The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-26 00:00:00

,' TRIRR COURT.
(Befogs Abe Neiman Serjesnt)
aareswelintrter, alias Clements, 41, dessibed u a stationer,
was indicted for unlawfully obtaining by false pretences
from' °engine Towhee the sum of one sovereign, with intent
to defraud. Is a second dount be was eharged_with a simi-
lar fraud on Mary Ann Harrison, and in a thdrd taunt with
a like fraud on Ann Jones.
Mr. Law conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Sleigh dr '
fended the priamier.
The prisoner is the individual who for some time past hes
been victimising respectable females by advertising for
tousekespers, and under pretence o 1 being the pro-
prietor el an hotel at Wootton, in the Isle of Wight, ob-
taining from them various sums of money. By the exer-
tions of Holmes and Brickler, two intelligent and active
officers of the M division of the metropolitan police, the
prisoner was apprehended, when no less than forty similar
crises to the present were developed, by the correspondence
which was found at a miserable lodging occupied by the
Pprisoner in one of the most miserable courts in Drury-
ane, while at the time he was representing himself as •
man of property.
Mr. Sleigh addressed an ingenious defence to the jury,
who, however, without any hesitation, returned • verdict of
The Common Serjeant said that this was • system of the
most cruel and heartless robbery, and sentenced the prisoner
to three years' penal servitude on the first count of the
indictment, one year more on the second count, and another
year on the third count, making in all five yams' pea
servitude.

FOURTH COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
Joseph Brown, 31, haver-maker, wee indicted for fe-
loniously uttering a forged Bank of England note for 51.
There wee • sewed indictment charging the uttering of two
forged U. Bank of England notes.
Mr. Giffard and Mr. Matthews prosecuted ; and Mr.
Metcalfe sad Mr. Taylor defended the prisoner.
The evidence disclosed that one of the notes in question
had been paned by the prisoner toe Mr. Luke Murray, who
keeps a public-home in Farringdoontreet, and another to
a lb. Daniell, end a third to a Mr. Staines, who keeps the
Alms Arms beernhop, in the Caledonian-mad. The
evidence brought the charges clearly home to the prisoner,
who, on his apprehension, after promising that be would go
quietly with the officers, made • sudden rush from them,
and was only capered spin after • run of a mile.
The jury fmed the prisoner Guilty, and it was proved
that he had been Wore three times convicted, twice len-
Inmeed to aweless menibs imprisonment, and once to four
The
nawileiles
The Recorder new sesismed him to tan years' penal
servitude.
Ann Reyna/42,26, spinster, and Mary Ann Reynolds, 19,
spinster, were indicted for a robbery, with violence, o•
Avery, and stealing from him a watch, his property.
The fads of the case have been so recently detailed to
the public that a brief recital will suffice. The presenter,
an elderly gentleman, was passing homewards about 'quarter
part 12 o'clock at night, and when going along the Wal-
worth.road, near the Elephant and Castle, he was knocked
down by the two primers and his watch snatched from
his pocket. The prisoners were secured and the watch was
found on the mot,
The jury found both mimeses Gritty, and Reynolds, who
had been before convicted, was seetemed to three years' peed
servitude, and Humphries to six months' imprisonment.
Lewis Lewis, 32, lettercarrier, was indicted for stealing
a post letter, containing an order for the payment of
11. 7s. Bd. the property of her Majesty's Postmaster.
General.
Mr. Clark and Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, and Mr. Montagu
Williams defended the prisoner.
The facts were these. The prisoner was a letternarrier,
acid • money order had been sent on the 10th of September
from Midair, for 11. 7s. 6d., to the Milos of the (Arabes
World, in Paternoster-row, and the prisoner purloiessi the
letter, and affixing the signature d the party on whom
the order had been drawn, obtained the payment of it
through the instrumentality of lad named Evans, who
proved that fact, and clearly identified the prisoner OA the
man who had employed him he that purpose.
The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of
Deasy, cod
The Recorder sentenced him to three years peal
servitude.
S4/11114i Geoeye Driver, 25, letter-carrier, was indicted for
stealing two 51. Bank of England notes out of a post letter,
the of Her Melody's Podurastee-Oeneral.
Orridge defended the prisoner.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner was em-
ployed to deliver registered letters, and the one containing
the note in question had been entreated to him for delivery
to a person named Cotton, at Walworth. This letter be
did not deliver until late in the evening of the day on which
it ought to have reached Mr. Cott°, by the first morning's
post. On opening the letter Mr. Cotton found that the
contents had been abstracted, and Sane, the Post-office
constable, ascertained that the prisoner had changed the
notes about 12 o'clock on the day the letter came into his
hands ; and upon searching a drawer at his lodging, four
new sovereigns were found, end the prisoner said they had
been saved by him to pay some ground rents for his
mother, but on further search there was found a receipt
for the very ground rents in question, which the prisoner
bad paid the same day after changing the stolen notes at
the Bank.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
him to mercy ; and
The Recorder sentenced him to three years' penal servi-
tude.