The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-14 00:00:00

THE CHARGE OTFORGINO FOREIGN NOTTS.

ReinAold Zangert, 37, n Gerneui, described as a litho-I
grapher, was charged with having feloniously in his posses-
sion certain printed pipers resembling notes of a foreign
state—to wit, the Netherlands—for the payment of ten
guilders, without lawful authority.
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Straight conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner was defended by Mr. )Alley.
The facts of this case have been fully reported very re-
cently. In consequence of information received by the
representatives of the Dutch government, from some per-
son who was in prison in Amsterdam, some gentlemen
connected officially with the Netherlands government
went to the first floor front room of a house in Hack-
church-lane, where they found they prisoner, who repre-
' matted himself to be an artist and a painter. He was
then told that he had been accused by some person in Am-
stenlam of being the person who supplied forged
Dutch coupons to be put in circulation. He denied
:that there was any truth in this charge, or that
he bad any plates or other instruments calculated to make
forged Dutch coupons. The place was subsequently
'searched, and in a box in his room there were found some
lithographic stones, on which were engraved portions of
• forged Dutch 10-guilder note. The prisoner accounted
for the possession of one of these stones by stating that he
ground his paint upon it. but there was no appearance of
paint having been upon the stone.
The defence set up and commented upon by Mr. Lilley
(who, instructed by the authorities of the court, appeared
for the prisoner) was to the effect that the stones found in
the prisoner's possession were wholly incompetent to pro-
duce such impressions as would give the slightest appear-
ance
of a Dutch coupon ; and, further, it was urged that
even if perfect, they were comparatively valueless, inas-
much as it had been elicited from one of the officials of the
Amsterdam Bank that they were not • legal tender, and
that it was not compulsory upon any person in Holland to
accept them as a circulating medium. The learned counsel
also put it to the jury whether the total absence of any
lattempt on the part of the prisoner to conceal the stones,
which, on the contrary, were openly exposed in his lodg-
ing, was not indicative that be had no guilty knowledge.
Mr. Justice Willes summed up, and remarked that this
was the whole question. Wu the jury of opinion that the
prisoner had a guilty knowledge of the purposes for which
the stones could be used ; if they should be of that opinion
then he was guilty ; if otherwise, then their verdict ought
to be one of acquittal.
The jury, after a brief conference together in their box,
returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Sleigh informed the court that the circulation of
these forged coupons was extensive at present in Amster
dam, where two persons were now in custody on the charge
of uttering them, and further that the prisoner dreaded to
return to Holland, where, if convicted, it would involve a
sentence of imprisonment for life ; and though offered to
be sent home by the Dutch consul, he had refused toaccept
that offer, preferring to remain to be tried in this country.
It further appeared that the prisoner had undergone one
imprisonment iu Prussia for the offence of forgery.
The prisoner, when called up for judgment, stated
(through the interpreter) that be was very sorry to say
he was not able to express himself in the English
language, for if so he could have conducted his own de-
fence, and then the jury would not have found him guilty.
He was not aware that he had been guilty of any offence,
sad he had nothing more to say.
lir. Justice Willes, in passing sentence, communicated
to the prisoner (through the interpreter) that he had been
properly found guilty of a most grievous offence. He
entertained no doubt that in concert with other persons he
had been long engaged in forging these Dutch notes. He
was evidently amen of education and knew well he was
doing an act that in any civilized country must subject
him to severe punishment. The sentence of the court was
that be be kept in penal servitude for the term of seven)
years.
The prisoner bowed to the court and retired.

William Walker, :19, dealer, convicted on Wednesday of
inflicting grievous bodily harm on Mary Ann Elisabeth
Walker, his wife, was brought up for judgment and sen-
tenced to be kept in penal servitude for the term of ten
Yeas . .

