The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-31 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Mercer, •youviireini; theii;i3loy of Means.
Cook, watchmakers, of No. 29, Wardour-street, was
charged before Mr. Knox with stealing 31., the moneys of
his employers.
Mr. Owen Cook said that on Tuesday night he gave the
prisoner, his porter, 3/. to get him his plate license, and be
left and never returned. Having communicated with the
police, the prisoner was taken into custody.
In answer to Mr. Knox,
The prosecutor stated that the prisoner had only been in
his employ two months. He came to him with a written
character from Coventry.
The prisoner, in answer to the charm said that he went
into a public-house to have a glees of U.m. and fell in with
a female • and whether she put anything into his beer or
not he alibi not say, but he believed she did, as he fell
asleep, and on waking up he missed the money from his
pocket.
Police-constable Farwell, 105 0, proved apprehending
the prisoner in Orasehopper-court, Finsbury, and on
telling him the charge he said that he had had a drop or
beer with a female, been drugged, and lost the money. He
was apprentioed at Coventry.
Inspector Bowles said that there was no difficulty in
communicating with the police at Coventry as to the
prisoner's character.
Mr. Knox remanded him for that purpose.
TRAWLS.

Mr. Ellis, solicitor, and vestry clerk of the pariah of
Holy Trinity, Minork• came before Mr. Benson and asked
him for a distress warrant to enforce the payment of 2:751.
owing by the London and North Western Railway in
respect of the occupation of premises in Hsydon-square,
Minories.

Mr. Benson supposed the railway bad some reasonable
ground of objection to the payment of the rate.
Mr. Ellis said the question was whether the company
were liable to be rated for that portion of their warehouses
and premises is Haydon-scptare burnt down some time ago.
Mr. Benson said that was a very substantial ground of
argument, and asked if it was at all necessary to ask for a
distress warrant against the company.
Mr. Ellis said the claim of Tad. was made for • poor
este upon an assessment of ltd. in the pound. He had
offered so argue the case before the magistrates in petty
sessions or in that court, but the company would not ap-
peal or appear in that court to contest the matter.
Mr. Benson was reluctant to make an order until the
secretary or solicitor of the company was before him.
Mr. Ellis said, if the magistrate would make the order
for payment he would give notice to the company, and not
enforce payment for a week. He was most anxious the
matter should/be fairly discussed, and did not wish to take
any unfair advantage of the railway company.
Mr. Livingston, the chief usher, said it was now too
bite to appeal, and that the only course for the magistrate
to adopt was to issue a distress warrant against the rail-
way cionipanT. No order could be made.
Proclamation was then made in due form, " Does any-
body appear for the London and North Western Railway
Company?" The service of the summons by Stubbings,
111 H, an officer of the court, the publication of the poor-
rate, and the demand on the company. were proved.
Mr. Benson said, on the proof given, the warrant to
distrain on the company must issue. He would postpone
his signature for a few days. He hoped the money would
be paid without the netessity of • distraint.

RBADING on HORSEBACK. —A lamentable acci-
dent occurred between 8 and 9 o'clock on the morning of
Saturday last, to Mr. Preston, miller, of Gooderstone. He
was riding on horseback in the village, and had beento the
prat-Milos and other places, and was returning home when
it is supposed that the horse stumbled and threw him to
the ground, where he was discovered in a state of uncon-
sciousness. A newspaper was found open, which he had
doubtless been reading while riding, and his letters were
scattered about the road. He was conveyed hoote with as
much care aa possible in a gig. The poor fellow's jaw is
much fractured, his head is severely cut, and he has re-
ceived other injuries. He still lies in a very precarious
state. Much sympathy is expressed for Mr. Preston, who
is much esteemed in the village and neighbourhood.—
Norfolk News.
Yesterday intelligence was received in Liver-
pool that the small boat Thomas T. Ford, bound from
Baltimore to Ham, and thence to the exhibition at Paris,
had capsized on the 19th of August, in long. 6 W., and
that her crew, consisting of three men, were drowned.
OZTBTAL PALACZ.—ONE SHILLING DAL
FIuDAT, Ammer SO.—Admissions on payment, 2,743;
ditto by swam leeks* 1,969 ; total visitors, 4,712.
HEALTH 1161TOZID IT Dl7 BANAT'S FOOD TO TEI
14TOMAcH, nerves, lungs, and liver of old and young. enrlng
dyspepsia (Indigestion), coneetzttna, diarrheas. seddhlkokaitese•
=glluraiia., re
fevers, ootalkMption, IsieePrmiskr ta. 04
annual cans which had roasted all mallainee. including
Me Hollers the Pope.—Tin, at la : Ilb., IA Yd.: 1 , lfs. :
tab., 406.—Da Barry and Co., TT, Tegenastreet, leaden ; also se
61, Orsoselturehetrest ;4, Ch.— •); tg and 160, Oufteeteerega;
and all pones and air

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THE CHARGE OP FORGERY UPON THE UNION
BANK OF SCOTLAND.
David Jackson, the young man who has been
some time in custody upon the charge of having feloniously
caused certain plates to be engraved for the purpose of
fabricating forged 5/. notes of the Union Bank of Scotland,
was yesterday binught before Sir R. Carden at the Man-
sion-house for final examination upon that charge.

