The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

-G, SEPTEMBER • 22,-1846.

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PO4ICX•weItATIZADAt . • •
MARTEEISONS,—A 'Moog man named William 114-
ileirstate, who 'aimed to state where be resided, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Rawliasen, charged with basing
robbed Mir Harriet Lilliwhite, 6,.Hyde-parklardans, of •
.pamemetainiag a 61. Bank a Anglia note. and *Meta
iligueos in silver. On Saturday tithing. otti.learter be-
fete lime, them was a mat bustle fm tho platform ,upon
the arrival of an ammo kiewentter44l,lll24ll:4! pp-
sawn were in a hurry to it.IMPle, Irrissul"
was observed to he " suunding" the pocirms of scram ladies,
one of whom was the preeecutrix en observing that he was
watched by a policeman belonging to the company, he
turned quickly Aviv, end endeavoured,m make oft by going
under the pole or an omnibus, but he was stoppedon the
instant, and given into custody. A purse containing the
sum above alluded to was picked up near to where he was
taken, and it was identified by the prosecotrix, who had just
got into a cab with the intention.of being driven home. The
prisoner was tent to Newgate.
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CLERIERNWELL.
Slanted Alien, a beer.shop keeper, in Ford's-place,lialloway,
was charged with stealing • gold watch and chain, salty 601.,
the prepeetjt of Captain Martin, of the 2nd Regiment of Life
Guards. The prisoner was in the Captain's regiment as a
private ten years ago, when the watch was mused. Soon
after the prisoner left the army and the Captain tend no
more of Inerwatch until Saturday night lest, when • constable
, brought it to him.—Seijrint North deposed that from pri-
vate lafersaation be received he was induced to go to .the
hewn of the prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the luti-
ele. A woman named Hain ~ typo left the house eti:the eon-
stabia's catering it, having been subsequently apprehended,
gave ep North a leather beg containing. a gold, watch,
which she mid the prisoner gave her to take care Of. The
watch was produced and identified by Captain Martin.—The
primmer was remanded.
WORSH I P-STREET.—Tni EASTERN Cotten-ins
Riotwat.—Yeaterday, Mr. Anthony Gsbsen, a merchant
and tanderwelter at Lloyd's, was charged with wilfully
:aped* the officers of the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany in the execution of their duty. With haring, along
with some thirty or forty other persons, hurried out of the
carriages at the Shoreditch-ternnnus upon the ticket.eol-
kctor's platform, walked along the line to the passengers'
platform, end also with having resisted the policeman who
took him into custody. In answer to the charge, Mr. Gib-'
son stated that he started in a very heavy train from Brox-
bourne, at a quarter to seven, and the company professed to
reach London at five minutes past eight; mistead of which,
he continued, we did not arrive at Bus ticket-platform until
six minutes to nine ; where we stuck fret i..and thus a whole
hour had been wasted. After we hadi waited 'here such •
time that one gentleman actually went to deep, the whole
of the passengers became greatly incensed, and thirty or
forty of them got out and walked. I followed their example.
But this was nothing new, for on the previous Sunday,wbea
I came up with a train with another thousand passengers, I
don't think there was a single person in the whole train
but did the like—that is to say, walk front one platform to .
the other, and no objection was taken by the company's
officers to doing so. The defendant then described the
uncivil manner of his capture. He efts rwards called
his brother, Mr. Edward Ballard, a merchant, end Mr.
William Hean, an upholsterer, all of whom not only con-
firmed the defence in every particular, but expressed them-
selves in terms of strong censure of the delay and conduct of
the railway officials.—Mr. Broughton expressed his opinion
that a sufficient obstruction of the railway servants bad been ,
established to bring the defendant within the meaning of
the act, and as the course the defendant had pursued was
not only calculated to be injurious to the interests of the rail-
way—ef whose general method of conducting business and
punctuality he could bear competent testimony from the use
of their line—but also highly dangerous to the public, as
setting a very injurious example, likely to be frequently ful-
' lowed, and attended with loos of life, if unrepressed, he felt
it his duty to impose the ultimate penalty it was in his
power to inflict—namely, 5!. to the Queen, and in default
the defendant must be Imprisoned until the fine was paid.—
The money was immediately handed to the clerk, by the
defendant, who remarked to the magistrate, " One polite
word would have avoided all this unpleasantness."

