The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-06 00:00:00

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THE POLICE COURTS.

lANESION-HOP I.

Joseph Baßoutine Holloogsworth, a respectable-looking
man, of about 36 years of age, described u aj.ipanned bed-
stead maker, was charged with uttering certain forged bills
with intent to defraud the London and County Bank.
Mr. Mullane, solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for
Protection from Forgery and Frauds, appeared in support of
the prosecution, and said—The prisoner wu charged with
uttering certain forged or felonious bills, with intent to de-
fraud the London end County Bank. Certain bills wen
taken by the prisoner to that establishment with a certain
amount of cash to open an account, and upon making inqui-
ries it was discovered that the aoceptanoes to the whole of the
bills were iletitiou•

Mr. WEwsa, the manager end public ofiloer of the bank,
rid--On the tend inst., the prisoner came to our establish-
ment kr the purpose of opening an account. He said he
wee • japanned bedstead manufacturer, and wished
to open a carnet account and to have some bills dis-
counted. He delivered to me the nine bills of exchange
which I produce, and which he wished to have planed to
his credit at once. I told him they were too late for that day,
as bills for discount must be left before twelve o'clock ; there-
fore they would be passed on the morrow. In answer to my
inquiries, as to the nature of his account, be said he should
require about 3001. • month of bills discounted. The bill.
being of • currency of three or four months, I remarked that
that would be about 1,0001. to 1,3001. in the aggregate. I
made the usual inquiries about the bills, and from the infor-
mation I received, I wrote to the prisoner yesterday, and be
called upon me to-day, when I gave him into custody. I
first asked him who Mr. William Urquhart was, who pur-
rs:Leo be the acceptor of one of the tolls, which was sa-
to 483, Oxford-street, and in which he was
described as an upholsterer. I said there were pieties
of the name of Urquhart, at 483, Oxford-street, who
were upholsterers, but that there was not a Wil-
liam Urquhart. He replied, that William Urqnbert
lived at 481, Oxford-street, and was the father of the
two Urquharts living at 483; that he had supplied goods
to the latter and that the father had accepted for them. I
mired him abcnt Chapman, whose name appeared as the sc-
ulptor of two of the bills. I questioned him as to what the bills
were drawn for, and he replied that they were drawn for
to Chapman, which goods he sent to the
roct supplied
aed him about Bolton's two bills, mad he replied
that they were for goods supplied to Bolton. I asked him
about Paylie's bill, and he said that that was not in the
regular course of hie trade, but knowing Payne be had sup-
plied him with some goods at trade prices. I next asked him
about the two bills on Maywood. He said he was a private
person, and that the goods with which be had supplied him
consisted of furniture. I then told him that we could not
find the names of either Chapman, Bolton, or Payne in the
Directory. He said that that was neatly the me, booms
when he removed from his former plate of business, his same
did not appear in the Directory for some time. I told him
that I had mat to 7, Little Tower-street, and found that
Chapman was not known there, that Bolton and Co. were not
known at 26, St. Helen's-place, and that 82, Old-street-road,
where Payne wee supposed to live, was a closed hours. I
sard him whether he had ever been to Mr. Chapman's oMee
in Tower-street, or to Bolton's, in St. Helen's-11am Ho
said he had not been at Chapman's, but he thought he had
been once at Bolton's; that Payne had just taken the house
in Old-street-road, and he thought he was occupying it at
the time. I told him it looked a serionacase, that he was either
being defrauded by these acceptors, or was attempting to de-
fraud the bank ; sad that I must send for our solicitor. He
said he was quite willing to see him. He was then given
into custody. At the time he gave me the bills be deposited
4301. in cash, and requested that the bills might be discounted
the same afternoon. He only drew one cheque for 301. odd,
but which being irregularly drawn was not paid. He was
introduced by a person who was slightly known to one of our
clerks. If the prisoner be remanded I believe I shall be able
t iiiiotoze that the acceptances to the bills of Chapman, of
and of Payne, ere fictitious.
The prisoner was remanded.
WORSHIP-STREET.
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Mr. Solomon applied for an order under the New Divorce
AM on behalf of • respectable looking and well dressed
young woman. She wee married about seven years ego and
emigrated with her husband to America. She wee then pos-
sessed of considerable property, but in a few months after
their snivel at New York her husband got possession of the
whole of it and absconded. She traced him to Australis,
kilowed him, end for some little time they lived together.
He again abandoned her. but she by keeping a small steels
sawed In two yeas( time to acquire a ooneiderable sum of
wary. With this she came to London about a year ago.
She W reaustly heard that her husband bad got information
of beeeng whereabouts, and was coming over with the intention
el
her
Mr. Hammitt std the alleged desertion had taken
plea, out of this country he was reluctantly compelled to re-
ject the application. _

WESTMINSTER.

