The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS

• MANBION-11017811.
Thsophile Bose Ahmed with having received a quan-
tity of silk well linew.ieg_ that it bed been stolen, was
brought wore tho Loa :mayor for Anal itemisation. Mr.
Bean appeared for the proeention, and Mr. Salomon for
the prisoner. The loliowlag is the additional evidence :
Mr. C. Iw Bros, our& to Wean. Home of Monsen-
street, mid— We have an saint at Boulogne. The
director of the nanny 1. Mr. Leone. About Man*
net we rewired a ease from Boulogne. directed to Idr-
Dun
most in Bermondsey. It was dinned to bet at din
Custonhesse ti ogled for. We apprised Mnr. Bonniest
of it on the kith or 17th of Mares, and se afterwards saw
Mr. Bounneet, but be did not clear the box. I afterwards
saw a penes whom I believe to be the primer at the
bar. Be said that he suss on asomat of Mr. Bourmont,
about a case of silk which came from France, and an which
duty had been paid, and that we should not have paid the
duty, as they were &Wish goods ; bat I said we were not
aware of that, IS Mr. Bourmost in writing, as welt as var.
belly, had given Mittman= to clear them. I think he
told me that the goods bad not been in bond in France. I
believe be said that the goods bad been booked In Regent-
circus to go to Franca. I want with the prisoner to Morn.
Lightly end Bison, who Wad as our Cutest-house agents,
and spoke to their manager upon the subject of the return of
duty. Ile said it was very unlikely that the Custom-house
would return it, soles, the person who sent it gave &certifi-
cate that he shipped • ease addressed to the party and •
certificate from the Custom-house agent in Franco.
We then left Masan. Lightly and flinton's warehouse, and
as I was »strung the prisoner spin inquired what was to
be dose. I took a pencil and wrote on paper the names of
the °Militated be would require, and I parted with him la
Catskill. I have never Ins him in the office since, but I
have met him in the Borough two or throe than since last
Marsh. I went on Monday or Tuesday last to Nonni,
and I believe I saw the prisoner there' and if he is not tee
pima he is very much like him. I believe him to WAIN'
person who mime about the goods.
Mr. H. W. Little, clerk to Mesas. Lightly and Simon,
said—ln March last I paid the duty upon the goods re-
hired to in the bill of lading which I produce, and which
goods are the some as those referred to in the month% of
u. lie. led. which was paid by Mr. Houdin, and I gave him
the &mount produced. I saw the good!, which I believe to
he those which have been produced here.
The piaster, upon being asked, awarding to
lied the usual
fors, whether he wished to say anything, rep, " leave
it to my solicitor."
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
Mary Groves and Louisa Wood, wretched paupers, who
have been frequently imprisoned for breaking window*
and lamps, were charged with having smashed a square el
glass in *a house of Messrs. Moon and Bon, outfitters, Is
Aldgate. value 161.
They said they were hungry sad destitute, and Groves
said she would "do so again VMS she cum oat."
Bonet them wee fined and in default nut to Bride-
well for two months.

WESTMINSTER.
lle. Sutherland Hanson, committed two or three days ago
for waist of sureties, on • charge of filthy conduct to • little
girl, was yesterday liberated on his own recogsfeancee, by
order of Mr Peyote', in consequence of that gentleman
having received an important communication upon the
subject Of the alleged offence.
LAMBETH.
Mr. Clarkson, the banister, accompanied by the church
wardens and other °Mom connected with the district
March of St. Matthew, Brixton, and also the Messrs.
Roger., solicitors, attended before Mr. Elliott to make
application for a summons, or nth other proceedings es
his worship might deem fit, against the Rev. Dr. John
Vaughan, the insumbeat of St. Matthew, Brixton.
The learned gentleman said that, on the part of the
churchwardeae of the district church of St. Matthew, Brit.
ton, be had to ask his worship to assist the darn of that
parish in taking proceedings of • eerier character against
the Rev. Dr. John Vaughan, their ineumbeat. By his
(Mr. Clarkson'e) adviee, and with the perfect sanction of
the °Breen of the parish; out of respect to the position of
the rev. doctor, he should make application for a summons,
instead efa warrant. It appeared that the rev. doctor had been
in the habit of keeping the register of burials in that
parish, and the complaint on the part of the churchwardens
was that be bad been is the habit of falsifying the register
for his own personal benefit and advantage. It had been
the practise in the district church to bury not only those
deceased is the district, but at the discretion of the in-
cumbent to buy roans oat of the district in the burial
ground of the throb ; the only difference being that the
fees charged for the burial of persons within the district
wipe only Magee, and for all of those who died without
double, end the charge against the rev. doctor was that he
had been in the habit of scampers applications for the burial
of persons who died out of the district upon the condition
that for such funerals double fees should be paid, and of
falsifying the register by representing that the parties
died within the district. This (continued Mr. Clarkson) has
been done for his own profit, whereby he had been guilty of
au offence which subjected him to severe penalties. (The
learned counsel here read sec. 14 of 62 George 111 , e. 146,
which declared the wield isupertion of a false entry in the
register-book ef marriages, baptisms, and burials to be
felony,the punishment incurred being 14 years' tranaporto
non. A robeersent set vergaireg the offence as before,
altered the purrs...et to seven years' transportation, or
from two to four years' impresario% at the discretion:tithe
ran.) It was • palatal thing far bins to lay facts of this
sort before his worship, bat it would be HMI from the
.position in which the ollicen of the parish were placed,
they bad no other erne to pantie. In consequence of a
ease is which • burl trier sash eirentestances had taken
plum, it roue* necessary to identify the deceased person
who bed bees boned, for the peeper of enabling the
.parties surviving to procure certain moneys in the hands of
the oaten of the Bask of England, and when be had to
state that the complaint sparest the doctor was in
the nature of as situation and false making of
a register is roger to thi plain of @bode ef a
dressed person, his worship would see how im-
p/Meat it was to enforce the mw on the subject, ins.
