The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY
POLICE COURTS.-(THIS DAY.)

(IITILIHALL.
INGENIOUS YRAUD.

11,erl lorPrhll, described as a trarollor, with no fivsi
residenee, was plated at the bar on remand, botore
man Challis, charged with obtaining throe leather hags
and a portmanteau from Mr. Marx by false pretences.

- .
Heiman Marx Raid he was n inereliant carrying on busi-
ness at 45, Aldennanbory. On the 25th of ono the pri-
soner come to his warehouse and asked for some samples
of travelling bags for Messrs. Shipley and Co., of Old
Compton-street, who were customers of his. Ho know
the prisoner as being in the service of Messrs.
Shipley nod Co., and therefore made no difficulty in
letting him have the bags. He gave him three wimples of
the value of from ss. to 10:1. each. On the following day
he 011111, to the warehouse and obtained a portmuttoau
from his boy of the value of 11.
Mr. Charles Shipley said the prisoner had been in his
employ for shout six months, but loft about four months
ago. Thu prisoner had often been sent by him to buy
poods from Mr. Marx when he was in his employ. Tre
did not authorise the prisoner to obtain goods from Mr.
Motu on the Vith or 2lith of June, and ho never received
the gissls referred to.
The prbouer, on being arrested, saint he had pawned
the goods and destroyed the duphuutes, but he told the
~Dicer whim ho had pledged them.

Thu pawubrokers'athnth.d with the hags and gave
I a m up 14. the prosecutor.
'lhe pi immer was then committed fur trial.
DOW-STItEET.
A STCANOEU AT THE ATHENA:IIi MM.

A young tIMM who said his name was W,11.04, Alt, was
with being on the rein:Ass of the Athelieum
t lei,. for an unlawful purpo.e.
Police-vendable Hawkins, 89 C, said he was on duty in
a little before lt oclock, when, hearing a slight
nob' in the urea lit front of the Atheneum Clubhouse,
he looked over the railing and saw a Min's hat lying at
the door of one of the closets. Ho descended into the
area, and found the prisoner in a passage which loads to
the hick windows, which are left open all night, but
secured by iron bars. Witness asked what he was doing
there. The prisoner said he did not know. Witness
called the porter, who gave the prisoner in custody.
The prisoner said he saw several mon watching him and
following him about. He got over the railings to escape
frem them, and losing his hold, fell into the area.
Mr. Vaughan (to the countable)—Did he make that
statement to you ?
Hawkins—Yes. On the way to the station ho said he
bail been followed by some men.
Mr. Vaughan (to the prisoner)—Where do you live?
The prisoner—Any whore in London.
Mr. Vaughan—Where did you last come from ?
The prisoner—From Brighton.
Mr, Vaughan—Do you belong to Brighton?
The prisoner—No. I have no home. I get my living
by selling studs, rings, and pins in the streets. The night
before last I slept out of doom
Mr. Vaughan remanded him for inquiry.
CLERKENWELL.
• LUNATIC AT LAWS.

William James Woad, aged 2G, described as a gentle-
man, was apprehended on a warrant by Police-constable
Henry Robinson, 8$ N, ono of the warrant officers of the
court, charged with assaulting Keziah Little, at 90, El-
more-road, Islington.
The defendant had been cohabiting with the com-
plainant, and because she would not uuy longer live with
him, he seized her by the neck, and attempted to throttle
her, he also threatened to murder her as well es his father,
n gentleman living at Temple Villas, Kingston-on-
Thames. lle also said he would murder two
other persons, and it was found necessary to come to this
court and obtain a warrant. This was grunted yesterday
(Friday), and to-day when the case was called on two
certificates were handed in signed by Mr. Francis John
Buckle and Mr. John Robert Ede, surgeons, stating that
the defendant was of unsound mind and not fit to be at
large. Drunkenness. it was stated, was the immediate
cause of the defendant's madness. _ . .

Mr. Barker said the necessary steps had better be taken
to have the defendant detained M custody. As he was at
the workhouse, he marked the sheet, "Detidued m work-
hout,e, said to be of unsound mind."

