The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-22 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
George Tyler, 18, described as a billiard marker, was
brought up on remand before the Lord Mayor and Mr.
Alderman Healey, sitting in petty sessions, on two charges
of robbery.nalntaiwramthat on the 28th February an errand boy
• Davis was in Bow-lane, carrying a box
containing 100 cigars. The prisoner came up and asked
him to do him a favour, and on his as
what it
was, he replied, "I have got a letter here, and I
want you to go up to Mr. Blatehley, Queen-street,
and say you have come for an answer for Mr.
Hart, and they'll give you a large parcel to bring
down. I have a bad foot and cannot go very well.
give you threepence. You can leave your parcel here,
and I'll take care of it, as you won't be able to oarry
it and the parcel too." Prosecutor told him not to run
away, as the agars were not his. He then went up the
stairs about a dorm steps with the prisoner, and there left
bin with the box alone, and went on farther alone.
Upstairs he found the doors locked, and when he
came down the prisoner and the box were gone.
On the 13th of August he saw the prisoner in
Bell-alley. He fraught hold of him, and said, " You
are the young man who took my cigars on the 28th
February." Prisoner said, " What! if you don't let me
alone I will give you into custody." Prosecutor said he
might, but the prisoner then slipped away from him.
Sergeant Hurst, 62, who was in the alley, hearing cries
of Stop him!" and seeing the prisoner running, stopped
him, and took him into custody. He said the boy wanted
to charge him, but he was not the man.
At a subsequent examination, evidence was given to
show that on the 6th of May the prisoner stopped another
errand boy who was carrying a new black coat in Fen-
church-street, and offered to give him sixpence if he took
a message for him. The boy refused, but the prisoner
followed him into a court, where he knocked him down,
stole the coat, and ran away. This coat was found upon
him when taken into custody upon the previous charge.
Sergeant Mind said the prisoner was employed at the
Guildhall Coffee-house, but bore a very bad character,
and was about to be discharged.
The Lord Mayor sentenced him to six months im-
prisonment.
GUILDHALL.
Yr. Henry Spin under-secretary to the Metropolitan
District Railway Co;npany, was brought before Alderman
Canton, charged with assaulting his wife.
Mrs. Tryphoaa Spence said that she was at present
staying at 16, Devereux-court, Strand. Her husband, the
defendant, was under-secretary to the Metropolitan Dis-
trict Railway Company.
Alderman Causton asked whether it was not possible
for the parties to settle their differences without dragging
their private matters before the world.
Mr. Spence said that he was willing to come to any
arrangement.
Mrs. Spence said that it was impassible to come to an
understanding except through the court.
Alderman Causton said that, under those circumstances,
he must heir it.
Mrs. Spence then went on to state that a little before
12 o'clock on Thursday night her husband brought her from
Devereux-court, under pretence of taking, a lodging for
her at an hotel, and that, when he got her in the dark part
of Farringdon-street, he struck her in the mouth, and
broke her teeth on one side, so that she could scarcely eat.
He also assailed her with the coarsest language. In the
early part of the evening he told her that be would murder
her, and she believed he would, but notwithstanding that
she went oil with him, because she was afraid tho lady
with whom she was staying would not let her remain if
she allowed him to come there.
The defendant admitted the assault in a mitigated form
to that represented, and pleaded extreme aggravation as
an excuse for it. His history of his married life was a
most pitiable one. He said he had been married about
two years, and his life had been most wretched ever
since. They had not been married four hones when she
took off her nut(' in a passion and threw them at his
head. He passed over that because he thought she had
taken a little too much wine at dinner. When he offered
her marriage he was under-secretary to a railway, with a
salary of 17W. a year, and the complainant was a widow
with about 200/. in cash and a certain quantity of
furniture and three children. Ile considered that
if he in his position undertook the es: cof her three
children, it was not an unreasonable thing for ham to
share with her her 20W. and furniture. the those terms
he thought ho might honourably marry her. The treat-
ment that he riceived from her ou ,the wedding day had
1 een continued ever since. He bore with it uncomplain-
ingly for 18 mouths,. because be did not wish his friends
to 'know what • fool he had male of himself.
When he went home in the evening she would 00111M01100
an attack upon bins, and keen it up even if lie wait to
bed. To such an extent did she carry her pe-werition,
that he was herrentlp obliged to get up, and wag