The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1848.

hu become of all the money be has received in his character
of " The Heir-et-Law Society." The insolvent applied to
have restored to him the papers he bad filed in court, but his
rrquest was refused by the learned oommissioner.—The rase
stands adjourned sine die, which leaves the insolvent subject
to all his Nibilitiee.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
helms Mr. iterieent Adams.
ALLEGED CONSPINACY TO PROCURE A CONVICTION,—
Mary Deakins, a good-looking young woman, holding an
infant in her arms, wu indicted for having, by false pre-
tences, obtained from Mr. 11. M. Vane, solicitor, of 12, Re-
gent street, the sum of 60.—Mr. Vane stated that the pri.
caner went to him on the 26th ult. and presented a note,
which she said had been sent by a Mias Ityan, 'client, and
Allah requested the loan of 6s. Ile gave the prisoner the
money, and on finding that the note was a forgery, caused her
to be taken into custody. The prisoner stated that the note
had been given to her by • man who said Miss Ityan (tor
whom she bad worked as a sempstress) had sent him with it,
for her to take to Mr. Vane. Mire Ryan denied that she
hint written or given any one authority to write the note.—
Mr. Piendergsat, for the prisoner, elicited in eras...examina-
tion that the prisoner had been connected with a person
named Cooke, who had been a barrister, bat was now an
attorney, and who was the father of the child she carried in
her arms. The child had been affiliated, but Mr. Cooke
appealed against the order, and the matter was now pending
in this court on mandamus. Min Roan stated that un the
morning the prisoner was taken before the magistrate she
went to Mr. Cooke to ask for mercy for the prison, r—as he
was connected with the prosecution. She could not say
what induced her to go f-tr such • purpome. Did not know
that Vane was Mr. Cooke's solicitor. She was ignorant of
it, if such was the eve. Believed the prisoner was an im-
portant witness against Mr. Cooke in some law proceeding..
Mr. Serjesnt Adams: Can you state any reason why Mr.
Cooke, who has a double interest in this prisoner's convic-
tion, should have it in his power to show her leniency in this
prosecution ?—Witness I cannot, sir —ln answer to Mr.
Prendergast, the witness said that Mr. Cooke knew of the
prisoner's having been in her service. 'Che note was nut
written by the prisoner.—Mr. Serjeent Adams, edilreming
the jury, said he thought the case need go no further. It
seemed that • person who would be much interested in the
prisoner's conviction was taking an active part behind the
iicenes, and no explanation of that was off red. Them was
nothing to show that some man had not delivered the note
to the prisoner with instructions for her to take it to Mr.
Vane i and the case, to say the least uP it, was one of peeve
suspicion. The case should proceed if the jury thought it
requisite.—The foreman of the jury said they acquitted the
premier, and had agreed to do so before his I..relship spoke
to them.—Mr. Prendergast said, this was a conspiracy to get
the unhappy young woman convicted. Iler incarceration
would be highly convenient to Mr. Cooke, and it was easily
to he perceived who sent the man to the prisoner with the
note.—The learned Serji ant said the court considered the
cue of great suspicion.—The prisoner was then liberated.

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to murder him if he said anrWof, they carried it away
themselves, and threw it into a dust-hole in the Tenter-
ground. He followed, he said, expecting to ace a police-
man; but he did not; and, being frightened, he went off to
bed in Wentworth street, and said nothing about it till some
days afterwards. He now pointed out the prisoner at the
bar, who, he said, had strangled Henry with the handker-
ehiee and afterwards carried away the body, and thrown it
into the dust-hole. The evidence he had previously Liven
against the Bottle Conjuror was new referred to, and, on be-
ing questioned, he admitted that he had then declared it to
be the bottle man who had strangled the deceased and carried
away the body ; but," he added, with an imbecile simper,
" I deny all that now." Mr. Arnold, addressing the father
of the deceased, said be wee astonished that any person
should have been given into custody upon such a serious
charge upon such evidence. The young man at the bar
would, therefore, leave it without any stain upon his the-
reeler as to the matter. The accused was then liberated.
CLERK EN WELL. A/MAI/LT BY hi ITCIIKLITP.S.
Brien, Vigo, and Conner were reexamined, charged with
committing a violent assault on police constable Haines, No.
165 O. At the first examination the prosecutor was in too ,I
dangerous a condition to give evidence. On Sunday morn-
ing, J one 4, the prisoners,who are Irishmen, and several other
persons, amembli d in Oolden-lane, St. Luke's, and com-
menced hurrahing for " Mitchel and Ireland," and
salving out " down with the police " and " knife
th' en, ' at the same time assaulting every one that
parsed who would not join in the tumult. A complaint of the
uproar and rioting having reached the ears of the officer
Minos, from a gentleman who hail been grossly ill treated by
m, he hastened to the spot, and Brien hell* pointed out
as the party who had committed the latter outrage, he appre-
hended him, when he was immediately let set by the mob,
hut more violently by the prisoners, by whom he wan
I knocked down, kicked, dragged about, end his left rye was
gouged " from the socket. His cries of murder brought to
his assistance a number of the shopkeepers of the neighbour-
hood and mime constables, who, alter much difficulty and
risk, rescued the complainant. —Mr. Tyree/hitt thanked the
tradesmen who bad assisted the police, and said the public
were much inch Wed to them,—Mr. Ward, one of the wit-
nesses, remarked that it was next to a miracle that Haines
escaped with his life.—The prisoners, who were advised to
reserve their defeat*, were committed for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.— Citerm TO A hi oRs F.
—F. manager of Alilridge's Repository, in Bt.
Martin's-lane, was summoned for wantonly and cruelly ill-
treating a mare, the property of Mr. Halsey M.P. It ap-
peared that Mr. Ilalsey sent a mare to Mr. Aidritlge's stables
for eale. The morning before the public sale came on the
mare was found to have been very severely whipped.
causing marks which would very much depreciate the price
of the mare in the eyes of a large portion of the buyers. The
discovery was made oar Wednesday morning by W. Morgan,
Mr. Halsey's groom, who found the mare welled from her
hincrquarteradown to the boughs, and the skin broken on the
eeir.hind leg. Ile went to the defendant and asked an ex-
planation, when the defendant asked what was the matter,
and, on being toil that the mare had been violently beaten,
replier, " Well, I know that—l did it myeelf."—Mr. Sylves-
ter, veterinary surgeon, who had known the mare ever since
she ie.& rested, mod she was a very quiet animal in the
stable. He saw the whip marks on the quarters just before
the animal was brought out for sale.-1 he defendant said
he f .und the mare kicking, and be used his whip, but not
to hurt the animal.-11e was fined 405., or 14 clays' im-
priamment.
LAM If I.:TH.—ALLEGED ERA ('rose was finally
examined on various charges of fraudulently obtaining
money, and not accounting for the same to his employers.
The prisoner had Leen formerly in the service of Meters.
Vickers and Co., wine and spirit merchants, Trinity-oilmen,
Tower hill ; but, on account of considerable defalcations, he
was discharged from his situation, and merely retained as an
egoist to s. II goods fur the firm, but on no account or under
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peen xi to receive a shilling from the customers. Not-
wi.h•tcniling this agreement, the prisoner has for some time
past been ri relying large sums from the persons he sold
win' a and spirits to ; and besides this he, a few days before
leis apprehension, burrowed 101. upon a brandy warrant from
Mr. Jenkins, landlord of the Crown, in the Seven Dials.—
The prisoner was fully committed.