The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-25 00:00:00

Thames.etreet, who goes about selling sheep's trotters, was
on Tuesday brought before Sir R. W. Carden, charged
under the following peculiar circumstances with uttering a
counterfeit shilling.
John Keen, a seafaring man, who lives at Home, in
Kent, stated that on the previous evening he was in the
Anchor and Hope public•houae in Upper Thames-street,
when the prisoner came in and he purchased a pennyworth
of trotters of her, and gave her a shilling to pay for them ;
the prisoner took the shilling and said she would go to the
chaiang bar and get She came back in a short tame sod
said that the ' he had given her was a bad one, and
banded to him a 4 • " that was bent, and which was a
counterfeit shilling.
Sir R. Carden raked the witness whether he was quite
sore that the shilling he gave to the prisoner wee a
good one'
He replied that he war quite sure it was good. Ms father
gave him some money before he left the country, and he was
quite sure that he would not give him bad money. (A laugh.)
Mr. Hewett (the landlord of the Anchor and Hope)
proved that the prisoner came to the bar and produced a
shilling, and he immediately saw that it was a bad one and
he bent it and returned it to the prisoner.
A City policeman, named White, deposed that the pri-
soner was given in harge to him for uttering a bed shilling.
and she asserted that it was the same shilling that had been
given to her by the sailor, and that she had no other shilling
about her. He searched her and found tenpence-halfpenny
in her pocket, sod upon examining her trotter basket, he
found a good shilling down among the trotters. (A laugh.)
This was supposed to be the shilling that had been given to
her by the complainant.
Sir R. Carden asked Keen again whether he was quite
sure that it was a good shilling that he gave to the
Pri.3°Ther.?..

He said he was certain of it. He looked at it when he
put it on the table.
Sir R. Carden inquired whether it had • man's or •
woman's heed upon it!
The complainant said • man's.
Sir R. Carden, looking at the counterfeit coin, said that
it purported to be one of the present reign, so that it must
have been changed.
The prisoner asserted that the money that was found
upon Ler was all her own property, but she said she could
not tell how the shilling got among her trotters (A laugh.)
Sir R. Carden said it was quite clear that she had en.
deavoured to chest the sailor by changing the good shilling
be had given her for a counterfeit one, but the legal evi-
dence was hardly sufficient to convict her, and she would
therefore be discharged, bat he cautioned her to be careful
bow she conducted herself in future. He then ordered the
good shilling to be given to the prosecutor, and at the same
time said that he was lucky in having had his trotters for
nothing.
The prisoner and the complainant then retired amid the
laughter of the court.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Williora Lake, a young man living in Fitzroy-nowt,
Tottenham-oourt-road, and who bean the unenviable noto-
riety of being one of the most ruffianly fellows in the dis-
trict, was charged with assaulting and wounding, supposed
with a knife, a female named Melia Gerrard, hying at 14,
Market-street, Fitany-equare, and also with assaulting an
aged female, named Sarah Spinks, by striking her severs!
severe blows in the eyes.
The case was partly gone into on Monday, hut adjourned
till yesterday morning for the attendance of the horn sur-
geon at the University College Hospital, who dressed the
eye of the female Maria Gerrard.
From the evidence of the complainant Gerrard, it ap-
parel that on Monday night she was standing at her door,
when the prisoner carnet up and said, " You —, I owe it
to you for but night;" and then seising her by the throat,
struck her a blow on one of her eyes, having a knife in his
band at the time.

Sarah Spinln, an elderly female, grandmother to Gerrard,
said, on coming down to see the cause of the disturbanoe,
the prisoner rushed into the passage and atruck her several
severe blows in the eyes. Her granddaughter was covered
with blood ; and on afterwards passing the prisoner's place
he noised a knife and said, " You have had one knife, and
you shall have another."
The house surgeon of the University Hospital, on being
sworn, said in answer to Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marl-
W:72 h-street, who appeared for the prisoner, that the
in Genard's eye was not such a wound as would have
been caused by falling against the kerb-stone. He could
not say positively that it was done with a knife, but a knife
would have inflicted such a wound. The skin was cut, and
be could not account for its being done with anything but
• knife. There was no danger at any time, and the wound
was healing.
Mr. Lewis called some witnesses for the defence, but the
evidence was not very materiel, only tending to throw •
little doubt on the fact as to a knife being used by the
prisoner.
Mr. Lewis having addressed the magistrate on the pri-
soner's behalf, . . _

Mr. Tyrwliitt said he considered the case astisfactorily
proved, and haring stigmatised the case u one of a vory
brutal engulf., committed the prisoner for four months with
herd labour.

