The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-03 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

J. Corderoy, a Ml= attired man, was
charged with being drunk and ly, and usimiting •
polio, ccastabls while in the diacharp of Mt duty.
It appeared that on Saturday evening the Owner was
found in the street in a state of into:donne, and creating •
disturbance which made It nsaissary to remove him ; but
upon an officer approaching him for that purpose he became
violent, so u to make it ascasaary to sews additional
ewiatasa. Even then be suommiled la bddag the first
calor hi • dangerous place, and threw another ofar to the
11:d7no fewer than four thus Ware they succeeded in
liint
,g him at the nation.
The prisoner said be was drunk at the then and that was
ail he recollected. lie renuabseed reeking Mont the assault,
and wu very sorry he had no onedetiod
The Lord Mayor said ha was very sorry too, but the
offence was of too Berton, a salon to be lightly pseud over.
lie wu determined to do his utmost to protect the police in
the discharge of their duty and In all our where an assault
apes, the police wu proved before him he should deal severely
with the offender, whether he was hole or mar at the time.
His lordship then sentenced the pisiner, who seemed rather
astounded at euoh a result, to 21 days' Imprisonment, with
hard labour,

fasurAilan sad John Murray were charged with having
been cononned with another man, not in custody, in stealing
a watch and chain value 71., from the person of Thomas
_ _

—illaproud tor said—On Saturday afternoon I was going
through Tower-street with a hiand, when our attention was
attracted to an Italian, who wu sabibithig a monkey there.
At the same time, standing close by, were three men, of
whom the prisoners ww• two, and Murray, who wes does
to me, dropped some halipenee on the monad, which he
stooped to pick up, and after giving some to the Italian
he went away with his two corepadons. Shortly after-
wards I dined my watched chain, and upon mentioning my
lose and my suspicion that the prisoners had robbed me, a
gentleman who was there maid they had gone towards
Tower-hill, sad upon proceeding in that direction wo came
up with the primers on Tower-hill, the other man having
got away. The watch has not been found, and lam told
that before we caught them they bad offered it for sale on
Tower-bilL

The 17;17onets denied all knowledge of the ro►bery, and
asserted that they were honest costernmagers, who had never
been in trouble before ; bat unfortunately for their veracity
an officer in court identified Murray as having been to his
own knowledge summarily convicted three times, and Allen
twice, while Allen wee also Identified u having been already
convicted at that court. . .

Thal were thenr7nantiod to giro time for an attempt to
Irene e watch.

GUILDHALL.

S. Stitsboory, the solathe late Msjor-Genersl Sun-
bury woe placed at the bet betas Alderman Cubttt,
and uttering three bills of exchange follrLsd,
801., and 401., with intent to defraud Mr. Hobson, • tailor, of
4, Finsbury-place South.
Mr. Armstrong appeued for the prosecution.
Mr. Henry Hobson said—l bare known the primmer
about three years. I Sri 'one baker transactions with
the prisoner and several ether parties, kr whom Mr. Parkin,
• solicitor, was concerned; hat theytereasated is 11158. On
the let of June last be 'anal item me at mypiate ed
and mid that awe he bed men me his Mbar,
Banbury,'had died. sad that his aidereir ties Y Umbrae
of Mr. Patina. He asked re Is wirer Mr err memay,
andllet him base 101" the smottat he risked der. He kid
goods of ass oho at the ears time. He hronght • letter
purporting to are frau Mr. Peak* and addressed to the
prisoner. Oa the sth of Are be brought another letter,
which he showed me, red be repreemated he received it from
Mr. Parkin. He erred di, whir I loot him. On the Bth
of June he cams eget'. When be nate he usually brought
haws perportiug to tame bee" Mr. Parkin. Oa the 28th of
June be brought • bill of mirage kr 401., dated June 19,
1858, drew' end endorsed by prisoner, and apparently
accepted by Mr. Parkin. I temwerksill that tt was rather sin-
gular that a solicitor should the by erestemee, and he re-
plied, 'Net at all, as solicits,' woe me admen until
they had the needful in bend.' Be amoeba for an ad-
vance of 101. upon the bill peedetell 4111., mod upon the
faith of the senuinenees of that bin I ha Ye bar 101 Oa
the Bth of July he celled stela with eitelbtr Mew. Ferret-
lug to be written by Mr. Parkin, sod et his mere
I advanced him 71. I knew be was eating" in a begs pm-
petty, being of a very hie* funny, sad Kr his
amounted to about 14,000 L Oa the 17th of July ha
another letter, white be red to nee, Is eddeb the
represented that the priemee's sake were ell been.* le a
terrainetios, red speared gledaneolog Kumlejsrlisie set-
tlement. 1 than Ist Km bee 131., end he sere
goods, which woe rade up bat net dmibural. she
wanted • bat, sad I we hie en eider ern my hearse is
one. On the following Kerb* I eseiVel a note from MEN
dated lalewortb, 'porno/10kt ese leihneleg Wybee&rg
call upon me, and on that day I reeved metre letter berm ,
him from Portsmouth, but in the rem tlem I celled oa Kr.
Parkin. I did not POs the pricer opts until Saturday
lade, when ho came end WOW II the Wage he had
ordered a fortnight privions 1114110 wady. I said they were,
and invited him him into the thew-rocs, sad while be
was trying on the (Map be Indoor two bilk ef
encluep for 1001. and 6014 *Mb be gave to and rid
be wee going to Cbeelourilaa4 should war 601.t0e
wan drawn and endrerd the pr brew, sea perpertel to
be the spice of Mt. aria. They were WO alpid
July 80.1538. I thee said be must have bees ewer Oa
thebM of exchange for 401., bearing Mr. Parkin's wee me
the acceptor, wee a forgery; rd he said It WM I then
asked him V the other two bile wen also bigertee, and
herid they were. I the' celled up my laramon, and is
presser Interregated the Omer gar. when he re-
peated that the bills were begrime. I a
(idled in a police-
man, and gave him into custody.
Mr. Wm. Parkin said—l are a solicitor, and live at 29,
Argyll-street. The emphases to the Mlle produced are
not in my handwriting, neither have they been written with
my authority. The sheerer* is sot very like mine. I know
the prisoner s haedwriting. The bodies of the bills r wan
VI the forms of the acceptances appear to have been waren
by him, but the signature is fa a diageleid hand. I her
written to the prisoner several times, but not about Kr.
Bober. IWY concerned two yeses ago to northeast a/
Mr. Hobson • mortgage which he had upon the prisoner's
ternionery property.
Croevermined—l em the attorney to Major Adair and
others holding the Wale in your basielL
Alderman Cul.", titer wadies the moral mina=
teethed by law in such ono, asked the prisoner if he
Ito soy anything in answer to the charge/
The $ eeeee said—l wish to state relative to Mr. Parkin
. and Mr. Hobson, that I have • claim upon this propety,
end that I bold Mr. Perkins' meknowlelgment, in hie own