " Accidental death."

THE AOCIDZNT ON THE GREAT EASTERN RAIL-
WAT.—At the inquest which commenced yesterday the
company was represented by Mr. Robertson, the super-
intendent of the line, Mr. Johnson, locomotive super.
intendant of the line, and Mr. Sproul, the district super-
intendent. Mr. Caches, solicitor, of Peterborough, attended
to watch the case on the part of Shepherd, the fireman,
and some of the sufferers. The coroner said that he pro-
poeed to take all the evidence that was forthcoming, and
then to adjourn the inquiry, if necessary calling in the aid
of a government inspector. No conclusive evidence was
given as to how the train got off the metals, but It was
stated by more than one witness that the train was running
at a rapid rate—from thirty to fifty miles an hour—which
was faster than usual, and faster than the rules allowed.
The train was a little late. The inquest was adjourned
for a week.

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AITZMPTED ROBBERY IX ♦ POLICII-00IIRT. —Yes-
terday a respectably dressed man, said to be an engineer in
the Strand, attended the Marlborough-street court for the
purpose of seeing that a person he had been bail for mu,
rendered. Whoe entering the court, there being great
pressure at the time, in consequence of there being
large number of persona from Seven-dials
Present (to learn the fate of some of their companions
who were locked up). he felt a tug at his watch chain and
potting down his band felt his watch, of the value of 40f.
in the hands of a man, the watch chain having been
broken. The person robbed at once seized his watch and
felt too delighted at recovering it to attempt to secure the
thief, and he than smeared.