The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-31 00:00:00

THE POLIOE COURT&

GUILDHALL.
Mr. Ratan applied to Mr. Adams. Fiords, on the part
el Mr. Hall, for s summons against Auguste CodaDe, of
f
No. 69, Demeaned. POTtIESII-KUMII, an interpreter,
mower • charge of perjury.
Mr. Ribton said that this application for a summons,
although beefing reference to, was entirely separate from
that aI Madame Velma% ; he trusted that ea Maxim the
information the summons would be gloated.
The follow iee wee this deposed to :
Mr. FrederiM Thomas Hall said—l am an attorney carry.
lag ou linsioese at No. 15, Gray's.losequare. I keow
Auguste Carlene. Oe the 24th of November lest, whilst
returning from Bow•street polieenourt, amompanied by
Opaline, he said to me, referring to aa applioalloa that I
had just been making to the seigistrate at Borrowed, that
it was very unfortunate that a search warrant meld not
be obtained easiest Valentin. se she was ally *wading the
reale% of Dome property from Branco sad the realisation
of ante% memos in her possession to leave this country
sad go to Amenoe. I thereupon questioned Catalans very
closely as to Valentio's statecciwate about leaving the
country, and he told me that eh* had repeatedly told kis;
and also Mr. and lire. Women* la his presence, that
she intended m soon as possible to go to America. mime
is a very good English 'choler, audits has told me that he
has taught English.
Obarfm Simnel Stokes said—l rad& at No. 8, North.
terrain, Almaden-square, Brampton, in the county of
Middlesex, sod son a gestlernao. I was present oa thelsth
of August at the °antral Criminal Court,when Joan
Lefourcade was tried fora misdemeanour. On that man=
Awuete Coulson, having been swore to give evideose on the
niaL deposed, among other things, that " he never said
Madame Valentin was going to Armories," and that " he
sever mid anything to Mr Hall about each an imitation."
Frederick Baker mid —I am • clerk in the employ of
Wenn. Dentosand Hell, attorneys for Monsienrend Madame
Bouillon is two &otiose brought by them against Mr
dame Valenti*, the' proseeatrlx in a ease of mind*.
tomato spinet an JIM Wounds, who was triad at the
August seems at the Old Bailey and feud guilty. I
know Amalie Coulees well, sod I well reeollect the 15th
of December lest, on which day Auguste Coulano told me
that Madame Valentin had told him Moslem) that she ino
timid to go to Americo, sad be added at the same time
that Vanilla had eves proposed to him (Cocked that he
should %mob% wife and go to America with her (Valentin).
Proriossly to thst date frequently WM fur the purpose
el wising Mr. Hall. sad whilst waiting to see Mr. Hall he i
frequently conversed with me on the subject of Valeothes 1
intention to go to America. On the 15th of last December
I questioned Coulees on the subject of as affidavit he wee
going to mike, and he replied that lee wee intiag to make
another affidavit. Menai/ Valeintin's Wank* to leave the
enustry, sod it was quite right, es she wanted lea
a go
&Wag with her so America.
Osorn Spencer said—l sin a dark in the employ of
Messrs. Denton and Ball. I keow Coulees well. I have
frequently beard him converse with Frederick Baker, my
fellow clerk, on the subject of Valentia's Meg to Armen&
I have on several amnion' heard Oaths' state that
Valentin wished him to leave hie wife sod go with her to
America. These conversations were always is English, and
Coulane generally referred to the shove feats whilst he
waited in the office when we net.
The summate was granted.
BOI6.BrREET.
I ow Kennedy. who said be was • paper stainer. and
lived at Hatfieldoatmet, St. Luke's was charged with
endeavouriog to obteis money from differoat permits by
aeries spurious cigars for sale, and representing them to be
genuine.
Edward Gray, waiter at the Crown Tams, Rupert-street,
Haymarket, said he was paring along New Oefordotrost,
at about 20 minutes past one o'clock that morning, when
the prisoner spoke to him sod offered for sale what appeared
to be several beadles of cigars. He asked 6d. for a handle
of a dozen. Wittier knowing that it was impossible for
him to sell genuine cigars M that prim, If he bad honestly
some by them, gave him la far throe bundles, intending to
sift the matter, and, if neeeseary, la give him he custody.
Upon looking at the supposed cigars he found that they
imeinsted wholly of "damrsies," menufectured, not for
emokieg, but for exhibition is the windows of agar-shops.
Be then said to the prima.", " You oust% to be ashamed of
yourself to sell them things for cigars." The prisoner thee
pm him back his Adios, and be returned to the prisoner
6o three handles, with the exceptionel me "cigar,' which
he had broken up to me what it contsiand. He thee Mlle
limed the matter to • poliosmaa.
Mr. Vsugbasi—But you did not give your mosey on the
faith of the (also pretence
Witmee—No. I knew very well they could not be
genuine cigars (unless be had stolen them). I only bought
them to see what they were.
Mr. Varighen--Tbeo, in your sass, I *moot my that he
obtained the money by mesas of the fate* pretence. Be-
nda, you have condoned the dream, if any, by %kin back
your money. It would eely be • misdemeanour.
Polieecooetable Moororcitt, 163 E, who wore the
French, and Turkish Crimean medals, and the English
Chimes medal, wee then *Lammed. He said that after the
last witness had spoken to him he watched the prisoner for
some time, and saw him offer some cl the pretended cigars
for sale to two or throe persons.
In me %steam winless
was standing sloes by and heard him my that they were
vary good cigars, bettor than could be got at a shop for
and found
throe times the money. Witness took the primmer iato
custody, several more bundles of dummies upon
him.
Mr. Vaughan said be bad some doubt whether he ought
not to commit the prisoom for trial, not for obtaining the
shilling from Mr. Gray, as that charge could not be mein.
stained for the reasons he had stated, but for the subsequent
attempt.
The prisoner said be did not know he was doing =Shim
wrong in offering them things for sale.
Mr. Vaughan did not believe him. Ho must know very
well that it was • very_dislionost act, end if he had not
actually brought bimaelf within tb• pale of the law this
time, he had goes so oar it that be had better abstain from
snob traosactioos in future, or he might find himself within
that pale. As there was some doubt whether a jury would
comet in the presenteaso, to should discharge the priarmer,
but should order the things to be destroyed.

