The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS

question sundry payments, amounting to 8401. Ds. 21,
made to the London and Westminster Bank, and among them
there was oe sum for 5051. On the 3rd January be got
from the prisoner the receipt produced of Meows. Glyn and
Co. The prisoner had a particular desk in the bank, the
key of which he delivered up to vritoess on that day.—ln
coo-examination, the witness said that the 6001. formed a part
of the amount of 7,0001. in the prisoner's own handwritio g.—
Mr. Henry : There was no such amount mentioned before me
at the former examinations.—Witnus We pressed him to
make a discloeure, and he furnished ne with • London it
hansedlately.—Mr. George Fraser, clerk in the
Scut-Stock Bank, produced a bill-book containing an entry
in his own handwriting, on the Bth J uly last, for the receipt of
• 8001. note. There was another entry on the 9th July for • 1001.
note. There was also an entry on the 12th same month, in the
waste-book, in the prisoner's handwriting, of a receipt for
501., and on the 13th in witness's writing, • 601. note. Wit-
ten' had examined the cash pay-books to ascertain if the
notes were paid out of the bank between the dates and their
respective receipts, and he could find no such entry relating
to the 14th of July.—Mr. John Stock, clerk to Mews.
Glyn end Co., proved that on the 16th of July be received
from some person 7691. fts. 6d., on account of the Belfast and
Ballymena Railway, for which he gave the receipt produced.
—Mr. Clarkson : That paper was one of the many which
were delivered up to Mr. Rubinson by the prisoner.—Wit-
nem, in continuation, said he received on the same day
121. 12s. 6d., on account of the Limerick and Water-
ford Railway, for which he also gave another re-
ceipt. The payments were made in banknotes,
to the amount of 8001., one of which was a Bank of Eng-
land note for 3001., of the date and number of one of thou
accounted for by the prisoner, with the words "800,
Wheeler," written by himself, on the back.—Mr. Joseph
Rees Adams, chrk in the issuing department of the Bank
of England, said that on the 14th of July last the 1001. vote
entered by the prisoner was brought into the both by Mr.
Joseph Charles Ridge, of Notting-hill, London, for which
ha gave other notes in exchange.—Mr. Richard Mullen,
solicitor for the prosecution, proved that on the 7th of Jan.
he received from Mr. Robinson, at the Joint Stock Bank, in
Pall-nall, a large number of papers, which ha saw him take
out of a desk, among which was • receipt, with a piece ef
paper, on which was written the amounts, dates, and num-
bers of • quantity of bask notes spoken to by the last wit-
ness, together with an account between Charles Wheeler,
Esq., end J. C. Kidire. On the credit side of the account
there was an entry for 1501. on the 14th July.—Mr. R. B.
Little, stockbroker, said that he knew Mr. Ridge, from
whom he received money, to the amount o'6o/. and 851., on
the 14th July, in hank notes, which he sent to his bankers,
Messrs. Brown and 'anion, on the same day.—Mr. James I
Inc., clerk to Messrs. Brown and Janson, proved that on the
14th July he received on account of the hut witness, 1451,1
consisting of 601. notes, produced, one bearing the number
of one of those accounted for by the prisoner.—The pri-
soner, by the advice of his legal advisers, said nothing to the
charge, and he was fully committed for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET. Ruvuma or FORTUNE.
Holland, the warrant-officer, reported the result of the
inquiries he had been directed to institute into the
case of Mrs. Thomson and her family, whose distress-
ing situation was brought under the notice of Mr.
