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witness proved too much, and there was a considerable dispa-
rity between their versions of the affair.
The complainant assured the magistrate that he had neither
abused the defendant nor attempted to strike him, and repeated
that he was quite sober at the time.
Mr. Gaines, who said he had not been engaged at the early
part of the case, assured the bench that this was not the fact.
On the contrary, he understood him to be a very well-conducted
young man, and he had his employer and other persons to
prove the fact.
Mr. Robert Blaer, who described himself as the manager of
the London Conveyance Company's omnibuses, said the de-
fendant had been in the company's employment about three
months, and during that time had conducted himself very well.
Mr. NORTON remarked upon the defendant's conduct as
being most improper, but in consideration of complainant's
recommendation, he should reduce the penalty to 3/. 108. and
expenses, or six weeks' imprisonment.
MARLBOROUGH-STRF;ET.
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AFFILIATION CASES. -•••• Chariesßabrache,wine merchant,
Opera-colonnade, was summoned before Mr. Hard ick for refus-
ing to support an illegitimate child, which had been sworn to him
by Esther Rains.
The mother said she lived servant in a house where the de-
fendant lodged, and the defendant, during the time she was in
her place, attempted to take liberties with her. She, however,
resisted his importunities for some time; but after quitting
her place she met the defendant one evening, and he persuaded
her to enter a public-house in Rupert-street, and an a club-
room, which was then unoccupied, he effected his purpose. This
was the only occasion oa which she had any intercourse wi h the
defendant. She proved enciente, and was in May last, delivered
of a female infant.
The defendant denied that he was the father of the child, or
that he had ever taken improper liberties with the girl. He
admitted that he had on one occasion taken the girl into a
public-house, but it was only to treat her to some beer.
Mr. HARDWICK, who had heard the case previously, and who
had dismissed the information because the complainant, igno-
rant of the law, had come unprovided with corroborative evi-
dence, asked if the complainant was now prepared with any
evidence in support of her statement? The mother said there
was a young woman present who had seen the defendant give
her money for the support of the child.
This young woman was called forward, and she said she ac-
companied the complainant to the defendant's place of busi-
ness. She heard the young woman ask him for money to sup-
port his child ; he gave her half-a-crown then, and told her he
would do no more for the child than the law compelled him
to do.

This witness was severely cross-examined to show that the
half-crown had been given because the complainant said she
was in distress, awl not for the maintenance of the child, but
the witness maintained her statement without the least varia-
tion.

Mr. HARDWICK said that the corroborative evidence in
this case was certainly of the most meagre character. It rested
principally on the testimony of the witness who deposed to the
defendent paying money for the maintenance of the child.
Unless it could be shown that this witness, who could have no
motive for stating that which was untrue, had deliberately
perjured herself, he must consider that a sufficient amount of
corroboration had been proAuced, and he must make an order
for 2s. 6d. a week on the defendant.
The defendant, through his legal adviser, gave notice of
appeal.
Charles Butler, a tailor, 26, Little Windmill-street, was
summoned for refusing to contribute towards the maintenance
of a child, affiliated on him by Jane Hoare.
The mother said she had been acquainted with the defendant
when they were children. The defendant married some time
ago, but he lived so unhappily with his wife that a separation
took place. She went to work at his place at tailoring, and
soon afterwards an intimacy commenced, the result of which
was the child she had in her arms.
fhe defendant declared he had never had the slightest im-
proper intercourse with the mother.
The complainant's sister, a ♦ery decent-looking young
woman, said she had more than once found the defendant in
her sister's room at a late hour at night. She had also called
in the morning, and had found the defendant there. She had
remonstrated warmly both with her sister and with defendant
at this proceeding. She had begged the defendant not to visit
her sister, as she feared from his loose character that her sister
would be ruined.
The defendant said he called on the complainant: merely
about work he had for her to do.
Mr. HARDWICK said, if a master forgot himself so far as to
visit constantly late and early one of his female workers, he
must take the consequences of the inference that would natu-
rally be drawn from such a proceeding.—The order for 2s. 6d.
a week was then made.
ASSAULT ON A PROSTITUTE.—Richard Bateman, a well-
dressed man, who described himself as a surgeon residing in
Albany-street, was fined 3/. for kicking, beating, and knocking
out two of the teeth of Mary Fisher, a woman who had taken
him to her lodgings in Riding House-lane, for the consideration
of 10s., which be afterwards refused to pay.
MARYLEBON E.