John Barter, a man well-luiown to the police, who de-
scribed himself as a nook and waiter, was charged before Mr.
Barker, on remand, with having in his possession a pleader
of Pal 4 mould for casting counterfeit shillings, also a gal-
vanic battery, and other implement+ for coating and colour-
ing the sarne, at the parish of St. Pancras.
From the evidence it appeared that Mr. Brannan, the Mint
agent, has for some time had the prisoner under his obser-
vation, be knowing the prisoner as an extensive maker and
dealer in counterfeit coin. On Saturday morning, Mr.
Barman, in company with Inspector Bryant, Sergeant
Evans, 22 G, Sergeant Brannan, 21 G, and Police-con-
stables Cook, 1911 8, and Elliot, 104 0, went to No. 6,
Wood-etreet, St. PiIICTSB, but they could not gain admission
until they bad broken the door open. When they did get
in they found the prisoner In front of a clear bright Si,, in
the act of wining, and as soon as he saw the officers he
threw the mould on the floor, end endeavoured to break it.
The officers made a search and found all the necessary ar-
ticles for making counterfeit coin. The prisoner said, when
be wee taken, that it was a bed job, but that he had been
taken to rights this time.
The prisoner made no defence, and declined to ask the
witness any questions.
Mr. Brannan asked for a remand, to enable the Mint so.
licitor to attend to prosecute. The prisoner bad before been
in custody.
Mr. Barker remanded the
_ripener for • week.

THE CHILD MUSD= IN STA/PORDSEIHM.—On
Tuesday the inquest on the bodyof the child that was found
strangled with A napkin, in a ditch near Coseley, wen TA
earned at that plan. Fmrn the evidence of Mr. Mills,
surgeon, who had made the poet-storks% examine.
taco, it appeared that the child had died from
suffocation, prodeoed by the violence to which it
hail been subjected. The police said that they were still
pursuing inquiries, which they hoped might lead to the ap-
prehension of the guilty person. The coroner determined
to further adjourn the inquest till the 4th of December,
m•mising in the meantime to write to the Secretary of State
for thence:* Department, with the view to the government
offering a reward which might amid the police to bring the
offender to justice.
How A PIGEON HIS PIXVICHD.—At the Central
Police Court yesterday, James Garvin, 77 New Venue",
wee remitted to the sheriff one charge of steeling a gold
watch and chain, ands coot. vest, and hat, from the person
of William Gilchrist, Adelphistreet, early on Sunday
morning. Two brothers. by name Gilchrist, hare each,
within the last few months, been raised, by the death of
their father, from the condition of working men to what,
in their own estimation, is the condition of gentle-
men—the old man having left each of them 1,000/.
Brother William seems to be of opinion that the sooner
his money is gone the better, and so has spent about
4001. during the last two months. In one of his
sprees, on Saturday night, he alighted in a house of not the
best reputation, at 77 New Venncl. Here drinking and
singing was the order of the night, and as Gumn, the
owner, happens to have a good voice, he enchanted the
"rich gentleman," and offered to sing a song in "charac-
ter," of course of a "gentleman." Accordingly, William
doffed hie fine raiment, gold watch and chain, nod donned
Garvin 's nondescript tatters. The song now went on neat
splendidly ; but after a little Garvin commenced dancing,
also in "clutracter,"and danced out of the door of the house.
After waiting some time for his return, it flashed on
Williams mind that it was just possible that the man might
not intend to return, and that he may here been plucked of
his gaudy feathers. He then proceeded to the police-offloe
and gave information of how he had been done. The same
evening the police found Oaryin in a shebeen drinking, with
the stoles clothes uppoona him, but without the watch or
chain. —OlaajoreDsifydfail.
ORZAT rIOLON-81100TIWO literen.—A pigeon-
&bootleg match, which has been anticipated with con-
idderable batmen in sporting circles, from the skill of the
oonapatitors—Haul sad Sonsere—arose off on Monday at
the Malt Shovel Inn, Birmingham. The match was for
2001. a side, at one hundred birds each, twenty-five yard,
rise from five traps, placed five yards apart. The betting in
Birmingham, on Saturday, was 5 to 4 on Somers, in conse-
quence of the excellent shooting be displayed when he won
the great handicap at Peckham, a few week, back, but
Hans was, nevertheless, regarded by many as a formidable
rind. Eleven forenoon was fixed for the match to cone
meow. tionte two thousand panes assembled on the
ground to witness the sport. lly the the the first shot was
find there was very little betting, but some small sums
atoned bands upon each shot, the odds being often upon
the gun. When fifty birds had been locoed for each man,
Barris had killed nine more than his opponent. The we
thee took refreehmenta, and a rest of fifteen minutes, at the
expiratiou of which tinie the order was given to clear the
grimed, and the shooting wss resumed, and iitthe °monition
of the match Harris was &Oared the winner, he having
killed four birds more than %enters. The shooting, on the
whole, was considered very indifferent, es the numbers
will show, via : Harris, ; Semen, 4f4; out of each
hundred birds.
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