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London, England, 1852-08-25 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY

AUGITST 25. 1852,

quitted by a jury, and that verdict of acquittal re-
corded. He submitted to the court that it was not
now in their power to alter the verdict, and place the
man en his trial again.
Mr. Tue./at:l having gone into the other court to
consult Mr. Witham, returned and said, that he
found he could not alter the verdict, or place the pri-
soner in the hands of the jury again after their verdict
had been recorded.
The prisoner was accordingly discharged.
Mr. SLEIGH, as the case was disposed of, called the
attention of the Learned Magistrate to a case which;he
said authorized the alteration of a verdict under such
circumstances.

John Hollingshead, aged 25, pleaded Guilty to
stealing a silver dish, three silver waiters, and otner
articles, the property of James Telyer Blunt, his
master, in his dwelling-house.
The prisoner was a footman in the service of Mr.
Blunt, gentleman residing in Dorset-square. A
day or so previous to the 7th instant the prosecutor
informed the prisoner that he wished to examine the
plate, but the prisoner requested that the inspection
shobld be held on the following Saturday. This re-
quest was complied with, but on that day be quitted
Mr. Blunt's service without notice, and then it was
discovered that plate and articles to the value of 1001.
were missing.
Mr. PARRY, who appeared for the defence, stated
that the prisoner bore a most respectable character
previous to this transaction. He was disposed to think
that he bad unfortunately become connected with
betting-houses, and this had placed bim in his present
position.
Two witnesses gave the prisoner a good character,
and one of them confirmed Mr. Parry's statement as
to his being a praroniser of betting-offices.
He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment
with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MAN SION-110U USE.
William Ingram, who was on Monday charged
with having obtained goods of the value of 581. 10s.
41d. from Mr. Hall, of Bishopsgate-street, under false
pretences, was brought before the Lord Mayor for
final examination.
Mr. Hall's additional evidence wcs to the following
effect :—At the interview which I had with the pri-
soner after I received his letter he made a statement
to me which induced me to draw a bill upon him for
the amount of the goods. The statement was, that as
they paid alphabetically at the Ordnance-office, and
the 21st of July was the last day the Board paid, his
turn would be about the 14th or 15th of that month,
and he requested me to draw a bill on him and his
son, who he said was his partner, for the amount due
for the goods. This was on the 2d of July. I drew
that bill, believing that the money would be brought
to me before the bill should arrive at maturity, and
believing, also, that he was a contractor with that
Board. The prisoner accepted the bill, which was
made payable at the London and Westminster Bank.
He had previously stated that the money would be
all right, and that if he should receive it before the
day the bill, which I promised to keep, should become
due, he would come to me with it.
The prisoner—You say I mentioned a deal about
the Board of Ordnance. Why, if you depended so
much upon what was said about that Board, did you
ask me to give you the references you received from
me ? Mr. Hall—Because I wished to know some-
thing of you.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you entrust him with
your goods, entirely relying upon the statement that
he was to receive a sum of money from the Board of
Ordnance ? Mr. Hall—Certainly.
The prisoner—Was the Ordnance at all mentioned
when the order for the goods was given ? Mr. Hall
—lt was.
The prisoner—Not a word of it.
Mr. Lloyd, solicitor for the prosecution—Some of
the gentlemen to whom you referred are here to-day,
and you may hear some other cases of this kind.
The prisoner--Very probably. I am able to answer
them all, and able and ready to pay all. I have a
list of characters here. It is not very likely that I,
who have had 1,600 of your poor under me, should
think of committing depredations.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you wish to ask the pro-
secutor any more questions ? The prisoner—No ; I
don't want to hurt his feelings, though he is not very
tender of mine.
Jones, porter to Messrs. Hall and Son, said—l
packed up, on the Ist of July, a great number of
articles in two trusses, which were addressed to Mr.
Ingram, and I took them to the station at Shoreditch.
Mr. Bradley, clerk in the Cash Account-office of
the Board of Ordnance, in Pall-mall, said—lt is part
of the duty of the department to which I belong to
enter all contracts made with persons by that Board.
The prisoner has bad no contract with the Board of
Ordnance during the present year in his own name,
nor conjointly with any other parson, neither has he
to receive any money there. I have searched the books
as to contracts and I do not find him at all entered as
a contractor. I could not find such a name in the
Ordnance contract for the Artillery.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you know who are the
contractors for gun sponges ? Witness—Foxwell
and Son.
The LORD MAYOR—Is the prisoner authorised in
representing himself as the gun-sponge manufacturer
to her Majesty's Board of Ordnance ? Witness---No.
The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, you can question
the witness if you choose.
The prisoner—No, .1 have no question. He has
answered the only point I wished him to speak to.
He has said that Mr. Foxwell is the contractor for
the gun sponges ; and so he is, but he is not the
maker.—(Laughter.) The contract goes in his
name, it is true.
Mr. Lloyd said that was his client's case.
The LORD MAYOR—It is my duty, prisoner, to
send you before a higher tribunal upon the charge of
obtaining goods to the amount of 581. 103. 40. from
Mr. Hall under false pretences.
The prisoner—Under false pretences! That won't
do.—(Laughter.) Where is the fale pretence ? He
has good references, and he has my bill, too, and if
his lawyer had not been impudent, he would have
been paid before this ; but there was no standing his
impudence. That's the fact.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR (to the prosecutor)—Did you
draw this bill, on the 2d of July, upon the prisoner,
believing that he was a Government contractor, and
that he had money to receive from the Board of Ord-
nance ? Mr. Hall—Certainly.
Mr. Lloyd—All the statements made by the priso-
ner from beginning to end have been the grossest
falsehoods. There are several tradesmen present who
have been victimised by him.
The prisoner—I am ready to face them and you.
The LORD MAYOR (to the prosecutor)—Would
you have parted with your goods or drawn this bill if
you had not believed as you have represented. Mr.
Hall—Certainly not.
The prisoner—Why you have sold me hundreds of
pounds worth of goods with and without recommen-
dation.
Mr. Hall—l must have received the ready money
then.
The LORD MAYOR (to the prosecutor)—Did you
ever sea the prisoner previously to this transaction?
Mr. Hall—l have no recollection of ever having seen
him before, but I may have seen !aim.
The prisoner—Why, when I kept the workhouse I
dealt with with you, and I knew, if I never had said a
word about the Board of Ordnance, I should have got
the goods just as easily. But I'll. pay all. I have
quite enough to pay everybody, and Mr. Hall amon g
the rest.
The LORD MAYOR—This case must go before a
jury, but I shall take bail for your appearance in the
Central Criminal Court.
The prisoner—l am not guilty of anything lam
ashamed of. I have quite enough to pay what I owe,
and I won't trouble any friend .er put myself under
any compliment, and it's little difference to me where
I go. I'll go to gaol, but if I am quit won't I make
somebody sweat ?—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR was then informed that there
were other cases of the kind again st the prisoner, but
his Lordship said the parties might: appear and indict
him at the Central Criminal C ourt, and at once
signed the commitment for trial.
A young Austrian named Fran cisco Thopier was
charged with having attempted to destroy himself by
throwing himself from a boat into the Thames.
The defendant, whose wild look indicated great dis-
tress of mind, had been dragged out of the water by
a waterman named Carpenter.
A medical gentleman, who was acquainted with
part of the history of the defendant, said, the unfor-
tunate young fellow was acquainted with several lan-
guages, and had read with such intense application as
to affect his intellect. His object in coming to this
country was to avail himself of the opportunities of
distinction which an education at Oxford would afford
him, and he had separated himself from his nearest
relations because they were, according to his account,
opposed to his desire to abandon the Jewish religion
and become a Christian.
The LORD MAYOR d, !sired that particular inquiry
should be made into the case, and remanded the
defendant.

