The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-07 00:00:00

of a debt due to the plaintiff from a certain Professor Keller,
against whom process had been cued oat, the officer basing,
as was alleged, failed through his own negligence in exe-
cuting the warrant —Mr. Knowles and Mr. J. Henderson
were for the plaintiff; Mr. Martin, Mr. Crampton, and
Mr. Atherton, for the defendant —Profeseor Keller, as he
was called, was, it appeared, the manager a 1 and principal
performer in, a group of artistes, who, in the course of
the last year, represented, in various parts of the country,
subjects taken from the antique and celebrated paint-
ings, the figures, male and female, being arranged on •
pedestal which turned round, so so to exhibit the com-
position to the spectators in all its different points of
view, Mr. Keller was a powerful man, with large beard
and moustache, and possessing a singular command over
the muscles of the forearm, by the movement of which he
beat time to the music. The professor, however, unfortu-
nately had got into debt, hie performances in London not
having been very successful. He came down to 13irming-
ham, and thence to Liverpool, where he wax engaged
to jorform at a theatre erected in the Zoolomeal
Gardens. The plaintiff IMe. Howden) was a creditor
to when. the " professor " owed something better (cr
worse) than 100!., and, in the hope of enforcing the pay-
ment of his money, had followed Mr. Keller to Liver-
pool. A writ had been sued out, and, under a judge's order,
the plaintiff was empowered to hold Mr. Keller to bail, on
the ground of his being about to leave the country. The
warnents reach, d the hands of the offleer, a person of the
name of Lawton, on Wednesday, the Bth of July. On that
very evening Mr. Keller was to perform at the theatre in
the gardens, and thither Mr. Lawton, in the company of
Mr. Howden, repaired. Mr. Ilowden pointed cut Keller,
who was exhibiting studies from the ancient statues, and
personating Cain in a group of "Cain and Abel." Mr.
liowden, u ill little revezetice for the ideal, saw nothing in
Cain or the antique statues but his simple debtor, Mr.
Keller, are pressed Mr. Lawton strongly at once to execute
her klejesty's sit on the First Homicide, or the Apollo, or
the Dying Gladiator, as might be must convenient. Mr.
Lawton, however, " albeit unused," seemed to have been
restrained by a kind of superstitions ewe, from anything so
profane—to gay nothing of the fact that the stage was come
six Let two above the ground, that the troupe were
aware of the danger of the chef, and prepared for
resistance, together with the advantage of being able to leave
the aggressor", in • twinkling, in the dark, amid the labyrinths
of the scenes, should • seizure be attempted. Mr. Lawton,
therefore, thought it better to wait and intercept his victim
se he left the gardens. Accordingly, after the perforninnee
was o'er they waited for this purpose between the ge-dens
and the hotel adjoining, at which Mr. Kelksr was ate} ing.
In due time a hat, cloak, beard, end moustache, which
could belong to no one but that gentleman, made their ap-
pesr-ince, and their identity ;was corroborated by the fact
that oa the nem of the figure that bore them leaned, beyond
ell doubt, Mrs. Keller. The officer intimated in the usual
way his desire for • further acquaintance with llr. Keller.
Mrs. Keller wept; presented the professor with some money
—a matter, else was aware,necessary to one's comfortable ex-
istence is ale ck.up—and Mr. Keller, after a hurried embrace
to his child woe switched away in the clutches of the law.
On arriving, however, at hie place of durance, the "cap-
tion" peace. dod to disembamas himself of his heard and
moustache, and appeared in • new character, as Frederick
Huson, a German artatc—e member of the troupe. Again,
on the Friday following, an attempt was made to seize the
professor. Ile again made his appearance. on the lenge,
the house being del.sely crowded; again, a muffled
bearded fi(nre (this time more etealthily) was seen hur-
rying from the garden ; spin the officer made his eel.
zure, the person being actually pointed out by the
laintiff himself, and again it was found that Mr. Kel-
ler
hod rung the changes on his pursuers, the person
seized being one Goodman, and not the professor. The pro-
fessor himself raiseined in hiding fur some week., having
sacrificed oil the altar of liberty his heard and moustache,
and thus thrown the officers off the soent. He afterwards
kit Liverpool with his company, and proceeded direct to
Ostend. For the defendant it was contended that the officer
had used his very best exertion, under tbe circumstances to
effect • seizure, and evidence was relied to show that it was
by the express direction of Mr. Howden himself that no
attempt was made to arrest Keller on the stage—an attempt
which, it was urged, must necessarily have been unsuccess-
fiat, and would probably have resulted in a terrific uproar.
A verdict was finally returned for the plaintiff.
bosom* r. was an action upon a
promissory note given by plaintiff to defendant for tee rani
of 301., a balance of 101. of which wee owing. The care pos-
sessed not the slightest public interest, and the jury returned
a verdict for the plaintiff: Thus ended Liverpool AIEiZCP.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.—Defore the Recorder.__

