The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-14 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

ON-110118E.
The two boys aaVralWeller Wryltt and Thonia U-
tah respectively aged 13 years. were brought heifers theLoid
Mayor and Mr. Alderman Gigaton fur further examine-
tion, on the charge of forging and uttering a chemse for
661. with intent to defraud.
The falowing evidence was now called :
Henry Draper wine merchant. said he was one of the
committee of the indigent Blind V Miami Society, and
had signed cheques foe the society in that eapsoity. The
signature. purporting to be in hie handwriting, OM tha
cheque predated for 66f. lls. was a forgery.
William Cult, clerk to MX. Banbridge, solicitor. Wood-
street, raid he knew the prisoner Wright. Ho had been so
Mr. flawbridgo's service for four months, and left about
we weeks ago. He hail previously come from the Nom
Mr.
Mr. li•Xemie's school at Holloway, and was highly re-
ixmoseuded.

Nary Cruickshank, 8, Cakidonian-road, King's-esom,
raid her mother kept • coffee-house there. Slie knew
the prisoners. On Saturday, the loth of August, the boy
Belton came to the house alone. On Wednesday, the
18th of August, they came together. end lived with them
till the Md of September. Sines then the things in the
room occupied by the boys had been given up to the polies.
The primmer/1 said they had corns from Suffolk for • fort-
night's holiday, and that they were going to see their
sant.

Cruickahan►, the mother of the last witasm mid
she Ertl law the prieuners en the 28th of Angier, as eke
bad b. en from home before that. There wee so truth in
the statement that they were charged IX a week.
John Mark Bull, detective sergeant, mid he went to
Mrs. Cruickshank's house, and took pommels) of the
articles belonging to the boys. Be had shoo received a
number of articles belonging to them from the police at
Margate.
. .

Luau. the polies-eon/table who apprehended tbe wi-
rimers, in rtply to lir. Abbott, raid the lattice of Halton
had given ail the information that lay in his power.
The Lord Mayor then committed the prisoners for trial.

WORBIIII'.ST/LRET.
George Poorell, a boy about 14. wee charged before Mr.
neon with having stolen two each, from his employer.'
premises.
A police.eonetable of the 0 division deposed that on
Friday evening be watched the prisoner as he left the
works of KONIZI. Barwick and Bons, at the corner of Bin.
hill-row, Cleswell-street. Suspecting him, from his ap.
pi arum..., he sti Nod and searched the prisoner, and re.
moved from beneath his waistcoat &couple of sack/ similar
to does used by Meson,. Borwick in their business be
also found in the pocket of the prisoner's coat a publica-
tion entitled " The Boys of kiiglasid," and two headed
"Take of Highwaymen ; or, Lee on the Road," illus-
trating in glowing colours the kind of life led and the
heroic deeds done by such men as Caidaiu Macheath and
Dick Turpin.
lit. Robert Borwick identified the sacks av being the
property of the firm, and worth 2a. Gil. lie did not wish
to press the charge against the prisoner, who, he believed,
I ad been led away by reading such publications iss thuee
found on him. _

The prisoner had nothing to say in answer to the charge ;
in fact, Le seemed to treat it almost ea a joke.
Mr. Ellison said be supposed prisoner was anxious to
Lereme acquainted with the interior of a gaol, and sea-
tented him to 11 days' hard labour in the House of Cor-
rection. During that time he would only be fed on bread
and water, and erhaps that punishment would send him
out a redder and-wiser boy. Mr. Ellron, then addressing
lnsrecter Fife, of the () devition, said that the publica-
tions found on the prisoner had been handed up to him,
and on looking over the same be found that there was
neither name nor address of the printer ; the publishing
office was 147, Floet-street, but that was all; and he, Mr.
Ellison, bearing in mind the mischievous and corrupting
effects the reading of such publications produced on the
youth of this country, desired that inspector Fife would
bring the omission he had mentioned in the publication
under the notice of the Communionens of the City Police,
iu order that steps might be taken to prosecute the
printer for the same, as under the 2nd and 3rd Viet.,
cap. 12, see. 2, the printer was liable to a penalty not
exceeding 6!. fur every copy sold.