The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-21 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Ayoun man named Jame§ PMio was brought before the
Lord Mayor charged with obtaining the sum of 11. 51. 6d.,
and micas other gums, by false preemies.. from Munn.
Great Breams, Wood-street, warehousemen.
Mr. Bleigit, barrister, attended to oonduct the prosecu-
al
e; and Mr. Beard appearedto watch the cam on behalf
the
Mr. Said be regretted very much to have to
cute the , who had been in the employment or tt
prossontine for upwards of ten you', and up to the present
time wag supposed to have horns an irreproachable
character. He had, however, lately been carry-
ing on a eyetematio fraud to a most alarming ex-
tent. It was his duty to give out work to the
different workpeople who were emjployed, and on
the work being brought back in • finished state, he en-
tered it in • small memorandum book which each of the
workpeople bad, and put the amount for the work against
it) and at the end of each week he checked the book, and put
his initials to it, after which he gave it back to the party
to wheat it belonged, who took it to the cashier and got the
money. The prisoner, it appeared, had fabricated books of
the description mentioned. He would, however, on that
ommion content himself with merely going into the one
charge mentioned. Each of the workpeople were known
by • particular number, which was written on • moveable
ItaWet on the oover of the book. Theppriamat had made •
book purporting to belong to • person named Spires, whose
number was 252, in which he entered work purporting to
have been done in the week Fond* to the amount of
11. 5.. 6d., which sum wax plod to a person named Bone,
who handed it to the prisoner.
Alexander Grant, petty cashier to Messrs. Grant
said the number In in his book referred to a
pseatiena the ammo of Rimmed.. The book was him 'Mho-
rite for per the money. aad eaF,id.y Let the book MEI
was brought -to him by a person seined Bone, and he paid
IL se. 6d., which was the amnia sabred in the book
numbered 252. He paid that money beLievieg that work
to bare been done. The book proiecied. No. 373, likewise
referred to the name of Simms& in his book.
Mr. Sleigh observed that the Later book wee a genuine
ate
Yr. Dees stated that the prisoner gave him two books on
/Mew LA to take to the cashier, sad he paid him two
and some silver which he headed to the prisoner.
llllVldesie the same thing on several other
Oran* Spires said the. the had been in the
law of working for MOM& Grant, and her
was 252. It was upwards of twelve
since she had dose any work. and she had
iNs thl book Pavanes& eremLered 252, before that
cleet sued net rondos et smiffierise any person to receive
eta of 11. k 6d. nal in it.
Maria Wawa& aim she worked oormiosidly
fee Yams- Greet. bet MO* yolk nor did
OW rendre the el_ U. lie. lie prisons.
11....11111d* mints lbeesM the WIMP tem sufficient to
omeemd, eel he valid pe mem telly into the wee
O=eilm areedele. &Weikel' skeedy discovered
emermied teogreeeds et SOL
The skew was ramoded.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. Wadley, • commission agent, occupying furnished
apartment. at 7,17 min-street, New Bridge-street, applied
to Alderman Copeland for assistance to liberate his wife and
family, who were placed in duressby their landlord node:
the following circumstances stated that be had lived
at the above address for the last six months, and that morn-
ing, being about to quit the maxima* he tendered the
amount of rent due, when the laadiced put in a claim fee
broken crockery, which wag disputed. Applisent declined
to pay it, whereupon the busellord refused toallowttat
ite roods
to be removed belonging to Mr. Watley, or be the
family to leave the house, for which mare. e locked.
bolted, and chained the door, thereby making prisoners al
applicant's wife, sister, and two c
Alderman Copeland said the landlord had no right so im-
prison any pawn in his house upon such • claim. He bad
• remedy In tits county court for his claim for breakage, and
ought not, therefore, to have detained eves the property
belonging to ePPliestot.
Impostor Herding volunteered to see that ti. family of
Mr. Westley were at once released, and amorepanisd him
to New Bridgeotreet for that purpose.
Mr. Wadley, before leaving the court, thanked the alder-
man for his interference,.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. Clark, greengrocer, Osroaby.street, applied for
advice under these circumstanem :—One of his customers
offered him, in payment of • purchase, half amovereign of
the new coinage. He bit the coin, and the effect of the
pressure was to break it in pieces. As the coin wan
perfectly. good he had to take it and to put up with the loss
in disposing of the fragments. Now as the new coinage
was, as he was informed, all of this brittle character, he
wished to know whether be was bound to make good any
lose that might arise from testing it in the same way
adopted with the old manage.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said all pieties defacing good coin were
liable to • penalty. Be did not know what remedy the
applicant could have if be were put to any loss in conse-
quence of the brittieness of the coin. Be should advise
the applicant to make his complaint to the Mint, and to
represent that the coin was too brittle for common circu-
lation.. A trilling alteration in the alloy might no doubt
effect all that was required.
