The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1847,

for on the following morning, prior to any further delivery.
Ho referred to • baker of the name of West, at Ratetiff-
highway. who, in answer to inquirice, gave him an excellent
character. From Mr. Dorell he received one morning fifty
4-lb. loaves, besides flour and small articles, and from a Mr.
Madden 150 loaves and other articles. When those persons
applied for payment, they were told that Mr. Brooks was
gone to the country, and two days afterwards it was dis-
covered that he had shut up the 'hop and decamped. A few
days back he was net with and apprehended on Tower-hill,
where he had taken another shop in the name of Seymour.
—Remanded till Wednesday next. Bail accepted.
LAMBETH.—Cet•itoe OF PASSING A FLASH NOTE.—
Mr. J. Chisholm, who has carried on the business of a baker
for sixteen years, near the Surrey Canal-bridge, in the Old
Kent-road, was charged with knowingly passing to a person
named Wilkinson a flash note for • genuine note of the Bank
of England, for 101. On Saturday, the llth inst., the pri-
soner purchased a horse from the prosecutor for V. ea., and,
on Wilkinson, jun., taking the animal home, the prisoner
said he had nothing under a 101. note, and left the house to
procure change, but did not get it. Wilkinson offered to get
the note changed, but the prisoner refused to give the note
to him, and ultimately Wilkinson, 'jun., went home, and
brought prisoner a 51. note and 165., when the latter gave
him what he believed to be a 101. note. On it being offered
in payment by the prosecutor, it was found to be •
Bash" note. Application was made to the prisoner
on the subject, but he denied that the note produced
was the one he had passed to the son of the prose-
cutor, and said he had written his name with blue
ink on the back of the note he had paid away for
the horse. The prosecutor on this denial called in a police-
sergeant fir the purpose of giving the prisoner into cur ody,
but the officer knowing Mr. Chisholm to be a person who
heel for years borne a high character, recommended the
parties to accompany him to the station-house, and explain
the affair to the inspector on duty. This they were about to do,
when they were all attracted by some alarm in the neighbour.
hood, and the prisoner, who was without his hat or teat at
the time, taking advantage of the opportunity thus sffbrded
to him, abeconded. The police, on Friday evening, succeeded
in caotu:ing him in a house in Newnham-street, Paddington.
Mr. Games, his solicitor, had served a notice on the press-
cuter to Mate that the prisoner would be in attendance at
this court on Saturday to meet any charge ho might think
proper to prefer against him. Witnesses were milled, who
proved the whole of the above particulars. On the creas-ex-
amination of the son of the prosecutor, to whom the note
was paid, it was elicited that he had been in custody twice
on charges of felony, and on one occasion was tried tor the
offence, but was acquitted.—The prisoner was ultimately re-
manded, but having received a high character from several
respectable tradesmen, was admitted to bail.
THAMES.—CHARGE OF SOBBING SAILORS.—Joka and
Margaret Tucker, who keep a sailors lodging-houso in
Grove-place, St. George's-in-the• East, and J. Clough, the
sister of Mrs. Tucker, were charged with stealing 121., the
monies of a sailor, named William Cole. —The prosecutor,
who had been mate of a ship, and five other seamen, his
shipmates, had been staving at the prisoners' holm, and
were all paid off on Friday. The prosecutor went out the
same evening, having first deposited two 51. Bank of Eng-
land notes and two sovereigns, in a pocket book, in his chest.
On Saturday he went to his chest, which was deposited in
the parlour, and could not find the key. He raised the lid
by force, and, on looking for his pocket-book, which con-
tained his money and papers, it was gone, He concluded
the prisoners, or one of them, mud have committed the
robbery, and gave them all into custody. On cross-exami-
nation by Mr. Wills, he elicited from the prosecutor that his
landlord offered to take charge of his money before he locked
it up in his chest, but he refused to part with it.—Police-
sergeant ()rams, 18 H, and Barnes, a constable, No.
S 8 H, who had investigated the affair, said the male
prisoner, at the station-house, said that Cole took his
pocket-book with him when he went out on Friday evening,
and that he must have lost it during his absence from the
house. The landlady gave up to Grams two parcels, con-
taining nine sovereigns each, another of four sovereigns, and
a fourth of Si., which four of the sailors had deposited with
Mrs. Tucker, and she also gave up to him a 51. note, two
sovereign., and some sitter, which she said were her own.
Orams had ascertained the sailors had been paid off at Messrs.
Windsor and Co.'s, Great St. llelen's, and, among other,
moneys, received eight 61. notes among them, numbered
63,961 to 63.968 inclusive. The note delivered to Sergeant
Orams, by Mrs. Tucker, was one of those notes, but whether
it was paid by the shipowners to Cole, or to ono of his ship-
mates, could not be ascertained. Tucker and his wife had
changed three or four 51. notes for the sailors on Friday in
settling with them for board and lodging ; and Mr. Wills
alleged that Mrs. Tucker received it from one of the other
men. The Tuckers said they had kept a lodging-house for
many years, and had never been suspected before. Mr.
Tucker stated that Cole was a careless man, and lost his
jacket on Thursday night.—Mr. Yardley discharged Mrs.
Tucker, and held her husband and sister to bail, themselves
in 601., and two sureties of 251. each, to appear on Wednes-
day next.
ASSAULT. —J. Payne was charged with assaulting Mr. W.
Parker.—The complainant stated that on Friday night,
while in the street, the prisoner suddenly rushed on him,
called him a rascal and a swindler, spat in his face, and
struck him with his clenched fist.—ln his defence, the pri-
soner declared he was a man with a large family, and they
were in a very destitute condition. He was a boat and shoe-
maker, and had made the complainant two pairs of boots, but
could not get the money. He had sued him at the Bow
County Court, and obtained a judgment for 305., but Mr.
Parker only laughed at him, and would hold up his leg to
him in derision, saying the boots fit uncommonly well.—Mr.
, Yardley said if his story was correct, certainly it was a hard
case, although it did not justify his assaulting Mr. Parker, for
which be was fined 20.., or eight days' imprisonment.—Pri-
soner (bursting into tears) 'then I must go to gaol, and my
family must starve.—Mr. Yardley, addressing the com-
plainant, said, I think you ought to pay this poor man, and
thus prevent his going to prison.—Complainant (haughtily) :
Oh, let him call at my office.—Mr. Yardley : Stuff. You
don't keep your money all at your office. I will take the
prisoner's own recognisance to appear here on Friday next,
and if you have not paid him in the interim, I shall uot in-
flict the fine.