The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-17 00:00:00

788 POLICE COURTS.

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BOW-STREET.
Henry Berthlot, a molter in to General Poet-office, was
brought up on a warrant, ander the 32nd motion of the
Post °Hoe Let, far detalalag aewspeeers is their prune
through the peat. The ears woe an eseruidlegly singular
sae, from the absence of any coneeivsble m bye for the
armee, Are prisoner baying torn the addresses frost three
papaw, end thrown' them down the 'boot whieb is used for
ceaveyieg letters frost tbe Foreign office tv the room below.
When taxed with this ealnkondeet by Mr. Willis Clare,
beepretor of letter carriers, the prisoner, fat goes tme,
eintleetely denied it, bet on the constable, Prate, being
asst fee, he bowel frightened sad acknowledged that be
had done so. He said h• did it because he was afraid of
male-esading this, haying recently boas Said for mistakes

of that kind. When 'earthed by the °Meer, he bad a
member of envelopes, 'Adeptly tern from newspapers
w►teh he had stopped in the same way.
In answer to a question from Mr. Jardine,
Mr Clare said tnt the prisoner's stny could not be true.
If he had doubts about an address, he could ev.rid all risk of
blame by banding over the letter or paper toe person called
the " blind sorter," whose business it wee to send, according
to the best of his judgmeat, letters and paps rs " thrown
est" by the other sorters. Besides, the msj.rity of them
papers were not only legibly directed, but were papers
which ought never to have passed through the prisoner's
heads, end he (Ur. Clare) was unable to end 'intend liver he
could hays got passeesion of them. Be could only account
for prisoner's conduct by supposing it to be a wanton act of
mischief.

---fh44eleoner who adhered to the statement made to Ik.
Clare, was committed for trial.

Antony the articles fund on the prisoner ware lose
betting-tickets, and he acknowledged to the anon that he
wu in the habit of
.betting, and that the system was curled
on ea actively Is ever, the he!. running as luw as half-s-
-crown.

George Lovell, a carter in the serv'ne of a cowlieeper in
Hoelesferd-street, was summoned at the instance of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Annuls, for Sl-
uing a hone, by driving him with en excessive load.
Mr. H. H. Foster, who conducted the cue Ur the society,
said that if the dateline set op wee that the man was obliged
to drive the horse In obedience to the c iron:sods of Oil
muter, he would withdraw this summons, proceed against
the master, and pot Lovell in the witness-box.
As defendant stated that his muter bad directed aim to
drive the hone with the load in question, this nouns was
taken, and the muter,
Charles Glover, was charged with causing the horse to be
cruelly ill-treated.
Mr. Joseph Saunders, of Taplow, near hlsiderhead, a
justice of the peace for the county, stated that at about two
o'clock on Monday afternoon he saw Lush driving a hotel,
in a waggon loaded withgrsiu. The berg—a floe, n ble
animal—wee in good condition, and defendant was using
him u gently as be could, but the load was evidently far
too much for him. He (Mr. Saunders) bad seen a great
deal of torsos, but never in his life had be teen one in etch
dining. The poor brute was panting !earthily, and not
only perspiring, but abeolutely foaming.
The constable on duty at the time, F 99, corrobnrated.
The lead wet enough tor two horses. Oa Doing spoken to
by winess sad by Mr. Saunden the man consented to get
another horse.
Other witnesses were Galled to show that the cut was
loaded with five quieten of distillers' grains,' queue being
about five or six hundredweight. They wee. atilt heavier
at time. They were much heavier than brewers' grains.
Lovell stated that its was sent by his mast. r so fetch five
quarter, of grains from Whitechapel. The horse bad drawn
be HMO load that distance before without being dirt
tressed. On this occasion the horse wet trestwd •
little," bat that wee owing to the stones being slit ;pry and
his shoes smooth. The load wet not more than a ton, for
three out of the five quarters were stale.
Mr. Glover defended himself to the same effect.
Mr. Jardine. after 001:120 sever, comments, fined defendant
H., or in default one month's imprisonment.