The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-22 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

meNsioN.uouton,
JwepA Staddtm, aged 26, was tootght up on rerna.n.l,
betas. Mr. Alderwin Film:A charged with obtaining
various Sums of moue/ ireta Thomas Smart, a City Det-c-
-tire, by wu,ue of false preteuces.
It will be remembered, from the evidence adduced on
Saturday, that the prisoner wrote a letter to Messrs.
Moses and Son, wholesale clothiers, Minories, stating that
he could give them information relative to a series of ex-
tensive robberies from their establishment that were
being carried on, by three men in their employment.
Upon receiving the letter, Messrs. Moses called in
Detective Smart, who put himself in communication
with the prisoner, and the latter represented th it
2601. worth of property, stolen from the pre-
mises of Messrs. Moses, had been taken to the
shop of a person named Mills in the West India Durk-
road. The detective had several meetings with the
prisoner and gave him several small Rums of money from
time to time ; bet having been led to doubt the accuracy
of his statements, he appointed a person to watch him,
and ascertained that a pair of boots which the prisoner
represented to be part of the stolen property, and which
he stated be had purchased from Mills, had in reality
been purchased by himself at Messrs. Moses' own estab-
lishment. He was thereupon given into custody and
examined before the Lord Mayor on Saturday last, and as
there was reason to believe that he had been carrying on
the same system of fraud to a considerable extent, he was
remanded for further inquiry.
Smart now stated that since the last examination he had
received a letter from Robert Carter, a plain-clothes
officer of the li division, stating that the prisoner bed
obtained money from Mr:Anderson, boot manufacturer,
Oxford-street, in a similar manner, and that he had given
him (Carter) great trouble by giving• false information.
He was by nit& a barman, and got situations by means
of false characters. He had also obtained money !rein
him (Carter) and from another officer, named Chamberlain.
A letter had likewise been received from a licensed vic-
tualler in Miitylebone-road, who gave the prisoner a very
bad character, and added that the prisoner's father had
been sentenced to seven years' penal servitude for receiving
stolen property, the information in the case being supplied
by the prisoner himself. That morning he had also re-
ceived a telegram from the superintendent of police at
Gravesend, stating that the prisoner was wanted there for
a similar offence.

Mr. Aldermen Finals committed the prisoner for trial.
- - MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Jona Iloiderc,ip man in the employ of Mr. Marks,
ice merchant, • before Mr. Tyrwhitt, to answer
the complaint Royal Society for the Prevention of
CI-00y to Animals, of ill-using a horse.
• lady named Parker saw the defendant and another
man taking bloats of ice from a cart in Cavendish-street.
While doing so the hone threw up rte head, and the de-
fendant, after jobbing it with the reins, took two pieces of
iron, called dogs, used for carrying the ice, and pushed the
horse with it, causing its mouth and throat to bleed. She
afterwards gave information to the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animal'. Hence the present
proceedings.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, Mrs. Parker said the horse
to be a quiet, good-tempered animal, but the
appeared to
seemed an ill-tempered man.
The defendant said the horse attempted to run away, as
it had once done before.

Mrs. Parker denied this, and said that it was perfectly
quiet, and she stood some minutes watching it.
Joseph Dobre, officer of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said he went to the
defendant's master, and told him what he had come
about, when the master said that the horse came
home with its mouth bleeding, and that the defendant
told him that it was the res •It of an accident,
the horse having bobbed its month against the "dogs.
On examining the horse he found a wound inside the lips,
and another outside. On the following day the defendant,
in the presence of his master and witness (Dobre), ad-
mitted that he had lost his temper and given the horse a
blow. The horse was a beautiful one, and remarkably
well fed, and very quiet. The defendant's master seemed
much annoyed at the treatment the horse had received,
and said the law must take its course.

Mr. Tynehitt said it was a great pity that a man should
so far forget himself as to ill-use a horse in such a manner,
and the defendant would h
STMave to_ pay 205., or 14 days.
WELNMR.

It will be remembered that in December, 1886, Mr.
William Courtney Brutton, a solicitor, of Regent-street,
was committed for trial from this court for feloniously
in with Ellen Bertha Trimble, his former wife
being alive. Bail in 3001. (two sureties) was accepted, a
true bill found, and the prisoner absconded, a bench
warrant issuing for his apprehension • the bail was
entreated, and one of the gentlemen after a great deal of
trouble traced him to Jersey. Application was made to
Mr. Arnold last week for a warrant to apprehend the
prisoner • but the original bench warrant being found that
was acted upon, and Mr. Brutton was taken prisoner at
Jersey by F--.n net Davis, 234 Br the warrant-officer,
and brought to this court, whence, on account of a severe
malady from which he was suffering, he was removed to
the hospital, and at 2 o'clock he was brought before Mr.
Arnold.
. _ .

