The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-29 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL.

Hannah Barrett, the young girl who was charged on
Tuesday with working an Illicit 11614 Ellen Isagle and
Eduard Beamish, alms Barrett, were brought up on re-
mand; the case having been adjourned to enable the Excise
officers to amertain whether the parties were connected. It
was now stated that Beamish would not show the officer
where he lived; a witness was caned who had lived with all
the parties in the same house in Eagle-court, and identified
them as being ono family, father, mother, and daughter.
The girl Barlett still persisted that they were not her pa-
rents, and had nothing to do with the matter.
Alderman Humphrey inquired of the Excise officer why
the solicitor to the Elmo had not taken up the ease ? It was
of far too great importuner) for him to direct a prosecution,
and he should remand the prisoners, in order that the soli-
' citor to the Excise should be in attendance.

Samuel Swan Jeff. appeared to answer a summons for
assaulting ltobert theorem.
Mr. 11.Ilantine, for the complainant, stated that Mr.
Sweet., was the promoter and managing director of the
Sceptre Assurance Company, of 27, New Bridge-street,
Blackfriare, and was in legal possession of the premises,
and, let the nature of his occupation be what it might, he
could not have been vio!ently turned out at a moment's
notice. Even if he bscl been N servant of the company,
whereas he was in reality a joint director, he had a right to
remain on the premises till he was removed by legal m. ant
and with legal notice. Some altercation had taken place
between Mr. Stcerea and the directors, and, being
determined to get rid of him, three of them,
named Wyman, and Jame*, gave an authority
to the defendant, a broker, wha took possession
on Saturday last, in one aci.se peaceably, but still he took
with him such a number of menu were calculated to cause
a breach of the peace, and that was certainly not the proper
mode of taking possession. The effect of 10 or 11 men
coming into the premises was to cause_Mr.Steerea's wife to
fall into a fit, and she was now lying in imminent danger ,
Mr. Steens was absent, and on his return was ordered out
by Jeffs, at that time temperately, and he Left. Mr. S:eercs
was about to go out of town on business, and wishing to see
his wife, who was ill, asked permission, and on going into
her room he founds letter which rendered his leaving town
unnecessary, be said he should remain. The defendant
said " It was • trick to enable him to get in again ;" and
Mr. Steam said, If ho was to be turned out, be had half
a dozen pistols in the house." There were, in het, no
pistols; but the defendant upon that called up his
men, seized Mr. Steens, and in a very violent
manner carried him downstairs and turned him
out of the house. This was the assault. Thie court was
not the place to enter on a question of title, but up to the
day of Mr. Stecres being tumid out by the directors, co
intimation had been given him of their wish to gut rid of
him, and it was only on Saturday that a notice was given to
him by the broker antic time of his entering into puss, ssion
of the premises.
Mr. Stet res was called, and gave an account of the affair,
the substance or which appeared in the Daily News of
Tuesday last.
Mr. Ilonyman, who appeared for the defendant, ad-
mitted that Mr. Steeres had been ejected, and said he was
prepared on behalf of the directors to go into the caw on
the part of the defendant if the magistrate thought he
could entertain such • dispute.
The directors maintained the house was theirs, and they
endeavoured to get possession of it.
A long discussion then ensued, in the cosine of which it
was asserted that the company was dissolved, but Mr.
Steem denied that there hail been any dissolution. Meet-
ings fur that purpose had been held on the 24th and 25th of
June, but the alleged dissolution wu illegal. Ile also
stated there were 25 or 27 shareholder', but they had sub-
scribed no money. The rent had been paid by a cheque
signed by him rand three other directors. The money at thy
bankers was derived from • contribution of 100/. by Mr.
Cos, 1001. by Mr. Wyman, 1001. by Dr. Wayne, 1001. by
Mr. Cole, and (Al. by Mr. Stutely. Ile had not been pal
any salary. About 150 Are policies bad been issued cover-
ing insurances to the amount of many thousand pounds, the
premiums on which had been received. These had, how-
ever, been transferred to the Monarch, which company had
guaranteed thepolicies, which, with the premiums, had been
handed over to them.

Mr. Honyman said he was glad this had been elicited, as
the directors were anxious that the public should unt ima-
gine that the scheme had stopped entirely, but should be
made aware that the policies were guaranteed by the
Monarch.
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Alderman llumpbery also expressed his gratification at
that fact being explained.
It was at length arranged that the defendant !should be
bound over in his own recognisances to appear at the
sessions. Mr. Steeres was also bound over to prosecute.
Mr. Jeffs then applied to have Mr. Stecres bound over to
keep the peace against him, in consequence of his threat
about the pistols.
Alter some discussion, it was ordered that both of them
should be bound over to keep the peace towards each
other.

