The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-31 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
IXTRIMIYE 11101ZZZLeillINT.
jrikpli MOT* a respectable-looking young man, late
tom traveller to Messrs. Potter and Co., wine merchants
gbesr hill, ,
wu brought before Alderman noels, charged
with embezzling a considerable sum of money belonging to
eir".•
it Sapp red that the prisoner had for some time been in
ranee of the prosecutors, and that in coneequerne of
aciailyll/ that were entertained his accounts were era-
"'amid, sod it was for ad that there Ives • very considersble
gegenacy. He waa apprehended by Monger, a detective
notable. and when be was told that he was charged with
/agog his employers he replied that it was too true,
cad that the amount was over 2001.
Mr. Terrell, the keeper of a wine and refreshment room
at Mile-end, was now examined, and he proved that he
pia the prisoner 221. Be. 3d. in the months of May and
No last on aooount of the prosecutors, and the prisoner
pre biro a receipt.
Kr. Rutland, the landlord of the Prince of Ware, Pop-
lar, proved that be paid the prisoner the several sums of
on theist Jane, and ill, lir, en the 3rd of August,
sad he also produced a receipt given by the prisoner for
those amounts.
Mr. Potter stated that the prisoner had not accounted
to him for any of those sums of money.
The prisoner, when called upon, said he would save his
master all the trouble and expense be could by pleading
guilty. He was very sorry for what he had done.
Rs was then fully committed for trial.

BOW-STREET.

MAROS OF MANI AGAINHT A LICENSED VICTUALLER.
Henry John Clark, landlord of the Grapes Tavern St.
Mary Axe, was brought up in custodyritSugeridWinianot
of the City police-force No. 11, upon the charge of having
intermarried with Isabella Brown, his former wife Justine
Mary Georgian& Clark being still living.
Mr. W. R. Smith,of Gresham-bouse, prosecuted.
Isabella Brown, being called, refused to take the oath.
Mr. Vaughan—On what ground do you decline to take
the oath?
Mrs. Brown—l could not be sworn. Ido not balieveln it.
Mr. Vaughan—But you must be bound in some way.
Mrs. Brown—l will speak the truth as far as my °Gu-
idance goes.
Mr. Vaughan—Are you of any religion
Mrs. Brown—Yes, I am of a religion.
Mr. Vaughan—Theo you say you have a conscientious
obthation to take an oath!
Mrs. Brown—Yea.
Mr. Vaughan—Prom what does that objection arise!
Mrs. Brown—l do not believe the oath is valid or
MdbiPliaughan—Do you believe that if you are examined
without an oath you are bound to speak the truth?
Mrs. Brown—Yes, and more than if I was sworn.
Mr. Vaughan then ordered the administration of the
declaration, as of a person bolding conscientious objection
to the taking of an oath.
She deposed—l live at 56, St. Mary Axe. Ives married to
the prisoner by henna, on thelOth August, 1863, at the
garish church of St. Giles-in-the-fields. I bad known the
prisoner about three years before we were married. He
was my manager. We lived together for some time,
and I objected and said Iwould not live with himany more,
unless we were married. I had henna that he was rcanied,
but I did not know it. I was aware that be allowed some-
thing a week to the woman that now turns out to be his
" wife, but I never knew it positively till yesterday. I have
had three children by him ; one before we were married.
The prisoner—You knew very well that I was married.
You had been to my place and seen my wife and when
she found out the terms we were on it made unpleasantness
at home. Then I left her to go and live with you.
The witness denied all these statements.
Augusts Wilhelmina Alexandrine Brown—l am a
widow. I was present on the 10th September, 1844, at the
marring, of the prisoner to my sister, Justin& Mary
Georgians Lamont, at the parish church of the Holy
Trinity, Minories. I was the attesting witness. My enter
is alive, and is now in court.
The certificates of both marriages were put in.
Sergeant Williams, City police force, No. 11—The pri-
mer was given into my custody at half-put 3 yesterday
afternoon by the prosecutrix at the Grapes public house.
Be said he was very glut to come to au end of it ; it would
wind up the affair, and she would be sorry for it.
Mr. Smith—That is the case, air. I submit it is suffi-
dent for a committal.
The prisoner, in defence, said he first knew the prose-
unix from meeting her about the time of the Crimean
war, when he took her out several times and an iutiniacy
commenced. After the child was born she insisted upon
his marrying her, and said if ho wrote himself down a
widower it would be all right. She knew he was married
and bad a family, but promised to say nothing about it.
Mr. Vaughan mid those were statements for the jury.
The prisoner must ho committed for trial.
The prrsoner—l hope, sir, I shall be admitted to bail?
Mr. Vaughan—Certainly. What are you?
Prisoner—l am a publican. I have an interest in that
house in which we lived together.
