The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-30 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MARTLEBONE.

Aim Geer, Hairy Pitmeas,Georps Bowen., wad Owls*
Dole/Pork wistroat moddriabo, ware cbwrgad with shawls(
Dr. Charism Baby* the onaisost waibetostioloa, by playtag
'herr Isatrussesto ist forst hi. hire, N. 1, Dorsot.ourt,

Manobeeta-sqeme, sad with measia-e to go away when
spoke' to.
The complaisant stated Ilia at sheet half-past 11 o'clock
that morning the prisms= were playlets nearly in front of
his house with braes Instruments. He went out and desired
snob of them in =email= to ones playing and go away and
not &verb Dim.

Mr. Phillips (chief clerk)—DM you tell them why ?
Complainant—No; no mere than that they disturbed me.
They did not eak toe, or I would have told them. I yanks
my complaint under the 67th dare of the Metropolitan
Police Act, which states that some reasonable cause most be
given by the persons so offending why they should not go
awn 7.
Mr. Phillips—But that mast be given is evidence.
Mr. Broughton—You are much engaged in scientific
pursuits ?
Complainant—Particularly so at the present time. Last
night I west to the Geographical Society, where the subject
of coaversatton wee in reference to the mesas of communi-
cation from land by night with shipwrecked mods. I bad
formed model■ for • similar purpose, and at the time the pri-
soners MOO I was closely managed upon the investigation of
the subject. After I asked them to curse they went on for a
short time, when I told them I should go lon a.poliesesen,
and left for that purpose. They then west on lb. step. of
the home at the next door.
Mr, Broughton observed that the law wee that if a party
continued playing after being asked to °ewe, it was an
offence.

Our said that after they were spoken to by Dr. Babbege
they went over to the hones before which they were playing,
endwhere there wan a wedding, and said that they could not
play as their Instruments annoyed Dr. Babbage; in crew
nuance of which they were asked Into the honer.
C,umplainent—They were playing after I gave than warn.
tag that I would go for a policeman.
Pitman stated that they had no intention to annoy Dr.
Briber, end that they owed es soon r possible at his
nrolicaccestable paint, D 184 said that he was celled by
Dr. Brier to take the prisoners eta curdy. He found
hem oatehle the door at No. 2 Dorset-streer, when they
ware err In charge by Dr. Bahr's.
Yr. Phillip—Did you bear them play f
Illelat—l did not. I told Delvers that to play near his
house much annoyed him (Dr. Babbege), when he observed,
" We know what sort of a man he is; we have read about
Ma in the newspspers and we left off directly he told no to
do so."

Mr. Broughton—There en very for who Wive not reed
of the sciontide researches of Dr. Babboge. Did they attempt
to ploy slier they came oat of the holm (to Setrit) f
at—No, Sir ; they had their insuiuneinta peeked up aa
they have them now.
After some further evidenoe,
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Mr. Broughton observed dist be bad every dative temp-
port Dr. Bstitiage, am hi works wore of great inapostenos not
Italy to Ragland, but to the world at large, and he ought ad
to be disturbed in hie studies. There were two yenta of
litSosity fa the ads, one was whether the prisoners caned to
play wham they wee told to do so, and if they did not, how
hag did they continue to play ; and the other point was la
tolerance to the clause in the ant that had been alluded to.
Bb impression was, seeing that the prisoners went to the
booth in front of which they we playing, that they had no
intention to cause any =anyone* to Dr. Damp. Ueda.
the circatesteacea be must disoharge tam. (Applauds fol-
lowed the monis trate's deduce.)
Gear, for himself sad on the part of the otter prieonera,
said that proceedings would be taken in another court with
a view of obtaining damages for !she imprisonment.