It was stated at the close of the cue that every effort
would be made to bring the matter in dispute to an amicable
settlement, although in the coulee of the proceedings both
parties seemed determined to maintain what they conceived
to be their rights.

LAMBETH,

Soon after Mr. ElliorK;i7al;;;his seat on the bench, a
young man of respectable connexions, residing in Hercules-
buildings, Lambeth, and whose name was given in confi-
dence to our reporter, attended before his worship to expose
a nefarious system recently extensively adopted by parties
of questionable character to obtain money from the unwary
under pretence of placing them in good and lucrative situa-
tions at the gold diggings in Australia. Applicant stated
that a few days ago he saw an advertisement in one of the
Sunday papers, of extensive circulation, as follows:
" Australia.—A party required to go to Australia for •
Company. The appointment being of great trust and value,
he must possess some property. Direct to A. F., 98, Jer-
myn-street, stating amount of means." Having • little
money at his command, and feeling an inclination to pro-
ceed to Australia, he wrote to the party according to the
above address, and received the following answer, which
was printed, and, oa perusal, he had no doubt his worship
would come to tho same conclusion that he bad—that is,
that it was an attempt to obtain money from the unwary.
Applicant then handed in the answer, which we give in
extenso:

" 98, Jenstyn-street.
" 84,-1 have numerous answers to my advertisement,
and shall close with the first parties I may approve of; but
as there is no occasion for, and the value of my time will
not admit of, • lengthened correspondence, if you desire to
be one of the successful candidates you must come to the
point with as little delay as possible. In the meantime I
will give you the following particulate' and which are as
much as • perfect stranger can expect :—There will be
nothing to pay for the appointment, and a first-class passage
will be found you free. Your appointment will be rendered
permanent by myself in the following way. I sell some
thousands of acres of gold diggings in Australia to the
company in question (such land has been proved to contain
gold by a government surveyor) for 151. an acre only, whilst
the ed inferior land to the extent of many hundred
acres has realised 501. per acre. I passer another property
of much greater value, which I ahall also sell to the com-
pany, but in the terms of sale I shall stipulate for ap-
pointing qualified parties as superintendents of the
gold diggings and assayers of ore (the aasayers
will be qualified at my own expense). Now,
as a stranger, you could not expect me to give
you a valuable permanent appointment, " free of
charge," unless I derived some benefit ; and were you
so unreasonable, I should be the very last individual in the
world to act so much like an idiot. It happens that in
reference to various undertakings connected with other
property of mine, and of still greater value than that to
which I have already adverted (and which] property In
due course you will be furnished with particulars of), I
want as much money as I can raise, in hundreds and in
thousands on loan, on m own personal security, which
will be shown to be' good for a considerable amount. The
salary will be in proportion to the amount lent tome for six
months at 5 per cent. In due course, after the prelimin-
aim have been arranged, it will be proved through parties
of well known high standing,' that the lands, le., will be
soldiby me to the company in question, and which le second
to none in respectability and prospecta of gnomon. It may
be nameary to add that I am not engaged in any business,
and that my position precludes my ever embarking in any.
I am, sir, yours obediently, A. F."
On the other side of the fly-sheet the following is written :
—" Preliminaries mast be first arranged, when (only) re-
ference will he given to an eminent firm solicitors to the
company, and to a London Joint Stock Beak."
Applicant stated that the letter was posted in King Wil-
liamoitreet, City, although the advertiser's address was 98,
Jermytestreet. That induced him to go to the latter place,
to look what sort of an office the party had, when he sheer-
tained it to be a district poe es. He inquired after
"A. F.," and was told that he was unknown to the shop-
keeper, and merely had his letters addressed there. Ap-
plicant inquired whether many letters had been received by
him, and he stated in reply several hundreds. lie was so
perfectly satisfied, from reading the circular which he re-
ceived in a printed form, that it came from some of those
parties who are continually duping the public, that he con-
sidered he should not be doing his duty if he did not attend
at a public police court, for the purpose of having publicity
given to the system in the public papers, which would be
the only means of putting an end to the villanelle wham*
' intended no doubt to rob the unwary in this great me-
tropolis.
Mr. Elliot, after perusing the extraordinary document,
said it appeared to him to be one likely to mislead the pub-
lic, especially when so many are eager to proceed to Aus-
tralia. The chief object is to get money, and give no sato-
, faction to his dupes.
Applicant thanked the magistrate for his attention, and
hoped the press would take notice of the circular. lie then
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