Mr. Vaughan—You must find two sureties of 251. each,
and give your own recognisance& for 501.
Mr. Smith—With notice of bail?
Mr. Vaughan —Do you think that necessary?
Mr. Smith—He has said he would go away. Well, no
sir. I don't know that we care.
The prisoner was then removed.
CLERKENWELL.
CONVTCTION OF A BAKER FOR HAVING A DIRTY BAKEHOUSE.
Thomas Gregory, baker, of 10, Upper Hemerton-street,
Islington, was summoned before Mr. D'ityncourt, at the
instance of William Mayo, inspector of nuisanoes and
sanitary inspector on behalf of the vestry of the pariah of
St. Mary, Islington, for having hie bakehouse in such a
state from dirtiness as to be a nuisance.
The defendant pleaded guilty, awl said that he had not
bad the place long when it was visited by the inspector.
Mr. William Mayes said that on the 25th of August in
company with Dr. Ballard, the medical officer of health for
Islington, he inspected the bakehouse in the occupation of
the defendant, and found the sweepings of the floor placed
under the kneading trough. The walls and ceilings of the
bakehouse were very dirty, and at the side of the
oven were a quantity of grains, which upon examination
were found to be alive with insects. Several fowls were
running about the place, and in one part of the bakehouse
be found the ordinary dirt of a fowl's house. He again
visited the bakehouse that morning and found it much
cleaner than when he paid his previous visit.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said that since he
bail received the notice, he had hail the bakehouse lime-
washed. He had only been in the place five months or he
should have had it done before.
Mr. D'Eynoonrt said that crime of this sort were very
properly prosecuted, and finest the defendant sa. and
14• 64. costa. He sit the mine time made an order for
the defendant to repair and cleanse the bakehouse, and to
keep it properly cleansed andrepaired, at the same time
told the defendant that if he failed to comply with the
terms of the order, he would render himself liable to
heavy penalties.
The defendant at once paid the fine and costs, and paid
he would do all he could to comply with the magistrate's
order.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
I•NWHOLEMIIIE FISH.
Wm. Fiance, a costernionger, living at No. 17, Princes
now, Newport-market, appeared beforo Mr. Tyrwhitt to
answer a complaint of exposing fur sale a quantity of fish
unfit for food.
Mr. Shorley Foster Murphy, of No. 120, Gower-street,
assistant to the medical officer of health of St. Giles s,
said that on being informed the defendant was selling bad
fish in Dudley-street he went there. and found the defen-
dant had some fish which was rotten, and enough to make
a man sick.
Mr. George Buchanan, medical officer of health of St.
Giles's, said his attention was called by the last witness to
the defendant's fish, and he found it totally unfit for food,
as it was putrid and stinking.
The defendant said that the fish was in the same state
when he purchased it for 15s.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the defendant how he came to pur-
chase such fish. He should have thought such a roan as
the defendant would not have parted with 13a. without
seeing what he was purchasing.
The defendant said that at Billingsgate the fish in
baskets was put up to auction on men's shoulders, and
buyers were not allowed to examine it, and the most they
Gould do was to thrust a hand into the basket to judge of
the quantity, and then it was oft"n half ice. If after pur-
chasing fish the buyer found it to be bad, and went back.
he found a board stuck up with " Fis l sold with all faults,"
and the money paid for it was not returned. He had only
sold 4.1. worth of the fish and as soon as he found that it
Irma bad was anxious to have it destroyed and it was
destroyed.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was highly dangerous that such
fish should be sold, especially at the present time when the
cholera was prevailing. He should fine the defendant,
but in consideration of his i 1 wing lost the price he paid
for the fish he should only impose a fine of :a. and costa.
THAMES.
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Williams Mitchell, a wretched-looking boy, aged 13 years,
was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing
sugar from the premises of Messrs. Dames, the extensive
refiners, in Rupert-street and Lambeth-street,
Mr. Charles Yonne, solicitor, conducted the prosecu-
tion. He appeared for the same firm at the commence-
ment of the week, and the offender, a boy of 14, was
fined.
Mr. Charles Young now said the prosecutors had been
put to serious loos and inoouvenience by numerous gangs
of boys, who broke the wire guards in frost of the windows
which gave light and sir to the bottom of the ragarhouss,
where the sugar was run into moulds and cooled before it
was sent aloft to be baked. The boys introduced long
sticks into the moulds through the boles they made in tits
wire guards, dipped them into the moulds and sucked the
sugar off the sticks. In some instances the boys had depo-
sited the stolen sugar in pots sad Mbar vessels, and
carried it away. Messrs. Dawn hod been peat losers by
this system of p'.under. It might appear ridiculous
to prosecute boys for sucking sugar-sticks, but the prose-
cutors had uo alternative. The loaves of sager were