The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-06 00:00:00

THE POLICE COUR!

MANSION-HOME.
A well-dressed. gentlemanly-looking
William Dolby, ins leght before the
sward charges at helm end uttering.
Kr. Maligns, Wisher to the Bankers' Protection
elation, conducted the proesoution.
It appeared that an the I.lth ult. a panel
mu made up at the London and
=, Lombard-street, and sent to Halstead.
morning it was diacerrsred that the parcel had been_ _
reed with, mad one of the oblique books was miming. It
contained fifty cheques ; and the acme imputed to tie,
prisoner was that he bad obtained the book sad llied wool
the chaquee for various amounts, end raid them to ifd•
Went tradesmen and merchants. Some preliminary ed.
deuce having been adduced, the teas was remanded.

Mr. Richard HOjaties, of Charlotte-street, Totten-
ham-court-road, was summoned before Mr. Barker, by Mr.
'
Francis Plan, the vestry clerk of St. Pancras, for that he
did, on the 26* of December, unlawfully neglect to pay
101., being the penalty imposed by the vestrymen for neg• t
looting to execute the office of inspector ed balances, 1
weights. and measurer within the pan* of St. Panora&
Mr. Cooper, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the vestry. &
Kr. Charles Collins, foreman of the lest jury, said on in
the 4th of August be sent a notice to the defendant to 00
menu on the jury He did not attend on that occasion,
neither did 'he attend on two subeequent occasions on IL
which he was summoned. The case having been brought 1
before the vestry, he was by them fined 101. ft.
By the defendant—lt is not now usual to pay half-a-
sown in lieu of service. There had been such a custom,
but it was very properly done away with.lß
The defendant said that when the notice frame he was
out of town, and on one occasion he sent his eon, who was bliok
I unable to find the lest jury. fir
Mr. Barker ordered the defendant to pay the amount of 00,1
101. forthwith.
Defendant said he was unable to pay, on which a dis- 100
tress warrant was at ones ordered to be issued. Bt.
WORSHIP-STREET.
George B keeper of a coffee-house in Kingston& to
road, appeared ore Mr. Ellison to answer a summons St
him under the powers of the Polies A* with *
a house open at improper hours for the mak of re-
ants, and allowing customers to usemble therein. ar
The premises in question have long been • sow* of great Hp
annoyance, and the defendant has frequently been 012 m. 200
monad to this court for his misconduct there with regard 100
to it. In the present instance Inspector Ramsay, of the 100
N division, and two of his either, heard singing and dine- LOD
ing there at two o'clock in the morning, and on knocking 70
and demanding entrance were detained three minutes, 20
daring which time there were distinct sounds of crockery
being moved away, and when at last the door wee opened ar..
15 persons were found within, most of whom, it was ar Maw
sorted, were lodgers.
In answer to the gammons defendant insisted that it
was so, and, in reply to Mr. Ellison, the police said the 10
house was well known to be one of the most disreputable
in the neighbourhood, and was always the subject of A.
et
complaint.
Mr. Ellison inflicted a fine of 40• or one month. 20
The defendant immediately produced the money, which iro
be paid with all apparent willingness, and walked out of to
court. et.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Saner? Trigg, a cab driver, charged by the Society for 10
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with cruelty to a
horse, by working it in an unfit state, appeared before Mr. R.
Knox, on remand, and Martin Revell, cab proprietor, of
No. 1, Charlwood-etreet, appeared on a @mamma, for es.
causing the horse to be ill-treated, by allowing it to be It.
worked.
Simeon Sell, officer of the Royal Society for the Proven- _
tion of Cruelty to Animals, having deposed to finding the '
horse in a very low condition, with its knees shockingly
cut, and quite unfit for work,
Mr. Cherry, the government veterinary rums, said
that the cuts on the horse's knees were reoent injuries on
older ones. He bad advised the owner of the hone to
have it destroyed, and it had been. He considered the
driver culpable in driving a horse in such a state.
Mr. Broad, a veterinary tarpon, said that in his opinion
the horse bad had a knee which bad been broken a few 1
weeks previously. but which had not healed over, and the lt
new granulation had given way. The horse had been put 111
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to work too early
Mr. Knox said that to an unprofessional eye the wound
on the knee was a ghastly one. As the horse had been de-
stroyed, he should discharge the defendants, and he
wished the officer of the society to understand that in
doing so it was simply on the testimony of the gentleman
who had been called, and who stated that the horse had
been sent out too early.

Henry Handing, 15, and Frank Pearce,l4, associates of
thieves. were charged before Dir. Arnold with unlawfully
possessing five pairs of braces, five pairs of gloves, two
ladies' vests, and a towel, and not giving a satisfactory
account of the possession of the same.
Police-sergeaut Squire White, 11 B, deposed that Pewee's
father said be should not take the trouble of coming to
the court about him ; the other had no fixed home. At
half-put seven he was with police-constable Taylor, 200
B, in Sloane•street. He watched the prisoners half an
hour outside a fancy jeweller's shop ; they were " working
at a cue." Witness went tip and asked them what they
were doing, and Harding said he did not know Pearce. As
the latter appeared balky, witness asked him what he had
got. Ho replied, Nothing." Witness unbuttoned his
cosi, sat doing which two ladies' vest fall out on the pave-
ment. He was further searched inside the shop, and then
et the police•station, when a pair of gloves were found
upon him. He said he had worn them three months, but
they were quite new. The glass they were watching at the
jeweller's had been broken a week ago, and Harding was
seen about the place.
Constable Taylor, 200 B, said he watched them with
Sergeant White, and heard Harding say, " Here comes
two slops."
Mr. Arnold asked what " slops" meant ?
Taylor said it was a thieves' term for pollee.
Mr. Arnold said he thought that they were always called

