The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-20 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

111A14810N-HOUBIL.

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Destiai Dwrpea ws; charged with stealing four doom of
owed tutaba bundles, thtiejkosepeor: of hi. esaßtaz,grz.
0. Chamblee, asaufacturer Moon
Mr. Beard appeared for thes,-Itt= called Newel
witsemes, from whom evidence It appealed that the penes-
eater's ibremen end are of his whilst walking
slaw the Bethnal road, saw lying in a shop window
• quantity of bandies, orraral of which the workman at
mos pteemcied to be of his own workmanship, and the
neat dry another workman, upon being taken to the man
shop, identi the handles as being of
his carving. _ Upon others
being from
questiamongoned, the shopkeeper stated
that he had bought the idiots of the handles from the pri-
soner, who was employed by the prosecutor ea a turner, and
the prisoner was therefore gives into custody. Four of
Mr. Chamber's workmen now picked out handles from
among 42 produced in court, and swore to them err befog of
their own individual workmanship, while they were unani-
mous is declaring that every carver mare his own
work, and that no carver could manly imitate the work of
another, prisoner more espedelly so, as bewesonly a turner,
and not a carver. Thal, then biftg a strap with • buckle,
carved on most of the bandies, oft workman swore to his
work by the peculiar way fa which the tag of the buckle was
formed; while another was equally positive that no man
living could turn the end of the steep through the buckle se
he had done; and on this °Moms (Mere being otherwise no
proof of robbery by the prisoner) lir. Beard contended that a
good am had been made out, and asked that the priaoner
might be committed for trial. On the other hind the pi-
sonar asserted that he had, although a turner only originany,
improved hie opportunities so as to make himself a good
CIITIW, sad that he had long been In the habitat working for
himself of ea evening to the shop of his brother, who was in
the business; while his brother not only corroborated this
statement, but said farther that he himself was • man of
great experience In his trade and he defied any carver to
ewer to his own work, as he etad two men working for him,
and when they rent home their work on the Saturday night
no
one of the three could pick out his own work from the rest.
The Lord Mayor himself inclined to this view of the ques-
tion, believing that what one clever carver could do another
could do, and therefore he refused to commit the prisoner
for trial upon evidence altogether insufficient to procure a
conviction. . .

Tia prisoner woo accordingly discharged.
DOW-STREET.

A thew of ptejturrwee preferred sgsinetßchert
the
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dir an elderly man, and • dirk in the City, under

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Mr. Hand, solicitor (attending for Mews. Gillman, whole-
sale shoemakers, he., of Norwich), called witnesses to prove
that in 1&52 the demob= purchased a retail boot-shop of
Mr, John Kldgsll, of Reding; that he fined his name
and pared on all 0031(10611 aa " Charles Wesley," and wee
the only person conoerned in the business negotiations that
shortly after he (defendant) had taken possession of the
business be was waited upon by a Mr. Barnes. the foreman
sod traveller of Mews. Gillman, through whose agency
upwards of 100!. worth of goods were supplied to defendant;
that in a very short splice of time the bethiers was given up
by defendant who suddenly disappeared without eying a
farthing of Meters. Gillman's clams, and was not heard of
or seen for several yew, until their foreman, Mr. Barnes,
accidentally met the defendant at a Weiner house in the
City; that proccodings were at once commenced against him,
e. a verdict for the amount obtained; but defendant
petitioged the Insolvent Debtors Court, and the
plaintiffs were further defeated by Wesley having Nettled
his property upon his wife. The declarations made by
defendant before the Insolvent Cometheioner were to the
effect that he sever passed es Charles Wesley ; that be
the agreement and oondsceed the blether cm behalf
Itiebrothar, Charles Wftley, who paid him a fixed salary
hr his services ; and that the letters and documents put in,
and signed " Charles Wesley " was, he believed, in the
handwriting of hie brother.
For the defence Mr. Wont:tier, solicitor, called a von of
Charles Wesley, who said that to his personal knowledge the
busiest.) at Reeding was taken for hie father by the defend-
ant, Robert Watley. Thst Charts, Wesley had formerly re-
sided at Sheffield, carrying on the buednees of an agent and
sharebrcker, but latterly lived in the house of and wee sup-
pmrted by witness, being totally incapacitated by ill health.
Be was at present living at Willing, in Kent, and wholly
unable to awed the court. Witness travelled for a hones in
the City.
A great =whereof witnearee, on both sides, were examined,
and
Mr. Jardine ultimately committed the defendant for trial,
the timed bail if procurable, being scospted.
Mr. Peacock, the Post-offloe solicitor, attended to inform
the court that upon the Fete Woof the lady the charge against
Miss Flint, for taking beck a letter which she had posted at
Peckham, had been withdrawn, by direction of the Post.
maeter-Ueneral.