The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1855.

lbw sempleiwal dad addle had been beano! with Mr.
Melia nada Mee gealowees. Oa former measles the
lasslmat twk the bassit of the act, and resolved. Wir-
eless of to swathe fee masking away with property.
Mr. Commissimser Phillips dwslt ort the sem as amaly
gossadag to a snaltiag sway with wroparty, and to false
paileallek The hour puha oaly fulled breams Mr. Martin
maid Mee does dm work from his previous knowledge of
Illabiliesat. It wee. however, a sue for the fill muds,
dtkoolosoa
Mb Zoom possums& a jagottot of six maths' is.
joilosiont.

MORRIS v. BEIRT.—To the Editor of the Daily
Now.—Bir, will you allow ms to state that I am sot the ae-
feadast in the action of " Morris v. Berry," which appears
is your Bachreiser »port of this day ?—I am, air, your
obedient messy JOillalL BUMS. 27, Bsoklenbury, Jane
16,1866.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.--Joitz 16.
=VMS TEE 11a1:06110.

Throw Groom, 18, a respectable looking ruse man,
was charged with obtaining mosey by lake prelacies, and
the indictment also contained • smut for weeping,.
Mr. ballantias and Mr. Poised coadeeted the presses-
tioa ; Mr. Fury and Yr. Sleigh were counsel for the de-
fendant.
The prosecutor of this indictment was • Mr. Abed, who
with his brother carries en the business of • gold sad silver
edger in St. Jameerstrecit, Clorkeswell. It appeared that
ea. Saturday, the bth of May, a man whom he was unable
to identify, bat who repudiated his mine to be Abdomen.
went to the prosecutor's house and offered for sale what
appeared to be a bar of silver, and he at the emu time
produced an assay paper, which denoted that a portion of
the metal had bees tested by the proper authority, sad
that it was composed of • certain quatity of gold
sad silver to the pound troy, whisk rendered it
worth nearly • pound as onus. Mr. Abed slightly
tested It by robbing it against a stage, and having no
suspicion of saything wrong, he purchased the bar of metal
for 621. be., paying with twenty sovereigns and a cheque for
the balance. After the man was gone' It appears from
something that occurred Mr. Abed cut the bar of instal
through, and he thee discovered that he hod been the victim
of a mast Ingest/me freed. the bulk of the metal being
copper, eased over with silver in the stickiest possible Eau
an, we beteg taken to leave madmen thises of the
mac vulgable metal at the Genre, he • poetise to be cut
el for the purpose et being assayed. Upon the dismay
M the fraud Mr. Abed procured the minus* of an °Seer
gemmed Spinal, and on the following Monday he mended
to the London and Westminster Bank, where the shame
was made payable, and shortly after the beak had
been opened the cheque woo presented by a man
sassed Martin, and upon the Ulcer questioning him, he
said be had been sent to get the cheque cashed by his em-
ployer. who turned out to be the prisoner, who carries on
the buisess of • watah-esse maker and geld sad silver re-
lIIR in John-street, Cheitanwell. The officer at aces prow
seeded with Martin la • cab to the prisoner's house, and as
they were going alias Moeda prof used • woad bar of what
=tto be either. whisk be said the primmer had given
ell to • refuse in Jewth-strest, for five shillings an
eumee.aad he also peedused an assay paper. This bar was
:=l:ttly eat smiler. and it was then discovered to be
h coypu is amody the seas meaner as the one
deli to Mr. Abed. The assay paper also bore the nano of
Amlinces, and Maeda stated, I. answer t, the gullies' put
Si SIM, that ho bad written the name of Anderson upon
both the tray papers, at the request of the prisoner.
Vpos the pritoger being questioned, he at sees admitted
that he had sent the chigoe to be gashed, gad he said
that ea the Saturday afternoon be had reesived it from a
whom be knew by the some of Aadenoa, to whom
rereliserd sold five agues of lam gold ; and he also said that
he purchased the tear of silver that was ia Martin's pour
dos of the same pommy sad gave Idea Cm 10.1. en emu for
it. The ellen enriched Ma been, and feud sound
wedges rempt7ed of esgpr, wad use of the wet sine of
thole which were eased over with silver; sad there wes
oleo the model of a mould which appeared to be calculated
fir the making of similar articles. It also appeared that a
short time bees the prisoner's servant Martin had, at his
maul, pawned an article which appeared to be • bar of
gold, and obtained 124. 10c. as a loan upon it ; sad that, in
consequence of sowsaspdo• that subsequently arose, this
bar was an across, sad woe found to be a wedge of
copper cod over with gold. These wen the pie.
cipal facts of the sate, and in crose•examination it
was stated to be a comma thing in the trade
for bars of this deseriptioa to pass from one hand to another
at a small profit; and Martin, the prisoner's assistant,
swore that wheat he pawned the supposed bar of gold, he
had no suspicion that it we not genuine, and he said he
did not think the prisoner knew it any more than he did.
He likewise said that on the bth of May the prisoner directed
him to make an carry in the book of the purchase of a bar of
silver, but be Laid he neglected to do so.
Mr. Parry addressed the jury at ease lougtk on behalf
of the prisoner, and he contended that he had bees stalls
the dupe of Anderson, who wee really the guilty party. He
urged upon their attention that the prisoner bad at once
' assured all the truth:es that were put to him, and had
net attempted the lent concealment; and that, whatever
stupid= might be attached to the transaction, the oviduct'
' was not sufbedeatly emelesive to justify them in convicting
the prisoner.
The Recorder heels( summed up, the jury, after a short
giberation, returned • verdict of Not away.

