The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-10 00:00:00

SWINDLING AT LIVERPOOL.

At the Liverpool Police Court, on Tuesday lit,
Mark Noble, a young man of genteel address, eras brought"!
on remand, before Mr. Atkin, at the pollorcourt, on a chew
of obtaining 'event some of money, and also • eet of hunea,
by false tations. He had gone to several cook.
builders ordered articles to the extent of some 7001 to
8001., by repronenting that he had dropped Into a fortiey
and that he qua carrying on a large bbeesatlmniv„ and had •
establishment at Cabbage Hall. He had likewise bought.
set of hems. for 31. um the representation that he est
acting on behalf of a gentleman tamed Worrell.
Mr. John Itimmer said he war a coach-builder in ptee
brae-place, and that on the let of August the prisoner cum
to his premises end gave him en order fur a cab for 131., r►
faring him to Mr. Worrell, who, he said, was assisting him
with mosey. He promised to pay a deposit of 301. as the
Wednesday fullow.ng. He stated that he hadjut partierd
another car. After giving the order he went away, eel
come hack in the course of an hour or two with • pistil
' paper, and said, . Oh, Mr. Rivimer, I can't run tket of
until I get the transfer filled up, and as the gourmet
offices close at three o'clock, will yon lend me 10... u I in
abort of money to pay fee the trunks'?" Witness kat
the 10s., and the prisoner gave him an I 0 U, upon se
which he remarked that the writing of the I 0 U ad
the transfer were the sane,. The deposit of 30!. which tie
prisoner promieed to pry on the Wednesday following bat
not been paid.
Mr. Barton Wilson, coach•builder, Lironetreet, raid the
prisoner called upon him on the 24th of August and said hi
wanted to purchase a wetted-hand car. He war shown am
which he mid he should like to have, but the prim, 13111,
was rather high. Upon witrou asking his time, Tfieut-
sone' said, Oh, you knew my father and my gran
who ran the omnibuses to the Old Swan;" he also said that
he had got 2504. from Mr. Hughes, at Waustru, std thst
he keptlfr. Simeomes stables at Cabbage-hall. On Weber
day be would pay him 701., and on the following Wednesday
the remainder; but be had not paid either of the amounts.
Mr. Worrell disproved the prisoner's allegation of •
authority bum him.
There were a number of other awes of a similar mat=
against the prisoner. He was remanded for seven deyt.

GALLANT RESlsTANCE.—Sounders' Netts Letter
of this morning publishes the subjoined commtmiestion froa
the King's County .—" A desperate attempt at tottery ma
murder was made at Cherry-garden, sear
this county, the residence of Mr. Samuel Dooley, wlicear,
but which happily woe defeated by the promptitude ml
bravery of Aar. Eldon Dooley, that gentleman's Fos. Tbt
circumstances are as follows Sunday morning WI
between the boars of ten and eleven o'clock, Mr. Dods),
sen., wan from home, and the only initiates in the Igen
were his son, the above young gentleman, and hie daughter;
they were preparing fur chureli, when five men broke epee
the hall door, entered the ball, and arrested MM
Booby, demanding food. One of thew fellows int •
armed
with • pistol and the others with bludgeon.
Mr. Dooley, who wes upetairs, hearing the air •
arbanee, armed Mooed/ with a douLle•barrelled gas,
and was proceeding down weir* when he was met we
the top by the fellow who had the pistol. This he fa. 111
charged at Mr. Dooley. and the contents took effect is In
ceiling over his head. Mr. Dooley thereupon deals/gold
hits one of the battle of the gun, w Lich did not ewe tie
take effect. Ho inatently tired off the other, and the clurP
lodged in the breast of the intended soauois, who toppla
over the balustrades and fell into the ball. Ilia corn
evidently surprised and alarmed at such on nnexpaied
os
determined resistance, rebel, bearing off the wounded ml
possibly dead associate with them. So soon as Mr.
could with prudence venture abroad an alarm was giveiri
a pursuit and march were set on foot by the po•e, rbt
disarmed erring traces of blood, sod also in a meant' s cot'
tarot a bloody shirt, and a woman then found in the hose
admitted that a wounded man had been there, end that the
shirt had bees taken of biro. It is oinjectured
man is deed and buried in the adjoining bog. Solt4 •
being mole to discover it if so, and the police are endemic'
Mg to apprehend the rest of the party, who ore supped W
bl
strangers."
REMARKABLE CIRCILMSTANCE.—OE Friday mow
log last, at about tea o'clock, a large fall of thhoin ten
=at the Penydarren Bridge Lcrel, and maple*
In sin men, who were working about a toile from thl
month of the heals All the bands that could work met
employed to extricate them, but other falls continued!.
take at various puts of the level, and it was Mt I.
one a clock on the following morning that they coca la
released. The name* of the parties blocked in mit'
Edward Lewis. aged 70; William Evans, aged 65% 41111
Davies, 40; John Evans, haulier, 35; John liiiKthN
and Thomas Jones. The Mate of mind of the well 0.
families of the men eaa be better Imagined than desetitsit
but after they bad bean in about ten hours the agents of dlt
works ware enabled to army them they were all eat
There ta still a horse In the level alive, but it is wype~
tl
that it will tam a sank to rename the rubbish to get .
out. By means of a hole through which the
themselves pawed a pewee is enabled to take water ma
gadder to the ani,o.l, and the place is well proPla 111
pierent the earth billing on it—Somme Recall.
LONDON GINKNAL ONNINCe CONIPANTe.Thge
receipts km the week ending Sept. 5, 11,1771.9` 41.