The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-05 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Three married women, named Sarah Layton, Mary Mills,
and Amy Payne, were charged with having conspired and
obtained by means of fraudulent representations, the sum
of 41.45. from the Eastern Metropolitan Loan Company, in
the Whitechapel-road.
Mr. John Cook, manager to the company, stated that
about two months since an application was left at their office
in the usual form, for a loan of 41. is. on behalf of one
William Lawson, of Nelson-street, Stepney, and wl.ich
contained the name of William Mills, residing in the same
street, as the proposed surety. On proceeding to the first
address, he saw the prisoner Layton, who told him that she
was aware of the loan having been applied for by her hus-
band, who was a oosl-porter, and that they rented the whole
of the house in which they resided, at the same time pro-
ducing a book, which she described as her rent-book, in
confirmation of her statement. Witness then called
at the above address, where he saw the prisoner Mills,
who informed him that her husband was in the
employment of the Great Central Gas Company, and
having also assured him that he was perfectly agreeable to
guarantee the repayment of the loan, and that they occu-
pied the entire house, he left directions for the two hus-
bands to call upon him the same afternoon with the rent-
books already exhibited to him to receive the amount re-
quired. At the time appointed, two men presented them-
selves at his office, and having introduced themselves as the
husbands of the prisoners Layton and Mills, and produced
the same rent books as he had before seen, be at once
handed them 31.145. 6d., and received in return a nets of
hand for 41. 4s. It was understood that the amount was to
be repaid by weekly instalments of 2a., two of which were
afterwards punctually paid, but neither of the others bad
been received, and shortly after they had fallen into urear,
a decent-looking working man, who represented himself as
the husband of the prisoner Layton, called upon him in ex-
treme tribulation, and intimated to him that he had acci-
dentally discovered a loan book in his wife's drawer,
relating to an advance of money which had been obtained
in his name and as she wasa woman of very dis-
sipated habits, he was afraid he mast have
been fraudently personated by some other man, as
he was a complete stranger to the transaction. On bearing
this communication, he immediately repaired to Rayton's
house ; but, before he had time to mention the business to
his wife, she exclaimed, " I know what you have come
about, and will tell you the whole truth. The fact is, that
Mrs. Mills and I got two men to represent our husbands, in
order to obtain the money, which was equally divided be-
' tween us and her landlady, Mrs. Payne, who lent her own
' rent-book to carry out the fraud, as neither of us are
housekeepers." Witness then proceeded to the house of
the prisoner Payne, who acknowledged that the woman
Mills and her husband were merely lodgers in her house ;
and having also admitted that she had herself received a
portion of the loan, he sent for a policeman and gave the
whole of the prisoners into custody.
On king called upon for their defence, the prisoners
launched out into a bitter strain of mutual recrimination,
but severally admitted that neither of their husbands had
the slightest cognisance or participation in the transaction.
r The prisoners were remanded.
MARYLEBONE.

Malthev Kew, a cab driver, was charged with brutality
towards his horse.
Police constable Potter, 84 D, deposed that on the same
morning, between 4 and 5 o'clock, as he was on duty in
South-street, Manchester-square, he saw the prisoner stand-
ing up on the foot-board of his seat, and lashing the horse
with all his might; he flogged the animal at least thirty
times, and on witness laying hold of the horse, which was
scarcely able to move, he found numerous wounds upon the
flanks and legs, from which blood was flowing profusely ;
upon lifting up the saddle, he discovered a large wound
upon the back, and there were also large sores upon the
shoulders. Witness took the prisoner into custody, and
conveyed the horse and cab to the green-yard.
The prisoner,:in answer to the charge, said that when ho
brought the horse out in the morning it was in the same
condition in which the officer found it. Other men who
had had the horse out might have caused the injury com-
plained of. lie had not by any art of his inflicted the
wounds complained of.
He was fined 405., or six weeks' imprisonment.
John Stanbridge, a cabman, was charged with cruelty to
his horse.
It appeared from the evidence, that oa the same morning,
between a and 6 o'clock, Martin, 363 S, saw the prisoner's
cab on the rank in Seymour-street, near the Euston
Railway station. The horse wu in a shocking condition,
and scarcely able to stand ; it was bleeding from wounds
upon its knees. Prisoner said it was no fault of his, it bad
fallen down. There were raw wounds upon each hip.
The prisoner was fined 205., or a month's imprisonment.
SOUTHWARK.
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George Finch, the owner and driver of a cab, was charged
with over-working a diseased horse.
Policeman, 236 M, stated that on the previous evening
he saw the defendant driving a cab along lilackman-foreet,
the horse attached to which was in such a weak condition
that it seemed hardly able to drag one leg after another,
that both its knees were broken. and its body underneath
the harness was one mass of sores, The vehicle itself was
in a very filthy condition, and was what is called a " night
cab," which is generally employed in picking up drunken
tun and conveying ladies of a certain class to and from the
places of nightly entertainment. Finding the horse was
sot fit to work, he took the dr 6 ndant to the station house,
and the animal was then in the yard at the back of the
, court.
IThe defendant said, although the horse looked bad, yet he
would go right well, and was not half so bad as he looked. I
Mr. Combe went out into the yard and examined the
horse, and on his return and, he never saw an animal in
" a much worse condition ; that it was a shame to put it in
harness to drag a public vehicle, it bring scarcely able to
drag itself along, much lees a heavy cab. The magistrate
' then gave the defendant his choice, whether he would be
IRind' or elm consent to have the horse immediately taken
to the slaughterer's and killed.
The defendant hesitated, and at length inquired if he
might be permitted to drive the cab over to lottenham-
court-ruad, and that he would then have the horse killed.
iw"ousliol
raingiliosisiatethteokt,
tasakoenn
thein aCci°gelmidewteonuillaanF:
t:Oreo.custody for the tame offence. The magistrate then
ordered the defendant's license to be impounded, and not
returned until the policeman brought word that the animal
was slaughtered.