The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

The Lord Mayor seat several piekpeakeb to pion for
different periods, varying frees ass to three siestas.

GUILDHALL.
Prederisk Oellingwood, a baleen, of High-street, blimp
tom. was sommemed beim Alderman Sidney to Lamer the
fedserbgeselmse t.
wa, w, W. Chopiasser:overaor ads* prison of Howson,
said—The de dst has W matnet for supplying meet
for the City of Leedom wiessin He hoe the contrast for
twelve mouths up to neat Kink. He hes to supply nest
far the 'Amen 1. Hon.& On Saturday last hie sea
darned at the prima. terattty 01 Milt, sanded', of dif
land plans of heel, Mide weight of 39lbs. To two of
those pima the mid di atted my attention. sad I saw
that a hole had been sods im eta of the pieces of beef,
and three plans of assayed miles pat tato them. Two
piste, of the mete= Malt we, math, sad ate of theta
bad ass L It
By__assts iddrey—l hale balm had tee write to
the defendant fee ending bad meat. The meet did not
appear salt ine hems food, bat when it was boiled it
steak very musk and sem of it bad m segets is it then.
I outset sell whet his maim were for doing so hat meat
maid not he kauaht Ike the maw pries se the cateereet.
ClOSlOnalahlig by the defendant—Thu beef wee very
good ; I had no fault te dad with it.
Kr. Colllagwesi-1 eart ealy sty that the bad most was
pat is by my asen. There are We el thew is it, but 1 lad
no knowledge of the naassees.
Beeklemin Liiman---I am cook at Newpate for the pri-
soners. I reserved this beef from the defendant's man on
Saturday morning; it weighed 391 b.. When I was pre-
paring it for the copper, I found a hole wt in two of the
pieces, and mutton forced into the hole,. The nonce wee
is a putrid state, and I drew the governor's attention to it.
That which I took out was totally salt for human toed.
There were maggots in one piece of it. The beef wee
very good, and you meld not see the bed meat unless you
turned it over.

Sidney—lf this meat had been boiled,
=would have been found. I do not know what motives
see the contractor to sand each meat. Daring the
last six weeks compleints have been made by the governor of
bad meat having been sent.
The contract was then pat in and road.
Kr. Robert Pock'Witco, inspector of Newisteinarket—
I was sent for on Saturday by Kr. Cope, end he produced
to me two please of beef. One was the chuck withost the
bone, end the other was the leg of mutton piece. Tbe beef
was geed, but there was • hole set I. each piece, and about
• rowed weight of rani of mattes in a putrid stet*. One
el the please of moues had maggots in it, sad both were
salt be human food.

Alstersaa Sidney—The salsa of that asat with
the boa* is it would be 6d. a pound. The detsedaat is a
peat loose by the contrast, which he moires only 61. a
steno for.

-Mr. Cops said than us above 102 prieonen ie Newgete,
sad is the other City pia = &bent 400 more ; sad as Mei
are allowed fllbe. of meat a week, the quantity would be
about 1,6001 be. per week that the defendant world bare to

no.
Alders= Sidney—What have you to say to this?
Mr. Collingwood—l cot that meat off myself, and it is
perfectly good. How those pieces of mutton came into it I
do sot know. My man who took it has suddenly left me
this morning without notice. It is very true that I am
losing mosey by the contract, but I will fulfil it. When I
took the contract at ils. per stons, lwas in hopes that things
would get better. The pieces of mutton are so small that
it would not be worth ray while to attempt such a fraud. .
Aldermen Sidney—l do not think, Mr. Collingwood, that
you uaderstead the position you are placed in. The quan-
tity is certaialy small, but then, when you have to supply
1,600 lbs. a week at prime that an very low, you would
have as interest in trying to disgust the magistrates of Lon-
don with the quality of the meat, in order to break your
contract. If that was not your mode., you must satisfy me
that you ware not cogaisant of the state of the moat, or it
will be my duty to commit you for trial. An you in a
position, should you be put on your oath, to swear that the
bed moat was not pat into the good when It left your pro-
misee 2_

Kr. Celliagwood—l am, air. My man told me that those
Owes of bad meat were put into the earl for the dog of •',
wastameroted he supposed duty got Into the tray under the
meat when he delivered it.

Alderman Sidney—Can you produce that man ?
Mr. Collingwood—l will try.
Alderman Sidney—Then I will adjourn the summons and
(IWO ree ea opportunity of producing him. In the mean-
time yes sat enter into your own recognisance in 201. to
sp=als at a future day.
adjoariod.

