The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-15 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

William Cham bers—a—ni Wei,;;;Weri, respectable look-
ing young men, were charged with maliciously and wil-
fully aiding another man in extinguishing a street lamp in
the Orange-road. Allen was also charged with assaulting
a constable who had him in charge.
Police-constable 115 M said that about I o'clock in the
morning he was on duty in the Orange-road, when he
li4VI the prisoners at some distance hoisting another man
up a lamp-post to extinguish the light. They then
all ran off, but witness pursued the prisoners and caught
Allen in the Neckinger-road, when he knocked off wit-
ness's helmet.
Mr. Benham asked if he hurt him at the time.
Witness replied in the negative, but he h►d some diffi-
culty in taking him to the station-house. Chambers war
arrested by another officer, when neither of them denied
the charge.
The prisoners here denied the charge altogether, but
they admitted being with the parties who committed the
offence, but they (the prisoners) were on the other side of
the road.

The constable waa recalled, and he said that he dis-
tinctly saw the prisoners lift the man up who extinguished
the light. and then they ran away laughing.
tli.mbers's mother was called on his behalf, and she
said the war waiting for her son at the gate, when she
saw the light put out. Her FOR was then crossing the road.
Mr. Dunham observed that there could be no doubt of
the constable's testimony, therefore he should tine Allen
ltiv. fur aiding in putting out the light, and 2s. for the
assault, and Chambers 10s:: or seven days each.

GREEN W ICH.
George Smith, aged 22, • well-known thief, belonging
to Deptford. was brought up on remand. charged with
steeling a mare belonging to George Boone, of Warwick-
street. R'oolwich. and also a shaft barrow, the property of
Mr. Cason, of Mill-lane, Deptford.
It appeared that the mare in question was stolen from a
field at Shooter's-hill, awl it had some peculiarities about
it. being blind of the off eye, lame of the off leg, having no
shoe on the hind off foot, and having a star on the fore-
head. The case was put into the hands of Ling, a plain
clothes constable, and on making inquiries of Mr. Ribbins,
• horse slaughterer at Greenwich, he ascertained that two
or three days previously the prisoner, who was well known
at the hone slaughterer's, had brought the mare in ques-
tion, saying it was a favourite of an old lady in Sydenham.
nod was to be sold and killed. The mare was slaughtered,
awl on ling and Turner. anther plain clothes constable,
apprehending the prisoner at a lodging house at Wool-
wich, he denied having been near Mr. Ribbing's premises.
He was also charged with stealing a pony and cart, con.
raining linen, and belonging to his own mother, at Dept-
ford, when he said the horse and cart were his own ; nu t
when told he would he charged with stealing a shaft
barrow at Deptford, he made answer that "he might as
well have Bye years as not."
The charge of stealing the horse and cart and linen
belonging to his mother was dismissed, there being no
evidence to connect the prisoner with the robbery ; but the
depositions in the other two cases were taken, and the
pneoner was fully committed for trial.

THE CARE OF ALLEGED CRUELTY BY A FATHER.
—At the Woolwich Police-court yesterday the case against
a man named Callow on a charge of having beaten and
ill-treated his non came on for filial hearing. Mrs. Peplow.
of 105, Old Kent-road, aunt to the boy, said, on the first
occasion when he ran away from his father, he said ho
was ill-treated, and when the father came to fetch him
the boy begged her not to let him go back as lie would get
beabn again. Defendant's first wife, whom he was
divorced from, the mother of the boy, asked him
not to hurt him, but on the following Tuimilay she
was surprised to see him crying under her gate, and
he beckoned two or three times before she knew him, as
he only laid on an old canvas pair of trousers and an old
vest. As won as she took him she saw the bruises and
wounds all over him, and she then sent for his mother
and Mr. Lindsey, a neighbour, who took charge of him
and washed his back, th'igh's, and shoulders with a lotion.
The boy was also bound with a chain, and it was fastened
with a padlock round the neck. The prisoner called Mrs.
Sarah Quaffing, of 1, Earl-street, Plumstead, who
said she had known the prisoner for four year.,
and thought bill' a good !arbor. Mr. Puttesou said
he should send the ease for trial, and the prisoner was not
bound to say anything before them unless ho liked. He
replied that he wholly denied using anything else than a
bitch, and that the chain was put round his neck only, and
very loose, to prevent his running away, as he had come
home before in a filthy state. His whole study hail been
to make the boy happy and comfortable, and to give him
a good education and every luxury, and to du this he had
often gout a whole week with dry bread. As to beating
him with a stick it was false, and he had taken him from
school where it had been used. He thought a man who had
to done by his child would not ill-use it. lle still repeated
that the boy was a liar. The aunt of the child said when
the defendant was told of the state the boy was in, ho
raid lie had intended to beat him when he got him home,
though he hail promised not to, and the child's back was
not well yet. The defendant's first wife was in attendance
to substantiate this evidence, but was not called. The de-
fendant was then committed for trial; but two sureties in
401. each, with his own recognisance* in 501. wore ac-
eepted for his appearance. An immense crowd followed
him through the streets on his leaving the court, and,
although guarded by the police, he hail to return to the
police-station for shelter till the mob dispersed.

