The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1847.

Haywood said to him, "If the qUelltioll is put to
you, whether you have seen ma with a gold watch and
chain, and a large sum of money, be sore you say no ; say
you have only seen me with a few shillings." Haywood also
said that he was in a muse, and he did not know how to get
out of it. When he left witness, he said, " Be sure snd don't
say a word, or I'll be lost for ever."—Forrester produced •
piece of brown blotting paper, which he found among Hay-
wood's papers, and which contained the " blot" of the name
of " John Fenton," corresponding with the forged name
upon the cheque.—The prisoners Haywood and Alexander
were ordered to be brought up again on Wednesday week.
Security was taken for Constable's appearance on the next
day of examination.
The other case referred to Haywood alone, as far as the
evidence went. The charge was, that Haywood had forged
a cheque for 891. 4e. upon the banking-house of Jones
Loyd and Co., purporting to be drawn by Thomas and
James Murray.—Mr. J. Hale, cashier in the banking-house,
said that on March 22 he paid the cheque produced in a note for
501. and gold.—Mr. J. Tinsley, a cashier at Jones Loyd
end Co.'s banking-house, produced the register of the
cheque-books diatnbuted to the customers of the Louse.
Mr. T. H. Peels kept cash at the house! On
the 20th of March witness received an order for a cheque-
book for Mr. Peels, which was given, and the forged cheque
for 891.4 a. was one of the numbers of the cheques in that
book.—Mr. J. Murray, of the firm of T. and J. Murray, of
Copthall-court, merchants, said the signature to the cheque
was neither his nor his brother's, nor authorised by either of
them.—Mr. T. Kennion, clerk to Mears. Pattison and Son,
wilicitors, Old Broad-street, stated that in March last
Haywood was in the service of the house. Ho
knew Haywood's handwriting, and believed the figures
and date in the cheque to be his.—Mr. Pattison and Mr.
Poole were formerly partners, and Haywood might have had
access to papers in which the signature of Mr. Peale ap-
GZe.—Other witnesses spoke to the resemblance between
wdood's figures and those in the cheque—The forgery of
Mr. Peele's name was proved.—T. Cope said he knew Hay-
wood. In June be and witness went to the Isle of Wight.
The prisoner then had about 701. in his possession, which he
said had been given to him by his grandfather. Witness
had seen him write, and firmly believed that the writing in
the cheque and memorandum was the prisoner's, end also
that the writing upon the 501. note was the prisoner's. The
case was remanded to Wednesday week.
GUILDHALL.—HEIR-AT-Lew Scutum.—Mr. G. Ross,
the manager of the above society, and Mr, Williams were
re-examined on the charge of obtaining money under false
pretences About • month or five weeks since, the above
parties appeared before Sr Peter Laurie to answer the same
charge, and, after it bad been adjourned two or three times,
the alderman came to the decision that the principal witness
was not to be depended on, having a bad memory, and that
the assertion of Mr. Parkin having seen Williams sign the
name of Boyle, a barrister, to one of the opinions
was incorrect, and therefore, although that case fell
to the ground, he should adjourn the summons, and
tf any fresh charge occurred he would attend to hear it.—
Mary Ann Howe and Mr. Parkin repeated their former evi-
dence; the letter, when closely pressed by Mr. Ross, re-
fused to say whether he saw Williams sign Mr. Boyle's
name, but eventually replied in the affirmative. The whole
of the evidence was the same as has been previously reported
two or three times.—Alderman Wood said there was no case
against the society, and the charge was dismissed.—Mr. Rosa
wished that the alderman would hear some explanation in
defence.—Aldermin Wood said he certainly should not. As
no eau was established, there was no occasion to bear a de-
fence. He had one thing to complain of, and that was he
had received a letter and a circular of the society, which he
brought to the court with him. It was a most indecorous
proceeding for any parties to ammoniate with the person
who would have to decide on their case.—Mr. Rose again
urged to be heard, but Ald. Wood persisted in his refusal.
