The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-21 00:00:00

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promentrii, in Mply to questions pet by the learned
laid that the prisoner lived la her neighbourhood. Hie
was dead, anti his mother got her living by unfair
la the streets. Elke did not believe the prisoner
wee qu7 tight la his lend.
111 r. H. D. Smith, a surgeon residing in the Kingeand
road. *the to the nature of the wound, which appeared
Mb@ Of these serious &wader, and be a$ said that ho
epn%a hed that the prisoner hadbeen attended for fits of Ms
&tweeter.
Re Taloned said he should like to have some
&WM lion with regard to the state of mind of the
priseammid Kr. Spicer, a surgeon officiating in the gaol,
I Was ionff SW.
lir, Wm, . uponbeteg sworn, stated that from what be
had .d* eif the prisoner, be should say that he was a foolish
half-witted lad, but he could rot take open himself to say
that he wee inns., or incapable if distinguishing between
tighteadlta
Kr. Jeateceliktard asked whether the witness could
express an opinion as to whether the prisoner was in a
condition of mind to know whether it was right or wrong
to stab sap ONO ?
Mr. Spicer replied that he could not give a positive
opinion urea this pain%
lir. Dope, the governor of Newgate, said that the prisoner
had been in hh custody fourteen or fifteen days, and he had
Kea him two or three times every day. He war subject to
fits, and IFNI very moth &tided. H. would not, however,
like to say that he moldered him Incapable of chringuishieg
between right end wrong.
The learned Judge then trammed up, and he left it to the
jury to say by their verdict whether they considered the eel
of the prisoner amounted to en assault only, or a hither be
Mended to do grievous bodily harm; thirdly, whether they
mataidered the evidence would justify them in coming to the
matindess that, at the time the aft was committed, the pei-
seem was helnek a state of mind ea not to render him nisi-
sell reeposuible.
They jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoner
Gaily of • felonious assault, with intent to do grievous
bodily harm; bat, at the same time, said they left the pri-
mer to the merelful medderation of the court en *must of
his bodily and amid condition.
The learned Judge said it appeared to him that the jarp
had come to a proper conclusion in the ease ; sod although
the emstenoe he was about to pus might appear to be a
term one, yet in mislay it was the one most likely to benefit
the prisoner and protect him from getting into further mil-
! chief. Tim sentthee at present would be one of transporta-
tion for seven your, but a communication would be made
in the proper quarter, the effect of which would be that the
prisoner would he properly taken are of, and he would pro-
twisty be sit at liberty when hie condition would appear to
yam& the 'depths& of each • course.

NEW COURT.—YEBTERDAT.
Boma sus Cosmos 56110.217.
FOROSIT OP • RAILWAY DEBINTORE
SZNTENCI.
W. H. Eika. 21, clerk, was brought up for sentence.
The prisoner, it will be recollected, pleaded guil:y in July
to en indictment for larc(ny, when judgment was re.pited.
He bad been a clerk in the office of the Bondi Western Rail-
way Company, and had forged & debenture bond for tits pay-
meet of 2,0001, and got the money for it.
The Common fisejeant, in passing seatenee, said that •
volumisous document prisoner had addressed to him, in mi-
tigation of punishment, was merely an attack upon other
parties The only grounds the court saw for acting so
leniently as they were about to do was his extreme youth.
The prisoner was ordered to be transported for seven
Jean.
With a few other unimportant cues tke basin( as of this
west ended.

THIRD COURT.—YESTIZDAT.
Biro Ile. Scram OftIIOKT.
HIGHWAY ROARER!.

John Moran.' , 21 labourer, ;Wciiii;;vima. nu, 28, spin-
ster, were indicted for steelier, with violence, from the
person of Janet Roberta his watch, chain, and seals, valued
at 61.101. Mr. Nl.Mabon prosecuted and Mr. IC-nnealy sp.
petted for Morale. . .

The prosecutor said that on Saturday evening last about
eleven o'clock, he was passing down the new street at the
bottom of Holborn Hill, when the female came up and spoke
to him. and at the same time • man resembling the prisoner
came up behind and struck him • blow under the ear, which
caused him to stagger ; the woman then closed on him end
he felt his watch gas ; he called the police, who came up and
took the woman on the spot with the watch in her hand,
The police and • lad named Baker proved Buie, the
prisoner run away, and that he was taken shortly afterwsrds
in Grey's-inu.l•ne, where he merle a most viohnt resistance,
and was obliged to be handcuffed before he could be got to
the station house.

in;jieyionod them both Guilty.
The mut ordered them both to be tnasported for seven
Deere.

&mum) Balm-Notts.

