The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

THIRD COURT.

(before the Common &meant.)
Joalph Mall, 40, schoolmaster, was indicted One stealing a
bank note of the value of 601., and three other bank antra,
each of the vane of 61., the property of George Bailey Tummy
to • dwelling•hou.s.
Mr. Oitfurd and Mr. T. Salter prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton

—itt7l;erned Conned having briefly detuiled the rheum-
stances uf thecae', called—
The Reverend Herbert Tuson-1 live at Wick, near Bath.
During the menthe of September and November kat 1 was
staying at Little &immure, Middlesex, doing duty for my
mule, who le rector of the pari.h. The rectory being let I was'
wining at the house of the prisoner, who is the National
Schoolmaster of Little Staunton., sad lives at the school-
house. The only persona in the house besides myself was
prisoner, hie wife, and a servant, who slept out of the house.
Upon the 6th of November Sir Henry Ellis, who occupied
the rectory, paH me ire my made, 67f. 4s. Them were four
notes, one SOL nod this IL. notth with I put into toy deck
east locked. Upon the islisrhig day I went out to dinner,
and before going I lashed to see If the ask Ism mle, and
found it so, I left It opts the labile I. the altting•roons. I
ante Maw abort Wiwi elms sad Ist myself is with a
latch key. When 1 mme hi I thought the desk had hese
moved, but finding the widow watenched I Mak he farther
notice. The family thee all gem Said. Ups the next
morning the prisoner cam into my room and asked I 1 had
left my desk lurked, 1 aid yes. He tin add, "It Is ."
I droned and went late the awing-roan, and imed that
the desk had been forced end tho notes awl smear were
gone. The man you in some confusion late toms, ad the
drawers were eyes:. A nimbi silver eemminaisa
which toy uncle had eat me was la thews drawers =
nut been disturbed. The primmer mid he hi leg semi
things of trifling ethnic Tin wen no Yreka °Mali af the
window to show that any one had mired the room Bow
outside.

Crass-exemissd—l told the pima, I gid ad b'ow the
sombre of the notes.
_ _ _ _ _

fn; the Beni of Emir& proved that two
motes, urge for 601. sal radar fror 6W., our freak Mr.
Bm'"..end urge far 61. 64.41MIlistY1Wilage•

Sir Henry Ellis petered mkt, three Beer to the Rey.
Herbert Tetes,at the echeel;beeesd lifseresee.
• aerveet prt is the mplemeet et the Weser weed
that, ups the =nig the meet wen Wee* she head her
=Mr up eel to the seiteekesee when abs Moe b the
serelag.
Is eteresealeselea she shiNd tint be reser* used to
let her la.

—Predellek oh& la Maws. one, Fairing-
dowelmet, tweineted a letter rd by post by
their firm upon the 10Ik
Thu Rev. Gene BalleyAtion maw, siime ld—l am Rector
of Little Shuman. TM prisoner has Btly written to
vas. I know Ids Issadwelltss well ; I ehwld say that the
letter produced is as his band, but disguised.lt looks like
le& bowled writhe.
TM Musa was put In and read. It was dated from
Pinibuir sad run thus:
The Rev. Msry Redd, of Oxford, being now in Lon-
don dons a short time, wishes Mews. Rottiledge to make him
up a parcel of 900 of Archdeacon Aliens Penny Hymns,
and be will all fur these on his road to the station upon his
return to Oxford."

John Purdey, clerk to Wows. Roulledge, proved that
about five ciao& in the afternoon upon the 6th of August,
• cab drove up to their door, end upon his going out he maw
a man inside, who said he was the friend of the Rev. Mr.
S. Neald, of Oxford, and had called for the parrs I of hymn-
booby, and it wait given to him, and he gave in payment
• 5/. note, the one predneed, Ind received the change.
Tu the best of witneee's belief the prisoner was that man, but
his sore • moustache, being rather grey, coloured apse-
Miles, and was drawled in black.
/Jr. O. Burns, an engraver and printer in Cain-
bridge-terrace, Edgware-road, proved that acme one wear-
ing big whiskers and mustachios, came upon the Gth of
June to • cab, and gave Idea orders CO engrave IL plate with
the " lion. C. F. Potwasby, Ilarford-house. Doreetahire,"
upon it. That man he believed was the prisoner.
Mr. John Williams—l am manager to-Mr. Burns. I first
saw the prisoner upon the 10th of June, at the door of our
shop, in • cab. He came about the plate, and I spoke to him
for some time. He paid • deposit upon the plate, and got
me to pull hies a proof card. I em sure he is the man ; be
had on a large Wes moustache, moat clumsily put on. I
could see the sit :king- The diagithe was moot ridi-
culous he looked like Guy Foul. (Loud laughter.) I went
down with the police, and saw him cocoa out of the church
at Stanmore, and knew him instantly.
Mr. William Cox Bennett, of 45. Cheapside, watchmaker
and jeweller, stated that upon the 18th of June, • keougham,
with livery servant, stopped at their door, and upon his
going out, lie saw inside some one whom he thought to be
the prisoner, but he wee disguised with whiskers, mousta-
etiloa, and spectacles. He had sent in the wed, Hon. C. F.
Poniseby, Ilse/ad-home, thirsetahire, and said that he
wonted sonic of witnersee 10/. gold watches to make preernt•
of to his tenantry. Witness advised him to have some of
their 10/. silver 01106, ea being better suited fur country weer
and be after mole discussion summated, and took five of them,
paving with the 50/. note produced.
teem-warning—l only believe him to be the man.
Junes Hayes, @raiment to Hr. Kirkham, pawnbroker,
Strand, produced one of the watches in question. About
eight o'clock upon the evening of the 13th of June he ad-
vanced him 51. The man gave the name of Edward Mills,
3, Bream'athoildinga, Chancery-lane.
Thomas Durmast, as assistant to Messes. Dobree and Tom-
linson, proved that some man, with • protosien of hair and
beard, came to hia employers' shop at about a quarter to 8
upon the PRAM night. He gave the name of James Mille.
Witness thought prisoner we that man. He pledged a
watch for U.

