The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-05 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1868.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

7118 211 TABB IV I BILL POBOBBIEB IN THI
Cll7.
At the Justioe-room of the Mansion-house yes-
=grassland Wire. Gustave Wont and George
were bins.* bases ermen AIM
sad Oae=teuskarther enembabea ea the charge of
=and Muria( twenty bills of aims, for various
with intent to detrand_,_• sod foam with
ban in the poposioa of lit Las ddiMeent teem
The City galiallar (Mr. Nelson) atimiedto eendect the
preambles, and said he was am going to open
a new OM in reaped of • hill for Mei., which was
diemated at the Comffiated Bonk, mg he would show
meluidoly that the whsle thing was a freed. The bill
professed to be drawn the MillrOalgail Beak of Sydney,
upon Mesa& Orant but there was ao such
bank in Motown as the Moveable Bank of fly.
Genre Wilkie, oesamision weak 7, Jamere Marl-
borough-road, Chelsea, dope* that in the month of
September this year he bad communications with a
gentleman named Templeton, and in masequence
of these communications he subsequently saw
Striemer, one of the primers, at the European
publie-honse the Mansion-house. *rimer
showed him till produeed (that referred to by the
City Solicitor). Witness told him a friend of his wanted
an accommodation bill, sad if liewould trust him he would
show it to his friend. Striemer allowed his to have the
bill, and he showed it to Mr. Templeton. He again saw
Striemer in ftherborne-lane, and told him his friend was
eatisfied with the bill, and that he should get another
friend to put his endorsement upon it. They then agreed
as to the pries, which was something under 24, but he
did not remember the exact amount. He did not know
Striesner's handwriting. The bill bore the endorsement,
"Byron, Beal, and C 0.," and witness got another en-
dorsement "Lawrence, Dogoroff, and C 0.," put on it.
There was such a firm. He had known the prisoners for
18 months. He had had other transactions with Mr.
Templeton, and he did not know as yet that he had
charged him anything for the bill. Ile had had a cheque
for 21. from him.
In croes-examination by Striemer, witness said be had
been at his (Striemer's) office, and that be thought
Striemer told him the bill did notbelengto him, and that be
had to give pert of the money to Gordon.
Striamer—lf people are to be prosecuted for procuring
bills of exchange- this gentleman ought to be prosecuted
as well as us. He procured it front me, and I procured it
from sonse one else.
John Templeton, commission agent, 13. Beradord-ter-
roe, Notting-hill, said be got the bill produced from the
last witness on the 6th or 7th of September. He believed
it to be genuine, and deposited it at the United Service
Bank, which was now in liquidation. He drew against it
upwards of 1001. He bad known a firm named Lawrence
and Dogoroff, and he told Wilkie so, and said ho he-
lloed the bill was perfectly genuine. He came
to no definite arrangement what he was to pay
Wilkie. He did not tell him to procure the bill. Wilkie
brought it to him to discount. He could not have given
him • cheque to pay for it, as he had not an account at
the time. He bad been in Sydney. and be believed there
was a Mercantile Bank there, but he was not certain.
Croes-examined by Striceier—l gave Mr. Wilkie a
cheque for 31. after the bill was deposited at the Motel
Service Bank.
Re-examined—Other hills have been brought to me to
discount by Wilkie, but not of this character.
ThommeWaram, manager of the Charing-cross Branch
of the Consolidated Bank, deposed to discounting the bill
for the United Service Bank.
William Goodrich, clerk to Messrs. Newton and Sons,
notaries, said ho had been in hid present situation six
years, and during part of that time Striemer had been
employed in the same office es a notary's clerk and trans-
lator. The body of the bill produced was in bis(Striemer's)
handwriting, and the acceptance also resembled his hand-
writing, but it was disguised.
Cross-examined by Striemer—Yon left in July, 1863 ;
seven or eight months after I came.
Adolph Goldstandt, who has been already examined, was
recalled, and said he had known the prisoners for a long
time, and had opportunities of becoming acquainted with
their handwriting. The body of the bill for 1301. was in
Striernees, and the endorsement, "Byron, Beal, and C 0.,"
in kunake's handwriting.
Cross-examined by Kunake—l have seen you writing
several time*. You have written in my house hoth iu
German and English. Wu have had bill tray action,.
Re-examined—A great many similar bills have passel
through my hands. Kunako is a very accomplished
penman.
Detective-sergeant Mors said he found at Striemer's
office a large quantity of forms similar to that on which
the bill was written, as also stamps which would make
impressions similar to those en the bill.
At this stage the inquiry was again adjourned.

