The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-09 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

W. d. Morehead was brought before Aldermen Bose, in
the custody of Michael Haydon, the detective officer,
charged with having forged a Dili of exchange for 8001.
upon the house of Smith, Payne, and Smith, the bankers
Mr. Mullen., of the firm of Bush and Mullen., the soli-
citors to the Committee of Bankers for protection again,t
forgeries and frauds, appeared for the prosecution. Mr.
Morgan, of the Arm of Humphreys and Co., for the prisoner.
Through the skill and activity of the detective officer,
almost the whole of the money obtained for the bill,
'moulting to 6001., in consequence of the mistake of the
clerk to whom the bill was presented, was recovered.
Mr. G. Millington, clerk in the house of Smith, Payne,
and Smith, said—Mr. R. F. Davis keeps an amount with
us. Oa Saturday, the 27th January, this bill of exchange
was presented to me for payment. It is dated London,
24th of October, 1964, and purports to be drawn by James
Mowbray apes Mr. Davis, for 3001., payable three months
after date. I paid it by mutate with a 6001. bank-note,
dated 13th January, 18H, and numbered 32,693. I have
since learned that the bill is a forgery.
Mr. H. H. Smith, clerk In the hens department of the
Bank of England, said on Saturday, the 27th of January,
is the afternoon, this 6001. note was brought to me to be
domed. I gave to the person who presented it 2001. in
yid mad • ticket for 3004 in notes.
Michael Haydon said—l took the prisoner into custody
Wy
afterams. I told him that I was • constable,
ha was charged with forging and uttering, at
Kieme. Smith, Payne, and Smith's banking-house, on the
27th of last month, a bill of ezchaag• for 3001.,_purporting
to he accepted by his late seater Mr. Davi.. He made no
reply. I said to him .• I have seen this morning the young
lady you took to the Adelphi Theatre last evening, and she
has given me 113 sovereigns, which she said „you left with
her on the 27th of last month, and the dianffind ring and
two bald rings which she said you bought for her on the
ennui( of toat day, at a jeweller's in Regent-street, and
paid for with two 61. seas, which notes I have traced to
you." I added. " Tossing ens eider yourself in my custody,
and I neat grossed to week these offices, to find it possible
the lewigiallan et the warp lb said, There is nothing
hen." I then seid,' I neat also search your mother's house,
unless you say when the property is." He subsequently
told me where the money was, sad gave me an order to
obtain It, and I received from • lady thirty seven 61.
totes and nine 101. notes. From information which
I had received I believe the notes are part of
those given at the Bank of England in ea•
change for the 6001. note. Oa the way to
the station-house be said, "There's no use in denying this.
I shall tell you all about it. I went on Saturday week to
Smith, Payne, and Smith's, and presented the bill, and the
air* I suppose by mistake, gave me a bank one for 6001.
Hies want over to the Bank of England with the note,
which I did not discover to be ens for 5001. till I presented
it. I thought of taking the 2001. bath to Smith, Payne,
as/MkL'e, Mt did net. I received 200 soverergns, and
the not be Of. mad 101. wens. I bought the diamond ring
end *email ehm the 'me evening and after that I went
VD the Women. Re then told mesa would give me every
mfane he possibly scald apes the subject, and he haa
dose ow
The gehoner was remanded dm a week, at the conclusion
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Ost Eli Mt ti(Jasmary I giver bins 181110 r. olakikidt•
Prhissii fits IM wet the Loin Mat Steak
drown Ily tae In the asses of the Ern. It was his
to copy Ole letter, and then enclose the cheque, and
the letter to the areas of J. Billiegton, medullae,
luster. I learned that the letter elver reenhed
that destination, bat that the cheque bad been sashed IP
the banker's. The prisoner told ma voluntarily, whirl I
spoke to him on the subject, that he had got the chew*
ehanged, and had gives three di. notes to his mother; that he
had dropped the letter, and It got dirty, and then he thought
he would keep It.
One of the 61. notes was traced to the possession of the
prisoner's mother.
The Fomenter said the friends of the prisoner had ex-
pressed their willingness to pay the amount of the tempi
upon condition that the prosecution should be given up.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
The Lord Mayor requested that the prees would ae.
knowledge his receipt of the second halt of a 51. *let
from a Port Phillppian, the second half of the 101. note foam
Mr. B. H., and ss. from B.P. for the poor-box.
BOW-STREET.
The sixth examination of Chat iss King, the plain-elotbee
constable, was prueeded with, in a crowded court, bake,
Mr. Hall.
Letters in reference to this case unties, to be received I
hem all parts of the country, and disclosures are constantly
'mad • which, if reliable, tend to implicate other officers of
the metropolitan police in practices more or loss repre-
hensible. One of the most important results of the pendleg
inquiry is the entire abolition of the "plain clothes"
system. Hitherto certain constables of each division of
.polies have been permitted, almost at discretion, to go ea
linty in private clothes, and there MD be ao doubt that the
practice has operated advantageously In crowds where pick-
pockets assemble, and are thereby kept In ignorance of the
r"
nu of an officer, although, on the other hand, the
uniform" 'told in almost as many instances, probably,
set as a p ties to the commission of felony. At any rate
the extent to which the leave has been abused by King and
ether constables has induced the commissionen of Scotland-
yard to issue au order to all the superintendents of the me•
Impolite& police, expressly forbidding them to allow
may of their men to assume the private The
under any
circumstances whatever while on duty. The " detective
hue" will remain in operation as heretofore ; but
the personal attention of the commissioners will be directed
Is the appointment and regulation of the men, in order that
sone but Alters of established character shall be admitted
Into the forte.
Mr. Bodkin, who attended (with Mr. Humphreys and
Oirptisix Williams) for the prosecution, stated that he pro-
posed to eorroberate the evidence of the park-keeper Sims,
ealative to the discovery of a purse in a tree in Hyde-park
Immediately after Kiog and his associate, according to the
evidence of the boy Reeves, had left it. This would be
llene for the purpose of showing that Sims bad spoken the
truth, and saving him from the possible imputation that he
had made up the story since these proceedings had been
eemmenced. He should than, by additional evidence, con-
firm the relation ezistiog between King and Reeve, by
showing that they had been seen together very often in the
Zoological-perdue. And finally he proposed to enter upon
a totally distinct charge of felony against King himself. He
should then ask for another remand, when other cues
would no doubt be also established.
Sergeant Denning, 38 A division, deposed that he was in
Hyde-park during the frost of 1853, and remembered being
told by the park-keeper that he saw a man and three boys
go to a tree, and that afterwards he went to the same spot
himself, and found an empty porte-monnaie concealed in •
hole in the trunk of the tree. He did not know the park-
keeper's name at the time, but recently, in consequence of
what has transpired, witness went with Sergeant Jackson
into the Park, with the view of seeing if the same
man was there. They found him, and witness reminded
him of the conversation about the purse which took place
about a year ago. The park-keeper (Sims) at once recol-
lected it, and said, " I have got the purse now." Witness
and Sergeant Jackson then went to Sims's house, and he
showed them the porte-monnaie which has been produced in
court.

