The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-19 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

Sittings in Banco. —(Earfore the Lora' Chief Bares end
Barons Bramwell and Pigott.)
ILIUNDI.IIB V. MUM

This was an action by the executor of a deceased gee.
tleman to recover WOG, and at the trial before Mr. Maros
Bramwell a verdict passed in favour of the Riaintiff.
Mr. Henry James now moved for a new trial under thine
circumstances. The action was brought on a receipt sigma
by the defendant for 600/. which was found among the
testator's papers, the plaintiff inferring that the moneyhel
been lent to the defendant. When the case came on the
defendant was absent, and a verdict was entered for the
6001. The defendant said hs had been misled by his clerk,
and also by the case being printed in the list as Samders
Mills, instead of " Miles." He further stated that he had a
good defence to the action, and gave this explanation of
his transaction with the testator. Hs purchased fog
1,7501. a business from the testator, which he said would
return 5001. a year, but it actually only yielded 150/., and
four years after the sale he complained to the ter
tator, who happened to call at his shop, of the We
representation, and he promised when he received
some money owing to him, that he would return the de-
fendant 6001. Subsequently the testator gave him that
sum, bat not as a loan, and he wrote the receipt in ques-
tion. It was proved at the trial that the business was
worth the sum paid for it, and the defendant wished to
give contradictory evidence on that point.
The court granted a rule nisi.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
RYNDALE r. RTHDALE AND SMITH.
Dr. Spinks for the petitioner, • journeyman grocer it
Baton. He married the respondent in 18:14, but she after-
wards took to drink and began to neglect her home and
child. Intimately she eloped with Smith, a labourer ia
the neighbourhood, with whom she had since lived a miser-
able life.
Decree nig.

8111TH V. BMITH AND GRIST.
Dr. Spinka, for the petitioner, the purser of a ship. He
married the respondent at Liverpool in 1862, and quitted
her to go with his vessel in the following year, leaving
her, however, with her father. He furnished her money
for her hoard, and afterwards sent for her, but he received
• letter from her father informing him that she had taken
up with Grist, and was living with him.
Decree nisi, with costs.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL.
EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERI BY A CHILD.

Palsy Smit-
h, a little child only seven years old, living
at No. 1, Back-court, Cloth-fair, was brought before tie
R. W. Carden charged with having stolen a canvas tag
containing 251. in gold and silver.
The prosecutor said he did not want to proceed will
the charge, but Sir K. Carden wished to hear the eaters
of it. -
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Charles Weight said he was assistant to a grocer, at 2.5.
King•treet, Cloth•fair. That morning, about 20 minutes
to 8 o'clock the child at the bar came into the shop for a
halfpennyworth of sugar. At that time the bag containing
the money was on the counter. Shortly after he had goas
witness missed it. About 20 minutes afterwards Mrs.
Smith brought it back, but there was 4e. abort.
She afterwards brought 51. more, which she had
found on the floor of her room, and she that
requested him to go over with her and make a fur.
ther search for the rest. They went in company of a
policeman, and found sixpence more.
Sir R. W. Carden said it appeared to him that Waight
was the most to blame for placing a bag with that amount
of money in on a counter within the reach of a child.

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The prosecutor quite concurred in that observation.
Mrs. Smith, a respectable-looking woman, whose care.
worn face showed signs of illness and anxiety, was called
forward to give some account of her child. She said the
prisoner had turned seven years of age and was the eldest
of four. They had always been sent to school until a dust
time ago, when they were all laid up with the meisles,
and since then she had been so bad off that she could not
get them clothes fit to go in.
Sir R. Carden asked if the child by her side was one of
hers, and she said he was. He was four years old. The
child was held up for the alderman to see, and it pre.
treated a picture of cleanliness and neatness which elicited
a murmur of approbation throughout the court, and the
commendations Sir Robert bestowed on her for her e.
rental care were received with satisfaction.
Mrs. Smith continued her narrative. That morning
she sent him for a quarter of a pound of sugar, and when
he cams back he brought her only half that quantity, sad
a halfjenny in change. She was at the time ill in bed.
as she was subject to fine. She told him to go back and get
what she bad told him. He said he had found a dirty bog
in the street. She told him not to mind the bag, but to
go and get the sugar. The other boar said there was money
in it, for he heard it jingle. She stud, " Never wind the
money, go back and change the sugar ;" but he said be
did not like on account of the man in the shop. Then her
suspicions were aroused, and ill as she was she got up,
dressed herself, and took the boy and hag back to the shop.
Her boy ran away when he saw the young man, but he
was caught and brought back, and she took the money into
the shop and gave it up.
In reply to Sir Robert Carden, Mrs. Smith said her hos•
band was a metal refiner, but, through the slackness of
trade, he bad not had regular work for two years, but had
been jobbing about at anything. They were consequently
in great distress ; but she had always struggled to keep bet
children and bring them up honaffly.
Sir Robert W. Carden said her children showed that she
did her duty to them, and her own conduct proved hoe
strung her principles of honesty were under the temptations
of poverty and illness. Of all the acts of honesty he era
heard of that was one that deserved to be rewarded, and
he hoped the prosecutor would give her a sovereign as I
reward for her conduct.
The prosecutor at first demurred, but
Sir R. W. Carden said, " Well, if you will give her s
sovereign I will give her another," upon which the ro-
secutor said, " I will give it, air," and a gentleman in eesl
said, "And I will give her lie., for I think ahe desertet.t.
The poor woman was very thankful for the kind fo'Sse
which had been shown her, and, having thanked
worthy alderman and the gentleman for their benevoletes,
retired with her two boys, the charge not having bee
proceeded with.

BOW-STREET.
AN Exerrrattn RIDE.—PAWNING camirs's RAlafs.
Ellen Walsh, a prostitute, was charged with stealing*
gold watch and chain, • silk umbrella, and a ',enema'
taining tit. in gold, from Mr. Edward Jones, a gentlenua
residing at Taunton, in Somersetshire, and 'itept. (WM.
• cab-driver, was charged with being concerned with her
in the robbery.
Police-constable Evenden, 174 E, stated that on Friday
night at half-past 9 o'clock, when on duty in pnt-atc
clothes, he saw the prisoner Walsh with a gentleman (do
prosecutor) in Southampton-row. Ahout half an bee
later, he saw them in the prisoner's cab, in Great Russell.
street. Suspecting the cabman and the woman, he fol-
lowed the cab. The prisoner drove about for vane
time, in no settled direction, but turning sometimes
one way and sometimes another—in fact 1.114,
is familiarly termed " Going round the houses.
Puttingp up at intervals at various taverna, white they hid
something to dunk," the gentlemen always, au
the female prisoner generally, remaining in the cab.
while the driver fetched the liquor out from the
public-house. This went on for sonic time, one d
the excursions extending as far its Castle-streets
Oxford-market, end the others fur shorter dh.tamvt,
but all couceutring at the corner of Osfordetreet and
Tottenham-court-road. In the course of these pet:oldish-
Roue witness fell in with • brother constable,
E, also on duty in private clothes, to whom he now
municated his suspicions, and said, " There will be a jot
here, she means to rob him," and who joiDe4
him in watching the cab. Presently, at tie
corner of Museum-street, Owens pulled up i 2
front of a public-house. Walsh shoved the man out d
the cab, and the cabman drove otf at a rapid rate. Nicholls
stopped to pick up the gentleman, who was prostate
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the pavement; and witness; ran after the cab. 'nal!
overtook near Arthur-street. He found the prisoner
Walsh in the cab with the watch and chain in sal
band and • sovereign in the other. He took the anvervilla
from her, but she threw the watch and chain into the