Since Friday night last up to yesterday eveh.
there has been an almost continued fall of sleet and sma..
wet mow, causing the street.' to present a most cheerless
and misty appearance. In the places more exposed to
traffic the streets have been very dirty and sloppy, but
in the I.es frequented parts and the suburban dietricts,
owing to the continuance of the frost, the roads and
footpatle have hem very slippery and dangerous for
walking. Since Friday the thermometer in the daytime
has varied from 4 deg. above freezing point to 2 below,
bat at night it was registered from 2to 4 degrees below.
Last night at C. o'clock the thermometer at the receiving-
house in Hyde-park registered 2 degrees below freezing, at
which hour a heavy fall of sleet took place with a cold
wind from the N.E. Comparatively few persons visited
the parks yesterday, owing partly to the in-
clemency of the day, and partly to the general impres-
sion that the ice would not be in a fit state for
either skating or sliding, and this proved to be
the east. A strong force of icemen were on duty at all the
usual points where the lovers of ice sports generally as-
semble. and each man carried a small board, front and
back, with a printed placard affixed thereon, announcing
that tie ice was very thin, rotten, and dangerous. In the
forenoon, despite the above warning, and the personal
warnings of the icemen, about 100 persons ventured upon
the Round Pond in Kensington-gardens. Upon this
being reported to Mr. Williams, the superintendent at the THE INCREASZ OF THE POLICE FORCE.—TM
reniving-houle, he proceeded to the spot, and ordered the decision of the Home Secretary, Mr. G. Hardy, to teseeese
people off the ice. His orders being disregarded, he at the Metropolitan Police by an addition of 1 ma hes
once collected a body of the icemen, and proceeding on to been already carried out to a great extent. This sedition
the in, succeeded with some difficulty, and by means of will only bring the police force of the metropolis up to the
ropes thrown across, in clearing the ice of the foolhardy proportion which it bore to the area and population el
persons assembled upon it. The pond and the long water, London when it was established in 1829. Slues thee the
where the ice was equally as dangerous, were kept clear for decrease in the relative strength of the police has new
the rest of the day. After one o'clock the gardens and sitated the lengthening of their beats, and geai&l7
park were unusually free from people, owing doubtless the inetennt of "eir duties to an Inconvenient
to the state of the weather. On the Serpentine there was Observer-
only a thin coating of ice, and no person ventured SINGULAR CONDUCT OF A JURT.—On Saturday,
upon it. In St. James's-park • considerable number of boys at the Suffolk quarter sessions held at Ipewicle a lad
and young men were assembled in the forenoon, a great named Gorham, 1.7 years of age, was charged with unlaw-
many of whom got upon the ice of the ornamental water, fully assaulting a servant named Wetherstone, 30 years •e
which, however, was very rotten. Numerous immendons • age. The proeeelitrix deposed to having been thrown isle
ensued as a matter of course, but the persons were all got . a ditch by the prisoner, who then attempted to violate Mee
safely out by the icemen. without anything taking place • Corroborative evidence was given, and, in summing 1114
requiring special notice. In the afternoon, several hundred . the chairman, Mr. P. R. Burrell, pointed out that thine
rough young fellows and boys congregated in the enclosure, was no doubt about the case. The jury returned a verdiee
but an they were not allowed on the ice, amused them-' of acquittal, and the chairman at once dismissed thezat
selves with snowballing each other, there being no respect- forming them that he could not trust them with
ably dressed persons whom they could bonnet" and ease. As the members of the jury were leaving the entre
hustle, as on former occasions. Warned by peat ex- some of them made it understood that they bad not speed
perience, a body of the park-keepers and police-constables with the verdict, and on the matter be enquired Intel'
were on duty at each end of the bridge crossing the water, ! was found that about Ore-thirds of them had been oppensei
and prevented any one obstructing the pathway across, to the verdict. The chairman remarked— lam very meth
than avoiding a repetition of the disgraceful scenes which surprised to hear this is the ass, and I think it ramie
have so often taken plan at this point on Sundays during great discredit upon you. There has been a greet miss
a frost. . carnage of justice, because the nee was as clear as it egad
Towards mid-day yesterday the frost at the Crystal be. There is no evidence whatever to throw doubt apes
Palace was less intense than on Saturday. The basins and the case ; and certainly it has been a matter of great asee-
ornairental waters, completely frozen over, were occupied niehment, not only to me, but to every one in co=o
by a large number of skaters on Saturday. As the usual hear the verdict. I would not have taken your
entrance fee to the Palace and grounds confines the vise but unfortunately you had left the box before we knew
ton to a more select elms than are gathered together in of this.
the parks and other places of public resort, a large pro. Dori Liman.— The licenses for keeping dogs
portion of ladies assemble at the Crystal Palace to par- (sued lest summer expired on the 31st ult., and will re-
take of skating exercise. Within the Palace the tempera- quire to be renewed inunediatelyby persona who intend to
lure ranges between 45 and 50 degrees Pahsenheit, the keep de' or d of the age of six months and upward'.
whole of the 40 miles of hot water pipes beneath the floors en Kith to the
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being in full operation night and day. Were May hat have still 7a, to pay, yoke lie
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" Bobbies."
Taylor continued—He found a pair of braces and gloves
on Harding, lwho said be bought the braces for 6d. at a
shop in the King's-road, Chelsea' and the gloves belonged I
to his father. They were new, and had been dirtied for
the purpose. The brume tonnd on both were of the same
make and pattern.
Harding, in an impudent tone, said be bought the
broom of a man in the street for 6d., and Pearce said that
be picked up the things found on him at Knightsbridge.
They were remanded for a week.