JoAn Arbon, a middle-aged of respectable arr.
=or, oxeranger at the War-oSice,was charged with
burglarionaly broken and entered the mansion of the Bari ad
Suffolk, at Charlton park, Wilts, and stealing therefrom
paintings, mans 10,0001.
Inspector Whither, of the detective police, said that on
the 11th October, 18.56, a telegraphic message WY received in
London from the Earl of Suffolk, stating that his mansion
at Charlton-park had been entered on the previona night,
and ten valuable oil paintings stolen from the drawing room.
Witness haMened to Charlton-park, and found that an en-
trance hed been Mooted in the following manner An
iron grating at the back of the house, which
cowed a small area, had been forced up. so that a
window opening into the basement story could be en-
croached, and a square of glass having been taken out, the
lamming of the window was undone. The paintings lied
been taken out of the frames, and the house had been left by
the front door. The result of diligent inquiry in the neigh-
bourhood showed that a man answering the denniptim of the
prisoner bad arrived at Swindon station at nine o'clock on
the night previous to the burglary, and being then eftsen
miles from Charlton Park, hired a guide to show him the
way to Minety. They walked on foot, and arrived ate at
12 at night, when the man dismissed his guide, and went la
the direction of his lordship's mansion, which was five miles
distant. The lame man wee bete at about six on the follow-
big morning on foot, carrying two large parcels
locesly Wail= In brown paper revering from the
direction of C ton-park, and after proceeding some dis-
tance he gave a lad, who was going the same way, sixpaa,
to allow him to pat the bandies ecru= a bone, In which way
he sated at CMtleds, where he went to an Inn, and having
linteldlasted. Wed a gig,to convey him to Swindon, which
he reached In that, for dill quarter to ads o'clock up train,
and oases to London with the penile, where be was lost sight
of. Looking at the draineshasoes under which the burglary
had been cammitled, witness felt mural that it must have
been oomndtted, a sided In, by enne person Intimately se-
painted with the premises but although he turned hie
mance to wants who blYi been la the establishment of
lets years, and applied himself in every way to glean some
intelligrnes which might nerve as • tem to the
Man el the robbery, the we Whir slum=
meld • few dor tee, when Inkrimakm ere re-
ceived which led to lies_ apprehension dthe rimier.
Upon the Cash= of BsL&'s 111011161( to town lea
week, it was deitennimli to advertise the Mks paint-
ings spin, dicker at the same time a large reward
for their recovery, or for any information upon the subject,
and the result was that Mr. lad of Elisabeth-street, Pfne-
lila, communicated that be had the panting by Leaserdo Ina
Vinci of the Virgin and Child, stolen from Cherkonisgl.
stated to be worth 4,0001., and • valuable kidnaps
twee learnt from Mr. Leff, who readily afforded every hal-
Isillet he bed purchased them of the praiser, whose
pea at 40, Bbary-stud, Pialloo. By an sr-
rengarea between Mr. Lod end "lame the prisoner was
sent for by tbs brow, the later keeping watch for him in
Iberrelzeet, escbarber him whin he left his Ilona.
Minim thew irked Ida bow he booms posmeed of the
tlriroc=ares he mid to Mr. Led, when he replied that he
them in Pettleset-lene for 26e. Witness and Ser-
geant Lockyer Ikea seembed the prisoner's house, when Loa-
m danoverei • third pinta( concealed between the roof sad
esillag. Primer them sidled his guilt, Illiprelled his regret,
sad add he wadi indeeetwry reparation in Mspower by die-
closing wham Mie met ef the putting' were. He then told
wittier that if h• ameba • box an • eupbosed at the foot of
the stairs be Ids ben" be would Bud four parnbrokerCdu-
, plicates nl~B peintings, and there were two more of the
pictures et dm -War-oflice, concealed behind a large press,
aid sifting le a string, the end of which he gave him
dliesHens hew to Ind. These, with • pawnbroker's ticket
pleceerl=t, constituted the whole of the stolen
was formerly valet to his lordship, but
Wet 'aryl,. 10 ere ago.
Mr. Arnold ha *aired whet 'course was in to
be ham respecting e aocused erminseion,
bombe inkber said he wished to convey the scatted
et ones Ye Wiltshire, where the witnesses to mime facts

The Fame Irma then taken out of the dock to be =-
mei he thtleematey.

:MOMENT IN HE DOHERTY, OF LIVERPOOL.—
Mr. Comasbalmier Steyeeson, of the Liverpool B
Court, delivered judgroent yesterday in the oase.llnrePtZ
then could be no doubt the bankrupt had committed mei
french upon the Borough Bank end shoo upon lifii&reco,
of Liverpool. He bed, therefore, come to the cm-
elusion that he eras Imperatively called upon to reams • tar-
os:so.An applicittou by Mr. Pemberton, the bankrupt's
solicitor, for protootka tar minty-ow days ist ors of appeal
Ira grouted.
CRYSTAL PALACir•ONE SHILLING
DAY, Pas. 15.—AtkairaleMS ie MENA 612 i ditto k 7 OM'
IPA debt% 276; 1•61, 7111

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