The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-03 00:00:00

TIM htliiiA§: '3, 1868

prepared, la %der be Id snider or that the isagleirstro I
of tide lowly rem liZpir upheld the arestive
la 14 grown piper to %opt ter the
yeeeirvailarea the pease
The idyl lel= sot thseght abase
the tingalf, "Waft le end they eimehe
*o elreesthen the liana the end
die crows is ea einerogow ern es eh be
This wee a thee whir they bow Sri
gas% feel_ feat appreheares %lit tepid tor=
and so do the mpg. et the inapharateg of the '
oceans it Ibedsai weal be geselerd ruw pante* by
its member at dile Melt Ns &geld PeawY4 be glad
to 'Walt debar %she man% hen dist roles.
It wee thee useeinNely neened,
_es the minas el
Major Pnaingros Theo a nerethei be prorated by
the court to her la dries gevereenert, erpnereg their
desire to maistain the peace at the winks, god deals%
Cory of their willingness to etrogthga the kW of the
exentive asy reamer that way bit iraleated by her
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• MAMSION-HOM
Suess Nicstpearp, wok pun el op. weedoVrta
en Mama breses Mr. Aidersam Oster,
thimiliehnee dthe Marquh Tswashamd.
be
be timembered that as Tardy thellfllol4 14th
Lioceinhar, lbeva=orprac,:ari mother were obeirred by
Or =ale be a shims Cheepsits. Knowing
brew, felherod, sad
inn them at down on a deer=drand ressise money. Hs
Mlen pea little gin into
The haler and mother were now in sou* and Merger,
a degessive Ofter, dated that be had known the Utter as
• Esther for twemey years. fibs
it added a child
hem to aim months old, semi it never seemed to pow
any bigger. (Laughter.) She had disguised handl very
nee& to-day with her bonnet.
The Alderman—l hope the red time you use her you
Wog her Me.
The Maple stated that, in aceordaaes with the dine-
ttes@ of the Lord Mayer. be had made anangnments for
raseiring the child We en i daettid U. As seem
mireppeliension was liable to aid as to his anded in a
ease d thin kind, he was =ZINN to *Ai before the
1= the deem why this child ao,M be placed in
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TlllB ..ether had been known as a begpr for
very many seas hy_kimmeif end the polio, and die had
objeded to hart die dad taken away from her. As she
was in poor eirecunslancee, it Paid, met he mappiesed that
her refuel aroma frun any other imethe than toluve this
ddld her peenedon for the purpose el exciting charity.
Cadre/41W :tit the child were given up its petition
wed* be by being placed in a home Irre tt
would be taken OM of. la order, therefore, to pre-
vent its Lanai • life in the streets, die hoped the alder.
man woeld pent an order for its being sent to the in-
dustrial berm
Kr. Alderman Carter said he would do what he could to
put a stop to seek a melte& Vagrants took young chil-
ies to the MOWS ter no ether pupa than to excite
onandsuaticei and pity, sad Mien if they toothe children
WIN. them and pat them into a ref, he was
old that the maidens/hoe el these little •es wet
1,0001. a year. He pissed to say that a end number of
parents were only too glad to get rid d their 'Andrea in
ibis way. In the prima instance the mother was a
notorious beggar, ante he was sorry she had been wing
this child as she had done. She was deeply indebted to
the marquis for his sympathy in the ems, sad although it
was • duty they owed to the child to dud • school for it,
yet, en the other hand, there was surely some law to make
the parents pay soroMMag, however small, towards the
maintenance of their offng.
The Marquis—A sum not exceeding be. a week.
The Alderman (oontiadng) said Is was glad to hear
that there we such a law. He would nomad this child
till thmorrow, and in the meantime if any of the dhows
saw the mother begging he hoped they would bring her
before the overt.
The father and mother asked the 'magistrate to mad the
child home and promised that it would never be sent out
to beg again ; but Alderman Carter declined to weeds to
their requesa, and informed them that it would be well
taken care of in the future.

