The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-13 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANIMON-HOUSE.
William Dumas was lewsglit cep before the Lord Mayer
sad Mr. Aldermaa Hsi Wittig in petty arioss), charged
with having unlawfully is hi promo& two roar
Detective officer Whitasy was in the Poultry on Tuesday
last when he saw the prisoner leave the shop of Mr.
Krosniski Wilhelm., the well-known tailor and shipper
in the Poultry, with a parer. He watched him, sad saw
him go into the Eaeopeae publrhouse, sad come out again
with two other parcels. He stopped the prisoner, and told
him he was an arse, and asked him what be had. The
prisoner said be had two costa which be had purchased
the day before in " The Lone," and which he left at the
Sampan rail he could take them. He took the
I primer to the station, and found the two parcels
which the r had brought from the public-house
each contain a rat, one of which the prisoner said he had
worn once or twice, sod the other he bad not worn at all.
The third parcel contained a pair of boots. Upon going to
Mr. Wilhelm.% Whitney asoertained that the premier was
employed there, and Mr. Wilhelm. iientifiad the costa as
his property, which the prisoner had so right to take away.
In arrow to the Lord Mayor,
Mr Wilhelm, said his stock was so extensive that it
would be impossible to miss even a large number of the
costs. Those found on the prisoner formed a portion of a
shipping order, which the prisoner was packing in ores.
It appeared, however' that the primmer bad on several
occasions previous to this occurrence Ist parcels with the
clerk at the European.
' Mr. Wilhelm& said be did not desire that the prisoner
should go to the Old Bailey, and the primmer having pleaded
and ezpressed woh to be dealt with summarily,
He was sentenced to six mouths' hard labour.
BOW -STREET. _

William Evans was brougbt np as remand ebarged with
obtaining a cost and pair of trousers by false pretends,
and by means of a forged I 0 11, purporting to be signed by
hi brother, a clerk la the Transport Department, Somerset-
bonne.

At the last examination Mr. Merrifield, the prosecutor,
had expressed a desire to withdraw from the prosemation,
saying that he thought the pi-wooer had already suffered
awash by his imprisonment, and by the injury to his pros-
pects from hie cxidnet being known. He also thought, from
inquiries be bad made, that there were extenuating circa:n-
atant:me is the osea._

Mr. Vaughan said the residua of the prisoner was very
artful. He not only represented that be wee a clerk is
Somerset-house, but to strengthen that statement he took
the shorans to Scenerset-hones, and wrote the I 0 U at a
desk whisk be said belonged to him. at the same time show-
ing letters is the de*, and saying, "that is bow my le:ters
are addressed to non" The pneoaer's brother was much to
blame let not coming forward. He should adjourn the ewe
again in order to compel his attendance.
Mr. Wonther made an earnest appeal to the magistrate to
allow the nose to drop. The prisoner was respectably con-
nected, and his friends were willing to mud him abroad.
He hoped the magistrate would consider the total destrao-
Coo of his prospects io this country as a sufficient punish.
meet for what he had done.
A gestiernati, who was understood to be the primps?'
uncle, assured the magistrate that the prisms' would be im-
mediately sent ►broad if discharged. He suggested that
something might hare pared between the primmer and his
brother, which the farmer interpreted as aa authority to ass
his same.

Viiegbas said-11 the were no, the brother certainly
molls to come forward to clear the prisoner.
Ultimately. however, Mr. Vaughan oomented to take time
to ooesider whether be ooald properly listen to the appeal
which had beita mode to him, end with that view adjourned
the ma..

Co the prisoner being brought up, be asked it the pri-
soirees brother wu present.
Th. Constable, F 100—No, Bir ; he is not.
Mr. Vaughan—Why not!
The Constable-1 don't know, sir. I bars been to hie
lodgings.
Mr. Merrifield again urged Ilia desire to withdraw from
the prosecution, as the young man in bis opinion, had been
sufficiently punished already. He had been three weeks in
prison.
Mr. Vaughan—What has the prisoner's conduct, been
hitherto !
The Uncle—His chariot., has been without a stain. I
believe he bee been led into it by bad If his
brother were here he could state—

Mr. Woollier—Das% go into &hula
Mr. Vaughan—l had very grave doubts in my mind, bat I
have come to the coneramos that 1 may, coosisteatly with
my da.y, dieeharge the , and not commit him for
trial. It in acht a eau fa e( but of miademeanoar, aad
is caeca of misd!asesooar a magistrate has a much wider

dicortios than is (okay. I must say that my mind is much
istieweed by the fact that the primmer's friends hare under-
takea to rend him abroad, and also that be has uodermme
three weeks' imprisooment I hope that in a foreign
country the primmer will 000 duct himself with integrity for
the future, sod become a reepeelatde member of society.
The Prisoner—Before leaving the court I wish to my
that I never for one roomiest interacted to defraud Mr. Merri-
field.

CLERK EITWELL.

