The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-01 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

Emboss MitAsti surrendered to take his trial npon a charge
of wilful and corrupt perjury.
Mr. °fridge promouted, and Mr. Robinson and Mr. Cole
were counsel for the defendant.
This indictment, it spurred was preferred by the direction
of Mr. Justice Willem, the defendant having been examined
as a witness in an interpleader action tried before that learned
judge, in which the question we whether a sum of 1811. had
been advanced by the defendant upon a bill of sale executed
by a person named White, and he woe examined to prove this
fact. The jury, however, It appeared did not give credit to
his testimuy, and Mr. onic° Willie, at the conclusion of
the trial, ordered the dedandant to be taken into custody on •
chard* of POW/.
The Recorder, after the learned counsel for the prosecu-
tion had made • brief statement of the facts to the jury, maid
It appeared to him that there was not sufficient legal proof to
support • charge of wilful perjury, sad the jury, cons.-
lyYn«a, =dr his lordship's dilution, returned a verdict of
17, • good-looking little girl, p!eaded
gut; Ihs ebarge od akwfully concealing the dead body
of hot auk Meghlmok &ad.
Me. Melgh, who oggsemill for the prisoner, through the
kind Intervintlen of the alwIM, said that it was a very new
Imlay awn. The primer was in @aria, and ehe bad
ben atied and deserted. Hs add there woe no doubt that
the MIMI was dead when it aurae into the world, and the
Flame beil a•ndewrourod to cowed her shame by putting
" aniseed the FISCSIN to be oonlined in New-
pie kr ewe remilt.
Awe Mnioste. 211, *sled guilty to two indictments,
ciarghug his whit ombemlig arms, the property of the
reagwrramoseaky, oa mod the Ay of London.
Mr. IWO. who ll=prinsants on behalf of
theeirperatio• of the sky el lowdria, skied that the prisoner
WI bon enipged in • alert dot Webs years in the City
Omsk On" mid I. bah kin advantage of his position to
• eunaliwethe sum ef money. The corpora.
:11:= Mt It le be tusk duty to institute the present
Cbat be wee at the ems tiew:inatructed to state
lite usilens mesa to bikes that the prisoner had not
ed the w far Me own purposes, but had applied it to
rases hb pally ken • pukka of distress and difficulty in
Mike Hwy as doubt wore pined at the time of the maw
sedan, _

Mr. ReWawa. who append for the prisoner, said that
the Wham apposed to ham beta committed ander very pia-
ful ctrommetsmoss, and them wee not the least doubt that sot
a single farther of the =mg that we talon by the pri-
soner was applied to his own vas or for say purpose of extra-
vagance, but was employed to come liabilities whit* had beta
Mooned by his father, and to relieve him from a very danger-
ous position. Under thiss Mresinstaaose he saki ha trusted
that the court would feel that it yes a are in which the
prisoner might be dealt with is a reatital moue.
• number of highly respectable witnesses were celled, who I
gave the primers a meet emellent obaeocter. It also ap-
peared that the prisoner'a father had has. a collector of
nested isms la the City, sad that he was a defaulter in his
somas* sod thensoasy abided by the pasear appeared
to ham Mem employed to protect hit fear the oocrequencee.
Thellasordsr,lapsmingeratenea,otesrved that ths prisoner
had so desk beta eared to se peat ea amount of tempta-
tion se any prom sad honesty posithly
could be, sad it woe poW toillsaseVat he had been unable
to resist it. It mewed that he had taken the money to
save his tither from the cemsgasates of being a defaulter in
his acomara, bat the protecting was a very dangerous as,
and had pistol him ti his pee sat position. The court,
under catiatrf otrommeeaces, always felt It to be its duty to
=severe matron in eery cam where a servant em-
the Fief his employer, bat taldng into consi-
deration the fleas of Wm case, a very different sen-
Naos would pastel to that which was umally indicted in
*Mier eases. He the ordered the prtroner to be kept to
hard labour for for months.

Job,, Hart, l7l;ded guilty to a charge of embez-
zling different awns of !now battening to his employee,
the Surrey Cowmen Ns Company.
Mr. Robinson appeared foe the prosecution.
The prinoner was essemosd to 18 months' hard labour.
NEW COURT.
(Before the Common &dant.)

. ,
?kV CorArd, 61, sawyer, was indicted for unlawfully
sbnelagEmma Jens Billwinkle, she being above 10 and under
12 yams of age, and also attempting to commit the same
Once on Rom Balwinkle.

