The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-14 00:00:00

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N em Svrbsee was charged wits stealing two post
packets fives the Ormond Post-olkm where he was em-
d aa stamper.
Mr. Precook appeared for the promoutios ; and Mr.
St!sight for tLc &team

hisinibold. Nlice-constable, attacked to the Ge-
Eel al lest-race, deposed that he saw the prisoner take
up a anwill packet which was lying on • desk before him,
and video it in the Sap of his coat. He west to epithet
table and took up some wickets, weighed them with his
hand. pieced them down again, and monad to another
table. iron which b. took up another poet packet. Ha
placed it in his left hand, and • paper, retuned to his own
table. then put the ivvond packet into the Sap as well
Police-constable Sam, attached to the Post-ofßae, wav
present at the time and co rebonted last witness's 'Astern eats
Ile (witness) tool, the prisoner into the private-room of
Mr. Farley. and informed him that the prisoner had in
his posemaion a packet that did not belong to him. The
priioner said thel must have fallen in while he was collect
rig. Mr. Ririe, said "You have no business collecting
vow duty is stamping." The mooed packet, addressed to
../61.1C, the precast had no right with at &IL
John linden, jeweller, stated that he made up the Grit
packet. consisting of a small box with eardrops and locket
enclised, aid posted it to the address at Dover, and
(bailee Bunyan deposed to making up the second
packet, n box containing a needle ease. and addressing it
to hisaix. Beth those packets were posted.
Mr. William Parley, superintendent of the ()emend
Tat-efSee, said the prisoner was a letter-stamper. The
packet from livid would have readied the prisoner in due
ermine, but the one from Essex should not have come
into his hazels at all. lie bad no business whatever at the
second table. The men are often detained for extra
work. They volunteer their services. The prisoner was
doing extra work for three hours that evening.
At the request of Mr. &might, who appiared for the
defence. the coat was produced. Mr. Straight gave rise
to sonic sinus' meat by holding the coat up at agn's
length, exhibitirg to view • number of rents and hales
about the *levees and skirts. The learned counsel oh-
rent il that it had seen better days. (A laugh.) Pointing
to n Gar in the lining be asked if that wad the " paokst
in which the packets were found.
Itumbold (who, however, had not called it a pocket),
raid Oat was the place.
Mr. Straight erode-examined at some length, endeavour-
ing to show that the packets might have fallen into the
hole in the lining by accident.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
hi ARYLEBONB
TAM DOM AND THA POLIOE.

rAn inspector - of- u;;Croi)al-itia—Perlice said be m4l
ordt red by the Oomniiiiaioners of Polk* to r4Wry for •
summons against • man for obstructing an 0 in the
execution of his duty. The °Meer had taken • dog,
end was leading it along by a string, when be was
surrounded by a mob of men and boys. They eat the
string, and the dog got away, and the officer was pre.
vented from catching him again. The party against whom
the summons was asked for was the ringleader.
Mr. d'Eyneourt granted the summons.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ATTLYFFILD 91710Wil THROWN TIM WM OF a 0811.0.
&rahllowa married woman. residing at No. 19,
James-sheet, Kensington square, was charged before Mr.
Tirwbitt with attempting to commit suioide in the Ser-
pentine.
RenrySmith, a young man living at Knightsbridge, said
that wl.ile passing the Serpentine on Saturday night he
beard a voice from the water, and on going to the Ser-
pentine he saw the prisoner lying on her facie in the
water. Re took her out, and hearing her say something
about • child he looked into the water to see
elother dine was any child there, but could not Fee one,
and directly afterwards the prisoner said that the child
had been dead a month.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said the young man had acted very
provrly.
The husband of the prisoner stepped forward and said
that the child was a grandchild, awl that ever since its
death his wife had fretted very much, and her mind had
become affected.

The ',dueller said that her husband had had some words
with her daughter, and told her to pack up her things
and leave the house, and she went after her daughter,
feeling it wu her duty to go where her daughter went.
She did not think that she could have been in her right
mind, or she would not have gone to the water, as she had
a dread of it.

Mr. Tyi Whitt, seeing the excited condition of the pri-
soner, said the best thing would be to remand her to a
place where she would be taken care of.
The prisoner here became still more excited, calling oit,
•• Deal send me to prison. I shall go mad. I shill go
mad!•'

With difficulty the prisoner was removed from the
court, the magistrate giving directions that sho should bo
carefully looked after.

