The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-19 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION:HOUSE.

A middle aged man named Henry Bridg email, residing
at No. 3, Angel-alley, Whitechapel, was brought up on
remand on the charge of eocumiring with other persons not
in custody to defraud Blew& Matheson and. Co.,
merchants, Lombard-street, of a considerable sum of money
I.y false and fraudulent pretences.
Mr. t:eorge Lewis prosecuted ; the prisoner was un-
defended.

The prosecutors were agents for a steam vessel called the
Glengyle, which sailed from Glasgow on a voyage to Hong
Kong in the summer of 1861. On arriving at Hong Kong
the captain, in consequence of some dispute, discharged
the whole of the crew, about 40 in number, including the
prisoner, who acted as one of the firemen. On returning
to this country the prisoner made application for compen-
sation for alleged wrongful dismissal, and for his homeward
passage. Messrs. Matheson and Co., after communicating
with the Boanl of Trude, admitted the claim,
and paid the prisoner M. on his making
a declaration that he was the person who had sailed iu
the talengyle under the name of Bridgeman. Having
thus far Leen successful he induced several other persons
to come forward and make false declarations, and that they
were tremeu and stokers who had sailed in the Glengyle,
and pri.oner hin.self identified them as having been hie
shipii.ates. Among those so personated WAS one Pierce
or Perry Murphy, who returned to England about five
weeks ago, and who meeting prisoner accidentally in the
Mile.cwl•road tell him there was some money coming to
bin., and :Octal him how be could get it. The prisoner
directed hint to Mr. Maddock, an attorney in Sergeants'
Inn. Murphy subsequently called at Messrs. Matheson's,
but ws. told that Perry Murphy bad been paid, and after-
ward, the prisoner was taken into custod Six or seven
persons bad made false declarations, and obtained sums of
M. each.

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A young man named Moody, clerk to Mr. Maddock, said
be knew the prisoner. He applied at Mr. Maddock's, and
gave witness imitructions to apply to Messrs. Matheson
for compensation for wrongful dismissal from the Glen-
gyle. It-lbws' received for him the sum of 201., and ac-
cording to previous arrangement paid 10/. to the prisoner
and 10/. to Mr. Maddock. Mr. Maddock had gone to the
country. He bad not been sub/K.-need here. Witness
made the arrangements himself as Mr. Maddock's clerk.
The prisme.r afterwards brought a person who represented
hinualf to be Robert Ball, and who made a declaration
that he was one of the men dismissed from the Glenn le,
at Hoeg Kong. Prisoner also made a declaration identify.
ing him as the Robert Ball who shipped on board the Glen-
gyle. Witnrs likewise received 20/. on that occasion, and
gave 10/. to the man calling himself Robert Ball. Each of
them gave some excuse for not producing their certificates
of discharge, alleging that there was some informality
about them. On subsequent occasions witness obtained
sums of 20/. in respect of persons calling them-
selves John Osborne and Perry Murphy. Thu prisoner
made a certificate identifying the latter at witness's pn-
rate lodgings in the east end of London. Prisoner and
Perry Murphy were present. Perry Murphy was not the
same person as the witness Pierce, Murphy, who had ac-
tually been on board the I depute. The witness then de-
posed to subsequent applications for sums of 201. by per-
s..es calling themselves Michael APGuiness, Lewis Kiss,
H•mry Ilankin, Geore Gogg, Smith, and Resuiel. Rankin,
Smith, and lleadel did not obtain any money, but the others

Mrs. 144Guiness and Mrs. Osborne deposed that they
hail sons who sailed with the Glengyle from Glasgow in
15.4. They had not since returned to England. but had
written home. Neither of them had received any sum of
money for wrongful dismissal from their ship.
Some other evidence having been given in proof of the
false representation. made by the prisoner and his accom-
plices.
Sir IL Carden committed him to Newgate for trial.
GUILDHALL.

J. l u 117...m' 19, who described himself as a leather
cutter, living at 114, Lillington-street, Find ico, and Joao s
Satita, 17, a shoemaker, living at 7, Pye-street,
winder, were charged before Alderman Salomon', ILl'.,
with assaulting a little girl named Mary Ann Davies.
The complainant, a mild-looking, but intelligent child,
sahl she lived with her father, who kept a dairy at No. 3,
Turnagain-lane. On the previous evening, about nine
o'clock, she was returning home after putting some money
in the savings bank, and when she turned out of Stone-
cutter-street into Farringdon-street, Wilson smacked her
Lee. She told him that if he did not let her alone sho
would get somebody who would make him, and upon that
Smith smacked her face. A policeman came up, and she
gas' a them into custody.
Francis Russell, 4•M. said Miss Davies complained to
him of having had bee face smacked by the prisoners. lie
sAted them what they did it for, and Wilson said because
she was cheeky, but be several times afterwards paid he
was sorry fur it. Smith said he did it because she
threatened to get somebody to pull his nose. The com-
plainant denied this. Wilson said he would give her com-
pensation if her father would allow her to take it.
The prisoners. who had no excuse to offer for their con-
duct, were fined:,', each, or seven days.

