The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-31 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANfION•HOIIBH

A respectably dreamed young man, who pre the name of
William Wells, was brought before Sir R. W. Carden,
who sat fur the Lord Mayor, in the custody of George
Russell, a servant of the City detective police, charged
with being in the prisseiodon of a bof. stolen Bank of
England note.
The officer stated that yesterday afternoon about half-past
twelve o'clock,in coesequenoe of information he reoei=7.
went to the shop of Mr. Vesper, jeweller and wate
in Cheapside, and found the prisoner there, and told him
that a 50/. note which he had tendered in payment
for a watch was a stolen note, and asked him his name and
bow Le became possessed of it. He said that
his name was William Wells, and that he lived at No.
22, Sloane-street, and that be had received the note in pay-
ment of a bet he had won apes the last Derby. He put
some further questions to him, in answer to which be said
that he did not know the party from whom he received it,
nor the place where he gave it to him, but he told him
he believed that he lived iu the Strand. He told him his
statement was unsatisfactory, and he must take him into
custody, and upon going with him to the station he made
the same statement, but was unable to give the name of his
laodlord. The note had been stolen from a gentleman
named Gordon, a member of the Oriental Club, Hanover-
square.
Sir R. Carlisle asked the prisoner whether he wished to
my anything in answer to the statement of the officer.
He replied that be had no more to my than he did
before, that he had received the note in payment of a bet..
He was remanded in order to afford time for further in-
quiries to be made into the matter.
Tremolos Morpen, an elderly man, was brought up on
remand upon a charge of having committed a very violent
assault upon his wife, Mary Anne Morgan, with an iron
bolt.

It will be remembered that upon the former hearing it
was proved that the prisoner was a drunken, worthless fel-
low, and that he was in the habit of ill-using his wife, and
threatening her. Upon the oomoon in question it seemed
that he had struck her on the lack of the neck, without
any provocation, and injured her so severely that she was
unable to attend and give her evidence.
The wife, a very decent, respectable-looking woman, was
now present, and, as generally happens in these cases, she
appeared to be most unwilling to give evidence maim* her
worthless partner. She did not wish, she said, to give any
evidence in reference to the charge of assault, and all she
wanted was to he protected from any further violence at his
hands.

air R. Carden told her that unless she gave some evidence
upon which he could act, it warn not in his power to afford
her the protection she required, and be then told her to
speak the truth as to what occurred on the night the assault
was committed.

The wife said she really did not know bow she received
the isjary. All she was aware of was that she and the
prisoner were in the room together, and she felt herself
wounded.

Sir R. Carden inquired if any one else but her husband
and herself ware present at the time.
The wife said there was not.

Sir Robert Raked her if she wounded herself
The wife said, certainly not.
Sir Robert then asked her who else but the prisoner could
have done it!

She made no reply.
Sir Robert said it was quite clear how the matter stood.
She was evidently afraid to speak the truth, but if she
would not give the necessary evidence be could not in-
terfere, and the only course open for him was to discharge
the prioaner.
The police constable who took the prisoner into custody
said that when he went to the house the wife told kin that
her hustsind had wounded her with a bolt, and at the
same time said that he was upstairs, but she advised kha
not to go up to him without a light on account of his
violence.

Thedaughter of the soner, a very respectable looking
young woman, said shepri was very sorry to speak ind. her
own father, but she was obliged to state that, although her
mother had Wen married to him twenty-nine years, his con-
duct had for a long time been most brutal to hm. Ile oon-
trihutoxi nothing whatever to the support of the family, in.
drill her mother, who worked very hard as a laundress,
could do much better without him. If he got a few shillings
he ass never sober until all the mosey was gone and he
then not only ill-treated but theaatwed her in the most
fearful manner. She added that she bad repeatedly re.
cently heard him say that he would do for her.
A female ocighbour gave evidence to the same effect.
Sir Robert Carden told the prosecutria that she was doing
wrong in not proceeding with the charge of sa.o.iult, for rt
appeatrol to bus that if the priaoner was not checked it was
not at all improbable that in one of his violent drunken
fits he would commit murder.