BOW-STREET.—VEstr DRUNK.—Two well-dratted
men, named Rudwin and Wentworth, were charged with
being drunk and disorderly in the Strand, on Saturday night,
and Weatworth was further charged with violently assault-
ing a constable and other persons. The prisoners were found
drunk in the Strand by the policeman, who persuaded them '
to get into a cab to go home. They were not long in it,
when without stopping it, they leaped out. Wentworth, in
bursting the door open, smashed the panel, and broke part
of the fastenings. He than made a violent attack upon the
constable, and upon several other persons who were on the
spot. A poor man, named W. Owen, received such severe
injuries that he was now hardly able to stand. The prisoner
was at length overcome and bound on the stretcher. On
the way to the station he managed to release one hand, and
taking a knife from his pocket cut Away the straps of the
stretcher, and liberated himself. He was again seized and
carried to the station.—Mr. Hall fined Wentworth 51. for
the assault on Owen, and 11. for the assault on the police-
man, and ordered him to pay 12s. 6d. for the damage to the
cab, and 2e. 6d. for cutting the straps of the stretcher. In
default of payment to be imprisoned for five weeks far the
assault on Owen, and ten days for that on the police. The
magistrate expressed his regret that he could not order com-
pensation to Owen.—Afterwards it was agreed that the ma-
gistrate should mitigate the penalty of 51. to 31, on condi-
tion that Wentworth should give 11. as compensation to
Owen.—Rudwin was fined ss. for being drunk, which he paid.

WORSHIP.STREET.—MenuartOue Arrake.—Mr. B.
Brunton, a muter plumber at Hackney, was charged with
vaulting and wounding W. Barrett, in the service of Mr.
Nunn, landlord of the Victoria Tavern, at Cambridge-heath.
—The complainant stated that the prisoner called at the
above house on Saturday evening, in the company of a Mr.
Neale, and requested to see his master. Complainant im-
mediately afterwards heard a violent uproar in the room
where the prisoner and his muter had gone. On going in,
he found his master struggling upon the ground with Mr.
Neale, who wee grasping him so forcibly by the throat,
that he appeared to be upon the point of strangulation.
With the assistance of some of the taproom customers he
succeeded in rescuing his muter, and was endeavouring to
force Neale into the street when the prisoner made a rush
at him from the parlour, and struck him a tremendous blow
upon the forehead with a heavy iron spittoon, which cut
him to the bone, and inflicted a wound an inch
and a half in length. His muter bad sustained
such serious injuries that he had since been confined to his
bed, and was unable to appear and give evidence.—lnspector
Waller stated, that when the party reached the station-
house it was found necessary to immediately call in Mr.
Garrod, the divisional surgeon, to dress the wounds of the
prisoner and Mr. Neale, one of whose hands had been se-
verely cut by glass in the course of his encounter with Nunn,
and one of the arteries was divided ; and he was likewise
unable to attend.—Mr. Hunt, on behalf of the prisoner,
said that he was instructed to state that the whole affray
ori in the extreme violence of Mr. Nunn and a party
at Malwaken ba his service, and called the prisoner's
;who declared that at the time the struggle was
in between the complainant and Neale the prisoner
11 was senseless in the road from a blow indicted by one
of the unspleinaues party, and the marks of which he then
bore.—Mr. HaximDl ordered tke prisoner to find substantial
bail to answer the charge at the sessions.
Swir.Lowitto lisLr-caowNe. —C. Thompson, alias
Townley, was charged with having in his possession a large
' quantity et counterfeit coin, and also with assaulting a ser-
geant of pollee, who took him into custody. On Saturday
eveob% as Sergeant Brannan, of the O division, was re-
==in plain clothes, with a constable, in the
ood of Old-street, he saw the prisoner, in
the sompeny of two elber men. whom he at once recog-
nised as notorbes " smashers." On observing that they
were watched, the whole of them made off, but the sergeant
ermateek sad Ming die prisoner, who drew from his pocket
a handful alladkromm pieces, wbich the sergeant endea-
vowed** mut km him, when lie was grappled by the
prim:weird time heavily on the pavement. The prisoner
then ocumemeed swallowing the counterfeit coin, four of
which he lei got rid of, and had transferred the last two
to his month, when the sergeant struck him a sharp blow
under the jaw, which compelled him to drop them into the
road. With the assistance of the other officer, the prisoner
was then handcuffed and conveyed to the station-house,
where, upon being searched, nine other spurious half crowns
and five•shilling pieces were found in his possession.—The
prisoner was remanded for the attendance of the Mint
authorities.

