The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-13 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS►

WORSHIP-STREET.

Charles Moore, of 24, Jobn street, Cannon-street-road,
was placed in the dock on a charge of being conoerned with
two others not yet apprehended, in obtaining, by means of
trickery and betting, one sovereign and ten shillings from
Joseph Abbott, his moneys.
The prosecutor said that last Monday he landed from
his ship after a long voyage, he being a seaman, and came
to London by train. As he came out of the Shoreditch
terminus of the Great Eastern Railway he met a man, the
prisoner, who got into conversation with him, and they
went into a public-house to have a gleam of grog together,
where they met another man. The prisoner introduced
the witness to the man who came m last, and they
adjourned to another public-house ; and the second man
there met a friend of his who, he told the prisoner, had just
won 9001. in a lawsuit against • lawyer, and the third mansaid
he had been treating his lawyer's clerks with a scarf and
a new hat each, and asked him (prosecutor) and the others
if they would like to have one, as he was quite willing to
stand "Sam." They then began to play with pieces of
paper and laying money on them. Prosecutor was at last
uidnoed to join them, and began betting on the side of the
prisoner against the man who had won the 9001. He
gave the prisoner first a sovereign and then ten shillings,
which the prisoner handed to his friend, telling prosecutor
that he had lost, and that he (prisoner) had also lost, and
must go and get some more money, and would then lend
him (prosecutor) some. They left the public-house
together, and after going a little way the prisoner
said to him, " You had better wait here ; I don't
want my wife to see me ;" and prosecutor did wait
for about five minutes, and then went back to the
public-house and found that the two other men had gone.
He did not see the prisoner again till about 6 o'clock that
morning, when he met him near Houndsditch and accosted
him ; but the prisoner denied having seen him before,
and tried to leave him. The prosecutor, however, gave
him in
EdwartrEitehell, 50 City police, said after taking pri-
soner into custody on a charge of obtaining 30a. from
the prosecutor, he went to the address first given by the
prisoner, No. 3, Green-street, Bethnal-green, and there
they knew nothing of him. He afterwards gave his ad-
dress as above, and there the constable found the pri-
soner's wife.

—The prisoner, in answer to the charge, protected his
entire ignoracoe. He gave a false address first, because he
did not wish that his wife should know of his disgraceful
position.
The magistrate said that if the prisoner was innocent
he had nothing to fear ; as it was, he had made the case
more suspiaimui by giving a false address, and he was re-
manded for inquiries.

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TON 5178P10T111 Mina= At rummy-
wax.

