The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1846.

POLICE.-YESTERDAY.

MANSION-HOUSE. CLONMEL BANK DE.
VAULTER.— William Thomas Power was brought before
Alderman Gibbs, in the custody of Daniel Forrester, who
apprehended him at Munich. in Bavaria, for having con-
spired with another to defraud the Clonmel linirch of the
Bank of Ireland, and with having himself atsconded with
essh, the property of that establishment, to the amount of
about 11,000/. Forrester, accompanied by Enright, a Clon-
mel constable, who was acquainted with the person of
Power, traced the prisoner to Munien, and took him into
custody in that town, where he was residing in the name of
Prick, by means of a false passport. Patrick Enright, the
Clonmel constable, stated that he knew the prisoner to be
the person charged with the abovementioned felony. He
also identified the handwriting of Mr. Ryan, the magis-
trate who signed the warrant, and that of the Lord Mayor
of London, who backed it. Witness then applied for leave
to take tlr, prisoner to Ireland, and the alderman accordingly
issued an order.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Frederick Williams, a
respectable looking tradesman, was put to the bar, charged
by himself with theft —Police-constable 122 C said be was
in Swallow-street, Regent-street, about half-past two that
morning, when the man at the bar met him with a pint pot
in his hand. He said he had stolen it because he wanted a
night's lodging, and he had no place to go.—The defendant,
in answer to the magistrate, said he was a printer belonging
to Gravesend and had come to London to get work, but !wing
unsuccessful he was destitute. He had applied at St. James's
workhouse rind St. George's workhouse in vain.—Mr. Hard-
wick advised him to return immediately to his parish at
Gravesend, where, if his ease were deserving, he would be
aided by the overseers. If he were brought up again on a
similar charge the magistrate said he should be obliged to
send him to the House of Correction. He was then dis-
charged.
CLERKENWELL.—IIe /try Clifford, the driver' of 'cab
No. 2,711 was summoned to answer the complaint of Mr.
Solomon Isaacs, a Jewish cab proprietor, of Great Ormond-
yard, for neglecting to pay 10s. and 2s. costs, incurred by
driving his coach on the 17th inst. The defendant said he
had not the means of paying the money. lie had been out
for Mr. Isaacs but one day before, for which he paid him,
with the exception of 25., and that he gave him on the fel-
' lowing day, which was all ho could afford. It appears that
the cabmen sign a printed form of contract when they enter
into Isaacs' employment, by which they engage to pay him
12s. a day, and in default of the payment of that money they
are liable to be sent to prison.—Mr. Combo recommended
Isaacs to arrange this matter.—lsaacs, however, declined.—
Mr. Comhe asked the clerk if he could not allow the man to
pay in instalments, so that he might not send him to prison.
—Defendant: I am willing to pay the debt by instalments
as soon as I can.—Mr. Combe, after referring to the net, al-
lowed the man to pay by instalments, and the Jew went
away much crestfallen.
WORSHIP-STREET.—THE New Arr. FOR THE
REMOVAL OF Paerens.—A decrepit old man, almost blind,
who gave the name of Charles Miller, made application to
Mr. Bingham for his assistance under the following circum-
stances :—The applicant, it appeared, had formerly carried
on business as a master shoemaker in the parish of Shoreditch
for a period much exceeding the term of five years specified
in the Poor Removal Act lately passed, but in consequence
of a train of fortuitous circumstances he became reduced to
such poverty that he was compelled to apply for parochial
relief, which was promptly afforded him ; but the officers of
Shoreditch having subsequently discovered that his proper
settlement was in St. Saviour's, Southwark, they passed him
there shortly before last Christmas, and he remained in that
district for a periwl of about four months, receiving out-door
assistance to the extent of 2s. per week. His wife, however,
who was in a condition to obtain her own livelihood, still
remained in Shoreditch, and her husband afterwards took tip
his residence with her, but continued, notwithstanding his
removal, to receive the same reliif from St. Saviour's until
very recently, when it was suddenly discontiuued, the latter
pansh assigning as a reason for such stoppage that as he had
been a resident fur five years in Shoreditch, they were no
longer liable for his support under the late Poor Removal
Act. The applicant, in consequence, again demanded relief
from the overseen of Shoreditch, who consented to re-
ceive him as he was then within their limits, and
again pass hint to St. Saviour's, but only on condition that
his wile also should accompany him into the workhouse.
The woman, however, positively refused to accede to that
course, and being unable, in consequence, to obtain relief
front either parish, the applicant was reduced to such extre-
mity that he hail been compelled to sell the coat off his hack
to save him from starvation.—Mr. Bingham was of opinion
that the officers of St. Saviour's had adopted an erroneous
view of the law in rejecting his claim of settlement on the
ground of his five years' previous residence in Shoreditch,
which it was clear had been brought to a termination on his
removal to the former parish under the operation of the old
law • and by which also he considered that the parish of
Shoreditch had exonerated thems:lves from all liability in
respect to his permanent support. He had himself, how-
ever, no power to adopt any coercive measures against St.
Saviour's parish, which was beyond his jurisdiction, and
would therefore advise him to make a renewed application
in that quarter, and in the event of its continued failure, he
would direct one of his own officers to intercede with the
relieving overseer of Shoreditch, with a view to another and
more stringent removal to the parish which was alone liable
for his permanent maintenance.
MARYLEBONE. DISTRESSINO SUICIDE. HaFriei
Sinith, a very decently dressed girl, 18 years of age, wan
charged with having attempted to commit suicide. George,
a constable employed in the Regent's-park, deposed that on
the same morning, at a quarter before nine, he heard from
another constable that the drags were wanted between the
Suspension and Macclesfield bridges, as a female had thrown
herself into the water. The drags were immediately taken
to the spot, and they were used for several hours, but with-
out effect. The prisoner, who was on the banks of the canal
when witness arrived, said that she had neither friends new
habitation, and that she intended to put an ei.d to her
existence, as she knew not where to go to.—Prisoner: I
have been in service in Windsor and I and my sister were
brought from them by two soldiers, who deserted us soon
after we came to town ; I am now entirely destitute.—Mr.
Long: Is it true that your sister drowned herself ?—Pri-
toner: It is, sir, quite true; we were walking along by the
waterside, and she said she would not live any longer; sha
ran towards the water and I laid hold of her to prevent her
from doing so, but she pushed me down and then jumped in.
The magistrate directed that the prisoner should be taken
to Marylebone workhouse.