MARLBOROUGH- STREET.— Ansa u yr.— Lord
Frankfort was charged with a violent assault upon H.
a porter.—The complainant stated that oa Saturday night
he was in Bond-street, when the defendant came in ftoct
of him and spat in his face, and asked him (witnees) " How
he dated to spit on a gentleman 1" Complainant repUed,
" that he was not aware that he bad spit upon any one, and
if he had done so he would most readily apologise." The
defendant then taunted him to spit upon him, laying, "Why
do you not spit ? Spit at me again." Complainant, after
being tanntW in that manner for some time, did spit at de-
fendant, who took a heavy stick es hich he carried, and
struck witness severallsevere blows en the head and face. A
constable being attracted by his cries, complainant gave the
defendant into custody.—The defendant made a rambling
statement, to the effect that a conspiracy had existed against
him for three years put, for the purpose of driving him from
the street. He could not walk in any public street without
being insulted and spit upon. His path was beset with girls of
the town, men and boys, who incited others to join them for
the purpose of annoying and usaulting him. The complainant
in this case spit upon him (defendant) first. He went up to
remonstrate with him upon his filthy conduct, when he was
assailed by the abuse of a mob of people whom complainant
bad collected. He felt annoyed, and certainly did act as the
complainant had described.—Mr. Bingham said the defend-
ant could not bektedled in spitting in the face of complainant,
nor could the Jailer be justified in acting in the same manner.
The ilimming bed gone rather too far in striking complain-
ant, and he 'bill& it would meet the justice of the cue if
he allowed the Witahtft, to retire, and make some compen-
sation to the aempieleant for the injuries he had received.
The defendant wad lut &mild decline doing anything of the
kind. He never omprosimed anything.—Mr. Bingham
said that if the defendant &dined acting upon his sugges-
tion, he had no other alternative but to hold him to bail, in
one surety of 501., and himself in 1001., to appear at the next
Middlesex sessions.

LAMBETH.—Caurrox To PERSONS LETTING LODO-
INO6.—John Slack, a middle•aged man, of gentlemanly ap-
pearance and address, was placed at the bar on a charge of
stealing a small silver fruit-knife, the property of Mrs. Eliza
fioolefield.—The complainant stated that on that forenoon
her daughter called out to her that a gentleman had come
about the lodgings, and upon her coming down stain
and entering the parlour she found the prisoner there,
and recognised him as a person who had called to look at a
room she had to let on the week before. She malted him to
accompany her up stain to see the room, and he replied he
would. She then left the parlour to proceed up ages with
him, and finding that he did not follow her, but remained in
the parlour for some moments after her, she at once sus-
pected his object wu to 'teal something. She in consequence
returned into the parloar, and, mhUng a small silver fruit-
knife from the mantel-piece, which had been there a moment
before, she charged him with taking it. The prisoner in-
dignantly denied the charge, but, feeling conscious in her

own mind that no other person could have stolen, ebe sent
for a constable.—Police-constable 60 U said the prisoner
had been given into his custody by the last witness, and,
after locking him up, he (witness) returned to the
house and found the knife produced, and which the pro.
secutrix identified, behind some drawers in the back parlour.
