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purse. When the prisoner was searched a letter, of
which the following i 3 an exact copy, and the reading of
which caused much laughter in court, was found upon
him :

" Aldershott Camp, May 11,

"Dear friend,--I write these few lines to you hoping
to find you well, as it leaves me at present. I hope you
came nut yesterday along with Peck, and I hops he is
quite well. No doubt you heard about me being in the
Rifles. Jack Marlin has got 84 days, and will be out
in about a month. Ho told me all about you. I hal a
letter on the quiet from Emma last week, and she wants
me to scarper, which I mean to do as soon as I c.en
save a bob or two, as I have not got any money, being
on 4d. a day. If you and Polly get any stuff these
holidays send me a half-crown's worts of stamps iu a let-
ter. I expect to be up next Saturday for two days' pass
if I can get it. Ned 011ison is deserted again along
with a corporal. There is several blokes in the 3d from
Keate-street. Give my respects to Johnny Hurley and
Maunchy; tell us how Coaly looks and if he spoke ab gut
Sall. I hear you have had a letter from Sall, so you are
all right there, and no mistake. She is a fine girl. Give
my best respects to all inquiringc, friends, and let me
know how Margaret is, for I amdying to see and kiss
her. So to end this here epistle, I may say good luck
and goodbye. Send a letter as soon as possible, and ask
Jack to send us a bob if he can in Stamps.
" From your true pall,
" ALFRED LEWIS."
The prisoner, who in defence denied the charge, was
then committed for trial.

THAMES.—Bernardo Ilenriques, a Portuguese sea-
man, was brought before Mr- Selfe for final exa,mina-
tioo, charged with the 1% ilful murder of Vennlli Medina
Caligar, a native of Caligar, in Cephalonia, by stabbing
the deceased twice with a sharp double-edged dagger, on
the 15th inst., at Mr. Sev !flour's boarding-house for
foreign seamen, No. 31, Wellclose-square.
It will be recollected that the deceased, a mild and in-
offensive man, and nephew of Mr. Seymour, interposed
to put an end to a quarrel between two foreign seamen in
his uncle's house, and the prisoner, without any provo-
cation, took a dagger from a sheath and twice stabbed
the deceased with it. The deceased txpired a few hours
afterwards. The case stood over for the attendance of

the surgeon, who had been subpoenaed to give evidence
on the trial of Palmer, the Ittigeley prisoner.
Mr. John Brawn Itosß, house-surgeon of the London
Hospital, attended yesterday, and stated that the de-
ceased Caligar was brought there on the 15th in9t. with
a wound in the abdomen and two wounds in the r.glit
side. The ono in the abdomen was about three inchei

in length, extending upwards and outwards. The se-
cond wound was between the tenth and eleventh ribs,
about an inch and a ball in breadth, extending upward,
outwards, and backwards, coming out on the tenth rib.
Caligar died the following morning at 3 o'clock. He
had since made a post mortem examination, and found
the stomach wounded in two places. One wound was
three inches long, the other one inch and a half. The
stomach was transfixed, and the two wounds must have
been muted by one blow. Caligar died from that
wound, which produced inflammation. The dagger pro-
duced was capable of producing such a wound. The

wound on the side was superficial only.
Mr. Selfe said the ca'e was now completed, and, af-
ter the usual caution, asked the prisoner if ho had any
defence to make, and he repeated what he had before
sad, that he only stabbed the deceased once.
Mr. Selfe committed the prisoner for trial for wilful
murder.
Inspect- r Gernon of the H division, who Lad charge
of the ease, said that Mr. Yardley hat directed Mr.
Seymour, the boarding honk() keeper, to become
surety for the appearance of the for sign witnesses at
the sessions ; but they had no means of maintain-
ing themselves, and the costs would entirely fall
on Mr. Seymour if there were no funds at the
disposal of the magistrate for their support until the
trial. The witnesses, with the exception of Mr. Ross and
the police-constable, were foreign seamen, and they
wanted to leave England in their ships.
Mr. Selfe o' s rved that he bad no power to order the
costs of the seamen's maintenance to be paid until the
trial. He could only give them a certificate for them to
obtain the expenses of three days' attendance in that
court, which would be 10s. 6d. each man.

LAMBETH.—Johez Gabe, a person well known to
the police as a railway carriage and platform plunderer,
and Mary Ann Collins, a woman with whom he lives,
were finally examined before Mr. Ellett on a charge of
picking the pocket of Mrs. Harriett Bloomfield of a
purse, containing 4s. 6d., on the platform of the South-
Western Railway, at the Waterloo station.
Mr. Earl, from the law department of the South-
Western Railway Company, attended for the prosecu•
tion, and a solicitor appeared on behalf of the prisoners.
It will be recollected that the male prisoner was ap-
prehended by Brett, an active officer belonging to the
company, on the evening of Thursday week on the up-
platform, while in the very act of picking the pocket of
a woman of her purse. The prisoner made a desperate
effort to get away from the officer, and while the struggle
was going on the woman struck Brett two or three
times, and endeavoured to get between him and his pri•
Boner, for the twofold purpose of securing his escape,
and also taking anything he might have taken away
from the latter ; but by the assistance of one of the
railway porters both prisoners were secured. A purse
was picked up by a passenger just as the prisoners
were being apprehended, and handed to Inspector Bent,
and this was found to belong to Mrs. Bloomfield, who at
once identified it as her property. She also before seeing
it gave a description of it and its contents, among which
was a lock of her deceased's father's hair, folded up in a
piece of paper.
On the former examination there was a deficiency in
the evidence owing to the absence of the lady who had
picked up the purse, but she was present yesterday, and
swore distinctly that the purse had been thrown from
the men who were struggling, and fell in a basket of
flowers on the platform, from which she took it, and
gave it up to Inspector Bent.
The strongest part of the evidence came out, as is not,
unfrequently the case, in the cross-examination of the
prosecutrix by the prisener's solicitor. In reply to his
questions she said both the prisoners had travelled in
the same compartment of the railway carriage with her,
and that during the journey both kept moving. She also
said that while in the carriage she took out her purse to
get out her railway ticket, and at the time of her so
doing the male prisoner was sitting quite close to her.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial.

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