Broughton at this court • few days since. The officer
stated, that upon calling on Mrs. Simpson, the landlady et
the house in Singleton-street, she informed him that the
family had only occupied her apartments for a few weeks,
during which tame they had remained in strict seclusion, and
that, from the fact of their being entirely destitute of any
other clothing than that they had in actual we she inferred
that their circumstances must be in a veryimpoverished
state. They appeared, however, to make a studious attempt
to emceed their real situation, but from what transpired she
saw sidlicient to convince her that they were suffering under
an almost total deprivation of the necessaries of life. Ile
was afterwards furnished with 'reference to Messre.Winkley
end Sons, shipbroken in Birehin-lane, who were acquainted
with their distressed condition, and Also bore testimony to
the respectability of their family ; but referred him for more
ample information to Capt. George Willis, owner of the
Childs Harold Indiamen, who completely contirmed the
entire statement the lady had made, and declared it to be a
highly meritorious case for the sympathy of the benevolent.
la consequence of the publication of the case several let-
tem have been received, both by. Mr. Hermit! and Mr.
Broughton, enclosing the following contributions for the
relief of the destitute lady and her family : from "A. and
W. W. F.," 51.; " Queenborough," 51.; " M. E. M," Sl. ;
J. 8.," 11.; " T. E.," 101.; " C. A.," 10a ; and " Anony-
mous," 2s. 6d. in Poet-office stamps.
Civarre.—Mr. Hammill also announced the receipt of
the following donations for the poor-box: " H. and J. NV.,"
; " J. H. H.," 21. ; and the first two halves of 51. notes
teem " I. J." and " the Hon. Mien —," the corresponding
parts of which were to be forwarded on a notification of the
receipt of the first being published by the press.
CLERKEN WELL. ASSAULTING THE POLICE. -
- Ili y and M'Ress were charged with a murderous
assault on several constables. At midnight the attentioa of
three officers of the N division of pollee was drawn to a dis-
turbance in Rose said Crown-c met, High-atm*, Islington,
and, on going there to quell it, they were met by the pri-
soners and other disorderly characters and attacked with
brick-bats and stones. The first-named prisoner went into
his house and brought out a pickaxe, which he raised and
aimed at policeman Collard, 421 N, and would, in all pro-
bability, have occasioned his desith had not Sergeant Webb,
12 0, seized him and thrown him down. After • meet
desperate *they, in which the complainants were seriously
injured, the prisoners were captured.—Mr. Tyrwhitt com-
mitted them to the House of Correction for a month, with-
out fine.
MARYLEBONE. ROBBING A LODGING-HOUSE.—
Mary Anna Martin was charged with robbery. On the 6th
inst. the prisoner went to the house of Mrs. Barrett, 46,
Molyneuxatreet, Edgewsre-road, and upon a representation
that she was • dresemaker, and that her husband was
butler in a nobleman's family, she entered upon the siocu-
piney of • well-furnished room. On the following Wednes-
day she quitted the house without any notice, and almost
immediately afterwards Miss Baxter, another lodger, missed
front her apartment • box containing some lace veils and a
quantity of linen, as also numerous books and some cash.
The landlady was also robbed of sheets, blankets, &c. The
prisoner was taken into custody by Beckley, 158 1), who
met with her at the house of Mr. Curtis, a surgeon ; she
bad some of Miss Baxter's property upon her person, and
had left at the medical gentleman's residence alluded to
some of the stolen articles. The prisoner had left in her
room some duplicates for blankets, Bto. which she had
pawned. The prisoner was remanded tiU next Monday,
and it was ordered that a summons should be issued for the
attendance of the surgeon.
n CHARITY HOUSE, HULL.-011 Monday, J. Wrightson,
about 15, applied to Mr. Broughton, stating that he was a
native of Hull, in Yorkshire; he had no relation nor friends,
and had been for a short time provided for in • place in that
city, the said refuge being known by the name of " Charity
House." On Monday, the 10th inst., the relieving officer, Mr.
