The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

GIIILD!ILLI!.

William Jones remanded, charged with haying portions
of a silver smuff-bon• poseon, supposed to have n
stolen, ma again brought up.
Poliorcamtable 162 stated that ho met the prisoner in
Bethke'', an Tuerday, the 22nd, and stuipecti?g him, he
Wed Um what he had got. Prisoner leplied, Only • bit
, deliver he had found in the City." On examining It, the
polka= found it was a silver mud-box that had been beet
and broken up. The prisoner gave the name Jones, bet re-
Lod to give his addreed The policeman had sines mow-
Mined that the prisoner had given a false name.
Yr. John Probed, surgeon, 6, New Cavendish-street, de-
posed that on Saturday morning, the 19th, between 6 end 7
o'clock, ho went from him house to Devonshire-pleoa, New-
reed, in a hired cab to visit a patient. Afterwards he found
QM he had left his silver snuff-boo In the cab. The broken
plows ;induced were parts of It. The inscription on the
Wide of the lid and the crest on the outside had been erased. ,
Alderman Gabriel (to prisoner)—What have you now to
lay to the charge
Ft the
—I found it in the City, about eight o'clock in the
moniing of the day I wee taken into custody.
Alderman Gabriel—Do you still refuse to give your real
name and address?
Prisoner—l don't like to give it, became it might do me
much harm. I know I did wrong in keeping the Elver after
I found it.
A friend of the prisoner's cams forward and stated that his
oral name was William Nevitt, end that he resided in one of
the streets leading out of Inrroy-equare.
Alderman Gabriel remanded the prisoner for another week,
to enable the police to make further inquiries about him.

HOW•BTREBT.
Mr. liana! Potts, late an officer in the army, who was
het week charged with stealing a 2001. bill, the property of
Mr. Richard Augustus Bingham Jennings, a gentlemen re-
ddlng at 7, PHl:wee-read, Pimlico, and was that rememied
en his own recognieantes, ate/fled, in disoblige thereof,
twin Mr. Jardine.
Mr. Lewis appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Dory
Hutchinson fur the defence.
The evidence of Mr. Jennings having been read over, he
m oroes-exambeact by Mr. B. liatchineen. He positively
swore that be had not received any money on account of the
All, with the exception of 11.4. The 11. was given him by
lefendant at a night hoses In the Haymarket. Had re-
rived one half of a 201. note from defendant.
Kr. Hutchinson—Yon said nothing about that at the lest

anTnin;ticmP
Complainant—No, I was not asked about a half note. I
said I had not reosived a 201. note, and I say so still. The
moos was thirteen or tourteen years old; and when I showed
it to the hotel-keeper, he told um it was the lest resort of a
swindler.
Mr. Hutchinson—Did you not ask him to advance you
money on the half note, and did ho not say that your attempt
to get money in that way was the last resort of a swindler P
Complaisant—No ; he did not say that. I ultimately re-
turned the half note to defendant.
Mr. Hutchinson—What are you ?
Complainant—l was an officer in the sth Infantry Militia.
Mr. Hutelisson—Wee you not discharged for telling
Ems P
Complainant—No • I was not. I was discharged for
writing a letter to the Marquis of Salisbury.
Mr. Hutrbinson—Did you not charge your commanding
officer with having sold commissions ?
Complainant objected to answer the question, observing
that it had nothing to do with the case.
Mr. Hutchinson said it had to do with complainant's credit.
Mr. Jardine said the witness was not bound to criminate
himself.
?dr. Hutchinson—Then you object to say whether you
were discharged for making a false accusation against your
commanding °Seer P
Complainant-1 decline to answer that.
In answer to further questions from Mr. Hutchinson,
Complainant stated that he was in Dublin gaol in 1854,
but was discharged by the court. lie paid no dividend at
that time. He could not swear what his debts were, but
they were not 6,0001., nor 1,0001. Could not say how often
be had been in prison. Was last in the Queen's Bench last
year—(hesitating) this year.
Mr. Hutchinoon—liave yen been in so often that you
cannot recollect when was the hat time? (A laugh.)
Complainant, in answer to further questions, said he had
only been in Whitten:es-street once. That was this year.
Had been at Uxbridge, and stayed at the Whitehorse Hotel.
Whether he paid his bill there had nothing to do with the
case.
lintehineon—Oh yeejt hes. Yon are an Aker, sad
we want to ace whether you are also • gentleman.
Complainant believed there was a balance due. Had paid
him bill at the Royal Albert. Could not say whether be owed
anything at the Taviatock. If he did it was probably put in
the schedule. Tho bill for which these proceedings were in-
stituted was given to him. He did not steal it. Did not
receive it from Mr. Banks personally, but through a Mr.
Ducey. He did not think Mr. Dareey called himself Capt.
Darcey. Could not my whether he agreed to give Mr.
Ducey 601. out of it. Thought there was something of that
son talked about. Did not give hint the money because he
never got it himself. If ie name was not on the bill when he
received it, but he wrote it on Women. Ile had authority
from Mr. Banks, who gave him the bill for his (witness's)

