The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1846.

until a misunderstanding arose between them, and theysepa-
rated. A discovery was subsequently made that the prisoner
had possessed himself of various articles, and amongst them
I these above enumerated, which, it was ascertained, had been
pledged at two pawnbrokers' shops.—The defence set up was
that the accused, from adverse circumstances abroad, on his
arrival in London had accepted of an engagement in the
complainant's service in carrying out a new design in the
printing en leather ; that complainant was indebted to him for
his services, and that to recover what was his due he (prisoner)
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in the said action.—Madame Guige, the complainant's wife,
was then called, and in her cross-examination by the prisoner's
solicitor she admitted that while he was residing in her hus-
band's house she had walked out with him on several occa-
sions, being as she supposed the friend of her husband, and
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prisoner's solicitor still contended that the articles were
given ham by the wife to pledge, although she had denied
the fact, and that had it not been for the quarrel between
them the duplicates would not have been friend, for the com-
plainant knew nothing about it until the wife informed him,
as only the prisoner and she were in the secret. The com-
plainant's solicitor, however, said that the tickets of the pro-
perty pledged were found at the prisoner's lodgings, and that
to this latter circumstance was to be attributed the discovery
of more property than was at first supposed to have been
stolen. The accused here with great vehemence, declared that
it was a conspiracy against him in order to stop the legal pro-
ceedings he had taken against the complainant for the recovery
of the money due to him, and pointed to • ribbon in the but-
ton-hole of his coat, exclaiming, that he would not dishonour
• distinction of merit in the service of his country by having
recourse to dishonest practices. He again asseverated that
the miming articles produced had been given to him by
Madame Guige to pledge for her, and that he performed
such • task at her particular request, and with a desire on
his part to spare a lady's feelings in visiting such a place for
such a purpose.—Mr. Seeker at length decided on committing
the prisoner for trial, but at the same time would take bail
for his appearance, himself in 801. and two sureties of 401.
each, to answer the charge.
HAMhiERSMITH.—Tus CATHOLIC Armin' or THE
Goon SHEPHERD.—lnspeetor Morgan, T division, informed
the magistrate that the Rev. James O'Neal', the director of
the Asylum of the Good Shepherd, in the Fulham-road,
Hammersmith, with the Rev. Messrs. Moore, Kelly, Con-
way, Catholic clergymen, were in attendance for the
purpose of denying the truth of the statement made in that
court on Monday, the 2nd instant, by a young female of the
name of Elizabeth Doolan, who was charged with having
threatened to destroy herself by drowning in that asylum on
the Saturday previous, a report of which statement had ap
poured in the morning journals of Monday.—Elizabeth
Doolan was present. —Rev. Mr. Moore said he would com-
mence the contradiction, as he was the first person named in
the report which appeared in the public papers, and by
which he found that the girl had stated that, as she was
proceeding down the street, at Ratcliffe-hiehway, to • Pro-
testant Institution for Magdalene, in the Blackfriars-road,
she was accosted by a Roman Catholic clergyman of the
name of Moore, who, seeing that she was an Irishwoman,
spoke to her, and, on her telling him where she was going,
persuaded her not to go among Protestants, but to go home
with him, and that he would keep her for • fortnight or so,
until he could get her into a convent. Now he begged most
emphatically and solemnly to declare that all that statement
was a falsehood. He did not meet her in the street, as she
had said. The real facts were, that, about a fortnight before
she was admitted into the asylum, she presented herself for
the first time to him in the Catholic chapel in Virginia-street,
Ratcliffe, of which he was the minister, where he was offici-
ating between nine and ten o'clock in the morning, when she
stated to him that she was an unfortunate Irish girl, who
had been an inmate for three months of a house of ill-fame,
from which she had run away. She also represented herself
as from the county Cork, and said that her father and
mother were Catholics, and that she had been brought up as
a Catholic by the nuns of some religious establishment in
that part of Ireland, that as it was her intention to reform,
she wished him to place her in some establishment conducted
by nuns, like where she had been educated, and out of
