The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-24 00:00:00

WANDSWORTH.

Chyme BNAM, who held hie hand to his head, which was
covered with bandages, was charged as follows :
Police-constable Green, V division, said that at two
o'clock in the morning he saw the prisoner with some
greens in Garrett-lane, Wandsworth, which he dropped
and ran away. He took him into custody for the unlawful
possessions of the greens, when he became very violent,
kicked and threatened him, and he was obliged to nee
his staff. _ _

PriaOl;er—l made no use of any violence. He came up
and knocked me down with his doff.
Constable—He bit my finger.
Mr. Dayman—Have you anything else to say?
Prisoner—l know better than to molest a policeman. I
have served in the ►rmy for 15 years, and I know better.
He knocked me down senseless, and while I was down
be hit me two or three times with his staff, and cut my
head open.
Mr. Dayman—lt is very unlikely the constable would
knock you down without any reason. If you are violent,
he baa a right to do his best to protect himself.
Prisoner—l was nmer knocked down in my life before.
Mr. Dayman then fined him se. for the unlawful pos-
session.

Mr. L. Lewis, of Ely-place, applied to the sitting magi-
strate for a warrant to apprehend the late secretary of
the court " Friend in Hand " of the Ancient Order of
Foresters, held at the Stag Tavern, Wandsworth-road,
who had embezzled various sums of money belonging
to the society. The secretary had been summoned for
the embezzlement, but he did not appear, and it was
stated that he had absconded. Proceedings could not be
taken under the Friendly Societies Act on account of the
trustees and members of the court having allowed sir
months to expire. The complaint was that he had re-
ceived various sums from country members, signing their
cards, but not entering the amounts in his book, or paying
them over to the treasurer. He had also drawn money
from the treasurer, and had applied it to his own use.
The magistrate thought the complainants should bear
the responsibility of giving the man into custody if he had
committed a felon 7, and, not endeavour to shield them-
selves under a magistrate's warrant.
Mr. Lewis said the complainants were not like members
of a large Arm. Their object in taking the proceedings
was to protect their fellow-members.
Ultimately a warrant was granted.
THAMES.

Jose Etairgt, a determined-looking woman, about 42
Mr.
of age, the wife of a seaman, was brought before
Mr. Paget, charged with unlawfully abandoning and ex-
peeing her infant child, aged four months, whereby its life
became endangered, on the 22nd of June, 1867.
The prisoner's husband, by whom she has bad a large
family, was away from England six years, and by his in-
dastry and talents maintained a high position in • distant
part bf the world, and be allowed her 61. per month
during his absence. She became faithless to him, and
when he came home about Christmas last she was seven
months advanced in pregnancy, in consequence of
her baring carried on an adulterous intercourse
with another man. She imposed upon her hus-
band • tale that she was ill and labouring
under dropsy. In February last she gave birth to • male
child at the house of her daughter, Sarah Busby, a mar-
ried woman, of No. 18, Arbour-place, Stepney, in the
immediate vicinity of the Thames Police-court ; left her
newly-born babe with her daughter, and returned imme-
diately to her borne, to impose another fiction on her
injured husband, that she had undergone an operation,
and been relieved of the dropsy. The illegitimate child,
of whose existence the prisoner's husband was quite un-
conscious, remained with Mr.. Bushy, until the night
of Saturday, the 22nd of June, when she removed
it in the absence of her daughter, who never saw
it afterwards. On the same night, or rather
early on the morning of the Mrd of June, •
lad named Thomas Piper, of No. 87, Heath-street,
Stepney, was on his way home, when he kicked
againat • bundle on the ground. The squeaking of •
child indicated what the bundle contained. It was the
body of an infant which had been placed on the ground
against the railings of Albert-square, Stepney. about SOO
yards from Albion-place. The child was taken to the
station-house, and afterwards transferred to the Stepney
Union Workhouse at Bromley on the 11th of the present
month. The inquiries of Inspector Turner, of the K divi-
sion, and Police-sergeant Briden, Na. 4 K, left no doubt
that the prisoner was the mother of the child, and that
she had erne:ly abandoned it. Police-sergeant Briden
went to the dwelling of the prisoner, at No. 1, Arbour-