11 A/iesv , a respeOtable-looki4 young man, who
was described as an engineer's danghtaman, living at Z 3,
Sheri:aurae-street, Islington, was placed at the bar, before
Alderman Salemons, M.P., charged with stealing two boles
of planning scales from the office of Mr. Kennedy, of No.
43 Finsbnry-square, civil engineer.
It appeared that in 1S& the prisoner had been employed
in making plans for a rvilway company, and while so
engaged in Mr. Kennedy's office he took away the two
boxes of scales and pledged them. They had not been
missed until lately. When Potts, 35, took him into
custody, and told him the charge, he said it was a bad job.
The scales were produced by a pawnbroker's assistant, and
identified by Mr. John Pitt Kennedy as the property of
his uncle. _ _ _

At the request of Potts the prisoner was remanded.
BOIV-STREET.

Two boys, named William Pipe and Emile Duharry, in
the employment of Mr. Rascol, printer and publisher, 4,
Brydgesatreet, Strand, were brought up on remand,
charged with stealing 141. worth of copies of the C.urricr
de rEurve newspaper, published by their toaster.
Mr. Abrams appeared for Pipe.
It appears that l'ipe who is about fourteen years of age,
is an ar.prentice, and Dubarry, who is about sixteen, is the
son of one of the French compositors (the paper being
printed in the French language). Lately a large number
of copies of the paper bad been mimed, and suspicion
having fallen on the prisoners, Mr. Squire Firth, the
manager, taxed them with it. They acknowledged that
they bad taken a quantity of papers, and sold theta at
three marine store dealers, whom they mentioned. Upon
inquiry this w,.s found to be true. In two cases they
had sold the paper for Id. per lb., and in the third at
the rate of Ids. per cwt. A considerable portion of the
papers were quite new, bat the most valuable portion con-
',Lewd of the complete tile of the Courricr for a period of
eight years. To the prosecutor this was worth con-
sideraLly more than even the published price, and as it
was the only complete file in existence the loss was irre-
parable. . .

The prisoners, who from the beginning had treated the
charge with considerable nonch:dance, appeared now to
have conic to a more serious view of the matter ; and
Mr. Abrams appealed to the magistrate's leniency in
consideration of the youth of his client, and the tempta-
tion afforded by the facilities held out for disposing of the
goods.
At one of the former examinations Pipe had cress-
examined the marine store dealers with precocious skill,
and had elicited froni one of them that be asked if they
could get any more paper of the same sort, and when they
were leaving expressed • hope that they might become
better acquainted.
Mr. AM an is went on to say that the boy was very sorry
for what he had done, and that in the hope that be would
behave better Mr. Rascol was willing, if the magistrate
would allow him, to withdraw from the prosecution, and
take Pipe bock into his service.
The father of Dubarry said his son had hitherto been a
very good buy. He also was really very sorry for his con-
duct. During the time hr was out on hail he bad been
unable to sleep at night from fretting about the position
he had placed himself in.
Mr. Rascol said lie wail quite willing to withdraw from
the prosecution (with the magistrate's permission), think-
ing that the prisoners had suffered enough during the re-
treated adjournments of the case, and he would take Pike
hack to finish his time. He would not, however, again
employ Dubarry, who being the elder boy, seemed to him
to have led the other astray.
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Mr. Flowers said be Was anxious if he could to avoid a
conviction for robbery. which would blast the boy's cha-
racter for ever. They had been for some time in custody
end even while out on hail they must hero felt great
anxiety from the charge hanging over them. He should
therefore discharge them. They ought to be very
thankful for their escape, and for the chance which
was given them of retrieving their characters,
and he hoped they would show their gratitude for
the clemency he now extended to them by never again
doing anytiugg dishonest. If they did so, there was no
reason why they should not live, as he sincerely hoped
they might, long and happy lives in honesty and good re-
pute. one reason he had been guided by in so often re-
manding the case was that be desired thoroughly to inves-
tigate the conduct of the marine store dealers, as to which
at first he had thought it possible some further proceed-
ings might be reqnired. He did not sec that any thicg had
been elicited which would quite justify that, and be,
therefore, should not think it fair to make any strong oh.
serrations on their conduct. This, however, he was quite
justified in saying, that tradesmen really ought to be ex-
tremely earful how they purchased property from boys,
especially when it was ouch property as might from its
very nature excite a suspicion that it was not likely to be
Rent far sale by the owners. In such a case the least the
tradesmen might do would be to make inquiries; and if
that had been done in this instance, it would have been
immediate:y found that the property was stolen. Cer-
tainly a private file of a newspaper, complete fur eight
years, was not likely to be sold as waste paper by the pro-
prietor's authority.
MARYLEBONE.

✓elln 41;imion, a- ng•dly.4rewd man, was charged
with breaking a pane of plate lasso, the property of Mn.
Susannah Fanny Hoyte, 14, Queen's-terrain, St. John's-
wood. . . .

Proseeutrix said that this was a very painful case.
Prisoner 1,111 her brother, and the son of • clergyman. He
bad boss put to a good business, but had spent all his