The mystery surrounding this strange ore has
hem, *gamble, rendered elf mom inespliable by the
midi el the lavesitgatleas wade by the polies daring
Saturday. Not may bias the Nesse el ties paean whose
body was found been discovered. but a resident in the
aslghboarhood has tendered evidence as to having seen
Ida as a sand-beep la the rear of the home No. 21, Elgin-
plus one day is the ant weak of Fobreary bat. This
party, Mr. Hoary Prima earpenter sad joiner, of White
Peat-lase, Hackney-wiek, was, is appears, mageged at the
time named in roofing • row of houses just below Elgin-
plus and on the same side of the street. One at teracsou,
about half-past 3 o'clock, hi. attention wee called by some
of the labourers employed in Asset's briekfleld, which
adjoins the rear of the douses, to • gentleman who was
sitting on the .and-heap, cutting • small piece of the
wood used in the roofing on which he was at work.
Pries subsequently came down from the roof, sad
on passing the sand-heap observed that the party'
who had been pointed out to him had • very gentlemsaly
appearance, and that he rye making a beat eel of • gime
of wood. It being • bitterly cold day, Pries said to the
gentleman, "You have got • cold seat them, sir." To this
be replied," You are the oivilest man I have spoken to to-
day. My God k. op! me warm. Friend, do you attendchurch or chapel ? Prim answered that he went to
church, for he had been brought up • churchman. The
gentleman rejoined, "I always pray to God in my own
room, and have got a Mee one at my sister's at Poplar."
Price said, 'lt is a cold job
,you have got, anyhow," to
which the ratleman replied, 'ldo it for my amusement.
There is a river near my sister'. where I swim my buts.
And now, my friend, you go and mind your business, sad
I will mind mine." Price noticed whilst this oonversation
was hiking place that the geatlemea was cutting eat the
little boat with a large buckhom-bandied knife, and that
there was • piece of leather spread out over his thigh, appa-
rently to prevent injury to his trousers. He bad also • linen
rag with which be occasionally wiped the knife. He was still
is the same place, finishing the boat, when Price and the
men employed in the brickfield left off work, at 5 o'clock
in the evening . In addition to the knife it was observed
that he had a bradawl with which he made the holes for
the mast. of the boat.
Immediately Price gave this Information to the police
he waa taken to the mortuary and shown the body which
was found in the cupboard of 21, Elgin-place, and he
identified it as that of the rerun with whom he had this
singular conversation. But notwithstanding the strict
searches which have been made, neither the knife, nor the
awl, nor the leather, nor the boat have been found. A very
careful examinatiois of the clothes on the body, and of
those found contiguou to it in the cupboard, resulted in
some important discoveries. In • corner of the under-
flannel, and on the stockings, and inside the flap of the
slippers was written in ink the name "B. Hem men."
Inside the blucher boot, which was found lying beads the
body, was inscribed the name of " Harnett." In the
pocket of the black frock coat which was found on the
door of the cupboard was a portion of the Morning Star,
dated January 31, 1868, folded up as though it had been
used for the purpose of wrapping up a pocket-book or
parcel of letters. On the outside was written, in • hand
nearly illegible, the name "Ha . tt." The back of
this coat is deeply stained with blood, and there are moms
marks also on the arm., but there are none on the tails,
which are torn.
After these discoveries the police authorities despatched
Sergeant Foden, 23 N, to the house in Elgin-place for the
purpose of making a thorough re-examination of the
whole of the premises. A else. scrutiny of the rear of the
house failed to disclose any true of the mean/ by which
an entrance had been effected. If any such had ever
existed, the lapse of time bad obliterated it. The rooms
were searched in succession, but nothing could be found
tending to throw any light upon the affair. The cupboard
was then minutely searched, and in the farthest corner,
immediately under the first step of the stairs, was found
secreted a 2 or. glass bottle. It was quite empty, but was
labelled with the words " Laudanum —Poison." What
connection, if any, may exist between the secretion of this
bottle and the fate of the deceased, is a prob'em yet to be
solved. If it be assumed that death was caused by poison,
the injuries on the head and the blood on the person of the
deceased, and on the frock coat and on the floor of the cup
board, have still to be accounted for.
Numerous applications have been made at the Hackney
police-station, by parties whose relatives or friends have
been miming for some months past ; and some informa-
tion has bees received which, if it stood alone, would ap-
pear to be conclusive as to the identity of the deceased,
though, as will be seen, it does not throw any light upon
the circumstance. attending his death. A. police con-
stable of the M division, named Nixon, hearing that an
inmate of St. Luke's Lunatic Asylum had been miming
for some time, communicated the tact to the authorities.
Sergeant Foden was immediately sent to the asylum,
where he saw the medical officer, Dr. Ellis. From that
gentleman he learned that a patient of the name of Ham-
men contrived to effect his escape during the night of the
let February last in a most extraordinary manner. He
was confined in the centre ward of the asylum, and there
were six doors, ill of which were locked, between him and
the exterior of the building. How he passed thee*
doom and effected his evasion remains a complete mystery
to the officers of the institution. Every effort was made
to trace him, but without success. While paring through
the wards in his flight he helped himself to sundry articles
of clothing belonging to other patients.
Dr. Ellis proceeded to Hackney to view the body in the I
mortuary. He is positive that the body is that of his
patient, Heasman, and he identifies the clothing as that
which he took with him from the asylum. The blucher
boot marked " Harnett, C. W.," belongs to a patient of
the name of Harnett, in the central wing of St. Luke's,
through which Hammen passed on the night of his escape.
The family of the unfortunate patient, Hemmen, hold a
respectable position in society.
Almost at the same time that Dr. Ellis had to ali
as satisfactorily identified the body of the deceased.
s visited the mortuary, sad as poidtively del:1
that the remains were those of her husband, who was mis-
sing for some time past. She asserted that she was
enabled to speak with certainty upon the point from lise
fact of one of the fingers of the deceased bearing a wailer
mark, and notwithstanding the secureness whith were
given her that Dr. Ellis had clearly identified the body of
one of his patients, she pereisted in her statement, and de-
clared thatshe weld not be mistaken.
All the inquiries which have been made have not sum
auded in discovering anybody who saw the deceased sub-
sequently to the time when Price left him sitting eking
the boat on the sand-heap in the brick-field at the back d
Elgin-place. The date of the paper—Jan. 31,1868—found
in the pocket of the frock wet, conwponds with that fixed
by Price as that on which the interview took place. The
decomposed state of the body is such as to lead the sur-
geons who examined it to the conclusion that death mast
have taken place at least as far bask as that time. Sergeant
Foden, who is now engaged in the is an of the
ease, remembers, as a singular coincidence, that one even-
ing, about the time in question, he saw a raw woman
sitting outside one of the houses, and whoa he asked her
what she was doing there, she replied that she was wailing
foc a lady friend who had gone away with a gesitlemen- _
the declaimed were the gentleman thus referred to, it is not
impossible that he might have bean decoyed into tke home,
emcees being gained by the window.

