The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-05 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

CLERKENWELL
VIOLENT ASSAULT ET A CORONER'S BUM&
Charm Jeffries, of 3, Wslcot-place, Church
coroner's beadle, was charged with violently
George Morrison, newsvendor, of 7, High-street'
Newington.
Yesterday afternoon the prosecutor was rill sill
the Stoke Newington-road, on a hone, when e MOO
thing ritss his bend as if a stone had been thee" IP
got off the .
1 horse, and the only person that t$ sd
was the defendant, who came up to him add
1
stone in his hand, hit him three or four times os
his bend, and inflicted a severe cut, from which the 1N.,:
flowed freel. He seized hold of the defendant, dbe
scratched by face and bit his finger. He was addr!„.„''''
he thought the defendant was drunk. He bad askr!:
the defendant the least provocation for conualtdsM
assault. He was so ill when he got to the paboo4m•-
that the sergeant there felt it his duty to seed far see
geon to have his bead dressed.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said d!!!:
plainant first assaulted him by hitting him on the
in the eye with the butt end of a whip.
drunk—in fact he was a man that hardly ever taok
but he was excited at having on Monday last beta,
his nervousness was perhaps mistaken for drunkedisdi,
The complainant said that he never toughed de
fendant, nor did be give him the least provoestios.
Mr.Rarkersaid that he could not so°whatthedrj•
loss of N. on Monday had to do with his
the complainant yesterday. He considered it sled 4,7
and ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 3L sdo
costs, or in default of payment two months hard
the House of Correction.
The fines and wets were at once paid.
WO RSH IP-STREET.
A STRANGE CASE OF ATTEMPTED OITICM
51".'1Th...4
Janes Bass, years of age, was charged with
ing to destiny himself.
Charles Vale, • gonad dealer, in Ge018e4"1412.1
nal-green, said—Yesterday evening I saw the Ft; 0
the side of the Regent's Canal, dabbling his hd°ll_ mod
water as though to feel if it was cold, presentuntifials
away, got on the top of the bridge, and AMP.
water. I was very much surprised, but sr"g
him and got him out

Xr. Moon—Where do you live?
prisoner—Anywhere ; nowhere.
Xr. Ellison—What do you work at for a living
Prisoner—Anything ; nothing. When I get • job I do
• yesterday • gentleman gave me 4d. for carrying his
bundle, and I bought • drop of beer. Some boys then
rued me with dirt and worried me so that I couldn't bear
COnlisble—T eaw him kneeling down by the side of the
kg in Afargaret-sreet, at the back of Hackney-road,
and then swore that he would repeat the attempt. He
nes not drunk.
sergeant of police, N division—He bad torn up all his
&thee when looked at in the cell this morning, and those
he wears are obtained from the workhouse.
Prisoner—And the others were better than these bat
dirty
Xr. Ellison—l shall remand you for • week.

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A CHILD.

INQUEST.--(THIS DAY.)
This forenoon Mr. John Humphreys, the Mid-
dlesex coroner, held an inquiry at the Duke of Oambridge
Tavern, Felix-street, Hackney-road, touching the death of
cewly-boru male child, the illegitimate offspring of
gorol.l _ _ _

John T. Clark, No. 9, Felix-street, said that he was a
hat presser. The deceased was the sae of his daughter.
He did not know that anything was the matter with his
daughter until his return from his bulbar at 7 o'clock on
loonday last. She was in great pain, and she did not make
say statement, but witness went for the pariah doctor.
Mr. Walsh then s-id he could not oome, and said " Yon
should ask her what is the matter with her." Witne
went to her, and she said she was in labour. Witness
went back to the doctor, and he said, " Can't you get a
cab and take her to the workhouse ?" Witness replied,
" I have no money, for I have been out of work." ' Call
• cab and put her in it" said the doctor, " and when she
is taken into the workhouse they will pay the cabman."
Witness went back to his daughter, who was in
her bedroom, and told her. She made a state-
ment and witness want bask to Mr. Walsh, and
asked him to come at once, as the child
was partly born. The room at the doetor'• was full of
patents, and be said he could not go to see th• mother.
There were three boys in witness's house but no woman.
Witness did not call in a female neighbour, for he did
not associate with women. When he went into his
daughter's bedroom, nearly 11(o'clook at night, she
still complained of agony, and witness went back
to Mr. Walsh • fourth time and dmaibed to
him the state his daughter was in and asked him to
come, and if he would witness would pay him. He said, " I
can't come, it's too late at night for me to go, I have bad
a mui hard day's work, and I can't go." It was then
nearly 12 o'clock at night, and witness went to Dr. Latham,
who came at once. A young man, whose name witness
did not know, was paying his addresses to his daughter.
Witness's daughter had since the birth of the child made a
statement, and said that that young man seduced her and
then deserted her. Witness thought that parish doctors
vase bound to come when called in. He (witness) was
very poor. He had no order from the parish. Witness
was a widower.

Dr. C. W. Latham, Hackney-road, said that when the
lai; witness called at his house, late on Tuesday night, his
swistant went to see the mother at once. The ch"d
was then dead. The mother had been moving about, she
"had been first here and then there m the room.
The child had been born alive. The post mortem exami-
nation of the body proved that the cause of death was
injury to the head from a fall, and from want of skilled at-
tention at birth. _ _

Mr. Burrows, coroner's officer, said that the mother of
the deceased stated that she had heard the child cry.

The Coroner said that the doctor (Mr. Walsh) was not
bound to attend without a parish order, and he had been
greatly worked the whole of the day. The case was a
shocking one, for the woman had been left without assist-
ance while she was four hours in a state of agony.
The doctor would have been bound to attend the mother
although he was tired, if the father had obtained a parish
order.

The jury after some deliberation returned a verdict
"That the deceased child came to his death accidentally
in consequence of receiving certain injuries to the head
through want of skilled attendance on the mother."