The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-17 00:00:00

showed lira wham PsUnman, the constable of Mary-
thee" resided. no primmer had an Monism w►th his.
and repeated the statement &hove detailed. This prisoner,
who highest' for many years la Australia, and sines his
return to Esgland lam been ander confinement in one
or two mho**, admitted that he had made a statement,
but said his miaow far doing so was that his friends, seeing
Wm in jeopardy, would owns forward and pay his pulsate
Malt @gala to Anataslis ; thee, by Intense*, &e 1 m 8 the
ILI Weld, etatweed him to be transported for fifteen
nue.
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IT • 811111/$177.11 0771011/1.
Mr. Ilia and Mr. Addbon wen for the plaintiff; Mr.
Knowles end Mr. Price for the defendant.
The plaintiff, Kr. George Hebblethwaite, is a imitator,
at Mirsold, sad the nominal defendant was the late sheriff
of this county, the real defendant being a sheriff's officer, of
the name of Imemeter. who meat em-'--`" •-
, . •rwl•U •••••••••
writ, issued at the amt of the plaintiff, against a person
named Field, a brewer, at Lindley, near Keddendeld.
Field beams Indebted to the plaintiff, and the plaiatiff
baring obtained a put= eV him, Gamed a writ
of execution to be writ was entrusted
to Lanamter, the mem divested to be levied being
1291. 6. 7d. Lemeneese took pemeseion of Field's
but &I
i=a against was, that el
there wee 'Misty the plaintiff
he ee wiessaitesteil = towith roped M the sale of the
ctthat le did MI realise the essiast reared es he
He Deli levied he 74L 16s. it, time whisk he
deducted 171.10. H. he riesedege and other hes, sad thaw
the *lode wasteised esiddsealile lees. This wee the phis-
tiff rs relies of the trareelaw, sad a very methirly staled
version the delhaineffe mama said it wee. The real het
was, that Lenceileo we getable to Nabs the len dleseled
under the writ busses the rale had lesa pat eff to eoese-
come of intimation to that Whet frees Mr. Leedbitter,
the plaintiff's stemeey. It was —leaded that Mr. Lead-
bitter had thee tabon the :natter out of the hands of
the sheriff, wed made Leasaster his owe special
bailiff foe he purpose of eeedeetiag this eremi-
tism. The reset of this ashy was that another
eseestioa was pot in on be of a Mr. Hitches,
at Leeds, fee 97L da. Pd., sad when Laawaster received in-
demnities to go on, be scald wet Aida pessessies, but as
ems se Mr. lEitchea's writ bed bees saddled, be metered
under Ms warrant, sold the remainder of the property, and
reamed the sum of 741 16s. id., which was paid over to
the pewnt plaintiff, minas the usual expenses.
His Lordship, in summing up, observed that the sheriff
bad been put into this strait by the conduct of the plaintiff
or his legal adviser, Mr. Leadbitter, who did not come
very gracefully before the court under the circumstances,
to complain either of the sheriff or the sheriff's officer,
against either of whom, he said, there were no grounds for
a chugs of any culpable writhe of goods.
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and, after an
absence of about half en-hour, they returned into court
with a verdict for the defendant.

THE POLICE COURTS.
WESTMINSTER.

Margaret West, a dirt-looking old drunkard, who has
been upwards of 14 years preying upon the benevolent, was
charged with defrauding the Marchioness of Douro.
It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. May, the house-
keeper, that the prisoner had made repeated applications to
her ladyship, and had been often relieved. Ethe obtained
some more money of her only a few days ago, by writing a
letter representing, amongst a series of pitiable things,
that she had not bad a bit of bread for two days, and that
she had no shoes to her feet.

Light 128 B, was put into the witaess-box te negative
the contents of the letter, and proved sufficient to show
that her ladyship bad been imposed upon. On searching
prisoner's abode he found a few religious tracts, a Testa-
ment, and a pack of cards, by which latter it was pretty
obvious that, when her business grows slack in the begging
letter line with the mistresses, she operates upon the set,
vents as a fortune teller._ _ _

Evidence wee given showing that the prisoner was an
habitual drunkard, that she had repeatedly discharged her-
self from the workhouse, and bad been recently committed
front Marlborough-street for begging.
Mr. Broderip observed that he could not allow this ease
to pass without remarking that if benevolent people would
Five money to persons without inquiring into their deserts,
it was in vain for the magistracy to attempt to stop the
cement of 'imposition. In the present cue it was quite
clear that the defendant was en artful and notoriously
drunken woman, who had abused her ladyship's charity,
and the judgment of the court was defendant's committal
for two mouths to the Bonn of Correction.