The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-19 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MANSION-HOUSE.

Mr. V. De Jacquiere was summoned before the Lord
Mayor under the following circumstances:
Isaac W. Davis, general postman, said—My duty is in
Fenchurch-strest, and, amongst others, I deliver letters to
the defendant. I have had some difficulty with respect to
the postage of my letters, in etessequene• of which I deter-
mined not to leave them. Oa the 9th of December I went
with some foreign letters to the defendant's office, and
offered them to a person there, demanding the postage, and
I could not get it at first. The door was slammed in my
face, and I was called opprobrious names several times, in
consequence of not leaving the letters without the postage.
The defendant put his fist in my face, and I left his office,
and was followed by him and another person, which person
said I could not pass without giving up the letters.
I said that I did not want to retain the letters, that
I only wanted the postage, and that I would not
deliver them without receiving the duty upon them. Hs
than asked me to give him change of aM. note. He pulled
out a purse, but he did not open it, nor did he show me
any note or money. Daring all this time I was on the stairs
• little above him, and he pushed me down the st airs, and
he caught me by the collar, and said I should (not pan
without giving him his letters, and made a grasp at them
in my hand. I said he should not have them till he paid
the postage. Some gentlemen on the second floor called
out, !o induce him to refrain from striking me.
The defendant declared that the statement was untrue ;
that he had not struck the official at all ; that he was most
desirous to get his letters, and that he had no intention of
striding the payment of the postage.
The postman said that the postman from another district
from which the defendant recently had removed, made a
communication to him, in consequence of which he consi-
dered it necessary not to leave the letters addressed to the
defendant without immediate payment of the postage.
Alderman Wilson said he was quite s%tisfied that the
charge had been substantiated. The defendant, although a
foreigner, must have known that the duty of a postman
required him to obtain the payment of the postage of
letters.

The defendant wag then fined 201., which he immediately
paid.
SOUTHWARK.

cabCri;eTbditiii;. 1,644, was charged
with being concerned, with three others not in custody, in
stealing a valuable gold watch from the person of Mr. John
Thomson, a farmer, under the following circumstances
The prosecutor said he lived at Bourne Farm, Harlow,
near TunSridge and at present be was lodging at the
King's Arms Tavern, in the Borough. On Wednesday
evening last he was in St. Thomas's-street, near London-
bridge, when he was induced to enter a public house to
partake of refreshments. He then met with a "gentle-
manly-looking man " with light hair, who said he had just
come up from the country to see the sights, and he induced
him to send for the prisoner's cab, and accompany him to
the Salmon Tavern, in Union-street. While at the latter
house two other men came in and joined their company.
Everything passed very pleasantly, and the cabman joked
and drank with them, seeming to be well acquainted with
the ethers. After remaining at the Salmon a short time,
witness went out and jumped into the cab, at the same time
telling the prisoner to drive him back to the Borough.
The other men then jumped into the cab after
him, and they drove off. He had his watch then safe
in his pocket. Just as the cab got near the Town-hall, the
men who were in the cab with him pushed violently against
him, forcibly opened the door, and jumped out, running as
fast as they could down a passage. Witness called to tke
prisoner, as loud as he could, to stop, but the prisoner paid
no attention to him, and seemed to drive faster. He
eventually got out use attempted to stop him, but he three
tened him and drove away. While at the Salmon in
Union-street, he saw the prisoner converse with the three
men, apparently as if they were well acquainted with him.
Ile Alia say that as soon as they rushed out of the cab,
he felt his waistcoat pocket, and instantly missed his
gold watch, worth ten guineas. Witness had been drinking
a little, but he positively stated that he could identify the
first man. _ _

The prisoner declared that he knew nothing about the
ether men, neither was he aware that they bad got out of
his cab.

Police-constable 495 A said, from a description given of
the men by the prosecutor, shortly after he was robbed, they
were all well known to him, and no doubt could be soon
sppreheaded.
The prisoner was not known as an associate of thieves.