The prisoner, whoa calltd upon to answer the charge,
merely went into a general denial of the statements made
by the witness.
Sir Robert said that there could be no doubt that the
complainant wee in such entrain* terror of the prisoner that
she was almost willing to suffer her own life to be semi-
, iced rather than give evidence against him. Evough, how-
ever, had been proved to justify him in ordering the pri
soner to enter into his own rocognissace in 40f., and to Led
twn sureties in 21:1f. each, to keep the peace for six months'
and if he did not find the required sureties he would remain
in prime for that period.
Mr. Morgan, of the drm of Humphreys, Son, and Mor-
gan, solicitors for the Sea Protection Society, appeared to
support several summonses that bad been issued against
igs
to for unlawfully having sacks in their possession ba-
ng Messrs. kingsford, Shepperd, and other millers
a corn merchants.
Hudeon, an officer employed by the society, proved that
he found the seeks in the possession of the parties sum-
moned, and that the were branded both inside and out
with the names and at of the miners. It was stated
that one of the firms to whom the sacks belonged lost from
three to four hundred racks every year.
Most of the defendants told the same tale, that they sup-
posed the sacks had been left with thesn by pieties who Lad
supplied them with corn, and they all disclaimed any
in-
tsutioo of viulatiag the law wilfully.
Mr Robert Carden inflicted fines of fie. and costs in wee-
vil of the cases, and Mr. iiimdman, the chief clerk, said it
leases well it .bould be known by the public thatany person
in possession ..f sacks, who was nut able to give a satisfactory
account of that pusseesion, was liable to be sent to prison for
two months.

The defendants paid the fines, and expresesd their inten-
tion to be more careful in future.
KARLBONOUGH-STREET.
Ande hue Bertron, 17, Johnatroet, Edgware-road=
3,342, was charged before Yr. 13011110111 with being
and furiously driving a bores and cab, 10,267, in New Bond-
street.

Jolts Lewis, 9, Little Grosvenor-street, a private watch-
men, said that between one and two that morning he
saw the defendant in Bondatrest, furiously driving. He
iau on the p.oemeoL, .4.11,4 • post, .end kumkedliiin
down, hurting his leg very much, but was prevented from
doing further mischief by coming in contact with tLe post.
The defendant was aety drunk at the time.
The defendant said he had been to Cromorne.gardena,
and that he was sorry for
Mr. Beadon said it was onl a short time ago that he cam.'
milted a cabman foe seri y injuring a lady and.gentle-
man by his furious driving. fie should endeavour to stop
it, sod should commit the defendant for • mouth with hard
labour.

The complaisant asked whether he could not have some
compensation fur the injury he had sustained, and Mr.
Beii&il very kindly ordered him a few shillings from the
funds of the court.

Ow Tuesday Mr. Inspector Thornton, accompanied by
Frederick Williamson, • sergeant of detectives, applied to
the magistrate under the following circumstances :
They stated that they had been directed by Sir Richard
Mayne to ask for • warrant to apprehend a person who had
for • length of time past been annoying the Priumes Mary
and other mem►ers of the royal family, believing himself to
be "the Lord Jesus Christ" and "God Almighty," and
signing himself as such. Of comes he was mad, and had
been warned several time, but did not cease to annoy the
Princess Mary sad others, and they did not consider it safe
for him to be at large. Mr. Layman, upon Werra this,
thought uo warrant neeserry.
Yesterday the person indicated was brought up, sad ►is
sensed plead on the sheet r George Maunder Nidolla,
at 47, liatheriand-street, Warwick-square. Re is an Intel.
Ilpial-lookiag man, nearly siz feet in height, and was ac-
companied by his brother.
From the evidence given, it appeared that the unfortu-
nate tuna, who is well educated, was at fleet • clerk, end them
turned shipowner, but that misfortunes attended bins which
had reduced him to a state of poverty, and bad shigkrod
his intellect—one of his delusions being that his ships and
property had been illegally detained by some cue. About
two years since be bad begun writing letters to her Majesty,
Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Duke of Cambridge,
sad other members of the Royal family, to the
Admiralty, the Bishop of London, and others, all
'el which wen in • mast incoherent style, the