The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-06 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-Juxt 5.

Mittinp t Nial Plias in Mni.liewn.--(Befors Mr. Ju.Liw
%eating and a enuinion
__ Nunn° C. ELLI!I.

This was au Retina terover damages for personal
injuries.
Mr. T. Salter appeared for Atm plaintiff, and Mr. Mellor
for the defendant
The plaintiff was a lad about 18 Tenre old, and tbe acci-
dent out of which the action arose happened in December
last. His account was this. HP was paining along Bury.
street, I:lnotnaloiry, when a run-away puny end cart
holongina to the defendant, a butcher to the neighbour-
hood, came along the street, daubed os to the pare.
meat, an4l knocked the plaintiff Joan. Twelve years
before be had received en injury to the hip which had
crippled and which had canoed ulcers to form is that
,egion and the coniTyucnce of being throsa down was
that the nld wounds opcne.l again, and he had suffered
!rum then More or ter ever shave. Thu ease fur the plain.
tiff was that the pony, not being properly attended, bad
halted.

The defence was that the defendant's boy had the bridle
in his hand, and was looking et come con,ururo close by,
whru au idi~.t Icy rame alma, sttuck the ploy with a
askct, and shouted in its car. It was this that canoed the
pane to curt oti, and it w/111 not the poor. but the crowd
whidi was trying to get out of the way of the animal,
that knocked the plaintiff down.
The jury found for the 'ff. damages 10/.
Ills lordship took time to consider whether he should
certify fot costs.

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION 1101'SE.

I ine Xrdievere, an elderly woman. was charged before
the Lord Mayor, with attemptiug to commit suicide.
On Friday last a City pollee constable saw the prisoner
near the steps of Southwark-bridge, leading to the river.
and, observing that she was in a very excited state, took her
into custody to prevent her from attempting her life. Ik-
ons then told that the prisoner had tried to get over the
rarapet of the bridge, hitt bad been pulled back by a per-
,n passing. She bail been drinking. When before the
ford Mayor. on Satuiday lest, she said she was (let-cr-
ew:Ll to kill herself whenever she got out of prison. She
ems then remanded until yesterday, and was taken to
Newgate, when: ale' has been wen daily by the ordinary.
Yesterday the prisoner expressed her regret at what bail
occuireil, and said she had no intention of repeating the
,ffence. She hail been deserted by her husband sod her
three sour, and was obliged to keep berielf with the little
money she earned through selling corks at public-bosses.
She denied that she was in the habit of getting drunk,
and begged to be released.
The Lord Mayor, upon her promise not to repeat the
act, discharged her, and gave her half-a-sovereign to get
some articles to sell.
GUILDHALL.

Wham Bullerfidil, the driver of ea* 3,6:17, and indite
q 727, living at 22, West-street. Gong-lane, was placed at
the bar beh-re Alderman Owden, charged with being
drunk and driving his cab to the common danger of the
pnhlia
William Fenn, 400, said that chant a quarter to six
o'clock on Tfiunday evening he was regulating the teethe
at the Ludgate.bill end of the 01.1 Bailey, when the de-
fendant came up driving a Hansom cab. Ho was very
drunk, and ran into a waggon. A lady was ill his cab,
and preview to the celliaion on Ludgate.bill to had run
'.ito another waggon, caused tho lady's cheek to be struck
against the window and severely cut. if. had seen the
lady that morning, and her eye was very much
blackened. Shelves unable to attend the cant.