1181111DEft AT ST. EZLIOI9.—An inquest was held
on Monday at the Hawk and Buck public bona, at Passkey
Cron, near St. Helen., before C. B. Hatfield, Esq., owner,
em the body of John Canary, • labourer, 28 years of vibe
died on Sundey morning last, from itftemosatke af the
seising from • fracture of the skull, predated by Riles Laney,
• eastried woman, residing in that neighbourhood. During
a quaint ea the 29th ult. she struck him • violent blow ,as
the bead with • spade, oaring • severe Immure of the skull.
—The jury returned • verdict of Want weeder" against
the woman, who was neordingly committed for Wel et the
sent Liveried mime.
THE LATE POISONING AT STUFTYN WOOD HALL.—
Os Tuesday the prison*, Thomas Sponge (who had for some
time been coachman to Mr. Paget) was brought before the
Derbyshire bench of magistrates., et Cbeetereeld, upon the
charge of wilfully adrolnistaing eantharides (commonly
celled Spanish flies) to Mary Dean (the parlonr-mairt) and
others of the establishment. Detective Barnes proved ap-
prehending the prisoner, sad his identification bye drug-
gist at Mansfield as the same Individual who had emended
an ounce of cantharides at his shop two months eince. After
• consultation the presiding magistrate, R. G. Maynard,
Esq, decided that then was no criminal law to meet the ease,
sad the prisoner was therefore disottarged.
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT FLOCIIRSTita.—The
adjourned Inquest oa the body of the seattrama who was
band lying fn so lennelble Mate nailer a hedge la a field at
mks top-cif ihrood-hlll, Rochester, sad who died immediately
cm being removed to the Strood wceklionse, was resumed on
Memdey *ming, before Mr. Marsh, the deputy winner for
Rothmeier. In oonsequence of the publicity given to the
ettenzestaimes connected with the discovery of the damned,
the body has been ideatified as that of Mr. John Whitehorse,
of Vlaltoo-larraos, Viderleyeark, • vendible, surgeon,
who was for many Company
in the employ of the Kamm
Counties Railway es their cattle manger,
bat who retired from that service • short time
else. For some time past the deemed bee ben
observed to be in • very deepondiog state, and had given
way to excessive drinking. He was lam sees alive by •
Mood, named JOINS, In Whitechapel, • few days before hi.
death, and be then appeared to be completely broken spirited.
Mr. Laegatone, the surgeon who made the post-mortem
examinetioe, stated that the body of the deceased generally
appeared healthy, with the exception of the brain and Mmes.
He could not find any traces of poises fa the stomach,
Wittier were there any bedews or other masks of violence
about the body. There was little or no doubt that be come
by; hie death by taking an overdose of opium. The jury
then returned a verdict that the doomed committed suicide
by swallowing laudanum, whilst in • state of temporary M-
outhy.
MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Tuesday en old man
awned John Robinson was found by Mr. Wood, of Barton's
Farm, in • plantation called the Willow Grove, about a mile
from the village of Plextel. When found be Ins 'rug om
hi. face, sad Mr. Wood thinking him to be asleep called to
him, but receiving no newer be toren him over, when he
perceived that be was quite dead. Robinson was In the habit
of travelling through the villages In tbie Malvin selling
become, and living sometimes is • farmer's barn or is • hope
hones. Be bad been away from his wife about a fortnight,
and from the appearance of the body when found bed evi-
dently beset lying dead nearly, or quite that time. It was
known that deceased bad been subject to fits for some years,
sad tt is supposed that while cutting a stick foe hi. brooms be
was taken in a flt and died, as hie knife wee fend open in his
head. The body was brought to the Wheelwrights' Anna
boathouse and information of the Math forwarded to J.
Dedlow, tett, corner, but he did not Mira en inquest was
seceasaty. the body was buried cm Saturday without an
*nest, and without having been examined by a surgeon.—
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The Liverpool and New York Steamship Com-
paq's servo steamer City of Baltimore, while on her last
voyage to New York, encountered the full force of the late
mono, notwithstanding which she weathered the hurricane,
sad mode • capital run out.
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