The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-27 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

William Pottage we. the her, on remand,
charged with forging nod uttering a bill of exchange for G 71.,
with intent to defmnd Mr. Welfare, of the firm of Pom-
mel' and Welfare, Oaklepeerest, Lambeth.
The bill purported to bie accepted by Mr. William Bew,
of 62, Aldermanbiery.marchwit, and to be (adored by Mr.
F. Wooten, of the *marital, Holb", sad by Mr. Winton,
of Newington-camewsy, pa uhaodelior manufacturer.
Mr. Lewis Welfare mid he resided at 72, Oakley-rtreot,
ad diaocuated the bill of exchange produced for the pri-
weer in the early part of Jaly. H. mold list state the
sari amount advanced, bat be thought it would be about
641. 3e. Sd.

Mr. Hesry—What conversation had you about the bill?
Witness—When the bill was brought to me with merely
the name of Mr. Bew, I rid that, although I oomidered
that gentleman a highly respectable pros. , I thought the
names of two others might be pieced to the bill, and I
mentioned the name, of Mr. Weetoo, of Holborn, and Mr.
Weston, of Newington. The prisoner took the bill away,
and the sort day be returned with it, bearing the signatures
of those two gentlemen.
Cress-examined—At the time the bill wee being dis-
counted I held • bill supposed to have been drawn by Mr.
Weston, the "tattier, sod accepted by Mr. Weston, of
Holborn. It was brought to me for discount by the psi-
weer, and I discounted it for them, with his endoreinneot.
A day or two prior to the 501. bill becoming due, the pri-
soner called upon me sod said it was not convenient for
Mr. Weston, the acceptor, to meet the bill, and it would
be an obligation to hold it over. I demurred, and the
prisoner then replied, " Well, if you don't like to do that,
I've a bill for 671. which you can discount." At that the
prisoner took up the 501. The mama I wished the Banns
of the Weston, to be placed oit the 67/. bill wee because I
told the prisoner I was giving up • bill for 501. with the
names of the two Weston.. whom I knew to be good And
be mid he knew both of them.

Mr. John Henry Weston. of Newington-catneway, gag-
fitter, said his signature to the bill we. a forgery. The pn.
sower was formerly in partnership with him, and was well
acquainted with the appearance of his signature. He be-
lieved the indorsement on the bill to be in primer's hand.
wnirrlgdward Weston, of the Music-ball, Hollicen, also
examined the bill, sad mid his signaling to it was a forgery.
He was totally una Nuainted with the prisoner. He was
not at all related to Mr. Weston of Newington. He bad
lately dose work for him at Highgate to the =went of
2.50 a, and that would perhaps account for the presumption
of relatiogship.
Inspector Tanner, of the detective police, said that was
the whole of the evidence he had to offer in the present
case. He had a second charge of forgery spinet him,
but the
hie bed prosecutor its that charge (Major &moon) was con-
t by nas.
. . .

Mr. Henry midis that .as he would remand the ri-
moor, es the neat Old Bailey manual would not come on
for two or three woke.
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Mr. Lewis said the prisoner would reserve his delouse.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Elizabeth Middleton, • middle-aged woman, wan ebefore Mr. Tyrwhitt with keeping • brothel at 20, St=
tin'eatreet.
_ _ _

Sergeant George Appleton having proved that the pri-
soner was the person named in the warrant upon which he
apprehended her,
The clerk to Mr. Danger&ld, vestry clerk of St. Martin's,
by which parish the prosecution was instituted, asked that
heavy bail might be required, as the house kept by the pri-
soner was a very bad one, sod a►e had set the authorities at
defiance and taken no notice of their waraiap.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed her to the sessions, and Axed the
bail at two sureties is 401. each.

Primmer said else would abut up the house and pay all the
ellures it
thi:t rid ahewwedo :Id go to the sessions.

Mary Lockey, a good-looking young woman, was charged
before Mr. Arnold with threatming to isommit suicide, under
the following minutia circumstances :
One, piaci* warder of the Female House of Correc-
Hoe, Tothill-6ekla, stated that, on the 25th of July, the
prisoner wee brought into the prison for damaging a plate
glees at a public-homes. At the termination of her impel.l
@cement she was sent to her friends at Birmingham. She,
however, stayed no time there. as she came back as soon as
the officer. On another day, when put in the cell, she broke
16 pence of glass aid other things.
In answer to the magistrate, the warder stated that, while
in prison, they were compelled to put her under restraint,
lest she should commit suicide. She had declared that she
would kill herself, as everybody was against her.
Mr. Arnold observed that he thought the best way was to
communicate with the parish authorities. Is the surgeon of
the prison presset
Dr. Levies, medical officer of the prison, said that he bad
seen the prisoner, and be believed her to be a badly disposed
girl. She talked rationally, but witness was of opinion that
she was of a suicidal disposition, and if not watched would
do some mischief to herself.