Mona Carroll.—The capture of so many
ineinding a prominent a man as • sada and
two captains, hes created almost a panic unapt the
Irish in Merthyr and Diable, and in all the quarters
which they inhabit there is the utmost oonsternation
and dismay. Too muck audit cannot be etzpenerito
Via`ef coomable, Wand Law, sod
Wars, end WI dims whe opted with
them in the septares, *ore dread se quietly
that few persons sane aiding. about than until they
saw the pIiSIONI staraten. imele. sad guided by
• Wang pore el aimed peismea, tin Whey station.
Then aere as • rash at matisussa sod aminaise to the
policeoemi to be sworn as sada screakelke,and within a
cart time wrack of poo had had the adh administered
to them Their esaless, it is will los re-
quired on Monday when the areM be heraght
hack to Merthyr for end es the lesitas are
wetly more numerous then anybody mid&
their " circles," anticipated in this town, there
is no knowing at present what they may
net be mad enough te ease* Oa the isoalig the
weans it was hinny lawn asap tie Ida pepelation,
and very few Irish ware as about the Maas ; tI cer-
tainly as not known to theweelonsa wheals hem thou
beds until they got into the weeks. It was than ebbed by
the night men that so man Mama lad ham "sobbed
daring the night, and gradeaft a reashed the ears of
the Irish labourers. Not long ~wale • asevemsat was
perceptible amongst them—some slush away as if anxious
not to be seen—others dropped their shovels and walked
off briskly, but the cense of this saddest and unusual de-
parture from work was in • aseae?t t to the Welsh
workmen, who Weed • alma el ' " drep their
tools and followed the hishare, who gesaily- hope to
run. There was then an maim sleek a slam al seems.
cinders, and pieces of irca being sent sits the fugitives
until they had cleared the weeks. This deneasstration of
hostile feeling bed the offset of driving scam of Irishmen
out of the works during the day, and essaget them
it is feared there
polare many leading men when
would
aims
be ircwi eeff
WI th the ies, and whose liberty
lardl by tarrying lager in this
It is certain that 14111/All committees have been treed :t
convenient places in the back skate for some time part, and
oontributiona have been regularly levied ; bat thise places
have been so well watched and parded by somata that the
police have been completely checkmated until the capture
of Casey and Coffee. The gas works and powder maga-
zines are now closely watched. Most of the men taken on
Tuesday an, or have been, in various militia regiment!,,
and though rough-looking fellows, they had quite • mili-
tary bearing. One of them had a revolver in his posses-
sion when captured, and all of them had perenalca caps.
The centre had a Fenian oath book.
On Weduseday night the police, under Superintend.
•

BOW-STR.BET.
A well-dressed, portly woman, of about 35 or 36 years of
age, named Elizabeth Apses Mery Stephenson*, wee brought
up in custody of Sergeant Spited, of the City Detective
Force, charged with having forged a cheque for 951. upon
the Bloomy branch of the -London and Westminster
Bank, purporting to_ be signed by Mr. Archibald Scott
Lawson of 31, Unsoin's-inn-fields, solicitor.
Mr. Roy, of the firm of Roy and Cartwright, solicitors
to the London sad Westminster Bank, conducted the pro-
secution ; and Mr. Buchanan, of Basinghellatreet,
defended.
Archibald Scott Lawson, solicitor, 31, Lineoln's-inn-
fields, said—The cheque produced was banded to me by
the London and Westminster Bank, after they had paid it.
I returned it to them, pronouncing it a forgery, the signs.
tare notbeing in my own handwriting. I believe the cheque
to have been filled up by the prisoner. Mrs. Stephenson,
with the exception of the signature, which appears to be
in the handwriting of John Collr, who is or was her
servant. I know the prisoner. She was a client of mine.
