The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-18 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

YANSION•BOIJSL

r=ll6 Prankfin end Morris Nod Imre, brought up on
before the Lord Mayor and Mr. .iirman Bosley,
sitting
AM petty sessieen charged with stealing a quantity of
boots, the property of their employer, tdr. W.
Plateau, wholesale boot sad shoe manufacturer.
Yr. Beern, of 25, Poultry appeared for the roma.
ties, and Mr. Sydney attended on behalf of the prisoner
Franklin.
The prisoners, it appeared, had been plundering the pro-
secutor for a considerable time, and since the last examina-
tion good' to the amount of about 401. bad been treed es
having been pawned at various tames by them.
The prisoners pleaded guilty, and expressed a wish to be
dealt with summarily. Mr. Benham, upon the part of the
prosecution, was quite wiling that that oouree should be g;
taken, but the Lord Mayor mid that seeing the depredations
extended over so long a period, the offence was one of too a
serious a character to be dealt with summarily. The m
greatest amount of punishment he and his brother msgi-
strata could inflict was six months' imprisonment, and he 10
was of opinion that the ends of justice would not be met rt•
by so light a punishment. The case must, therefore, go 8.•
before • jury. ■
The prisoners were committed for trial. 10
Mr. Stephen Clark, butcher, of 67, High-street, Ald- 10
gate, appeared before the Lord Mayor in answer to a 00
summons taken out by William Wyld, one of the unitary
inspectors under the commissioners of sewers, charging oti
him with having exposed for sale certain meat which was IC
unfit for human f
The meat consisted of thirteen pieces of mutton, which to
were seized by Inspector Wyld as Monday last, aid were 110.
condemned by the Lord Mayor.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge, but said that N.
he was not aware that the meat wee bad until his attention go
was called to it by the inspector.
Inspector Wyld said the mast was from animals that had N.
died from disease and had not been slaughtered ; and he N.
added that he had never bad say trouble with the derma-
dant, and he had given all the maid' awe in his power. N.
The Lord Mayor said the defendant bad been put to some N.
inconvenience by being brought before him, and he had loot It,
thwczeparty which WY condemned, and the ends of justice St.
lily be met if he inflicted • small fine. He then
cederof7hobadefendant to pay • fine el 10s. and the cast of ",
the snearnone, making 122. in all. ISt
In reference to a statement which appeared in our journal m
of yesterday relative to a report in the Tires of Wednesday es
of ea application by Captain Lean, the Lord Mayor, in the N.
ammo of the badness yesterday, mid he had noticed that ~.10
in one or two of the morning papers it was stated that he 7,;.
bed bed no interview with Captain Lean upon the subject ;
he begged to my that he had had a communication with 60
that gentherea.
Oar reporter regrets that bin lordship should have had too
oematen to allude to the matter ; but at the same time ad- 10
hens to his statement that no public application was made it.
la the justice room. el.
HOW-STREE'T. ts.
Mary denier, slime Gibson, a well-dressed woman of la
about 30, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hall, clanged 16
with bring cowered with others in forging and uttering a
10.
cheque for on the beak of Messrs. Coutte and Co.,
fkrand. 10
Mr. Manses, solicitor to the Bankers' Association, prose- go
anted, and Mr. Lewis, junior, appeared for the prisoner. Mg
Mr. Z. W. Stanley examined—l am one of the oashien K.
at the beak of Messrs. Coutte and Co., Strand. Mr. E. R. La
Butler, of Paroled's-inn, Holborn, keeps =amount whit
us. On the 4th of December last a cheque for 4454, par. ot
porting to be signed by Mr. Butler, was presented at the se,
bank by a female. Not suspecting her, or the cheque, I St.
the amount scrim, the counter—the sum of M. in N.
banknotes, and the amender in gold. The notes included 1°
one of 501., dated 9th August, 1861.; one of 201., dated Bth
April, 1861; tea of 101. sack dated August, 1061; and a Si. ft
eon, dated August 3, 1861. The Si. note now produced is *t
the same as the latter. From circumstances which have
eines come to my kaosled. I bare reason to believe that 61
the cheque wee a foamy. The primmer at the bar is mot 11
the worm who presented the cheque. ea
ea.
Maurice Se we assistant to Masers. Knight and Co., of
217, Regent street, drapers, deposed that in December hat gm
the prisoner came to the shop and selected several articles N.
of drapery, amounting to 11. 3s. 10d.. in payment of whisk W.
the uted the Si. sate now produced. Witmer looked sk
or sate sad holinted to change it, in consequence of 2.
Inlimeissi thigh had hese received from the pohoe mitho•
Mrs thea bip of notes bad been eMidoed from re
Oseilas ea • higpil own He inquired if she had not
cash he the eatemt, mii she said "No." He then asked
hie te give her me and address, and she did so, witness
writing it down ou the huh ef the note as " Mary Aylmer, 11`
15, Darnley-toed, Graveled" In the meantime witness
• raise ion, to be seat for, after sentialning that
the grin MIS ems of those in question. et
PeileneenriaNii Tyler, 164 C, stated that he was called Se.
Me the asp of Mr. Knight, and found the pe.soaer there. st
She gave him the same name and 'chimes as those given to It
the NA whams.