(Before the Recorder.)
Arthur Wilson, 47, commission agent, was indicted for
feloniously stealing, in the month of July, a piece of
silk, value 91. Its., the property of Messrs. Morley, whole-
sale warehousemen, Wood.street, Cheepside, their pro.,
perty.
Mr. Daly prosecuted, and from the evidence it appeared
that previous to the robbery the prisoner frequently,
visited the warehouse of the prosecutors, representing
himself as being • commission traveller in the silk trade,
and after one of his visits the piece of silk in question I
was missed. In consequence of other similar robberies
having been committed in other warehouses, Detective-
officer Hancock, of the City police, was tweeted to, and
he discovered that this piece of silk had been pledged at a
pawnbroker's. There was, however, a failure of proof
that the prisoner was the person by whom the piece of
silk in this case had been pawned, and hence the jury re-
turned a verdict of Acquittal.
There was a second indictment against the prisoner for
stealing a piece of silk, value 141., from the warehouse of
Mews- Arthur Key and Co., of Old Change, in May last.
In this ease it appeared that the prisoner visited the
warehouse of the prosecutors under pretence of seeing
their silk buyer, Mr. Barber, and on leaving was seen to
take up • piece of silk, and concealing it under his Inver-
ness cape, left the premises. He was followed and
brought back with the property in his possession.
To this indictment the prisoner pleaded guilty, and
though there was a third indictment against him of a pre-
cisely similar character, it was not proceeded with.

The ltscorder sentenced the prisoner, who appeared to
be in an advanced state of consumption, to be imprisoned
with bard labour for the term of 12 calendar months.
WitGaire Garrick, a mere boy, was indicted for stealing
181 newspapers, the property of his masters, Messrs. Bull
and Middleton, the news agents and advertising con-
tractors of Erie:-stmt, Strand.
Mr. M'acafee prosecuted ; and Mr. M.Williams defended
the prisoner.
For several months it appeared that the prisoner bad
been eiripfoied by the prosecutors, and among other duties
he had to deliver country newspapers to subm.i hers resi-
dent in London. ra consecpsence of complaints having
been received of the non-delivery ; inquiries were set on
foot, when it transpired that the prisoner had from time to
time not oily sold the papers as waste paper himself, but
had incited another boy, named Lamb, to do the same.
Lamb was-examined as a witness, but it wee evident that
they both had fallen into bad company.
The prisoner, who received a good character from his
employers, was found Guilty and sentenced to six months'
imprisonment. . _ .

-Imes Warnford, 18, and Alfieri Reading, 18, pleaded
guilty to stealing a horse and cart, the property of the
prosecutors in the preceding case, and were sentenced to
twelve mouths' imprisonment with hard labour.
Smeremcg.—Williost flirting Ball*, 41, tailor, who was
convictei before the Recorder on au indictment charging
him with having unlawfully obtained and received divers
I sums of money from Matthew John Thomas to procure an
I office under the appointment and control of her Majesty's
Postmaster-General, was on Wednesday brought up for
judgment, and sentenced, by the Recorder, to nine months'
tmprismunent with hard labour

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANSION-1106E.

