The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-12 00:00:00

THE ROBBERY OF A CHEQUE AT THE GLOBE

INSURANCE OFFICE.
SENTENCE.

Watts Wets, the late lessee of the Olympia aced Mary-
Isbene theatres, was placed at the bar to receive Jodi/meat.
Mr. Brow Aldereen, in peeving senteses, meld that the
phew, but hem eanvisted, at the May seesieme, of the et
bass of steishai a pisse of paper, tie property of the Glebe
beenresee Company, to whom he was servant, but a
paint wee reserved for consideration by the Criminal
Curt of Appeal, which had been decided against him,
lad be yea to resolve sestesee apes that conviction. The
swam., eseardiag to the 'lndian of the jury, appeared to be
of. very trivial character, seemly, merely stealing • piece of
paper, bat is point of fact the piece of paper in question was
• *ogee, representing the stun of 1,4001., which um he had
eggiggriated to his own use, and his object la steam/ sad
thitserig the cheque was to prevent a discovery of his
gam. Although, therefore, he was only convicted of
Missimg a piece of paper, it was perfettly clear that
he must have either forged the cheque in ques-
tion, or that he had stolen It from his em-
ployers, and is either cue the offence wee of a most se-
rious character, and there was very little doubt that this
was not the oily eau in which he had pinudeted the cent-
rimy. The court would therefore pass a sentence upon him
for what be really had done, and not for the particular charge
upon which he had been convicted, and he thought it right
to make these observations, because it might have
been thought that the punishment he was about to direct wee
a very severe one for the offence of stealing a piece of paper, if
the real circumstances of the case were not known. His
lordship then scrammed the prisoner to be transported for
ten years.
Mr. Bodkin mid that it was not intended to proceed with
say of the other indictments against the prisoner.
It was stated is court that the whole amount of the pri-
soner's defalcations was 80,0001.
Tat CHARON or Tazowtrea A Wires OCT OP Winnow.
Danis! Blackstof Donovan, 33, was indicted for felo-
nionsly costing and throwing Anus Donovan out of a whs.. I
dos to the grouad, with intent to murder her.
In other counts the prisoner was charged with collies and
wounding the pressester with intimate murder her.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prosecution.
The particulars of this case have been frequently pal.
'tatted in the polies reports. The primmer and the prow
estrus, who is his wife, lived at No. 19, flhost's-gardene,l
Drury-lone, and it appeared that on the evening of the
19th April they came home, both of them Wag
istosicated. Alter a short time a quarrel took
place between them, and bad language plated, and
at length the prisoner made a most savage attack upon his
wife, beating her first with his fist and then with a chair ;
end, having broken the chair about her, he eontinued to
beat her most brutally with one of the lege, and a length
the poor woman, la endeavouring to nape at om hie
violence, went to the window, and she either jumped out
or was thrown out by the primmer. The result of
the fall and the other violence used by the prisoner
was that the most dreadful injuries were Inflicted upon the
prosecutriz, and for a coasiderable time her life was der
paired of, end she wee still, It appeared, in • dangerous
condition.
The prisoner In his defence said that he and his wife had
been drinking, and that he attack her upon her abusing
him, and he said that she then threw herself out of the
window.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and sentence of death
was recorded, with an intimation that le would be Maar
ported for Ws.

LAW APPOINTNENTE.—Ii is rumoured that Mee-
ChasseSor Shadwsli vsiges his dace, and that there is •
probability, before the week is out, that Sir John ilossilly,
the new Attorney-General, will encased to the Vim-Chau-
Donorship, and that Mr. Cockburn will be made Attorney.
General, and Mr. Roebuck Solicitor-General. We ars un-
able to souk lea the accuracy of them reports.—Morning
Cheswick.
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