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Sergeant Jackson corroborated this evidence.
Mrs. Greening, who stated that her husband kept the
Feathers public-house, in King's-street, Holborn, was next
examined, with a view to prove King's presence at the
thieves' ralle,aientioned on a former occasion, but gave her
evidence in a very unsatisfactory manner.
James Abraham, a constable, proved that he had seen
King repeatedly at the Zoological Gardens with boys, par-
ticularly with lteeve.
The prisoner—l was merely amusing myself with the
monkeys, like other people.
Mr. Bodkin said, it was probable that he should adduce
further corroborative evidence at the next examination,
however, if he did not, he should ask for a committal upon
this charge with respect to Reeve and the purse. Inquiries
were still pending respecting King's share in other robberies
in Ox'ord-street, Berkeley-square, &0., but he would now
proceed with a charge of felony, of a different kind, wholly ,
independent of the boys ; merely premising that owing to ,
the absence of the officials from town he should have to
examine the principal witness (a man named O'Shea) on
a future occasion.
Inspector Park, of the C division, proved that a man
named O'Shea was charged, in October last, with stealing
a-quantity of jewellery, coostiting of gold pins, rings, &c.
He was afterwards committed, and was now undergoing
imprisonment. King had the prisoner in custody.
George Fisher, of Queen-street, Soho, deposed that O'Shea
lodged in his house at the time of his apprehension. The
prisoner was taken into custody by King, who afterwards
returned to O'Sbea's lodgings, in company with two men,
and took poeeessiea of his wearing apparel and other pro-
perty.
Juhn Vanini, en interpreter, 34, Charles-street, Middle-
sex hospital, stated that he knew O'Shea, who was in wit-
ness's debt when apprehended. He was with King at
O'Shea's lodgings afterwards, and King gave him (wit-
nese) a coat, which had been since, however, returned to
O'Shea. The rest of the things, including two gold rings,
were taken by King to his house, at 66, King-street, Soho.
The carpet bag now produced was the same as that
which was taken from O'Shea's room, full of wearing
apparel.
Inspector Mackenzie deposed to having found the bag,
which still contained shirts, waistcoats, trousers, sonars,
books, dental instruments, &e., at King's house.
Sergeant Langley stated that he took King into custody
on the 3rd of January. King asked him what fort but
witness replied "I do not know. I am directed to take
you to Scotland-yard." The same day witness found four
pawnbroker's duplicates upon him, and on the following
Monday, the Bth, he searched King's house, 56, King-
I street, sad found 15 other duplicates in a taaceddy in a
back room. Inquiries were still going on respecting the
property to which these duplicates related. On the 4th of
t January, while witness was bringing King over from the
• police station to the court (after the charges against him had
- been read to him), he attempted to escape from custody, and
• succeeded in getting away nearly half a mile, but he was
overtaken with the assistance of two constables.
At this stage of the proceedings the prisoner was again re-
manded for a week.
LAMBETH.