My. Arnold remarked that he thought the beet way to deal
with Unease was to remand her.

-She was thee remanded, sad Kr. Arnold directed th►t she
should be closely watched.

SOUTHWARK.
George Smith, a watcbman, employed onthe works of
the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, now in pro-
gress in this district, and Charles Darien, a coffee-shop
keeper, in the neighbourhood of Charles-street. Blackfran-
road, were placed at the bar before Mr. Burcham, the
sitting magistrate, charged with stealing bricks, the pro-
perty of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Cons.
WU.
Detective William Cummings, 196 If, proved that
about half-peat two o'clock on Tuesday morning he was on
duty io Charles-street Blackfriare•roed, and saw the prim.
tier Smith, who was in charge of the company's works,
hand over the boarding a large bag or sack, containing
• quantity of bricks, to a man who was waiting with •
truck or barrow, and who went away with it. The
witness followed the man sod the property to the house of
the prisoner Davis, when the truck was lilt Witness
went in and asked Davies whether he bad any bricks
on his premises. Davies replied in the Despairs. bat on
searching the premises the witness discovered the sack
and bricks poured. He thee took both the prisooers into
custody.
The foremen of the works informed the magistrate that
the bricks had been taken from the spot near the hoarding
of which the prisoner Smith had charge. In answer to Mr.
Buchan), the whose' added that Smith had been some time
in the service, and he was oomidand a very respectable man
fa his @taboo in life.

-TDe prisoner Smith
said in his defence that Davies had
asked him for a few bricks, aad thisking there wee no
peat harm be had sent him some by a man who came to
deposit oyster shells. He deeply regretted if he had done
wrong.
The prisoner Davies admitted having &eked for end re-
ceived the bricks in the meaner which had been stated by
the witneems. _ _ _

Mr. Burnham convicted both the prisoners for the no.
lawful possession of the property, and sentenced Davies
(whom he considered the worst offender) to pay a floe of
405., or 28days' imprisonment; and Smith to pay afire of
205., or 14 days imprisonment.

TH AIIFS.
Sarah Jona, a poor half-starved looking woman, thirty-
one years of
sage, and lately dwelliag at No. 2, Upper Well-
alley, Wapping, was brought before Mr. Woobycb. charged
with illegally pawning eleven cotton shirts, the materials of
which bad been given to her to make up by another woman,
a seamstreme, named Maria Dowd* of No. fib, Kiegotreet,
Stepney.
The case was clearly made oat, the delivery of the mate-
rials to the prisoner proved, aad the eleven shirt., which
were in an unfinished state, were produced by a pawn-
broker's assistant, who had received them of the prisoner.
The prisoner, is her defence, said her husband bad
deserted her for four months, sod, wanting food, she pawned
the shirts at four different times. _

Mr. Woolrych mid the primmer had only iocreseed her
miseries by ber acts of disboneety, and now she would find
it difficult to obtain any work again. He strongly condemned
the conduct of the pawnbroker who reoeived the shirts in
pledge, as be must have known they did not belong to
the prisoner when he did mi. He had frequently been called
opal to censure this system of taking in slop work and tus-
fioished work from poor needleiromen. It encouraged
felonies. The pawnbrokers who took in tiniloished work
were so better than receivers of stolen property, and ought
to be treated as such. It was illegal to tempt in pawn
unfinished materials in the course of manufacture. He
fined the prisoner 17s. 9d., the value of the shirts, and Re.
in addition, and is defunit one mouth's imprisonment. He
ordered the pawnbroker's assistant to restore the shims to
Dowdin.

A disepale' woman, named Mertsill:i y
era. was brought
before Mr. Woolrycb, charged with drank, riotous,
and disorderly at a late boar in High-street, Whitecluipol.
John Chattey, No. 284 H, rid the prisoner acted in a
most violent and disorderly MllnDer, swore and raved sad
threw her infant on the ground, and rid she would have no
move to do with it.

Mr. Wooby& mid the 'televisor was a vile aphelia'
woman, who bad debased herself by the horrible vice of
drunkenness below the lost al • beast of the field. It was
• calamity for the poor child to have such a mother as the
oar. Re lima her fie, and in default to be impri....a
for five days.
Soon afterwards Roche, the poler of the court, mid the
prisoner was in peat pain. Her breasts were tuU of milk,
and she had sot suckled her child all oMbt. She wasted
relief, and there was no doubt the child, which she had
abandoned when she was druak, and was sot restored to her

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