Mr. Carrie recniviaioi7l7ool.;ll7k.," for the wife of
Charlie Thompson, a compositor, who had been left by her
husband in a state of great destitution, as reported in the
pavan of October 12. The donor stated that further sass
of mossy would be forwarded by him for the poor woman's,
nee, until death bad released her from her sufferings, or,
unlash, recovered her health, U the latter was possible.

Richard Owes, a person of respectable appearance, who
meisened the tons and manner of • foreigner, was charged
with stealing a valuable gold watch and chain, the property
of MN. Catherine Bailey.
The proescatrix said she was the wife of kir. Thomas
Bailey, a farmer, residing at Peasharst, sear Tunbridge,
and that shout three years ago she was at the house of her
mother in Jamas• , Bake-street, Manchester-squats.
Having been attending her mother for many hours she fell
asleep, leaving her watch ow the table, and when she awoke
her watch and the prisoner—who was her brother•in-law—
wen absent, and from that dine until the present day she
bad not seen him.

Mr. Norton—How was it that you came to see him after
such a lapse of tints ?
Witness—Well, sir, the fact is that a female present
came to the boas* of my husband in the country, and in-
formed me where I should find him, and that my watch
was at present in pawn, and that be had the depliata
I In cousequenco came to town, and on seeing the prisoner
told him all I wanted was my property, bat he told me he
knew nothing about it, and I gave him into custody.
Mr. Norton— What relation is he to you ?
Witness—He is married to my sister, I am sorry to my.
and though he pretends to ba a foreigner and passes himself
ass a Garman, he is an Irishman, and, as well as other
memban of hts family, sou • living, and • very good one,
Way by writing boning letters and imposing upon the
bissysint.

issenegusace of something that dropped from the pri-
mer, dr. Norton asked the witness if she ma really mar-
ried. and she replied that she was—that ber marriage with
Kr. Thos. Bailey took place at St. George's, Hanover.
square, four years ago, and her present address war Hall-
place, Pettibone, near I sabridge.
Mr. Norton—When you went to sleep, as you have stated,
was there any other person in the room but the prisoner ?
Witness—Yee; his wife, who is my sister, and others
were there, but the only person who left was the prisoner,
and lam site certain he took It.
Julia Miller, a smartly dressed woman, said she had
lived for some yean with the prisoner's brother, and pointed
out the penes then standieg amongst the auditory in the
court, sad wee prepared to swear that there was scarcely a
shuts town en the Continent is which bath the sons and
their rutin had not obtained the utmost notoriety through
their swindling and begging letter propensities, and the
sathiwities UMW of them would he very glad iodeed to lay
Themethse had been imprisoned for imposition,
math* ems he middling is politics, and when last her
Jemee Owe,, Who Wilkinson, alias Hamilton,
we. resrated in Prance she (witness) risked her life to
get him released, and received suck injuries In one of her
arms and hand as to reader them unless for life. The
feet wee that she undertook to deliver to the
=mpwae of the Preset a memorial for his release, and
dadlag no ether opportunity than that of Napoleon's driving
along the streets, accompanied by so escort, she
rutted towards the vehicle and dung the memorial into the
eurlage. Li doing this she got so roughly treated that her
arm wee nearly broke, and so sorbed, injured that she did
not think she could use it Nola. The Emperor Napoleon,
team he those injuries, presented her with 100 francs,
and these, with 46 of her own, she preseated to
her parensenr at Brussels on his obtaining his re
Ines. Some time after he sent her home from
Hamburg to this country, eves without her sloth's,
follow and jots her; bet though he had bees
rifte roi
dni l" to
mi fee some weeks he never none near he; and she
had se wish to disguise the het that she it was who bed
gone to the residues of the last witness and informed her
that her wateh wee in pun in Leaden, for that she had
heard the primer motion the feet in Germany.
The prisoner's brother, who had all the appeennee and
assumed a good deal of the twang of the Yankee, abused
the witure, and said that jealousy had prompted her to do
eveeything the pould against him. He the. oresanted to
the magistratran elegant gold Geneva watch, which be said
was theme to which the prisoner bad alluded as beteg in
paws, and added that it had been released by a friend of
lie brother and himself, and given to him.
The primmer denied the charge, but seknowledged that
he had a gold watch in pledge is the Westminster-road,
sad the perdu were at perfect liberty to go and see it, se he
wee mathiled that they would sot gad it to be the edit that
bad been last in reply to a gusetion front the matetrate,
the prisoner said he did not know what bad beams of the
ticket of this watch, bat, at all avian, It afraid net be
proved to be Mr. Bailey's watch.
The witness Miller here aid that she very well recollected
the prisoner and his brother getting the two wombs, men-
timed by them on credit and never paying for them.
Mr. Norton observed that atter the length of thee that
had elapeed, and then hinter bees other persons in the
pisa when the watch was missed, he would net be Justified
I. &Wain the prisoner soy loom.
Tile Omer, who was recognised as a penes wits wee
mired sp In the .see of • swindling German tailor, who had
ebhineg Inge mum of money by representing himself
es eme of the beau Hungarian °Seen who had die-
tiognished himetifin the battles of his country, wee thou
diseharged.