—Mrs. Scolefield added to her former evidence that the pri-
soner had gone into the back parlour while the policeman
had been sent for, and while there something bad been
%sad to knock against the window, so that she had no doubt
the prisoner kad attempted to throw the knife out of the
window, which was partly down at top; and that, instead
of doing so, he knocked it against the window, and it fell
where it had been found.—The prisoner, who spoke with a
south of Ireland accent, denied the charge; assured the
magistrate that he was perfectly incapable of committing
such an act, as his worship would see on the perusal of a
letter he was just about to post, and said that if Lord bier-
path was in tows he would testify to his character for honour
and respectability.—Mr. Elliott read the letter handed to
him, but, instead of its having the effect of satisfying his wor-
ship on the point of his character sad respectability, he told
him he must know something more about him before he
could consent to his liberation.— ne prisoner was
herd
to have his case at once dispmed of, but that was refused,
and he was remanded to the following (this) day.
SOUTH WARK q THAW•BOATS ON TOE RIVER.—An
application was made by the wharf-clerk in the employment
of Mesas. Menkes, coal-merchants, of Bankaide, relative to
some of the steam-boats plyiog above bridge. He stated that
considerable damage was sustained to his employer's property
by the speed at which the iron steam-boats plying between
London-bridge and Chelsea were propelled ; that they went
up and down the river with such velocity, and frequently
kept in so close to the shore, as to seriously injure the coal-
barges lying alongside the different wharf, by tearing away
their moorings and setting them adrift. On Thursday last
he (applicant) was standing on one of his employer's barges,
when the Lady of the Lake, Citizen steam-boat, was
passing down the river, and that she passed so closely and
came along with such velocity, that he was thrown down
into one of the empty rooms of the craft and airy much
bruised. He represented the accident caused by the boat to
the captain, and urged the necessity of steering further out,
and going at less speed. He was informed that he might
take whatever steps he thought proper, but there would be
no alteration made in the manner in which the company
thought proper to navigate their vessels up and down
the river. The applicant went on to state that
some time since two of his employers' men were
at work on board one of their bargee, and that
one of the above company's vessels came along at
such • rate, and so close to the barge, that the men were
thrown overboard, and one of them drowned.—Mr. Cotting
ham laid that if such sccidents as the lons of life occurred in
consequence of the manner in which these boats plied up and
down the river, however great the public accommodation
might be, there ought to be a check put to such a system.
He supposed that the bylaws with reference to the naviga-
tion of these steamers had clauses which rendered the com-
pany liable for accidents arising from the speed at which
their yawls were propelled. And if the applicant procured
these by-laws, he (the magistrate) would willingly carry
them into effect, so as to prevent future casualties on the
river —The applicant then retired.
THAMES.—BIinTAL ASSAULT.—S. Ruff was charged
with asaault.—The two Misses Howard (their mother
having been so severely injured by the prisoner as to be un-
able to attend) rated that on Saturday evening, about six
o'clock, they caught a sen of the prisoner in their garden,
stealing pears. They detained the lad and sent for a police-
man, when, shortly afterwards, the mother of the boy came
and demanded her son, but as their garden had been repeat-
edly robbed, they refused to give him up, having caught
him in the fact, with his pockets full of pears. The woman
went away and fetched the prisoner, her husband, who
came cursing and demanding his son. He broke open the
door, knocked Mrs. Howard down, and then kicked her so
dreadfully that it would be some days before she would
be recovered. He then seized the elder Miss Howard
by the hair of her bead, dragged her along the gravel walk
about 14 yards, kicking her several times, and, dragging her
back to the door-step, he exclaimed, " Now I will kill you,"
and dashed her head twice against the step. His wife, who
was 'tending by, said, " Don't murder her, or you will have
to suffer for it ;" to which he replied, " Yes, and I will
suffer for her, too." He then struck her again, when the
policeman fortunately arrived, and he was given into cus-
tody.—Mr. Yardley said, that were it not- for the conve-
nience of the ladies, who had already suffered so much, he
should have committed him for trial, as he did not consider
he had power adequately to punish such an offence. He
should sentence him to a fine of Si, or be imprisoned, with
hard labour, for two months.—Locked up in default.