The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-29 00:00:00

THE CHARGE OP ATTIIIIPTTNG TO RESCUE ♦ PRISONER.

Henry Turner, 29, was charged with unlawfully ;;;It-
log Matthew Crawley, a prison officer, in the discharge of
his duty, and endeavouring to rescue a prisoner named
Alice Turner from his custody.
Mr. Poland and Mr. Healey prosecuted on behalf of the
Home Secretary.
The facts of this case will be fresh in the recollection of
the public. On the 4th of October a woman named Alice
Turner was convicted at the Middlesex sessions of attempt-
ing to commit a robbery, and sentenced to nine months'
imprisonment and hard labour. As she was about to be re.
moved in the prison van, and the prosecutor Crawley, who
is one of the sub-wardens of the House of Correction, was
leading her hom cell, the prisoner made a rush at him and
forced him violently against the vehicle, and then struck
him a severe blow on the head. A number of roughs had
assembled, and they joined in the attack upon the police,
and were very noisy and violent ; and it was with very
great difficulty that the prisoner, Alice Turner, who had
been dragged several yards away from the van, was
eventually secured and conveyed to her destination.
The prisoner was taken into custody, but he was
so violent that it took several police con-
stables to convey him to the policeotatinn, and
when he WAS charged with the attempt at rescue he
said that Alice Turner was his wife, and all he intended
to do was to kiss her before ahe went to prison. It ap-
peared, however, that he had visited the woman on the
previous day at the House of Detention, and he then re-
presented that he was her brother, and a police-constable
stated that before the prisoner made the attack upon the
police-officer, he was heard to exclaim, " Now I will have
her away:."

The prisoner in his defence declared that he only wished
to speak to his wife, and that he had no intention of ream-
ing her.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of the offence of as-
saulting the constable with intent to procure the liberation
of the woman Alice Turner.
The Recorder? in passing sentence, said that the offence
of which the prisoner had been convicted was one of a very
serious character, and persons who engaged in such lawless
proceedings must be taught that severe punishment would
certainly follow upon conviction. He then sentenced the
prisoner to twelve months' hard labour.
(Before the Common fierjeant.)
AN INGENIOUS ROBBER.
William Watts, 35, timber guarrer, pleaded guilty to a
burglary in the dwellingthouse of Thomas Henry Ashly,
and stealing therein a quantity of coins, a pocket-book, and
other articles.

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The Common Serjeant, in pasting sentence, said the
burglary was committed in a very dexterous away, and
the prisoner attetupted to escape in a still more dexterous
way. When the policeman came up the prisoner was stand-
ing at the door, and, pretending to be the occupier of the
house, thanked him for his attention in keeping a sharp
look out ; and unless the policeman bad been sharper than
the prisoner he would have been left there, but happily
the constable took the precaution of ringing the bell and
then the owner of the house came down and said he knew
nothing about the man. If the other two men standing
outside, and who attracted the attention of the policeman
had been concerned with the prisoner the sentence would
have been much more severe, but as it was the sentence
wu that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the
House of Correction for 15 calendar months.
Williams Lang, .16, clicker, was indicted for stealing two
skins of leather and divan pieces of cloth and braid, the
property of Messrs. Hart, his masters.
Mr. Lilley appeared for the prisoner.
The prosecutors were wholesale boot and shoemakers,
and the prisoner was a clicker in their employment. Their
suspicions having been excited they at • watch on the
prisoner, who, on leaving the warehouse one evening was
found to have two kid skins wrapped round his waist,
under his vest. His lodgings ware afterward" searched and
there the police found a quantity of cloth for boot linings,
value about 151.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to stealing the skins but
denied the theft of the cloth.
He was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment.

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAWY.)

SIANSION-HOUSE.
EXTRAORDINARY CAB{ OF BIGAMY.
Henry Drummond Godefroy, aged 22, a draughtsman and
clerk to a law stationer, was brought up on remand,
charged with rol.iwfully intermarrying with Sophia
Dickens at Holy Trinity Church, Horton, on the 10th of
February, 1867, his wife Henrietta being then and still
alive.

