The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-17 00:00:00

WORSITTP-STREET._

Charley Howie Ware, 17, brick-
layer; and George aoper, 14, errand boy, were charged
before Mr. Newton with wilful damage.
For some time past numerous complaints have boon
made to the police as to the malicious damage done to the
unoccupied houses in Chapel-street, Shoreditch, the pro-
perty of Messrs. Roberts and Co., of 40, City-road. Win-
dows were broken, the flooring ripped up, and other
damage effected. This became so frequent that at last it
was found necessary to set a police-constable to watch
the premises, and on Thursday afternoon Andrew Sutton,
an of of the 0 division of police, saw the pri-
soners walk up to the bowie No. 19, Chapel-street,
pick up some brick pieces, and deliberately hurl
them at some windows, which were smashed to pieces.
Hounslow then entered the house and pulled up some of
the flooring, the other prisoners continuing to throw
various missiles at the windows the while. The constable
ran up, collared the prisoners, and removed them to the
station. _ _

In answer to the magistrate, the constable stated
that he wee positive u to the identity of the prisoners,
having watched them for at least ten minutes before they
were apprehended.
The prisoners denied that they were the aggressors,
alloging that it was the other boys.
Mr. Newton said that he should make an example of the
prisoners by sending them to gaol without the option of
paying a tine. Sentence—Five days' imprisonment each.

THAMES.
Mr. William Bromley, a master lighterrnan and barge
owner, and maetvr of the Incorporated Company of Water-
men andi Lightermcu of the River 'flumes, St. Mary-at-
Hill, appeared on his own recognisance to answer •
charge of being in the unlawful possession of a barge
called the Bee, of which it was alleged Mr. Robert
Brown, of l'almerston-road, Upton, Essex, wee the
owner.

Mr. Pelham, solicitor, conducted the prosecution; Mr.
Charles Young defended the uccuaed.

Fiore the opening address of Mr. Pelham, it appeared
that two perpons named Brown and Bee were in partner-
ship as lightermen and owners of craft, and that some
mouths ago the partnership was dissolved, and a division
of property took place, Mr. Brown taking the floating
portion and his partner the remainder. The barge Bee
was laid up in dry dock, and one night it WWI stolen. A
long time afterwards it was found OIL the river at Dukes
shore, in the poisenrion of Mr. Bromley's men, and
boarded and captured by the Thames police. Mr. Brumley
was given into custody by Mr. Brown, and charged under
the Police Act with the unlawful phases ion of the barge.
Mr. Charles Young trp.k a preliminary objection. The
'sooner could not Le charged with unlawful possession of
the Large unless he had it on his Phouldeni in the street.
The recent decision of the Court of Exchequer as to un-
lawful pixie:sisal of property was conclusive on that
t.
poin
Belay Adams and John Parker, Thames police-con-
stables, raid the Bee was laden with a cargo of ammonia
when seized ; and that Mr. Bromley raid he bought it of a
man named Moore some months ago.
Mr. Paget said it appeared to him that the Thames
police were in unlawful possession of the barge.
Mr. Pelham urged that the barge was stolen, and that
the Thames police were juste A in acting as they had
dune. _ _ _

