The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-11 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

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Fri Mans Iraldol% • weilmdemseil yyooaaV
oogg man, formerly a
clerk in the service of the Southßailway and
River Dun Coal Company
_mil who had hem approliended
at Tomato by Spin*,
_the deadline/Am, ma brought be-
im Mr. Alderman Hall, upon tic. charge of having an-
ad& the moneys of his employers.
Mr. Humphreys appeared in support of the pmemation,
and Mr. wormer attended on the part of the prisoner.
Mr. Humphreys seld—Sir, in this nee I have to trouble
you on the part of the South Yorkshire Railway and Rime
Dun Coal Company whose clerk the prisoner at the bar
was, and the complaint aganat him la that on divas
(medians he received money for and on screant
of lila masters, the company ; that it was his
duty to have paid that money into the
house of Memo Cants and Co. the ambers of
Bonfield, who filled a &notion of treat in the company; that
between the 6th and the 18th May in the prase& yew, Ite
caved • variety of sums amounting altogether to OW. Os. 3d.,
which mos ies he ought to have paid into the banking-Maws of
Masers. Currie and Company. Ho did not do so, bat ab-
mended from his employment, and, upon information of the
hot being riven here so Ion( ago as the 3rd June lest, the
Lard Hamm was plowed to grant a warrant for th•avoner's
apprelimeks for the felony I have mentioned. That
warrant wee outlasted to a very diligent and respectable
racer of the City of London, of the name of Spittle,
who went with the Secretary of Stota'a authority to Canada,
and thee's, I think at Toronto, he apprehended the prisoner.
He brought him to London yesterday, and the prisoner is
before you to-day to:annwer than charge.
J. Spada, the detective officer, was then sworn, and said—
Os the ird an. last the warrant for the prieonmeeq:srwr in
ehen-
dempradneed was grantedgrantedby
_the Lord Mayor, and aced
soy Wok for execution. After inetitutinp I pro-
seeded to Canada, end apipmhmaded the prisoner on the 30th
July lost et an hotel, celled the litoria House, at Toronto,
when he wee pawing under en amused name.
Mr. J. F. Hicholll ma en accountant in thrill
Cool Department of the South Yorkshire Railway Hirer
Dun Company. On the 3rd June lest I came to the Ham
.ion-house, and made the deposition produced, upon which
the warrant for the prams?' apprelismon ma granted.
The deposition was put in evidence. It was to the effect
that it was the duty of the primmer, who had been nearly
two years in the employment of the prosecutor in the cops-
city of junior clerk, to pay the daily cash balances to the *c-
omet of Mr. J. C. Handad, the manager of the company,
at Mane. Curries' banking-home ; that various
amounting to 691. 3d.. belonging to the company.,w
been paid to the primmer, and had not been amounted
for by him, and that the prisoner had not been
to the prosecutor's office eft. rho 19th of May
last. The deposition concluded a. follows —On or about the
15th of May last, the said William Waidon, as I am in-
formed and believe, received the following cheques to
remit to a Mr. George Copley, at Great Grimsby,
in the county of Lincoln, which he neglected to
do, and instead theme( paid the name cheques
to his own account at Mean. Barclay 8e,,.,
aid Company's, bankers, namely, one of the Indemnity
Assurance Company for 1211. 3s. lid., one of the Royal
Amarsace Company for 1081., ono of the Merino Aneuranes
Company for Ur, and one of the London Amman, Com-
pany for 531. 17a. 4d."
The witness having formally stated that the deposition he
ad made, and upon which the warrant hod been granted,

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Mr. Humphreys !applied fora remand, which wee not ob-
jected to by r. Wonmer.
The piaster, on whose person Spittle, the Of BOIT, found
8601. at the time of him apprehension, ma then remanded.

CLERKENWELL.
George Taylor Catlin, a surgeon, residing at 10, York-
terrace, St. Paul's-road, Islington, wee charged on remand
with obtaining, by mean. of • forged order, front Mr.
Coulter, • stomach pump of the value of 21. 10s. ; Moo on
suspicion of stealing from 26, Burton-mercent, • valuable
epeculum and a pocket cam of surgical instruments, the pro-
perty of the Royal General Dispensary, Burton-crescent.
The facts of the owe have already appeared in this journal.
The prisoner waa admitted to bail, but on the present coca-
pion the gentleman said that the prisoner was in such a state
of nervous excitement that be was unable to attend, and they
therefore asked for an adjournment for • fortnight. When
the prisoner was being brought up by the railway by eer-
giant Chonn, 6 E, he Egad to he glowed to put his bend
under one of the wheels.
The case was wijournsi kr a fortnight.
WESTMINSTER.
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Nary lindy, • gM between ii;nll6 years of age, was
elated with ill-basting Lawrence Shea, a child of two years
old.

The child's mother, who lives at No. 1, Wood's-bulldinge,
Chelsea, at eight o'clock in the mooning went out to work,
leaving the child and cos still youngr in charge of the girl
Healy. On ,her return she found the child with sewers
tociisse on its body and limbs, and the girl silmitted that
the child would not Wood to ler ohs heat it, gut with her
hand and then with a man, which was kept in the kitchen.
The prisoner, whoappeasssi sorry for what she bad door,
was committed for trial.