The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-10 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Edward Morley, hackney carriage driver, No. 11,064,
was charged with driving • horse and cab in Cheapside
while in ► state of intoxication. . . -

Constable 615 said that about a quarter past 2on Tues-
day afternoon he saw the defendant driving along Cheap-
side towards St. Paul's at a very furious rate. He was no.
able to catch the horse, but another constable did so, and
the defendant was then taken into custody.
Defendant said he met • young man whom he had not
seen for some time, and who gave him • couple of glasses
of ale and a cigar. Not being accustomed to drink, the
ale had taken effect upon him, and be was very sorry for
what he had done. He had been driving for 18 years, and
never had been drunk before.
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"-lirrepTyt:;tl;&rd Mayor, the defendant said the cab
wee his own.

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The Lord Mayor said it was very dangerous for a drunken
man to drive a cab through the streets of London. He
could not do less than inflict s penaltyof 20e. for drunken-
ness.

Mary Davis, cook, was brought up on remand, charged
with stealing 2lbs. of butter and albs. of meat, the pro-
perty of Mr. Frederick Sawyer, proprietor of Pim's Re-
freshment Rooms, No. 5, Poultry, and James Dance and
Mary Dr ace, his wife, were charged with feloniously re-
ceiving the same.
Mr. Daniels. solicitor, appeared on behalf of the two
last named defendants. . - .

It appeared that William Wines and John Mitchell,
plain-clothes constables, observed Mrs. Dunce leave the
refreshment rooms in the Poultry between eight and nine
o'clock on Saturday evening, carrying something under
her dress. Their suspicions being aroused, the constables
followed her to Wood-street, where she gave the parcel to
her husband. They then went up and asked Mrs. Dunce
where she had got it, and she replied from Mrs. Davis.
The officers accordingly returned to the refreshment
rooms, taking the prisoners with them, and questioned
Mrs. Davis, who at first denied that she had given any-
thing away, but ultimately said she had given Mrs. Dunce
the meat bemuse the cat had been at it. The parcel con-
tained a half leg of mutton cooked, some pork uncooked,
and two pounds of butter. Inquiries had been made
about the Dunces, who appeared to be very respectable
people, and the husband had been employed in one situa-
tion for twenty years.
The Lord Mayor now said that as there was nothing
further against the Dunces he would discharge them, but
he could not do so without telling Mrs. Dunce that she
had been guilty, to say the least of it, of great indiscre-
tion. She must have known the cook had no right to give
anything away, and if she had had any respect for her
husband she would not have taken it. _ . _

Mr. Daniels said Mrs. Dunce had not seen Davis for
eight years before, and was under the impression that she
was housekeeper, and that she had a right to give certain
things away. In point of fact she was In the passage
leaving the hones when Davis gave her this parcel, and
said, ' Here is a little cold meat and butter for you."
She regretted very much what had taken place, but at the
time the parcel was given to her she was not aware of
whet it really contained.
The Dunces were then discharged.
With regard to Mrs. Davis, Constable Wives said that
be had examined a box in the room in which she slept,
and found it to contain the following among other articles
identified as the property of her employer:—Twenty plated
prongs, f; plated teaspoons, 15 small knives, 11 large ditto,
• pot of bloater paste, 2 boxes of sardines, 2 pots of an-
chovy paste, 2 boxes of egg-powder, 2 blls of twine, :16
cigars, a bone mustard spoons, Swine gleams, lei table nap-
kins, :1 towels, and 5 teacloths.
Constable Mitchell said he had examined two of the
prisoner's boxes on the landing outside the door of
the prisoner's bedroom, and found them to contain addi-
tional articles belonging to Mr. Sawyer, including table
napkins, knives, toilet-covers, and • coat and waistcoat.
John Smith said he was in the employment of Mr.
Sawyer, and that Mrs. Davis had been in the house as
cook for eight years. She had no right to give away any
meat or butter. When anything was missed he and the
other servants upstairs had to pay for them. Articles
had been mimed from time to time, and a boy had been
dismissed on suspicion of stealing the coat and vest.
The Lord Mayor committed the prisoner for trial.
CLERKENWELL.
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Several drovers in the employ of the salesmen at the
Metropolitan C.ittle Market were summoned before Mr.
Barker for driving sheep between the hours of twelve
o'clock on Saturday night and twelve o'clock on Sunday
night, contrary• to the Islington Parish Act.
Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, said he attended on behalf of the
defendants, and would admit all the facts, at the same
time stating that there was great inconsistency between
the orders in council and the act of parliament. He
would state the facts, and then ask his worship to dismiss
these summonses. The steamer Troubador, from New
Dieppe, arrived in the River Thames on Satur-
day, the 21st of September, at four p.m., con-
sequently it was too late to be passed that
evening, and the sheep and cattle that it brought
bad to remain on the wharf and in the pound, where
there are no means of feeding or watering them, until
Sunday morning. When they were passed by the govern-
ment inspector the drovers were compelled to remove the
sheep at once, as the steamer Hollandia was expected,
and there is only room on the wharf for one cargo at a
tin:e. Now, by the orders in council, which are no doubt
quite proper, all sheep coning in a boat with cattle are to
be taken to a licensed lair. These sheep were taken to
the Metropolitan Market lairs, thus keeping within the
orders in council, no lairs being available without coming
into the Islington district.
Mr. Barker—Then you say that if you had not broken the
act of parliament you would have infringed the orders in
council?. _ .

Mr. Rickette—Certainly so ; for the words of the orders
are to the effect that all sheep coming in a vessel with cat-
tle shall be treated as cattle, and at once removed to
licensed lairs. Neither the salesmen nor the drovers were
anxious to do any Sunday work, and he was instructed to
say that the whole blame of this rests with the steamboat
company carrying sheep from New Dieppe. The company
have been petitioned to either land the sheep at places
where they can be properly watered and fed before being
conveyed to the market lairs, or to have the sheep shipped
earlier, but to no avail.
Mr. Barker, having looked over the orders in council
and the act of parliament, laid it seemed to him that they
clashed, and dismissed all the summonses.