The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-08 00:00:00

bah in about tea talantss, and the fraud was diamond. I
saw Smith, the °Meer, sad described to him the person ufthe
prianer on last Friday evening ark.
Mr. Humphreys here reuelled the porter Davey, who, in
newer to • question, said, _that he saw the prisoner on
the niornieg of the robbery, near the chambers of Mesas.
Faulkner and Gregory. He, at the time, was induced to
believe, from his postal appearance, that he was likewise a
porter connected with • railway company, and put that
Lem
to idm, sad he replied that he was on the Northern
hoe, and requested the address of Meters. Parker, Hear,
and Parker. This in souse degree confirmed witames im-
pression in respect to the collies of the prisoner, as he knew
the latter firm to be the prontional advisers of the North-
Western Railway Company.
Mr. Humphrey., at the conclusion of this evidence. said
be should for the present rest his cue on the proof of
the contents of the two parcels only, and to do so he
celled a sleek to Mr. Hassell, an attorney of Bristol, who
stated that on the day before the robbery he adiresad to
Messrs. Leppard and Co , solicitors, of Cloak-lane,Walbrook,
a parcel, containing f air skins of parchment, one of which
was stamped with the duty, 91., and the others of 20.. each,
likewise • power of attorney. The managing clerk of Mears.
Pridesux, solicitors, Bristol, was then sworn, and he stated
that on the 27th of the last month he forwarded to the it
agent., Messrs. Holme and Co., of 10, New Inn, the draft of
a bill in Chancery with other papers, sod instructions .o
counsel. Those two particular parcels it was afterward.
proved by Mr. Thomas, the railway guard of the train whist'
brought them to town, were duly addressed to those respeo
tire firms, and other comae e.ing matter havirg been taken,
The Magistrate, on the application of Mr. Humphreys, had
the deposition. sign. din respect to those cases, and the pet.
comer, who said he should reserve his defense, was committed
upon them for trial at the next Cid Bailey anion.
At the conclusion of he proceeding., Mr. Collard, the
superintendent, said he would, in justice to the porters of
the railway company reprecexted by him, contradict an in-
accuracy which had got into the newspaper., in asserting
that ;the prier:Jeer, when committing the robbery, had on a
dress belonging to, or in imitation of, one of them. The dress
worn by him when the robbery was effected, although not
unlike that generally worn by porters, bore no resemblance
whatever to the clothing of the *seventh of the Great
Western Railway.
Tee prisoner, who treated the matter with indifference,
was then removed from the bar.
WORSHIP STREET.
ROBBING • PCBLIeIIER.—A young man, named Frederick
Elliott, was placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, upon a
chary of robbing his employer, Mr. Stiffs, • printer and
publisher.
The prisoner, who appeared to be in the habit of sellirg
as waste paper quantities of recently printed sheets, was
remanded for a week. _

REMARKABLE CASE OP BlOAMY.—Charlotte and Jam.s
Jackson, alba Jamieson, and many other name s. a smar •
lot.kung young c uupte, were committed on Friday upon
several maps of robbery. The female has been in the
habit of obtaining situations in respectable families as imam-
tic servant, with excellent written characters purpordue to
be from former employets in the country, but now weer-
wined to have been le ritten by the male primmer, her hus-
band, and, after remaining only a day or t o in her new ser-
vice, she decamped with watch's, plate, jewellery, apparel.
and any other valuable property she could ley heed of
Four such robberies, all committed within little more than 0
month, were proved ;against the prisoners, portions of the
plunder bring found in their joint pommel= when they
were apprehended, and the man having then in his pocket a
gold watch and appendage., worth 35 guineas, which the
female had stolen from a widow lady at liornsey. They
had been reminded with a view to the inves•iga: ion of a
charge of bigamy against the mile prisoner, &relieves o•
two marriages being produced by Sergeant Dubois. From
the Bret of these, it apneerti that on the bth of March last,
the prison. r, in the name of Arthur Jamierion, described as a
pr:nter, was married et St. Andrew's, Holborn, :11 Car ilea
Atkins, spinster, his fellow prisoner; and on the lit of May,
I• ea than two months afterwards, was married at St.
George's, Southwark, to a young woman named M vilda
Gersten, assuming on that occasion the name of Walter
Lefevre. The circumstances arendirg this marriage were
meet remarkable and extraordinary. The young woman
lid pre, iou,ly lived in service with the first wife, why'
introduced, ae her !mein r, the male prisoner, her actual
husband, aid having seelously promoted the courtship,
was present at the second ro urriage as one of the wit
times, and is that capacity shined the regime r in the name
of" Caroline Jamieson." The poor victim, besides a go,et
teteek of apparel, &0., had M. in a savings' bank, but, a f. w
days prior to her nuptiat had been induced to give rotice
o' the withdrawal of the money in favour of the man to
whom she was about to be united. Her new husband,
however, remained with her only a couple of days, when
h• lett her, and she, thus deserted, went to her uncle in
Yorkshire to explain her situation. In the meantime her
Jew nlees hu-band, having epproprieted her apparel, S•.,
which she left in Landon, sent her empty boxes and a fare-
well letter, dated on the bth of May, four days after
marriage.
Sergeant Duboie sail he had written to the country to the
friends of the second wife, who, however, hid re' urned an
answer deciiuing to undertake the journey to London, as in
■ll probebili y the poi oners wesuld be disposed of on the
charges of felony already egainat them.
The prisoners were t: cranes committed to Ncwgato fur
trial upon the four charges already mentioned.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
?SPUMOUS CHEQUES.—WaIiarn Hodge, the son of a
bookie at Truro, was brought up for final CX‘MiLIIII,4I,
d with having pasted a spurious cheque to Samuel
°mese, coffee-house keeper, No. 125, Jermyn-street, in
I payment for • dismond ring.
When the prisoner was brought to tho court on 'fissility
last the evidence was to the effect that the prison, r, seeing
toe riots on the finger cf the proierutor, took a fancy to it,
and off re to purchase it ter 51. A b .rgain was wruck,
•nd the prosecutor gsve is Tina and 21. 43. to exchange for
a cheque of Si. 4s , drawn by the prisoner on tke banking
firm of Sir John Luobock and C Soon after the truism
tion the pee tutor received a n..te from the prisoner, re-
qutsting him not to prim nt the ch. quo for a few dap, as he
tout overdrawn his account. The prat rotor was n.t
unwilling to secede to the request, but beast fist di time
of ate rteining that the cheque was a genuin" instrument,
he took it to the basking-hease, and was ti en la:omit:
that the prisoner had not then, tor ever had, an ace.unt
with the firm. Prosecutor Moving ascertained that i.e was
tone of a num, roes batch of victim, is similar cases, gave Vie
prisoner into curody.
Police-constable English, of the C division, told the magis-
trate he bed no doubt that at the next 'nomination there
would be many other cues of a similar kind against the
prisoner.
The prisoner was remand, d until Saturday; and in the
meantime it was ascertained that in the Haymarket nevi
a.ighbourhood the prisoner, since August last, hat tun
reseed in pasting trout 20 to 30 s;:urious cheques, varying in
amount from 101. to 201. One ease was of peculiar baidship,
in which the waiter at Cremorne Gardens had been induced
to take one of thee'- cheques for 101. The waiter, however,
was ultimste'y secured from lots.
Mr. Wontier appeared on b, half of the prisoner; and,
as no evidence was tendered on Saturday, the prisoner was
liberated.