A Comer nit:.tTl;iTii-iar:-LCieovge747ilii,23, farrier, and
Pladip !teems, 27, gas-fitter, were indicted for stealing a bank
note for Mt, ten of 101. each, and three sovereigns, the pre-
perty of William John Ilaynham. In the beginning of Novem-
ber last the prisoners took up their residence at the prosecu•
tor's house (acofra.shop), and shortly afterwards decamped,
and the prosecnta ascertained that a boo in which he kept
his cash hod been forced open, and the amount mentioned in
the indictment stolen. The prisoners were not apprehend. d
until March following; and one of them then addressing the
prosecutor in a f.nnilias manner, said, " I say, old fellow,
would not you like to have your money ?" and told him a
story abon: the fifty pound wee being concealed in the pen-
,lttlorn of a clock in a house that Le :'.escribed a kw 'saki
fro" ':lrerhalupton. The prosecutor went down to Wei!'
verhampton, and mule inquine., bat at that time he could
not find any trace of the note. Shortly afterwards, however,
he ascertained that the fifty pound note had been changed
at the shop of a jeweller, in the town of Wolverhnmpton, by
a person answering the description of one of the prboners,
who woo accompanied by an elderly woman. and they pur-
chased a welding-ring and some other articles of jewelli.ry,
and received the change. It also appeared that on the pre-
vious day the same note had been offered to a tradesman at
another p.ace by one of tho prisoners, but he refused to
change it.—The jury found both prisoners Guilty, and they
were sentenced to be transported for fifteen years.—Tho pro-
secutor said that in addition to his Ices by the robbery he had
incurred very considerable expenre in travelling to different
places to inquire after the prisoner:, and he applied to the
court to allow him the expense he had so incurred.—The
, Recorder said that the interests of the public had been served
by the prosecution, which was a very proper one, and he
considered it a case in which the expentes should be fully
allowed.

7erm Comm—Before the Common Sergeant.
MINS rItOSECUTIONB. court was occupied until late
in the day in disposing of Mint prosecutions. In ono case,
Thomas Speed was indicted for baying in his possession
ccunterfeit coin with intent to utter. The prisoner was
arrested by city pelice.conitable, Ws, in Farringdon.street,
and three bad shillings were found upon him. The pr.eoner,
in his d' fence, handed in a written document, in which he
said that he was asked by one Powell, nicknamed " Boots,"
to hold the money, and that Powell signalled ton policeman,
who canto up and took him into custody. He said this
was employed by policemen to get up cues of this
e.ait to ho prosecuted by the Mint, and that he had fallen
into the snare.—He was acquitted.
Mathias Smith was thin iudicted upon a like charge, and
he told cutely the Lime story about .' Boots." In this case,
the prisoner had attempted to utter, and he was de:tared
Guilly.—Benterced to six month: hard labour.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—TVESDAY.
Before Mr. sergeant Marna.
The April 'colon commenced thin morning at the Session,
Mouse, Clerkenwell.grcen. Ninety -right priaonen arc en-
tered in the calendar for trial, of which number thirty-three
can neither read nor snit*.

UNTOVNDED COA!:011 OP ROODIRT.—A youth named
Thomas Downs win indicter' for picking a gentleman's pocket
of a handkerchief in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-
fields. The prisoner not the son of a retired solicitor, and
had been educated at the London University, which he left
to enter the legal profusion. He had been in the service of
a s ilicitor in Gntj s inn, and up to the present transaction
it was said he had borne an excellent character. lie had
concealed his real name. The jury acquitted the prisoner,
and the learned judge severely reprimanded the prosecutor
for having given two distinct colourings to his evidence. liis
expenses were rehsed.