The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-21 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAT.

MANSION-HOUSE. SOUP FOROBILIBS. Horatio
Notion Wed and Wallop,. Farmery were brought up for re-
exeraioatirns, charged with having feloniously uttered and
disposed of several forged warrants for the delivery of certain
i securities for the payment of money, viz ' for the delivery of
t shares of the value of 601. each in the London and South-
' Waters Railway Company, with intent to defraud Francis
Worrell Stevens—Mr. John F. Bruce, clerk to Mesas.
t Bradley end Co., sharehrokers. of Manchester, raid : I know
Mr. Kinder. On the 28th of February he called at my office,
I with another person, as a party for whom he was selling
some scrip. Tint person produced a bundle of London and
South-Western Railway scrip. in single shares, counted out
. 200 of them, and handed them to Mr. Kinder, tg whose
. direction I gave him 1,0001. in Busk of' England
, notes. Mr. Kinder prepared the receipts for the
• 1,0001., and the person alluded to wrote "Thomas Watson
, LorJey, near Shealeld.'' After I had received the 200 scrip
• I heeded them over tie clerk in our oak*, to be noticed in
the numbers and marked. They were then returned to me.
I I produce 60 'hares of the 200. The reel were sold.—Mr.
Alfred Morgan, the treasurer to the eompany, examined the
• scrip, and stated that it was all forged, both in printing and
. In signatures —Mr. Henry Thomas Henl.y, clerk to Mr.
. A. Boughton, of the Stock Exchange, London, stated:
I became acquainted with Mr. West in February, 1846. He
left town and said he was going to Birmingham to look for
• a situation, and I offered to attend to any little busineu of
his in his absence. A few days after he left town
• a young man called with a letter addremed to
• me from him. It contained 4901. in Bank of
Bergiend notes, and, la consequence of what the
porter communicated to me, I converted the notes into gold.
• I took the numbers of V.* notes, and a receipt for the money
signed by the porter. I have seen West write frequently.
• Abet a week before Went left town I saw him with two or
three bundles of whit eppatred to be railway scrip—red
letters upon white paper. I know Fernery. I ihanged
notes into gold for him, shortly after I changed the notes
for West.—Mr. L. P. Knowles, share broker, of Bank-
chambers, mid : I rendes d letters last March from a pert!
signing himself J. Peen (Mr. Henley swore that the wridng
was West's). Scrip was enclosed in throe letter, and hold
' it to the number of about eighty, and I have some remain-
ing. (Here the witness produced ten piece* of paper par.
porting to be scrip of the Su ah-Western Railway Company,
and the treasurer to the company pronounced them all
brad.) —Mr. C. Daniel said: Oa Thursday, the 25th of
February last, Mr. Ridge called me into his room, and we
had a conversation as to the prudence of buying some
London and South- Western Railway shares, and about one
o'clock in the day the prisoner Farmery called to sell thee.
shares. He t ad me he Ind bought them at seven shillings
and el:peace premium, and be was unions to sell them at
the or rein a kwer pike, but we were di...visaed
with the answers, and declined purchaaiag any of them.—
Mr. John Buckley Kinder and " I am clerk to Mr. Joseph
Boeker. of Breugt.ton, near Manchester. On Friday, the
26th of February last, Mr. Tomkins brought the prisoner
(Fermery) to me. He pawed then es Thomas WaMon, Hr
came to sell 250 sh on in the London and South- Western
Railway Company. I purchased 60 of him, and sold 200
for him, I paid him the money. I went with Mr. Tonskins
to the Moe of Meters. Bradley and Co., of Manchester, to
sell the chain, and I concluded a bargain with Mr. Bradley
at 2s. &I, premium per share, and Mr. Temkin went to find
the person who wee to sell them, and he returned with the
prisoner. I asked him fur the sines, but he would not let
me have the m without the money. About two lye o'clock I
I receivwl from Farmery 200 of the scrip, which I gave
to Mr. Bradley's clerk, from whom I received 1,0001.