Mind Maydoa, the city dicer, depend that he had St.og,
he enriged eines December last in the endeavour to trace St.
mint the persoaseoanected with this forgery. On being sent 5t
for to see the pillow be asked her if she bad given her Bt.
right name and address. After some hesitation, she re- 1,5„1-
pßsd that she had not. Witness then askedher if she N'".
would object to give her right name and address She in,
replied, " I refuse to give any addresser." 10
Mr. E. R. Batter, solicitor, of Funiival'sdnn, examined— se
I have kept an account with Coons and Co. for many years. 34
On hooking at the cheque produced, and also at the order I,t.
Gem a blank cheque-book, both purporting to have been
written by me, lam enabled to say that both the docu- gg,
mono are forgeries. I never signed either, and never at.
authorised anyone else to sign them. I knew a man named 1C
Gibson, a client of min* about a veer ago, and I have paid
him cheques several times, and once or twice sent lint St
.
cheques by poet. The cheque produced for 101., written on N.
plain paper, and not upon the usual foam. ems made out for
CP boon, I being out of blank cheques at that time. I in. et,
member, on the same day, writing an order for a chimes. St
book while Gibson was in the office, and ha may have seen
that order. St.
Crossexamined —I cannot be certain that the prisoner et
saw the order, of course. I have sent cheques to many m,
other persons besides Gibson, but I cannot say that any at.
other clients were iu the office when 1 wrote the order for
the chequebook. I remember Gibson being there, because Se.
I discovered I was out of firms when I was about to write t
the cheque for him. I know oohing of the prisoner. '
William Allen, a clerk in Couto'. bark, produced the et,
order for a cheque-book, which the last wither pro- 6
counted to be a forgery, and said it was presented on the St.
4th of December last. A book containing 45 blank cheques 10
was handed to the bearer of the order, and it was proved !!.
that the forged cheque in question was written upon one of 87,
these forms. et
Mrs. Mary Fergusson, of Keeton-road, the wife of a piano- at.
forte manufacturer, proved that the prisoner had been St.
lodging her house since September last, with a man It
named Gibson, who passed as her husband. They lived 10
there until the 9th instant, when the prisoner did sot re. a
turn home (having been apprehended on the present charge), go
and the next morning, the 10th, Mr. Gibson packed up all m
his things and left the house, and she had never seen him m
since. He left only a small trunk behind. Si
By Mr. Lewis- -They were always very upright and 12-
honourable while io my house, ante
owed nothing except the FL"
current rent, which was not yet due. 10
Ann Stephens, 11, Tabernacle coed, Finsburynquare, 11.013
deposed that in the beginning of January hat she was in BC
the service of Mr. Pitts, linendrepro, of 4, Queue's-build- Bt.
loge, Knightsbridge. About the first week in the month the
note produced (for 51.) was tendered by a young woman, N.
whom she believed to be the prisoner, in payment he goods et
purchased. Witness asked her to give her name, end wit- 16
neat wrote it on the beck, as it now appeared. (This note, 15
as well as the last, was proved to be one of those given in St
exchange for the forged cheque.) N.
By Mr. Lewis—Witness could only state her belief that 88,1'
it was the prisorer. She would cant swear it, as the woman og,
kept her face airily covered, as if suffering front face-ache.
Lawrence Fisher Shady, foreman to Mr. Coster, grocer end
post-office keeper, 42, Western-road, Hove, Brighton,
proved that be made out a post-office order for 71., on the r
Instructions of a person who gave the name of B. Tacks, in ;it
favour of • person named Mary White, of Highgrie reedy- le
hog from the payee the 101. note produced, on the back of e
which be wrote "B. Tooke." (This was proved to he soother Se
of the mites given in exchange for the forged cheque.)
Joseph Alfred Kelly, of the Highgate post-office, proved 10.
that be paid this order to a woman, whom he believed to be ;,7,
the prisoner. He selected the prisoner out of 30 women at os
the House of Detention. I I°
Qessinsminad—l scarcely
saw her face, owing to her 10
having worn a deep thick foill I judge more from her form 10
sod figure. se
Inspector Silver examined—l was on duty at the police an
elation, at Marlborough-mews, on the 9th hid., when the m
prisoner was brought in oo the present charge. I asked her is
what she was, and she at first declined to my. 1 told her *
she wee there on a very serious matter, having been found 16
in of • Si. note, proved to be one of several which 10
hot been obtained from Couttes bank by means of a forged 10
cheque. Noe then stated that the note was given to her by go
a gentleman in Oxford-street. I asked her, " Are you an un- m
fortunate girl, then She replied " Yes. I met the ee
gentlemen in Oxfordeitrest last night, rind went with him 10
into Hydnparit, sad when we returned to Oxford-street be
gave me the mote." I and, "What sort of a man was he?" "
ab. replied. " A tall dark man, and I was to meet him again Irg
in Oricied-stmet the mart night." 4
Mr. Muller now applied for a remand, stating that he N
bad much more evident, to offer ate future stage. le
Mr. Lewis, jmm , lived that there wee no grounds what- SO
ever for the prison.ea tine Aerie. There could ro
be but two hem el poriesentica airiest her, either that she N
forged this cheque, or that she uttered it. Now it was not m
prineeded for a rim& moment that she did either, but on d
the matrary, it was deem by the evidence of Mr. Stanley N
that 'be was not the women who presented the shops at 10