The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.—YESTERDAY.
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CRAROI OF FORGERY AGAINST ♦ SOLICITOR.

Hems, Sinathers surreadertd to receive Me judgment of
the court.

The defendant, who bad been an attorney at Aylesbury,
was c.:.nvicted a few sessions asto of uttering a forged retainer
in a Chancery suit, but a point of law was reserved which
the judges have since decided against him, and he now ap-
peared to receive judgment.
The defendant was about to enter into a statement with
regard to the circumstances under which the conviction took
p'ace, but
The Recorder said he could not allow him to do so. He
knew nothing of the case, sad all he had to do war to pass
the sentence fixed by Mr. Justice Ede, the learned judge
who triad him. _

The defendant said he bed submitted an affidavit to Mr.
Justice Us upon the subject.
The Recorder said that learned judge had seen his affidavit,
and he said that it did not at all alter the view he had taken
of the ease. He had now only to pus the ecntecce, which
was that the defendant be imprisoned in the common gaol cd
the county where the offence wee committed, for one year.
The defendant was then removed in custody of the officers
of the poi.

NEW COURT.—YESTERDAL
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ROBBERY AT CIIIII.IIZA.

Thomas Macdonald, 33, labourer, Mary Macdonald, 32,
niarri.d, and Mary Fos, 62, widow, were indicted for steal-
ing 701. and some other property belonging to Thomas
blllowran. . -

The prosecutor, a shabby looking Irishman, was a teacher
of languages at Lyons, where he had lived for many years,
and amused a considerable sum of money, but being ac-
, cued of having taken a part in some disturbances, he was
arrested, thrown icto confinement, and all he possessed
seized. Subsequently procuring his liberty, he made his
way to England' and from that period down to the time of the
eorambeion of the offence lived at Chelsea, gaining a living by
hawking matches and other trifling article. Whilst so living
he memorialised Lord Palmerston, through whose interference
he obtained restoration of some of the property he had been
deprived of, and on the 24th of September received 741. and
two watches, with which he was seen in possession at Chel-
sea, and in company with the prisoners; and on the evening
of that day he was aeon in the streets in great distress, com-
plaining of having been robbed, and be then suddenly and
most mysteriously disappeared. The facts coming to the
ears of the police the prisoners were taken up, and on the
woman was Sound a quantity of money, amounting to nearly
601., and on the man some new clothing, respecting which
they gave very contradictory accounts. Handbills were then
printed foe the missing man and rewards offered, and from
time to time the prisoners remanded ; and nothing was heard
of 11`Gowran until about a fortnight ago, when information
was received that he was some distance from London, in the
county of Kent, subsisting by begging, and when he came
to London he was taken before the police magistrate and
thus gave evidence, bringing home the robbery to the
woman, who bad taken it from him when drunk, and he
said that when he came to himself and found his money
gone, hers& away, and only knew what had taken place from
seeing an old newspaper is which be read the report of the
emination. . . .

The dormice set up by the woman Mary Macdonald was,
that the prisoner had given her the 1114110 y, wishing her to
go to France with him, and that he owed her a large guts for
Wart sad lodging.
Mr. BaDentine having intimated that he thought the cam
weak against Thomas Mc Doesld and Mary Fox,
The jury Acquitted them, and found Mary Macdonald
Guilty.
The Common &leant said, had it been a usual case of
plundering a man by wholesale she would hove been trans.
i ported, but as there were strange circumstances attending
the affair he should order her to be imprisoned twelve
months.