The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-21 00:00:00

IX XX IZASCIS 110XWIXIII LOCIXI COWPER.

This gm' it,—; who it;l CZ: la tlisWy, r
prison. Mr.
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apposa kr a °hi. 175., as
a ttsLaco of aceonnt.

Ls arsew—ar to lir. dargoi, be odd be hod boas old •
Nab away by ths sot hiss in Noonday sad
he seat MB to his attorney, sad he lost a day is Sada(,
and thus got nothing.
Jobber maid ho thought that as the insoloal had roofed
JIM licenses; the octavos, that he should get his messy.
Mr. logos& said that Ins the sears& el the creditor or
posing, to get sows Warr goons to pay.
The arour said ft was a bread aue—his debt vas for
brood mad Gm.,

—She Conadseionee obstrved that ft wee a pest pity that
the hieeivent had not paid malt call eecoeste, end per be meld see what he weld de teethe patio.
• wee discharged.

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Mamas for Messrs. sad Naglisk befolowskaro.
This case teas bakes the mart an • law, day, sad it ap-
pared that the tamirtat led bats wale s bealaupt, and
had not warreadared, on whdak his ems was edjourned to
apply to the Court al eakr aplied
• tow dim since for Wyeß waruploy.tgadar, sad the esceedingly sowsp da-
shed his application.
Mr. Memo said by sot surtvaditisg the Wairted wee
liable to be tried for felony. It did sun straw that this
court should take up the ems of • pima who was ansenside
to criminal procesdMp ; hut sooordhei to the prudes fifths
court, if • bankrupt could not get old of Ids bealtrapteylhs
cost would entertain lits owe. The baseasd MOM! mid the
court had intimated that if his as. wee ennestard • arte
Wanes-sheet would be requited.
Mr. Commissioner Dowse add time wen waters to be
serval sad an account filed. Tits arse would ge over le tits
Ifortnabar sittings, sad the iwashant Wert swam at kW,
though be (tits Conondssionsr) doable" wham its so& to
peat hlm the
Adjourned accordingly.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Deem the Itworder.)

dlfred Chops trurrunkeed le take hie Mel epos several
imtiouneals which oherpd him with embezzling variesesams
of money, the property of the oburotterardene and weermere
of SL Giles's, Cm:AmineLl.
The prieoner plaided sot guilty to the whole of the
charm.
Mr. Robin/ton sod Mr. Poland oesdeetad the promotion.
Mr. Metcalf. wee oouoael for the defame
.

ii.icii;..•tiitwas---iii;;;l;a7g;i the primmer with
11011)111lilig end stealing the awn of 78U., the peopmg of the
above parish.
It appeared from the opening of the leaned anumel for
the prosecutioa that the prisoner canted on the business of •
tailor to the Kent-road, and he had far mural years also
beta engaged am collector of the government and pa-
rookie! taxes of Camberwell pall* and It was his duty
to keep • book in which he entered all the sums
be received ou account of the parish, and then to pay over
the mesas to the Londoe Joint Stock frank_ It
that a isle was made in July, 1867. which was aadllud by
the auditor is May, 1858, sad in ocasequaDoe of whet wee
tbaa oreartaleed inquiries were mode, and it was discovered
emu the prbaser led weeived a awn of 1,7004. nett a lab-
out isle wade is Janary,ll6l, and he did not appear
to have mosented for woe then UM that amount ; and le
wee sow doomed with subsolieg the &Krems between I
them two mom The primate was weaned on the war
jaw by the what mums, ad he did act appear to Lay 1
that Uwe was delletwory, bat made • otatesoest eo the
Whet that he bed boa robbed el three handled soar
and that he MI ales beat deleitat in the mom&
'Li resolved kr the prowaiwat tam, sad wee cospehed
le cake it god; sad he also and that he had purchased the
base of some propwty, sad had Mat wary to different
=end tie -whele of the loans turned oat to be bed
aid la this way he so:ousted for the defaienay.
Mr. Thaws Polls, an. of the overseers of the perish of
Oil., Camberwell, was examined, and he red a great
may et the feats above wurrated. lid
stated, bows,., that
la the dent betaaca an endeavour waa made to get the mosey
from the prlscesr, sad a deed wee drawn up, under which
the book debts to the pariah to the amount
of ICland=dther arrangemeats to pay back the money
that le had misappropriated.
Mr. Waal% asked for the production of this deed, sad it
wee headed to the court.

TM Reessier, atierinieleg it, sold that the male hid
abed, hese treated as a debt In the tint hams by the
CILThe deed commenced by reciting that a Add Wee
the primer to the parish.
Xr. wid that the pada bed ewer treated the
tremeetion is any wine way, end they hid eliteieet dR
eadire the deed that hal heist prothwedow got et the hot
Mee ot the prisoner. They heal aim onewswert eta yew
emeiless, and WA ainelatihek=er with a writ kr the,
emeseett cf eigpmed
Oat ',two Wee wbesme we embed, bat tier ed.
dear idled to thaw Wire Or met meat that tbe get.
met bell neekei r libe mein am be vue alleged to hew
eakesiel Thee mei ebe as doer el say ewbbees
abow'wbsebee the warty Awl to be,. has iniramted wet
Tgoveneweet or pariah maw.
PArowles. at the elan et the ease for the preesentloa,
azgoewed hie %inks that the evidence was tee wacertsin to
Judi, the jury In carrietisg the prisoner.
Mr. Rob, upon this withdrew from the posecutiou,
ad the Jury returned • verdict of Not guilty.
Ms primmer was then tried up is another imillstainat which
wed hint with eadmmling Sal. its. 2d., the psperty of
ireeine waned wore enpged for the presecation and