humanity to her he undertook to take her case into conside-
ration, and he gave her the means of providing herself with
a lodging for that night, and promised to get her into the
Asylum of the Good Shepherd,- for which purpose he wrote
a letter to the Rev. J. O'Neill, who was, however,
absent in the country. lie then provided her
with a lodging for a fortnight, when he sent a second letter
to Rev. .1. O'Neal', and she was then admitted. He did
not even personally know where she lodged during the fort-
night ; and she had said in her statement that she was three
days at his house, overrated his kindness, as she had not been
there at all.—Mr. Clive said the rev, gentleman's statement
then amounted to a direct denial of the truth of the girl's
statement —Rev. J. O'Neill said he received the second
letter sent him by Mr. Moore, having been in the country
when the first was sent, and he gave her an admission
into the asylum, but it was not true that he sent her
there in a cab. The tenth was, that the TAD from
the asylum happened to be at his house with
clean linen at the time, and he gave her into
the care of the religieuses who were with it, who took her
in the Tan. He had two of the penitents from the asylum,
who were Protestants, present in the court, who would tes-
tify to the kind treatment they there received, and who
would also state that the girl Dubin while there, professed
great indignation at the Protestants who were in the asylum ,•
and that, so far from their having been forced to attend
confession, they were not called upon to do so. While in
the as she had spoken of suicide and its consequence
with the greatest levity and ridicule, and her manner was
such towards the nuns, as to cause her ultimately to be dis-
charged from the asylum. The nuns were ladies of educe.
tion' who have consecrated their lives and fortunes to the care
and reformation of the unfortunate class of person to which
the girl belonged, and afterwards to procuring for
them respectable situations. The explanation now
given, would, doubtless, make the girl's conduct still more
vile and odious in the eyes of the public.—The two penitents
then called forward, stated that they were Protestant
inmates of the asylum, and had every reason to say that the
girl's statement was not correct.—Mr. Clive asked the girl
Donlan what she said to the contradiction of her statement,
and she replied that her statement was true.—Mr. Clive
said it was clear to him that it was a story made up for the
occasion of her being brought to the Court. He had
no doubt but that the contradiction of its truth
would go forth to the public, and that it would make the
' same impression which it had made on his mind ; viz., that
her statement was all a Untie of falsehoods.—The deputation
thanked the magistrate for the opportunity he had given
them of contradicting it ; and as they withdrew, the girl
Doolan said to them, " Never mind, old Priests, I am ready
to make oath to the truth of what I have said." She was
then taken back to the workhouse.

WAN DSW ORTH. —STRANGE OCCURRENCE ON THE
801.:TH WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Patrick Kearns, an Irish
engineer's smith, was charged with being found upon the
premises of the South Western Railway, supposed for an un-
lawful purpose.—Michael Kelly, No. 8 of the railway police,
sated that on Saturday night, about 12 o'clock, he found the
prisoner lying across the rails in the arrival shed, at the ter-
minus, Nine Elms ; he was asleep, very wet, and dirty, and
when awakened could not say how he got there. He had
lost his hat, and appeared to have partially recovered the
effects of an excessive intoxication. Witness handed the
prisoner to the metropolitan police for trespassing on the line,
and refining to give any account of himaelf. The place
where he was found was highly dangerous, as, indeed,
was any part of the line at that time of night.—
Police constable Collins, 108 V, said that the pri-
soner had informed him that he had been drinking
with some men who work at the coke-oven belonging to the
company ; that be afterwards went to the oven with the
men, where he continued his potations until he became so
drunk as to recollect nothing more than that the men threw
several pails of water over him, and then placed him on a
plank across the line.—The prisoner said that this was quite
true, and he believed he had been very badly used.—Mr.
Clive said the case had now assumed a very serious com-
plexion, and he should remand the prisoner until Wed-
nesday, that the police might strictly investigate the matter.
He trusted that the railway authorities would also institute
inquiries.—Mr. Fletcher, the superintendent of the railway
police, undertook to make the fullest inquiry between this
and the prisoner's next examination.