The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

THE POLICE COUBTS.

MANSION-110USE.

INTERIM° A FORGED CHEGUE.—A lad named Knight
was broil:lit before the 'died Mayor, charged with having
preaeltel a forged cheque for Ma 10s., at the Union Bank,
tnyrincesatreet, of which Sir Peter Laurie Is the chairman.
. .

Mr. Pullingei, cashier in the Union Bank, Uit.l the
prisoner presented the cheque at the counter on Saturday,
and asked for two 1001. nutee and the rest in gold. The
cheque purported to be drawn by Themu Young and Co.
in favour of Mr. Cardwell. Messrs. Young and Co. kept
an account at the Union Bank. The signature was a very
close Imitation of that in the pass book, and witness was
not quite fare that it was a forgery. He asked the
prisoner from whom he had received the cheque,
to which the lad replied, " from Mr. Cardwell, who is
waiting at Mincing-lane Chamben for me." Witness then
accompanied the pti,oner to the house of the customer of
the firm in Mark-lane, and there ascertained that no draft
of the kind had been itsned by Mr. Young. Measures were
then ad( peed to catch the party who had employed the boy
to utter the cheque ; but the dell, quent, who had no doubt
taken care that the neighbourhood was well watched, was
not to be found.

The Lord Mayor compered the signature to the cheque
with that of Mr. Young in the bank book, and said the simi-
litude was very well executed.
Tee thing which crested surprise was, that anybody could
have doubted for • moment that the writing was Mr.
Young's, upon conspiir!son with that gentleman's signature
in the pass book. The cheque, it apptared, had been taken
oat of the cheque beg k of the firm.
It WS, quite evident that the prisoner had no knowledgs
of the danger of his mission to the banking house. We
understand that he bad been taken is by means of • trick,
which has frequently been played off by swindlers, and
other thieves, who, through the medium of newspapers, get
into their employment young fellows is want of situations,
send them for champ of huh notes in the first instance, and
then when they have made an impression as to their business
and respectability, intrust their dupes with the more onions
ome of one cheques, an I employ their emissaries to mark
the proceedings upon the offer of the forged instrument He
had been engaged by the person who called himself Mr.
Cardwell, for whom he had got change of • Bank of England
note far 101., after which his new master had sent him to
perform the more important aloe of getting the cheque
gashed.
The can was adjourned to a future day.
GUILDHALL.

CHAU). or CRUM TO 4 CHILD. Mr. 61111110 Id
Kenealy,banister, of No. 4, South-equant, Grey's-inn, was
brought up in custody, on the {Marge of cruelly beating his
child, who went order the name of Edward Hyde.
The tots of the treatepent of the child have already ap-
peared, and it will be recollected that Elizabeth dummies,
the defendant's housekeeper, was at the last examination de
tabled in custody, it being thought advisable to hold her to
bell to appear nest Wednesday.
The child was placed on the table before the alderman,
sad repeated the statement of bow he had been treated, but
said that although he was hung up, it was not by the meek,
but his hands were tied together, and he was then hung up.
He was partly stripped, and the wounds, which had such a
shorkiug appearances on Wednesday and Friday last, were
fast healing.
Mr. K.ealy stated that be bad treated the child with
kladaeae, and denied that he was so cruel se had been repre-
sented in the gamete of the case pat forward In the news-
papers, which, he asserted, were highly coloured. He did
Hat deny baying bean a the child, but he bad done so only
as a parent should, sad not with undue severity. He then
put a number of questions to the boy es to whether he did
not behave kindly to hire. allow him to hiss his (delendent's)
hand, wash sad dream him, bay hiss toys, ikc., wash hint
some due roils, imbed kiss in reading sad writing, and re-
prove hiss if he told a Mt, to all of whist otiestless the boy
gays a reedy reply in the eariaative.
The child was agile ozblblitad, and the result was hisses
from met parts of *B)ll4We-room
Btr Peter Laurie oWd Is would be nocessuy no remand the
use for the oorilmos of a surgeon and moo atber wi i
in in thin lala a Om du a jag to dm*. Kaa=

remand this use until Thursday. and would take bail him-
self in SOL, and two sureties in 401.
A cabman stepped forward, and said that if the Alderman
would permit hum be would take the child borne and bring
it up with his children.
Oh?. Laurie said he could not do anything of the sort.
Several persons in court, who had heard the cue, had made
applioations, and at them was the name of a
kmlett wad known In the s adleal world. Be appreciated
the good feeling that prompted such offers, but he had to
pair to dispose of the child in such a way.
Mr. Keenly was bailed out and the female &um
diseharpd.