The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-02 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

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BOWATIIEET.
ANoTHIN N1..141% 14/111BLItY !ROAD PIII.IGUT.

I a 'oath of •b..ut 17 yalf•Of &get Wax
chargril with • pane (lawn a lady by im itiliog it
f is Woburn square. at h ilf -last 1 13.CIOCk

Ilasry Parton Norton deposed At half.past 1 o'clock
.lasullry 1, I was w with my mother,
Mr. Chsrktte Norton, in the ihriv-tiou of our own howls,
in rk...nalra «IDA/V. V, w. re lout a short distaste
foot our lot when thr 'cooper. who bad been
walking a little het o•• 'iv. rodted at inn mo-
lihrr. -nat. hill her pia,: from her hand, aid ran
...ay. I followoil him tdl lsaw luau stopped, and he
was 'Tonight lock to our bouts, when he was tail= in
tustody. My moth, had 11. 17s. 6d. in her purse,
which in the .an.. mow pnalucet=tie coostabk.
Jow. ph Barth-It. E 7.2 I to take prisoner in
cuatody. 1 .1•1 so, and then gave up the purse
I now proihne, which he had in his pocket. It
• a port ha 40114111 11101 pocketbook in one, and roottios
I/. rid. It Is identitioil liv M.,trr Norton. 110
the way to the elate., hoc.. th, I,r)..ourr atal, I have
hail nothing. to rat NM, tato/Jay, awl I .lid not know
what to ilia

The Klemm. plendssl ,;malty, •od was remanded fur
mpurnr♦ ma to bis antessAume.

CLF.KKENWELL.
ATTOW7I.II !up_

Alfrvi Andre.., aged :SD. describedl on the charge sheet as
waa placed at the bur, below* Mr. Harker. charged
with Attempting to 041.11Ut suicide by cutting his tbruat
• ith a raior at :."J, Ilennes-street,
From the evidence of Police.coostatile t;araliner, 217 N.
it appeared that teat night he was fetched to the ahove
house, and was informed that A lemon bad attempted to
tut his throat. Ile went up to th.- iinsoner's room, aid on
Timing the dog found the prisoner with A re/or in his hand.
prvioner appeared in • very dadreased state of mind,
and stated that he should certainly destroy himself if he
was lelt alone, and he then took from his pocket a knife
tel gave at to the countable. The constable. Varing that
the prisoner would dextrin himself, baik him to the station.
The prisoner was a sober, hardworking man, and was sober
when taken is custody.
Mr. Harker inquired of the prisoner his roasons for
attempting such a rash act as that of committing self-
murder !

iieMisoner, who appeared ins very distremed state of
mud. said that on Tuesday bis wife, who had for some
time acted in a strange manner, took away the bedclothes.
Yesterday mornitig he went out to work, and on hin return
home he found that the place had been stripped. 11111 wife
had gone, and taken his child with her, soil this rained
him a great deal of trouble. lie wan now very sorry for
what he had done, and if he wan allowed to depart, he
would not attempt the like again. Ile did not know where
his wife had gone.
Kr. Barker said it wu a sad ease ; and in the state of
mind us which the prisoner appeared to be, it would not be
safe to allow him to go at large, without some one being
rr.mossible for him. He should remand the prisoner for
the *Meacham et hie friends.