WESTMINSTER.
John Wren, a gigantic labourer, was charged with
a series of violent assaults upon the police.
John Hillier, 175 B, stated that at about 1 o'clock
on the previous evening he found the prisoner creat-
ing a great disturbance in. the Broadway, Westmins.
ter. He requested him to? go away, when he declared
with a brutal oath that he would "job" a tobacco-
pipe he was smoking in the constable's eye. 'witness
in go on, when he knocked him
again requested him to
down, and while that defenceless position kicked
him in the most brutal man ner in the face, body, and
legs, and inflicted such serious injuries as to render
him unfit for the performa nee of his duty.
Henry Bartlett, 298, saic I his attention was called
to a riot in the Broadway, on
going
to wlue
• he

found Hillier on the ground and prisoner kicking
him. Urn witness's assistiog his brother constable,
the accused, assisted by a kw mob, assailed him in
the same votent manner, his coat being torn by the
violence of the kicks he receiv.,,d while down.
Henry Doggett, 168 B, proved that ne was also
kicked in a ruffianly manner by the prisoner.
A tailor who was passing gave evidence confirma-
tory of the above, in the course. of which it appeared
that he also got a heavy blow from the accused.
Mr. BRODERIP inquired whether anything was
known of the defendant.
Mr. Beckerson, an inspector of the A division, said
he was a most violent fellow, and had been repeated:y
convicted of desperate assaults upon the police.
Toe prisoner, who denied the charge, was commited
for trial,