The second wife was present, and prisoner was seated
in the dock, looking very ill.
Mr. George Lewis (for the prisoner) said he would
admit being the man named in the warrant, and asked
the magistrate, under the 11th and 12th Victoria, to take
bail for his appearance at the trial.
A legal argument then took place, Mr. Arnold being of
opinion that the act did not apply in this instance ; the
warrant was signed by justices at the Old Bailey, and he
had no power to interfere.
The warrant officer said there were no magistrates
there, so he brought him before his worship.
Mr. Arnold again pointed out that it was a bench
warrant, and not the warrant of a police magistrate on
production of the certificate of the finding of the grand
jury, and he could not act upon it, and the prisoner
must be discharged.
Mr. Bretton was accordingly liberated.
MARYLEBON E.

Join Crimmins, aged 40, residing at 8, James-street,
Oxford-street, tailor, was charged with attempting to
murder his wife, by throwing her out of window.
Mr. Motum, of the Society for the Protection of Women
end Children, was in attendance to watch the case for the
wife.
Charles Barnes, 208 D, said on the previous night he
was called to the prisoner's house, and found his wife
(who, it was alleged, had been thrown out of the third
floor window) lying apparently dead on the leaden flat
of an out-house. He went up-stairs and hoard the pri-
soner in his room • after a time he unlocked the door, and
was taken into custody.
Sarah Anne Hughes, residing in the same house, said
she was at the rear of the house, and saw the female come
or fall from the window. She did not see the prisoner.
Anne Parker, also residing in the same house, said she
had heard quarrelling all the evening, and heard the pri-
soner's wife repeatedly shriek out for mercy. On
looking out of the staircase window she saw the wife fall
from the third floor back window. She could not say
whether she was pushed out or fell out.
Sergeant Bernalge, 4 D, 8., said he wait into the
room, and found it in a most filthy state. When he ap-
preholided the prisoner he said he knew nothing of the
matter, • _ _ .

' Mr. Henry Case, house-surgeon of Middlesex Hospital,
said she was admitted suffering from a dislocation
of the left hip-joint. All the ribs on her right
side ware hadured. She had her throat terribly scratched
as also her face. Her legs, arms, and body were covered
with contusions. She was in a very dangerous state.
Later in the day Mr. Mansfield and Mr. Tate, chief clerk,
attended at the hospital to take the wifes depositions.
She said, ." I was at home lest night I was tipsy. My
husband came home about 8 o'clock. I was tipsy, and was
looking out of the window, and went off to sleep and
fell out. My husband was in the room, but did not lay
hands on me. Another woman was in the room, fast
asleep on the floor. No one else was there."
Mr. Mansfield remanded the prisoner for a week.

TAB HEALTH or ION'DON.—It appears from
the return basted by the Registrar-General that in
the week ending on
r!sctitrati last, 4,222 birth.
and 3,488 deaths were in London and in
thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 person, living.
Under the influence of the t sultry heat and drought
the annual rate of mortality in the 14 large towns of the
United Kingdom has week by. week steadily increased
from 22 per 1,000 in the beginning of Zone to 28 last
week. The increase has been greatest in London, Liver-
pool, Manchester, Birmingham, and Sheffield, and has
been almost entirely due to the fatal prevalence of sum-
mer diarrhea, principally infantile. Of the death-rates
per 1000, from all causes, 11 were referred to diarrheas
in Manchester and Salford, 7'• Sheffield, Leeds, and
Liverpool, 6 in London, and 6 in Birmingham.' In London
the births, of 1,017 boys and 997 girls, in all 2,014 chit-.
dren, were registered in the week. In the corresponding
weeks of ten years (1868-67) the average number, cor-
rected for increase of population, to 1,990. The deaths
registered in London during the week were 1,642. It
was the twenty-ninth week of the year; and the average
number of deaths for that week is, with a oonestion for
increase of population, 1,468. The deaths in the present
return =mad by 184 the estimated amount, and are more
by 137 than the number recorded in the preceding week.
The deaths from symedio diaries were 677 the corrected
averas number being 621. Eleven deaths from mall-
from naseakia 64 from scarlatina, 9 from diph-
reria, 48 from whooping-cough, and 46 from typhus
were registered. That -seven deaths by choleraic:
diarrhea or cholera were registered in the week, 29 being
children under 4 years age. Seven cases in adults appear
to be ordinary instances of summer cholera; another adult
L returned as having died of " rheumatic fever (13 days),
and choleraic diarrhoea (10 days).', 340 persons
died of diarrheas, and of that number 19 were 'Anita.
It most not be assumed that the mortality from diarrheas
or summer cholera is higher in London than it is in conti-
nental towns. The reverse will be found generally to be
the case. The mortality from diarrheas differs little in
the London nate:Beide; the deaths to 100,000 living ran
thus: 10 in Kent, 11 in Grand Junction, 12 in New River,
13 in East London. and 16 in the Southwark and Lambeth
fields of owly. The deaths of 12 infanta and 2 adults
from .yphrba of 4 persons from delirium tremens, of 12
tenons from drowning, of 4 infants from suffocation, and
of 3 Fawns who committed suicide were registered.