The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-01 00:00:00

GItEr.SA7CII

C 70.-1.., Ile Dr, ' '''''''''' wilfully alterim; a
telegraphic signal at the Ih.ptford station of the London and
14.1 nu iq li Rilway.
Jelin St, Wag, who hoe charge of the telegraphic signals
at t' Ihtpifor I station. stated that on the snivel of the IU 2
main from Luthon on the yrevirais nigh., he mitt7lond, as
enuil, to the 1., en nt the Noah Rent £nncGon, to " Ship ell
we," t.rol re,eivid a sign al that the ni: had nnistd. Ile
11 na I. signal room to attend to th., outride dam!, r
t.i.tnal, when Le heard a pound fr om the contr, and a signet
we:-..giircd from titman 3' the juntii-m, acknowle 1g ing the
t &Opt of a 'menage Lea Doptfura of "All dear.' Ile hal
not sent ouch a eawage, and he then saw the prio-ner coming
oat of the sign Itrunm. It was iwmtdi to ly after found tutu
un intlimper shine had arrived at Cris ea lan to the efilict that
then, line wan Mocked, which was not 11.0 care. The it• i-
roner was the -lily poreon in or n, at- thu signal-TOOl.ll at lite
time these races:ages were sent, and was accordingly given
Into custody. Ile win aselstant to a gracer at Deptford.
The netgistrate, attar referring to the tot, derided to penal
flu stunner fur laid, when isle. Rana applied for a remand,
in lit to prove tied rho prisoner had b'en four yearn in the
rvice t.f the Circa Wuhan Railway Company—a fart of
itnp rtance, es she hag that the prisoner knew the nature and
bra patan,43 of the, rignala.
The prisoner, who inertly remarked that he had been four
month, only in the employ of the Great Western Company,
was thin remanded.

RXTRAORBLVARY CASE OF lAITOSTCRB.
I'LBSOATATION OF ABSENT RELATIVES.

At the adjourned tes,ions at Stafford, on Thurs-
day, an old man named Thomas Beardmore, idiot John
Mobley, aged 63 j era, pleaded guilty to two charges of
obtaining money and goods under fells pretences at Leek
and Stone. Tko eircunistrinces under which the frauds were
practieed are so extraordinary that wo give a brief outline of
the facto, Re they would have been more fully discloaed if the
charges hint been investigated by a jury. The prinoner, whose
real name is John Mobley, is a native of Weston Turvil,
near Aylvadrury. For some time he has retorted to a aerie. of
inqsatures, los favourite character being tbrit of a n tumid
convict, and in that panonation he was deacrilxvi in the
l'oliee Gazette of September 2as having in: Teed upon an
old woman, named Ilannah Duckworth, near Burnley, Lan-
cashire, by representing himself as her non. At a later date
at Leek, titafiordebire, be represented hims:lf to be • man
named krederiek Cox, who hd been transported about 19
years previously. In consequence of the phew-dile tele he
told, and Lie accurate krocledge of events veld, h had trans-
pired before Coyle transportation, he wee kept for nearly a
month at the house of a married daughter of the convict.
Cox'. wife, supposing her husband to have been dead, had
untried again, and, although it is scarcely ceolible, the
silly woman was so completely convinced that the prisoner
wu her long missing partner, that she left the men whom
she had monied, end lived with the prisoner as his wile.
He told her that he woe posaresed of 1,700 f., part or all of
which lie had put into the bank; and upon ha statement
being questioned, he took the daughter of the old woman
to the bank, left her at the door, and on returning Re-
sided her it was all right, end that he bad drawn 1001.
on acoonnt. The rams afternoon he ancomranied her
to several shops in Leek, wbcre he ordered goods; but
the dn./Trion being Hindi afterwards discovered, Beard-
more, fearing the conaequences, conveyed hireself away
from the locality. Soon after this he stationed himself at
Stone, where he effected an introduction to Lydia Hawk's'',
representing that he was her bueband, who heel been trans-
ported 30 years before. The ranee kind of aatoniabing cre-
dulity which induced Mrs. Cox to take him as her hciabodl
operated with Mrs. Hawking, and al he told her of the I,Blo'.
he had in the bank, which he had got as a gold-digger, she
began to think the lapse of time might hare altered his fea-
tures and eppearance, and for the space of five weekehe lived
in the house as her husband, during which period she gave
him money and articles of clothing. At length, some grave
doubts were aroused in her mind se to his identity and the
money he profited to have, and finding the place becoming
too warm for him, he quietly left and did not return. He
subsequently elined elf a similar imposition at Teen, where
he represented himself to be a returned convict named Tho-
rns' Beardmore, who 25 years previously had been banished
from hia country, cud he so effectually carried out the de-
, oeptinn that not only Beardmore's relative,, but many of the
inhabitants, were imposed on, his altered appearance being
attributed to the har&hips he had undergone.—Oa Friday
morning he wee brought up again, and sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment with herd labour.— Mmicrinter
Guardia,.

EXPLOSION OF A STEAu-rto.—Tbe New York
papas my that au the 14th the tug Sprague blew np, shoat
half • mule above Detroit, near the middle of the river, while
to the schooner Sunshine. The tug ms immediately.
The captain and second engineer were saved ; the second en-
gineer was seriously injured. Of the nice men on bawd at
the time of the explosion mesa disappeamtl, euppoeod to be
killed or drowned. The mune of the exploeion had not been
ascertained.