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that Lord Curriehill has resigned his seat on the bench,
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of Mr. George Dundee? Sheriff of Selkirkshire. This ap-
pointment is ono which wo believe will give general
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for his great legal acquirements, audio held in high cmtima-
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AT LEAMINGTON'.
Yesterday, at the Leamington Petty Elessions,
before Kamm J. P. Clubbing. J. Bradshaw, and J. 0.
cblftechne, Laura Court, a beeotted-looldng women, waa
with havths wilfully .and of Inaba* aforethought
ler husband, Isaac Idwin Court, at
'lke primmer said in reply to the charge, her husband
fell downshifts himself.
Mr. Peassaan, in stating the fade that would be adduced
in evidence, said the efts was a most extraordinary and
suspicious one, but it wee impossible at present to say
whether the capital charge would be estabillied, as
Mean. Marriott and Busby had not completed their post
modern examination of the body.
Inspector Horswill deposed that about half-past ten
o'clock on Monday night he went to the de-
ceased's house, where he saw a light in the shop,
and after police-constable Hunt had kicked at the
door for some time the prisoner appeared at the bed-
room window. She was drafted, but profaned she
was in bed. She said she dd not know where her
husband was, and refused to admit them into the house.
They threatened to break open the door, and again kicked
at it, when the prisoner came downstairs, turned the gas
out in the shop, and opened the street-door. He and
Hunt went into the house, and on looftng down the
cellar-stain, which open out of a between the
shop and kitchen, they found the deoassd lying dead on
the floor at the bWan. There were marks of blood
against the side of the wall where the deceased's
head bad grazed it in falling. He than apprehended the
prisoner on a charge of being concerned in the death of
her " husband, when she said, I couldn't help it ; he
came in drunk. I said, ' Don't fall on me,' and he went
towards the cellar steps, put his hand out as if to reach
something from the shelf, and fell down the stepa" She
was not drunk at this time, but seemed under the influ-
ence of liquor. He asked her when her husband came
in drunk, and she said, "To-day." When in custody at
the police-station she made a similar statement as to her
husband falling downstairs, but said it occurred three or
four days ago, in the daytime—ehe believed the pre-
vious Friday. A thimble was found near the body.
The prisoner declined to ask any questions, but said she
tried with all her might to pull her husband up when he
fell down the cellar-stairs. . .

Mrs. Ruth Pa the wife of a car driver, living next
door to the deceased, deposed that on Thursday night lad
the prisoner and the deceased came home drunk. Shortly
after twelve o'clock she heard a heavy fall in Court s
house, apparently as of aims one falling on the door of
the kitchen at the hack of the shop. On Friday the
prisoner told her her husband had gone away. On Sunday
morning prisoner wee crying, but witness did not know
what about. _ _ _ _

Mrs. Julia Daily, the wife of a second-hand clothes
dealer, living opponte to the shopof the deceased, said the
prisoner came into her house and said her husband had
gone to Birmingham for a spree. On Sunday she went to
the prisoner's house, and saw her crying and washing her
face. Witness wanted to go into the cellar to look for the
demand, when prisoner replied, " God bless you, he's not
there. It's no use your going there, for I was there this
morning myself." On Monday prisoner said she had
written two letters to Birmingham to her sister, inquiring
about her husband, and was going to write another.
About nine o'clock the same night she said, " God bless
you, he's right Lenough ; he's gone and 'listed for a
soldier."

