The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-10 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLe Covar.—Behee the Common serjeant
CRLIOI OF FORGERY ON A SAVINGS BANl.—E,ther
popped, 31, and Joseph Bagged, 14, her son, were jointly
indicted for uttering a forged order for the payment of 201.,
with intent to defraud Lord Bexley and others, the trustees
of the St. Martin's-lane Savings Bank. Mr. Donne, who
appeared for the prosecution, said that the present charge
was instituted under them, circue stances :—The husband of
the female, and the father of the other prisoner, had saved a
little money, which he placed in the savings bank; and it
appeared that the prisoners had obtained the amount speed
' fled in the indictment from the trustees by means of an order
to which the forged signature of the husband was attached.
The learned counsel said it was believed the prisoners had
been made the dupes. of other parties ; and taking into cowl-
duration the connexion between them and the prosecutor,
he was desirous, with the consent of the court, to withdraw
from the prosecution. The prisoners were accordingly ac-
quitted.
_ Before the Recorder.

SHOCKING Errecr or Iterzatrznatecs.—George
Wof-
ford, 12, toll-collector, was indicted for feloniously cutting
and wounding Zechariah Longman, with an intention to
murder or to do him some grievous bodily harm.—The
prisoner, who is a married man, occupied a portion of '
the lame house with the prosecutor and his wife, and they I
were on very friendly terms. On the 22nd Much the prisoner '
came home about ten o'clock at night, apparently slightly
intoxicated, and the prosecutor assisted him upstairs to his
bed-room. In a very short time he came down again, and
began calling out tt Fire," and making a great disturbance,
and upon the wife of the prosecutor coming out to ask what
wu the matter, he made some inquiry of her respecting his
dog, and upon her telling hint that the dog was in his
room, he immediately seized her by the throat, and was
abou troceed to further violence when the prosecutor
interposed and laid hold of the prisoner, who immediately
attacked him in a most savage manner with a razor, and in-
flicted several severe wounds upon his face and head, and
when he fell to the ground exhausted from loss of blood, the
prisoner ran upstairs to his own room, and upon the police-
man going to approach him, it was discovered that he had
cut his own throat ; the injury he had inflicted, however, not
being of a very serious character. There did not appear to
have been any motive for the prisoner's conduct, and the
transaction seemed merely to have been an ebullition of
drunken passion.—The jury found the prisoner Guilty on
the second count of the indictment, and he was sentenced to
be transported for 15 years.

Na. Conn.—Before the Common Serjeant.
BIGAMY.— William Frederic Manville, a Frenchman,
was indicted for bigamy. The prisoner was arrested on the
13th of March last, by Inspector Shackell, of the detective
force, when he was told that the prosecutria was one Esther
Betty, who charged him with having married her, his wife,
Julia, being alive. The certificates now produced showed
that on the 9th of May, 1821, the prisoner was married to
Julia Ann Oreatbead, and that in April, 1839, he was
united, at St. George's, Hanover-square, to Esther Betty. It
wu proved that the prisoner's first wife was alive a few days
ago. Mr. Clarkson, in addressing the jury for the defence,
urged that, at the time of the second marriage, Esther Betty
and her mother well knew that the primmer had a wife
living, for she dwelt within a for doors of them. Guilty,
Sentence, 6 months' hard labour,