The prisoner in defence said the hone shied, but his
employer said he had bad the horse over twelvo months,
and he never heard of its doing such a thing before.
Aldermen Owden fined him 100., or emu days' impri-
sonment, with bard labour.
Messrs. Crab!, and Vaughan, builden, were summoned
before Alderman Camden by Mr, Painter, the inspeetor of
pavements, for taking up the pavement in Oreabam-street
without the permission of the Commissioners of Sewers:

Mr. Paintir stated that Messrs. Crabb and Vaughan had
some large buildings in Gresham-street, and obtained a
license for a hoarding round them from tbeCommissionem
of Sewers, but on Saturday last, without any notice, their
foreman took up the pavement outside the hoarding for
the purpose of putting scaffold poles up. The palm-
etto bad since been replaced at the defendants' con. The
object of the commissioners was to teach builders that
they must not take up the pavement without permission.
Mr. Vaughan said their foreman bad exceeded his orders,
and did it without their knowledge.
Alderman Camden fined him 10a. and costs, which was
paid.
WPSTMINSTER. •
_ _

Jo/in Ward, a respectable, quiet-looking man, 40 years
of age, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by
throwing himself into the Thames from Westminiter-
bridge.
At half put nine on Friday morning the prisoner sad-
denly got on the parapegof the upper side of Westminster-
bridge, near Palace-yard, and jumped into the Thames.
William Rogers, a porter, living at 13, Doris-street, Lam-
beth, crossed the road, and running down to the steamboat
pier gave the alarm. The tide was ebbing feat at the time,
and prisoner fluting by wag rescued by Thames Policeman
May, 143, who succeeded in dragging him out with a hitcher.
He was insensible, and conveyed to the Westminster Hos-
pital, where he remained until brought before the magis-
trate.

In re,ily to inquiries from the bench, it was stated that
tho prisoner was suffering under delirium tremens when he
committed this act, and Inspector Bull, of the L division,
said that on the .30th of June, 1844, the prisoner was
charged at the Hanimersmitb police-court with throwing
himself from Hammersmith suspension-bridge into the
Thames. He was at that time suffering from the effect of
think, and was discharged.
Prisoner said be was ?erysorry for what had occurred.
He was committed for trial, the magistrate offering to
take small bail fur his appoarwacc.
►ter

TETE WORK OF THE SESSION. The session
commenced on the 19th November. and in nearly seven
months has produced 30 public and 31 local acts of par-
liament.

---- ---
MURDER OF A WIFE AT 13AGSHOT.—A case of
wife minder is reported from Bassbot. A man named
Edward Hammond, who is about forty years of age, bad
some altercation with his wife on Tuesday evening, he
being in a state of intoxication at the time. Hu went to
a public.bouse in the vicinity, and returned home to his
cottage at midnight, when more words ensued, and he
again went out. His wife followed him, but in consequence
of what he said to her she went to her cottage, and
he to his brother's house, about two hundred yards
off, where be remained all night. On Wednesday
morning, at halfpast four, the woman got up and
went to the house to call her husband, so that he should
not he late for his work, and more angry words took place,
he ultimately knocking her down, and kicking her several
times violently in the stomach, and otherwise brutally
ill-
treating her. The unfortunate woman was far advanced
in pregnancy, and the effect of the violence was to bring on
premature labonr, and she died the seine eveniug. The
woman has left four young children. The man has been
taken into custody, and will be brought before the local
bench on the eharge of murder.
Tim WIFE BIURDER AT WIGAN.—TIIO inquest
on the body of Mary Jackson, the woman who was killed
by her husband oa Tuc,lay evening, was opened at the
Raven Inn, Birkett Bank, on Thursday night. Mr. Ash.
ton, solicitor, watched the prweedings on behalf of the
acvuted. The only witness called was Joseph Jackson,
a boiler maker, son of the deceased, who identified the
body. He stated that he was in the company of his
father about an hour and a half previous to the murder,
and at that time the prisoner said he hoped his wife would
take a turn for the better. Frequently witness's father
had complained of his wife's misconduct, and on two mica-
sinus she had been committed to gaol for assaulting him.
She had also for some time lived at the workhouse, but
witness could not say whether hie father maintained her
then or not, but be believed he did. The deceased had
been a heavy drinker, and had frequently pawned her
husband's goods. The husband was generally steady,
taking to drink sometimes when she grieved him. On
such occasions be had often said to witness that he would
leave the country if it were not for the sake of his chid
dren. Witness had not been in th, house for a couple of
months before the murder. The inquiry was then ad.
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