MANSION.HOUSIL
Sums Connor was brought before the Lord Mayer,
charged with having received a gold watch, part of the
property nolo* from the premises of Mamma. Deane red
Dray, of Him Williatrahvet, City, ironmonger and silver.
smiths, well knowing that it had bsea stoic's.
Samuel Egerton, 24 H, of tbe maropelitaa polies, said—
[n soussquenes of information whisk I received, I went as
Saturday to Cambridge, and received the gold watch I pro-
duo from Mr. Headley, of Stapisfold, whisk he told me be
bought of a Mr. Faultless, a bescehop koopor is Dralsos.
I went and saw Faultless, and from what he told mery.l took
the primmer into custody at his house, No. 11, Parker-
stmt, Drarrleae. I ukad him if he knew Mr.
Faultless, aid he said "Yee, he has bees • neighbour
of mine for years." I soled him if he had at
say time sold to Mr. Faultless a geld watch, or
watch of any kind. H. replied, "No, I aerie sold
him a watch say lied is my life, nor did he ever have
any widths@ from no." I thou took hie to the basso of
Mr. Faultless, and mid to Mr. Faultless is the prisoner's
preresee, "Is this the pima you state you borsht the
watts from?" Mr. Faultless replied, "Yee, that is the
men from whom I got it. I don't know the number of
elan watelt, but that is it." The primmer is a lodging.hosse
kee
C
Faultless said—l am a coach hareem maker, and my
wife keeps a tworthop at No. 154, Drury-laue. I have had
this watch in my posemnies id: or sena weeks. The pri-
soner offered it to me kw sale at Ms house tin a Monday or
Tuesday sin or saves weeks ego. I told him /did DO want
the Walsh for myself, but that I kaew a yew aa
who was asking about a gold watch. He @eked
me 4L 10s. for the watch. I told hint if he would allow me
to take it to a watchmeker'!aad re if it was worth the

alonayi-wo-ild buy it. He told me I might take it ;17ere I
mpg, N aay shop, or any plan. I said I would not take it
they but I would call gala, sad about a week afterwards
I Wad for it, end the primmer gam it to me, sad 1 took it
tis watchmaker, and from what he said I bought it, and
poll kin for it.
. The Lord Mayor—Where did he my be got it ?
....—BeWi told ms he had worn it a loss while, sad
that he bad bought it out of a 'top in the lidgware-real,
0, that it had been boueht there, Ido mot Wow width. I
kept the watch sill the 9th Ostober, sod shwa didlessad it
to Mr. Headley, who 'deemed me a 51. *pm It, and was
to give me the remainder of 41. 10a. Tim pelmet Mid me
It same from a respectable shoo, sad I woo ago,,
wherswe I liked. I took it to a 'watchmaker, win MU sae
that la its conditios at that time I ought wet lo glee mom
/11. for it.
J. T. Dankly, brews to Meson. Doom sad Dray.
Akat helves's the 7th sad 9th of July .robbery leek
plums* the warehouse of his employen, cad smsegpt ether
*hip a umber et watches were stole., mid the wet* pr►
dead was one of them.
The primmer said he bid several questioss to put to the
edema Faultless, bat he was net prepared to do se o. the
meant emasien.
Ha was that ismanded till Friday.

KURA TO TEE CATIL—Tho faowiag notion tree
Ina hen tile Galatil PIISSia yeeterlay mall
far the Cops of Geed Ilermitill
ma be Bads up be this °Eke on
sysalls of lb, Mb Is be breorded by H.M.S.
Pessispe. sitosiated to sell Pesisseesttb as lb. 28th
last. Lettere meat by this converses wit! he liable to •
postage et lc the half oases, sad so es ; sad sewepapere
to a of Id. ',ob. All letter sad rapers intended to
be by this despatab most be @postal, addressed
by H.X.I. Peaelope."

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1855.