As upon the forme.. occasions, the case, from the singu-
lar circumstances connected with it, and the extent to
which the prisoner intended to have carried out his pro-
jected fraud, arrangements having been in progress for
procuring paper sufficient for engraving forged notes to the
amount of 30,000/., seemed to create • good deal V
interest, especially in banking circles. This is almost the
only occasion when an attempt has been made to pro-
cure the engraving of plates for the purpose of committing
forgeries upon an English bank, the endeavour by the
parties concerned in this branch of crime generally being
to procure the means of forging the notes circukting in
Russia or Poland. It ix to be hoped, therefore, that the
detection that has now taken place will prevent such an
attempt being again made.
Mr. Rees, barrister, instructed by Mr. Mullen., the soli-
citor to the Bankers' Association, conducted the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. Buchman appeared for the prisoner.
The evidence taken on the former occasions, which prin-
cipally consisted of the testimony of • man named Richard
Smith, an engraver and die sinker,
twu read over. This
witness proved being employed byhe prisoner and • man
named Zellmann, who has abscon, to engrave the plates
in question, and who spoke to the various interviews that
took place between them upon the subject He also spoke
to his being sent to Birmingham to procure the paper
upon which the notes were to be printed, and to oona,der-
able sums of money having been given to him by the priso-
ner, and which, it appeared, he divided with the man
Zallmann.

In cross-examination by Mr. Buchanan, this man stated
that he had been an engraver for more than twenty years,
but he did not thoroughly understand engraving balk note
plates. Although be had stated in the fret instance that
he engraved theme plates, it was • mistake, as he had em-
ployed some one else to do the work under his superin-
tendence. He said that, of course, the prisoner thought
he was doing the work himself. He had known Zellmann
for • greet many years, but he had never had any business
transactions with him until the present time. He bed
never had anything to do with engraving forged Russian
notes. Upon one occasion he was charged with copying
some dies, which was • very usual thing in the trade, but
he was convicted for doing so, and sentenced to nine
months' hard labour. He considered that he was only
doing what was usual, but after his imprisonment he made
up his mind not to do it again. (A laugh.)
Mr. James Read deposed that he had been connected
with the Union Bank of Scotland for thirty-seven years,
and during the lest eleven years he had been one of the
cashiers. The head-office of the bank was at Glasgow,
and it was empowered to issue its own notes. The 51. note
now produced, which was the one given by the prisoner to
Smith for the purpose of engraving • copy of it, was •
genuine note of the Union Bank. The engraving upon the
plate, also produced, appeared to be a copy of the genuine
note, but the prisoner had no authority to cause such •
note to be engraved, and he was an entire stranger to him.
William Green, the detective officer, was then cal-
-1 mined, and be gave • rather extraordinary account of the
surveillance to which he bad subjected the prisoner and
the other parties. He said that on the 29th of June he
received instructions to watch three persons—the prisoner,
Smith, the engraver, and a third man, Zellmann, who
went by the name of " Sam." Soon after 8 o'clock in the
evening of that day he saw all three come out of
Smith's house, in Smith-street, Clerkenwell, and they
proceeded to • public-house in the neighbourhood,
where they remained about ten minutes, and they all
then proceeded to the Eagle Tavern, in the City-road,
and he watched them until they returned home and
he saw them go into their different habitations, all of
which were in the same neighbourhood. On the morning
of the 2nd of July he saw the prisoner come out of his
lodging and go to a coffee-shop in the City-road, where he
was joined by ZeUmann, and he followed them and UV
them go to four different bullion offices in the City. (The
objet: of these visits was not stated, but it will probably
transpire is the course of the inquiry.) The prisoner went
alone into the offices, and the other man " Sam" stopped
outside. The witness went on to say that he repeatedly
saw the prisoner, Smith, and Zellmann together, and he
followed them to the Euston station on the
6th of July, when it will be remembered
Smith stated in his evidence that he was sent
down to Birmingham to procure paper for the purpose of
making the forged notes, and he said be saw the prisoner
purchase • newspaper and give it to Smith after be had
taken his seat in the railwar carriage, end Zeilmenn and
the prisoner shook hands with him as the train started.
Upon another °coulee he saw the prisoner aod Zellmann
go to the telegraph-office in Lothhury, from which it was
afterwards ascertained they sent an order for Smith to be
paid 101. at Birmingham. The witness then went on to
state that on one or two occasions the prisoner and Zell-
mann rode in an omnibus, and he rode with them in the
same vehicle and watched all their proceedings, confirming
in several important particulars the evidence given by the
witness Smith. During the progress of these proceedings
he said he followed the prisoner and Zellmann to the office
of the Cierkeuweil New, in Myddleton-street, in which
it will be remembered Smith stated that the prisoner told
him that he had inserted en advertisement for some litho-
graphic presses, and be said that he saw the prisoner
come out reeding a letter, and with several others in his
hand. He read these letters u he walked along, and
then tore them up and threw the pieces away, and the
witness picked up some of these pieces, and they formed a
letter which he produced, and which appeared to be an
answer to the advertisement for the presses. The officer
west on to narrate various other particulars, showing the
intimate connection that existed between the prisoner and
Zellmaan, and although he appeared to have been almost
constantly upon the track of the prisoner for more than •
month, the precautions taken by him seemed to have
effectually prevented them from entertaining the least
suspicion that they were being watched.
Mr. Brookes, the keeper of a coffee-shop in the City-
road, proved that the prisoner, Zellmann, and Smith had
been constantly in the habit of owning to his house during
the last three months. He bad only known the prisoner
during that period, but he never heard whet his name was.
He was always called " Scotch Charley." (A laugh )
A clerk from the telegraph-office was then called noon
to produce the telegram that had been sent by the prisoner
to the witness Smith at Birmingham. He stated that he
had brought it to the court, but his instructions were not
to produce it except under the order of the magistrate.
Sir R. Carden said that this was a proper regulation of
the telegraph company, but it was necessary for the ends
of judos that the dominant should be given in evidence,
and he therefore directed the clerk to produce it.
The clerk accordingly produced the telegrams directing
that the witness Smith should receive 101. from the Na-
tional Provincial Bank at Birmingham. The prisoner, it
appeared, paid in 101. to the telegraph clerk at the time
this telegram was despatched.
Some further evidence of a corroborative character was
then adduced, and this closed the case for the prosecution,
and the prisoner, who, by the advice of his solicitor, re-
served his defence, was fully committed for trial.