in Bank of England notes. I handed the weepy
to Fernery, sad ha sigs.d the rem ipt produced. Farmer,
said he had more of the scrip to dispose of, and I mentioned
that to Mr. Bowker. Shortly afterwards Mr. Tomkins again
called at the oaks, end I told him that Mr. Hawker was will-
ing to purchase the other 50 ; but hearing that Farmery was
gone to the railway train I went to the station and found him

seated in one of the first clam carriages, sod I bought the
nther 50 shelve, and paid him 2501. The number of them
shares were from 1,121 to 1.170 inclusive. On the same
afternoon I sold 20 of them to Mr. Haynes, a sharehroker at
Manchester, viz., from Nos. 1,121 to 1,140. I put my initials
upon them before I parted with them. I seat the remain-
ing 30 shares to our agent and correspondent, Mr. Alfred
I Fiance. The 20 shares produced are those I sold to Mr.
llaynes, and 28 produced by Mr. France are part of those I
sent to that gentleman.—M r Alfred France, of St. hl ichaers-
alley, agent to Mewl. Hawker and Co., of Manchester,
stated that be had received from them 30 shares in the
Londoe and South-Western Railway C. mpany as he sup-
posed. They were sold in the market ; 28 of them were
returned as forged.—Mr. Kinder ideatified the 28 share'e
part of the 30 which had been sent by him to Mr France.—
Mr. elution requested that a further remand .bold be
given, in order that the depositions might be properly pi e-
peued.—The Lord Mayor consented to remand the prisoleen
until Monday neat, on which day it was his intention to
commie them for trial.

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MARYLEBONE.—ROSIIIRT AT Tali CAIIDAN•TOIVS
Bcarlux.—John Free., William Martin, Hilary East,
Jae" Cherry, Joseph Taylor, Joel 7byler, Samuel Freer,
and Charles Austin, were re-examined, charged with having
been concerned in stealing more than 7001. worth of goods,
at the Camden-town station, the property of Messrs.
Crowley and Co., the carriers; of which nearly 4001.
1 worth hate been recovered. In addition to the eight
I prisoners whose names are above given, three other mere
named James Taylor, William Yellin, and Joseph
Cooper, who were charged with the rent on Monday
I list, and who were, at the tone usion of the investigation
on that day, liberated on their undertaking to be
forthcoming on the next occasion, were now in ate
tendance, nicking, in the whole, eleven parties accused.—
' Mr. Jelin Wilkinson, manager of Messrs. Croaky and Co.'s
nueiness, said, on Saturday evening, April 3, a Tan tame
,
Jowled to the Camden station. I saw it at ten at night. On
Monday morning, at three o'clock, I was called up and in-
' formed that a great portion of the goods had been carried
! away from the Tan. I went sad found that the fore part of
it was quite empty ; I questioned one of the railway con-
' stables renpectingthe matter, and he told me that he saw
the said van all right at ten minutes past two.—J. Page, car-
, man to Smith and Co., Old Bailey, who haa communicated to
Mr. Wilkinson the nature of the whole plan, in which he
acknowledged himself to have been mixed up, was sworn to
give true evidence against the accused par on. On Easter
Moods, last I met the prisoner!, Martin and John Freer,
in the fields near Chalk-farm. They asked me to go with them
the next morning to the Camden station, to get something,
and I consented. Between I and 2 the same morning I accom-
panied &Yr, Freer, Marlin, and Johnson to the Camden eta-
, then. On arriving there we f ,und a van, which we examined, to
see whether it contained up or down goods, as goods coming
from Birmingham to London weal not be no valuable as
goods forwarded from London. Martin and Johnson the,
went to Mews. Sutton's stabiles, at the lame station, and
brought out and harnessed a horse to Messrs. Sutton's cart,
the n standing outside a shed, and we all waisted. We then
untied the strings of the covering of the van. We loaded
the cart with goods, and Martin drove the horse from the
station, and I followed it with East, Freer, and Johnson.
We all then got on the top of the cart, and proceeded to the
Oval-road, Camden-town, where Johnson left us. I then
pro: eeded with the co her prisoners to Walworth, where I and
Martin left Freer and East with the cert. I then took • cab.
On the Wowing Tuesday evening, I met a man named
Hunt at the Vauxhall toll-gate, and he told me be expected
the things were at Sam Freer's beer-house, at Peckham. I
afterwards wen' to the priune r, Samuel Freer's house, the
Duke of York, at Peckham, and went down into the
cedar with John Freer, East, Austin, and the two
strange men. I found in the cellar a portion of the
goods in question, and we all helped to undo the pack-
eget., bales, and boxes, which contained prints. cloth, rolls of
*ones, gloves, hosiery, stays, hamper, of drug',, parcels of
books, and a large quantity of other property. The prisoner
Austin examined the things. One of the strange men said
he would give 601. for the lot, but East said that would
not do. The strangers replied, " Very well, you'll
hear no more from us, if you don't take it." We all went
up stain. Austin and the strangers then went into the back-
yard, and I followed them. I said to them, " This man
(maniac Samuel Freer) is in danger, add another ten to it,
and I offered 61. more. I then went to John Freer and East
and told them of the offer, which they agreed to accept.