W ESTI( INSTER.
TM! LAT 2 RITILIOOTR 11021122111. IY smAimitts.
Walton Hell, • rafilanly.looking fellow, was chafed
with attempting to enter a dwelliniphoure for the purpose
of committiag a felooy.
Alfred Weleby k, said that lad eight he was msini
through Chemban4lace, about 6 o'clock, when be o
the pnioner mad another man, not in custody, walking up
and down in front of No. 3, Chsehamplace an empty
home. Ile watched them ahout ten minutes" and saw the
other man remain on the pavement watching while prisoner
got over the area railings of No. 3. Witness weld for am-
spdance and on returning found both men walking along
in front of the houses. He took the other man, who
resealed so violently that he broke awe, and escaped.
Prisoner also got away at the mine moment. Witmer par.
sued him, and a gentleman caught him in Belgrave-equare.
Ile resisted wittier violently. On 'marching prisoner wit-
ting* found on him a jemmy, screwdriver, a dark !author°,
some skeleton keys, picklocks, and other housebreaking im-
plements. On examining the front and area doors of No.
3, Cheshamplace, he found the wood split, the marks cor-
reeponling with the jemmy found on him and with another
found iii the road rime to the house.
Police-constable Taylor, 246 A. proved apprehending
prisoner. He beat him sod resisted so violently that he be-
came perfectly exhausted, and wan compelled to let him go.
He afterwards &quieted in taking him to the station.
Prisoner we. remanded till Friday.
THAMES.
AINGeLAR MIMI ON 120!Tr91.T
Keroarer. boofaos, SUSS Need, about 30 years of age, a
valor bud diesipated-looking Irlehwernan„ of 49, Reginald-
street, Deptford, and who was described in the police sheet
as "cohabiting with a bestseller," was brought before Mr.
Madly charged with obtaining by Übe and fraudulent
r=of Mrs Minaret Daniels. • noektildl ow" of ,No.
alararatrest,Stepney ; a like sem of Mrs. Eliza-
both-Johann, • monthly nurse, of No. SO, Bonber's-road,
Bethaelgreten ; and various sums of other persons.
Inspector Griffin, of the K division of police, and he had
y five charge* against the prisoner, and he believed
there wouki be many more if she was remanded for a few
days.
Kra. Daniels mid the prisoner introduced herself to her •
few days ago at No. 6, I pper Storer-Weed, and asked her if
she was not a monthly nurse, to which dm replied in the
affirmative. The prisoner asked her if she had not to attend
upon • lad at the end of January, and witness mid that
the ac t of one of her ladies wait expected about
that time. The prisoner said that the lady had met with
an accident and injured her beck, and that the services of
witness were inunediately required. Believing that the
prisoner was telling the truth, and that she was
alluding to a lady ahe was engaead to nurse at
(Linden-
town, she dressed herself immediately, sod pre-
to depart. The prisoner mid she was directed by the
lady to lay out 9a. 6d in the purchase of various things, and
asked her for the money, which she said the lady would pay
on reaching her home. Witness bad not sufficient in silver
and gave the pnwaner • sovereign. The prisoner aocompanied
her to the railway station at Stepoey, and she went to
tbandentome end found she had been hoaxed.
Mr. Yardley The lady was quite well, I suppose.
Witness— Yes, air, and did not want me.
Mr. Yaniley—The lady bed not sent for you!
Witness-- No, sir. I was very credulous, and ought to
ve ha sated that artful women • few questions, and than I
should have found oat she wee a swindler.
Mrs Johnson, another monthly nurse, said a similar
!amenities had been practised spun her by the prisoner,
who oblained • sovereign from her.
Mr. Yarefloy—You were homed by the prisoner
r via, air. Abe said a lady whom lam ewged
to nurse at the proper time was ill, and want me
Kr. Ordlii. —There are three other charges, air. I have
net all the reidense at parent
716, primer sr& no ashass, and Mr. Yardley remanded
hr until Monday sal

The loseMpervfarare animas 111001100015 that the
French Meister of the Interior has decided that heiseeforth
au diplomatic or commie rise shell be aeomeary for the
passports at lislgiffia trueness provided with through
tickets who merely emu the Free& territory in proceeding
from Belgium to England by Houligns or Calais.
Yesterday (New Year Mira Burdett Cootie
was preset at a dinner perm by that lady in the school•
nom. of St. Stephen'', Westminster, whoa 300 poor people
partook of a weU ordered banquet, with ipeeebee and carols,
and mune supplied by a portion of the oldie/vase Guards
Lana, under the leading of Yr. Godfrey.
PA MIL —A pezliarnentery return, issued
this monies, shows a decrease in the total number of
'miners relieved in England sad Wales in the fear weeks of
,'member last as compared with the nnsalrars "'tiered in the
r..rrespoeding weeks of 1859. The aerie= in the AM
wrek of November, IWO, 1e9,145; hi the Nosed, 8,775 ; in
the third, 6,337 ; and in the fourth, 2,975. In London,
h .werwr, there is an increase each week, the immense in tine
1-nirth week of the month of November last being se many
1,41.5.

THE WEATHER.—(To-DAY.)—The change initho
weather has leen a. rapid as the thaw ; the trust corn
messed Let night, and this morning a thin layer of kw was
to be wee ea the water. iu the parks, the mercury falling as
low as 9i ;st noon to-day it stood at XI Fahrenheit, with
every indication of oontinning.
Hooraa v. WARD`—The Lord Chancellor has
felt it hi. duty to order the name of Mr. Wards, of Clop-
t.s-honee, in the comity of Warwick, the defendant is
the action "Hooper v. Week," remedy trial in the
Court of crieen's Bosch, to be struck out from the corn-
mi.en.o of the peace for that constr. After receiving an
answer to a letter addressed to Mr. Wards calling owe him
for his defame*. the Lord Classeller desisted chat, in hie
evidence given in the trial referred to, Ku Ward, "1"""1
a recklesseem of madam sad ea aaceescioemseee of the
dietieetien between right and wrong, which proved him to
he a person wholly unlit be intrusted with the power of
isiCtut part in the administration of the crime's] law.—
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