The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-06 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD coURT.-11Pfore Mr. litstlee Erie.
FOICIERY.— W. Edwards, 36, described as a cattle-dealer,
wax indicted for feloniously forging an indorsement on a bill
of exchange for 251., with intent to defraud Francis Edward
Tucker, and Charlotte Edwards, his mother, was indicted for
harbouring and maintaining him, knowing that he had com-
mitted the forgery. Another person, named Mary Ann
Underwood, wax also charged as a principal, but did not
appear to take her trial. It appeared tromthe evidence
that the prosecutor was a Mr. Butt, a solicitor at Ryde,
and he was concerned for a lady named Charsley,
residing in 13rompton-crescent, and was in the
habit of remitting to her sums of money to which she eras
entitled as interest. On the 23rd January he sent her a
bill, drawn by the Hampshire Banking Company upon
Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co., for the sum mentioned, in
favour of Miss Charsley, payable ten days after that
date. By some accident it would seem that the letter
was sent to the house of the female prisoner in
Brompton-square, and which it was stated was of a
disreputable character ; and it appeared that it got
into the possession of Underwood, one cf the inmates,
who assumed the name of Cbarsley. Very soon afterwards
the bill came into the possession of the male prisoner, who
took it to Mr. Tucker to be discounted, and on his remark-
ing that it must be endorsed by Miss Charsley, he took it
away and brought it again soon afterwards with the name
of Mary Anne Chantey written across it. Inquiries were
subsequently made, which led to the apprehension of the
male prisoner, when he admitted the share he had
taken in the transaction, but denied that there was
any guilty knowledge on his part, asserting that
the bill had been given to him by Miss Underwood,
who represented it had been given to her by a Capt. Butt
f w her favours, and that he had got it discounted at her re-
quest. The evidence against the female prisoner was, that
when the police went to the house to inquire after Miss Un-
derwood, or Miss Charsley, as she represented herself, she
made some false statements, and by that means enabled her
to abscond.—The jury acquitted the male prisoner, and
found the woman guilty of harbouring Underwood.—Sen-
tents deferred.
THIRD MM.—Before Mr. Commissioner Bullock and Alderman

BlGAMT.—Elizabeth raile;y— alias CO, itl, was indicted
for having feloniously intermarried with Ja mes Caine, her
husband, William 3/ ickery, being alive.—The prisoner's sis-
ter, who seemed much affected, was called, to prove the first
marriage, which took place, she said, at St. Leonard's,
Shoreditch, in the summer of 1834, the prisoner at that time
being but 15 years old. The witness said that elle saw
liamTickery, to whom the prisoner wall married, a day raw*
before the present sessions.—J. Cosine stated that he lived in
Short's-gardens, Drury-lane. The prisoner went to live with
him as housekeeper, under the representation that she was a
single woman. They were afterwards married at St. Martin's.
in-Ole-Fields. About three weeks after the marriage they se-
pirated, and the prisoner went to live in a neighbouring street.
The prisoner had prior to that, but subsequently to their mar-
riage, told him that she had been a married woman, and
that her husband had died, but that she afterwards denied,
and said she was divorced from him. He made inquiries,
and the result wu his giving her into custody on the present
charge.—The prisoner asked Mr. Cosine the cause of their
separation.—The witness answered it was because she became
immoderately addicted to drinking.—The. prisoner denied
this, and said that she voluntarily left Coons on account of
his brutal conduct towards her. In her defence the prisoner
said she bad been married at the age of 16 to Vickery, who
soon afterwards left her, and she had not seen or heard of
him for ten years. After the intimacy between her
and Cosine had begun, and while he was pressing
her to marry him, she went to Norwich to
evade him, but he followed her, and renewed his
proposals with uning assiduity, at length, as her friends
at Norwich assured her that her Ant marriage was not