The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-30 00:00:00

MANSION-HOUSE.

Stephen Keefe, an itinerant musician, totally blind. was
charnel with throwing his wife down stairs, and thereby
causing the premature Urtlt of two children (dead.)
John Sweeney said his wife and the mixtures wife were
deters, and that the latter had been sleeping at his house for
the last two nights with her two children, in coneequenre
of the vedettes of her husband. Yesterday morning she left
his pines about halt-past eight, stating that she Intended to
I go and ask the prisoner for some money to get broad for her
children, and returned bent nearly double in the afternoon,
apparently in great wagering. Soon after she was confined
with the deed children, and as he understood that the prisoner
had thrown her down stairs, he gays him into custody.
Stephen Boyne said he was a music
..,1110 and played with
the prisoner, who was at his house yesterday morning, when
his wife etZll9 in ante said she must have some money, but
she prisoner instead of giving her any, told her to give
him back some money which he accused het of having
taken from him. Thereupon, they got quarrelling, and the
wife tick up first a knife, and then the tongs, with which
she rushed upon her husband, bat witness enc•
needed in wrenching both from her green ; and after some
further disturbance she went away. The prisoner never
struck her, and about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, witness' and
the prisons r being out together, met her in Petticoat-lam
A medical certificate wee handed in, stating that the woman
was in imminent danger, partly from hemorrhage and partly
from fear; but a policeman stated that she had admitted to
him that her husband did not throw her down sure, and tbp
prisoner was therefore discharged.

WORSHIP-STREET.
POLLOW rue D11.1:31.
Daniel Gavin, Rawl Hai" sad Eugene Dixon, rough
country lade, were charged before Ilgr.D'Eptcourt with being
deserter+ from the Royal Artalery.
Sergeant John hugga —I enlisted thees men and two
other,. for the Royal Artillery, on the let of March, in the
Eagle beer shop, Bhoredltch. They kit that night and
came neat morning to pate the doctor, but it was too late,
and 1 desired them to attend en the following day, but I
never saw them afterward' until last evening, when to ctn.

1c41.•T0
"amend 6 took the mimeos, from dreoription, Yet
night in Wlthechapal. They at fret denied having Mika
the shilling, but afterwards said they were darters.
Mr. Ir llynoourt —What de you ay to this ?
Gavin—l mar drunk._

Hayes—And so wor I and be (Diana).
Dinan—You see this herseogareed one of the chap whet
war here if bowers willing to wave Makety Queen, the chap
says Aye," and thee some shir he a shilling sad after-
wards shies each we all round, wi'ont sting. There be two
chaps as keeps a still outside the shop what ma prove It.
Sergatat—This statement is false; all of you were quits
mbar, and I can prove it.
We. VEynoeart—Are you willing to join now?
Pridemore—Nos, we don't want to follow demo. When
we saw eager seat day we wanted him to take shilling back,
but said Nov, that meet do for me."
Mr. IYE I am inclined to believe that you did
enlist, but yif caa prove the fact of being In liquor et the
time it may serve your, purpose, therefore I will give you
an opportunity.
Remanded
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
CRUELTY TO E STyPCRILE.

lane .d.swortlty was charged with a violent Gestalt on •
little girl, hw stepdaughter, as follows :
Charlotte Ann Axwortky, an intelligent little girl, tea
years of age, meld she raMa at 33, Broad-street, Golden-
square, and that the prisoner wee her stepmother. On Se-
today night eke was lying in bad, having previously been
down to open the door for the ptisoner, who had bees drink-
ing, when the prisoner seised.' nada boot, which was lyMg
on the door, and gave her • violent blow on the eye with it,
eats* very great pain. (The child's eye, altbormtristas
blow wee given on Saturday hat, was still black, and
clearly the faros with which the blow must have been gives,
the mark of the boot being plainly vieble.)
In answer to Mr. Beadon the poor little child said she had
°Roo bean struck when her mother bad hem drinking, with
anything eke could lay hold of..
Shaughnewy and Shillingford, two of the warrant allows
of the wart, both stated that they had tantionad the prisoner
so to her 'oviduct to the child.
Prisoner said she was awry sad it should not take place
Mr. Basica said she hid said the same thing when cau-
tioned, bat had now taken up • boot and struck a little child
when in one of leer drunken fits. It was • most cruel this',
and if she did it spin be should mead her for six months. As
It was he should commit her for a month.