The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-07 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

NANIISON-HOIIBIL

The re-examination of Mr. Edmond James Lindsey, mer-
chant, of IS, Cannon-street, City, charged with uttering •
forged acceptance to a bill of exchange for 380/., with in-
tent to defraud the Agra and Maaterman's Bank, was re-
mained before Mr. Alderman Gabriel.
The accused, it will be remembered, endeavoured to get
the bill of exchange discounted at the Agra and Master.
man's Bank. The acceptance to the bill was in the names
d Gilmour, Gramm, and Co., merchants at Glasgow.
The prisoner bad made arrangements with the bank to get
it discounted, but on his presenting it the chief cashier
detected mach a similarity in the signature of the drawer of
the bill, that of the prisoner's firm, with that of the accep-
tors, Gilmour, Graham, and Co., that it at once aroused
his suspicion, and in consequence the transaction was de-
tained, and the r went away, taking the bill with
him. Mr. Mullins, of the Bankers' Protection Society,
afterwards had an interview with the primmer, to get
possession of the bill, when he told him he had de-
stroyed it, and that it was a forgery, and he had him-
self done it. The cam was originally adjourned to ob-
tain the atm dame of Masers. Gilmour, Graham, and
Co., from Glasgow, who denied all knowledge of the
existents of the bill. It was now announced that, although
Mr. Gilmour was in London, he destined to attend to give
evidence. The officer Scott said, on searching the waste
paper basket in the accused's office, he found several scraps
of paper with the signature of Gilmour
the
, Graham, and Co.
written on them, as if some person had been practising
names. lie collected them and pasted them together on •
sheet of paw, which he produced.
Mr. Alderman Gabriel commented on the absence of Mr.
Gilmour, whose evidence was most material, and again
adjourned the case, in order to procure his attendance.
CLERKENWELL

Emma Shadbolt, aged 17, a respectably dressed yeeng
woman, who pve her address, 3, Bden-cottages, Stoke
Newington, was charged with feloniowdy murdering her
infant child William, by throwing it into the New River at

Islington-
The short hots of the ease are these :—The made!

child was illegitimate, and cm the night of the 26th ult.
the prisoner was seen with her child in her arms, dressed,
but not dremsed as if for going out. After that, at ten
o'clock, she was seen without her child. The following
morning, at 5 o'clock, a polies-constable saw something
floating in the New River, and cm getting it outhirg=
it to be theilylcoef child, dead and quite cold. It wee
taken to the ' station, and from what came to the
knowledge the police they
_went to the prisoner's and
asked her where her chid wee. She said that it
It was at Brighton, and afterwards made two or throe other
statements aabboout it. The child when it was taken out
of the water, was covered over the head and faro with a
piece of alpaca. The dead body was afterwards identified
as the body of the prisoner's child.
Dr. William R. Woodman, divisional surgeon of the N
division, of Vittoria-villa, Stoke Ne=b-edroad, said he
was called to the Kingsland police and there saw
the body of the deceased. Externally the y presented
a very emaciated appearance. The lungs were much sew
gest The cause of death was drowning. He shout
think that the child had been in the water for mere&
!spun. He had made a poet marten examinstien of the
head, and found the brain ecmgerted. The heart and the
lame vessel/ were full of dark blood in a fluid stets. The
child had wasted to a degree.
04It :grapd to him that the
child bed not been properly n
Inspector Stacey; N division, said that Dr. Lankester
had bald an inquiry into the cause of death of the aild,
and the jury had returned a verdict of wilful murder
against the prisoner.
The prisoner, who treated the matter with the greatest
indifference, said she should mane her defame, and was
committed for trial