Crceoexamined by Mr. Buchanan—l acted as solicitor
and smarms:anis to Mrs. Stephenson and on one occasion
I told John Collyer, who had left 'his mistier, that he
might return to his duties. There was no further interest,
in fact, towards Mrs. Stephenson, than that of a man wish-
ing to promote a person almost forlorn and helpless to a
better position. I certainly went with the prisoner et
Dover to take a house for • lady, a friend of hers. I have
slept at that house, but there has never been any improper
intimacy between us. I also once took her to the Lord
Warden Hotel. I have certainly visited Mrs. Stephenson
during her indisposition at her lodgings in Doughty-street.
I emphatically deny having given her permission to fill up
blank cheques and sign with my name. Nor should I give
leave to any one elm for the same purpose. The last time
I met her was Tuesday, the 17th of December. On that
morning my clerk, who was with use at Dover, mum up to
town by the first train. I was to come by the second.
The servant came to me and asked me if I had any direc-
tions to give him. I will swear it was not the prisoner
who came to me. I slept in one bedroom and she in
another bedroom on the same floor. All the, bedrooms are
on one floor. There are but two floors in the house.
The prisoner—l said, " Archie, is there anything you
want ?" He said, Tell Stokes (the clerk) to tall Mr.
Britten (another clerk) to send a blank cheque ; then you
fill up that cheque and pay the Dover tradesmen's bills."
I afterwards met him in town and told him I had filled up
the cheque for 951. and paid the bills, and then we went
to the Grosvenor Hotel and slept there.
Mr. Lawson—l deny ell that.
Sir Thomas Henry—But then it must be denied in a
form for which you can be held responsible.
Mr. Lawson—l will deny it in any form you plasm. I
mean, in any form that will reify the ends of substantial
justice. flame no recollection that the prisoner sated me
if I had any commend+ for London.
Sir Thomas Henry—That won't do, and you as a solicitor
ought to know better. Will you pledge your oath that she
did not say so?
Witness—To the beet of my recollection, and one can
only speak to the best of one's recollection, she did not.
The servant I distinctly recollect doing so.
Crossammination continued—Witness was told by his
cashier that the clerk (Stokes) had directed a blank cheque
to be sent down. The prisoner did not tell witness that
she had got a cheque for 951. She told him something
shoot 951., but he thought that related to, and was part
of, a sum of 1,6951., to which he underetood she was en-
titled from the lady already refined to. Knew that she
had bills unpaid in Dover. She told him she had paid ell
the bills. Ile knew that referred to bills supplied to the
house taken in his name. Had been in the habit of
making advances of money to her. Did not know whether
she wanted him to give her a cheque. She told him she
bad paid 141. for • quarter's rent, 251. to a wine merchant,
end something to a jeweller. The wine had been drunk
by her, by himeslf, and by guests. Not all of it, there
was some left now. Some of the guests were
invited by her and some by himself. Those
he invited were previously known to her by my
introduction. One was aclergyman. He had introduced her
to him as Mrs. Stephenson—not as his wife, client, ward,
or amanuensis. He had originally known her by being swot
for to make her will when she was ill and supposed
to be in extreme.
The witness here observed that the cross-exszoination
was evidently directed to show en illicit cameo/on be-
tween him and the reoner. He could prove that it was
simply • pot connexion.
Sir T. Henvy said the witness mistook the purpose of
the erommaniniation, which was to show that she had
authority to sign the cheque, and that elm applied the
money to pay bills incarria on his behalf for goods sup-
plied to • hones taken in his mane.
The Minus maid be denied the authority, bat he ad-
mitted that the goods (except the jewellery) were for
their joint use ; and lie fully and sincerely believed that she
had applied the money bothe payment of these seseniote.
Sir Thomas Henry pressed the witness with same severity
upon the question whether he thought himself justified in
withholding those facts from the bank.
The witness mid he gave the information as soon as be
had the opportunity.
Sir Thomas Henryosaid it wee not wo. He had reburied
the oblique as forged, though he knew it was signed by the
perms who had n, to say the least Of it, soejointly cm-
espying the hones batman his name, sad knew also that the
applied to pay bills for goods which had been
sfor
ome benefit sin with her.
s demean on points of detail,
Sir Themes Henry said it was of no nee keeping up the
ease any longer. It was clear the charge soul& sot be sus-
tained, and squally clear that the bank were authorised in
debiting Mr. Lemma with the 951.
