The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-16 00:00:00

ante.
This wee an action to recover the value of some packages
which the pleistiff hod sot from Liverpool to Leaden en the
17ih. el July, fa the pea sit year, by the London and North
Weston Reilway, bet wkicb, teethed or beige delivered to
the plaintiff, had bees delivered te author person who had
assumed hie awns. The damages were laid as 1.0001 , bat
the real urns. soutit to be ne revered wee also 9001.
Mr.Chatob n, having stated the Case to Sbejel7, proasded
WWI the following evades's:
H. Snowden said—l es ea orasmental painter and gilder.
In the mouth of May, 1810, I mesas, as did the plaintiff, to
New irk, when we arrived as the 19:h of Jane follow.
lag. The plaintiff use ea b mrd at fipithead. Ae we
wage peoc, mime on .nir outward ye yass the plaintiff showed
me • parchment with a 'eat to it, which he said was • pa-
lest
day after our of much value. He likewise showed Ise two pictures.
The rein ow ! at N Toth the plaintiff'. lug-
pp, comprising ',even hose, • ponmenteau, sad • SW,
were landed from to. ..se. I, As the luggsge was being
takes on shore one of the box s brihe into two pines,
wherenua it, contents fell out Ores ths deck. Tne things
were afterward• placed in • hi.cuit auk. Tito whole of the
legume was removed to the premises ofDainbeidge,
end there upacked. We remained at New York amid the
204 of July, .nn them we wont ti Philadelphia. I was not
able to obtain employment is Amorist. 1 went diem for
that purpose. We misused to New Y rk, and afterwaide
sat rail sot England, as the cholera was raging. The plais-
tlll brought back with him the whole of the luggage whisk
be had taken est. We arrived at Liverpool on the
27th of July and the Susses was taken charge
of by the coitus hose officer in the usual way,
and afterwards it was emnyed to the nUway station
Th. plaintiff's name and Waren weer nailed span it. The
plaintiff received a ticket from the company for his bagger,
having entered hi. now. in a book. We then mese op is
London; that was ea the 29.1. of July. The plaintiff eal.ed
upon me goer cc 117 e days titer war return to Lindoo, and
la about throe weeks more I saw him in the Whiteness-
street Prison. I subsequently saw him is the Quen'e
Prison. le the month of Jimoary, in the presast year, the
plaintiff and I called upon a Mr. S. arts, in Cute meet,
Ozford.etreet, and effervesrds we proceeded to the goods
department of the Londe)* and North Western Railway
Company. The plaiwiff planed of sae of the clerks
whether he rememhcred his having showed him a good.
ticket t—and, ss the latter replied in the affirmative, the
plaintiff inked him u. return it to him, when the desk mid
that be hd not got it, sod then showed as op is the seers-
tory, who stated that he could afford no information about
the ticket, inasmuch .e it had pond from his possession;
whereupon the plaintiff said that he would put the matter
into the bands of his attorney. The secretary replied that of
course he might do es be thought proper.
Croesesamised —NI hen I went to New York I did not
take either my wife or my family with me. I want to get
employment, sad should then have had my family.
HS Elam, the .later of the plsiatiff, Sold—l assisted to
peck up my brother's San before he sot oat on his voyage
for America. Tame bolts contained plate, hash, and sur-
e:ll instramente, amongst other things of value.
Crowe exanuned—Before toy brother left England he livid
at No. 3N6, (Word street, where be canted on the business of
• " human machine sheltie."
R. C. li•ewart win se et called, when he said that be
knew the plain iff, and had made inquiries for him et the
company's station about the laggage which he had list.
—ln her noes examination, he admitted that while* the
plaintiff was in prison he had frequently lent him small sums
of mosey.
Tee tether of the plot stiff 'toted that he had accompanied
his sou In the month of D.cember, 1149, to the company's
offices, the goods depar mew, at the Camden-town motion.