THE CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST
A CLERGYMAN.
WORCESTER, TTlESDAY.—Yesterday the Rev.
James Nisbett was again brought up for re-examina-
tion before Mr. C. Sidebottom, police magistrate of
this city, charged with uttering a forged bill of ex-
change for 3001., with intent to defraud Mr. W. S. P.
Hughes. The interest token in the proceedings had
not a whit abated, and the inconvenient room at the
back of the Guildhall, used as the police-court, was
again crowded to suffocation. The case was not taken
till three o'clock, in order to suit the convenience of a
witness who had been summoned from London to
give evidence on behalf of the prosecution.
Mr. Wright, solicitor, of Birmingham, appeared for
the prosecution ; and Mr. Elgie, of Worcester, for the
prisoner.
The prisoner having been accommodated with a seat,
The principal witness examined was Mr. James
Philemore Newman, a clerk in the South-Western
Railway-office at the Nine Elms station, Vauxhall.
He deposed that he was superintendent of that station
in 1850, and continued so until August, 1851. He
had remained in the service of the company up to the
present moment, in a different capacity, at the same
station—in the goods department. He positively
swore that there was not at any time in 1851 a clerk
in the goods department at the Nine Elms station of
the name of Richard Mitchell ; nor was there, from
the month of September, 1847, up to the present
time, any person of that name there.
On cross-examination the witness deposed that he
had been acquainted with all the clerks in the goods
department at Nine-elms station from 1847. He did
not pay them, nor engage them, nor did he keep any
record of their engagements. The clerks did not en-
gage assistants, but if a clerk wanted a day's holiday
he was provided with a substitute by the superin-
tendent, and the substitute was paid by the company.
There were books kept by the company containing
the names of all the clerks employed. He had searched
those books, but could find no such name as Richard
Mitchell on them.
By the Magistrate—The pay-sheet, which came
from the directors once a month for the clerks at a
yearly salary, was handed to each clerk to sign his
name as a receipt fon the money ; therefore, it
came before every clerk, and before witness every
month.
Mr. Thomas, clerk to the Worcester Old Bank,
corrected a portion of his evidence given on a former
hearing, at which he stated that the first time he saw
the prisoner at the Old Bank was in 1849. He had
since ascertained that he first saw him in October,
1850.

The whole of the depositions were then read over,
and, after the usual caution, the prisoner was asked
if he had anything to say.
Mr. Elgie, his solicitor, thereupon briefly address-
ing the bench, reserved the defence for the trial.
The prisoner was then committed to take his trial
on the charge at the next Worcester assizes.
Mr. Elgie, for the prisoner, applied for leave to put
in bail.
Mr. Sidebottom, at first, said he had not fully made
up his mind ; but, upon being pressed, agreed to take
bail—the prisoner in 1,0001., and two sureties in 5001.
each, intimating at the same time that he should re-
quire a week's notice of bail.
Toe prisoner was then removed in custody.
It will be seen that the prisoner was only committed
upon one charge, but at the assizes several other
Icharges are to be preferred against him.

ANOTHER COLLISION ON THE LANCA
SHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.

SUICIDE OF THE POINTSMAN.