New TAXING Mist= IN CHANCIAT. —Mr. Home
the chief clerk of the Muter of the Rolls, has been appointol
tiring master of the Court of Chimes:7, Yuma by the death
of Mr. Parker.
13•YAGE Alle•IILT ON A MOTH= —An affair of
• shocking nature has just happened at Dustoo-green,
three miles from fameocake. Au aged widow, named
Susannah Mills, bas resided in that place for tow
years, and two grown-up eons lived with her, both of
whom are greatly addicted to drinking. Oo Saturday
eight, slue the woman had gone to bed, her son Charles,
a wheelwright, entered her room ia a state of totoxica-
tiers, dragged her out of bed, and took her into the bed-
room of her other who was them absent, where he
treated her in abrutal manor. About sight o'clock
at night Mills took up a navvy to see his mother, sad as
he was stoopiug down to look at her Mills gave
him a severe blow across the beck of the head
with a large kegs, indicting a serious wound. The
savvy, not thioking much of his own itsjony,
seeing the 'tide Mille was in, and not thinking that Mrs.
Mills was seriously injured (is being dark he could not see
the blood), took no sot ice of the matter, and the poor old
woman was left alone all night. On Sunday morning the
neighbours, not seeing Mrs. Mills about, and Charles Mills
refacing to answer any questions or to allow say one to
enter the house, suspicion was aroused, hiformation
was
given to the police, and Mr. Worship, surgeon, was sent for.
Be at °ore attended, and was of opiates that the injured
woman wee not likely to mover. Superintendent Colman
oommusiosted with C. B. C. Petley, Esq., who attended
with him that afternoon, and the deposition of Mrs. Mills
was tskea. The son Charles was apprehended. His state-
rosut woe that his mother had tumbled down ia a St.—
South Easters Ga:ene.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND EXTEN-
SION SaLwAT WORK& —Yesterday AA inuest was held
Dr. Lanlissme touchiog the death o f John E•wyer, •mi s
labourer, aged 19, who was killed by the falling of • beam on
Saturday last,at the works le progress for the Midlsod Even.
Mon Railway, in Conduit-fields, Raropecad. It appeared that
the deceased was engaged at the bottom of the tunnel, at
shaft No. 5, ohoppig a hit of board, when • *es of
timber fell from the mouth of the shaft--a distance of
90 fest, arid struck him on the heed. He exclaimed
while the timber was falling, "Oh, what is at" and fell
down dead. The men for about a weak past had been
accustomed to sit upon the piece of Umber in question,
but on Saturday it had be shifted sad it was supposed
was struck by a passing waggon ou the tramway and
dislodged. Mr. F. R Dalton, earamm, was maid to the
deceased, whom he found quite dead. His skull was frac-
tured and the brain protruded from • wound in the head.
Verdict " Aocidental death."
THE Pam BYNUM —The magistrates at Torquay
were engaged for several hour cm Moodily investigating a
charge of use
beought by John Heck modest Edwin
Freer, such assault having takes piece in the lavish church
of Meriden, nu the 20th of August, sad originated out of
opposing claims which each party made to a certain seat
in the church. Freer, it apposes, ixcupies an aucciatt ant-
tags In the parish, belonging to Mr. Bishop, and • seat la
the church was claimed, Inasmuch as a seat had always
mornpied by the tenant of that settee from time im-
ial. And further, in the faculty obtained for rema-
in the church thirty years ago, Mr. Bishop's father's same
appeared as having a claim to a seat or sitting Com.
elaisent, it was stated, claimed the same seat bemuse it
Lad been allotted to him by the churchwardens about
twelve mouths ago. Several querrels about this seat bad
takea One at various times, bat oir the 9Dth of August
matters came to • crisis. As woe as the church doors
were opened, Neck walked up to his seat; he was fol-
lowed up the aisle by Prem. sad, as the pew-door was
being closed, Freer bunt it open violently, mot Nears
hat spinniag down the aisle, and broke this umbrella.
!Jima this Neck retired sad went hams. Mr. Bishop sow
raised the Melmioal point, that, as the whole queetka wee
sas of right to property, the magistrate had so jurbdisilsm.
After some time the heath same to that mechrilor a, aid
dismissed the mess.—western Morning New.
1108PITAL POl DIAZABI3 OP THE RELIT, 67
MAIGANZT•ATAINT, CATENDIII-1102A1K —The camber of
patiesai relieved .datiag the pest weak was 130.