William Smillaers;.iii,Wit;worn the undress uniform of ,1
a warrant officer in the naval service, was brought up on
remand by City officer Brett before the Lord Mayor for
further examination, on a charge of having illegally in
his possession a quantity of Bank of England notes, which
had been stolen from a gentleman in the Opera-house,
Covent-garden.
Mr. Wontner, jun.. attended on behalf of the primmer.
It may be remembered that at the first examination it
was proved by Detective-officer Russell, of the City police,
that on Saturday morning last he wan on duty with Brett
at the Bank of England, when a youth named Todhunter
presented a 101. note for change. The payment of this
note with others had been stopped as having been stolen,
and the youth T.xlhunter stated that he had been sent for
change by a gentleman who was then waiting in his
master's shop. The officers accompanied Todhunter ,
to the shop of his master. a batter, in 1
Can-
non-street,where they found the prisoner. On pro-
ducing the note to him, the prisoner stated he bad
received it in change for a 1001. note at a money changer's,
whose name he did not know, but who lived near his
hotel on Tower-hill. He was then told the note had been
stolen with others the night before, upon which the officer
Russell asked if he had any other notes about him. The
prisoner then produced a pocket-book containing five other
bank notes, three for 10/. each, and two for 51. The
prisoner was then taken into custody, and at the police-
station he altered his story and said that he had bought
the notes the same morning from a friend (whom he did
not name) for 50/.
The evidence yesterday consisted of that of Todhunter,
the youth who bad been sent by his toaster to get change
and who described the transaction, and that of Mr.
Whelan, a cashier at the branch of the National Bank
in Old Cavendish-street, who proved that the notes pro-
duced formed part of • sum of 80/. he had paid to
Lieutenant Barron on a cheque, on the Zird May lut.
Lieutenant Barron, of the sth Fusiliers, stationed at
Shorncliffe, identified the notes as having been in his
pocket-book which he had placed in the outside pocket of
his dress coat when he went to the opera at Covent-garden
on the evening of the 27th May, and he missed the
book and its contents on arriving at his club at the close of
the performance on the name evening.
There was a second charge against the prisoner for felo-
niously receiving a purse (which was found upon him when
apprehended on the other charge), which was now
proved to have been stolen from the person of Mr. J. 11.
F:dwards, of Hanover-street, Hanover-square, while at the
Covent Garden Opera the same evening, and which was
now identified by that gent'eman.
Mr. Wontner, Jun., addressed the Lord Mayor, submit-
ting that the evidence was such that no jury would convict
the Coner upon it, and hence be asked for the prisoner's
disc .
The Lord Mayor, however, took a different view of the
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The prisoner, when asked what he had to say, stated
that it was true he had the notes, but he did not know
they had been stolen.
The depositions were ordered to be completed, and the
prisoner was fully committed for trial on both charges at
the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court.
MARY LItIJONE.
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Jaws Formal, and Charles Mason
Trotman, were re-examined on the charge of stealing a
gold watch and a portion of a gold chain, of the value of
60 guinea., from the person of Dr. Brett, of 38, Stan-
hope-street, Regent's-park. Mason was further
with stealing from the person of Edward Beach, a vc=
meerschaum pipe, and a gold watch and chain, valued at
201., a scarf ring, and 15s. in silver.
The previous particulars in this case appeared in full
last week. Both prosecutors were serious) y assailed by
the rough. who were following the City Militia on their
march through London. Dr. Brett and his witnesses still
held that the officer said, when the thief who stole the
watch was pointed out to him, "Go and catch him." The
officer as persistently denied it.
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Both akeener' were committed for trial.
Alfred Cox, 20, costermonger, was brought up for final
examination on the charge of picking pockets in Portland-
place. Also further charged with assaulting Constable
Jeffreys, '4O D, in the execution of his duty, and damaging
his helmet and tearing his trousers. The prisoner was one
of the roughs in the ruck of the City Militia. He was
committed for trial. _ . .

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Carnthus IV,teman, a labourer, was charged with at-
tempting to rescue a prisoner, and brutally kicking Po-
lice-constable Bradley, 147 1).
Sergeant Malt, 32 1), said that Bradley was in such a
bad state as to be unable to attend. It was extremely
doubtful whether the officer would recover. The prisoner
is a most violent man and had been often oonvicted.
The prisoner was remanded, and bail refused.
James Patterson alias Reader and Henry Saunders were
charged with most violent assaults.
sergeant Bell said he was bringing a prisoner along
High-street to the court. He was handcuffed, se he was
so violent. The prisoners came up and flourished • stick,
and said he should not be taken. They tried to rescue his
prisoner.
Spratt, 213 13, who seemed a good deal injured and his
' uniform covered in mud, mid he saw Saunders flourishing
the stink about, and making use of throats. (The stick
was produced, and was • most formidable weapon, being
about three feet long and very thick.) He struck 66 1)
with it, and he (Sprat!) took him into custody. At his re-
rest he left hold of Saunders's colhir,when he was thrown
own and kicked by both prison-re in a frightful manner.
He felt very ill from the blows. Saunders's oaths were
terrible.

Scott, 66 I), confirmed the above, and added that there
were at least 400 people in the street.

The prisoners w.ere'renianded.
Willian dfcCormatk was committed for trial for
attempting to rescue a prisoner as be was being led along
the passage to the van. This decision surprised the pri-
soner, who said be didn't think he should get more than-
e " drag," meaning three months.
The scenes .at the court this week have been disgraceful,
owing to the large number of roughs who have assemble
to see how their companions got on. Yesterday there
was a batch of at least fifty police in attendance to keep
the passages clear and see the prisoners safely into tee
van. This vehicle draws up at the cod of a lung narrow
passage in Paradise-street, and so afraid are the shop-
keepers of the roughs, that at times they put up their
shutters. A constable named Brown was very seriously
injured by a kick from McCormack.