MARLBOROUGH STREET.—Sesricioes CASE.—A
young man of very respectable appearance, named Edward
Stanley, a clerk without any place of residence, was charged I
with having possession of a valuable gold watch, chain, and
seals, without being able to give a satialictory account of
the property.—Mr. lieysor, watchmaker, Tottenham-court
Road, said the prisoner came to his shop an hour or two
previously, and offered the ticket of a gold watch and seals
fit sale. Mr. Keysor heard what the prisoner had to say,
and then agreed to purchase the watch. When it wu
taken out of pawn, Mr. Keysor at once saw that it
was an article of very great value, and he then ques-
tioned the prisoner as to the way he became pomessed of
it. The prisoner gave such evasive replies, that witness
called iu a police-constable and gave him into custody ou
suspicion of having • stolen watch in his possession.—The
constable who took charge of the prisoner said on searching
him he found several blank cheques in a pocket-book, and a
sheet tied up in a handkerehief.—Mr. Hardwick asked the
prisoner to give an account of himself.—The prisoner said
he had no place of abode as he was seeking employment as
clerk, and he usually got a bed in the neighbourhood of that
locality which he selected to seek for employment during the
day. His last employers were Messrs. Churnet and Co.,
Albion-place, Battle- hndge, and the cheques in his posses-
sion he had obtained while in his late employers' service.
The watch and chain were his property.—Mr. Keysor said
the prisoner offered to sell the watch and appendages for 71.,
although the watch itself could not have cost less than 40/.
or 501.—Mr. Hardwick remanded the prisoner till Saturday
next, in order to give time to the police to make inquiries.
BOUTHWARK.—Asser LT.— William Kenny was placed
at the bar bef're Mr. Seelter, cherged witb being etalemr4
((with her not in custody) in committing an assault on
. Elliott, a tradesman of Dockhead, and also on a Mr.
Benton.—Mr. Elliott stated that, on the preceding after-
, noon, he left home in a four-wheel chaise, aecompanied by
Mr. Benton' his friend, and a younger brother. That when
they arrived opposite the Catholic Chapel at Dockhead, he
observed a crowd of between 200 and 300 persona id the
road, and he called out to them to make way for him to pass.
Instead, however, of any attention being paid to what he
said, the defendant seized the horse's reins, and the animal
being rather a spirited one, plunged a little, upon which he
and his friend were dragged out of the chaise and thrown
upon the ground, and, while lying there, they were both
beaten and kicked. His hat was knocked off; ho re-
gained that, but lint a silk handkerchief which was in it at
the time, and the vehicle was upset. The defendant was
very prominent in the outrage.—Mr. Denti' confirmed
the above account. He berths.' hie trousers and coat torn.—
Charles King, on the behalf of the defendant, stated that he
was Inspector of Nuisances for Lambeth parish, and that,
between Sour and five o'clock the preceding afternoon, he
was present near the Catholic Chapel, at the time a
funeral, followed by a concourse of people, came
up. That the bier and mourners were about
to enter the doors of the chapel, when the de-
fendant came up driving sharply in a chaise, and wanted
to drive through the crowd in the road. That the defendant
perceiving that some persons were likely to be injured if the
complainant drove on, seized the horse by the reins, upon
which the former commenced whipping the defendant and
others in the crowd, and at length used the butt-end of his
whip right and left, striking every person near the vehicle.
This conduct on the part of the complainant irritated the
crowd, and he and his companion were dragged out of the
chaise, and it was afterwards thrown upon its side. The
complainant declared he had no whip, but a short stick with
which he wu driving. It was true that he used the stick
s long as he could in self-defence.—William Pinall cor-
roborated the above statement —Mr. Seeker said that the
evidence was so conflicting, that he ought not to adjudicate,
hut to send it before a jury. For that purpose he should
therefore hold the defendant to bail, himself in 401., and one
surety of 201., to appear at that court on the 27th of next
month, to give the complainant an opportunity of indicting
him if he pleased at the minions, which commenced on the
26th. Bail was given for the defendant's appearance.

LAMBETH.—Extr.sstrx Swttinutco.—A middle-aged
man was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on two differ-
ent charges of stealing a number of sacks. The prisoner, it
was said, was also engaged with one or two others in eaten-
' dre swindling transactions.—Mr. Peter Tapps, a fanner.
residing at Laben-heath, Suffolk, deposed that in the month
of April last the prisoner attended at Brandon Market, when
he represented his name to be William Wells, and not
William Wells Watson, as he now gave it. He at that time
purchased from him, witness, 97 mambo of wheat, which he
requested might be sent to Laben-heath Station, to be taken
hom thence to Ely. Witness at that time told him that he
could not spare sacks, upon which he remarked that he had
200 sacks in London, that were about to be removed to
Suffolk. The wheat was delivered at the railway station as
directed, and the prisoner having no sacksthere to receive it,
his (witness's) servant allowed him to take the sacks on to
Ely, upon his promising positively to send them back from
there. 97 sacks had been subsequently returned, but 46
were kept back, and had never reached Lila. Knew a per-
son Lnaer.ed Chapman, but did not know that the prisoner
was Chapman's servant.—Polioe-constable 138 P, said he
took the prisoner at the George the Fourth nblic-house, at
Norwood, on Saturday night, and then addresed him as
Watson, which he answered to. Wit es told him he was
his prisoner, for keeping some sacks or some corn. The
prisoner asked if it was Mr. Martin'; and witness told him
no, but Mr. Scott. Witness found one sack in the stables of
the George the Fourth, and subsequently went to the pri-
soner's house, in George-street, Norwood, and there found
in the bed-rooms and other places four seeks, which were
being used as-hearth-rugs, and one on the outside of the
hen-roost. Another constable found four sacks.—A second
charge was preferred against the prisoner by Mr. Joseph
Scott, a farmer at Laben-heath, who deposed that in
the month of April last the prisoner, who represented his
name to be Wells purchased 50 quarters of grain from him.
The grain was to be delivered at the railway station, and the
prisoner promised to send his own sacks there to receive it.
He did not, however, send them, and he was allowed to take
his (witness's) own sacks as far as Ely, on the distinct under-
standing that he would send them back from there. Witness
subsequently understood that the corn had not been taken to
Ely at all, and he only received 75 out of 100 of his sacks
back.—Mr. Mohler applied to Mr. Elliott to send the pri-
soner down to Suffolk, in custody of his officer, when a
number of other and more serious charges would be prearred
against him. —Mr. Elliott observed, that as the alleged
offence had taken place in the county of Suffolk, be should
allow the prisoner to be taken there to be examined and
dealt with by the magistrates. The court was crowded by
respectable persons, who were said to be the victims of the
prisoner and his companions, who have carried on their
swindling practices to a very considerable extent.

