The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-20 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

NARLBouotros-sTREET. ' I
Aho about 70 years of age, named Peakell, Who I
Oat bad gaged a 1/wlng for some time by carrying
• board at la ed. per day imitil stoppedmloriersr
Weidman Woad by the police nose en
Mr. Koos under WIN oirownstanose. The applicant mid
for nearly four years he had paid ed. per weak to the Meads
of Progrses Loon Society, held at the Three Tusk Rupert-
street, until each time ma the sepegate paymeate resoled
the beam of 6. 19e. Being Is want of the matey be ap-
plied to the arimAwy_for the return of it, as ho wee mug.'
to do ; but after sakfag ware' applications dining Wiled
four sumithe, be bad et last been lammed that less WM**
funds, and that the emmetary bad abeoooded.
Mr. Knox mid it was certainly a very bard we, sad
felt great pity for the poor man. Hs oouldloaly repsounssa
the applicant to Foto the County Court, and he would send
so 86oer with him.
Roseklily, one of the takers of the court, west with the
applicant, and shortly aftecwards returued,, and stated that
imitates could be done for him at the County Court.
Mr. Knox was sorry to bear It. The poor man had evi-
dently been very cruelly treated, and he should order him
a eovereign from the poor-boa.
The applicant expressed lila gratitude for this asaistaum,
and left the court.
Rsiert lritspatrick. as seistaat warder in the Milbank
Prima, was charged under the following diegraceful dream-

stems. :
Mr. Dennis Powell, chief warden of the Minsk Pram,
said that he had bees ordered by Copan Osabier, direstor
of Milbank Prima, to brigs the soma baths the maxis.
trate. There wen two charges at present apt* him of
attempted fraud, in the Bret of which be had by mai
MODS obtained ponnesisis of • letter addressed by a Mrs.
Lewis to her brother, • convict is the poi, and this had,
se it was apposed, by collusion with soother prisoner,
caused a letter to be written purporting to come from him,
whisk was the subject of the lint charge.
Mrs. Penh Ana Lewis, the ate of • paper-hanger, said
that the had a brother, named John Ho t, in the Milbank
Penitentiary. The letter sow produced was the the wrote
to him on the let of Deessther, sod mot to the pion.
About the end of December, on the Wednesday after
Christmas-day, the prisoner cane to her house and brought
her the letter which she had sent to her brother, and with
it another, written in pencil. which he told beir the was to
reed, and be would wait for aa asswer.
The letter, is peal, was is follows My dear shabw,
—I remind your had and welcome letter, and was very
glad to boss that all of yon were in Width, as this haves
me at present, thank Ood for it, but I sat may to nay lin
not get soilkient food here to eat. I have got this kind
Oka to coma to sod I wish yea to give him 11. and
SOCA tomcat, and I be ell right. It will be • pee*
comfort to me. I may never have another opporhonity of
sealing to you by this way. He is kind to me, deer abler.
and as you should see that he is come from me. I have sat
back the letter you seat me kat. If you give him what
I have sent for thaisht, I shall get it in the morning. So
no more at pan* Bend me a note back." (No sigastaro)
Whenoner gave witness the above letter, he said be
was an at the pike, sad had brought be own letter
to tioneises her that he bad come from ber brother, sad that
the letter in petal came from hiss. Warms was eximesdingly
glad to am from her brother, and her hathad asked the
upstairs, whet they save him something to drink.
CZemr ss's henna the. told pekoes, that be could act
afford to send the pound, as he bad only just buried his
wife's mother. who died on **BM of Beptember, and
wheal wrote to that offee. to her brother, and gave it to
ti"Nrimserr. Maid asked 'norm it she knew whether the non
was is her brother's hoodwinks 1
Witness replied she did Da.
Mr. Powell said that both this and the Mar in the second
one were fabricated by the primer.
The second letter alluded to was heeded to the utak-
trate, sad wee at much the some kind as the other.
Mr. dread said the primmer was kink to six menthe'
imprisonment for the idiom a taking lease into the
prison (the form cd the charge in which the sawed bed
been brought before the magistrate to proven the nemmin
of • warmth The evidence developed a most discoidal
sad sake. alnico that of preying upon the sympathise of
the poor friends of persons in the gaol. Be thee required
how lag the soma had been sopad in the prima
Mr. Powell replied only eight months, and he was • suer-
totnasterosrpoist, nmelving a passim d 2s. 6d. per day.
Be weld state from his aperiewee the sweaty yews he
had bees there that prisoner had retried in more alma
thee had otherwiseae daring the whole time be (Mr.
Powell) bed Mid
Mr. Arnold said that the primmer ought to be promoted
for adavourieg to obtain money under false pretsnese
from the Moods of pawns is the gaoL He amid remind
theprisms. fora week, sad the pima authorities had
better oasis the assisteas of the Horocrolies to prosecute
the accused with effort.
Prisoner, who did not deny the chaps, was sesordingly
amended.
LAMBETH.
Yesterday Mr. Itiaby. the barrister, attestied before the
Hoe. O. C. Norton for the purpose, as he Mated, of m-
aths the statements made by Mrs. Jona* sad Mr.
Tumbles, nionctios the " English Life Asoureas Oar
pony," es sash statements were calculated to do the oom-
piny serious injury.
Mr. Nonce, inteeaptiag the learned gentleman, mid
that the statements referred to bad been made Were his
colleagoe, Mr. Elliott, and as he was ouch WM/. as.
gained with the whole se the cationstmese than be
ocold possibly be, it would be much better if he (Mr.
Rigby) attended on no of Mr. Elliott's day., sod made his
statemeot before that magistrate.
Mr. Rigby said he bad no objection to comply with the
agastiois of his worship, but hoped that is the interim it
would go forth to the public that, according to hie instruc-
tions, be was prepared to give a most ample sad sand e-
tory answer to the statements. be had adverted to. Ob-
serving Mrs. Jackman present, be would merely add that, if
the had the dominions that bed been forwarded to her, and
would hand them to the palm* at the table who in-
structed him, he should take them to the oaks, 75, Little
Britain. They would then go before the board on the mat
day, and if (mod anon her claim oar the company would
be settled without delay.
Moo Jackman said that it had been stated from the
o&e that she had only been a subscriber Moos the bee*.
sing of the present year, but she could prove that she bad
beena subscriber eines the 1566 July, 1861.
Had it not beep for the blunder at Bps*, one ol the
summoning officers, 1661., the magistrate would have been
furnished with a history of the company by this time. On
Monday last that aka (Bpinks) was desired by Mr. Elliott
to take Mrs. Jackman to the Walworth Main, and there
plans the case in the beads of some active Aker, but mis-
taking his instrootioos he had aseeeted to do so, and there-
-, I fore no person sapged to make the neesmary notaries.
its