Mrs. Charlotte Poulton, of the Black Dog Inn, &telt.
well-street, said the prisoner and deceased were at her
house on Thursday night last. They were both drunk,
but left about nine o'clock, apparently on very friendly
terms. t M Saturday. night prisoner came and asked if
her husband was in the tap-room. She told her
be was not, and she replied, "Then he's at home asleep.
On Sunday night prisoner came again, when witness
accused her of having done something ioher husband, and
threatened to send for a policeman to see where he was.
Prisoner said, " He', right enough ; he's gone for a sol-
dier." Witness told her servant to go for • policeman,
but the prisoner pushed her back, said she would not have
a policeman about her place, left the house, went home,
and locked the door.

To the Prisoner—You did not tell me that you knew
where your husband went.
To the Bench—She was more or less under the influence
of drink every time I saw ha. She seemed mori sober on
Monday night.
Mr. Pavia S. Margoechis, a jeweller in Regent-street,
for whom the deceased worked, deposed that on Friday
morning prisoner told him deceased had not been home for
several nights. On Saturday morning she said he had not
returned, and she had had no answer to the two letters
she had written to her sister in Birmingham about him. On
Saturday night she said he had come home and gone to
bed. She was under the influence of drink when she
made these statements.

Mr. Nauman said he could not carry the case further on
that occasion, and must therefore ask for a remand. as the
surgeons had not finished their post morten examination,
and their evidence would be very material.
The Bench remanded the prisoner for a week. It is
stated that there are injuries on the body of the decassed
which cannot be accounted for by a fall downstairs,
although they are not the actual cause of death.

THE LATE BIRMINGHAM BANKING COMPANY.

This inquiry, under circumstances already de-
scribed in the Express, was commenced yesterday
before Mr. Dugslale. Mr. Beaumont, the manager, was
again under examination for several hours. In reference
to the particular 360 shares for which payment bad been
provided out of the bank moneys upon the account opened
in the names of Messrs. Foster, Watson. and Beaumont,
the latter said that at a special meeting of the board, held
in February. 1666, it was resolved that no dividend
should be paid on those 360 shares. He was unable to
say what actually took place at the meeting. There
was no minute on the books, and he W./.+ not aware
whether anything was said at this particular board meet-
ing as to the mode in which these shares hail been ob-
tained, but supposed it was never known that they were
purchased with the bank money. He showed to Mr.
Watson the minute of the bank board ; it was on a piece
of paper, and to the effect that the dividends were not to
be paid: but did not show the minute to anyone else. Mr.
Watson (lid not express any surprise that his name had
been introduced into an account in which he was made to
appear as a debtor for a sum exceeding 10,0001. The
resolutions of a special board were (he mid) usually
entered in a minute book, but there was no entry of the
resolution as to stopping the dividend in the
matter of these particular shares. He did not show the reso-
lution toMr. Shaw. the sub-manager.but told him of it. He
now knew as a matter of fact that these particular shares
were not tranferred to the forfeited share account. With
regard to the entry of the minutes of epecial boards, it was
just as often one way as the other. He made the sugges-
tion that the shares should stand in the name of Mr. Harris,
because he thought it would be a good investment ; it was
not with the view of assisting the bank. In reference to
a letter put in Mr. Beaumont said the statement was not
correct that he advised, on Mr. Gibbins selling his shares,
the bank should purchase them, and a joint account for
the purpose be opened in the names of Mr. Watson, Mr.
Foster, and himself. The examination of Mr. Beaumont
occupied till half-past three o'clock. The next witness
to be called is Mr. Charles Harris, in whose name the 360
shares stood on the register. The inquiry is again
adjourned.