COURT OP APPEAL.—Dao. 4.
(Before tie Lord Chancellor.)
NOV/LL 11. MOM
The arguments in this patent ease were not eancluded
when the court roes.

EQUITY OOURTS.—D2c. 4.
(Bdore the Mader of the Rolla)

VA! ON V. ll= WORM lUTW =MAT 0111 PANT.

In 1860 a bill was filed by • shareholder in the Isle
West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Company on be-
half of himself and the other ahareboldets in such com-
pany other than the defendant' against the company
and its then directors. After the suit bad been prosecuted
to some extent, the plaintiff in this snit became a director
of the Hartlepool Company, and subesluently terms of
arrangement of the first-mentioned suit were come to.
The compromise was alleged to have been brought about
barierealady, who died in March, 1865 ; and under the
arrangement it was contended that the Hartlepool
Company was to contribute • considerable sum of money
towards the costs of the suit. In 1865, the Hartl 1
Company was dissolved, end its property and unde
vested in the defendants to this suit subject to all liabi-
lities affecting the Hartlepool Company. This bill wan
now filed for the specific performance of the alleged
agreement by the railway company as part of the liability
of the Hartlepool Company.
Sir Roundel] Palmer. Mr. Southgate, and Mr. C. Hall
were for the plaintiff; Mr. Jewel, Q.C., and Mr.
Hawkins for the defendants.
His lordship dismissed the bill with coats, without call-
ing on the defendants' counsel.

(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir IL Melia.)
TN METRE R. THOMAS'S TLOAI7XO DOCK coweeur (SMITE*
Mr. Jackson supported • petition to continue, under the
supervision of the court, the voluntary winding-up for
which the company had passed noontime.
Mr. °roomer Woods represents 1 the company.
The Vico-Chancellor made the order.