Austin and the other men said they would come in the en p-
ing at 6 o'clock, and take a portion away, and gave East I/.
as a deposit. At 6 o'clock Austin and the other two men
returned. Shortly afterwards I saw the two strange
men loading a light cart with the goods, and after so doing
they went away, Austin sittiag with them on the cart. East
then told me that the men had left 201., and agreed to come
the nest morning and pay the remainder, when they would
fetch the things away. On the Friday night following, at
twelve o'clock, I met E at in the Kent ah-town road ; he
told me the men bad not been to fetch the things away, and
that Smut I Freer was afraid of his house being searched.
The n, at day (Saturday), I met Ea-t and J. he Freer near
the Red Cap, Camden-town, and we went to Cherry's (ether's
h.-Aise, in Alderegate-streer, sod law the pritoner, John
Chem there. I told him I had some things fur him to fetch
away from Peckham. He agreed to meet us at the Rodney
Head, Old-street, in a few minutes. We went then and
Cherry joined us. Soon afterward* Ea-C*l4rd him if he
would gee over to Peckham, and he said " Yes," and went
beck to fetch his horse and cart. I went with East and
Cherry in the cart to Peckham, and stayed at the Queen's
Head, while East went on to Samuel Freer'e. Alter
this East returned and gave me two sovereigns.
On Saturday evening last I wen apprehended by Police-eon-
..shit Hilladen, 42 S. and taken to the Railway Tavern,
Camden-town, when I gave information to Mr. 'Wilkinson
of the whole transaction. I know nothing of any of the
other prisoners.—Setjeant Dubois deposed that on Saturday,
the 31d, he went to the house of J. Freer, 96, Grove-st , Cam-
den-town, and took him (Fre. r) into custody. He denied that
he knew anything about the robbery. He was then con-
veyed to the station-house. Witness afterwards went to the
beershop at Peckham, and, ec telling &marl Freer, the
proprietor thereof, that he wee charged with ten lying a
large quantity of goods stolen from the Camden station, he
asserted his innocence. 61. Ils. in and silver was found
in a chest, and in a grate was • quantity of ashes,
which might have been produced by e burning of brown
gold
paper used for packages. On the next morning witness
took into custody Cherry, the carman, when he said he could
take hiu to Peckham and show him where a great deal of
the property was.—Other evidence was gone into tending to
show more or less the criminality of most of the accused
earth s, and a considerable portion of the property stolen was
produced by the officers. The packages stolen had
been addressed to parties in various towns in England
and Wale.. The property recovered was identdied by
parties who attended from numerous firms in the City, from
whose warehou.es the parcels, &c , had been forwarded to
Crawl y and Co.'s office.-8 rjeaht Dubois expressed an opi-
II ion that on a future day he should he able to adduce evi. '
dence implicating other persona, and the prisoners were
therefore remand till Tuesday next. Application was
made by Mr Wontner for 8 Freer to he admitted to bail,
hut Mr.Rawlhison refused to accede to the request.

THASIES.—A/MAULT WITII • RED.IIOT Roane-61101.
—lVillitla Lay, a farrier, of No. 2, Gull-lane, Limehouse,
was charged .ash assaulting his jourueyni Lewis Russell.
The complainant and the pn•oner had some words, and
the prisoner laid his hammer on the anvil, took the tongs in
both nands, and hit complainant a violent blow in the lase
with a red-hot shoe. The latter, whosuffered extreme agony,
taggered hack against the wall, and as soon as he recovered
himself gave the prisooer in charge.—Lan, in his defence,
said he held up the shoe to protect himself against the
siolence of the complainant, who, he said, was running
fiercely at him with a hammer in his hand, and in
doing so thrust his face against the iron.—Mr. Yardley con-
sidered the assault a very savage one, and ordered the pri-
soner to put In bail to have the awe beard before &jury, him-
self in the sum of 801. and two sureties 401. each.