The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-24 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAT.

MANSION-HOUSE.—DEIikreDING IMPRISONMENT.—
A girl, named L. Hickman, was charged with having stolen a
frying-pan. The prisoner, in passing a shop, took the frying-
pan front the place wkere it was deposited for sale, and walk-
trig up to a policeman, said, I have just stolen this." The
policeman felt some " delicacy " about the affair, but she in-
sisted upon being conducted to the Giltspur-street prison. It
was subsequently found that she had lately robbed her mis-
tress in the country, and that her father refused, in conse-
quence of her incorrigible propensity to thieving, to take
even the slightest notice of her.—The Lord Mayor said, that
in such a case he had no alternative but to commit the miser-
able outcast to Newgate for trial.
SOUTHWARK.—DESTITI7IION.—PRISON BARAD.—
Patrick Kingsland and Samuel John, two young men in
a state of destitution, were charged with breaking a square
of glass in the shop-window of a baker named Woodward,
residing in the Dover-road.—Complainant said, about six
o'clock last evening the prisoners entered his shop and de-
manded some bread. lie told them that he had none to give
away, and requested them to leave his shop. They did so, I
and as soon as they got outside both of them pushed their
elbows through a square of glass. After they had committed
the damage they told him they were quite willing to go
to prison, es they were starving with hugger and cold.
They accordingly waited until the arrival of a policeman,
when they were taken into custody.—The prisoners, who
made the same statement before the magistrate, were com-
mitted for 14 days in default of paying the damage, a deci-
sion with which they seemed well pleased.
Rzreatiso • Larren.—An ironmonger, named Lewis,
residing in Blackfriars-road, was summoned, under a recent
act of parliament, for refusing to pay the postage of a letter,
after he had opened it and read its contents.—John Adams,
a letter-carrier, said that he delivered a letter addressed to
the defendant at his house. When he presented the letter
the defendant was about to pay the postage, when his son,
a young man, took it out of his hands, broke the seal open,
and read the contents. After doing so he exclaimed, "The
letter is not for us, father, don't pay for it." The father
accordingly refused to pay the postage. Witness took the
letter to the Post-office, but was ordered to take it back and
insist upon the postage being paid. He left it at the
defendant's house.—The defendant said the letter was
opened by his son in mistake, and finding it was not far him
he returned it. It would be a hard case to compel a man to
pay for that which he had no right to, and as mistakes of
that kind were not of unfrequent occurrence, although the
postage was only 2d., still upon principle he refused to com-
ply with the demand.—The postman said that the letter in
question was addressed as the defendant's letters were gene-
rally addressed, and that there was no other Mr. Lewis
living about there.—ln answer to Mr. Seeker, the defendant
said ho mislaid the letter and had not it with him.—Mr.
Seeker was surprised at such an omission, for if the letter, as
he asserted, did not belong to him, he ought to have taken
particular care of it, and to have it ready to produce. The
magistrate then inflicted a penalty of 51. on the defendant,
besides awarding him to pay the postage and ss. costs.

I,AMBETH.—CHARGE OP FOROERY.—SINOULAR CASE.
—Yesterday, Thomas Pies, alias Hubert &matey, alias
Peersie, alias Franks, a stout, aged man, who was described
in the police sheet as a " gentleman," was placed at the bar,
before Mr. Norton, on a chargenf wilfully forging the name
of Hubert Stanley to a bill of usehange for Ott 4s. Id., with
intent to defraud Mr. William Ryan, a wholesale stationer,
of No. 10, Merchant's-quay, Dublin. Mr. Ryan stated that
in the month of April last the prisoner took a paper-mill,
called Ballylough, near Rathcormsc, in the vicinity of Dub-
lin, in the name of Hubert Stanley, and he was introduced
to him by his landlord, who was a particular friend of his,
as " Mr. Stanley, a gentleman of considerable property,
from London, who had taken the mills, and who was about
to carry them on with great spirit." Soon after this he had
done some business with the prisoner, and the latter being
in his debt to the amount of 681. 4s. Id., desired hint to draw
a three months' bill for that sum, and he would accept it.
Witness accordingly drew the bill, and the prisoner accepted
it in his own counting-house, in the name " Hubert Stank y."
Soon after this witness came to London, and inconsequence of
information which he received made inquiries at No. 7,
Bradshaw-street, Old Kent-road, when he learned quite
sufficient to satisfy him that Hubert Stanley was an assumed
name, and that Thomas Pim was the real name of the pro-
prietor of Ballylough-mills and the acceptor of his bill of
exchange. On his return to Dublin, he found that Mr
Stanley had absc mdcd, and made a hasty retreat from
Ireland, and from that time until yesterday morning, he
had not seen him. The prisoner had been his own
referee in the matter, as the reference he gave was to a Mr.
Fumes, No. 7, Bradshaw-street, Old Kent-road, the very
house which his wife and family occupied, so that
the note, which represented him to be a man of high
respectability and property, had been written by himself hn
Dublin and forwarded to London, received and put into
the post here, and found its way hack to Mr. Jones in the
usual course. On arriving in London, a day or two ago, he
gave information of the forgery to the police, and a descrip-
tion of the prisoner, and, on that morning, he met him in
the Kent-road not far from his house, and gave him into
custody. The prisoner then admitted his real name was
Pim, and that he had accepted the bill in an assumed one.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that he had taken
the paper mills, near Dublin, in the name of a friend, who
was soon to have succeeded him, but who had since gone to
America. It was his intention to have paid every person,
and there would have been abundance of property. on the
concern to do so and leave a surplus, but for the issuing out
of a process of law with which he was not acquainted, and
which swept away, wholesale, ten times the amount of pro-
perty for a debt of 3.31.—Mr. Norton, after looking over the
authorities on the subject, was of opinion that he had no
jurisdiction in the case, the forgery having been committed
in Dublin. The case was one which, in his (Mr. Norton's)
opinion, required investigation, and, therefore, the officer
might, if Mr. Ryan thought proper, convey the prisoner to
Dublin, to be dealt with by the magistrates there.—Mr.
Ryan said he certainly should take the responsibility of
taking the prisoner to Dublin, as he had ascertained that for
many years he lived by taking paper mills and swindling
carious persona—The prisoner, who seemed very anxious to
arrange the matter, was then removed from the bar.