The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-24 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL.
Mr. Thomas Roll, a confectimer, carrying co banes at
No. 63, St. Paul's Churchyard, was suroutond by Police-
°Notable Simonds, under Glegletona's Wine Limon Act,
for that he being licensed to sell wine by retail unlawfully
did open his house for the sale of beer and confectionary at
• time of day while publiii-housee are by law required to be
namely, on Sunday the 14th Wit., at 50 minutes
6;reredio o'clock in the morning.
Mr. Tows appeared for the defame.
Mr. 'Poole, clerk to the joshes's, asked for the defendant's
lissom to sell by retail, notice ,having been given for its
graduation, when
Mr. Tows. saicPthere would be no dispute about the fact..
He admitted his client serving, as complained of by the
gales, but be bad no license from the exam, sad wee com-
pelled to do so, as he was• liveryman of the Oooks'Oompany,
who by their ancient charter, 'granted by King Charles IL
were entitled to provide beer with their confentiotaries:
but not to veod it alms se • common beer-shop keeper-
Mr. Town then read from • copy of the charter that por,
hoe referring to the present use, in which is was clearly
beerM that the Gooks' Company had the right of selliog
e without • license, provided they sold It in a way legiti-
mately connected with the badness of • confectioesr. Mr.
Tows* said the abetter had sines Charles IL's time been
set aside quo warranto, together with all the other City
abetters, bet it had with them been renewed by au act of
parliament peered in the second year of William and Mary.
Mr. Alderman Abbiss asked if Mr. Scott (the supervisor
of the district, who was present) had anything to urge in
the matter.
Mr. Soottsaid he had never beard before that there was
a law which allowed beer to be sold without • lionise. The
law was strict as to • license being required wee far the
selling of table beer at three-halfpence per quart, and Ines
had been inflated for readies that liquid without • Bessie.
Mr. Alderman Abbiss said the summons beteg taken out
under the wrong act of parliament must be dismissed; but
assuming that the defendant wee authorised by the charter
of the company to sell boor, it did not authorise him to do
so during the hours that parliament had directed public.
houses to be closed. lf, therefore • similar complaint
again arose, further proceedings would be takeo, and the
whole subject would probably be settled.
The summons was then dismissed.
BOW-STREET.
John Watkins Thorne, aged 19, formerly • clerk in the
savings-beak department of the General Post-office, was
brought up by warrant, in cuatody of Smee, the officer,
charged with forgery and obtaining money by fah* pry',
tennis.
Mr. resocrok, the Post-office solicitor, conducted the pro-
secutioa, and stated that the prisoner had only arrived in
Loodon that afternoon, having been brought from Sydney
npou a warrant granted by Sir Thomas Henry in November
last.
From the evidence of Mr. Charles Hawker, one of the
senior clerks of the department, it appeared that the pri-
soner had been employed in the office about nine mouths
prior to October last, in the capacity of " extra clerk." He
was there on the 16th July last. It was tithety to enter
in the ledger the deposits made at Part-office
savings bank in the York-mad, and on the
day In question an entry was made in his hand-
writing of • sum of 251. le. oe account of " Thomas
Wallingford, of Edam-road, Islington. " It was
in the power of depositors to withdraw any sum placed to
the savings-bank account on giving • few days' notice.
Witness produced • notice of withdrawal for the above
amount, purporting to be signed by the depositor, Thos.
Wallingford, sad, &wording to the custom of the office, a
form of receipt was sent to him, and upon the prod's:Aim
of this document the whole amount of the deposit would
be paid to the applicant at the office specified thereat. The
deposit, in this instance, was made payable at the Ball's-
pood-oflice. When • deposits made his flat payment be
was bound to sign • declaration that be bad no money is
any other office. The declaration. purporting to be signed
by "Thome Wallingford," wee, with the signature to the
receipt, in the handwriting of the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner had made • deposit of la
only, but had altered the entry in the ledger to "261. la."
By this mains be had succeeded in obtaining several similar
sums from the office, and he then absconded to Australia.
He had previoniily secured • colonial grant of land, for which
with his passage he bad paid 301. But the land proved to be
500 miles from Sydney, and of such questionable value that
the prisoner returned at once to Sydney, where be was found
by the officer in • miserable lodging; with only 9s. 6d. left
of the sums obtained by his forgeries at the Post-office.
The prisoner on being asked it be bad aught to say to the
charge replied in the negative, sad was then remanded for
• week.