-Itephcn.iYhittaker, of the firm of Young, Princes-street,
Leiectiter-rquare, reitively swore to the prisoner as haying
pledged another of the watches between elghtand nine upon
the same evening. He instantly recognised the primmer
upon seeing him coming out of church at Little Stamm.
Cress-eatunined-1 am quite mutant he is the men. He
wore spectacles, bat no beard.
Two assistant. from the shop of Mr. Lamson, St. Mar-
pcoved that the gleaner came upon the same
night to their shop to Pawn a 'diver watch, but his linear-
mice and manner exciting • suspicion they detained him.
and inquired the Nation of his being dhgodaed, and he said
be was going to the theatre to have a lark, and said that he
would leave them the watch to make inquiries if they wished.
He then went awry, and never called again. That was
another of the watches obtained from Mr. Bennett. One of
there witnes•• pi.ked the prisoner_ out front amongst
about eight others.
The other evidtnee, including that of the sergeant of the
pollee 191 S. merely proved tracking the watch.. after the in-
fonliation about the bank note..
Mr. Ribton, in a eery able opeerh, pointed out to the jury
the insuflicient proof of the disguised man being the
OwThe ner.
Common Serjeent haring summed up,
The jury retired, and after having been absent above an
lour came tato court returning a verdict of Guilty.
The Common Serjeant said he entirely concurred in the
wordiet, and sentenced the prisoner to four years' penal ser-
vitude.

Till;ended the business of the sereion.
In the ease of Harrison and Durents, sentetieed yesterday,
the insert should have been Merriam six eve penal servi-
tude. and the other eighteen months' imps t.
The courts eet until very late.

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANBIOi-HOUSE.

Charlotte loon (lose, a person of ladylike manners and
affirm, was brought Were the Lord Mayor by Daniel For-
renter, the ofiker, upon • warrant wh.kh charged her with
having, on the 6th Isnuary laat, feloniously forged • receipt
for the cam of U. 7s. 4d., welt intent to defraud the Fut
India Compaq.
The defendaat who had jut arrived fun the continent,
and who seemed fatigued, wan eneemmedhead with • chair
in front of the desk. As ems as As woman bad bin reed
to her by Mr. Osedrais, the died dirk, obi amperied dad
I only indik lent artless ••j•I•d0 • red MOS be aidawd
as she led not bad itnandiy el asaadtbs. bee
solieitor, who was out of England
.
Mr. Mule, instructed by Menu. Lidded and Water-
house, appeared for the publication, end said that the defen-
dant wee the wile originally of • Captain Knox, who wee in
the service of the East India Company, and that upon his
death she became entitled, sea widow, to a pension from •
fond, rolled the Lord Clive Fund. One of the declaratkne
which, as a pensioner, she was required to make from time
to time Se abe received the money wee that of the coetinufty
of her widowhood. After the dMsedaet had received the
pension for some years, she was married in October,
1A56, at Antwerp, sad she hid shwa that period con-
tinued to receive the pension, making the usual declaration of
bee widowhood, and signing bar aim to the official docu-
, mental, "Charlotte Knox Cross." - . . . .

The sworn information of Mr. A. S. Flinders, • clerk in
the Military Department of the Rost India Company, won
Rut in. It stated that the defendant was, as the widow of
obert Trotter Knox, upon his death admitted as a pen-
sioner upon the Lord Clive Fond and that ahe mu entitled
to receive the pension so long so she continued • widow. She
commenced roreiving the 'tension in 1842. On applying for
payment it was nocoseary that ahe should (tom time to time
leave at the Military Fund Deparnwut a declaration signed
by her that she had not again contracted marriage. The in-
formation proceeded to state that on the sth January last the
defendant made a declaration of her widowhood and received
51 15e., the amount of a quarter's maims, she having in-
termarried with one Richard Osborn Croon, at Brawls, in
1855. . . .

The information of Mr. E. B. C. Brown, a clerk in the
malice.. department at the India Boum, was Wan put in.
It elated that the signatures to the several official documents
were in the handwriting of the defendant, and that in the
original Itegister of Marriages kept by the British Cooed
at Antwerp, was en entry of a marriage solemnised before
such mania on the Ilth October, I&i3, between one Richard
Osborn Crow, widower, and Charlotte Knox Knox, Ap-