RECKLESS CONDUCT OF LORD SANDON'S GAOOll. Yes-
terday Thomas Theobald, groom to Lord Sandon, was brought
before Mr. Rawlinson, at the instance of Mr. Barker, the
superintendent of the London and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany's police, to answer the following charge preferred against
him under 3d and 4th Vict. cap. 97, commonly called Lord
Seymour's Act. The 15th clause of the Act runs thus :
" And be it enacted, that from and after the passing of this
Act, every person who shall wilfully do or cause to be done any
thing in such manner as to obstruct any engine or carriage
using any railway, or to endanger the safety of persons con-
veyed in or upon the same, or who shall aid or assist therein,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof,
shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court before which he
shall have been convicted, to be imprisoned with or without
hard labour for any term net exceeding two years."
Mr. Barker deposed that on the same morning the de-
fendant, who had horses in three boles, and a private car-
riage, belonging to Lord Sandon, on the nine o'clock train,
was standing on the platform, and just before the engine
was set in motion, witness desired defendant to take his seat
in a second-class carriage, at the same time pointing out to
him the one which he was to enter. He refused to comply,
and walked to the farther end of the platform, when, after
the train (consisting of no fewer than twenty-nine carriages)
had moved on, and was in motion, the defendant made a
sudden spring into a truck, the last on the train, and fell
with great force upon his back. One of the Company's ser-
vants, named Watson, a "bank rider," and who was in the
truck at the time, was thrown down owing to the violence with
which the defendant came against him, and had they fallen over
the side of the vehicle, both of whom would probably have been
killed,

Watson corroborated a great portion of Mr. Barker's state-
ment.
Mr. RAwmwsoti ordered defendant to find bail for his ap-
pearance at the sessions, in the event of the London and Bir-
mingham Railway Company thinking fit to indict him.
CHARGE OF ROBBERY IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.--MiSS
Maria Williams, a smartly-dressed young woman, describing
herself as a milliner, residing in Church-street, Brighton, was
charged with having stolen a silk handkerchief, the property
of Mr. Richard Chorley, of No. 25, Seymour-place, Bryan-
ston-square.
Prosecutor stated that on the 'previous evening he came
up by the Great Western Railway from Taunton, and on
the train arriving at Bristol, the prisoner got into the car-
riage in which he was seated, when she took her place close
to him, and leaned against his side. At about four o'clock
in the morning, he had occasion to take from his pocket
his handkerchief, and in a short time after wards he laid it
on his knee. The train passed through a tunnel, and on its
emerging therefrom he found that his handkerchief was gone.
He questioned the prisoner, but she denied all knowledge of it,
and he give her into custody as soon as the train reached
Paddington, believing her to be the person who had committed
the robbery.
In reply to Mr. Rawlinson, prosecutor said that in the car-
riage in which he and the prisoner were there might, perhaps,
have been from twenty-five to thirty other persons.
Chillman, 13, Great Western Railway police, said that the
prisoner, after being given in charge to him, was taken to the
station-house and there searched, but the article alleged to
have been stolen was not met with.
The prisoner, who asserted her innocence, was discharged.
She complained much of the treatment she had received, and
intimated her intention of seeking redress.
ARE HEARTHSTONES MANUFACTURED ?—John Gray, an
itinerant dealer in hearthstones, was charged by Mr. Turton,
Seymour-place North, Eu=ton-square, a shopkeeper vending
the same description of article, with having sold hearthstones,
the same nut being a " manufactured" article, without having
a license to do so.
Proof was given of the prisoner having received a trifle for
some of his goods, which he had disposed of in Upper Baker-
street and Crawford-street.

