The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-10 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Modes Cullom, a porter is the employment of Messrs.
E. Meese and Son, Aldte,edwho was brought before the
Lord Mayor last week, c with embezzling the sum of
41. 6a. 3d., was brought op lor final examination.
It appeared that the prisoner wee employed by Masers.
Moses and Son as porter, and it was his duty to take out
parcels and receive the money for them. On the evening
of the 19th of August the head porter gave him two percela
to deliver, oar for W. Ils. 3d., and the other for Ds. He
was to receive the matey, and his duty was to have ac-
counted for it the next day. On the prisoner's parcel-book
being examined a dor two after by a young man named
Wilsoo, the bead porter, he discovered that the
two amounts for the parcels mentioned had
sot been entered. He spoke to the poisoner, who said that
be had lost a eovereign of the money, and did not like to
pay in the balance until he had made it up. He spoke to
Mr. Adolphus, the head warehouseman, who asked the
prisoner what he had done with the balance, acid he re-
plied that it was upstairs in his box. He was sent up for it,
and as he was gone a long while, Mr. Adolphus sent Wilma
to look after him, and he maw him coming down the stairs
with a bundle, and on asking him what he was going to do
he said he was going to pawn his clothes to raise the money.
Mr. Adolphus asked him how much he had got left, and
he handed him 2/. Ti. 111., and said he had lost a soya
reign, and made use of the rest.
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trial. prisoner, who had nothing to say, was committed for
BOW-STREET.
A•well-dreseed middle-aged man, who wore a profusion of
beard of the blackest hue, and gave the name of Lupine
Jacob LermwAs, was charged before Mr. Corrie with having
falsely represented himself as a detective in the City police.
The complainant, Mr. T. Johnson Brow', archßect, of
2, Robertetreet, Adelphi (the prosecutor in a recant case
investigated at this court), stated that on returning to his
l-ome about seven o'clock on Saturday evening last, he was
informed that a foreign gentleman had been waiting for
some time to see him. He (complainant wept into
the office and saw the orimener, who said, "I wiah to see
hou about the case of the female servant you have lately
ad at Bow.street." Witness said, " Who are you?" Be
replied, "I sin a detective officer in the City, and I want to
see the woman's things, which I understand are in your
possession." Witness said—" They are all locked up, and
to the custody of the officer ; therefore I cannot show them
to you." He maid, "I must see them ; and particularly I
must seethe photographs which I hare reed of in the news-
papers, and which represent the woman as having her arms
round the neck of a male companion." Witness repeated
that be hail no power to show them, and as the defendant
became importunate, and insisted on seeing the woman's
clothes, witness asked him by what authority he had come
to him at all ? He then produced a cord, hawing the
semi and address of witness written upon it, and said it had
been written by Mr. Durkin, the superintendent, at the
Bow-street station• to whore be was first referred by Mr.
Inspector Hamilton. 'Niteroi said he did not believe the
story at all, or that the defendant was an °Meer, and there-
fore he should give him in charge unless he would go to
Bow-street. Witness accompanied defendant to the station-
house, and asked it the writing on the card was Mr. Dur-
kin's. The inspector said, „Certainly not," and that the
defendant was sot in any way connected with the police,
upon which witness gave him into custody.
Mr. Beard, solicitor, who attended for the defendant,
cross-examined the complainant, and said that his client
bad been misunderstood and grossly ill.treated.
Mr. Corrie—lt will be better if you as offer some ex-
planation of the matter. Why did he p there?
Mr. Beard said he could explain everything. The de-
(cadent, a poor foreigner, with only a partial knowledge of
the English language and customs, bad the misfortune to
have a very bed wife, whose conduct had driven him tecont-
mence proceedings for a divorce. He had lately heard that
his wife had been repeatedly iphotographed by different
artists, in companiocship with her guilty paramour ; and
when the defendant read in the newspapers that a woman
had been charged at Bow-street, and that photographs
representing her as embracing some man had been found in
her hexes, he (defendant) was 'laterally anxious to see these
pictures, to sevens= d the woman was his wife. He may