The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDA Y EVENING. DECEMBER
hIPLIC =drgtra tit.» 411061-7 • ' THE POLICE COURTS. ti

saw her the mat morning. lniriug the whole of the time,
that the plaintiff was in the union she warn purfaatly qaist,
well behaved, sad rational.

Cross-exaMined —Mr. Curtis saw the plaintiff every day,
I believe, but he did not give me a certificate to diechuge
the plaiatiff until the 10th April. Mr. Curtis said he maw
ao sign of inisaity, bat I suppose he did not give the
bate until he was perfectly satisfied.
Phillips, a pollee constable, maid—l was sent for to Dr.
Clarke's. I saw ao sign al insanity about the plaintiff. I
received the ceder of Duter from Dr. Clarke, who
directed me to take bar to the union. 1 acted entirely
under the dinatioas of Dr. Clarke.
Crosresamiasd-1 did not as. the pkintiff till five in the
afternoon.

eurtia-1 am surgeon to the &aloes Union. I have
been in practice 30 years. On the 30th Match I saw the
plaintiff. She showed no signs of insanity that I could
discover. I convened with her on thi, and on many other
occasiona She was perfectly quiet and harmless. I g►ve
• certificate that she was of sound mind after she had
been in the union 10 or 12 da7► She wee after that ►t
hbertY to Lam

(..7cris-usimirini—The practice is, if I discover imanity,to
give DOllOll ill the relieving officer, who then has the matter
examined MU before a magistrate. I nude up my mind
low before the 10th April that the plaintiff was mae, but
1 ad not know until then that my certificate was neuesary
to her discharge. This wee the only case of the kind that
has occurred stem I have been connected with the union.
Dr. Waller Lewis—l examined the plaintiff yesterday,
and there was no tram of lunacy having existed ; on the
contrary, her memory was most remarkable.
Mr. James mid he did not intend to my that the plain.
tiff wu now iissasis.

iii.R;ricine—TheD, that lathe plaintiff's case.
Mr. James, in his addrem to the jury, submitted that
under the ciratmstances which they would bear detailed,
the defendant was justified in acting as be had acted.
Mrs. Clarke—l noticed peculiarities on the part of the
plaintiff. U I was about my domestic duties in the kitchen
she would turn round and say she thought that I suspected
her of something—of stealing. She considered that my
nursemaid wan a favourite, and she did not like to live in
a house where there was favouritism. She very often used
to wander about the house of • night when she ought to
have been in bed. On the 29th of March a ring came at
the bell, and I, according to custom, said who it was.
She paid it was some one for her, as she had been out that
morning at half-peat 6to seek for • situation. I mid it was
an improper time to go out. Sbe said the boy saw
her co out and maw her come in, and she took nothing out
DOT brought anything in. I had not accused her of doing
so. She left the room, but in three minutes returned,
stating that she was going for a policeman to have ler boxes
searched. I said she was • foolish girl, and told bar to get
on with ber work. She insisted, and I, to while away the
time while my husband was out, said to my sister we would
go, and we did go. She turned out • number of
making various remarks. I never touched • thing belonging
to her our made any accusation against her of stealing asp
thing. I never suggested that she had stolen a purse, and
I never lost a puree. I did not accuse her of breaking the
child's box. I askd my eider to go down stairs to
something for the children's dinner, and soon afterwards I
heard a scream. I ran down and saw the plaintiff'
having hold of the throat of my sister. I said,
" Oh, she is killing my sister run for a police-
man." She then made at me with her hands, saying.
"and I will kill you too." I caught hold of her wrists, and
my eider, who wsa nearly fainting, Caine to my assistance in
• moment or two, and laid bold of the plaintiff round the
waist. She was biting, kicking and stilling until the men
whom we had salt fur came. She tried to struggle from us,
saying that she would, if she got upstairs, smu3 the front
wiodnws and jump out. Elbe talked very incoherently, and
she prayed. When I sent the norm upstairs for the two
children who were crying is the nursery, ahe said she was to
bring a priest, a doctor, and • gravedigger, for she (the
nurse) was to be bated with her at nine o'clock. She said
that her eine were as whits as wool, whilst ours were black.
She said we bad amend bard taking • key, and
" " But thou, Lord, knows .*I lava done no such thing."f .*
had not so accused bee. She said we had threatened to kill
her with the brims. ?hie was not true. I thought she
was insane.

II ILI DAVID DALLY.-ANOTHER THIATRICAI. CASE.

This insolvent, the well-known scene-painter, appeared
ender the Protection Act. The cue was before the court
oa • former occasion, when Mr. Dalby, who only
owed.lol., made a proposal to set aside 40f. • year for
his creditors out of his income, which was principally de-
rived from • salary at the Surrey Theatre. Among the
{ors sustained by the insolvent was one of 301. on • pie.
tore (Venice), which he had painted for the Surrey-gardens,
and for which he bad not been paid The case was ad-
journed to the 27th of March for the first payment, and the
protection wee renewed.

GUILDHALL.

Jobs Diamond, whc;described himself u a cotton spin-
ner, and refused hie addrew, was charged with the following
offence :

Samuel Carter, a housekeeper at No. 1, Warneford-court,
said he left the savings bank, in Moorfielibi, and was pro.
Deeding along North-buildings, when the prisoner, who
was walking near him, dropped his glove, and witness
picked it up and returned it to him. The prisoner then
entered into conversation about America, from which place
be said he had just arrived. He said he was about to receives
quantity of American sovereigns, which ho said were rather
thicker than the English sovereign. Witness said he
should like to see one, and the then said they
were done up in packets to be excused opening
them, and ultimately asked witness to allow him to look at
an English coin of that denomination. Witness handed
him a sovereign which the prisoner examined minutely,
and when he eventually returned the coin, which he
appeared to have been looking at, witness dis-
covered that a counterfeit had been substituted for the
genuine sovereign which witness had entrusted him with a
minute previous. The prisoner then ran away and took
refuge in • public-house, whither he was followed by wit-
ness, who gave him into custody. When searched at the
policeetation, upon him were found several other counter-
feit sovereigns, or, as the Mint authorities denominate
them, " medals," to endeavour to pass which is not con-
sidered, according to the " Mint law," uttering counterfeit
coin. Five "flash" 51. note were also found upon him,
besides the witness's good sovereign.
The prisoner, who was not known to the police, elected
to be cleat with summarily, and pleaded guilty for that
uraerman Rose, with the concurrence of Alderman
Humphery, said the prisoner had evidently waylaid the
prosecutor from the savings bank for the purpose of plun-
dering him, and if anything else had been known against his
character he would have been sent for trial.

The prisoner was then sentenced to six months' imprison
meet, with hard labour.