The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-24 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGHSTREET.

A man named Riehard Coulson, of No. 1, Crown-street,
Soho, was suretnotied for levying an illegal and excessive
distress on goods belonging to a poor, but respectable me-
chanic, at No. 8, Grafton-street. Mr. Edward Lewis, of
Mai lboroughatreet, gratuitously appeared fur the complain-
ant, and stated his case. Mr. Lewis said, the complainant, •
short time hack, had the misfortunate lose a child by
_death
and when he buried it, was in arrears for rent 2s. Bd. ;be
had hard circumstances to contend with, and on the 13th
instant, eight days after, he buried his wife, who had died
soon after their infant. The day before the funeral, the
12th, the sum of ss. was due, which would have been paid,
but that the defendant, as landlord, taking advantage of
the mournful procession leaving the house, actually broke
open the door of his apartment, and with a broker, one
Perry, of Great Earl.str et, he believed, bore off all
complainant's furniture, together with his tools of trade
arid the few articles of apparel which belonged to his de-
ceased wife, and that for Is., which defendant had been as-
sured would be paid him on the complainant's return. He
was aware the penalty under the 2nd and 3rd Victoria, chap.
71, was but small, and 9uite inadequate to meet the justice
of et, hard-hearted and inhuman • case as the present. The
object was to take the sense of the court on it, and compel
the return of the goods in question. The complainant, now
living in Dartmouth-street, proved all that had been ad-
vanced, and add the defendant called on him on the 12th for
his rent, when he told him of his loss of his wife as well
as child, that he should bury her the next day, and
would directly afterwards pay the le. for rent duo,
adding, that he had it then, but did not know exactly the
interment fees at Woking, nd therefore should like to
wait till he returned. The defendant replied," Oh, you have
the money and won't pay ; then I know what to do," sad
left. Returning from the funeral, witness found his room-
door, which he had left locked, broken open, and all be
taken away—bed and bedstead, mahogany side-
board,tits, his work tools, and • gold ring and clothes of
his dead wife, which he should be sorry at all to part with,
though not perhaps, in actual value, worth more than BO&
—goods, tools, and clothes, seized for Be.
Ellen Brumley proved the breaking open the door by the
defendant and the carrying away of the goods by the
broker and his man.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lock, of Prince's•row, a mourner at the
funeral, proved the locking up the door of the apartment in
which were the goods, and giving the key to the com-
plainant on the arrival of the coffin.
la reply to the charge the defendant said the complainant
had ref uwal to pay bin, at all, because of the deaths; that
other lodgers had grumbled because of effluvia arising from
the room he had tenanted, and wanted it aired, and that
he consulted a broker, who advised a distraint. All the
goods be bad got still, and would return on his rent and
ei being all paid him.
lm."l:effle--1 am instructed to say that all the man has
stated in defence is untrue.

Mr. beacelYou;;;cilict. and th►t of the broker for
lending himself to it, is mot inhuman and indecent, and
if the goods, every article, are sot forthwith roturnivl on
payment of tba 65., without a farthing expenses, you will be
fined 30s. Let every article be instantly returned.

Taut. FOR MURDER IN SCOTLAND. —At the
Stirling Circuit Court on Friday, before Lords Ardmillan
and Naar's, Elisabeth Paton or Morrison was charged with
having, on the 214 June last, at No. 67 bridge of the Edin-
burgh sad Glasgow Union Canal, " feloniously assaulted
James Morrison, jun., her son, a child of about three years
of age, than residing with his father James Morison,
mason, in Laurieston, parish of Falkirk, and with having
thrown and pushed him into the canal, whereby he was
drowned or deprived of life, sod was thus murdered by the
said Elizabeth Paton oifhlorriaon." After a trial, the pri-
apism was ordered to be confined during her Majesty's plea-
sure, as it was proved she was labouring under insanity at
the time of the murder.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SHREWSBURY AND
HUMMED RAILWAT.-00 Saturday last the inquest upon
the body of Mr. Joseph Jobson, corn merchant, of Shrews.
bury, was resumed at the Craven Arms Hotel, near the
Omen Arms Station, before Mr. Weyrnan, coroner. There
had been two adjournments of the inquest. The accident,
it will be remembered, occurred no the 27th of August.
Several additional witnesses having been examined, Captain
Tyler, the government inspector, before the jury retired,
made some remarks upon the management of the line, and
suggested some improvements.He dwelt upon the neomdty
of either telegraphing from station to station and receiving
I an answer before the trains were allowed to depart, or to
adopt the staff principle, as was in operation along the
Crewe and Shrewsbury line. The jury then retired, and after
an absence of two hours returned the following verdict :
We are of opinion that the damaged. Joseph Jobson, cams
by his death by a collision on the Shrewsbury and Hereford
Railway, oa the Ti th August kat, ageidentelly caused by a
nsia-copy of a telegraph at the station at Shrewsbury, and by
the traffic manager having ordered the teamto proceed on
from Church Stratton without the mud Instruction to the
stationmaster at Church Beretta. having been received
there. They an of opinion that there Is • want of a strin-
gent cods of laws to be laid down for the working of trains,
especially on this sea single line. Also that, owing to the
great increase of traffic, • portion of the line ought to be
made a double one, to facilitate the working of the train.,
and also for protection
to the publie.
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