The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-10 00:00:00

THE BEAUTIES OF YORKSHIRE.

John Hartley, the pretended publisher of a work
entitled " The Beauties of Yorkshire" (no such work, as it
is stated, ever haring been printed), Ind an account of whose
apprehension at Blanchester was given in the Express of
Monday, wee brout‘ht for further cumin tion betore the
magistives at Manchester yesterday.
Mr. Berwick, the chief superintendent of the detective
police, said the prisoner bad beta remanded, the court
' would recollect, from Saturday, on a charge of ob-
taining sums of money from individuals amounting
to a guinea in each ease, by false Fewness —the
false pretences being that he had published a book called the
" Beauties of Yorkshire," and supplied them with copies of
it ; which book there was mum to believe bad never been
published, and consequently that copies could not have been
supplied. Some of the noblemen and others in London,
whom it was evident he had obtained the money from by
these Wee statements, had been written to, and their answers
had been received—if the court would please to read them.
He had a pocket-book taken from the prisoner, in which was
a list of 89 noblemen and gentlemen, in his own hand-
writing, marked as having paid him their guineas.
Mr. Goulden, solicitor, said he had attended the court at
the request of Mr. Novick, and could state some facts rela-
tive to the prisoner having att.:Wed to defraud clients of
his ; but he would not say that the case would reach the
prisoner. In the month of May, 1844, (continued Mr.
Goulden), I prepared an assignment forte benefiadverti tsed of
thatthe
creditors of a rerun named Thompson,
the claims of such creditors must be sent in by a cer-

'sin day. Among the letter' which came to hand was
one from the prisoner Hanley, which, however, he writes
under the feigned name of John Smith, and desired me to
attach that name to the deed for a claim against the estate of
121. 10a. I referred to my list of credit." and not lindicg
the claim here named, I wrote to the delpor, Thonspann, sad
was informed in reply that he had no suet creditor. I heard
nothing more of the claim till the month of October, when I
reamed a note, signed John Smith, decade; me to remit
the same by return of poet, and which contained a postscript
ay follows: " Wri.e me (tinder cover) addressed John Hart-
ley, Req.. Maws, Yorkshire." On receipt of this letter I
wrote to Thcwapson, enclosing it. His answer was, "Itis an
imposition, and I ke ow nothing of the party ;" and this answer
I transmitted to the addrem contained in the alx.ye letter. In
reply to it I received an epistle declaring that John Btu-4,1 had
called at my office three times when he was last in Man-
chester, adding, " I had not the pleasure of seeing you ; I
wanted to know if any dividend was payable, and who paid
it, but your clerk could not inform me." I inquired from
my clerk if any such person as in this letter had called
at the °Mos in my absence, bat he said no one had called
about the matter. On naming the subject to Mr. Thompson,
he said, " I owe him en such money; let him bring his sa-
tiny, " Here*. correspondence dropped on that 'abject,
and I heard wain mars of the prisoner till November,
1848, when a person named Fellows had died intestate. He
was a small brewer in Ardwie.k, anal I advertised that errdi-
tors should send in their claims to Mr. Sutton. Soon after-
wards Mr. Sutton received and forwarded to me a letter
which

. he had received, from John Hartley, claiming 8!. 51.
for a pocket of hope said to have b-en supplied to thi de-
. Upon Kr. Batten bringing me the letter,
the writing and the name both Match se se
somewhat familiar, and I. had an idea of some unpleasant
asiociations connected with them. I compared them then ea '
I.have done now, and there can be no doubt as to their being
the same writing. I placed myself in communication with
Mr. Beswick, the diet superintendent of police, at the time,
and I told Mc &Mon to write and appoint an interview ;
but the prisoner avoided the trap, and wrote again.
Mr. Maude—Well, I do not see what is the use of going
into these Littera—what have you to connect him with al
this ?
Mr. Beswick—l hove found upon the prisoner the seal
which he has mei in making wp the letters just
read. I learn that his name is Hartley, or Hutt.
ley; that he Lam at Malham, in Yorkshire, where he has a
small estate of his ewn, which brings hint in about 401. •
year. You will perceive by the letters I have handed up to
the bench that the parties written to in London decline to
come all the way down here to proicents.
Mr. Maude—Well, he must be disehargi d.
The prisoner was immediately set at liberty.

MARY ANN CROSBY.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS,
Sir,—Your able comments on this poor woman's
case, one of the many cad instances of the work-
ing of an iniquitous and unrighteous law, have
caused the victim's release, and come few gifts
through the Express and other* lea have afforded
a slight recompense, but she is not safe.
1 have had the curiceitg to go into the neighbour-
hood of Ringwood, and the oppressors contemplate, I
doabt not, the turning her and her little family and
her unemFloyed husband cut of house and home, or
hy an inquiry, which I have ascertained to have
been made, as to the amount of hertent—whon last
paid—and whether her humble cot was taken yearly
cr quarterly? Have the unchristian sappreters of
these iniquitous laws fully enough to a tempt this?
Wickedness enough I know they have, although
noble earls and men who call themselves God's minis-
ters are amongst them. Surely the press will watch
this intention, and denounce any further act of op-
pres.ion, even though that act may yet more fully
effect the downfall of the game laws.
1 had 83010 further curiosity in this matter, as to
the costs. She is subjected to 12s. 6d. costs ; and on
my return to my own district—thank Grd! a little
less game preserving—l looked at the table of foes
—signed by the (now) Primo Minister I think—and •
I cannot see that more than Bs. 6d. can be charged;
or say, if the canmitment is charged 9s. 111. Who
gets the illegal excess P—if it be illegal, as 1 believe—
and what remedy have the friends of Mary Ann
Crosby if it be so ? Her oppressors, like the pound
of flesh, may yet have it in a way they little expect.
The Hampshire men are ready fur the onslaught if
they have a case.
The earl and the magistrates are furious at your
dragging them and their acts befure the public, bat
the public are grateful. The squires cannot, for the life •
of them, tell how the Express could know what
olpression was working at Ringwoad—perchance,
what illegal costs were belay taken there ; nor why
the Express ahoald say the case of Mury Ann
Crosby would prove the dawning of their mealy
gamelaws. But it will be so.
I am, &e., AN ADMIRER.