NEW COURT.--,Turm 16.
MOP Tin MIXON i!ZILI4I%

At a late beer- Friday evening lb; young German,
Peter BeswisktAaistlae, who wits convicted upon Widnes-
dap_ before the Iteeerder was brought up for sentence.
The lowidost la passing sentence said that sines the pri.
ma w% essvistion circumstances bad a.m. to his know.
ledge that pissed his previous conduct in a worse light than
it did at the 461 The odium, that of robbing is about
twenty isistemees houses, where he bad by false pretences
ebtekesd Web's, wee bed enough, but the primmer had
by making honourable minden, sought to gain the an
tious of a highly respectable young lady, whom after Ida
apprehension he :had @mkt to vilify in the hems% manner,
to intimidate her frees vilest him, and also to
extort money forty lifred:ll6 defence. The young
lady had very prepsrly appeared, and he (the Recorder)
was bound to say that he never baud a witse s give her
evidence with more propriety, and he utterly disbelieved the
prisoner's base insiavAtiove. Sentence five years' penalties-
vitude.
Tb• courts sit again on Monday, July 2.

'edema ha than hamled bee a letter addressed "Mr.
Lee." oontainiag a said, at the same time giviag her strict
ialaaatioas not to brass the seal, latish was her Majesty's.
asd ha, moreover. with groat sendmeensioa, kindly offered
to Wad her hone, foe nee daring bar absence. She pro-
, 'Gaud the letter to a policeman. who interrupted her
progress at the door of this Maas, who, cossiderimg there
wee some hoax, with her permission nod it, when it was
feud to oastma sotbiag hat a 'a said. Otto
artlessly told *a atiastable her story, when horocommesoded
bet to hasten home, and me whether her holm was robbed.
She did so, and tits, discovered that hal coah drawer bad
bees rifted of its conteats, and that her lodger had ato
waded leaving behind hits a document indicating that be
was a tioket•of-leave man."
la answer to as inquiry from the magistrate, the poor
woman, who was ia great distress of mind. said she had no
Mu where the fellow bad rise .to.
The magistrate commiserated her inifortaao, and granted
her a warrant.

