The Express. — 1860-09-22 (London, England)

THE POLICE COURTS.  MANSION-HOUSE.  --A middle-aged man, wearing moustache and beard, named William Cranbrook Wood, was brought before Sir R. W. Carden, in the custody of Smart, a detective officer, charged with embeunug a considerable sum of money belonging to his employers, Meese. James Allan and Ca, wholesale straw hat manufacturers, Cheapside. Mr. Lawrence, a solicitor, appeared to support the prosecution ; Mr. Wontner, jun., attended for the prisoner. The case was only partly gone into, sufficient evidence merely being given to justify the magistrate in remanding the prisoner. Mr. John French, the prosecutor's cashier, deposed that the prisoner was in the service of the firm as clerk and collector, and it was his duty to pay over to him all the money he received on the same day he received it. Re had ascertained that on the 18th of May the prisoner received a sum of 151. from Messrs. Dowd and Co., and he had not accounted for that sum, and there was no entry of it in the books.  Mr. Lawrence said he had several other oases apish the ',howler, but the whole of the necessary witnesaea were not in attendance, and he therefore asked for a remand. Mr. Wontner said he could not resist the apphcatiou, and the prisoner was therefore ordered to he rem►nded.  Smote Saroicon, an unfortunate, was brougbt before Mr. Rolfe, charged with attempting to commit eelf-destruction.  The wretched prisoner, titonglivoung, presented the ap• pesranoe of an old woman, and careworn. She has r made repeated attempts on r life while labouring under intoxication, and has thrown herself into the river, the 'a b Canal, and other waters, and also hung herself, adempted strangulation in the police cells, and cells of the mart, while under remand. She has given an immense deal at trouble to the police, and they have been order the necessity of closely watching her on the many meadow she has been in custody to prevent her committing suicide. _ _  William Gluing, • police-constable, said that he found the prisoner on the previous night in a shed in Poplar. She was very drunk, and covered over with wet sacks. She said the bad thrown herself from the window of a room three storeys high. He procured • stretcher, to which she was strapped and conveyed to the station-house. George Pullen, 161 IC, said it was quite trim that on Taireday last the prisoner either fell or threw herself from the window of a horse three storeys high. Her fall was broken by • shed. She rolled over it, and was fearfully braised. She was taken to an hospital, and her wounds and bruises were dressai. Next day she came home. On Thursday the became helplessly drunk, and was carried into a shed and covered with sacks. Durieg the night he visited her in the cell ; she was nearly strangled. A cord was round her neck, fastened tightly, and the other end of it made fast to a bench. She was Trite black in the lice, and he bad some difficulty in recovering her. Rothe, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner had given him a good deal of trouble. He was obliged to witch her closely whenever she was in custody. The prisoner, who was labouring under delirium tremens, made no defence. She was in a low dected state. Mr. Salta said the case was • fearful one. He "& thought the prisoner ought to be treated as • lunatic,al Lls_t_u_nder restraint for the remainder of her life. The r was en incorrigible and disorderly prostitute and prisoner was en inonrrigllle and disorderly prostitute sad drunkard, • perfect nuisance to society. Bad as she wAte wouldsave her if he could. He would keep her in i for six months, and the only way to do so was to order her to find one surety in the sum of 201. to be of good behaviosrr sod keep the peace for the next six months. No one would be ball, and she would be detained, in default of finding bail, for six months in the House of Detention, Clerkenwell, where she would receive spiritual instruction from the chaplain of the priers.