The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-20 00:00:00

A oung man =mad William Wilma wu yesterday
bract before Sir R. W. Carden, in custody of Smart, the
detective officer, charged with stealing 601., the money of
his employer, and also with forging two receipts.
The offences imputed to the prisoner appeared to have
been committed under rather peculiar circumstances. Hsi
bad been far • commidgrable time in the service el Mr.
Octavio, Witliatte.mnamsteiol agent ouryieg on bmiesse is
Xiikateeet, This gentleman ores In the habit
of poreinaing In London for • aniabor ri country
houses, sod month= was the firm ol ildieett and Co.,
of Parma. The custom °ibis buskers nes to sand down at
the end of *ray month to each of his condontore a statement of
the amounts they owed in London for goods that had been
supplied to them, and a cheque was retuned by them at
the commencement et the following math, which be, in
due °mine, handed over to the parties entitled to the
money. At the end of July he sent a Atte-
mpt of amount to Meagre. mama for goods
supplied to than by Messrs. Rowley Hartley, and Co.,
mingham warehomemen, of Addleatreet, Wood-street,
amounting to 28/. 7s, and on the 11th of August, Moen.
Chilcott sent him a cheque for that amount, which he pee
tor the to take to Ream Row and and be
book receipt signed At the
end of August another account goods amounting to
231. Bs. was feet as by Menu. Rowley, end the farmer cum
of 281.75. was added to it, sad this was mai down to lissers.
Ckulcott, and they tronsmitted a abaci: the Mil
231. Ba., which was sill they oonsidered were Indebted
to Messrs. Rowley, and the prisoner, mg en parlous =ea"
Mon, was sent with the cheque to these guetionase. The
p , appeared, did hand over this emend chum% and
kr=Rowlei, who were surprised at not receiving the 1
tall amount, altered the statement of resent that wee
brought with the cheque and gave the primmer a receipt for
2111. Be. "on accoant." If he had taken these documents
bask to his muter his dishonest contact would, of
neonse, bane bees discovered, sad he therefore altered the
eldenient that war given him, one wrote en entirely fresh
which hewed in a fictitious name, and by this
Ming he for a
time succeeded in avoiding dboovery.
end, however, that he had committed ,aural other
acts of plunder, and at length a warrant was obtained for
the prismelnlzehendoe, and he was taken into custody
yesterday at his residence at Dalton. He was
told what he was charged with, sod Smart showed him
the two forged receipts, and asked him whose writing they
were, and the reply the prisoner made was, " I believe they
are mine.* It was proved in the course of the case that there
was no ouch person as George Richard em in the service of
Meson. Bow ky and Co., and that the first receipt as well
▪ the second was an entire forgery.
Mr. Wray rid there were several other cues of •
similar kind that could be substantiated against the poisoner
if the aldermaa thotgbt it was necessary to go into them.
Sir B. Carden said there ware already two charges of
forgery established against the prisoner, and it was modem
to go into any other cases.
'The prisoner was then asked in the usual form whether
he had anything to say in answer to the charges, and he
replied, " Nothing."
Sir R. Carden committed him to Newpte to take his
trial . . . .

Mr. Wray called the attention of the court to the fad that
all the chues were crossed, and he said he thought the
bankers hsdshown some neglect in caahlng them. A crossed
cheque wee considered a security spinet robbery, but if
bankers paid them so many crossing them would be of no
value.
Sir R. Carden looked at the cheques and mid that they
appeared to have pealed regularly through a banker's, and
he could not de that there was any blame attachable to the
bank upon which they were drawn. He could easily trace
the bank through which the cheques were paid in, and if
there had really been any negligence be would have a civil
remedy.
Mary lif'Donald, a very well dressed and good-looking
young woman, who wee remanded upon a charge of stealing
two sovereigns from a young lady, named Charity Fenner,
in an omnibus, was brought up for final examination.
The robbery in question was a very adroit one. The prb
toner sat by the aide of the proms:nine, who had in her
pocket a purse which contained two sovereigns, two half-
sovenlighi, a shilling, and a el:pence, and she actually suc-
ceeded in opening the puree, taking out the two sovereigns
from the rest of the money, and then dropping the purse
back into the pocket. The prolecutrix, however, fortu-
nately disoovelvd her loss, and gave the prisoner into cos.
tody, and it was proved that she was the constant emaciate
of thieves, and that she had been convicted before of a simi-
le: offence.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and requested that the ode
might be settled at once.
Sir R. Carries, having consulted Alderman Finds, mid
that these robberies in omnibuses were so frequent that the
companies were obliged to stick up notices
. in their vehicles
cautioning the public against pickpocUts, both male sod
female. It was clear she was an adept at the crime, and her
dress and appearance wows well adoulated to disarm all
suspicion. He hardly knew whether it was not hi duty to
send her for trial, but lithe pramentrix wished to be spared
the trouble and inconvenience of attending at the Old Bailey,
he should sentence her to six months' imprisonment and
hard labour.
The money found upon the prisoner, 4& Bcl., was ordered
to be given to the complainant towel* making good her
loss.