WV/kOnir-oaKbiszba.
Robin Promo, a tall man ist savegs aspect, was
with bating brutally treated sad seriously Inland keirairg,
who wee in an advaaosd Mate of pregusasy.
The complainant, a deists look*/ Town woman, was
seated during her examination. Her fees was shockingly
swollen and disfigured.
_both her eye, blackened, and her
lower jaw appals ontsamillthethred or inland to lush Si *stoat
that she wee Me te artisulate. After onisiderable
difficult, is woo her that she was within Ss
weeks other mamma% and had only ban married about
eight swaths to the plainer. who bad sublossed her to a
course of unvarying 111 trothmeat clarion the winds of that
period. Oa the alght of Wednesday last, the misintereststhed
home partially intoziaated. and while they wee* noosed at
supper be suddenly started up, and, without the slightest
provocation,sun& her a terrible blow ea the hos, which
knocked her oat of her Muir. As soca as she bad recovered
herself she endeavours' to thumps from the seem, bat was
iatereepted by the peinemer who dished her dews upon the
door, and throwing himeslt apes her, grasped bar tightly
by the throat. and bon her dews with such tenacity that
one was almoat striagied. gym bearing the uproar her
sister hastened down to her assistance; but the moment she
made her appearance the prisoner commenoed a ferocious
attackupon her and drove her out of the apartment. Ina
few initiates, however, her sister returned with a policeman,
but notwithstanding his !natal viclenee towards her, witness
deelthed to eve bar busbaad into custody, and the Instant the
editor had left the place the prisoner renewed his brutality,
black's ed both horsy es as they now appthred,snd so seriously
is her jaw-bone that the had been ever due unable to
uthe sameness.. She was ultimately rescued, and waisted
to bed by some of the neighbours, under whom advice also
afterwards obtained a warrant foe his apprtheasion. The
poor soma who bad daimons& her evidenee under a con-
flawed effort to este herself from fainting, immediately
upon its socinsies fell back in string coavabioss of suck
au alarming obersetth that the magistrate at ones ordered
a cab to he Ted, is which she wee conveyed to the
Workhouse
The complabiant's sister, a respectable-looking young
person, wave corroborative evidence.
Mr 'Hanunill forcibly animadverted upon the cruel and
cowardly conduct of the prisoner, and ordered him to be
remanded to await the malt of his unnatural violets:o.
SOTITHWARK.
Jobs Elliot Hollow, alias the Rev. Mr. Hadlow, alias the
Roe. Mr. Norman, alias the Rev Mr. Merie, an, elderly
little man, dressed in a very shabby suit of black, with •
dirty white neckcloth, and a superfluity of bushy grey whis-
kers, end a bald head, was charged. with obtaining • half.
crown from Mr. Jellies Wood (a scripture reader and distri-
butor of the Rev. Ks. liregmen's charities) under false and
(mistiest proliseess
Kr. Weed seated that Kr. Spurgeon had received a letter
from the Omer, whist' woe of considerable length, setting
forth his extreme poverty, and making for relief. He was
depu tad to maks inquiries about the prisoner. He called
upon bin at his address, and not finding him at hams he
wrote, asking kw as interview. At this meeting the pri-
soner told a long aad melancholy story of his =rutty.
He mid hie wife bad died in a madhouse, leav-
ing him with four children ; that hi was an or-
dathod minister of the church of Hrgland, but In con-
sommes of some smite= with a young woman, he had
" a fall," from which he bad been able to recover
himself. Siam then hie views with regard to baptism were
somewhat altered, and he loft the established church. Wit-
ness believing there was some truth in what he said, gave
him half-inorown, and !appointed to meet him again. la the
mean time, however, be discovered his real character, and
that all be bad told him was false. At the second later-
view witness took with him Kr. Hereford, the Mendieity
Society's oilier, who at on recognised him VI an old
affeader, and took him lath custody.
From he statement of the clerk to the Mendicity Society
it appeared that the prisoner had been known as a clerical
impostor tor nearly twenty-seven years, in which time be
had been convicted 'lona times at different police statics%
and he had been sees in the street begging and writing cm
the present.
Mr. A'Betikett, after perusing the letters written by the
r anti he was quite astonished that any one should
reitstoneebetiu taken in by such letters as thaw. The obvious
cant which the letters contained would have been sufficient
to awaken suspicion in any mind. The prisoner had, how-
ever, ban charged with fraud, and perhapi some other
charges wouldbe Wrought against him ;he should, there-
fore, remand him.