The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-25 00:00:00

THB POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Samuel Watkits, who has been remanded upon the charge
of having maimed in the mane of a deserter from an escort
belonging to the lit Weat Iferbahire Rifles, was again
brought up.
Mr. Foreman conducted the promoution on the part of the
War-office. _ _

furtterevidenoo woo shwa is rapport of the charge, and
the prisoner, who elided hi gat, waa fully committed tor
trial.

011ILDHALL.

A showily-dressed young man, who gave Ida name lSr
derirk Mess timber merchant, was placed at the her, before
Alderman Humphery, charged with stealing • hone
and dog-oart,valus 301., the property of Mr. Gyro, • livery.
stable keeper,
ffl
at Ipswich.
ceiti, a detective oosr, said—From information I re-
ll
proceeded yesterday morning, Whom one and two
o'clock, to the Cross Keys Rossi, in 81. Joh:ea-Orme,
where I found the prisoner. I told him there was a
against him for stealing a horse and deg-cart from I
lie said I was quite mistaken in the perm. I told him
was no use denying it, and he then mid, Well, Ido oink
having hired the holm and dog-oot, end I cams up to London
on the spree." I asked him if beMithed_ to say soyeldnet,aed
he then said that the horse and cart Obliged to Mr. Gym,
of Brook-etreet, war Cambia, Ipswich.
J. W. Markham rid—l Iseatbocame
the Cram Keys Livery
Stables, In St. John'aegnet. to oar
yard co Friday afteraoce, abont doorortosk%alread I saw him
early the neat morning, and be abed me It I was • buyer,
solo bad • bone and dog-earl far ash. I laid I wee, if I
saider it anything near my wary. I asked him what he
to
rsi for the lot, including the beraate, sad he and 161. I
odd that we more than I weld afford; and he then asked
tay deka, ad I named 101. He rid I should have it at
Mei am, sad added he had just come off a journey for
dee dean a/ Davey and MMurdo, of Thames-street. I said
if barmaid wait two hours, while I want into the City, I
would bring him tho money.
The Superintendent of the Ipswich police said—l hare
emu the bone and cart and Identified it as Mr. Gyvet's pro-
perty. The prisoner answers the description of the person
who bind the holm and cart.

I3ornclu7ri (to Oflieer)—Did he give you a right
alimrs?

bee=Hs gave me such a vague address that I hare not
malts say Inquiries.
Alders's llophery (to prisoner)—Where do you live?
Primer-31y home Ls in America, but I have lately
aise to Ipswich. I em a timber merchant and
In Answles.

Aldennaa Humphery—How long have you been in Eng-
lane P

Prisoner—Five weeks, sir, end during that time I have
been living pith my mother.
Alderman Humphery—Rather fast work, Mr. Mena, only
live weeks in England, and charged with stealing a hone and
dog-cart.
The Supeaintendentsaid—From a circumstance the prismer
lose mentioned to me I have now some recollection of him,
and I also find that he went 32 miles at a stretch for the
Best gage, and from the route he took he must have had en
intimate knowledge of the country.
Alderman Humphery—You bad better tete him down to
Ipswich.
The prisoner was them removed.
BOW-STREET.

Ht.ry James David, who refused to state his address, was
brought before Mr. Hall (who heard the case in a private
room) on a warrant grimed by him in February, 1858, under
the I:tradition Act. He wee charged with forging • bill for
1,0001., purporting to be drawn by Henry J. David, of New
York, upon Mean. Brown, Shipley end Co., of Liverpool,
and the prosecutor was Mr. James Styles Keen of Phila-
delphia, U.S., to whom the bill bad been reseal by • person
knows u Abrahams elves Dowd, a uses!
Henry, alias
David."

Mr. Sleigh, who appeared for the prosecution, stated that
the warrant had been in the possession of Inspector Whither,
of the detective force, since February or March of last year,
sines which period David had eluded capture by keeping out of
this country. That morning, however, the prisoner, in order
to attend to some other matter, ventured to show his fate in
London, ad the Wilier, having information of his move-
ments, apprehended him. Though the prisoner went by the
name of David, he (the learned counsel) had reason to believe,
from the instruction of the respectable firm who retained
him, Messrs. Sewell, Fox, and Sewell, that it wee not his
real name. The real Henry James David was a merchant
of considerable subatante In New York. The bill now
produced, and signed " Henry J. David," had been uttered
to the prosecutor, Mr. Keen, on the representation that it
was signed by the Mr. David, of New York, referred to.
Mr. Kra waa not now in England, and it would therefore be
117:1to ark fur a little time to being him from America.
7be unreasonable to suppose that a prosecutor could
morn in this country for molar and years, to await the
emergency of a pertain being apprehended who was known
to be hiding abroad. But, under the 2od section of the sta-
tute by which effect was given to the Treaty of Extradition,
the information sworn before the magistrate at the time the
warrant was grated, or even • copy of that information,
could be =edam evidence. That information was in the pos-
session of the mart, and would be to a considerable extent
borne out by other evidence, from which it would appear
that the signature to the bill, so far from being that of Mr.
David, of New York, was that of the prisoner at the bar. If
that were not deemed sufficient, he would be enabled, after
• delay of forty-eight hours, to prove that no person of the
name of David had any correeponderoe with the house of
Brown, Shipley, and Co., of Liverpool, on whom the bill was
drawn. He felt that he should thee be justified in asking the
court to detain the prisoner till the arrival of Mr. Kean from
America. The act, contemplating the difficulty that might
arise in etch omen had given a power of remand for two
months.

-)1711•11 mid that only applied to the Secretary of State.
Mr. Sleigh woe aware that it was, open to such an interpre-
tation, and as his worship took that view of it, he should
apply fur a remand from eight days to eight days, as in or.
&nary cases.
Mr. Hall said the metes had been nibbling at this cam
ever since February, 1857. From the great similarity
between the English and Awaken law there was not the
same excuse far any defect In the mode of getting up a case
as if the prosecutor had been a Frenchman, the laws of
whose country were so different. Yet he invariably found
that be had much more trouble with American than with
French oasis The papers, in the first notaries, bad bees'
seat over in a very imperfect state, so as to afford no evidence
whatever on which he could act. If the matter had originally
him placed in the hands of the respectable firm who now
held the pipers., sad br. whom Mr. Sleigh was instructed,
the matter would have settled long ago.
The information of Kr. James Stvies Kean, of Philadel-
phia, merchant, wag than read. it stated that the bill of
explainse produord, pirporting to be signed by Mr. Henry
J. David, sad draws en Brown, Shipley, sod Co., of Liver-
pool, at 80 days after eight, wee peened to him by a person
known as Dowd, or Abrahams. or Henry, or David. He
=l,that he was H. J. David, ef New York. Winter
0001. la Amerloses dollars for the note, which was
etterwartis dishonoured, at Liverpool. He then °anginal-
mewl with David, who said he supposed they had not re-
ceived his remittance, but it would be all right by next mall.
Meetly afterwards he absconded.
ILL F. L. Lyn*, solicitor, deposed that the signature
M the bill was In the handwritum the primmer, with
whom he had had dealings.
Cross-umninod—Was not on good term' with the pri-

cans j artnet whams
hihme.halvtioajhet an motel
to hieoooal
certainly, but was not influenced In revidence by that.
Inspector Whicher, detective force, had held the warrant
Shift March, 1858. Had not seen the gafwner since Fe-
tilli that day? when be app him in Stour
Ho said his same wan David, bat refund to give
1 41'
Zrossammined—Knew that primer had had several
aeLions in the court. at Westminster, and had been a wit-
ness In a cam there, but that was before the warrant woe
. _ . .