The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-14 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Basest DrinAuutter, a young man of respectable appear-
ance, was *barged with having feloniously attend a forged
101. Bank of England note.
William Jordan, • beer-shop keeper, in Little Pearl-
street, Spitalfields, stated that on the afternoon of Monday,
the 30th alt., the prisoner entered his house in the company
of another man, and ordered refreshinnts, in payment for
which he tendered him • 101. note, and witness banded him
the change, alter deducting 14d., the amount of his reckon-
ing. The prisoner then left the house. On the evening of
Thursday last he elated him again, with a well-dressed
man, but not the same who had accompanied hint on the
previous occasion, and called fora pint of ale, after par.
taking of which his companion handed him in yap
ment the 51. note now produced, which witness also
changed without hesitation. Oaths following atomic g witneu
obtained change for the 101. note, which be had kept in his
possession sine, the evening he had received :t, from a trades-
man in the neighbourhood, and at the same time directed'
his wife to get change for the Si. note at • banking house
in Shorediteb, but she returned in a short time with an
intimation that the nets had been detained, as it wee sus-
pected to be a forgery. On Saturday morning the 51. note
was returned to him from the Back of England, &tamped
as " forged," and shortly nfterwards the shopkeeper who
had changed the 101. note, came to his house, accompanied
by a detective °Meer, and told hint that he had ascertained
it to be a forgery. Witness inseted them into • private
room, where they were engaged in 41111e7ilti011 upon the
subject, when he nosived a hasty communication from his
brother that one of the parties who had uttered the notes
had jut entered the house ; and on battening out, be
found the prisoner sitting in front of the bar, end at once
gave him Into custody.
On being erose-examined by Mr. Pelham, who appeared
for the defence, the prosecutor said that at the time he I:ad
uttered the 10!. note the prisoner fonisked him with his
name and address, and informed him that his father was
the landlord of a publio-heuse in the Whitechapel-read,
which he found to be a correct st,ument.
After some farther corroborative evidence,
Mr. Pelham said that he expected on • future occasion to
be in a condition to exonerate the prisoner, whose ma-
ne:tone were of the highest respectability, from any guilty
knowledge in the transaction, end he trusted that the
magistrate would accept sureties for his appearance, which
he would be able to produce to any amount.
Mr. D'Hynoourt said that be did not feel himself justified
under the eireumstenees in taking bail for the prisoner, and
should order him to be remanded tor a week.
MARLBORO UG H-STRE ET.
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Charlie Cooper Ckredie, a smart-looking young mon, in
the of the 2cd Dragoon., was brought loom
D the custody of Palice.sergeant Lacks and
Owe Were Mr. Bingham, charged with embszelicg
=2001., the property of lis late employers, Memo.
and Co., woollen-drapers, No. 114, St. Martin's
Mao.
Mr. Russell said the prisoner was in the employ of the
enn as commercial traveller up to the 19th of July, on
which day he was discharged. After the ;almoner had left
ne of the accounts Will made, when it was emer-
ging** prisoner bad remised at various times of
Mac of 1M onstuncers sums of money amounting to about
1701. Oae eon of embezzlement Wee cmplefe.
Pittock, of lower street, Deal, said on the 9.h of
Musk lut he paid the prisoner a cheque fur 111 95. 6d. en
aixeuntof Messrs. Remelt end Co., and took a receipt for it
Mt. &NWI proved that the prittiger bad not secctinkd
for the uses,.
Resmaded till Monday nes'.
THAMES.

Joseph Smith, a spare nll7ti,/ssYetsra of age, dwalliog lo
Charch.road, Commercial-road, Stepney, was chapel tie
usaaltine John Chaplin, a police.oonstablc, No. 438 Y.
It situated from the evidence of the constable, supported
by another policemen, named James Simmons, No. 84 LI
that they wars convening together on a narrow footpath Is
Chunk-road, about an utterance that had happened on tb•
former's boat, when the prisoner ease up with a can of beer
in his hand. The back of VII complainant Chas Hu was
towards the pries nor, who de:,los rattly pushed him iuto the
road,;and spat In his taco. Chapli:. asked him what he meant
by salit andut, on which the pries.fter Arnek him with his
Sit, Doh policemen then attempted co tar the prisoner
Lem lantaly, and he threw himself down, and plunged and
Maid Violently before he was secured.
The r, who was acenewhat excited about the mat-
ter, be was the aggrieved party. He was returning
to his hale, in Church-row, shortly befete ten
Velma with sows boa for his upper, what ha onortan:NVB.