Foster, inquired of hint if he would like to go on board •
man-of-war, and upon his replying that he should have no
objection to be a sailor, he was put on board a packet bound
for London, with only a sixpence in his pocket. On arriving
in town he rambled about the streets, and applied it the dif-
ferent docks for a ship, but was unsuccessful, and bad been
unable to obtain food or lodging.—Mr. Broughton directed
an officer to take him to Marylebone workhouse, and there
relate to the authorities the whole of the circumstances.—
This day the boy came again to the court, and said that
upon the previous night he received fourpenee from the
workhouse and some bread the money he had expended
for a lodging, and he was anxious to get back to Hull.—Mr.
Broughton sent him again to the workhouse, with directions
that he should be admitted, and that inquiry should be
made as to the expense which would be incurred in sending
ham to Hull.
LAMBETH.—A Soo ROBBING afar Peastrose —J. Par-
nell, aged 10, was charged with stealing eight sovereigns,
belonging to his parents and Sarah IValker was charged
with receiving a part of the money knowing it to have been
stolen. The mother of the prisoner, whose evidence was'
corroborated by the prisoner himself, stated that on the sth
iastant her eon absconded, taking with him eight sovereigns,
which witness and her husband had saved with the greatest
care, and did not return until the day before. From ques-
demi she had put to the boy, she elicited that on the day he
took the money he met a boy belonging to the female pri-
mer, and accompanied him home, and from that time until
the day before she harboured him at her house. In order to
disguise the boy to prevent his being known to the police,
who had been made acquainted with the robbery, the female
prisoner had caused the boy's long hair to be shorn off, and
also changed his drum. When all hie money was gone she
turned him out. The poor woman, who was much affected,
said she had eleven other children, six of whom were younger
than the prisoner; that she worked hard at ironing. from
laming till night; that her husband had also been oblioed
to work hard to support their large family ; yet the savings
dram, which they accumulated by sixpences and shillings
at slime were now gone.—The only defence set up by the
Mate prisoner was, that her boy had brought her fellow-
prisoner home, when the latter said he had got no father or
mother, and that the money was his own.—Mr. Elliott re-
soant prisoner until Monday next ; but as the boy was
young he was allowed to go home till the day of re-ex.
ionisation.
THAMES. FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINING A TON OP
COALS.-IV. Barker and J. Levet! were charged with ob-
taining
_a ton of coals by false pretences, with intent to de-
fraud Mr. Sarjeant, of New Crane-wharf, Wapping-wall.
The prisoner Barker was in the employ of Mr. C. Marshall, a
coal-dealer, in Cree Church-lane, Leadenhall-street, and on
the 10th inst he was sent with his master's horse and cart,to
fetch • ton of coals from Mr. Sarjeant's wharf. He left be-
fore 6 o'clock in the morning, but did not return till half-
peat 10, when he accounted for his long absence by stating
that his horse had fallen down, and that Levett, who was
then with him assisting to get the coals out of the cut had
helpedhim up with the horse. Mr. Marshall subsequently ascer-
tained that Barker had called twice on the morning of the 10th
at the coal wharf and obtained a ton of coals upon each oc-
mhos, but only brought one ton to his master's shop. On
being given into custody, Barker said in coming home from
the wharf with the first ton of coals he met with an old
shipmate, who asked him if he would have something to.
drink, and that he went into a public-house and gave a man
named Frank Moore • shilling to drive the horse and cart
home, but instead of doing ro he sold the coal.—Mr.
Yardley discharged Levett, and committed Barker for trial.
BIGANY.—J. Mitchell, an engineer, aged 30, was charged
with unlawfully intermarrying with Ann Esther Gore, his
first wife, Emma Mitchell, being still alive.—Rebecca North
said she acted as bridesmaid at the marriage of the pri-
soner to his second wife, Ann Esther Gore, at Rather-
blithe Church, on Whitsun Monday, 1846. The parties
hid since lived together as man and wife.—The
prisoner said his second wife knew he was a muffled
man when she was united to him. He only lived with her
• shirt time, and had not seen her for 17 months. He re-
turned to his first wife, now present, who brought him to
that court for not supporting her. He had since maintained
her ; he gave her 4s. on Saturday night, and she had since