The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-16 00:00:00

THE POLICE COUBT&

Moro Swaim was placed bears Alderman Hampbery,
*barged with obtaining a large quantity of goods of various
tradesmen swim false pretreat&
Mr. Mottolf prosecuted on behalf of Mr. Alleap , of St.'
Pines Churchyard, and stated that the prisoner had for
*owe time earned on, in coanezion with other persons, a
.ystem of depredation upon a great number of tradesmen,
and the dronmatances under which these frauds were com-
mitted were of the most artful description. The plan pur-
sued by the prisoner in this one wee that of taking a ootter
shop, and with the assistance of others she ordered a variety
of goods from diff.rent tradesmen, on the understanding
that they were to be paid for on delivery, and haling lulled
all saspon by punctual payment in the first instance,
whoa only small quantities of goods weer ordered, she
grew bolder with sucrose, sad u soon as she got en eaten-
sive order @avoided, no more money was forthcoming, and
the gooos were inratiably disposed of by the prisoner
within a very short time after their delivery. In Mr.
Wimp's case s►e sent a roes of the name of Damp to re-
present himself as a Mr. Hantar,nd, who bad taken her
coffee-shop, and to order what goods shs required ; and, on
that representation goods were supplied, and the prisoner
received them.

James Franklin said—l am a stationer and newsvender.
I hays been in the habit of using the coffee-shop kept by the
prisoner from November last until the end of February. 1
never saw any person of the acme of Hammond there. I
know Dump, from seeing him there, and on one occasion I
heard the prisoner tell him that it he would go out and
order goods, ate would take in all he sent there, and give
him Ida (id. per day for doing so. She also aid she would
tell the parties bringing the goods that he (Dump) was Mr.
Hammond, and that he bad taken the coffee-shop, and that
these cards were printed for that purpose. I heard her say
that she would get some cards printed for Dim. I was pre.
sent when the goods were delivered from Mr. Allsup's, of
St. Paul's Churchyard, and 1 bad previously heard the
prisoner tell Dump to go and order those goods, end say
his name was Hammond. Whea the goods came, the man
hesitated about leaving them without the money, but she
said Mr. Hammond was coming in in about a week, and as
he would want more goods, he would pay for all at the
same tint*.
Prisoser—l paid this witness the money for those goods,
and I have got his receipt, and now he has turned round
on the other side, but Mr. Green (the oHcer) will have him
in custom moo, for he bay had him several times before,
and he has berm committed about seven or eight times.
Alderman Humphery said It appeared rather remarkable
that Franklin should have been present at all these conver-
sations, if be was only a customer.
Mr. Metcalf said the prisoner's friends bad been making
great elections since these proceeding were first put in
motion to get rid of Fraaklin, and for that purpose they put
some barn oda on him, and charged him with uttering it ;
but it was shown before the =saturate that he was the
victim of a gang, and he was therefore discharged. Upon
which they then went down to Bristol and took out a
warrant for his apprehension to get him out of the way ; bat
they were prevented in doing so, hectare they had neglected
to get the warrant backed. However, the prosecution
would cot rest upon the testimony of one witness only, for
Franklin's evidence would be confirmed in every particular
on a future occasion.
The primary was then renteaded, and ordered to find two
sureties in 6001. cash, with 24 hours' notion of ball. She was
committed to Nougats in default.
WESTMINSTER.

Louie Gerard, deiscrilTaiiis;turne7Of fancy articles, from
Pans, and Pierre Boumlie, a theatrical performer, from
Chambray, were charged with main a ease of diamonds
and other 'lap, vales 1001., from the shop of Mr. Jacobs,
j- wallet and dealer in curiosities, 28, Ilbury-street,

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Between 4 and 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon Gerard, in
company with another foreigner, went to Mr. Jacobs' shop,
and desuod to look at some rings, of which they inquired the
pries. They then left without making any purchase, Ge-
rard intimatiag, as well as Mr. Jacobs could understand him,
that he would call again with another friend that evening.
At about 8 on Friday night the prisoners both entered
the shop, when Gerard, pointing to the case of
rings which he had before seen, requested to be
shown them *gain. Bunsen, then selected one which
he was holding in his left hand, when he thddaaly
placed hi* other hand in his right trousers pocket, aed
withdrawing it, throw a handful of snuff in Mr.
Jacobs* eyes, when both the prisoners rushed out of the shop
with the case of rings. Mr. Jacobs, although blinded with
the snuff, and in the greatest agony, succeeded in getting to
the shop door sad creating an alarm, when Police-constable
Byrnes, 181 B, who was fortunately passing, followed and
stopped Gerard, who immediately exclaimed—" Me no
thief;" but upon taking aim back to the prosecutor's . hop
the case of rings was found in his pocket. At the time the
unloosen rushed from the shop a labouring rasa, named
Bed sell. seeing the eoodltioa of Mr. leech*, as ha appeared
at the dour, followed Bausell• quietly for a considerable
distance, and Into as omnibus, when observing a policeman
he gave h.= into custody, and the accused then made a des-
perate effort to escape. Oa examining his right trousers'
pocket, • quantity of loose snuff was found in it.
Gerard admitted his guilt, bat the other denied all
knowledge of the transaction, at the same time inviting the
magistrate to question Gerard upon the subject.
Mr. Arnold Informed his in French that it was not the
custom in this country to question a, iminale.
Tee depositions having been taken preparatory to the
prisoners committal for trial, they were remanded till
Wedneoday, in order to procure the attendance of an in-
terpreter, and to afford some of the French uotective police,
who will be is London by that time, an opportunity of seeing
them.

DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN RAILWAT.—The half-
yearly meeting of the proprietors of thin nee win held in
Dublin on Baterdey, Mr. W. anghtun in the chair. The
Menton' report, which was wheounously adopted, gave a
satiefoctory account of the Weirs of toe company. Not.
withstsoding various drawbacks, among others the opening
of the new line from Dublin to Bray, the washer of puree-
pen on the line daring the put year exceeded that of any
former year, except the you of the Exbibiuos, 1865; sad
the statement of amounts showed that a sum of 26,9961. was
available fur dividend, met of which it was resolves to make
a dividend of 8 per out. for the half-year, 'Mee, with 6
per o.ot. divided for the previous Is many% made a dist-
(had of 8 per mat ea the paid up capital for the year, free
of Moose to:, and leaving a rest of 3,7961. The transfer
of the line to the Dahlia and Wicklow Company may be
expected to take plies this year.