The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-03 00:00:00

CAPTURE OF FORTP•SEVEN BETTING MEN IN

LIVERPOOL.

About half-past nine o'clock on Tuesday evening
a body of Liverpool police surrounded the entrance to the
Albion Hotel, in Renehigh-street, whilst a number of de-
tectives went inside. On entering • large coffee-room up-
wards of 40 men were smembled, all of whom were busy in
making up their books and noting down beta. Among the
sporting gentlemen present, and who were taken into
custody, was • lay magistrate, and Mr. Thomas Ford, who
was described in court as "the gentleman who makes beta
for Lord Derby."
Yesterday they were all brought before /ir. Raffles,
together with Mrs. Ann Smith, the keeper of the hotel,
chatwith being assembled for the purpose of betting.
-officer,Stalman said that, on entering the room
where the defendants were, he found a board against the
wall with late telegraph news relating to races, betting, tic.
Several detectives were examined all of whom stated
that they found betting-hooks, lists, and other memoranda
relating to betting upon nearly all the defendants.
Mr. Cobb (solicitor), who appeared for the defendants,
*untended that his clients could not be held amenable to
the law, as not one of the officers could prove that he saw
a bet made in which money was exchanged by the
parties betting ; besides, the homer was a oommercial
hotel, and every person who went into it and chose to look
at the latest tehic sporting news could by no Mean,
whatever be char with being a " sporting character."
He might be • traveller, and might have just looked at the
news out of curiosity. Mr. Cobb also complained of the
manner in which his clients had been treated ; their pocket
books were taken away from them, and even private letters
from sisters, brothers, wives, and parents were opened and
read. . _ .

Mr. Raffles agreed with Mr. Cobb, and discharged all the
defendants, with the exception of Mm. Smith, who was
charged under the Act for the Supprewion of Gaming
Houses with being the owner of a house in which people
assembled for the purpose of making beta, and fined in the
sum of 100/. . .

Mr. Dean, who appeared for Mrs. Smith, has filed an ap-
peal against the decuuon of Mr. Raffles.
The court was densely crowded during the hearing of
the case, and the moment the decision was given there was
a regular rush— to Chester, of course.
On 'Change the conduct of the police authorities in
making the seizure has been freely canvassed, and largely
condemned. It was stated yesterday that had any of the
persons attending the house been prosecuted, ample funds
would have been raised on th "flap" in • few minutes
for the defence.

HAINARKABLE Deem—An investigation took
place on Tuesday before Mr. Wakley, the coroner, at the
University Hotel, Grafton-street, Tottenham-court-road,
in reference to the death of an unknown female, about
fifty years of age, under the following very singular circum-
stances. About one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a house-
painter at work on the premises, No. 39, Woburn.place,
Hassell-square, noticed the deceased sitting on the door-
sto No. 38, with her head resting upon one hand and it
basket
of lace by her side. After the lapse of a quarter of
an hour he went to her, and finding her pale, unable to
Mand apparently dying, he sought for a policeman.
M re
a half au hour after the poor woman was first noticed
on the door-step she had expired. She was removed to the
University College Hospital, where a post Nur tees exami-
nation was made by Mr. Andrews, the resident medical
officer, who discovered the cause of death to be the
piercing of a fish-bone through the substance of the heart.
He had found eight wounds in the disphraghm and pericar-
dium, through which the bone had passed before it reached
the heart. On a rigid search he discovered the blunt end
of a fish bone, one inch and three-quarters in length, pro-
truding through the stomach, and piercing the heart. The
immediate mu* of death was the lose of blood. The
coroner having remarked upon the singular nature of the
case, the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."
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