Mr. 11atclin.a—Why f
Complainant—Because he considered himself indebted to
tee
Mr. Lewis, in re-examination, put questions with a view
to retort upon the defendant the charge. implied in the cream-
examination. but was .topped by
Mr. Jardine' who observed that the reran why such
creations wereallowed to be put as regarded the witness was
that they affected his credit, but as the defendant was not •
witness, his credit was not at issue.
Mr. Reginald Chancey repeated the evidence he bad given
en the former occasion. He won a lieutenant in the East
India Company's KTV ie.. lie had nut a retiring pension, but
an invalid maim. Ile was perfectly sure that the note paid
to Mr. Jennings by defendant was a whole note. If it had
been divided that must have been after it cams into cone-
rant'. n.
Mr. Lewis applied for a farther remand in order to bring
forward Mr. Demi, who would produce the bill, and show
that defendant had discounted the bill.
Mr. Hutchinson submitted that there wee no case for a
remind.
Mr. Jardine thought if Mr. Lewis could prove all that he
proceed, there would be no cam for the feS•401111.
Mr. Lewis submitted that it cameo under the Act pared
last erasion. Defendant had received the bill .4 converted
B to his own use.
Mr, Ilutchinson—We admit having ?weird the bill,
but we say it was not a good bill, and wu not worth more
than we gave you for it.
hiss. Jardine thought the provisions of the Act of last ses-
sion could not apply, and as he raw no reasonable proba-
bility of a case being established, he could nut again remand
the lefendant.
&Ma conversation then arose as to a charge referred to at
the last hearing by the solicitor to Mr. Courteney, grandson
of the Earl of Devon.
Mr. Hutchinrin said that the bills referred to in that case
wee egiven to Mr. Potts to get discounted, for which he was
to receive 701. commission. lie found a gentleman who was
wiling to advance the amount required-6001. • but it then
cep eared that Mr. Courtenay no longer required the &mom-
module.% having obtained it in some other quarter. But as
Me. Potts had been at all the trouble, and had performed his
part of the agreement, be demanded to be paid his commis-
sien before giving up the bills.
Mr. Judiee suggested that the bills might be sealed and
depoeited with him, but as Mr. Potts declined to assent, his
worship observed that he had no power to compel him.
Mr. Lewis hoped his worship would remand defendant
till after the 12th, when he (defendant) would be examined
at the Insolvent Court.
Mr. Jardine—l don't think I have any right to keep this
op for your client to feel his way towards making it a crimi-
nal charge. Defendant mast be discharged.
Mr. Hutchinson—l shall now apply for a summons for
perivry aping Mr. Jailing% as lam period with thins

to prove that • 201. note Wm given to him by Kr.

Potts.
Mr. Jardine—Yon mist ley the taforreatim in the tumid

way.
ma puttee then left the eourt.,

Thomas Beaks, aged 43, was charged with feloniously
assaulting and wounding Cornelius O'Shea.
Prosecutor's face was frightfully disfigured; hie nose had
been completely shut up, while a quantity of strapping
resealed two other wounds in the face. lie rated that he
lived at No. 9, St. Anne's-lane, Westminster, in the same
house se the prisoner, and that upon his ream home from
hiawork, at 1-0 o'clock on the previous night, the accused and
his son followed him up to his room, and having locked the
door bade, mid "Now we have got you." He was then
wounded with some sharp instrument, knocked down and
rendered insensible.
Mary C. Sheen, the daughter of prosecutor, a girl about 16
yeses of age, said she followed behind her father up stairs,
when prisoner's eon ran out and used some threat, from
which, apprehending great danger, she put her hand in his,
and kraming him entrutted him not to hurt her father. She
thought she had appeased his anger but in a minute after-
ward. he CMro up stairs with a salvor, such as is used to lift
mortar with, and brandished it about. lie was accompanied
by his baler, who, when they got into her father's room,
had • large white handled knife in his hand, with which he
stabbed her father and ran the knife right through his nose.
At the moment they made the attack bfather sad eon said,
" We have got you now."
Mr. Paynter said the charge was one of a more serious
character than he had had before hint for some time, and the
police moat ma
te moat dilifmt search for the knife. The
worthy magistrate inquired whether the canoe of the attack
had been ascertained ?
The police replied that all they could learn as a reason for
it was that the primmer had complained of the prosecutor
making a great noise going up and down stairs, which ap-
peared to annoy him very much.
Mr. Paynter thought it a strange reason for inch a des-
perate attack, and could not help thinking that there must
have been some other cause. lie suggested that it would be
as well if the police made some inquiries into the matter.
Prisoner wee remanded.