The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-14 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MANSION-SOUSE.

Three respsetably•locZnlstylleitly-drenssd lads named
George Jokorrone Meson, Wiest Brodskaw, end Charlet
Hooper, the first about then and the two latter about
seventeen years at sers, ware placed at the bar ea resuuxt
beton the Lord Mayor, charged wit► foloubrogy fore's'
and uttering &cheque far 841. sa., with latent to defraud th•
Bank of London. _ _

Mr.llTilleas,thri solicitor to the Bankers' Protection
Society, prosecuted ; and Mr. Perry, from the office of Mr.
Buchanan, attended to watch the ow co behalf of the purl-
sonar Hooper.
The pnwer Mason, who was the youngest of the three
prisoners, being only jest tuned Mee% was
employed as •
clerk in the office of the City Building Investment Society,
of 29, Poultry, and the secretary, Mr. Josh. Byam, keeps
an =MUD& at the Bank of London on behalf of the company,
and cheques drawn for the office are signed by two of the damn
ton, and oountersigied by the secretary. Oa the 27th March
last &cheque forB4l. Ga. was promoted at the Beak ofl
purporting to be signed by Mr. Smith and Mr. Payne.4rso
the directors, and countereigned by Mr. Hyena. The cheque
was cashed by one of the cashiers, who gave three Bank of
England notes for 50/., 201., asd 101. respectively, and 41. 6ce
in ooh. Mr. Hyena said the '
~oaturo to the cheque
was not writlcs by him, nor by his authority, but
Mr. Smith and Payne declared that the signatures purport-
ing to be theirs were such good imitation, as almost to make
them doubt whether they were theirs or not, bat that they
lad so recollection of signing a cheque for that amount.
Mr. Mullane, however, asked them if they bad ever put
their erratum to • blank cheque, to which they both re-
plied they had never done so. The other two prisoners
were employed is the *Moe of Dr. Dow, and were oompa-
miens of the prisoner Mason.
The principal evidence against them was that of soother
of their companions, who was oleo an acirlen.ros in the
transaction, who gave his name George and des.
eribed himself as an actor and photographic artist
The prisoners were all three committed for trial.

George White, aged 36, whodeincribed himself as • brick-
maker, a rough, powerfully-bent fellow, and ElizabetA
Smith, who pee their addressee in the %comb, were
charged before Mr. Barker with being drank, annoyieg foot
pummels by begging, and further with making use of
obscene language, in Nortaszapon Park, Islington.
It appeared from the evidence of Police-countables
Flown, 424 A, and Brandt, 451 N, that on Sunday mooing se
persons were going to church the primmer' stopped
them, intimidated them, asked them for alms, end when
they were refused, made use of very bad language.
Several of the passers-by had to get into the road to
avoid the prisoners. Whoa the primmer. left Northamp-
toe Park they west into the Ball's Pond-road, when
the male prisoner seated himself on a door-step,
mad pretended to be very ill. When the police-
, oonstablee inked him what was the matter, he said
he was suffering from ape, and that he bad an attack twice
a mouth. The police wrested him up, sod said they would
take him to a surgeores, bat he bad only proceeded a few
yards when he mid he had nothing the matter with him,
sad that he should act go soy further. As the prisoners
made use of very diernstiag language, the constables took
them to the station, on the way to which they were very
violent. At the station they were also very violent, and
made use of filthy language.
The prisoners, in defence, mid they were doing nothing
when they were taken into custody. They never asked for
anything in their lives.
Police-constable Nansleidge, 145 N, said he had known
the prisoceis for some time as notorious and drunken
vagrants, who got their livelihood by cadging.
Mr. Barker sectioned the man to 14 days' hard Mom,
sad the woman to seven days' hard labour in the Home of
Correction.

THAMES.
Edward Doyk, • chimney sweeper, of Cable-street,
Whiter.bspel, warn brought Wore Mr. Woolrych, charged
with seesultang three police-oonstables in • very ferocious
roamer. _ _

On &twits/ *lit a poor woman, nomads of 70 years
of age, oemplaiwd to James Chapman, a poliewometable,
No. 80 H, that she bad been violently sammalted by the
primmer. The bled was then streaming dews her face,
and her nose was bleeding. The constable west into the
prisoner's dwelliog for the purpose of taking him into cus-
tody, when be immediately struck thepolimetam and tripped
him up. Chapman was soon on his feet again, and the
prisoner armed himself with a heavy bamboo cam
bound with braes at one end, mounted the top of
his kitchen, and belaboured the countable unmercifully with
the weapon about the shoulders until be fell off the roof of
the kitchen of to the paved yard below. Chapman at-
tempted to arrest him, but the ruffian made a determined
resistance, and two_ other constables named Adam
40 H, and Carletde, 79 H, came to the assistance of
Chapman, and both were severely maltreated by the pri-
soner, who wielded the bamboo cane with a murderous
effect on the arms, hands, and shoulders of the three police.
men, who were half an hour in getting him to the station
house. He kicked Chapman and Carr repeatedly, and they
were both seriously injured. Carleton received a blow no
the right hand, which disabled it, and be also received many
blows on the shoulders. The prisoner ma fined this day
fortnight for a violent smolt, and was represented as one of
the most dangerous ruffians of the district.
Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner was an exceedingly violent
and dangerous fellow, and sentenced him to two months'
imprisonment and hard khan,.

THE MURDER IN ST. GILES'S.