Mr. Lawson—l am wining to pay It.
Sir Themes Henry (to Mr. Roy) —I suppose that is all
Tai.
went?
M. Roy—Certainly. I mint observe that we gave her
in eastody consequence of sommaniestions from Ms.
laween's alert and brotherin-law.
proSirpriThoems Henry—The bank have soled with parted
Lemon was quitiwining that the 'large should he
withdrawn.
Sir Thomas Henry—The charge le diendszed. There
=
retinae tor giving the primrose into onstedy en •
charge.
mers4,~7IIIIIVED-

and armed with cu proceeded to Howls*
where• list of names war gate through and • number
selected as being probably within sac that night. Some
of these men were ascertained to be in the works and
others in bed. The constables were distributed in the
locality of each house or the pert of the works where
the delinquents were at work, but kept out of sight to
avoid suspicion. They were all within hearing of
whistle. The first man captured was one
"Mideleilagnn, who was taken from his work. After him
ease David Berry, who was taken out of bed. His land-
lady attempted to make a noise, but was kept in quiet by
threats of arrest. Two brothers, named Jots and Michael
Whelan, and Patrick Coughlin, were afterwards captured
and in the morning, whilst going to work, a sixth, named
Thorns Macmabon, was apprehended. They all denied
the charge when stated to them, and feigned astonishment.
They were brought to the station at Merthyr very quietly,
and very few persona knew of their arrest until after they
had gone to the railway elation. Yesterday morning
they were brought before Mr. Fowler on the
charge of treason felony, which they all denied. Superin-
tendent Wrenn applied for • remand of the primers till
Monday. Mr. Fowler said if he had any evidence
that could be given to-day, he should like to has
it. Mr. Wrenn said he had, and called Michael
Keaton, who said he knew the prisoner Flynn.
whom he. bad accompanied, on the invitation of Casey, one
of the prisoners at Swansea, to a meeting on the mountain,
where Doran and many others had assembled for drill.
At that time they were disturbed by Inspector Howlett,
and bad to run home by various routes over the hill. Mr.
Fowler asked the prisoners whether they had any gues-
time to put to the witness. Flynn replied that it was
beneath his dignity to hold conversation with a base
informer, who would sell • man for • loaf of bread ; he
hoped he should never see him again, for if be did he
(meaning Keaton), would be • dead man before night.
The prisoser continued to use violent and abusive tan
-
pugs until the magistrate expressed his surprise at ouch
conduct. Flynn then said Beaton could not swear that he
, was • Fenian. Prisoners were then remanded to Cardiff
gaol till Monday. It is rumoured that Coffee, in custody
at Swamis gaol, has turned informer.

Till WO= ellthlth or AIMS AT COAL
When the arms and ammunition were selected,
put into the sick, and removed, the leader, addressing Mr.
Thomas Alpert (who, and not his father, as it was first
erroneously stated formed the third person attending the
shop at the moment) said, " Now, sir, we intend to act
fairly by you. We have put the revolvers in the sack in-
discriminately and without counting, but on the first op-
portunity I promise you I shall send you a statement of
the numbeer of revolvers we have taken." By the second
post on Tuesday afternoon, however, Mr. Alpert received
a letter bearing the Cork postmark, which upon opening
he found to he nothini lees than the document so cow,
teously promised by his visitor. Having perused its con-
tents, Mr. Alport immediately placed the missive in
the hands of Mr. Hamilton. resident magistrate. The
letter stated that, agreeably to promise, the writer now
begged to inform Mr. Alpert that the number of revolvers
taken from him wee 63. The writer further expressed •
hope that the rather unexpected visit of himself and con
Realms did not cause Mr. Alpert any annoyance or occa-
sion him very Moos trouble, and trusting that Mr. Al-
port would have breakfast ready at their next visit, con-
cluded by strongly recommending for promoMn the con-
stable who WA st the opposite ide of the street on duty
while the attack was being made. The letter was sign
" Captain Mud," and was written in a fair hand, evidently
withoutanyeffortatoonoselment. At first it wasthought the
letter might have been a hoax of some wag or mischievously
inclined person, as no doubt many of the flaming epistles
lately published have been. But connecting circumstances
dissipated this impression. Firstly it was the receipt of
the letter itself brought clearly to Mr. Alpert's reoollee-
ties the promise of the writer, and secondly it Mates
with what Mr. Allport bellevesto be perfect accuracy the
number of arms taken. It may be added that Mr. Al-
port, having arranged to send in • claim for compensation
for the loss the revolvers, made a careful celoulation of
the number taken, and is perfectly satisfied that the re-
turn given in the letter is correct, although be has mat in
his return to the authorities at 60. The arms were of
different capacities and qualities, ranging in value
hem N. 10a. to 51. The owner in his 'combination
skim sets an average value on the Mire of 31.
