The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-29 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MANSION-HOUSE.

Mr. W. Gill, poulterer, licensed dealer In game, Leaden-
IteU•market, wee charged with having poseemloa of several
heads et black game within the pwiod of prohibition coder
the est 1 and 2 W tl. IV., c. 32.
Mr. Orridge appeared for the prosecution, end Mr. Bast for
the deism
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Dellenthit had been previously charged with= head
d the arse gm" end the Innl/31011/ briber you
the reeend that there was no proof that the pores who sold
the roe is Whop of the diadem ma In bis web, es
otherwise his agent.
Mr. °fridge now called
Jorge Neweteed, • clerk la the Mee of the Brief news-
paper, who repeated the evidence ghat by Idea is the
conices, to the eine that is the 164 s of Augid be
r• "psy ben" at delndeare shop, but *Melia-
imself wee sot present at the tine.
Mr. D. Met,
_of Bengline-park, Kent, add—Oa the 16th
Wait I tree In Lesdall-mesiost, when I saw mute black
gram hanging up is thin of dshadenes shop. Flues were
eight or ten brace. I should think. While I wee looking at
them defendant came to me from the Imelda of his shop and
said, " Would you like MIS grow to-day, sir f" I them
put my band to OM of the ibismad asked the prke. He
said, IL • teem I then WI, " What do you cell that?"
replied, "That is a grey hen." I sail, "No, it is not,
his a pang bhobeeck ; I sae seslithed you should have it
In year ship when you know it rent of masers; to-morrow
you may im willing to take has mew kw IL" He made
me weerwm, bat walked into We shop amnia.
thearesemthad by Kr. Bast-1 amass cenneoled with the
Phil, bat I Oh information at the Arid odes the earns
day. The birds wen hung opted, end without &gabs.
Orme eat Mei gown me very moth alike is colour at thud
egehave merked dithrently. Than in so Diktat,
in dw between game and W.sek gams, but there
is gyre ha diselegnithint
_between the Hue of the
young Meek gams. The bird prolineedOry the last witness)
is a grey Ms, bat whetbse It is Beiglish or Scotch I can-
Mr.OrrYp said his emewee cesqlele.
Mr. Best csaseentod that the ore for the promearkm had
hfled entirely ; fleetly, beams the premensces were bound
to show that the geese was Ugh" and sot ficonalt, under
a purl ad, from the opetelka eivebialt Ireland and Bcothuod
were wept ; and, secondly, blows* there INA no proof that
the dethadeat bed say Imosthide of the eels re
of tiaremErtieelar Wed which bed been pedaled. =viesm,
fix that had been shown to the enstrary, deherlant
might re supposed the Week geese Is he grooves, dam so-
cording to the admission of • witness for the prosemitics,
he satly did not know a blasecook hem • grey hen.
The Lord Mayor aeid he had mama doubt as to the suffi-
ciency of the evidence for the mimes of a conviction; hat
as there would be a specie' mikes. at which defendant
could, if oonvioted, renew his license, which soariction would
forfeit; end, therefore, he thought it &drillable to adjourn
the case till Friday nest.
The learned counsel concurring, the ease was adjourned
accordingly.
BOW-STREET._

Mr. Jams Galloway,ironOiOnger,:io., of Holborn, was
charged with having painted out the name of a tradesman
from his door-pat, ie Queen-straet, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
Policerconstablo Venue staled that for some time poet he
had bees on tits watch, by direction of complainant, Mr.
Butcher, tailor, of Queen-street, for some person who heel
been in the habit of prying midnight visits to that gentle-
man's house, and obliterating his name from the door-poet
sad brass plates ontoide. Witness was discharging this duty
on Friday night, and at about s quarter to one o'clock he
saw the defendant go up to the door and paint oat Mr.
Butcher's name by daubing it over with red and white feed.
Wiladell went up to the spot and took him into custody,
upon which defendant said, "It is alt right, quite right; I
I have done it to spite him, for he Imo wronged me very
much." Wilitres begged defendant to accompany him to the
police-staticc, which he did in the moat obliging meaner,
handing up his materials, hie red lead sad brush to the
n♦Boer.

Mr. Butcher, clroplaitranr, said this had bees done at
hest flys times before, and the 1111lIVICO become so intolerable
that he felt bound to request the interference and rafted=
of the polioe. There had certainly bees difftwemose between
him and defendant, which h.d been the subject of an action
in the County Court, the &deka being in complainant'.
favour._ _ _ _ _ . . _

The dsleadant admitted the charge pleat him, but de.
shod that ha lad over painted out cromplanunga name before
last night. The fact was that the complainant had formerly
lodged in his (dalsodant's) haw, sad bad behaved very
badly to some rotionten of his Wally. Ha had not been able
to get say legal radroraand he had boas tempted to spite him
in author way.
Mr. Jardine expressed his regret at aming a gentles= in
dabadasit's po.ition brought there to mower each a charge.
Ha moat pay • tins of 40r.. or 14 days.
The flan wig paid immediately.
LAMBETH.

