The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-14 00:00:00

POLICE.-SATUIDAY.

MANSION-HOUSE.—ALLZOin FOILOIST or A WILL.
—Lieutenant Peregrine Bower, of her Majesty's Navy, was
charged with having forged a will. The prisoner, a lieu-
tenant in the Navy, had the command of ono of the mall
packets between Liverpool and Dublin. His brother, Lieu-
tenant William Bower, It N., went abroad some time ago
and died at Zaipa, in China, at the age of 32, in March,
1846. Before he left this country he made a will, which was
proved by the executor. After this will had been admitted
to proof, however, another will was produced by the psi.
goner, purporting to bear date the 18th of March, 1846, by
which all the property of the testator was left to the
mmer. The second will appeared to have berm made in China,
and was attested by two witnesses, John Bell and John
Weed. The prisoner made a claim as sole legatee, and in
the wane of the proceedings at Doctors' Common., he him-
self appeared, and repmented that he ones John Wood,
one of the above-named witnesses to the wHL—Mr. Charles
Ford, clerk of the Registry-office, at Dorton'-commons, pro
dewed the second will, and &leen 'Merit made by the pri-
soner before the Surrogate, in which he declared that the
will produced by him was made by his brother, in China,
and sent over to England by a person who had been his com-
panion abroad.—Mr. John Mundell, proctor at Heaton'.
commons, and Mr. Edwin Edwards, examiner, gave evident).
that they had seen the prisonerexamm' ad, and that be had
signed the name of the witness, John Wood ; that at the
dins he personated John Wood he was dressed em a common
sailor, and appeared to have • great deal more hair upon his
face than he bad at present. A paper was then produced,
which was found in the possession dill' prisoner, and which
after his apprehension be endeavoured to destroy ; on this
paper some one had been practising the signature of John
Wood.—Joseph Headington, • City policeman, deposed
that in consequence of the inferseation he had received he
followed the primmer after he had been at Doctors'-common
where he bad personated John Wood, and saw him go to
the Cross Keys, in Wood-street. He came out in a short
time dressed in a different manner, and having a carpet-beg
in his hand. The prisoner got into an omnibus, and witness
followed and sat beside him. He then managed to form an
acquaintance with the prisoner, and continued it afterwards
in the railroad testa until they reached Liverpool, where he
took him into custody. Upon being told that he was charged
with having forged a will for property to the amount of
2,0001., the prisoner said the charge was very serious, but he
knew nothing about the offence. Various letters were taken
from the prisoner.—The proceedings in the case were ad-
journed.
ROBBERY IST SETIVANTS.—P. Whale, J. Whale, W.
Prendergast, and J. Homey, were charged with having
been concerned in robbing Messrs. Boyd and Co. of consi-
derable property. The prisoners had been for some time
employed by Messrs. Boyd, who allowed them most liberal
wages. Suspicion having been aroused, Inspector Waller
went, on the 9th inst., to the house of Messrs. Boyd and
Co., and saw the prisoner Peter Whale. He was called
down into the countio&-house, and told that there was in-
forma. ion that he and his brother were plundering the firm
to a great extent. He gave his address as No. 10, Star-
corner, Bermondsey. Oa being asked if he had any rela-
tions living at the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, he said
yes; his wife's mother, Mrs. White, was there. She had
some property belonging to him he had sent to her a box
containing several things—a blanket, a counterpane, and
some silk handkerchiefs, which he said he bought in Cannon-
street, at a beer...hop, of a man dressed like a sailor, but of
whose name he was ignorant. He was taken into custody,
and locked up. At Mrs. White's, at the asylum, a box
(produced) was found, containing six pieces of calico, three
blankets, one piece of cashmere, and 16 silk handkerchiefs.
At the prisoner's lodgings were f ond 17 silk handkerchiefs.
—George Russell took Ramey into custody also on the 9th.
On his lodging being searched, some of the missing property
was found.—Two other policemen stated that they took the
two other prisoners into custody, and found in their trunks
at their lodgings some property belonging to Messrs. Boyd.
—The Lord Mayor committed the prisoners for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.—FtetNo A LOADED Gux AT A
RAILWAY Fitch, a toll collector at the Ilford
turnpike, was charged with having wilfully fired off a
gun, loaded with ball, at one of the carriages of an express
train on the Eastern Counties Railway, whereby the lives'
of the passengers had been placed in imminent danger.—
Mr. Thomas Miller, the station master at Ilford, stated that
on the arrival of the express train from London to that
station, about twenty minutes past three o'clock on the pre-
ceding afternoon, Mr. Burrell, a magistrate for Ipswich,
and another gentleman, alighted hastily from one of the
first-class carriages, and informed him that a man had just
before deliberately discharged a loaded gun at the carriage
in which they were seated, and the ball from which had
entered the left window and passed out at the other side.
On examination of the carriage window be found a ptrfora•
Lion about the sin of a bullet, but after a careful examina-
tion of the interior of the carriage neither the ball t.or any
trace of it being found, he concluded it must have passed
through the other window, the sash of which was down.
Having obtained from his informants a description of the
perpetrator of the outrage, he hastened towards the direc-
tion given, but was unable to meet with him, and on return•
bag back he found the prisoner in the custody of two of the
passengers who had joined in the pursuit. The prisoner had
a gun in his possession at the time, and on asking him
whether he had fired it off at the time the train was passing,
he replied that be had been shooting at some birds shortly
before it came up to him, but had not Once discharged it.
On further inquiry the prisoner admitted the gun had been
re-loaded, and was requested to draw the charge, when he
abstracted from it some small shot, • further quantity of
which, with a packet of powder and about • score of percus-
sion caps, were afterward' found in his possession.—The
prisoner was remanded on bail.
MARYLEBONE. OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT. J. Bir-
minghain, T. Norman, J. Gorman, and J. Hickey, accom-
panied by three very unprepossessing female, were charged
with having committed a desperate assault on Mr. Henry
Tibbey, • confectioner, residing at No. 117, Edgeware-road.
The complainant, who was very lame, and exhibited on kis
arms and legs several marks of brutal violence, stated that
the entire group of prisoners had entered his shop on Inoue