10s. sash, the total claim thus amonating to
210 i. Isms husidents of the sonars whisk had not
is iir..asilisil sing be intruarling. Wbsn wparty bad
I wed soramei the rewsthen, esatimptiously m-
=Nonth as Meth er isforim quality and showing in
ash* the dissthaiaMins of =tia familiar with
mmo, the bathe, idle from Om lose Iffr. Alpert under
moimp. asked est sprolicassa whether he bed
w, es is said they wasted soma to match the
ems they bad lessomad. Mr. Alpert said there ms am-
zeniths in the shop, withrtapon they demanded • mpOy.
la the sot of sear hang they came upon a large z
containing a quantity of breech-leading ammunition,
with one peony, at cartridges for muses-loaders on
the top. Ono et the party, a young man apparently
last mere than eighteen or twisty man of age, asked
Mr. Alpert abed lad el sainainition it ins, and that
gantlemsa, tithing up Me Sthile whet from smog the
ether mid.
liter least hesitation, " This is
treseriP amtheand yea haws got only bremir
isothro." The follow took the packet, and Inking
at the damp to en wt Mr. Alpert spoke truly, coolly
pat it is his posh*. owing, "I me this is for &Oath
reathor. Well, I happen to have a revolver et that Mad.
and this will same me meth" Whoa the leader,
entronlag in quit* a swam with Mr.
drawl him his bodied mu.44ftuton its atlt
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thismaidp, Mr. put out his John Purchase, a ebiblebA, was Merged on a In-
bar/ to Woo the ebTrospie —ti 0 threw their- nee with assaulting Mazy Ann
withers tho weapon with a knowing wink. Garage Leigh*, The warrant ma= in rilashreffilisra
fortzemadmi— No thank
ase—Mith isoold hardly d yesamoss.
Ypinfer homing this mats myna "--a Prosembrr IntgliVitiikiwas at SO, Bombers=
pisamatry which his oonmsaiono seemed logijkim-v said—last Illandry t„ above 10.30, ths
smody. The last words d the leader on the same and salmi hr 146. osal. Witmer, PAN,.
bosoms, Wire • waning ID Me Srietthith R. said, " liandey, raid be tosnid mow lam sad be than mid ho
Isstii:e have "Sid • wise part. and have Weald .811 dim Anse* pm Amon kis theme if be
laved Tow h 7 thug sa You raw yea not re. maw to the door. No thota rime withal sad nesitelby
silt. I warn yea rat to follow ... mad M any of as amid lanc
tyke." And lire.Eluswiten Ma, Kerby came mid month* ftho
got into teoulds, I advise yen not to thee= la. Take to sin& far the. lial=
7.th this Warning tag leader, following his amorists', die• Net to dothal shop, mid it was a bawdy
sippiesi.--(brit lisinsiour. wad hoe araw.c. dee lithe fir the paths. 1,4 ..4
eNSEEMS:r
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allit
il. boil 4 , Mr. Ralph Ikeakko to seam Mad the WWI&
mr=irsireirman of the dock nil pool 14.416,
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