The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-14 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Arnold Gerber, IVTlini;s Wagner, Philip Kessler, and
Solomon Krakaur, the Germans, charged with having been
concerned in uttering • forged cheque fur 3101. at the
London and Westminster Bank, were brought up for fur.
they examination. The justice room was crowded.
Mr. Roy, the solicitor for the London and Westminster
Bank, applied to the Lord Mayor to allow the cue to stand
over for a week, there being other witnesses whom the police
considered it necessary to bring forward, and whom they
expected to be able to produce at that time.
Mr. Ballantine, for Kessler, said he had no objection to
the remand, and expressed his persuasion that he would be
able to show to the satisfaction of the bench that his client
was not at all concerned in the transaction.
A solicitor who appeared fur Krakaur submitted that
nothing hail been proved against him except the mere fact
of having been seen in the company of one of the other
persons charged.
The Lord Mayor desired that Bailecek, one of the police.
men who hail watched some of the prisoners, should state
what he hail to say about the other evidence which it might
be necessary to bring forward.
Badeock said, upon being sworn, " I believe, from the
information I have received, that I shall he able in a week
to produce evidence to connect the whole of the prisoners
with the transaction of uttering the cheque."
Mr. Lewis, who attended as solicitor for Wagner, said
there was no case against his client ; the only matter cal-
culated to excite the least suspicion being the very %ague
and uncertain evidence of the female attendant at the eof-
inolsoise in the Strand, who, be could show by cross exa-
mination, had made a mistake. lie could show that Wag-
ner MI not written the paper which she had said she saw
the parson she waited upon in the coffee-house write, end
end we identity of Wagner was by no means established.
Om& Dunk, the waitress who gave evidence on the last
Ommination, was then called, and her testimony upon that
ss baring been read over,
Xi. Lewis proceeded to cross-examine her, I.ut she did
Mat vary in any respect from her previous assertion,.
Dpon her re-examination by NI r. Itoy, she said she dill
not see Wagner write, but she received from him the piece
Omer with writing upon it.
Mr. Lewis said he could show that the paper alluded to
did not contain the handwriting of Wagner.
Mr. Roy—There is no doubt of that. My ease is, that
he did not write on the paper; that he had the paper he
banded to the young woman prepared for his use.
The Lord Mayor—l see no reason why I should not
remand Wagner, as well as the other prisoners.
Gerber said he had no counsel or solicitor to defend him.
He considered that he was very cruelly dealt with, and he
pressed the Lord Mayor to discharge him. He bad, he said,
gone to the London and Westminster Bank by the direction
of Mr. Sims, who had left the written paper for him at the
esiam-bouse. He hail been apprehended on the day he
isoloonted the cheque, and taken to Marlborough-street
, when the magistrate had thought proper to
Ms saw having heard precisely the same evi-
Vill.
wen witieh the City authorities had detained him.
He be the ease was got up against him by the police,
and that if they had taken up another person whom they
knew they would probably have had the right person, but
riertainly the person next to him (Wagner) was not the w-
ink who in addressing him pretended to be Mr. Sims.
The Lord Mayor then remanded all the prisoners fur a
work.

June Aolan, who has been three weeks in custody upon
the charge of having robbed .s genticmau of bank note% to
the amount of 1801, was discharged. It had been ascer-
tained that the unfortunate prisoner knew nothing at all of
the robbery, which was in fact committed by a girl who had
been seen in her company, but had disappeared from Lon-
don altogether ever since the offence wee committed.