Complainant said he was compelled to take up the matter in
self-defence, and he had contulted with the Stamp-office solici-
tor, whose opinion was favourable to his (complainant's) view of
the case.

In reply to Mr. Rawlinson, complainant said that hearth-
stones were cut from a quarry at Mersham. They were after-
wards " shaped," and, in fact, as sold to the public, were what
might be termed a composition.
Mr. RAwLstrsoN was of opinion that complainant had not
proved his case, and the prisoner was therefore discharged.
WORSHIP-STREET.

ROBBERY AND SUPPOSED ATTEMPT AT INCENDIARISM,
-- - -

—Yesterday James Gadd, a smart-looking young fellow, aged
17, was finally examined before Mr. Bingham, the magistrate,
upon a charge of stealing seven 51. Banknotes, four sovereigns,
a silver hunting watch, and two gold pins, the property of Mr.
Wm. Charles Spring, a builder, who lodges at the Clay Hall
public-house, at Bow.

A suspicious-looking light seen through the prosecutor's
bedroom window about midnight on the 28th ult., while he
was below in the bar parlour, led to an examination of the

room, when he discovered that his desk had been broken open
and robbed of the property, which he had seen safe about an
hour before. At the same time quantities of burnt paper
were found smouldering about the desk and table, and other
quantities in the same condition in different parts of the room,
which induced a belief that the thief had endeavoured to set
tire to the room to cover the robbery. The prisoner had passed
the landlord on the stairs with a lighted candle in his hand,
upon pretence of going to the closet, and in reply to a ques-
tion he adrnitted•that he had been in the room in question,
falsely alleging that he had been sent up by Mr. Spring him-
self. Presently afterwards, when sought for, he had absconded.
William Bradley, a police-constable of le D division, said
he apprehended the prisoner in the Edgeware-road, on the 13th
inst. He asked, while on the way to the court, what the wit-
ness thought would be done to him, and the witness replied
that he could not po.sibly say, but it was a very serious case.
The prisoner then said that Mr. Spring was wrong in charging
him with stealing seven 5/ notes and four sovereigns, the fact
being, he said, that he took only five 51. notes and two sove-
reigns; 271. altogether. The witness added that a letter was
found on the prisoner, from which it appeared that he had in
the interim been to Bristol, and there left a box, and it was
conjectured that he might have deposited part of the stolen
money in the box, as none of it was found upon him. The
witness, therefore, went to Bristol by the magistrate's direc-
tion, but he found that the box referred to in the letter was
mer.,ly a musical box, which he took possession of and pro-
duced. The prisoner, when taken, had in his possession a

silver watch, an expensive cigar-case, some powder and shot,
and a few shillings, but none of the stolen property.
The prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial.
A FEMALE DRUNKARD.—Murtha Fuller, a notorious
drunkard, who has been numberless times before the magis-
trates, was placed at the bar.
It appeared that in her cups, yesterday forenoon, she strayed
into Shore-litch Church, ar.d made her nay to the pulpit, and,
being handed down to the police, was conveyed to the H police-
station, but she was so frantically drunk that she tore all the
clothes from her person, and reduced herself to a state of per-
feet nudity, and was brought befure the magistrate wrapped in
a policeman's great coat.
A constable was sworn to the fact of her having been con-
victed before, and the prisoner herself muttered that she had
been in custody just one hundred and fifty-three times.
Mr. BINGHAM consigned her once more to the House of
Correction, and she was conveyed thither in a cab.
TIM DIES.I
FORGING SEAMEN'S ADVANCE-NOTES.-Yesterday a
youth, named William Grant, of good appearance and ad-
dress, whose name was entered in the police•shect as William
Robert. Herbert Grant, aged 17, was brought before Mr. Bro-
derip for final examination, charged with forging and uttering
a great quantity of seamen's advance-notes for the payment of
money. The offence charged against the prisoner has been
very prevalent of late, and extensive frausls have been com-
mitted on slopsellers and others who are in the habit of cask.