,SROCKING SUICIDE OF A PATIEYT AT
ST. PARTIIOLO3fEW'S 110S1'IT.AL.
ECQUEST.—(TIUS DAY.)
This forenoon Mr. W. J. Payne, the deputy
coroner, held an inquest at St. Bartholomew's Hospital
rejecting the death of Mr. John Bryant, aged 30.
Ihe deceased, it appeared, was formerly a comic singer
and dancer at music-halls, and since ho had adopted that
occupation he had become addicted to intemperate habits,
which produced greater effect upon him owing to the fact
of his having received a sunstroke while in India. He
was admitted to the hospital on Thursday morning, and
was placed in a bed near the south window, which
was, however, closed and fastened. The nurse told
him to lie down while she went to get him his
medicine. Ile replied, "All right." In a minute
after she heard a crash of glass, and upon going
to see what had happened, she found that he had leaped
from the bed and dashed through the centre pane of glass,
and fell to the ground beneath, a distance of 35 feet, re-
ceiving such injuries that he died shortly afterwards.
Dr. Samuel Gee, assistant physician to the hospital,
having heard the history of the case at the time the
deceased was admitted, said there was then no
sign of delirium tremens, and he did not be-
lieve that restraint was necessary. All that the
deceased wanted was rest, after the excitement of his life.

The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while in a
state of temporary insanity."

.11:1611711-1, LEATH
_a2+l 711 E GREENWICH

RAILWAY.

At Guy's Hospital an inquiry was held by Mr.
W.. 1. Payne. coroner, last evening, respecting the death
on the South Ea.ston Railway of Alfred Starry, aged tea
yi ars.
The deceased was the son of an insurance clerk living
in lie] monilsey. On Tuesday he and two other boys
came up from Greenwich-park by train. According
to the evidence of his companions, John Storey and John
ila.,sborough, aged respectively 13 and 10 years, he kept
running up and down one of the compartments of the
third-clam carriage in which he was, and they suddenly
missed him and saw the door open. lie fell between the
train and the wall, a space of only one foot, and he
would have fallen into the street had not the telegraph
wires, of which there are many, prevented it. As it was
be was draggetl along fur 40 feet, portions of his
clothing, his hair, and blood marking the track along the
wall. When the train stopped at Spa-road Station his
comrades, crying bitterly, told the guard what had hap-
pened, and search was made for his body, Ho was found
still living some way down the line. lie said, " Don't
hurt me, and I won't do it again." He was taken to
Guy's Ilovital, where he survived till Thursday. The rail-
way people said that the deceased must have fallen out of
the window of the carriage, for that if the door had come
oli,loldwehavevre been
that
the
thr
wtseczobny the wall.
The boys, that
a man shut it after the deceased fell out.
The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

BETIANU IN LONDON. -(TDIS DAY.)

2.30 P. Y.
A fair amount of business was transacted this
moniing on the Coodwood Stahel. The favourite was not
in requiet, 4 to 1 being offered without a response. Reart‘l
proved in good demand, but backers bargained for some-
thing more than 10 to 1, and as layers would not exceed
this limit eery little was (lone. Cannon Ball and
Lucifer were booked for good money as wore Mr. Bovill'e
lot; neither Stradbroke nor Romping Oirl wont well, and
Papillon was friendless at 15 to I,offei ed. Among the out-
siders Pidelia and Our Mary Ann appeared to be most
fancied. l'rices as follows :
GOODWOOD STAKES.
4 to 1 agst Omer* (off)
10 to 1 EcarW (off, 11 to I t and vr)
16 to 1 Papillon (off)
100 to 6 Cannon Ball (t)
100 to 6 Romping Girl off (t 20 to 1)
100 to 5 Tabouret (t and off)
20 to I Lucifer ((off 25 to 1 t freely)
20 to 1 Stradbroke (off, 26 to 1t)
25 to 1 Our Mary Ann (1)
25 to 1 Eyesore (off, t 100 to 3)
28 to 1 Melia (t)
•
1000 to 30 Kidderminster (t)
40 to 1 Leases (t)
40 to 1 Tynedale (off)
50 to 1 Usurper (t)
(i 0 to 1 Powderham (off)
50 to 1 Olongarnoek (off)
•
50 to 1 Tarsban (off)
60 to I Stratagem (off)
1000 to IS Minster Bell (t)
1000 to 15 Blinkhoolie (off)
1000 to lb thilpinctes (off)
100 to 12 Mr. Bovill's lot (off, 10 to 1
t and w)
100 to 8 Mr. Green's lot (off)
1300 to 100 T. Dawson's lot (off)
20 to 1 lot (off)
1000 even on Garners, Ensile, Romping Girl, Papillon,
Stradbroke, Our Mary Ann, and Powderham agat the
field (t)

ST. LEGER.
5 to 2 apt The Earl (off, t3to 1)
100 to 15 Rosierucian (off)
100 to 15 Formats (off)
20 to 1 Lady Elisabeth (off)
20 to 1 Orion (off)