Mr. fireigla prZechied upon the behalf of the Society for
the Protection of Young Frahm Mr. Ribton defended.
It appeared that the primmer has for above 17 years been in
business as a lath nadir at Kingeland, and within • short
&team of the children's parents, who keep • newsreaders'
shop at which the prisoner used to deal. Is the early pert
of Met yew the girt Emma wee sent into the service of a
lady, near to bar mother, end after she had been there
about ix web ohs stayed oat all night. The
aeoptlak she gave of haw dames ma that she had met a
neighbour who took her to the theatre, end that when she
got home Me found her mistress's house shut, and walked
about the street all night. This neighbour she afterwards
stated was the prisoner, and that he met her seversl times
during her stay in that lady • service. After quitting she
went back to live with her mother sad stepfather, and se-
ethed them in the burns, but having bed some words with
her stepfather she left hie hems. About • week attar that, she
being upon London-bridge, in company with • girl named
Cunaiu ghsoi, they were met by the prisoner, who asked
Can:heehaw, whom heanaered to know, to allow the prose.
' cam: Emma Buiwinkle top with him to a house of ill-fame
and offered to prowcuteix Is and to Cunningham 9d.
Cunningham refused to allow trix to go with him. but
at his solicitation went aaeelr, sad prosecutrix accompanied
them to a house and Indeed until they came out. A few
days after that proesentrls nest the prisoner agate,
who persuaded her to allow him to take her home, to which
she agreed. Upon their way home he induced her to accom-
pany him to a hones of 11l has la Whitechaph, where he
seduced her, and afterwards took her home to herparents'
shop, and she stayed with them a short time, and used to help
in the business. Whilst so doing the prisoner used to meet
her, end get her to rob bee parents and give him the money.
He also mid be would take her to live with him and allow
her a guinea • week, and that hie was to go out at nights
and meet gentlemen sad give him what she received from
them. After shying at boats • short time she
again ran away, and went to live with Cunningham, and
during that Memos the primer used to meet her and be
upon the closest terms of intimacy. Finally, her mother
east her near the Vacherie Theatre, in esenpany with Cult.
ningham, sad leek her home. The giti Cunningham also
west with then, and at her mother's shop she saw the pri•
sore before whom she told the mother how he
bad acted. Prisoner said it was all the girl's fault, and
'upon the mother of prosecutrlx threatening to call the police
the prisoner ran out of the shop, and she did not me him
agaM until he wee in custody ; that wee, upon the 21st of last
July. The girl Cunningham had since then been got into •
mkrostory institute.
Ia croes-examination the proescutrix gave the following
account of her acquaintance with the girl Cunningham. She
had, she said, • few words with her father-in-law. She
went down the Kinghood-road, as far as Bhoreditcb, when
the girl Cunningham came up to her, and asked her to take •
we'k with her. Cunningham was about her own age, thir-
teen. Prosecutrix mid she wanted to go home, hut had
been quarrelling with her mother' and did not Ike to do so.
Cunningham then pomaded hair to go home and bee with
her, which she did. They went to • hoe.* in Kent-
street, which was kept by • woman who had two daughters
Were. Other girl. lived in the house with them, and
mon used to oonm and re them. Pro/matrix used to go out
at night with Cunningham, who used to inset man, and take
them to brothels, and proascutrix waited for bar until she
came out. She, Cunningham, took men sometimes intolCent-
street, and sometimes into Smithfield. Illas did not have her
meals at the house in Kea bat shoat at coffee-
house. The prisoner used to ma her after she left home
the wood time. She was away than about nine days.
The remaining evident.; which is unfit for de.a,
proved that whilst the prisoner knew where the girl
might be found, he visited the mother, and to
her expressed his sympathy, end at that time, during
the shame of the mother hem the shop, criminally so/suited
the younger sister, a child about ten years of age. As mon
as the prisoner found the pollee were after him he absconded,
sad was not taken into custody until December, when in.
formation wee given of him to Inspector Langdon.
Mr. Ribton, for the defines, 'Toed most ably ur in the
absence of proof to corroborate the extraordinary tat chive of
thalfpfrol. the Indictment charging the assault upon the
younger child the prisoner waa elequittrd, but found Guilty
spin the Oaf.
The Comma Seelimat said the offence of the primmer was
the most infamous he had ever heard, and but for the pri-
soner'. age ha should peat upon him the extreme sentence. '
He was then sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment
shd hard tabour.
The owe lasted tintil • late hour in the evening.