The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-17 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-ROME.
A respectably dimmed good-looking lad fifteen years of
w, named George Tilktt, was brought before the Lord
Nays on remand yesterday, charged with having forrged an
order for the payment of 6b& upon the London and Comity
Bank, and oleo with forging an order for the payment of U.
on the Ciutymltan
Mr. if H. , .the solicitor for the Bankers' Protection
Association, attended to prosecute, and Mr. Lewis, jun.,
a our behalf of the prisoner.
raralppeared from the evidence that the primmer was pre-
viously in the employment of • firm named George
Cobden and Co., of Staining-lane, but latterly he wee
in the service of Mr. Salter, of Abchurch-lime, and was
with him up to the 24th November last. Upon that day
an order, purporting to be signed by Geo. Cobden and Co.,
for the payment of 65/. 7s. eid., was presented at the
London and County Bank, with whom that firm kept an
amount, by a lad, and the cashier, having some suspicion as
to the genuineness of the signature, retired to compare it
with the book, and on his return the lad who presented it
was gone.

0; the some day an order for the payment of 5/., pur-
porting to be signed by Mr. W. Salter, wee presented at the
City Bank by • lad, and there also the cashier retired to
compare the signature, and on his return the lad was gone.
Neither of the c•ahiete could identify the prisoner u the
lad who presented the cheques, but at the same time they
knew his face. Mr. Salter, however, and • clerk front
Messrs Cobden and Co., both of whom knew the prisoner's
handwriting, said they had no doubt the chums were wnt•
ten by the prisoner, although the writing appeared a little
disguised. The signatures did not bear any resemblance
to the signatures of the 6rm they were to represent.
The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was committed
for trial Hie lordship, however, consented to take bad for
his appearance, viz., two sureties in 1001. each.

CLERKEN WELL.
Alfred Blackburn, a carmen, of Eagledometreet, Brixton,
and 27eosiae Cole, carman, of 28, Grafton-street, Kentish-
town, were charged, the former with Malin several bus
of mom and other articles of perfumery, the property of fie.
Cleaver, wholesale perfumer, of 32, Red Lion-street, Hol-
born, and the latter with receiving the same, well knowing
them to be stolen.
The prisoner Cole bee bees is the service of the com-
plainant for some years, and a short time since he was sue-
in consequence of the complainant receiving as
anonymous letter. That letter stated that the prisoners
were in the habit of riding together, and also that the pri-
soner Cole was in the habit of selling perfumery at Kentish-
town at less than cost price. The matter was placed in the
heads of Pollee-sergeant Robert Thomas, 13 8, and Polio,-
constable Thomas Rowland, 377 8, who watched the pri-
mmer Blackburn, and saw him leave his master's premises
with a bone and earl. They followed him as far as Kentish-
town, where be was Joined by the other prisoner, sod after
a long and apparently anxious conversation they separated,
Cole loin( through Kentish-town, sod the other going in a
directly opposite direction. The police followed them,
and after the lapse of about two hours they joined toge-
ther at Havendock-hill. Here they both got on the cart,
and the police followed them through Hampstead, High.
feta Holloway, and Islington, and several times suspected
own of soling dishonestly. When the prisoners got to
the tem el Penteaville they separated, mil stem Cole had