William Clayton, 42, a servant, a respeetahle-lookieg
man, was indicted for stealing a bank-note for 401., another
foe la. eight sovereigns, and ogler monies, beli.eging to
J sae Lawrence, la her d+elling•houas. Mr. Ryland prim-
sated, and Mr. Parry defended.
The feats of the ease were of a somewhat simpler nature,
and the following is a brief outline of them. In the year
1848 the prosecutrix drew from the C.mberwetl flaviop
Bank a large sum of money, a portion of which she laid out
in the purchase of a business as chandler, in Oolden.lane,
where she lived at the time of the comminion of the of-
fence. After setting up In badness, she bad between 601.
and 701. left, which she used to keep la 'desk in her beak par-
lour. T4O prisoner, who was a servant out of plus at the time,
was In the debit of visiting at her hum, and on the 21st of
October, 1849, came there about 11 o'clock in the morning,
end went tato the parlour, where a Mrs. Hart, who was
examined Ude day, was cleaning. Prisoner requested her to
go into the bed-room, which she did; but coming into the
parlour, saw pebooer at the desk, and he then hurrieJ away
and west to the bedroom, where she saw him put something
like paper late, his pocket; but he being, u she thought, an
I Intimate friend of the prosecotrix, she took no notice of the
orearrenee. Shortly afterwards prosecutrix wanted same
change from the desk, when prisoner said he would Rise it
00 her, which be did, sad almost directly said he would go
sad au the landlord about some repsin to the bow., and
that he should be beck in a quarter of an hour, which
queue of ess boar lasted till the oth of last August, when
be MS Main INS In the neighbourhood and taken Into
custody, OM robbery having been found out the next day,
the desk having bees stripped of its contents.
He was found Gritty, and sentenced to transportation for
seven yearn
The court stands adjourned until Monday, Oct 21.

THE POLICE COURTS.
BOW-BTB,BET.
Imitoarawr TO CAB °WERRA MID CAB DRIVERS....
Yesterday, summons omnibus driven and cab drivers were
summoned, charged with loitering unnecessarily upon their
jonnien, and with cawing obstructions in the public streets
with their Menet vehicles. The chug.. were proved by
the pollee sosatables, and Mr. Janine inflicted penalties
varying from 20s. to 10s. and meta, which sums were paid
by the tab omen.
A cab owner complained that since the new instructions
had been lathed by the Commissionen of Police, cob drivers
were ansantased by tha police constables most indiscrimi-
aately, and that If they only waited a moment fa the street
with their rehash@ for the purpose of drawing upon the
teaks, that was called ea obstruction, and they were instantly
itasteod. Csb owners paid large rams yearly for the
Baum of their cab., and the returns were vary small in
=swim with the duty paid. He paid upwards of 7001.
y he deity Mose, sad if his cab thivm were ennanioned
fah names they woul not be able to pay their /:man.
Mr. Jardine said the evil wasted with cab owners in
running so many more cabs than were necessary. He had
no doubt at the meat session of parliament a special act would
hopsend by the legislature,restriming the number of hackney
earriages, whisk bed been wanted for some time past. The
paha@ were daily crying out egainst the nuisance and if ens
ethmaa wee then were others running afar the sum
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Several melba drivers were also summoned for gaming
were pampa am Say were madded to carry.
Yr. India said a mess were the first eases of the Wad
Woman fan am seats, he a►euld disease the sureames
with a emotion to the drivers. and upon pay■eat of the cow,

YAHLBOHOUGH dT 888 T.
AN 1711D17TIPOL Box —B. Serail, was charged with
threatesieg to do some grievous bodily harm to his father Mr.
George Ilpraig, upholsterer, Brook-strut, Orcovenor-square.
Mr. epraig sidd he was informed that his sou bad a pair of
pistols sad a sword eourealed in his bed room, and trout his
ass's pad endue Searles wee atimakief was contemplated
he west into kis room aad requested to have the weapons
gins up to him. Him son refused, sad drew the sword noon
Wm elm he tried to open the pistol drawer, swearing that
had the pistols bees leaded be would have shot him. The
imatpleiasat added that kis sou was idle and would do
nethisig. Biritad aimed, shot two of his skiers sod a by.
The ses said they were three accidents. The pistols sad
sword he ealy kept for his own ammenteut.
Mr. Hardwick ordered him to dad two sureties to keep
the pease he Ni months.
SOUTH MARS.
Arzootove Oterneen,—John Woodkv, a hawker, wag
charged with malkimaly cutting 'be throat of a am sailed
Jeusy Lied, the property of Joseph Barrie, of Bond-street,
Bareugh-reed.
The emplidanat Mad that he sad the prisoner followed
the same awe of beim, that or hawking goods for sale 2
sad that ohne three weeks age he (complainant) perdue',
a hens and sort of We, Ise wide\ be paid him at the OMB
of the envemeeden. ewe Ilbsts, burem, the complained
had been istsrated that tie primer regretted the barrels,
asserat of his IN*ts bus sakesquatly offered a larger
MS he the bores tam be rewired for it, end he was heard
tp &dm est be wool some oat emplalasat before
lug. Mast snot Oak& that atantiat, complaiveat
went to the Ohio lea Meg oat of the Berough•roaM, and was
ateaisd as &din that the animal's throat was our, sad
▪ M web Me egeniei Odes*. He laissedistely pro-
Mei the emillenee of a veterinary mum, who m-
ammal that OWNS. whisk was done with a very sharp ta.
streaneent, mart ban 'alp reeeatly been committed. Tim
complaineat added, that teasaboegesat &avails. he made
ea the mildest, be bad Maas armada for suspecting the
primer as Umbels cdMimmilabid the peer animal to the
waideveibek his into costodJ.
imideggian•pepeuei pihmor was to the tact
that he WINI isaa hant.alle id& thirely before th;a:
genre! the outrage, and ' matt whim a polle-aria 71_4 \7
Lis Wag to emit Isis, ha mid In hum
less abost.—Bssasied. •
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