The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-03 00:00:00

11111101111 CASES OF CUTTING AND WOrNIANO.

CatAerine AP K.? y, • matermonger, of 40, Gray's-inn-
road, St. Andrews, was charged before Mr. Cooke with
outtiog and wounding .lau.ta Nagle, • labourer, of 45,
Vine-street, Cray's-inn-road.
The complainant said he went to his mother's house last
evening, where be saw the
_prisoner, who also lived there.
As be was passing her door she rushed at him with
• poker and attempted to strike him actor the
head. He wrenched the poker from her sod asked
her the reason for striking him, when she said she
would have his life. She stooped and picked up an ace
and threw it at him, but be moved on one side end it
missed hint. She then attempted to stick hint with a
knife, but being stopped at that she threw • basin or a
jog at him, and that struck him on the forehead, and in-
flicted • severe wound. He lost • great deal of blood, and
had to be taken to the Royal Free Hospital, Cray's-inn-
road, where his wounds were sewn up.
Mr. Cooke asked the complainant if he knew the reason
why the defendant assaulted him, and was snswered in
the negative.
The defendant asked the complainant if he was not •
married man having a wife and family in Ireland, and if
he had not seduced her (prisoner's) sister, and was now
cohabiting with her, but the complainant declined to
answer the question.
The defendant said that she assaulted the complainant
because he had ruined her sister.
Mr. Cooke remanded the defendant for • week.

Jobs M'Ore, aged 40, a labourer, of 4, CuWet's-court,
Goldendane, was charged with cutting and wounding
Elizabeth Henry.
Mr. H. Allen, proeecuting officer of the Associate Insti-
tute for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protec-
tion of Women, watched the case.
The proem:UM was too ill to attend. It appeared
that last night some words ensued between the parties,
when the defendant Lit the complainant over the
heed with • poker and knocked her down. A
severe cut oz. the head was indicted, and
the complainant was rendered insensible, and it was some
time before she could be brought to her senate, and she is
now in bed in • very bad state.
The defendant said that what he did was done in self-
defence, as he was first assaulted.
Mr. Cooke remanded the prisoner for a week, and refined
to take bail.
MARYLKHONZ.
IMPORTANT RATE DRCIsION IN NT. PANCRAS.

Charles Haines was summoned to show cease why he
should not be committed for the return of nulls bona
mad* to a warrant of distress for N. Dia ful. due for rates
made in April last ; and a mooed summons was
also heard for the lutes made in October. It appeared
that on the 111th December last a summons waa,
and on the promise of defendant to pay in a mouth a
distress warrant was directed to issue at the end of that
time. The defendant did not pay, and on entering the
distress the officer was met by the production of a certi-
ficate of the registration of a deed of composition made
under the 197th clause of the bankruptcy act, and a pro.
tection from arrest issued in consequence.
The defendant contended that the certificate of pro-
tection was good against any order the magistrate might
make.

Mr. Cooper, who appeared for the pariah of St. Farman,
referred to the cue of Oreatoraz, decided in the
Court of Bankruptcy by Mr. Commissioner Window
on 18th November, 1887, its showing that the vestry was
entitled to one year's rates in full. That there being no
goods, the defendant was liable to a commitment under
the 12th Victoria, cop. 14—the act for the recovery of
rates—and that the composition deed, to which the vestry
were no parties, did not protect the defendant.
Mr. Mansfield, who originally heard the case, mid he
was of opinion that the deed did not affect the rights of
the vestry to recover the year's rates or the power to com-
mit the defendant in default of goods whereon •
levy could be made. He committed him for one
month on the first summons unless the amount was paid,
and granted • distress warrant on the second summons,
wish a commitment for • month, or till the rates were
paid if there were no goods.

SHOCKING DEATH OF • CHILD FROM BURNING.
—Let leech" Dr. Diplook, coroner for West Middlesex,
bold his bet inquest at the Mitre Tavern, Fulham-a=
Fulham. It woe on the body of th• little girl
Honors Sweeney, aged 1 jeer and 10 months, whose death
took place on Friday from the effects of the burns received
on the lower part of her person under the circumstances
reported in our Saturday's police report. On that mosaics
it will be remembered a woman named Mary Manning was
charged at the Hammersmith polio. court with having,
while in a mini-drunken state, placed the child on the ere,
and so canoed the injuries which had not then proved
fatal. The coroners jury returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder" against her, on which charge she will be examined
at the next hearing.