The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-24 00:00:00

BOW-BTBEET.

Augustine Wet. Beauelerk Buller, was brought up on re-
mand, charged with obtaining 201. by fate preteaces.
The prosecutor, it will be recollected, deposited 201. with
the prisoner, as security, on his taking the service of clerk to
the prisoner, be repreeseting himself to be a clergyman and
secretary to the Calvary Mission. The prosecutor mid he bad
hese entirely deceived, and that as he could not get back his
201 he bad given the propose into custody.
Kr. Vaughan asked if there was any evidence to prove the
falsity of the prisoner's repremetations.
Police-sergeant Droscovioh, 36 A, said—l took the pd.
loner into custody at the 15tb, at the zanier of Vigo-street.
I told him who I was, and the nature of the charge. He
said, " Very well, I'll go with you, but I can't see that Mr.
Wharton has any cause to oomplaia." Since the last exami-
nation I made inquiries, and I tied there are several persons
whom he has victimised. . .

Mr. Vatighiin:Tiays you made any inquiries about his
busing a clergyman ?
Witness—l hays searched the " Clargy List," and I can-
not find such a Darns as Basnobirk Butler.

Mr. Vaughan—Could you Sod such a place as the Jeru-
salem Ileiversity or the °Livery Manion ?
Witnese—No, Mr, I could not. The circular I produce
relative to it was given to me by a gentleman Dow is court.
Primmer—That teas old one, of three years' date.
Mr. Vaughan— Did you fled out the madam of the
prisoner
Waimea—Yee, air ; No. 7, Sidgrave-Mweet South. I also
discovered that he had been hying at 5, Great College.
street, Westminster; Lad also at No. 90, Gloocester-street,
Queer-square, from which he west away 50i. in debt. I
base obtained the returns I our produce from the prisoner's
.• °Moe."

lie baton were here opened by Mr. Burnaby, the chief
clerk, sad read. One wee from a clarpmen of the church
of England to subscribe to the Jernm Mission, and the
others were principally from young men offering their ler.
vices as clerks and under morelanas.

Yr. Vaughaa—Do you Trish to ask tit* witsr soy quern.
time ?

iciiouer—No, sir • ea I east likely shall have bappear
elsewhere, I shall rearm my defence.
Edward Wiklair, clerk to Mr. Bereeford, of 2, Pomp-
court, Temple, said—Aboall the middle of July the primmer
fame and asked if we hod • room to let, as he wanted one
for the office of the Jerusalem' College. He told me be was
• clergyman of the church of ir
Primer—That I dialinetlyt7L I never mid such •
thing.
Withers contieued—He took pommeled= of the room a few
days after (about the 23rd July), aid the only immature it
couteitied was • table, the circulars, and some ink. Ea
name was painted up oe the 29th of July.
Inspectoe Mitchell, of the City police, here mid—The
witness Whartoa is a friend of mine, and I went wish him
to Mr. Lee's chambers, in Lincoln's-inn—the place sp•
pointed by the patn for the 'thymic& of the 201.—and
there I saw • geatlanan whom, however, now I don't be-
lieve to have bean Mr. Lee ; sad from Ma:meaner in which
the primmer acted ou that omission I was so entirely de-
ceived that I advised my friend to accept the situation.
which be did. The weeniest was then signed, and the
prisoner took the two 101. soles from out of my had and
gave them to the gentlemee present, and told him to place
them to the acoonat of the Jerusalem College.
Mr. Vaughan—That dose not carry the case aoy further,
and there:we it seed not be added to the dalmatian. Are
there any other mess ?
. . . .