Sarah Ellis and Elisabeth Ellis, respectable looking
females, and Robert Cason Bilis, the son of the first-named,
were charged with robbing Mr. John Funned of 301.
The prooecutor, an importer of horses, said that on the
25th of last month he arrived in town from Newark, and
calltd to visit the prisoners, whom he had known for nine
months, at their iesidence, 11, Newton-temee, Kenning-
ton-green. Stopping late, and having had Nome brandy and
water to drink with the prisoners, he lay on the carpet and
went to sleep, and did not awake for some time. On the
following day he west to the banking house of Messrs.
Rogers and Co. to pay in some money, and they discovered
that 301. in notes was stolen from a roll he had had In his
pocket. He did not charge the prisoners with the robbery
at that time, as he could not prove that they had robbed
him, and he allowed it to pass over. Since then two of the
stolen notes, and which be had stopped at the time, had
been paid into the Bank.
Rowland Digby, sbopmen to Mr. Mitchell, a grocer in
Blaekman-street, deposed that on Saturday week the pri-
soner Sarah Bilis and her son came to his master's shop and
tendered a 5L note in payment for some groceries she had pur-
chased, and gave her name Mrs. Jardine, sad her address
16, Mount-street, New Kent-road. He (witness) offered to
send the articles home, but the prisoners declined his offer.
The prosecutor said that the note in question was one of
the notes he had been robbed of.
Police constable 110 M said he accompanied the witness
Digby to the house of the prisoners, and he atonal identified
Sarah Ellis and her son as the persons who had passed the
51. note at his master's. He took them into custody, and
also the other prisoner, who the prosecutor stated was pre-
sent when his money was stolen. This witness produced a
brown sugar bag, which he found at the prisoners', and
which Digby swore to as the one supplied by him with 61be.
of brown sugar.
The prisoners, all of whom solemnly denied the charge,
were remanded for the attendance of the Bank clerk and
other witnesses.
THAMES.
A cheque for 51. from R.C., for the poor box of the court,
was received yesterday by Mr. Ingham, with a request
that it should be acknowledged in the Daily News.

THE GREEN MAN AT BARNET.—A day or two
ago we quoted a paragraph under this heading from the
Herifaeshire Candy Press. In the same journal we now
find the following letter, which appears to call for insertion
in journals which quoted the original paragraph To
the editor of the County P►as.-Bir,—Having read a para-
graph in your paper of the 30th January, wherein it is
stated that the Green Man, Barnet, 'is now entirely
closed,' and that the horses, &c., of the late proprietor have
been sold by auction. I beg to inform you that, although
the furntture and farming stock, at., were so disposed of
by Messrs. Page and Cameron on the days specified, the
past horses, carriages, and everything appertaining to t►at
branch of the business, have been purchased by me, and
that the livery and posting business, as also the Market, is,
and will be tarried on as usual. I shall therefore feel much
obliged by your doing me the favour to contradict in your
nest impression that part of the paragraph which states
that the Green Man 'ie now entirely closed,' as it will
otherwise tend greatly to mislead the public, as well as do
me eerilus injury.—l am, air, youth obediently, Tiros.
Ganiutaris.—Barnet, Feb. 2."

The General Screw Compaey's ship Calcutta,
which has jest arrived from Australis, and has been taken
up by the government, bee been ordered to be victualled
for sin months.

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