KILLED IS A PRILIUMULLTOIL. Saturday, at
the Ilford polioe•eourt, John Farr, • carom% sarrasdered
in disoharge of his bail to a charge of muds( the death of
a child named Clara Isabel (hicks, who was killed while
rid gin a perambulator. It weaved that on the morn-
ing of the 411 inst. thenuresuuM took the child out in a
perambulator, two other children Wag with her. They I
were proceeding =the Fortraore-lase Plairiow, the I
SEthe before her, when she left it stand-
ttinge side of the road, and lifted the other two
n out of the way, seeing a cart approaching.
Nothing that the driver was behind, and that the oar, was
es en to the
way perambulator, the girl tried to
bi
est el the . The
rugg road however, was very
ed, end before she weld , it far enough,
the ear* asoglit the wheel of the perambulator,
Wiwi it over, and the wheel el the earl yid over the
isdraull's head, asolavg it.
_lt war slated chat the driver
et tie earl bad me behind to pick up two Weirs which
bad fallen elf, lad bad sot perceived the bolster or
the slather. Rearing the sureeldri all eat be i 011•-
disisly shouted " wee," to stop the haus, and ran to the
freak whim he had that the child bad bees run over.
Ingioseer Eliondage, et the Z division, to answer to the
bench, add thee an isms* had been hold ea the body of
the eidld, sad the circuit's jury Mimed a verdict of
aseideatel death. The magistrates said the deteadant
wield be discharged, hut there might be some 'mount of
eea his pert is net suing the road was dear
are 6 he left the home's bead. _ _

THE STRAND Union AND THEIR LATE MEDICAL
omi:sm.—lt will be to the friends of Dr.
Rogers, who wee eascanded board for his continued
advocacy of the *Ms of the doh poor, to know that at the
'Lotion of guardians of St. Aunt whisk leek *es ma
SatairdAy. Ile whole of three who hie gerreminr.
no., ware velociod by an overwheladnir, no** of the
WAOEg Dr MI SOUTH YORKSHIRE COAL TaAnn.
—There seem every reason to est tho esalinnars
in the Sandi Tgaleihire lam tie souse
alma/ silurits * their leatinaa lanais garb ol the
gauntry, give Doilies of a redline. in tin rate el
weer paid to On tam The redwings Alin ot the rate
dB per gaud.. lila state of the
trade at pun* ItlVllLlmosaMitt sibs is
given. the alienstion lao to remit to a
obrika.—Lisislfereerry.
ROYAL Fuss }Roma, (}RAT'S-nix-ROAD.—The
wad patients rellored at this MO
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