The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-10 00:00:00

(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL
r MIST OF AN INDORSEMENT ON A ATOLLS DRAW.
hums M'Donald, a respectably-dressed yam man, waa
ized at the bar before Alderman Carter, charged with felo-
.Yusly uttering a banker's draft bearing a forged endorse-
yst, with intent to defraud the London and Westminster

Mr. Edward West Wilson said—l am cashier in
.he London and Westminster Bank, in Lothbury.
ge are agents for the Clydesdale Banking Company.
the draft produced was presented yesterday for payment.
:t is drawn for 10/. 3e. Bd.
upoa our firm by the Clyde.-
ble Banking Company in favour of E. Lazard and
merchants, of 11, Moorgate.street ; but as the
e:!orsement purporting to be that of Mr. Lazard
no not apparently genuine, I asked the prisoner
(oho lamented it) where he obtained it, and who signed
it, as it was a forgery. lie said a gentleman who
had just engaged him as a clerk bad given him the cheque
to get cashed, and that he was waiting for him in Thread-
nedlestreet Be also said that the endorsement was
written by one of the firm of B. Lazard and Co. I then
banded the prisoner over to the care of Rumen the detective
Ottdr.
Mr. Edward Lazard said—The amount of the draft pro-
dt:ed wu paid into the Clydesdale Banking Company's
lank to my account, but I cannot at present say by whom is
' araa paid in, as I have not yet received any letter of ad-
cm upon it.
Alderman Carter—Then, how did the prisoner get poems-
lion of this draught ?
Mr. Lazard-1 really cannot say, sir, for he le a perfect
stranger to me.
Russell, the detective sergeant, said-1 have no doubt, sir,
that it has been stolen from an intercepted letter. 04 taking
fie prisoner into custody I accompanied him to Thread-
meastreet to find the man who was waiting for him, and
whom he said he find met M a public-house in the Black-
friars-road ; but after palming up and down the street several
emu, the Bank porter informed me that be had observed
the prisoner signalling to a man on the opposite side of the
great to go away. I therefore took the prisoner to the
station.
Alderman Carter remanded the prisoner until Tuesday

BOW-STREET.
• MOTIRY DI THE WORKROOM
Sir strong, robust-looking 7anig women, named Harriet
&era, Ellen Kinnaird, WWI Wallace, Prances Wetter,
Pen Shine, and Mary Ann litTarthy, were charged with
muting a not in St. Oiles's workhouse, and with assaulting
the nurses, porter, and police.
It appeared from the statement of the porter, John
anger, that the defendants were amongst the most re-
fractory inmates of the workhoue, and for a yew or more
hod mused the whole staff inceenant trouble. Last night
thel left their sleeping-ward in a body, paraded the house in
limited attire, and finally took up their quarters in • ward
reserved for other inmates. The nurses tried to eject them,
upon which they. poenced upon one of the attendants and
maltreated her in • shameful manner. The porter wee
ailed in to assist, others were incited by the girls to join in
the general disturbance, and a serious mutiny and row were
the result. At length the police had to be called in, and it
eu only after • desperate encounter that the defendants—
the " ringleaders" in the affray—were neared and moneyed
to the police station. During all the time the defendants
uttered the most foul and filthy language.
Martha Welding, one of the nurses, corroborated the
etstement of the porter, and said she should have been
" torn to pious" but for the assistance of the porter
en d
Po=onstahle F 156 deposed that when he was called
into the workhouse he found the ex defendants parading
the yard, arra-in.arnt, wing the meet disgusting language,
end defying and threatening the Oboes of the establishment.
On seem witeue they ezdaimed, " Here's the polies,"
and pounced sue him like • set of furies.
The defendants, is answer to the charge, laid impudently
—We Cr, all guilty, and we are all as bad es one another.
Mr Henry fined them 40.. each or • month'. imprison_
met. Of course they were committed to prison in default.
CLERKENWELL.
MINSP7I ROMP= AND IRMULERE37.-CORWITI'M

