The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-05 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(TR'S DAY.)

GUILDHALL.
FRArDs ON WARETIOI'SZMEN.

Therm Wil,asii, a youth, residing at 1.04, Barnsbury-
road, Islington, was placed at the bar, before Alderman
Bosley, by detective Sergeant Brett, charged with obrin-
ing large quantities of goods from various City warehouses
by mean.' of false and fraudulent pretences, with intent
to cheat and defraud them of the rme.

Mr. Beard prosecuted, and Mr. Buchanan watched the
evidence ou behalf of the prisoner. In opening the case
for the prosecution, Mr. Beard stated that the risoner had
been engaged as an order boy in the firm of Messrs. Evans
and Co., wholesale warehousemen, of Watling-street, and
in that capacity had to go round to different warehouses in
the City with orders and obtain goads for the
firm. In that capacity he became acquainted with
' many of the wholesale warehouses in the City, and was
known to them as Messrs. Evans' servant. The prisoner
left their employ in February last, and had since had
a situation in another wholesale warehouse, which lie
left about the beginning of July. Since then be bad
commenced the system of fraud which was now the
subject of inquiry. He should be able to show that the
prisoner had been to several warehouses in the City
and in the name of Moore. Evens and Co. obtained quan-
tities of goods, which he had either pawned or otherwise
made away with. On discovering the fraud the matter
was put into the hands of detective Sergeant Brett, who
traced him to Exeter. where he apprehended him, and
found on him some of the goods and several duplicates re-
lating to other portions of them.
Leonard Brook, warehotseman in the firm of Messrs.
Weintraud, Joyce, and Co of Nos. 3 cod 4, Alderman-
bury, said that on the 23rd of July the prisoner came
to bin, with a letter purporting to have come
to Messrs. Evans from one of their country
customers asking for six bags at certain prices,
but leaving it at Meagre. Evans' discretion to select the
sorts. The prisoner aooordingly selected six' which came
to :11. 14s. 6d. ; the next day he came and had six more,
which came to 51. C 4. 9d., and at the saute time stated that
Mews. Evans bad determine! to send six more to the
seine person who had sent the previous order.
William Graham, another warehouseman in the employ
of Messrs. Weintriud and Co., said that on the 2:,th of
July the prisoner came to him and wanted six travelling-
hags for Messrs. Evans and Co.' and he let hint have them.
They came to 41. 13s. On the 26th he had another parcel
of traveling-bag., which came to 41. 10.. 6d.
Robert Bickmore said he was in the employ of Meagre.
Evans and Co., of Watling-street. The prisoner had been
in their service as an order boy in their department, and
left last February. He had no authority to obtain, during

the last month, any goods for the firm of Evans aL,I
They had no orders for travelling hags for any of their
country customers, and never kept them in stock. 'ph
never received any of the goods the prisoner had obtained.
John Rudd, salesman in the mantle department of
Messrs. helve and Spreckley, of 15,Cannon-street, proved
that the prisoner came to him on the sth of July with a
written order for two or three mantles for Mr. Rickwore,
the managing man at Messrs. Evans and Co. He selected
two, the value of W., and let the prisoner have them,
to caMr. Bickmore said the prisoner had no authority to ob.
l these goods, and he had never delivered them to the
firm. Another case was gone into in which the pritooex
had obtained from Mr. Ratcliffe, of 110, Wood•scraaa,
twenty-five rolls of ribbon, valued at 161. lla. 3.1., in the
name of Messrs. Tao& and Co., of 77, Wood-nit-et, his
late employers. Upon this evidence the prisoner was
remanded.

