The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-20 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

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The charge sheets p;eeenteaeithisieliee-court-Testerds.
from the city divisions of police exhibited the activity witff
which the professional pickpockets bad practised their
occupation on the occasion of the transit through the City
of his Imperial Highness the Sultan to Guildhall for the
civic entertainment on the previous evening. The list sub-
mitted to the adjudication of the presiding magistrate,
Alderman Sir It. W. Carden, comprised no leas than J 7
eases, the principal actors in which had been secured
under the excellent arrangements made by Mr. Inspector
Hamilton, of the Cit detective force, which were fully
carried out by his en te, but mast active officers.
The cases themselves presented no features of novelty,
inasmuch as for the most part the offenders were captured
in the commission of the acts imputed to them, and they
were visited with sentences varying from one month to
three months' imprisonment with nerd labour in the House
of Correction. Three cases, however, of old offenders,
were remanded, with a view to the formal proof of their
antecedeots.

Alderman Sir R. W. Carden, at the close of the pro-
tracted proceedings of the day, took occasion to remark
that the cases which had been brought before him were •
specimen of the depredations committed on the public on
the occasion of that which he might call a public festivity,
but how many more who had escaped detection it was im-
possible tory ; as ft was he must say that the greatest
credit was due Loth' police for their mid, activity, and
judgment.
THAMES.

Mr. David Erlicartkof Royal Mint-street, better known
as Rosemary-lane, Whiteohapel, came before Mr. Paget,
with his wife, Mary Ann Edwards, to complain of the
conduct of a police-constable named John /time, of the
If division, for assaulting Mrs. Edwards. Mr. Edwards
was before the magistrate on a former day and made a long
statement. He was directed to attend again and bring
his wife with him. Their united statements may be thus
summed up. A few weeks since Mr. Edwards was return-
ing from a club, of which he is secretary, with his wife
and another married couple. They were parting, and
saying "good night" to each other at the corner of
Leman-street and Rosemary-lane, when a policeman
came up and looked at them. One of the party, •
German, and member of the club, facetiously said,
" I think you had better lock up one of the ladies."
The policeman immediately said, lf you don't get oat of
this I will lock you all up, for you are nothing but a lot of
street-walkers." Mr. Edwards said, " I beg your pardon,
we are respectable tradesmen." The police-constable said,
" I don't care if you are a thousand times respectable
tradesmen." One of the party said, "He pays for your
coat to protect us." The policeman made use of some
more bad language and abuse. They threatened to report
the constable to the inspector at the station-house. The
whole party proceeded towards the station-house in Leman.
street, and upon reaching the door Mr. Edwards looked
behind him to see if his wife was following. At that
moment the policeman Kiron rushed upon Mrs. Edwards
and took her into custody. She asked him what he
meant, and he forced her arms behind her, dragged her
shawl off, and hurt very much. Another policeman
was then called to assist Kiron in taking her
into the station-house, and she was placed in the dock.
Inspector Dendy asked what was the charge against her,
to which he replied, "For walking the streets." Inspec-
tor Deady said it was no offence to walk the streets, and
that Mrs. Edwards could not be locked up for that. The
inspector discharged Mrs. Edwards, and reprimanded the
policeman for hie officiousness.
Mr. Paget said the transaction took place on the Bth of
June, and inquired the cause of the delay in making this
application.
Mr. Edwards said he bad now to relate the most extra-
ordinary part of thelaffair.l He wrote to the Commissioners
of Police at Scotland-lard on the 11th of June, and received
• reply that due inquiries would be made. He waited
another month without receiving any further information
from the commissioners. He wrote again, and was re-
ferred
to the magistrate.
Inspector Dearly put in copies of the correspondence
between Mr. Edwards, gas fitter and plumber, of No. 110,
Royal Mint-street, and the commissioners, the report of
Mr. White, the superintendent of the H division, who had
acted very impartially in the matter, and the state-
ment of the accused covetable Mr. Deady said the
transaction which took place in the station-house was
correctly described by the applicants. The constable com-
plained of was young and inexperienced. The commis-
sioners and the superintendent (Mr. White) had made full
inquiries into the we, and the constable had been repri-
manded and fined for breach of duty.
Mr. Paget granted a summons against the constable for
assaulting Mrs. Edwards.

SUSPICIOUS DEATH AT DERBY.—Yesterday Con-
siderable excitement was occasioned in the neighbourhood
of the Derby railway station and in the town generally by
the death of an elderly lady, widow of the late Dlr. Footitt,
solicitor, of Derby, which had taken icilace under suspicious
circumstances which lead to the conviction that acruel and
most cold-blooded murder has been perpetrated. The de-
ceased, who resided in a terrace of houses opposite the rail-
way station, was left in the house alone on Thursday after-
noon, being then, to all appearance, in her usual health
and spirits, but between 4 and 5 o'clock the same after-
noon' • female friend, who had been invited to take tea
with ber, arrived at the house and knocked at the front
door, but no one answering, she proceeded to the back
door, which she found open. She therefore entered the
house and found Mrs. Footitt lying upon the sofa in a
state of unconsciousness, • large clot of blood being on the
top of her head and more blood on the sofa.
Assistance was at once procured, and • surgeon
was sent tsar, but she remained unconscious
during the whole of the night, and died about nine
o'clock yesterday morning, never having been able to '
recognise any of her children or friends in the least.
It is the opinion of the surgeon that she bad been suit-
deftly struck upon the head by some heavy instrument
similar to • hammer, and had at once fallen upon the sofa,
from which she had never stirred. There were no marks
of blood, or any signs of disorder in any part of the house.
The present conjecture is that some strolling vagabond had
owns to the rear of the house, and, noticing her lonely
position, had espied some articles of silver which stood
upon • sideboard, and sought by force to obtain them, but
had met with some resistance from the deceased, when he
deal her the blow which resulted in her death. Nothing,
however, is missed.
THE RECENT FATAL AFFRAY AT BIRMINGHAM.—
An inquest was held on Thursday night on the body of
Michael McNolly, who was shot by one Morris Roberta in
a gin-shop in Dale-end, Birmingham, on Tuesday night.
The circumstances have already been described. After a
long inquiry the jury returned a verdict of "Just table
homicide." Yesterday Roberts was broughtup before the
borough magistrates, and after some evidence had been
adduced he was remanded for a week.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
sat yesterday at the Council Chamber, Whitehall, to hear
Indian appeals. The lonic present were Lord Romilly,
Sir J. W. Colvile' Sir IL V. Williams, Sir U. T. Kin-
dereley, and Sir L. Peel.

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