LAMBETH.
Alfred Henry Cagan, who had been apprehended on
the 12th of December bat, and bad been a fort-
night in custody, but subsequently admitted to bail, sur-
rendered In discharge of his reeopueeme to be finally exa-
mined before Mr. Elliott, an • charge of striking his wife so
violent • blow with a poker on the heed that her lice was
for some time in imminent danger.
From the evidence before adduced it will be recollected
that on the 12th of last sacs* the prisoner, who had been
for some months indulging in act. of inten;peranee, took
away his wife's last dress to pawn, sod on his return home
• violent quarrel was the oresequenoe. On a constable who
was called in entering the boom he found the prisoner's
wife lying on the kitchen door, epparently lifeless, with
a fearful wound in front of her head, and close to her
laszteirr deeply stained with blood. A surgeon in the neigh-
M 9,011 &flooded, and after dressing the wound,
the injured woman recovered sufficiently to be removed to
Guy's Hospihsi. Some dips after erysipelas supervened,
sad her life was oonaderW to be in so precarious a state
that it was deemed neemeary to have her depositions taken,
and Mr. Elliott attended at the hospital, and her evidence
was taken before him. A favourable change took place
after this, sad Mn. Gneiss improved so rapidly that she was
dieshar sd from the laatitutios ten days ago.
Mr. Gab, tits house surgeon at Guy's, attended
end rlessrfted the wooed iseicted, and judged from its
and its having been done by • poker that
Vtfloaaw°l4raust have boon given with considerable
vio-
Imo.. This witness also said that the woman's life
bed fee severed days limo is great dagger. and Mr.
Elliott was about tie commit the primmer for trial.
but ors the testimony before given being read over
to Mrs. Castles she declared she did not recollect
• word of it, nor even having seen the magistrate
at the hospital. Mr. Elliott, upon this, directed that her
deposition should be taken afresh, and when sworn she raid
that on the morning in question her husband went out, and
on her getting up she named her lest dies On his return
home she asked hint fur her dress, some money. or the
ticket, when be said he knew nothing about it, and she
shook him. She also got into • violent passion, rushed
to the fire-place and, seising the poker, was about to strike
her husband with it, when be struggled with her for some
time. During that struggle 11116 felt • knock on the bead,
which she was sure was socidestal, as she was satisfied
her husband, who had always been • kind and a good
husband to her, would not intentionally injure her.
Mr. Elliott observed that with testimony like that just
given it would be useless to send the came for trial, and
therefore discharged the prisoner.
As Mr. Elliott was about to leave the bench keeperah
Weston, aged 29, the wife of Stephen Weston, the per of
a cat's meat shop is Johanna-street, Lower-mush. -Lam-
beth, was brought into court in custody of Revell, 175 L,
one of the summoning officers, and charged with stabbing
her husband in the beck, and inflicting a deep and serious
wound.
Revell said that • short time before be was in the Lower-
marsh, and having been informed that the prisoner had
stabbed her husband in their shop he took her into custody.
Mr. Byers, a surgeon, was in attendance on the husband.,
and he saw him probe the wound, which sees over the left
shoulder blade ; and he found it to be an inch and • quar-
ter deep, and so exhausted was the sufferer that he (Mr.
Byers) could not give my opinion as to the consequences.
On the way to the station-house the prisoner acknowledged
that she did it, said her husband was knocking her about,
and in her excitement she took up one of the shop knives
and stabbed him. The officer produced the shirt worn
by the man, which was completely saturated with blood.
The primmer said it was es slated, sod was :tweedy].
THANES.
&wive! Baker, a tallow about 20 years of ege, belonging
to a lawless pug called " the Stapes, rooghs,' was brought
up on remand chargedwith steeling •• double Glotmeeter
cheese from a chandler's shop kept by • poor widow
named Anne Oaisford, of No. 34, Edward-street, LiMe-
botupe-fielda.
The prosecutrix, who is elesirg with lerge family
to obtain a living, had been frsquestly OW—iced by
the "Stepney roughs" Thy bed mare than once
walked into her shop and, el* the graded sang froid,
" lifted attains befogs her fare .ad decamped with
them. This bed been ester ea et Mem& for
twelve menthe. One mein lest week, the pri-
soner and some mbar illkdes, pert el theocul
loughs," *me Nimbi sheet L.
chop. me
he sod two ether sakkely sabered
thestas The prosier molebed op a ahem IrOfill lie.,
wire pealed 11 be Mad, sad! deep-