CLERKENWELL.
STONET OUTRAGE/I ON VOLUNTEERS.
Thomas StAme, a leather case maker, of 10, Skinner.
street, Clerkenwell ; Frederick Bruns, 34, Northampton.
road, Clerkenwell, a painter ; William Phipers, 2, North.
ampton-buildings, Clerkenwell, a silversmith ; and
George Cramp, 6, Lock's-ga ens, Northampton-road, a
shoemaker, were charged with disorderly conduct at
Lower Rosonnui-street. Stone and Evans were further
charged with assaulting Sergeant M'Clean, ftis Finsbury
Ritle Volunteers ; Phipers with assaulting Private
lieu Read ; and Cramp with assaulting Police-constable
George Beard, 231 G, in the execution of his duty at the
same time and place.
Private William Read, of 20, Frederick-street, Graf..
inn-road, said shortly after 12 o'clock on Saturday night
he was coiniug up Itosornan.street in uniform, when he
was set on by an organised gang of ruffians, and was
knocked down. He collared the man while he was on the
ground. Before he was knocked down he was 'truck as
the head from behind. Whilst he was holding that man
the prisoner Phipers went up to him and struck him to
the head. He was kicked and knocked about, and now
felt unwell from the effects of the violence he received.
Sergeant M'Clean, :39th Finsbury Rine Volunteers, said
as he was coming out of a public-house, in uniform, he was
hustled about by a gang of about fifty or sixty persons, and
he was assaulted, be suspected, for the purposes of robbery.
The volunteers were frequently assaulted by a mob of low
persons that assembled at the corner of Skinner.street. He
went to the assistance of the previous wittier, but as he say
helping to pick him up Evans jumped on his back, struck
'Win, cut his lip, and, in the struggle he (witneu) wu very
severely kicked and knocked about. He could net my
how many times Evans hit him or kicked him. The
poliee-coustable took Evans off his buck. Stone au in the
crowd ; but ho could not say that be hit him. sues
pushed him, and that violently ; but whether purposely
or not he could not say. He was sure that the hustling
was done for the purpose of robbery, as one of the voles.
terra lost his watch, but presently afterwards picked Um,.
Mr. Leacock, of 9, Coburg-street, Clerkenwell, said that
be had his shako knocked of, and he was knocked does
and kicked. He was kicked several times.
Mr. Leacock, nen., said he was at the spot and was
struck so violently on the face that his eye was blackened.
He was knocked down.

Police-constable Moriarty, 144 G, said he saw Phipsts
strike one of the witnesses in the eoe and then run away ;
when he took the prisoner be wan violent and struck him.
I'olice-constable Beard, 231 G, said he went to the as-
sistance of the other constable, when Cramp kicked him
• :olently nn the leg. He was kicked several times whilst
he was in the crowd, but he could not say by whom.
Police-constable King, 253 G, said he saw Evans strati
the sergeant of the volunteers in a cowardly manner.
Several gentlemen, inhabitants of the neighbourhood,
complained of the nuisance daily occasioned by a gang of
ruffians assembling near the spot in question.
Mr. Cooke remanded all the prisoners, and directed that
the police should inquire into their antecedents.

MARLBOROUG H-STREET.
THE. TAILORS. STRIKE.—ALLEGED ASSAULT OX A UNInXIsT.
John Willa, a journeyman tailor in the employ of
Mr. Poole, tailor, of Saville-row, was charged before*.
Mansfield with assaulting Henry Cannon, another tailor.
The complainant said—Yesterday afternoon I was walk.
ing in Brook-street when the prisoner and some other
came up to me and set to kicking me, awl the prisoner,
beside kicking me, also struck me. I had given them no
provocation.

Mr. Mansfield—Did they say anything to you!
Complainant—Not ► word.
Mr. Mansfield—Do you know anything of them?
Complainant—l never law them before, and gave so
provocation

Prisouer—He is a union man and 'mewled me of work*
for a firm where the men had struck. He nid, '• I know
by your walk you are a dung " (a term applied to these
Who work for a shop where the hands are on strike). He
struck me and cut my lip.
Sergeant Cook, 16 C—About half-past 3 yesterday after-
noon I saw a large crowd of persons collected in Brook-
street, and on going up I saw the complainant lying on tie
pavement. He got up, and the prisoner and two other
made a rush at him, but I prevented them touching hirs,
and took the prisoner into custody, as he was stated by the
complainant to have been the one who tint assaulted him.
The prisoner bad been drinking freely.
By the prisoner—You were bleeding from the month.
I believe there bad been two or three lighting at one time.
Prisoner—l was walking through Brook-street with me
companions when the complainant walked over to me
and said, " I know you are a dung by your walk." lan
working for Mr. Poole, of Saville-row. The complaint
struck me and I defended myself. The complainant called
some butchers and carpenters to attack us. I took no
notice of the complainant, and it is not lay practice to take
notice of persons who are unionists.
Robert Potter, another tailor, was called by the pri-
soner and said—Yesterday afternoon I was with the pri-
soner and another in Brook-street. We were going quietly
along when the complainant said " Here come a lot el
lungs—we shall give it them now !" Complainaet then
came over and singling out the prisoner struck him on the
breast and the prisoner then defended himself. loss•
plainant then called some others to attack us, iDeludieg
two butchers, and if the police had not come up we ,bould
have been killed. I consider it a hard thing a man ems
walk through the streets without being molested.
Mr. Mansfield—Were you struck