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the defence. -
la this OW It appeared that in November, 1567, the gel.
sone' applied to Mr. Jackson, one of the prrigthesee, be
payment of taxes that were due from Wm, and that gateho-
use& sent him • cheque for the 'merit spedied, and this
cheque wee paid in by tee Owen to the Lowden end Weak
Wastes Bank, where be lied • private newt, sad he
omitted to nuke anwhy of the receipt of the wary la the
pail& books, sad it,. Jeettews, es the enemy, appeared to
be in arrears to the ruble be the whets serf et- rates.
The wee 'widener, van glean with thri le the aidgemeat
of the peisoneee book debts as in the Meth saes Med It else
appeared that the perish bad seed the pwlether's gereike be
4001. each, and that the prisoner himself INA bees ssned
with a writ for 901x1., and judgment bed hien signed against
him for that amount. Kr. Metcalfe eke eland le dear
examination from lir. lbeedee, the vestry clerk, that del.
bed been °teethed ham ere of the ate se, andlOt. bon
thother, scut se medertsking le pup mom aad that
9001. or 3001. were 4.5 to the primmer be pouadego. It wee
stated, however, tbet &leg the primer reedit for this MR
there would still be a dedcleney in the pelereees emanate to
the extent of over 1,0001.
Kr. Metcalf,, at the aloft of the evidence, submitted to the
court that there was not balkiest evidence to support the
chirp ,• and, after a good deal of theistical argument,
The Roothder said he coed not take up ix himself to &old*
that there wag an wideness to go to the jury, which shoe
weld lewdly
_him In stopping the oath.
Mr. Meteallethen tiosd the jury foe the prisoner, end
in the wane of • very able epoch ha urged that, although
the potemier might hale reed irregularty end improperly,
the we. lo • great defeat owing to the negligence of
the peakh authorities end that they bad evilently In the
int lastonee treated the matter OA a debt, and that they never
had an idea of instituting criminal procesdlap until they
found that they could not squeeze the supposed dellelency
out of the viewer or hie sureties.
, rest number of Willy reeptetstote wheelies, among
whom were several ..sere d the ',shy of the patrols of
Camberwell, and the inennebeat of Pt. Georgs'a district
church in tut parish, were examined on Labatt of the pri-
thaw, and they all concerted in describing him asap honour.
ship, upright may, who, until this irtheaction, had liner
had the slightest imputation upon hie character. Otto of the
wharves volunteered hie opinhm that, notwithstanding what
bad occurred, the prisoner wee as honest • men se any one
is the court. This othervation, as may well be imagined,
caned a good deal of laughter, in which the learned recorder
meld sot help joining.
The Recorder, in summing up, mid It appeared to him
OM a great deal of irrelevant matter had teen introduced
hie the ease, and that the real question the jury had to
beide upon was in a very narrow compass. Ile then re-
lined to the fres end said that it the evuleace @seeded
them that the prisoner intended to defraud the parish of the
nom la question, which there could be so doubt had come
late hie preseathe, It would be their duty to dad him guilty
of the mead charge, but if they had any fair and itheonable
death apes that subject he was entitled to sa acquittal, par.
the good character he bad received.
=east, of deliberating
• short time la the box, retired
tier verdict. They left the court et • qtterter to
Oar debased returned at twenty minutes pest lee, Sel-
ig • millet of Net Guilty.
Mr. Poland said that it was the Intention of the prosthe-
tics to proceed with the other indictments.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kw.)

Jana Holton, 26, married, vas imikted la having In tar
possession ooeutstit
Mr. Ellis and Mr. Beet prasenisi ; mod Mr. Modal
Atkisma defended. .

It appa;ti from; the svldooos of Impactors Brawl and
Bryaat that upon the Ansa= of Batley, the 4th of this
month, they west to the hoses bye by the prisoner, the
White Horse, Beldwises-gazdsts, Orey's-ina4ana. Having
obtained admittance they saw the priew and yen telling
bet what they came goat the said she Bider, not knew,' then

being any In the how*, and went part of the way uptake
after the eon/tables, but suddenly roe back tato the bet,
sad teak op a beg' which the esestabke otter a
got poseeselos of, NM la that aed a drawer whiskirit
prisoner tried to desk they loud sight ceentselbiturverelgas
red 92 come, hableeowee &dee mil
Y Mregesentieg the
we el !IL The
tn. eeneeellise watt to the 110UNI of
Selaegreßerna they would led what they had come der, sad
that she !Id not know where they were made until the Pe.
aloes &woad that they had bees seek at a street be Cam-
bwerell. The kushead of the‘eleessr wee, it appeared, now
Lad der eandcdoe for fu
Ni. T. Adduce briefly, bat ;est ably, contended that
then wee se *Adam to IMAM a felonious intent upon the
pert et the primmer In poseesethe the coin.
The juey .degrittat the plotter.
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Oda; Adorn war indicted for =torridly poarerohm corm'

Tb. jury 40eWita bim.