mush as, in 'ho issuer to which he bad referred, the
Bank of England had hesitated or declined to pay because
the party was not properly ideat'fied. The nature of the
°Once alleged to be committed in the present instance was
by entering the maiden/a of the deceased person in a place
within the dirtier, which would entitle the doctor to single
ens, instead, of the place which he knew to be the actual
reideece of the party desired, through the means of which
'les stained doable fist and wily accounted to the church-
: wardens far single ones. After some further observstions
estedeastory of the technical points cf the case, the learned
counsel called the following witnesses:
Mr. Cremes Malby, rates of the district church of St.
Matthew, Brixton, deposed that he knew the person of the
late Mr. William Raves, who lived at Stockwell grove,
which was without the district thumb of St. Matthew. The
tee payable for the ground to persons residing in the
district was sir shillings, while it was double, or twelve
shillings, to those without. He remembered the applies-
ties to bury Mr. Raven being made by Mr. Hayden, an
mdseteher, in consequence of which witness went with him
te the braes of Dr. Vaughan, the incumbent, and intro
deem& Mr. Hto him. The object the undertaker's
lateriew was too d:a
ascertain if Dr. Vaughanof would take single
Mahe the burial of a body when death took place out of the
dleleist. The doctor's reply wee that be could not take less
them double fat. Dr. Vaughan was told in my presence
where deceased died, viz., at Stockwell-grove. The doctor
made answer to the undertaker " Don't say anything about
it. If anybody asks you where'the funeral came from, say,
Robertstreet; and if they ask what the fees were, you are
to tell a lie as to paying double fees." There was • certificate
of the register of death in the Henningtea district, for
Stockwell-grove is in that district. At all events, it is
certainly not in the district of St. Matthew's, Brixton. The
certificate I have beta speaking of is the one required by
the act of parliameat to be produced by the undertaker
from the registrar of the district where the deceased died.
Mr. Clarkson—What became of the certificate brought by
Hayden, the undertaker?
Witness—He handed it to Dr. Vases's, in my presence.
The fees were paid at that time, via., 11. 15s. obit was the
amlllllli of the double fees. The single ground fee is es. ;
the desk fee for the minister is 3s, ed. ; the clerk's fee,
Is. Bd. ; and the seaten's fee is ee. 4d. ; making altogether
17s. ed. Mr. Hayden paid Dr. Vaughan double that sum,
or 11. 16.. It is the habit of Dr. Vaughan to keep • rough
book, Is which is entered the payment of these feet.
That is the rough book produced. Every interment is
entered in that book. At the date the 19th September,
1854, I find an entry in Dr Vaughen's handwriting as
follows William Rives, Robert-street, 33 years of age,
throe pounds six shillings." Robert-street is in the district
of filt. Matthew. Ido not know what has become of the
certificate of death the undertaker handed to Dr. Vaughan.
Mr. Charles Roger', solicitor to the parish of St. Matthew,
Bellies, produced • copy of the registry of burial of Mr.
Raven, which he bad procured at Briztcn Church. It bore
the signature of Dr. Vaughan, and was • perfect copy from
the register book, and the whole of the entry, with the
exception of the initials of Mr. Easton, the curate, by whom
the ceremony seems to have been performed, was in the
handwriting of the doctor.
Withers* is two other eases, in which the entries in the
register and fee book were falsified, were called. Their
testimony was of a similar character to that given in the
last ear.
The second use related to a person named James Big by,
who died at Guy's Hospital on the 20th November, 1864,
and an wee made to Dr. Vaughan for his burial.
The rec. 51st was kepi at the time that the deceased died
at the hospital, and in to pariah of St. Olave, and he
claimed and resolved double fises, yet only es. was entered in
the fee-book as the meant received, and that was in the
dootor's own handwriting. The third ease related to Jane
Webb, wise else died eat of the district, and for whose burial
doable fees were shamed, yet oely single Mee were entered,
sad faresd at their proper piths of death being entered
memo )lase within the district of St. Matthew was entered.
Is seek elf these awes certificates from the resist/sr had
bees eldehmed by Me.Begere, bet singular to say the original
seediest's ',death, whisk should bare bees carefully Sled,
were
Mr. Prior, one of the churchwardens of the
Modica shatek Mat. Matthew, Nista*, said he came into
ease at Bastes this year, and was what was salted the
limes ekurshwardee. Portions of the book pedalled are
hi Dr. Vaughan's headwritieg. Oa the ef Jose then
is ea retry of the burial of Jane Webb, wits was described
to le 65 years of age, and to have died is Asre-isite, which
wee laths MUM el St. Matthew. The whole of that
'an antigun b peat ia the kuotortdog of Dr. Votehas,