Witneas—Yes, by a carpenter of the name of Ilrown. the
complainant telling the persons who came up that we
were "dung.."
Mr. Mansfield said the evidence was very contradictory,
and be could only judge by the probabilities of the
case. The complainant's evidence was to the encell
that, without any provocation, the prisoner walked up
to him and knocked him down. On the other side it wee
stated that he (complainant) insulted the miss:leer and
his companions by calling them things. He (Mr. liar
field) believed the latter version of the matters to be the
truth. The greatest stain on the conduct of the trades'
unions was their infringing on the rights of labour of other
men, and he hoped that any trades' not mist: who acted
ouch n jurt as the complainant had done would be stvaely
punished. The prisoner would be discharged.

THE YELVERSOR CARL —" With pain," Mies
Longworth states in the Times that another seven wad
war will in all probability he the consequence of the lets
decision, the next step assuming the form in Scotland de
"reduction of judgment," that course being advised or
'oaf: rent, from four or five others eempetent under the
secimveunnyisetsna,"dn. "Permit
ringwhic me
h period
to say,"
th;action
tionaddhmas, des
pending against, me, not of my seeking, u really LOA a
trifle in Scotch causes. The ' Dalrymple' ease Ilea
fifteen years, and the great Shedden case h,.. I believe,
lived out over thirty sessions. To my sorrow I illVe
record the fact of being compelled to strive ea, far the
alternative is a Charybdis of equally fearful aqv ct. namely,
remaining the wife of a man in a ring knee oulT,
a wife in Ireland and not in Scotland. The leishsel htr-
ing cleared the h irdles finds himself safe on the other
by the aid of a second marriage and the di-cretion ei a
court who have refuse 1 to discover the spot where be kad
earthed himself. Bly appeal was simply to ha... him l.to•
duced. Would that the e tort, in the wisdout of dire. di'.
ration, hail informed me whether, if I commitkdhi:l
it would free me from my first marriage with BlaivrYe''
verton, and if • second husband, during the lif.-time of the
first, would be considered as • third party, whose ietereste
could protect me from any disagreeable inquiri.s s
Procnrator Fiscal or the like functionary ! It is 3 kind of
dreary comfort to me to be the pivot upon whir!: the
future laws for the good of my fellow-ere:,in, 5h..311
turn. I accept the position which you :t
must not flinch or crumble until my task, ha. d tliet.;ll it
be, is accomplished."
POACHING AFFRAY NEAR MAOCLENrIFLP.—At
half-past 3 o'clock on Saturday morning. aI. ige gut "
poachers was teen by Polioc-coustabl. Tw, ow. of get
Cheshire constabnla, on the high toad in the tomPhill,_
of liirtles, near Maorlestield. He nuandletely obtsineil"
assistance of the keepers and watch. re of 1.4..1 Stank/1i
Mr. Davenport, Mr. Dixon, and Mr. Hibbert• whom pre.
serves lie ir. the neighbourhood of Rinks, and gave 'h
1 ime
to the men, whom they soon tame up with. .el"“l'erl
ensuedreau resolutely
ytrewee them and the leepe refused
to surrender,
ssnv. .een.
strua_ir rhea
side beins seriously injured. tine of the pee •
eJ
Higginbotham. struck the policeman, who th.
the man a heavy blow on the heal with his tnni:l eOO5
inflicting • very severe cut. At knoll the 'seer
their assistants obtained the mastery, and
capturing nine of the poacher.., three or four ot".ers 1.1%
their escape. The prisoners' names are Jane hi-kas
Samuel Johnson. Samuel Hensbaw, John N
Potts, Robert Potts, John Turner, Georg, 'lulu"'
John Higginbotham. They bad bags in th, posse-00a
containing thirty.six rahhite and five hams : s'-.. 141'
each fifty or sixty yards long. All the prison• rs ere
to the police as poachers, three or four of theta kin.; (id
offenders.
FATAL RECILESSNRIOI. —On Saturday aftern°,,
• shocking fatality oocurred at Stoke statue.
oa
North Staffordshire Railway. A young man. named f
Green, employed as a clerk in the locomotive 0.0"4 of the
company, jumped on the footboard of a carriap. in
it.
TM:
and losing Isis hold. fell under the train. oic
quite cut off, the other nearly so, :,mll the hcol toss foe t
fully cut. He was conveyol to the infirmary aloot.hil,_
a mile distant, but death eneurl before he had beve
many minutes. Deceased was the son of a fannfr
Wales.