The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-04 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAY.

MANSION•HOUSE.—Crtaaoe or foitoltitr.—F. T.
Griffaltawas charged with having committed a forgery upon
the London Joint-Stock Bank, to the amount of 1151. 10s.—
W. Kay, a clerk in the London Joint-Stock Bank, stated that
a cheque, purporting to be drawn by Mr. West, who kept
an account at that establishment, for 1151. 10s. was pre-
sented and cubed on the 16th of August last. The cheque
was drawn in favour of Mr. Wild or bearer.—Mr. T. West,
jeweller, of Ludgate-tenet, said that the prisoner had been
in his employment about twelve months, and had left him
in 1845. The cheque produced was not in witness's hand-
writing, and he had never authorised any one to sign it for
him. The writing on the cheque looked like the prisoner's
handwriting, with which witneu was acquainted. The sig-
nature was evidently a copy of witness's but the body was
not a copy of his handwriting. He believed the name of
Wild on the cheque was the prisoner's handwriting.—The
prisoner was remanded.
CLERKENWELL.—BIInTiL CONDI:CT OP A BROKER.
E. Pratt, a furniture broker, of Liverpool-road, Islington,
was charged with having violently assaulted Mrs. Caroline
Pa.smore. The proeecutrix deposed, on the afternoon of
the 14th August, she was in the drawing-room' when the
defendant, in company of three men, broke open the street,
deur with a crowbar, and ordered the men to force her down
stairs. She clung to the folding-doors of the drawing-room,
when they hammered her hands to make her leave go, and
broke one of her fingers. Her side war very much injured,
and she was confined to her bed for three days afterwards
under the care of a surgeon. They suhee9uently carried her
down stairs, and with violence threw her into the street and
shut her mit. Cross-examined Her husband was a tenant in
the house. A distress bad been put in for arrears of rent.
There were two quarters' rent due. She applied to her
landlord for three days, which was refused, and the whole
of her furniture war seized.—Mr. K. Cresu deposed that he
saw the prosecutrix thrown violently from the house on to the
stone pavement, and kicked by one of the men. Defendant
was there, and amended in throe lag her out.—The solicitor
said that rant being due, and applications made for it with-
out effect, a distress was levied, and the proseentrix was
gently carried out of the house with no more than neoeseary
violence to obtain legal possession. The charge war trumped
up, and perjurers employed with a view to extort money.
—Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the cue to the *elisions, and said
that bail would be accepted for defendant's appearance.

LAMBETH. —*BURGLARY AND RECEIVING STOLEN
Paoreary.—T. Foster, alias Chilly, Eliza Eaton, alias
Fitzgerald, and Mary Taylor, were re-examined charged
with burglary and robbery, and receiving the property stolen.
The first charge was against Foster and Eaton of having re-
wind a hamper, at the hones of the latter, in Arnold's-
macl Newington, containing a quantity of cloth that
stolen from the shop of Mr. Strange, a tailor, at
Tunbridge Wells. Since the apprehension of the prisoners
• gold watch found am met the extensive stock of trinkets
in the room of Eaten has been identified as one stolen from
Mr. Jones, a gentleman residing at during the
Ooodwood races and, at a su uent examination of tke
priecesen, Mr. Jones rowelled prisoner Taylor as
who had been in comps% with the parties