Upon that occasion his sis produced the luggage ticket
went' he had received at the company's terminus at Liver.
pool, when the clerk of whom the inquiry was made inti-
mated to him that he must Webs the ticket to the
secretary. Tab the plaintiff sahorquently did, and @nom-
seeded that dustiest with • regent that the luggage should
be forwarded to " Mr. Alfred E am, No. 22, Hullo-street."
The goods, however, never were sent; but in their place the
sompany had sent a detective police oflivr in a cab, who ex-
pensed a wish that the tit instal' should accompany him.
The plaintiff, however, coati not spare the time to do so.
In the mune of the cross ezannestion of this witness he
stated that he and the wisher. of his family bad for some
time been in eze.rdingly bad circumstances.
Dr. Granvilh stated that be knew the plaintiff, and had
done so prior to his visit to America. He had employed
him in his business m • maker of surgical ieetzumenta, and
at that period be bad a very good stock in his shop. The
plaintiff was se exceedingly ingenious penis.
Mrs. limns stated thst she reed, d at No. 7.5, Castle-street
East, Os'oreletrest, and that in August, 11149, so elderly
gentleman called at her house, and had taken apartments for
&Bandeaus who was coming up from Liverpool. He took •
room at la a week, remarking that hie nephew, whom name
woe Elam, foe whom be had taken the room, would arrive on
the following day. The old gentleman not only paid • de-
posit of 4e., hut he also gave s reference. The next morn-
ing, 'host 11 o'clock, a person cum to the house, and said
that he believed some apirtaiest had bees taken there for
a Mr. Shot She replied la the eifiretatille. whereup4a Co
walked op stain, gulag that he bed jut toms op from
Liverpool. Hulot bees there shoat half an hoar, he left
to go into the City, previously saying thit ha should be
back la the afternoon, se he was expecting his luggage would
arrive then at three o'clock. At that hour he returned
hose, sad soon afterward. the lefeefie came in • waggon
belciagiag to pupils sad Horne. Thom were u many as
sues or eight packages. A portmanteau was taken up
stales, but the other dunes were left in the passage. This
person p.id the putter, and sigeed the delivery bock. Upon
her offering that the things should be placed in a back
wockshop, the gentleman said that be should have to send
many ot the packages away that day, and therefore he
thought he should send all off. Accordiagly a curt arrived,
tato which the peckers were all pat, and off they were
taken, the p Senates' alone being left behind. In the
mane of that sun evening the gentlemen went out and
never retuned.
Cross exusieed—She remembered the plaintiff calling,
sad in conarquense of the inquiries he mad: ahe had de.
scribed to him what had taken place in reference to the
who bad represented himself as being Mr. Elam.
}sr
told him that the /male:sae who had taken the
mpartmret Myra • referees to a Mr. Heather, of Ciren.
eseasespleee. Upon the occasion of foie visit from the
glaintiff he was scorn tooled by one of the detective c ffiern.
Sens, t L.e husband of the lust triune, sesta that
he bed nerived lofermation from the referee, Heather, of
Cieseeester piece, that the person who had taken the apart
.01IS le his house was a rerpectable mac, and always paid
his way. A few days after the goods had been brought to
and removed from his hones by the person representing
Massif a Mr. Elam, he called again upon Heather and
said then was something excesdingiy strange in the business,
and thee asked him where it was that the person who had
given his atme an a reference lived. Heather replied that he
used to live in Eagle street, Ned Lion-square, but that he
could not recollect the number.
A niece of the last witness said that on this particular day
the person who represented himself es Elam bad left the
house in the *veriest, saying that he was going to the
theatre, aid that it he was sot at home by one o'clock he
should not nun"' that night. He sever came back, and
epos inkiest In hie room they discovered that the portman-
teau had also taken flight.
Other witnesses were called who proved that at the time
when the geode were seat to Cattle street by the defentlaats
21ot August, 1841—the plaintiff was in oosfiem-
meet in the Queen's Beach Prison, to which he had boon
rimmemil leas Whiteman-meet, for debt, and that be ilia
!in obtain his release therefrom until the 6th et November.
111 wee impossible, therefore, that he amid hays signed Ma
ayepee which it was alleged in hi behalf that his
name Mak
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