The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-17 00:00:00

BOW-STREET,,

Istroneurr TO YU/MINIMS' —Mr. John Williams,
bookseller aid pobl taker' 141, Strani, was summoned under
the Copyright Act, at the instance of the trustees of thr
Eriakil- Masson, ter bevies on several occasions wilfully
akrirdoWeef:lTtliarta's establishment
mownil rf re iof t
uN cise•
of the same, whereby he rendered himself halite to
amounting to the value of emit% work, and also to a
etnot more than W. for each offence.
John Dennis, 46 F. proved that on Wednesday evening
het he served a copy of the summons on en assistant in the
rhop, who told him that the defendant was not at home, but
he would forward it to him.
Richard Edmonds, a clerk in the service of Mean. Bray
and Co., proved that by the directions of kis employers he
called at the defendant's shop and purchased three copies of
the " Arden," for which he paid one shilling each, and oc
the 13th inst. he served a notice there for the production of
certain letters which had passed between him and the soli-
Mt* respecting the proceedings about to be commenced
against
Mr. John Collier Height, receiver at the Museum of new
pnblicationedelivered pursuant to the act, proved that *no
copies of the work in queetion had been furnished to him.
The last books delivered to him woe on the 20th February,
and nothing since. TOO defendant vu the publisher if
emu expensive wcrks, one of which was " Railway Pea*.
ties,"
Mr. Jardine said be had ne hesitation in convicting the
delendsat in the penalty of Si. for each offence, together
with the amount of reek number, but he would leave the
ease open for a week, to give the defendant an opportunity
of making an expIenatLERKENWELL, ion to the trustees foe a mitigation.
C
CRAW:iII or FORGIIIT.—Jogiss Sqrland, a young man
of respectable appearance, was charged by Mr. ?homes Da.
vies, chemist and druggist, of N*. 13, Hereford-row Bays-
water, with having uttered a forged bill of exchange tar
3601.
The prosecutor stated that be formed_y parried on basinfuls
as a chemist and druggist, at No. 37, Red Lim-street. Hol-
born, bat determined to dispose of it to the prisoner, who
agreed to advance 4731. for the purchase. He *el 251.
down, and gave a bill of his own acceptance for 36W. 161., at
14 days after date. It became dee on the 19th August, and
was dishonoured. Witness subsequently stet the prisoner, who
Wirrtorenew the bill and get it accepted by his brother.
al did not agree to that, and the prisoner then s,id he
would stand down to his father at Strettim, neer Chesterfield,
to have it accepted by him, which witness seceded to, and
AM was also dishonoured.' Witness elterwards saw the
ritnupon t.• matter and commanded proceedings against
tl:ongh his solmitor, and he was served with • writ '
Witness proceeded to Stemma, near Chesterfield, and kad
an interview with the prisoner's father, a respectable farmer,
and on pr seating the bill to him he said it wee • forgery.
He denied that it was his handwriting, or ever having ac-
cepted the bill. He retuned to London and pee the pot
sonar into custody. The prisoner, it appeared, had sold
the business soon aft r he made the purchase of it.
Mr. Tyrrviiitt asked the prism.: if he wished to put any
questions to the witness.
He pug several :rrelevaat con idiom, and said his father
lived at amen) more, not at Stratton. The party who so-
opted the lilt resided at Stratton.
Mr. Tyre/hitt remarked that it was a suet creel ease, and
he remanded the pri-oner for the production of farther evi-
dence. He was then locked up.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
KIIIIZZZLIIIIINT DT An Waliantßoberl,
a lad shone 14 years of age, was charged with haviog_embez-
Med the sum of 16s. belonging to his muter, John Homes,
greengrocer, Wells-street, Orford-street.
It appeared that on Saturday last the prosecutor gave the
prisoner 16x., wi•li directions to go to Covent-garden market
and fetch two seeks of pnetees which he (prosecutor) bad
perehesed. Not returning with the *atom, tne peonies*
weat into the market. and from inquiries made by him he
learned that the rime er had not been near the person Si
whom the potatoes had been purchased, and that the truck
whisk he had taken had been lett in the merket, where it
was found by nee of the (eatables,, who toth it to the
Oreenyard. Nothing MOT* was seen of the prisoner till this
morning, when prosecutor met him in the street, and gave
hits in charge.
The prisoner said he lost part of the money and spent
the rem.
Mr. Hardwick committed him for trial.
WESTMINSTER.

ZITS/MCI SWINDLING.—A fashionably dressed min,
about Ike feet six inches I. height, of duk complexion, with
mock whisk4n, who has paned by the names of Thomas
Taker, Alfred Sinclair, Ulla t Willie, Pram, and other
akar" wu *barged with defrauding Messrs Rogen and
Deese, of 23 and 24 St. George:s•place, Knightsbridge, of a
great quantity of valuablo femme.
The court cm crowded with tradesmen who had been
vistlealud" by the prism,.
Robert Maynard, clerk to Messrs. Rogers and Dear,
stated that on the 18th of June lut the prieour came to the
ans, sad stadia that be bad Dna a bill of thefts in the
window of the house, 88, Catlemplue, whisk they had to
let, requested as older to view it. After two or three
farther interviews he propmed to take the house for three
years, at the rental of 86 guineas par anuma, and gave a
referonos to Mr. Jaws Yowler, of 11, Friacee.plau, Ken-
nington Cross, to wham, ho said, he bad bees • tenant fee
afloat. An yeses, having occupied a hoses of his at Hamp-
ton for that period. TIN firm immediately wrote to Mr.
Fowler, and kering required an answer, headed it to the
solisitme of Ilk lessor of the beam, who drew up as agree-
ment from the rough preliminary ummorandam made by
wittier, for three
the
oompanc7 of the house.
Shortly after this the prisoner, after expressing en
opinka that the home would Mextremely KW
cadent for hie family, proposed to Moreau the teem of
occupancy to seven years; and about the and of Septifiabor
last the lease was duly drawn and emitted. Primal, ask.
'equally ordered furniture at Meows. Rogers and Dna as
the mamma of 491., which was supplied, it Wag
that as the solicitors to she Mew umuliased as
eligible puma to ban tholes's, there uraMl llama ketilatian
is executing his order. The last maim' if the Probate,
201. worth, was delivered oa the IBM of September, cad
=srthe following asseaftg the whet of the Wags were
dead the loom abandosed. The Makatea% of his
having lived at Hamltea wee false, as proved by diligent
inquiry then. 146001 aka be proved that the day alter he
west tato the buses in Worm-puss ho tech passession of
mother M Treillakawrace, Yeemball lloidgwevad, Fowler
being oho his retests.
Mr. Burrell natanded prisaner, who arms se reply to
the sharp, for a weak. tN
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