THAMES.—THE lisare.—Richard Mulhurst, a lad not
more than 1.5 years of age, was brought up by police con-
stable Meade, 125 H, charged with feloniously wounding
Penis Healy, a deaf and dumb man, employed at the
Sailors' Home, Well-street, St. George's-in-the-Last.
It appeared from the esidence, that the prisoner and the
wounded man, who, according to a certificate produced, is
at present lying in the London Hospital in a most preca-
rious state, were assistant cooks at the Home. About ten
o'clock yesterday morning, Gill, the chief cook, who has
been employed in the establishment nearly 10 years, had oc-
casion to leave the kitchen for a few minutes, the prisoner
and the wounded man being its only inmates when he left.
Immediately after, a lad named Cox, who is also employed
at the Home, hearing some imperfect cries, which he de-
scribed as being like the stifled screams of a woman, ran to
the kitchen, from which the sounds appeared to proceed,
and found the wounded man Healy clinging to a pillar,
and bleeding profusely from a deep and dangerous wound
in the right thigh, and in a state of great exhaustion. The
prisoner was standing near him, holding the injured limb,
and apparently endeavouring to stanch the wound. Gill
came in immediately after, and on asking who had inflicted
the injury, the deaf and dumb man, who was very far gone
and nearly fainting away, pointed to the prisoner.—Meade,
the constable, stated that when he was called in, he found
two or three surgeons in attendance. The dumb man
pointed to the prisoner, as if to indicate that he was the per-
petrator of the act —Gill said he knew of no angry feeling
subsisting between the dumb man and the prisoner except
that the latter used to " chaff " the other.—When taken into
custody, the prisoner denied the charge; but on the way to