The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-01 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MANSION-HOUSE.

Hairy Forrester, • very well dressed young man, and
who, it has been ilready stated, is the son of Daniel
Forrester, an old end much respected officer, formerly
belonging to the police of the City of London attached
to the Mansion-house, was brought before the Lord
Mayor for further examination, upon the charge of feloni-
ously receiving three Spanish bonds that had been stolen
from a lady in the Union Bank.
Mr. Mullane, the solicitor to the Bankers' Association,
attended on behalf of the prosecution, and Mr. James
Lewis was instructed for the defence.
It will be remembered that the circumstances under
which the charge was preferred were of • rather extraor-
dinary character. The bonds in question were stolen from
the prosecutrix while she was engaged in transacting
business in the Union Bank some time ago, and nothing
was heard of them until recently, when, in consequence of
information received by Hancock, a detective
officer, be was induced to make inquiries after a
person named Foote, who was known to be an
intimate companion of the prisoner, and he was subse-
quently examined as a witness. According to his evi-
-1 deuce the prisoner produced the bonds in question to him,
and knowing that he was acquainted with Stock Exchange
transactions, suggested that he
.ahould accompany him to
Paris to dispose them,oloi
f hispay
toien bonds were trouble.:lcdorotriiiye
tourse, and be we's paid the 101. out of the proceeds of a
500 fr. note, which formed a portion of the amount re-
ceived for the bonds. At a subsequent examination the
witness Foote did not make hie appearance,
and • warrant was consequently applied for and
granted by the Lord Mayor for his apprehension
as • contumacious witness. Although every exer-
tion, it appears, has been made by the officer
to execute the warrant, he has been unsuccessful in doing
so and, under these circumstances, the charge was now
again brought forward for further inquiry.
Mr. Mullen. said that sine* the last examination in-
quiries had been instituted at Paris with regard to the
facts that had been deposed to by the witness Foote, and
his evidence was corroborated by the fact that it appeared
that • five hundred franc note had been changed at the
hotel where the prisoner and Foote were staying, but at
present he was not in a position to bring forward the wit-
nesses from the hotel to prove that fact. His lordship
was aware that he had granted • warrant for the
apprehension of Foote, who, however, could not be found,
and as the ease rested principally upon his evidence, it
would be useless to proceed in hie absence. Under these
circumstances he should apply for • farther remand, and
he hoped by the next examination that he should be able
to produce the witness Foote, and also the n
evidence from Paris, to show the circumstances connected
with the changing of the five hundred franc note and other
facts connected with the case.
The prisoner said that he had already been in prison •
fortnight, and the charge against him meted entirely upon
the evidence of • man who kept out of the way.
The Lord Mayor said this was true, but he should recol-
lect that the person he referred to was his own friend.
The prisoner said that that was only stated to be the
cue.

The Lord Mayor said that all be knew was that he had
signed a warrant for the apprehension of this witness, and
he was told that he would probably be brought forward
under that warrant on a future day, and that other evi-
dence would be adduced in support of the charge. Upon
these facts he should certainly woods to the application
for a further remand. _ _

An application was made for the prisoner to be admitted
to bail, but the Lord Mayor refund to entertain it, and
he was taken back to Newgate.

Tux Fsrmer TRIALS. —(By Telegraph.)—
DUBLIN, FRIDAY NIOHT.—The spacial commission for
Cork tarmimatsd to-day. Kearns was sentenced to fifteen
years' penal servitude ; M'Swiney, Moriarty, Aber, Cum-
mina, Lombard, and Downing to seven, and Coghlan and
Geary to five years.

MORDIA IN • LUNATIC AllTLllN.—Yesterday
afternoon an inquiry was held at the pie: County
Lunatic Asylum, Brentwood, before Mr. C. C. Lewis,
the coroner for this division of the county,
relative to the death of Joseph Weider, aged 72, an in-
mate of the asylum, who was killed by • fellowletient,
named George Blomfield, under the following circum-
stances. The deceased and Blomfield had been very good
friends: they both laboured under some religious delu-
sion, and that circumstance probably brought them more
frequently into each other's company. They retired to rest
in the dormitory on Thursday evening, as usual. They
got op on Friday morning, and having dressed, returned
to the dormitory to make their beds, when Gilmore,
one of the attendants, at about a
.quarter past six, heard
a noise as if some one was breaking the windows. The
attendant went into the dormitory, and raw the deceased
on his hands and knees on the floor, and Blomfield
standing over him, holding up a chamber utensil by both
hands over his head. Before Gilmore could reach him
Blomfield struck the deceased on the back of the head with
the utensil, and it was thought that he had struck him
before. The attendant seized Blomfield, who struggled,
and tried to kick the deceased on the face. He was at
last secured and removed, and attention was then directed
to the deceased, who was on his hands and knees on the
floor, and bleeding from wounds on the head. He wan in
an insensible state, and it was apparent that be wee
mortally wounded. Dr. Gillsnd, one of the medical officers
of the institution, did his best to relieve the poor creature,
but he died in two or three hours. The jury accordingly
returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Blue-
field, and he was committed for trial at the nut Essex
assizes._

ST. LEONARDS-ON-SEA' MAY 31.—The reproach
of defective drainage has been justly applied to moat of
our watering places. This favourite resort will in future
be free from so great • disadvantage, the local commis-
sioners having semis time since adopted the plan mom-
mended to them by Mr. Basalgette, and which has been
carried out under his advice by Mr. Webster, the principal
contractor for the Metropolitan Drainage Works, so ex-
peditiously as to be virtually completed, though only own.
mewed at Christmas last. Mr. Bazalgette's design super-
sedes the old plan of nine different culverts discharging
their recurrent filth in front of the town, and conveys the
entire sewage of the place in a single brick arched channel,
buried in cement, along the whole length of the beach to
closed reservoirs, from which at certain periods of the
tide it will be discharged at a point of the coast
far beyond the outskirts, and situated in the unin-
habited parish of Bulverhitbe, overlooking Pevensey Bay.
About 250 bricklayers and navvies have been employed
on the works, and in recognition of their remarkably good
conduct during theie stay in the neighbourhood, the in-
habitants gave yesterday to all those now employed and
their wives • substantial entertainment at the Assembly-
rooms, when the Rev. W. liatchard presided. In the
course of remarks appropriately commendatory of the con-
duct of the men, the rev. gentleman observed that
the result of their exertions would, he believed, secure to
all future visitors to that beautiful district not only •
clean beach and pure water to bathe in, but an atmosphere
healthful se that of a mountain district. The inhabi-
tante of St. Leonard, might, he believed,experience under
the effect of this great improvement a season as prosperous
in spring and summer as they were wont to enjoy in
autumn and winter. The proceedings of the evening were
enlivened by music and several relevant speeches. It may
be mentioned that similar sanitary works have been for
some time in progress at the neighbouring watering place
of Hastings.
130crIttire AT A CONFIRMATION. —A few days
ago a confirmation was held et St. Matthias', Stoke
Newington, by the Bishop of Dunedin, on behalf of the
Bishop of London. There were about 160 candidates ; and
' according to the Hackney Gazette, the bishop told them
" that as surely as the Holy Ghost descended upon the
apostles it would now descend upon them, whether they
willed it or not, and asked them to think, before they
received that gift, whether they were prepared to become
the recipients of so great and unspeakable • blessing."
OINeTAL PALLCIL —ONZ SHILL INO DAY. —FRI-
DAT, MAT 3L—Adm4eions on payment. 1,543 ; ditto
by mason tido* 1,427 ; seta vbikwa, 2,970.