A collision occurred on Monday evening, at near
half-past nine o'clock, about a mile from the Bolton
station on this railway, which ended in the destruc-
tion of three third-class carriages and the serious in-
jury of several passengers, though, fortunately, we
have not upon this occasion to mention any loss of
life, except that of the man to whose neglect of in-
structions the accident was attributable, and he put
an end to his own existence. It appears that the
5.30 P.M. train from Liverpool, which was due at
Bolton at 7.20 r at., did not arrive until 9.20 P.m. It
consisted of thirty-six carriages, and was filled with
passengers, part for Yorkshire and the rest for Man-
chester. It was necessary to separate those for
Yorkshire from the others, but they were so mixed
up that twenty minutes was spent in the work, and
while the officials were performing it, a second train
from Liverpool—an excursion train of thirty-six car-
riages—came up, and was detained; next, a luggage-
train from Liverpool to Manchester, then an excur-
sion train from Fleetwood and Blackpool of twenty-
five carriages, and lastly a luggage-train from
Liverpool to Bradford, making in all five
trains brought up at one time, and reach-
ing from the station to a place known as
Bull Field, outside the town, the enormous distance
of a mile lying between the head of the first train and
the tail of the last. There was a sixth train of lug-
gage a few yards beyond the station (in advance),
taking in water, but it was out of the way. From
the station the line curves up to and beyond Bull
Field, and about three hundred yards from that place
there is a signal-post, with a lamp and two red discs,
worked by means of a lever and wire, to protect the
down or Manchester line. The tail of the last or lug-
gage train was about 130 yards from this signal post
on the Bolton side, and the driver of an advancing
train would come in sight of it (the train) 15 or 20
yards beyond, before he got to the signal post, so that
the distance allowed him for pulling up to save a col-
lision was only 150 yards at the most. It was the
duty of the guard of the luggage train, when it came
to a stand-still, under such circumstances, to go back,
and stop any trains coming up; and it was the duty
of the signal-man to put on the red light and discs.
Neither of these precautions were taken, and, as a
consequence, while the five trains were standing,
a sixth from Liverpool and Southport, consisting
of sixteen carriages, came up at full speed. The
driver, when he got near the signal post, and
within 150 yards, saw three red lights, with which
the end of the luggage-train was furnished, but he
could not then stop his train, and the consequence
was that he ran into the one before him at a high
speed—the recoil of his own engine drove the carriages
back upon each other, and three, all third class, nearly
at the front, were smashed, one being driven upon
that next to it. The frame-work was uninjured, but
the entire back and the right hand corner of the
first, and the entire back of the second, and
the front with half the flooring of that com-
partment of the third, were completely driven in ;
so effectually, indeed, that it was scarcely pos-
sible (except in the case of the floor) to tell
where the ends and sides had joined. It seemed
as if the buffers of a preceding carriage had destroyed
the front of the first, and that the front of the third
had been reared upon the back of the second. There
were several persons injured, and the wonder is that,
under such peculiar circumstances of destruction of
vehicles, no one was killed. Instant assistance was
obtained, and the following persons were removed to
cottages in the vicinity, where they were attended by
medical men :
Edward llindley, residing at 100, Fairfield-street,
Manchester.
Margaret Rothwell, of Beswick-row, Millgate,
Manchester, a severe blow on leg.
Miss Graham, going as a servant to Mr. Sheen, of
Loyd-street, Manchester, face cut and leg injured.
James Howell, of Flexton, much shaken.
Miss Yates' of Darcy Lever, much shaken ; sent
home in a cab.

Edward Greenhalgh.
Alice Greenhalgh, his wife.
Richard Greenhalgh, thelir. son, received a severe
blow on the chest,
a d
supposed injury of the bladder.
Mrs. Allemande, of Gravel-hole Great Lever,
bruised on the leg; sent home in a cab.
Mrs. Simpson,
of 5, New _Richmond, Pendleton,
shaken and bruised.
Mr. and Mrs Butler, of Seedley Lodfage.
_Mr.
Butler, two bla.ck eyes and cut on the ce ; „Dirs.
Butler, much shaken.
Mr. Canane, a friend'of Mr. Butler.
The last four were sent home in a special train
re-
about halt-past twelve o'clock, and those who
wed next da
mained at the place all night were rem
y
to their respective places of residencehaken
s. The
and other
persons in the train were very much , all
terribly alarmed. BAbre
we hen derstand that a wreck of the trseventh
ain had
been got out of the way u
train of forty excursion carriages came up from
Fleetwood, and had to be brought up very sharply to
avoid a collision.
A special notice (printed) had been issued from the
r si'diadY ;
head office with•reference to the trainslin t uslim Mt
I
and that addressed to signalmen and
p(
seep your signal lighted, and be prepared for said—
seep
and all future special trains until they have passed
home ; and keep a good look-out for any extra trains,
engines, &c., of which you may not have received
advice.
A copy of this notice was found in the cabin of the
pointman, Leigh Bancrof', and
admitted that he had read after the accident he
it. Lie ntated that he bad