Kr. Triggs, • shoo manutscturer, residing in Moakley-
piece, Lambeth, applied to the magistrate for his advice tee-
=the astaction from him of 2.. by the poor rate collector
pariah of Ismbeth.
The applicsot said that during his atmence from home the
collector called, and, in addition to the rate, exacted 24. say-
ing that if this addition were ant paid he should at clam pet
in a broker on his goods. The 2s. which he (the applicant)
believed to here been dishonestly enamel had not been se-
canted for in any way, and he should like to know how the
large sums thus extorted were applied, at whelpr they went
into the pocket of the collector, or some other officer of the
parish
A mond ratepayer complained of a similar exaction, and
it wet explained to the magistrate that frequent complaints of
• similar description bad been made to thin wort; that
though the summonses were granted gratuitously by the
local magistrates In petty sessiont, 11110T100011 sums were
exacted for them, and that it bed been said that the ands-
meet of one man alone, in fee for warrant@ and siammonema,
was 7001. or 8001. • year.
Mr. Belle remarked that the collectors were entitled to re-
cover any expenses they might be put to. but he did not
think they were justified in charging fees for summoness and
warrants for which they had not paid.

THAMES.
Ellen Bryant, an artful woman, aged 41, who has been
convicted emend times for petty robbed.., and was once
imprisoned for a long period for strippiss children of their
clothe*, was charged with stealing two gold rinse, one shawl,
one sheet, and one bedgown, the property of Margaret John-
eon, ea old lady residing at No. 22, Upper North-street,
Poplar.
It appeared that for • few week. prior to the 4th inst.
the prisoner bad been in the practice donning upon Mrs.
Johnson, performing sundry offices for her, and Weeping
with her occssionally. On the lest-nrectioned day the pro-
tect:dm was attacked with an epileptic fit, end it was ante
time before she recovered. The prisoner was attending upon
the old lady, and Sarah Terry, • young woman teddies in
the laUlks home, saw Mrs. Johnson recovering from the fir,
and noticed that her gold ring, which she had men on her
finger. were mining, but had then no suspicion of the prisoner,
who went out soon after Mrs. Johnson recovered from the fit,
and did not return until five or all hours efterwards, when
she was very much intoxicated. The young women
Terry then alluded to the old lady's rings, sad said they
were not on her fingers, and could not be found anywhere.
The prisoner mid the old led, meet have Mites the rings off
her fingers and swallowed them while she wee In the fit. The
prisoner slept with the old lady that eight and left her nest
morning, observing to the whams Terry that she should
very soon return ; but she sever uttered the hones after-
wards, and wee eventually traced to Poplar Workhouse, of
which she became an inmate, on the ground that she was
destitute, • fortnight ago. Mrs. Johnson did not arrive at •
perfect elate of conscionsuess until the morning of the Sth
of August, when she mimed the rings dr bar fingers and •
quilt, • shawl, a sheet, and a bed-goers from hoe drawers.
The prisoner, in her defence, said she had sot taken the
things and declared that the rings were taken away from
the old lady by her nott's wile last Christman.
Mr. Yardley said that ft was eieerly proved the tinge wore
upon the fingers of the prommyrix on the morning of the 4th
and after hearing a god deal of circutosumual evidence
against the prisoner, committed her for trial.

ATTEMPTED MURDER II FLEET-STREET.—On
Saturday evening, between els and elven o'clock, • report
wu circulated in the neighbourhood of Fleet-street and
Chancery lone, that • female named Mary Stacey had had
her throat cut by her husband, Peter Stacey, who was em-
ployed as a porter in Lincobee-inn. It appeared that about
the time in question the police went to a bows in Ap ,11n-
court, Fleet-street, where they frond the unfortunate woman
bleeding profusely from • accp gash in her throat, welch
she said was itilieted by her hub tnd. The constables,
upon seeing the Wale in which the woman was, sent
to the retina-haw, nest-strut, when Mr. Inlet:toe
Leonard directed • Welcher to be taken to the house in
order to have bee removed to the King's College Hoepital,
to which institution she Win at once conveyed. There she
wee immediately attended by the medical °Seers of the uts-
bliehment, who found that she bad • deep incision in her
throat. As to the cause of the wound inflicted upon the wits
the statements vary. From what can be gleaned, the parties
bad net lately lived on good terms, and last night a quarrel
ensued between them, In the course of which • basin was
broken. It is alleged by the redwing woman that the wound
was inflicted by her husband with the jagged edges of the
portion of the bade alluded to. The husband ran away. He
was afterwards apprehended, and conveyed to the station-
house in Fleet-street ; be there said that his wife fell upon •
part of the broken huts, sad that thus the injury was mama.
The woman's We is rid to be in a eery premium state.
BINOVIAR Dg* .—A singular death has es-
awed at Hodes. A women residing in Alleuradreet, Now
North-read, wee engaged in the sees In front of her house,
when a monkey, belonging to an Italian teen grinder,
jumped on her back from the 'greet, and so alarmed bee
that she was attacked with convulaions, and died in two days