The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-26 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL.

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A Beool%a JUPORTOM, A woman, who said
that her name wee Mary Head, but who refused to give any
address, was charged with prd.enting at the office of Mr.
Bigge, the barrister, a Iteggiag letter, with intent to obtain
money by means of the same.
W. H. BigUsk Arthur Biggs, Bic., barrister, of No.
1, I[itmooart•buildimes, Temple, detailed a series of at-
tempts made by the primmer to obtain motley from him by
various representations, which, on inquiry, be found were
totally destitute of truth. He communicated with the
officials of the Wendish? Society, by whom Horsford was
directed to attend to the case. Thu allow succeeded in
tracing her to her plass of abode, where he ascertained that
she was living with a notorious begging letter impostor.
The prisoner herself was not personally known to him.
Alderman Farebrothar said, as she was not known, he
would rally sentence her to one month's imprisonment, but
she had better be cautious for the Nitre.
It was afterwards meert..ined that the prisoner's com-
panion and herself hid been levying pOntributions in ijke
anner on the nobility and gentry, not letting even the
Queen escape, who sent thee 101. through the hands of Cal.
Anson.

WORSHIP-STREET.

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A Flamm:le RIDIS.—Hugh Matson, described as a jour.
'mann tailor, was charged with riding upon one of the
earners of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, in
an unlawful manner, and to the imminent danger of his life.
It appeared from the evidence of John Humphreys, one
of the porton at the Les-bridge station, that while on duty,
about nine o'clock en Saturday evening, the seal train from
Lor den to Yarmouth passed him at full 'peed, and on tutt-
ing his eye in the direction of the leading carriages, he was
astonished to see the figure of a man standing between the
tender of the eagles and the brake-van: immediately in the
rear of it. He instantly raised an alarm, and battened up
to the static it, where the nein made a temporary stoppage,
and called the attention of the guard to the position it the
primmer, who was mounted up-in the buffer of the tender,
the upper part of which he was grasping with one hand, std
disgust: with the other to a handle in the brake-van, to
preserve his equilibrium.
Charles Church, the guard in charge of the mail, stated
that in consequesu of the outcry raised by the last witness,
who pointed out to him the perilous situation of the prisoaer,
he ordered the latter to instantly descend, and demanded
the came of his hazarding his life in such a manner. The
prisoner replied that he was anxious to get to Cambridge
as ape. dily as possible, end, having no money to pay hie
fare. he watched for an opportunity, just as the train was
staring frets the Shondiich terminus, and scrambled on to
the buffer, with the intention by that means of reaching his
destination. He immediately took the prisoner into custody
and conveyed him to the office of the station-master, who
asked him for his ticket, when the prisoner carelessly an-
swered that he was obliged to travel at a cheaper rate, and
had hoped that he would have been able altogether to
escape observation. The prisoner added, that on reaching
the Stratford station a few minutes previously, he quietly
slipped off the buffer until the train resumed its progre
when he again ascended to his former position, and crouched
down to avoid being seen.
Mr. Wilinson, the station-master at Shoreditch, called
the magistrate's attention to the bye laws of the company,
by which any person guilty of suck offences rendered them-
selves liable to a penalty of 405., end said it was scarcely to
he conceived that any but a madman would have exposed
himself to such danger, as any sudden stoppage of the train
must have inevitably hurled the prisoner from his position,
when the whole line of carriages must have passed over Ma
body and crushed him to atoms.
In answer to questions from the magistrate the prisoner
stated that he had arrived at Liverpool on Friday last from
Philadelphia, where he had served his apprenticeship, and,
having only sufficient money to pay his travelling expenses
to London, be was compelled to adslr. the means described
to reach the residence of his parents at Cambridge, whom he
was most anxious to see, u he had been absent from them for
• period of six years.
Mr. Hammill said that the prisoner appeared toast very
little value upon his life, which would in all probability have
been sacrificed, but for the fortunate interruption of his fool-
hardy experiment: and to deter others /ram heurding them-
selves in a manner so reckless in future, he should order
him to pay the maximum penalty of 40c, or in default to
stand committed for fourteen days to the House of Cor-
rection.
WANDSWORTH.
TON Flan ON WANDSWORTII-CONNON.—T. Candor
and J. Baker were examined upon a charge of having ma-
liciously set fire to the furze on Wandaworth-common ; end
some evidence of a rather unimportant character having
been heard, the were remanded for a week.
SUSPICIOUS Diara OP • TOLL CoIJ.SCTOIL —Thomas
Day, a carrier, from Brumley, in Surrey. was placed in the
dock on suspicion of causing the death of Eli Wing, in the
parish of Ham, by driving a cart over him whilst acting as,
toll collector at the Kingston gate.
From the statements of the witnesses examined, and free
some evidence of a circumstantial nature, it appeared that
on Sunday night, about half-pest 12 o'clxk, • hone and
cart, which the prisoner was driving, passed over the body
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-imaged, who died immediately afterwards.
Mr. Emden determined on remanding the prisoner, and
ordered a pout martens examination of the body.
The prix nee was then remanded, and in the coarse of the
day_ he made the following statement : That he got down to
pull his money out to pay the gate, when a waggoner (men
boning the name) said he had paid for his boree, and he
primmer, when the collector asked for the money, told him
what the waggoner said, and the collector said he had only
paid for his own. After some words had passed the col-
lector took hold of his horse, and the waggoner took hold of
it on the other side and laid cn to it with the whip, and that
made the horse go so fast that the collector loosed the reins
and fell, and the prisoner saw the wheel pass over him.
Mr. Beadon said the effect of this evidence was only to
inculpate others, and orilered the prisoner to be reconveyed
to his cell.