WANDSWORTII.--Santous Cumin' aositrn vas
TREASURER p? 11.111ZNIPPIT Cliti..--Ttfterdkr the vectetary
of a benefit club, held at the Nortblk Arra& in Larkhall-
lane, Clapham, accompanied by several of the members
applied to Kr. Clive for hie Advil,. and sesistaace under th;
following cireumrances. It appeared from the secretary's
statement, that i 4 lint September a benefit slid flick club
was established at the Norfolk Arms,- of which house a man
named-Joiseph Haselgrave was arid eentinues to bribe land-
lord. In the ensuing November three trustees and a tree-'
surer were chosen, the Mil Haselgrave filling the joint
offtces of treasurer and trustee. The club had senor elected.
other trustees. • A formal. notice, signed by nearly allthe'
members, was served upon the treasurer to give tip la the
new trustees the furido in hand, amountinplo 251., as idio,l
the society's tox, cOnhaning their banlg, book and other
papers of value. He; however, fatly used so to do, and
the members were now apprehensive that his refusal as re-
refunding the mousy arose from inability to do.so.—
re-
girded
suppled that the treasurer disputed the authority
which called upon him to give up the money or ligoka.—The
secretary admitted that they had received a letter in which I
the treasurer denied the power of the new trustees, they not
having been legally elected.--Several of the members pre- I
seat expressed their earnest opinion' that unless some imme-
diate measures were adopted they would lose their Money.—
Mr. Clive recommeaded the secretary and members to call a
meeting that night, which meeting eught- to direst ei tostaal
notice to be served upon the treasurer to appear before the
arbitrators that might be appointed. and if be did not appear
they could then give him into custody for embezzlement.—
The secretary and members said they would set upon'the
advice, and withdrew.

HAMMERSMITH.— OrTILAGN OW A PPWALII DT A
PIKVATI, OP' HOSSAWS.--Clara Mercer, a bly-
dremed female, was- placed at the bar, e on the
police sheet with having stolen a walking-stick of the value,
of 10s. shd a glove, the of George Walsh, a private
in the 7th (Queen's ) I Misers. On tke ease being
called on, the soldier wee not In attendance, and on the
magistrate inquiring the resale, Berjeant Eastland, T ,I 7
informed the magistrate that from the inquiries ha had
made into** ease, it appeared that on the previous night
the prisoner, who was respectably connected, wet teturnftg
home from Paddington across Hyde-park PO the residence
of her parents, in the Gloueerter-road, Brampton, when she
was accosted by the soldier, who was going the same way,
and entered into conversafion with her. On reaching the
c.:valry barracks at the Kensington-gate, the soldier went in
there, but soon followed the young woman down the Glou-
cester-road, and when they got past the bowies from Ken 11
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eington, attempted to take liberties with her, and famed her
up a lane, and threw her into a dry ditch. Her cries for
assistance brought several persons to the spat, mil ultimately I
a policeman, when the soldier charged her with stealing the I
stick and glove. Having heard the statements of the per-
sons
who went to the young woman's assistance, he sent to 1
the barracks for the serjcant of the troop, who on coming to
the station, and seeing who the soldier was, said to his,
What, Walsh, are you at your old tricks again ? " and he
told witness he would not believe a word the man said. The
soldier, however, premed the. charge, which bqing one of
felony, witness was obliged to take, but he immediately seat
for the prisoner's father, who became answerable for her
appearance, and took her home. The soldier had that morn-
ing
started with the regiment on their way to Ireland. The'
father and mother complained loudly of so unfotinded a
charge having been made against their daughter; but Mr.
Clive said all he could do in the case under the circum-
stances, was to order the yrisoner to be immediately
discharged.