The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-27 00:00:00

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worthy of credit I The whole story woeld break
down, and so in fact it did. No sooner was the sup-
posed robber Taoscreols snowed to communicate
with his friends than it became appa-
rent that his reel name was Asnwoara, ea
he had asserted, and that he was the person
whom he described himself to be. No robbery of
a landlady bad ever taken plea at Carmarthen.
The warrant was • forgery—the supposed 'amiable
bad never been in the Carmarthen Polies force—
on the contrary, this ingenious and active-looking
young officer had been discharged from Swansea
gaol on the morning of the very same day on
which he appeared in the market-place of
Shrewsbury. It is almost seedless to add that,
within a few days after the release of
Mr. Aairivoarn from his imprisonment, the late
Carmarthen constable was apprehended In Liver-
pool, end most of Mr. Asawosirm's property was
restored.
Thus the realms incapacity of a Bench
of borough magistrates had concurred with
the eager presumption of their clerk in
sating upon the unsupported evidence of •
single individual of whom they knew nothing, and
of whom the police knew nothing. Indeed, the
plies authorities at Shrewsbury were quite a
=ski for the Justices in caution and acute-
sem For, unless Constable ADAK, bad
been present in uniform at the Raven Hotel
Mr. Ammon= never would have submitted to the
Carmarthen impostor. And for this, of course,
Inspector DAVIS must be held responsible. On
the other hand, it must be admitted that all
praise is due to Moseas for the admirable manner
in which he performed his pert. Like all instincts
of genius his plan was simple in the extreme ; but
it required fee Its execution extraordinary tact,
promptitude, and coolness. Nor indeed is it impro-
bable that the simplicity of the magisterial mind
at Shrewsbuty may have tempted the sagacious
MORGAN to try his fortune in that city. At any
rate, his exploits have produced a sensation there
which many better men might envy. On Friday
last he was tried for robbing Mr. ASHWORTH, and
we are told that for many cloys before the trial the
greatest excitement prevailed. Large placards
were paraded about the streets announcing that
portraits of the hero might be obtained at half-
prioe, whilst on the day of the trial crowds as-
sembled to catch a glimpse of him as he entered
the court, or to watch his demeanour during the
trial; and were not disappointed. For no one pre-
sent, we are told, enjoyed the fun of the story, as
related by the counsel for the prosecution and the
witnesses, more heartily than its author and inven-
tor, who, even after a matter-of-fact jury bad
found him guilty, and a previous conviction had
been proved against him, favoured the court with
a novel and ingenious " adaptation," as the dra-
matic writers my, of that former passage in his
career. One is almost tempted to regret that
such a master of the art of mystification should
be consuming hie wit in penal servitude for the
next seven years, while those asthma Shrewsbury
magistrates and their intelligent Acting Assistant
Clerk remain as large.

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