It-appeared that the prisoner was married to Henrietta
Lea at the pariah church of St. James's, Clerkenwell, in
11/ay, 1865. He lived with her for a twelvemonth, but, in
consequence of frequent quarrels, he turned her out of
doors. Shortly after this he became acquainted with
Sophia Dickens, a milliner, whom he married in February
of the present ye..r, and with whom he cohabited at
Newtomstreet, Horton, until Thursday last. On
the afternoon of that day the first wife went
to the prisoner's residence, and told Sophia Dickens that
Godefroy had committed bigamy. Both the young women
then gave information to a police-sergeant, who appre•
headed the prisoner at his work, and the ascend wife then
preferred the charge.
Certified copies of the marriages extracted from the
parish registers were now produced, and the prisoner was
committed for trial.

CLERKENWELL.
ROBBERY BY A DOMESTIC SERVANT.
A fashionably.dressed young woman, who gave the name
of Mary Cripps, s domestic servant, living at 37, Oakley-
square, St. Pancras, was charged before Mr. Barker wish
stealing from No. 20C., Camden-road, Camden-town, 19
pieces of scented and other soap, 1 piece of flannel, 1
piece of washleether, 2 pOBS of jam, 1 piece of Indian
matting, and other articles, the property of Mrs. Sarah
nracker, her mistress.

According to the evidence of the complainant it ap-
peared that the prisoner had been in her employ for about
a month, and not suiting was discharged on the Rith of
this month. Last Saturday, when the complainant wanted
a piece of matting to put down in the hall, she found that
eleven feet of the roll had been cut off. Suspicion hawing
fell on the prisoner the complainant yesterday went to
where she was living, and insisted on looking at ber boxes.
In the prisoner's boxes the whole of the property named
in the charge-sheet was found. The reason the com-
plainant did not miss the goods was because she bad them
in wholesale, and could nut now say how much she hail
in her storeroom.
The prisoner pleaded guilty—said she should like the

case settled :t once, es it was her grit offence, and she was
very sorry forerbat she had done.
The complainant recommended the prisoner to mercy,
and said she could not account for the prisoner committing
such an offence.

Mr. Barker said, that judiring from • the
reason why the prisoner comnutted the robbery was the
love of finery. Robbery by servants who were placed in
situations of trust he considered very serious, and sea-
fenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to Lard
labour in the House of Correction for three calendar
months.

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The prisoner, who pretended to cry, wee then removed
to the cells.

GREENWICH.
SINGI'LAR CAPTURE OF A III'RGLAR.

John Wilpon, aged 2s, describing himself as a com-
positor, was brought up on remand, on three distinct
charges of burglary.
The charge upon which the prisoner was originally taken
into custody was that of being found in a first-class car-
riage at the New-cross station of the London and Brighton
railway at 2 o'clock in the morning, supposed for some
unlawful purpose. When apprehended various articles
were found in his possewon and under the seat of the
carriage on which he had been sitting, and which hare been
found to be the proceeds of several burglaries.
James Best, night-watchman in the service of the
London and Brighton Railway Company, deposed to find-
ing the prisoner in a first-class carriage, as above stated, at
2 o'clock in the morning. When questioned the prisoner
said he had entered the carriage for a night's lodging, and
' witness then told him to consider himself in custody.
While being taken to the porters' room the prisoner
attempted to make his escape, and dropped the table-
knife with Mr. Norman's crest.
Police-constable Edwards, 220 R. said he received
charge of the prisoner from the last witness. Of the articles
produced he found part in the trousers pocket of the pri-
soner, and another part under the seat of the carriage in
which he was found. The Scotch cap and boots identified
the prisoner was wearing.
The prisoner offered no defence, and
Mr. Train committed him for trial upon the whole of the
three charges.

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