The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-06 00:00:00

IN AB ADAM OLIN.

This Insolvent wee opposed by Mr. flargood for Maim.
Brown and Allen, mid by a Mr. Squires in parson. Mr. Dowse
supported.
The insolvent, who is known in the sporting circles, had
formerly kept The White Bear In Piocadilly, and was •
baker in Regent-street. He was a bankrupt, and his certifi-
rate refused on amount of his betting tram/motions. He had
some new debts, and now described himself as of York-
place, Fulham-road, as " manager " of • baker's business for
one Charlotte Warren.
It appeared that Mesas. Brown and Allen, who are
millers, had supplied flour to the insolvent on a guarantee
when he was in prison. About 4001. bad been paid, and 2001.
and upwards was due. The insolvent admitted that Mrs.
Warren had passed se " Mrs. Glen " his wife.
Mr, Squires said he had supplied Mrs. Warren, and ahould
sae her for the debt.
Mr. Commissioner Murphy required the insolvent to re-
advertise as having ourried ea the business at Fulham. He
was bound to say them was nothing in the opposition.
Adionmsd to the 6th Feb., and bail enlarged.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL CO URT.

OLD COURT.
(Before the ikeeeder.)

Williams Jotoop, 20, wee indicted Ear robbery with trio-
blies upon Ha Meek.
In a wend corm the primmer was charged with cutting
bodilendy harm.
wounding the prossontrix with intent to do her grievous
It appeared that the proem-tutu was a girl of the town, and
that oa the night of the 26th December she met the prisoner
in the City-road, and they had some ale together and attar-
words went to the trix's lodging in Plummer-street,
and the prisoner Wen gave the proasoutrix five shillings.
hoooldthg to her evidence a dispute subsequently took place
between them upon the abject of this money, and the pri-
soner endeavoured to regain poseession of it, and when the
prothentrix ridged he attacked her with a tongs, and in-
flicted some severe Warier upon her head. The prisoner,
however, celled two wlthessea whose evidence went to show
that both perties were very drunk, and that the prthecutrix
and another woman attacked the prisoner and struck him,
and that daring the scuffle that ensued the prosecutrix fell
into the road and so received the injuries upon her head.
The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of
Not Gouty,
Aillo6ll Powell, 30, Thomas Grind, 44, and JowpA Rork-
sots, 42, were charged with unlawfully conspiring together to
obtain goods by false pretences. The prisoner Powell was
also charged with uttering a forged order for the delivery of
goods, and the other two prisoners were likewise charged
with unlawfully receivhsg the goods that were obtained by
noes
of the forged order, knowing that they bed been
so ohnthasd.

tie
whom er Powell pleaded guilty to the whole charge
mintained in the indictment.

Mr. Balitin and 16705;idge conducted the prosecution;
Mr. 84dgh defended Clarkson and °ranch'.
The prosecutors of this indictment were Messrs. Shool-
bred end Co., who carry on a very extensive business in
Tottenham oowt-road as drapers, and the offence imputed
to the prisoners appeared to have been committed in a very
Ingenious manner. It seemed that by some mesas ce other
the prisoner Powell bed become swan of the feet that
Messrs. Shoolbred had supplied some goode to Major
Martin, a gentleman residing at Upton-on-Severn, in
Worcestershire, sad on the 24th of November a War
was received at their establishment purporting to
come train that gentleman, which referred to a
formic trenesetica in reference to some damask, and re-
quested that two more pieces of a similar kind might be sent,
addressed to Major Martin, cloak-room, Easton-square
Station, by the 6 o'clock train, and • servant would call for
it. The nature of the transaction threw Masers. Shoolbred
completely off their guard, and the parcel was sent as re-
quested, but the prosecutors took the precaution of sending
an invoice to Major Martin the mine evening, and this led to
the discovery of the fraud. The prisoner Powell, as already
stated, pleadedguilty to the charge, and in order to connect
the other prisoners with the transaction, evidence wee ad-
duced to show that all the prisoners were oonstantly to=
at • room occupied by them at the Bolt-in-Tun tap
street, and that they were in the habit of writingietllll at
that place to differeat draws, sad it was also proved that
the parcel was fetched from the railway station by Griffiths,
and that on the 25th of November Clarkson pawned the two
pieces of damask that had been obtained from the prominent
et the shop of a pawnbroker in South-street, Manchester-
square, both the other prisoners being present when the
priming took place.
Mr. Sleigh made en tomatoes speech to the jury on behalf
of Griffiths and Clarkson, and the defence he set up was that
they had merely acted as the innocent agents of the other
prisoner, who bad pleaded guilty. Powell was ailed as a
witness, end he swore that the other men knew nothing of
the reel character of the transaction in which they were mi-
med, and that he had merely employed Clarkson as Gasped
and Griffiths se a porter.
The Records having summed up, the jury at once
turned a verdict of Guilty against both the prisoners.
Mr. Bodkin informed the court that this system of plunder
had been carried on to a very great extent, and be reed a
list of drapers' and jewellers' firms that had been defrauded
in a similar manner. Re said that no means had been
traced by which the prisoners obtained the necessary infor-
mation to carry out them frauds, but in the particular in-
stance it had been clearly ascertained that no person in the
employ of Messrs Shoolbred had given the information. The
learned counsel added that it was a curious fact that on the
very day the fraud was committed Major Martin and his
servant were in town, and the servant called at the shop of
Masers. Shoolbred for some purpose, and be and his master
left London by the very train by which the parcel was to
have been despatched.
The prisoners were then called up for judgment, and
Powell was sentenced to four years' penal servitude, and
Griffiths and Clarkson to be kept to hard labour for twelve
months.

NEW COURT.
(Wore the Common Seajesat.)

Johri ?ma, 26, engraver, Ned lases SmiiAwe, 24, mar-
ried, were indicted for uttering co
Ned
Kr. Bilis and .T. Atkinson promoted.
Both of the ;Sonars, who were somewhat genteelly
armed, the man wearing a beard and mouetschs, went upon
the I lth of last month in the afternoon seen together in
Somers-town, where the woman went into a pork- s,
and tried to pass a bad halterown which was, however, de-
tected, and returned to her, after bring marked, and she was
followed out. She was then seen to join the men, and after-
wards go into another shop where she tendered and passed
a bad half-crown. She again joined the man, and having
gone with him some diataim, the person who bad firm
followed her having communicated with the pollee, they
were taken into custody. Upon their way to the statics the
man threw away a bag, which, being = V and
I was found to contain three crowns, ll was, 20
end 15
1 gilt= bed wag. Ups sinking the male
s sear motel and broken esemble wet, =ll"iseetag so doubt that be was the War, although the
whims wee see adlisiout to charge his with the non
miens eloas.

They WI both Arad Gritty, and the mem sued to
six soothe' sod the tem to two years' imprisesnant.
The nisi at the edam Not sere occupied the entire day,
soil to sane instinose the plenswe were seatinesi to six
' posi servienis, ibe tend massing its illsteininetics
sepses the seat severe sartenees *bore Its
led bent pre.
view convictions. Oat a U primers he tdel rit sesoloa
17 are for passing bed money.