CONVICTION OP BETTING Mele.—At the weekly
sitting of the magistrates of the home division at Canter-
bury, on Saturday, Robert Church, 21, Morton-street ;
George Chatterbuck, 4, Crescent-place, Kensington ;
William Green, 1, Albion-gardens, Hammersmith ; Geo.
Valentine, 25 Farringdon-street ; and James Keen, 85,
Farringdon-street, City, were summoned for betting on
stands or offices erected on Barham Downs, at the latter
end of August, on the occasion of the Canterbury Races.
Mr. Delasasts represented the defendants, who pleaded
guilty, and the magistrates fined them 2/. fis. each, with
coke, and said they should be sorry to find that the race
committee had encouraged a practice by which so fla-
grant a breach of the law was committed.
SHOCK !NG RAILWAY Acetoevr.—There is now
lying in the Radcliffe Infirmary, at Oxford, a young
woman named Jane Terrell, 24 years of age, who met
with en serious an ace:deut on Tuesday last, within a
short distance of the Theme station, in connection with
the Gre.st Western luggage up train from Oxford, that it
was found necessary, on reaching the above-mentioned
institution, to amputate both leg' and one of her arms.
It appears that the young woman, whose father lives at
the Theme windmill, attended the Thane Flower Show
with some friends, nut started to go home about nine
&clock. when she ad to paw over the hue. About halt-
pwt five on the following morning, two men. on
'heir road to wok. found the unfortunate young woman
by the side of the uietals weltering iu her blood. She was
scii-ible when found, and stated that the train ran over
1,.,. Meals] assistance was soon on the spot, when it
was- found that both her feet were crushed, some of her
too• l.ing cut off, one urm broken, and the other with
the s ollar-bone broken ens, wrist injured. She was Coll.
veyed the same day to the Radcliffe Infirmary, and is
gum,: nu as well as could he expected.
SI NI I' LA II .AN F.yr.ti Malta:XT.—A fatal wet-
dust of a singular character was the subject of inquiry by
Dr. I.:mkt-Wee at the Middlesex Hospital. The deceased.
Mr. John William Antoine Fugl. aged 49, was trippel up
with the efrret in his bed-room, and fell through a pier
glass. reeetvuig injui ies that caused his death. Mr. George
Draper, of 43, Great Titchtield-street, said the deceased
occupied apartments in his house. About 1 &clock in the
moruing of the 2nd instant, witness was awoke by sonic
one knocking at his bed-room door. It was Mr.
Fuel, who said " For God's sake come down, for I
am bleeding to death." He went down and saw
the deceased's bed-room covered with pools of
blood. Decea-ed said that he was about to get the
Incites, when his foot caught in the carpet and he fell
through the pier glass, which was temporarily placed
against the wainscoting and resting on the floor. Witness
ran for a doctor, who strapped up a wound in the thigh
of the deceased, and directed his removal to the hospital.
The glass was entirely smashed. Mr. Henry Case, house
surgeon, deposed to receiving the deceased on the morning
mentioned. He had a frightful wound in the right thigh,
exposing the bone for about four inches and dividing
several vowels- Three days after erysipelas set in, to-
gether with paralysis, awl death ensued on Tuesday
night. The immediate cause of death was congeition of
the brain produced by the erysipelas. Verdict -••-icci-
deutall death."

A FAMILY POIONED DT EATING Brirr.—A sad
affair was investigated by Mr. Taylor, the coroner, at
Druz, on Thursday afternoon. It appears from the
evidence that on Saturday afternoon knit, Mr. Tonkinson,
draper, of Selby, drove Mrs. Tonkinsou and her three
sisters. to Dina-hall, near Selby, to see their brother, Mr.
Coulson. On arriving there, Mr. Tonkinson was alarmed
to find Mr. and Mrs. Coulson, together with their servant,
all seriously ill, in different path of the house, and each
ignorant of the condition of the other. Their symptoms
suggested poison, and Mr. Perkins, surgeon, of Swath,
was sent for. Me attended anti prescribed for the
sufferer: but Mr. Coulson died the same evening, and
Coul-on at an early hour on Wednesday morning.
lie girl his since quite recovered. The symptoms were
violent vonitting and purging, but without pain. The
election- from the stomach were tested for mineral poison,
but WA the slightest trace was discovered. It transpired.,
however. that the family had dined on apish pudding and cold
roast hue!: on pursuing the inquiry, it was found that the
suet red fur the pudding had been in the house near four
months, " chopt small and salted down." In this suet
Mr. Perkins found sufficient acid to account for all the
symptoms. The beef was also not considered in a whole-
some state. A post mortem examination was made on the
body of Mrs. Coulson, and the cause of death was found
to he exhaustion following the poisoning of the blood, by
the eating of some decayed animal matter acting on a
feeble constitution. Mr. and Mrs. Coulson had previously
'Whirl from diatrhoe, and were thus not so well pre-
pared to struggle against the effects of the deleterious
twitter as the servant girl. The inquiry was confined
legally to the death of Mrs. Greaten', as Mr. Coulson was
lo.ried the previous Tuesday, Mr. Perkins being per-
k:still satistii d as to the cause of death. Thu jury ni-
titen;sl a cos diet in is. cordwiee with the medical to:li-
neal.- Ahrflieiti istdrasreskai.
Co- oI.ERATION AMO VC:4T I RON A
1,, tore it' en this subject was delivered in the .1* g-hisU,
ith Erith. S.E., on Friday evening last, by
the Her. 'laity hay, to Ow • .mploy,:a e 1 Messr. Eason.,
Anse. aal Anderson. 'the leeture as. WO liestly listened
to and tt isieently amplauded, and at its cenoliestou it was
ly nsolved to put the leetnns 'is rnisanrnenda-
tioo 'ado praetior, for which pervert the prehmi tttt -v
Isolseinancats are already made and we in a fair way of
leading to successful resulhs.