The polies-sergeant said be bed a number of grins pre-
seat who had been deceived by the prisoner.
A. gentleman said he had litt the proposer s house as the
representation that he was secretary to the Bishop of Loa-
ders. After be had occupied it for some time he wont awn,
leaving the rent unpaid. Various intilliMoo at the time
supplied him with articles ori the belief that he was the per-
ms he bad said, but bad never bees paid for their goods.
Mr. Vaughan —This is • matter fora civil tribunal. Have
you anything else ?
A foreigner said be bad entrusted the prisoner with a
nudity of valuable ounce for disposal, oa his represent.
tag himself to be the secretary of Jerusalem College, bat
he bad
posed of.
Mr. Vaughan—That ales may stand aside as • debt.
The following additional charge wan echoed into :
Mr. Thomas William, of Church-row, Bloke Newington,
said—l am a seaag-mg clerk to Messrs. Wright and Bolder,
15, Loodoactreet, Fesehurch.nreet. In 1854 the primmer
wee engaged sa ea office-boy by ow tirm, at • salary ot Be.
pit week. He remained there about four years. On the
Ist of March, 1861, I met him in the Temple, and be then
told me he was nadir secretary to the Bishop of London,
special mesasager to Outlinal Wiseman, and be then handed
me his card. He asked in to lend him W. 10a He told
me be bad married s lady of foetus*, the daughter of
Colonel Phillips. That Colonel Phillips was an attendant
on her Majesty at Backinhem Palace and Windsor Castle.
Prisoner—l am porter* astonished at your represents.
I Mona and your atteedamis here.
Witmer—No doubt you are. He further told me that
his wife had presented him with a living as Normanby in
Yorkshire ; that he frequently had to attend to hie duty
them and that he was thee looking out for a curate. I
, believed his roweesulatioce, end lest him Tattoos stuns
amounting in all to 15/.
Hr. Vaughn—Was it upon the,representatiow that be
made that you brat him the mosey .
Witness—Decidedly. I believed all he told me, and I felt
glad that such • fortunate change had Mien place in his
affairs. I wrote to him repeatedly for the money I had lent
him. but I only got 10s. bock.

Prieoner—l 'alien not oak any questions at pressat.
Sergeant Bromwich said—l ham made *aides at the
secretary's offioe of the Bishop of Lando's—lbsen. Broder
and Donnieg, Parlianseutcdreet—ami the primer is alto-
gether unknown them
This 'widows completed that ma.
Mr. Rompim, tailor, 11, Barringloacirmit, Pimlico,
mid, about May 30 the prisoner represented himself to be
• clergyman of the Church of Ragland—that he belonged to
the East-end division, and was one of the Bishop of Loa-
doses men. lie ordered • loom coat—the as. he is at pm
mat wearing—such • enema be could throw off sitar Mood-
lag to the poor people in the alleys sad courts. reapplied
him with the coat mainly on the supposition that the re-
presentations made by the prisoner were tram I have never
been paid for the artscle.
Vaughth—That will make out three came against the
r= . Have you anything to my befere I ommit you
on these charges ?
Femme—No, air; I rearm my defence. I shall be
able eatisfeetorily to prom the inaccuracy of the charges
against me at my trial, and until that time I shall say
nothing.
Mr. Vaughan—Before I close the me I may as well
inform you that lettere have been received from Mem.
Foster, of Oxford, asking for certain informatics relative to
you, and the handwriting of the letters ordering the artiolas
teMtiy Idtb 7011211, and infiaa to that
effect will be orwarded to them.
The primmer was then fully committed to take his trial on
three changes.

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A man of short stator, about 40 years of agap having
tbo appearance of a Jaw, and giving the taros sod address
of Jabs Do Costa,l, Storroy-Isaii, Gravid-lam Hoandeditch,
traveller, wu brought up at a warrant chargod witb
ua-
lawfully eolarpirieg with others not le austody to &fraud
Mrs. nom Herbert.