METROPOLITAN BOARD or WORKS.—The usual
weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was
held at the offices, Spring-gardens; Sir John Thweites in
the chair. The financial statement was presented, awl
showed the total balance in hand to be 231,238/. es. 31.
Payments. to 18,4601. be. ltd. were ordered to be nude.
Mr. Shaw, the member for Marylebone, said he bad be •Ii
directed by his vestry to put a question to the board as to
the truth of a statement which Lad appeared is a public
journal, in which it was alleged that the board spent the
ratepayers' money in the most reckless manner. Toe
article was as follows:—i• Bank Solicitors and their
Heavy Fees on Loans.—When the Metropolitan Board
borrows, say 800,000!., from the Bank of England, the
Bank solicitors at once deduct 40,000/. for their trouble, and
the Metropolitan Board never receive the 800,00.)!. fur
which they pay interest, but 40,10 J/. less that amount.
So that they have to pay interest on and pay back
40,000!. which they have never received. It is difficult to
see how it should take the solicitors more tune and trouble
to draw up deeds for a loan of 800,0001. than for a loan
of 800/. In the latter they would receive 401. 'That for
the mere trouble of adding in 3 urns to the amount their
charge should swell to 40,0001. is out of all reason." The
Chairman could say distinctly that in negotiating for loans
not one farthing was paid as premium for them. There
were so many &bond things said about the board that he
felt almost surprised the parish of Marylebone
have thought it worth while to ask such a question. The
subject then dropped. The Chief Engineer proseutsal his
usual monthly report on the progress of the embankment
and main di adiage works, which was to the effect that the
works were progressing satisfactorily. The board then ad-
journed.
THE FATAL ELECTION RIOTS IN NEWPORT.-011
Thursday, Mr. W. H. Brewer, coroner, and a respectable
jury re-opened the inquiry at the queen'', Hotel, Newport,
Monmouthshire, touching the death of Mrs. Mary Grant,
wife of Mr. John Giant, tailor, Bolton-terrace, who was
killed by a bay °net wound from one of the military on
the night of the election riots. The Mayor (Mr. James
Murphy) was in attendance, and, having been sworn, de-
posed to the acts of violence perpetrated on the night of
the 17th ult., and to the mob driving the police into the
Town-hall. A consultation ut magistrate+ took place,
and as the violence of the mob gradually increased,
it was thought desirable to send for Vie military.
The Blot Act was read, and for upwards of an
hour the mob were advised to go peaceably to
their homes. Instead of doing so they became more
violent, and Colonel Bell gave the order to clear the
streets. Charles Grant, son of the deceased, deposed to
!icing in the street at the time the charge was being
made, and he received five bayonet wounds close to his
father's door. He and sever al other witnesses described
the charge made by the military, not as "a double quick,"
but the soldiers ran pell-mell as fast as they could, not in
hue or column, but in skirmishing order. Dr. Davis.,
who made the post-mortem examination, said Mrs. Grant
had been pierced to the heart by the bayonet, and that
Ler dealth resulted therefrom. Daniel Evans, a black-
smith, said he saw Mrs. Grant running before the mili-
tary ; a hen clues to her door she fell, and while down one
of the soldiers thrust his bayonet into her. Mr. Phil-
potts, who appeared for the ()rant family, asked for an
adjournment, to give the military an opportunity of ex-
Flaming the serious charge brought against them. Tim
coroner and jury concurred, end the inquiry was further
adjourned.
THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WIGAN.—The
examination of the witness Ellis brinnan was continued
alter the despatch of our yesterday's report. Ile described
with minuteness the details of the arrangements for smith-
latitig the pit, the precautions taken with lights, &c. Sims
the explosion uo lamp had been found unlocked, or in
condition to lead to the suspicion that it li.ul been opened
in defiance of the rules. He did not think that anything
in the variation of the pressure of the atmosphere or the
ventilation of the 11.11110 had occurred sufileient to cause
the explosion. John Jenkineon, after describing the state
of things in the pit after the exploded., said-1 made my
usual exatiiinatisu that morning, and the ventilation was
perfect. The firemen were as etemly as usual. The in-
'awry. was then adjourned until ten o'clock on Tuesday
morning next. A meeting has been covered by the
Mayor of Wigan to raise funds fur the sufferers by the
calamity.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN
nAlLWAY.—Yeeterday morning information was for-
warded to 1)r. Lankester, the coroner, of the death of
William Denton, aged 28, who met his death on the Great
Northern Railway under the following circumstances:—
It appears that the deceased was employed as a coachman
by lir. Harrimon, of 18, Rochester-terrace, Bayswater,
and he was returning borne with some of his master's
horses from the country by the Great Northern
ellirlem.
When near the Seven Staters'-road station the d
who was riding in the van with the hones, put his back
against the door, which immediately flew open, and be was
precipitated on to the ground. The deceased was iodated
up in an inrenaible state, and conveyed to the Free Hospi-
tal, Gray's-iuu-raid, where he died.

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ROBBERY ON PLIIMITEAD CONNON.—On Wed-
nesday night Quartenneater-fierjeant Baldwin, ILE., who
was out paying the sick pensioners, was attacked no
Plumstead-common by three men, under the bet •
that he had a large sum of money about him. Re had,
fortunately, paid it nearly all away; but he war so
severely injured that be remains in a precarious condition.
The ruffians who attacked him emaped.

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