Josses C7iopping, sped 26, of U, Bardpetreet, &. Pesetas,
• dimmed setter. surreodend to hi rsoolura
below*
Mr. Barker on • clone of stealing, at 26, Lie/patriot,
Clerken well, two diamonds, the property of hi employers,
Mr. Thome William Eody. aod Co
Mr. Lewis attended for the prosecoto ; and Mr. Ricketts
for the defaces. _

—The prance *widens was to the effect, that the pri.
Boner had bees in his employ as a &mood setter, and
about ten days before he was apprehended he was given
some opals sod dianicada to moint, sad to week late
six rings. On the Saturday the pruner did not &Prod at
the manufactory, sad ia coueequeoem his work wee looked
over, and it was then discovered that earn of the die.
moods and atones were deficieot la aaargosnoe el that
the prisoner's work was removed, sad when he retuned to
resume his eo*, be expressed peat sande* that hi.
work bad been touched. His drawer, and the skin used
for the purpose of can:hist the assail memos of sold that
might drop, had been previously searobsd, and none of the
miming property was there then. When the prisoner en-
tered the shop. he was aeon to bike something from his
waistcoat pocket and put into the drawer. At the prow
cutoes request the prisoner's drawer was again looked over,
and then all the diamonds wen discovered with the ex-
c.tioa of two. The prisoner was the. charged with steal-
the two diaraoada, and after a litW hesitation be ad-
mitted having passed thanone at Attenboomah's, in
Fleet-street, rod the other at Harrisoes, is Wardoer-
street. As a valushle Mon had a short time before this
been mimed, the primmer, at the roped of the promoutor,
was reassaded, ma he was the party suspected of baying
stolen it.

Ricketts severely crow-exaniined the prosecutor, and
elicited from him the fact that the prisoner had been ia his
I employ for shoot ten months, that he had known him se •
diamond setter for scene time previously, and that was the
first time he had keens aaythiag against him. The pri.
boner bad sot been caning so mach money as he could, sad
had • lot of back work to make up—that was, work that he
had been paid for previously to &big it. The valuable
stone be suspected the primmer of stealing was dropped in
the workshop, and at that time there were other workmen
present beside the prisoner. He bad sines the remands
made inquiries about the stone, and did not now intend to
go on with the charge against the prisoner.
Police-constable Thomas Hardy, 412 A, mid be took the
prisooer into custody. and when the °lmage was road over
to him he admitted having pawned the dimmed,. Sines
the prisoner had been in custody he had searched his lode.
Mgt and had found some duplicates relating to rings of dif.
ferent descriptions.
In orcesexamination by Mr. Mast* the witness skated
that noes of the duplicates related to the prosecutor's pro.l
puty, and that when the prisoner was takes into custody
he said when the diamonds were pawned, and also gave
the names in which be had pawned them.
Mr. Ricketts mid if ever there was • ease of illegal
pawning coatemplated by the act of parliament, this was
one, and, alluding to a remark made by the magistrate,
that he should, in all probability, deal with the prisoner
for the felony, called attention to the fact, that although
the prisoner was originally charged with stealing the dm.
moods, yet Mr. D'Eyeewurt, who first beard the
bad remanded the moons, for the illegal rownietrit
make • (elegy of it, it most be shown that when the pri-
soner received the diamonds he intended to appropriate
them to his own use. Yet the facts were, that he had them
in his possession for some time, and when he was spoken to
about them he at once mid when he had pawned them.
He felt wiefident that when the magistrate had heard the
character of the prisoner from the numerous rite/saes he
should call before him, he would not send the prisoner to
the House of Correction without giving him the option of
paying a fine.
Several tradesmen who had known the primmer from his
birth gave him • high character for honesty, industry, and
soli:III:la:key said he should now deal with the was as one
of illegal pawning, and ordered him to pay a penalty of 5!.,
adll. 10s. the amount for which the thamoode were
pawned, or 'in default, two swath's imprisonment in the
How of Correction...

TM amount wesir id.
Patrick Good and Thomas Wart, two tenon, were charged
with the following brutal eamult on a cabman of the same
of Goodwin under the following circumstances :
The cabroao drove the two defendants from Piccadilly
to labortoe, aad when there they refused to pay him his
fare. The cabmaa, who is • cripple, his leg having been
broken in no less than four places, asked them for their ad-
dosser, when they struck him, and Ware kicked him in the
groin, and he had been is pain ell night. Had it ad bee
for the amistsoos rendered by Polierronstable Harvey,
410 N, the complainant stated that he should have beta
killed. Is addition to the ill.mege the defendants inflicted
on him, they tore his great coat, and, as be was only • poor
man, the lon to him—although the coat was only worth 11.
—was irreparable.
The defendants said they were drunk, and did not bow
what they were about.
Mr. Barker ordered Good to pay • be of 31., or fa dr
halt of payment, one month in the Hood of Correction ;
and Wan to pay • fine of lb., or in ad.% 21 days' hard
labour.
The defendant. were looked up in default.

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