Henry Bailey, a young man of respectable exterior wee
pleoed at the bar before Hr. Barker, charged with embe'raling
various sums of money belonging to his employer, Mr.
Thomas Brown, a cherannooger, /cc., carrying on an *sten-
ire besieges at 9, Queen's-terrace, Camden-road-villas.
Mr. Thos. Beard, solicitor, of Basinghallatreet, attended
for the prosecution, and stated that the prisoner had been
1 Mr. Brown's employ for about eighteen months. He
boarded in the house, received good wages, and was treated
io a liberal manner by his employer. Before the embezzle-
rants were diacovered it was aarrertained that the prisoner was

a married man, having a wife and two children. He was
spoken to about the matter, he having entered the service
of Mr. Brown se a single man without iocumbraoce, and
the result was that he received notice to quit. Although the
prisoner had been in the service of the prosecutor for only
eighteen months, for eight mouths of that period he had
been constantly robbing the prosecutor, and at present
there were al then about Weans of embezzlement against
the prisoner. The prisoner's duty was to take goods round
to the customers and receive money, which he wm to account
for as soon as be reached home, as well as to enter it in
a book. He should ask that the prisoner might be com-
mitted for trial os the cases then before the court, and if be
(Mr. Beard) intended to prefer any others, he would give
the primmer notice. These embezzlements were a source of
very great annoyance to employers, not only on account of
the lose to them, but in consequence of the trouble and
annoyance it gave to the customers, by sending them in
accounts when they had pAid for what had been supplied to
them, and by aakiog some of them to come to the police court
to support justice.
Witnesses were called who fully supported Mr. Beard's
statement, and amongst them was police-sergeant Thorny.,
of the S division, who said that the prisoner, on the way to
the police court, said he was guilty, and asked him d it
would not be better for him to say so, and thus save a
great deal of bother and expense.
A solicitor for the prisoner, whose name did not trans-
pire, said the prisoner would plead guilty to the stealing of
the money if the magistrate would at once deal with the
Mr. Alexander (the second clerk) said the magistrate bad
no power to deal with cases of embezzlement. They must
all be sent to the sessions for trial.
The solicitor then contended that the prisoner should be
discharged, as it was not proved that when be entered the
Prosecutor's service he was told that it was part of his duty
to receive money.
Mr. Beard characterised the objection as frivolous, and
liked that the prisoner might at once be committed to the
sessions.
Mr. Barker fully committed the prisoner to the Middlesex
lesions for trial.
The solicitor for the prisoner 'raked that bail might be
taken for his client, who bad now Men in prison three
weeks, sod would have to remain there another fortnight
before he would be tried.
Mr. Beard strongly opposed the applicatioo on the ground
of the cutout of • s defalcations, and reminded the
magistrate that thirty cases had been found out against the
prisoner.
Mr. Barker refused the application, and told the solicitor
for the prisoner that be could apply to a judge at chambers
if he pleased.

MARLBOROUGH-Snit/T.
TAILING SZILVANTS WITHOUT CHAILACTiRG.
Emma So.thgate, a yam( woman, who had ooly been
10 days in the service of lin. Catherine Vail*, of 216,
Word-street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with steel-
ier a brooch of the value of 36!., the property of her
mistress. . .

Mrs. Valle said the prisoner had only been in her service
10 days, and on Mondry last she missed a brooch of the
value of 361. from a drawer in her bedroom. She asked the
primmer if she had seen it, and she amid she bad eat,
and protested her innocence. She told the prisoner
that she should not leave the house tall it was found,
ad yesterday the prisoner maid she would, and she (kn.
fails) then sent for a policeman, who took the prisoner to
the station, but the charge was not taken. The prisoner fol.
lowed her home, and while in the kitchen she raised the
prisoner's doilies and found one of her petticoats on the
prisoner. She then sent for a constable, and he took the
Prisoner to the station, and on her (Mrs. Valle) returning
home again the brooch was found on the kitchen floor,