The prosecutrix, a poor widow, who has recently alerted
a little shop for the sale of stationery and other article, at
No. 3, Jameeetreet, Buck inghamgate, said that on the
19th August • man came into her shop, and repremsthig him-
self to be • messwagm employed at some offices, bought a pm-
ail, and mid that be should like some °arsenal" don pencils,
end if she got some be could be • good customer to Is
too minutes afterwards a mooed man came in, and stating
Meow to be • traveller, salted her if she welted to porch's,
any goals. She said she had just hadqereon inquiring
for some dot mirpeelere sod t throe doses of
him, for which like him s. H. said his same
was Melton, the same as that engraved on the

pencih, and asked if she would put up one of their bffls In
her wiadow, and on her expressing her acquiescence be pro-
mised to bring one with him in • shod time. In five or tee
minutes sfterwards the first man came in, and finding
that she had gee some flat earpeaters' pencils purchased
half-a-dezen •,f her, at the same tints producing a large
order on paper for other pencils of different kinds. He
said he was going home to his dinner, but if she got them
for him by the time he came beck it would be of great ser-
vice to him. He Wt. and had not been gone many minutes
when the prisoner and soother man came into the shop with
a showbill, and she told them that she had got an order for
some pencils, and showed it to them. They then produced the
poodle which she required, and she bought them, paying
4/. Be. for them ; the prisoner and his companion at the
same time informed her that if she could not get rid of
them to the pence, who bad given her the order they
should he happy to exchange them for anything else
they had, and gave the name and address as Middleton,
19, Woodatreet, and then went away. The first man (mes-
senger) never came again for the pencils, and in three or
four days afterwards she went to Wood-street, with a view
to exchanging them, when she found no person of the name
lived there. She heard or saw anything of the prisooer
ar his companions until that day at 2 o'clock, when as she
sat at her window she saw the prisoner sad the same man
who bad received her money coming down Castle-lane. She
immediately rushed into the street, but the two men sepa-
rated and went in opposite directions, but she, however,
caught the prisoner sod held him till a constable mime up,
when she gave him into custody.
Mr. Arnold inquired whether she had ascertained the
quality of the pencil.
The prceecutrix said, finding Wood-street was not the ad-
dram her suspicions were excited, and she took the pencils
to a large manufacturer's in Chatfield& and showed them the
They informed her that they were almost worth.
East the mated not worth more than 1(h. or 18s. The
points, al:, for which she had given 11. 45., were
perfectly valueless.
Prisoner said he wished to put a question to the prceecn-
Mix—was he the man who sold her the pencils'
Prosecutrix replied that he and the other man sold her
the perils, acid he gave • receipt for the money.
Pobaroonstable 192 13 said he found prosecntrix holding
the prisoner, and took him into custody. On searching him
he found • great number of pencils, DOW produced, and
printed bills.
Prosematrix, on being shows them, said the bide and pen-
cils exactly resembled those she had from the prisoner.
Mr. Arnold cut one of the showiest and beet-looking of
the pencils open, and it was found only to contain a small
portion of the dross of lead at either end, although by the
appearance one would have thought the lead passed right
through them.
Prisoner admitted be was precept at the transaction, but
said he was not the man who sold the pencils.
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A police from the;istireB;li the prisoner had
offered a friend of the piesecutrix's 2/. to let him go.
Mr. Arnold remanded him till Thursday.
Prisoner requested to be permitted to put in bail.
The magistrate consented if he found two sureties in 501.
gash for his reappearance, with 24 hours' notice.

6017THWARK.
William Regan, well knee to the polin, was charged
with stealing • watch from the peon of Maris Symms,
near the railway terminus, London•bridge.
The prosecutor, • hairdresser, carrying on business ►t 376,
Orfordetreet, said that between 6 and 7 o'clock in the
evening he had been to Bermondsey OD business, ad as he
got to the top of Dakeetreet a mob collected round two
men fighting. He waited to noes the road, when be wee
soon surrounded by several rough looking men,aod felt a tug
at his watch. Oa looking down he saw his chain hanging
very loosely, sad the watch wee gone. The prisoner h•d
also rushed ►way, but • few minutes afterwards he saw him
in custody, and the watch was found near him.
Corroborative evidence was given, and the magistrate wee
about to deal with the prisoner summarily, but
Pomeroy,l3o M, informed him that he was au old ander,
hiving been several times previously convicted.
The magistrate accordingly remanded him until Monday
for the evidence of the previous conviction, when ha will be
committed for trial.