The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-31 00:00:00

tivENOtt, 00T013ER 31, 1866.

THH

rOR COURTS.

RANSION:ROUSE.
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Bank of Eighind we% Mrs of Mr. John I6'Oregor,
an engineer, ussiertibe nowt
The Praffhtl as the nib of Let month he
arrived in um esirAwircia Lid% and he received •
cheque for VA aid tin the 11th trews • mercantile firm in
the cheque
fir Oil he &land cash, in two 101. win and
nineteen swesselpse Re folded op the notes
and pined them in hi pocket-book with the gold.ghtly
sties he bid venire& the mosey he want into a hair.
dimes shop Is IL Ada was kept by the
primer, to have hi hair out, and Weir he sat town he
took olbi grentrioat, in the site papist el which he bed
plead the pocketbook containing the WI sad niter be ,
bad bed his hair eat he pot ass Ns coat and
left the ship, aed upon examining hie peofist-book shortly
afterwards he discovered that one et IN 10/. notes sad two
sovereigns were pis.. 1 appeared that the preseentar went
back to the prisoner's shop to make ioquirise about
the missing note, but could obtain no tidings of it,
and the shop was shortly at ter . shut up, aid he
heard no more of the matter until Monday Wt, when he
found the prisoner in custody. The prosecutor expremed
his positive conviction that he must have last the not* in
the primer's shop, and that it most by some means or
other have been abstracted from his pocket-book while he
was haves( kis hair cut.
Mr. R. A. Bayley, a clerk in the Bank of England, de•
posed that a 101. note, No. 65,471, and dated July 23, 1860,
was paid into the Bank, through the banking-bowie of
Mars. Williams and Co., on the 19th of Sept. Reprdnesd
the note. which bore upon it the indorieneent,
Moore, 31, St. and it was proved the=
was one of the notes paid to the prosecutor for the 381.
cheque.
Monger, the detective officer, deposed that a warrant was
his hands for the apprehension of the prisoner,
planed
in
pot his going to his house in St. Mary-at-hill be found
it was closed, and he had been looking for him ever since,
but could not find him until Monday last, when he met the
prisoner iq Liraehrinse. Ile asked him if hi time was
Moore, and he said it was, and he then inquired whether he
did not keep a barber's shop at St. Mary•athill in Septem-
ber lap, and he said he did, and that he had let it. The
phloem, in answer to further questions put to him by the
officer, admitted that he bad purchased a watch, and paid
for it with a 101. note. Ho was then asked how he became
possessed of the note, and he mid that • man who was a
stranger to him had come into his shop, and seeing that he
had a good deal of gold in his pocket, pulled out this 101.
note and asked him to give change for it, and he did so, sad
he added that when the prosecutor afterwards made inquiry
about the note he bad lost he fancied that it might be the
same note, and was therefore afraid to say anything about
the transaction.

Evidential was then given that the prisoner had purchased
a watch with the 101. note belonging to the prosecutor, and
that he had afterwards pawned the watch for 21. It ap-
peared, however, that ha gave his right name and address
when he payed the ado.
The prisoner, when called upon to answer the charge,
made a somewhat lengthy and circumstantial statement to
the effect that a stranger had come into his shop who asked
him to cheap the note in question, and he did so. Hs poet-
tivwitild all knowledge of the robbery.
Challis said that he felt it his duty to send the
ease before a jury for them to decide, but he consented to
take bail for the prisoner, himself in 4W. and two sureties
in SOL each.
Mr. ()mood Hanbury, of the banking firm of Hanbury
and Co., waited upon the presiding alderman, for the pu-
pae cd auk* a statement on his own behalf, and on that
of oilier beakers in Lombard-street, relative to the obstruc-
tion and Inoornienee that was occasioned, not only to
themselves but to the phial, by the costerniongers who
came there with their barrows to sell fruit.
Mr. Hanbury mid that it was needles for him to state
that hundreds of thousands of pounds were carried from
the different banks in this neighbourhood every day, and it
was the practice of the hucksters to get round the teak
douse, ostensibly for the purpose of selling their wares, but
he wee shah! in some instances with other and far leas
laudable objects in view, and people who had Weiner at the
different banks were frequently almost hustled as they came
out. The inconvenience had attained such a height that an
application had been made to the Commissioner of the City
Polio, upon the subject, and he stated that he had given
instructions to the police and the matter was now out of his
hands. Under these circumstance* he had felt it right to
mention the subject at this court, in order to see whether
anything further could be done to remedy the inconvenience
complained of.
Mi. Goodman, the chief clerk, referred to the minutes of
the wort, which showed that a great number of them per-
sons had been taken into custody and lined for causing
obstructions in the various thoroughfares in the City, and he
also said that some portion of the public appeared, from
communications that had been received, to imagine that
these poor people had been treated harshly. The magis-
trates, however, bad merely done what they considered to
be absolutely necessary to do away with what was un-
doubtedly a very great nuisance ; and, so far as they were
concerned, everything had been dons to put a stop to the
inconvenience complauwid of by Mr. lianbury.
Mr. Alderman Challis said that it wee a veey difficult
gnash= to deal with, sad to avoid acting with what might
Fto be cruelty, or preventing poor people from
an honvelihood. It appeared by datistical re-
s hat honed li
there were no fewer than 10,000 persons of the
class called ocetermoegers in London alone, and all them
got their living by selling fruit and vegetables in the
streets. To prevent them from doing so was of course to
put a stop to their means of existence, but at the same time
it was perfectly clear that it could not be permitted for
them to come with their barrows into the crowded streets
of the City, and this proceeding must be put a stop to.
After some further conversation it was arranged that Mr.
Hanbury, and the other gentlemen concerned, should
make a written communication to the Lord Mayor, when
some further steps will be taken in the matter.