Mr. Paget said he could not hear the ease in its present
shape. there was no unlawful possesaion within the
meaning of the statute and the recent decision of the
judges. The statute was a highly penal one, and must be
construed strictly.
Mr. Pelham—There is no doubt about the felony.
Mr. Paget—Then give the prisoner into custody for the
felony, and I will hear the ease.
Mr. Pelham—l cannot advise my client to do that.
Mr. Paget—Or take out a ounamons ag,aiust him fur de-
taining the barge.
Mr. Pelham—The act of parliament relating to detain-
ing only applies to property not exceeding 11W. in value.
The large is worth 1201. I was not consulted before the
prisoner was given into custody. If I had been I ehould
have advised his being given into custody on a very dif-
ferent charge.
Mr. Charles Young said here was a gentleman of high
respectability, well known on the river from Windsor to
Yiuitlet Creek, placed in the tetra's dock to answer a most
unfounded charge, and he had the felicity of being
marched through the streets in custody of the Thames
police. The barge was purchased openly by Mr. Bromley,
its name was never changed and it haul been navigated
on the river by his servants for some time past.
Mr. l'aget inquired by whom the charge was taken,
and the reply was by Inspector Hill.
In master to another question by the magistrate, it was
stated that Mr. Bromley, after a short bearing last Fri-
day, had tarn allowed to go at large by Mr. Beeson on
his own recognisance.
Mr. Paget said if that hag not been so he should have
sent for holes:tor Hill, and asked him why he took such
• charge.
The prisoner said he was mater of the Watermen's and
Lightermen's Company, end had to adjudicate upon all
the disputes between them on the river. He felt deeply
the scandal of this proceeding.
Mr. Paget—The prisoner ought never to have been
given given into custody, the charge ought not to have
taken, and he ought not to have been placed in that
dock. There am not the slightest grounds for the charge
against him, and I very much regret the false position in
which he has been Placed. Ile is discharged, and he
leaves this court without the slightest stain on his honour
mud character.
GREENWICH.

/oho Hicks was brought up on a warrant, charged with
assaulting William Stoneham and loosening his teeth.
The complainant is in the employ of Messrs. Talbot and
Co., barge builders, of Rotherhithe, and the prisoner h.ul
formerly been a fellow workman. On returning to work
from dinner the prisoner and another man, both being
under the influence of drink, entered the barge building
yard, and saying they did not work for food but for beer,
asked the complainant to treat them. The complainant
refused to do so, when the prisoner seized a can containing
naphtha to throw over him, and afterwards knocked him
down ; then, picking him up and holding him out at arm's
length, struck him several violent blows in the face, and
loosened his teeth.

Mr. Patteson sentenced the prisoner to six weeks' hard
labour in Vl'undsworth gaol.

HAMMERSMITII.
Cnrge Stowe, a greengrocer, was charged with causing
th.• death of William Mofctt, aged 13 years.
Pelee-constable Cooper, 1.4 X. said on Thursday morn-
ing he saw the prisoner driving a horse and cart down the
Ladbroke-road, Notting-hill. at a trotting pace, and during
the time the decea.'-cd fell, either as he was getting ill or
out of the cart, and he was run over. After the wheel
went over him he got up and walked to the pavement,
where he fell. Ile was taken in the cart to a doctor.

Inspector Charlwood said the boy, who was in the same
emi loyeacut as the prisoner, had since bed.
The prisoner informed the magistrate that the deceased
was getting out of the cart when he fell.
Mr. Selfe discharged the prisoner, and at the same time
remarked that he ought not to have been charged, as thu
magistrate was not a coroner.
(I,orgeTrefflord, a bill poster, was summoned by Mears.
Daniels, of the Hammersmith and City Railway Coin.
puny, for flying a bill relative to the holding of a meeting
to hear Mr. Dante, one of the liberal candidates for the now
borough of C'helsca, upon one of their arches in thu Laty-
nier-i

The defendant denied the charge, but two witnesses
were called who proved the cane.
➢dr. Sidle fined him 205., and 2a. coda, and in default
orth red him to be imprisoned for seven dap.

FATAL. ACClDENT.—Yehterday morning, about
ant ten o'clock, a distreiningaccident occurred in the
ncighboinhood of Notting-hill. A lad of about 16, in the
employ of Mr. Edge, a greengrocer, roving in Ladbroke-
ten ace, was driving his master's cart, containing vege-
tablisi, for the purpose of delivering them to the various
custonicis, and on his arrival at his first puint of stoppage
he suddenly pulled up and began to dismount while the
cart was still in motion. His foot slipped, and he fell, the
wheel going over his head and killing him on the spot.
The oceturence took place near Plough-lane, and ho was
conveyed to 1)r Jacksen's surgery close by. The do •tor
found that life was quite extinct. His mother WAS pas..iiig
by at the time, and at a little dietatiee new the accident
without being aware that it was her child who was being
killed.

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