The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-27 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-ROUSE.
Charles Greenwood and William rrouibridge, two car-
men, were charged with forging and ntteriug a quantity of
toll-gate tickets, with intent to defraud their employer,
Mr. Philip Lewis, 57, Bishopegate.street Without, furnish-
ironmonger.
r. Wontner attended for the prosecution ; the priso-
ners had no solicitor.
Both the prisoners were in the service of the prosecutor
as carmen, and it was the custom to give them each ss.
every Monday morning for the purpose of paying the tolls
- at the different gates through which they would have to pass
, with their carts when delivering goods, and on the follow-
ing timidity they had to deliver the balance of any money that
MIDLAND CIRCUIT. w— .. ARWICK, MARCH O.
they retained, and to account for the difference by produc.
leg the toll tickets; which Mr. Lewis, after seeing
CIVIL SLDN.—(Before theßight Hon. Lord Chief Jeliloo that the balance was correct, threw into the waste-
Cockburn.) paper basket. From information which Mr. Lewis received
=MDT v. BROWN AND win. —VII IHMTEN CARL he took particular notice of the tickets which were brought
Mr. Kennedy opened his own case, and stated that he to him by the two prisoners, and had a suspicion that the
sought to recover from defendants the sum of 20.0001, as dates had been erased and altered, which induced him to
remuneration due to him for prosecuting the defendants' mark them as they brought them in, and on Monday
dam to the Swinton estates. The defendant had *me amongst the tickets which Greenwood brought in were
Intridid, and she and her husband now put four pleas on
111.11111, one of which stated that no such settlemeet was three which had been brought in previously, and bore the
agreed upon, that they had paid for services, and that he mark. The dates bad been altered. Amongst those
brought in by Trowbridge were live which also bore the
bad acted illegally in acting as attorney and Mee. mark, so that it appeared that the prisoners by some means
and that be hail been guilty of illegal =natural**.
He Mr. Kennedy) would only say that it was • dies that " had gained possession of the old tickets, and instead of
panting through the toll-gates bad gone out of their way to
sa be established by evidence, and not by a speech, and avoid them, then altered the dates of the old ticketa, gave
be would deal very shortly with the opening. He sought them in as though they had paid the tolls, and deducted the
to recover 20,000/. for services which be had rendered, and money amrdi°Y* When taken into custody they both
rendered under the most extraordinary circumstances. For acknowledgedhaving
those services the female defendant had herself promised altered the tickets, and upon their
lodgings being searched a large quantity of old ton tickets
the amount named to him, and had signed a deed for that were found, amongst which Mr. Lewis identified some that
amount. The service he had done the defendant was to be bad marked.
restore her to large estates, known as the Swinton Rates, The prisoners were both remanded.
and to that cause he had devoted some of the most WORSHIP-STREET.
valuable years of his life, meeting with all kinds of avow Riotherford, a stunted youth, was charged before
obstacles and opposition, asking many enemies, and at Mr. Leigh with hammy,
the same time sacrificing the most valuable prospects of In this case it was proved that the prisoner, who lived
his life. During the time he was conducting the case the with a poor widowed mother at liomerton, had stolen two
defendant made him the most liberal offers and promisee, pocket-handkerchiefs from persons la the neighbourhood
declaring that she would be a sister to him, and that she of Victoria-park.
would compensate him for all he suffered in her cause, and Mr. Leigh, after an attentive hearing, said—l am desirous
that he should share her good fortune whatever it might of Needing this boy to a reformatory, but must miter-
be. He never made any ungenerons or illegal stipulation tunately there are not any vacancies in them or in the ship!
with her. He only made such a bargain as his services en- Cornwall and Akhbur—thus we are getting back to tbe old
titled him to. AfterlBs9, when the decree was made that system, and surely this should cot be so, the difficulty
established her in possession of her property, she agreed meets vas each sucosedine day, and I mar ern at• leas whet
that he was entitled to this remuneration and emu cantle to adopt under the difficulty. I don't wish to *n-
atter that she executed a deed at his request, Act in this case, yet I have oo alternative unless I discharge
giving him a *Tendon in the estate. This deed the prisoner—let him be remanded.
was at Ant intended to be security for the sum proposed, An excavator named Oakey. who is the principal witness
but at her rgnest it was put into the form of an absolute la the matter, here observed—" Then I hope, dr. that you
gltt and she Bedard at • later period that she regarded it will allow me my expenses, as I have lost a day's work
4Msyond a question man wetted gift. They had not on the through attending here to give evidence.
defendant's side pleaded the deed as an answer to the Mr. Leigh—l really cannot order you anything—doubt-
charge, and they nought now to take from him the mousy lese it is a very hard denial, but the only funds at my
by saying that the deed was sot a gift. No compkint was disponi are those of the poorbox, devoted, as you must
made until October, 1801 and then she not ouly heck. her be well aware, to a far different purpose than the dotterel
other promises to plaintiff, bier she sought to take hack from of expenses for attendance here.
him her own gift. She wrote a letter to him to give the deed Witness—But I've no chance of getting my day's money,
up on the ground that he had °beaked it by fraud. In the rage which is 41. 6d., and there's • family dependent upon me.
of the moment, for her waded manly drove him out of his Mr. Safford (clerk of the court)—AU that could be Lomnardetreet, in the City of London, inted and Published by Mature Sew Hates, of 140. 6,
_ Printer, at to.
Pr
mind, he resolved to publish the whole facts of the case in ordered, sir, aooording to the present scale, would be Is. oftk,,, ii, Lombard-street.. in the Precinct of whitorwa,
a pamphlet, and so show Ave condo* to the whole world, for four hosts' attendance, and 2s. 6d. for six hours, TIIVr.SDAY, MARCH *7.136*.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

CORBETT.—March RI, at Clowne I, Ireland, the wife of Dr. Cot,
bat, Boyd Artillery, of a daughter.
CUMING.—March 23, at Wellington-place, Belfast, the wife of
Dr. Canting, of • daughter.
FARREL—March 24, at Boltonstreet, Piccadilly, the wife of
W. J. liner, bq., of a son.
FORSTEIL—March PJ, the wife of W. Forster, Iwo., of Herring-
ton Hill Bowe, Durham, of a son.
NORTH.—March 22, at Brighton, the wife of the Rev. J. IL
North, of a son.
PORTEUS. —Horeb gt, at Victoria-park. Manchester, the wife of
Captain Porten*, of a daughter.
BUST.—March 24, at Amherst-road East, Hackney, the wife of
C. F. W. Rust, Esq., of a daughter.
'INSURABLE —March 23, at Broad•trect, Canterbury, the wife
I of Mr. & tihrubsole, of • son.