The 'prisoner's employer said he wu an honest young
man, and had worked for him for nearly two years.
Mr. Comhe said the prisoner appeared to have a fair cha-
racter, but he required his attendance en a future day, as the
other three men might be apprehended.

LAMBETH.
Mr. Samuel Kelly, a middle-aged man, of respectable ap-
pearance, residing at No 12, Thomas's-terrace, J me-street,
Old Kent-road, and who was represented to be the pro-
prietor of a printing establishment in the vicinity of Ddc-
tora'-commous, was brought up in custody, and placed atths
bar before the Hon. U.C. Romeo, charged with the commission
of a violent smolt upon the person of the Rev. Robert
Cilium, who described himself as the proprietor of the
Grammar Scb.,ol, in East-lane. Walworth, and was repro-
seated to be an independent Wesleyan preacher.
The complainant, a small man, about 33 years of age,
who wore a large cloak, bad his head enveloped in a shawl,
and seemed to have lost a quantity of blood, said that, on
the preceding evening, the prisoner walked into hiv school,
and, without saying a word to him, struck him drstseveral
times with a thick stick, and then with the tire-shovel, in-
dicting a deep wound on his forehead, from which he had
lost a quantity, he should thick quits a pint of blood.
La hie eroopeasatiamioa, by a dal frog the oleo of

Mr. Hick, who attended on behalf of the prisoner, Mr.
Gibson said " I have h.id the school that I now keep
since October; before that, I had charge of an Independent
chapel in Bethnal-green, and was known as the Rev. Mr.
Gibson. I knew the ilefindant's wife vet that time; she
frequented my chapel • • I knew she was a married woman,
and had a family. I left that chapel six menthe ago ; I wet
cot turned out of it on account of my living with the de-
fendant's wife; I will swear that, and that, left of my own
accord. I have no answer to give to the question, as to
whether at the time I left the chapel I was living with this
man's wife or not.

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Two lads, scholars of the complainant's school, said they
saw the prisoner strike their muter two or three times on
the head with the stick produced.
The prisoner's advocate said, that some years ago, the
wife of Mr. Kelly unfortunately became a member of the
complainant's congregation, and in the end he (Gibson)
succeeded in seducing her. The husband, having confir-
matory proof of the fact, turned his wife out of doors, but
latterly, on account of his five children, and wishing to
reclaim her from her improper courses with her seducer,
took her home, but had not taken her to his bed.
Mr. Isaac Morgan, a house-agent, said, he had many
dealings with Mr. Gibson, and enterteinol la good an
opinion of him, that he was about to take a chapel in the
neighbourhood, which was to let, and make him minister
of it. Having heard something, however, prejudicial to his
moral character, and of Ilia living with the wife of the de-
fendant, he spoke to him on the subject, but he denied it
' all, and said the reports were gross calumnies. He also
saw the defendant on the subject, and be not only declared
that the reports respecting his wife were true, but that he
was prepared to confront Gibson. On the evening before wit-
ness and the defendant went to the complainant's school,
and, leaving Kelly outside, he went in and again goes-
filmed Mr. Gibson nn the subject of Mrs. Kelly, and again
he denied the truth of the report. Witness said that Kelly
was present to prove the truth, and the complainant said
it was a slander. Kelly here approached them, and, ad-
deeming Mr. Gibson, said, " You know very well you have
seduced my wife, and have lived with her.', Mr. Gibson
replied, " You are a liar! and get out of my place, and at
the same time rushed to the fire-place, and took up the
shovel. A reneontre took place, and blows were given ;
but, as witness was between both, end was endeavouring to
separate them, he could not say by whom.
One of the lads who had been intone exam;ned corrobo-
rated the last witness, that it was the complainant who
took up the fire-shovel, the instrument by which his wound
bad evidently been indicted.
Mr. Norton observed, that the wound appeared to him to
be of a somewhat dangerous character, and he should there-
fore remand the ease to a future day, but should not object
to geed bail.
Bail to the required amount was given, and the prisoner
liberated.