A FINIAN INFORMER IN LIVERPOOL.—Corydon,
who earned each unenviable notoriety for the part he
played in connexion with the Fenian movement and sub-
sequent trials of the prisoners, has, despite the threats of
vengeance that have been held out to lam by the brother.
hood, ventured from his retirement in Ireland and paid a
dait to Liverpool, one of the places where his chief ex-
ploits took place. It seems that he left Dublin some time
ago, visited London, and proceeded to Paris end " did "
the Exhibition. in Paris he is said to have made it
his business to see Stephens—no doubt at • safe distance—
and he describes the ex "head centre" as being well.
From Paris he came to Liverpool. One of his first steps
was to crll upon hie old friends the police. He was ac-
companied by Detective-Inspector. Horn and Carlisle, and
shown through the police courts. He was introduced to
the reporters as a distinguished visitor from Dublin, and
one of the gentlemen present, who is a native of '
Ireland, shook hands with the stranger from "the
old country." The gentleman little then thought
that he was fraternising with the ootorious govern-
ment apy ; and some time after Corydon had left
the court those who had been speaking to him
were considerably surprised when they were informed
of the stranger's true character. Corydon did not
seem by any means to avoid publicity. In fact, he rather
regarded himself as a sort of lion, and seemed to consider
the scrutiny to which he was subjected as a matter of
course. After remaining about the police courts for some
time, be suddenly left the town for parts unknown.
Whether his hasty departure is to be attributed to the fact
that the Pentane in the town had become aware of his
presence has not transpired. It soon, however, became
bruited that Corydon had visited Liverpool, and several
persons called at the detective office to satisfy their
curiosity, to see a person who had become so notorious. If
Corydon's statement is to be believed, the Fenianathrough-
out the country are busy at their work again. He is 11
stated to have seen severs' " centres " in London,
and to have learned by some mesas that they were busy.
This, however, is exceedingly doubtful, for, after the part ,
that Corydon played in reference to the late outbreak, it
is not at all likely that be would risk himself in the corn-
piny of men who certainly would not communicate any
to him, and who would in all probability not be slow
to mark their sense of what they consider as treacherous
conduct towards their friends.—Li errpool Mercury. An
application was yesterday made to the Liverpool magis-
trates for a warrant against the above-mentioned person,
who, when in Liverpool on the previous day, had called
upon a shopkeeper named Smith, in Whinichapel, and would
have shot him with a revolver bad not a woman in the shop
interfered. His animosity to Smith arises from the latter
having sent a contribution to the Makatea newspaper re-
flecting upon the Fenian informers generally.
The Poor-law Board having disallowed the re-
freshment expellees incurred la the Camberwell officials
during the recent re-assessment of the parish and passed
by the auditor, the pariah officers of 186a-6—Messrs. Pew,
Crimfurd, and Howard, churchwarden', and Mears.
Walden, Bartlett, and ThornhUl overseers—have been
required to pay the amount (1501. by Wednesday next.
The officers have resolved to to their friends and
the public, and subscriptions n aid of the fund will be
nomad at the vestry-WilL —.South London Chronicle.