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London, England, 1848-07-17 00:00:00

crane, in order to unload it. Whilst so employed, the
express train, which was twenty-one minutes behind its
time, came up, and the station signal being all clear, it
went on to the station, and came in fearful eollison with
the obstruction. The train was travelling at sixty miles
an hour, and some idea may therefore he formed
of the violence of the shock. Weybury had been eight
years in the service of the company. It was shown
that he was perfectly aware of the signals, and that he
ought not to have placed the trucks on the line when
the signal indicated all clear, or, at least, he should have
communicated with the signal-keeper (a policeman) to
have put it on. On the other hand, it was stated that
the policeman could have seen the obstruction, and
ought to have put on the signal. In the course of a
quarter of an hour another trai❑ would have followed
the express. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of
" Manslaughter" against. Weybury and Willoughby, but
the grand jury ignored the bill as regards the latter,
consequently Weybury was tried alone.
Mr. Williams then made a powerful address to the
jury on behalf of the prisoner. To convict him it must
be proved that he had exhibited a felonious amount of
neglect. They hid heard that the express was twenty-
one minutes late. The prisoner believed that it had
passed, and knowing that another train would follow it
in the course of a quarter of an hour considered that
the signet " clear" had reference to the letter train, and
knowing that he would have time to move the trucks,
proceeded to do so when the lamentable event took
place. That was the answer, and he anxionsly.looked
for an acquittal.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury re-
turned a verdict of—Not Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Drury L. Wake, an individual who formerly held a
commission in the 48th Native Bengal Infantry, was
brought up for further examination on a charge of
having attempted to commit an extensive fraud on
Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, silversmiths, Bond-street,
by means of a forged acceptance for 12,500 rupees.
The prisoner was also charged with having uttered
several other forged East India bills, to other tradesmen,
in payment of ;goods and as' security for advances of
money. •
Mr. Huniphreys appeared for the prosecution, and
gave a short cutline of the nature of the charge against
the prisoner. From
.information placed in his hands it
appeared that the prisoner :actually held a commission
in the 48th Regiment of Native Infantry, and was ac-
quainted with the officers of that regiment and with their
handwriting. For some reason; which he must omit to
state, the prisoner left the East India Corm any's ser•
vice. The prisoner had since been telring advantage of
his former connexion withthe 48th Regiment,-and he had
pasted a bill of exchange in England for 12,530 rupees,
the bill purpOrting to bear the signature of Colitis, Troup,
Frazer, and President of the Mesi Committee. The pri-
sonern,nglditeiciehoo.ot:untliadvilbseerebadiblllepttilloaetpeprortvioL,nwtehracslwa,e.ol:ct)tritgeoe rnmyt..p9sosOor
also produced a letter which he said was a letter
of advice from Major Tamp, and advising him of the bill.
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for the Mess Committee, and producing tlti letter and
the bill, showed' the former to the cashier; end so far
succeeded itsn satisfying the party, that the prisoner
was told if the references were co: rest the balance
should be paid over to the prisoter. The prisaner se-
lected some studs and buttons, worth 101. and left the
shop. It was afterwards found that the letter and bill
were forgeriee.
The Learned Gentleman then called, as witness,
Lieutenant-Colonel James'Oram Clarkson, of the 48th
Bengal Native Infantry, who stated that he was well ac-
quainted with Major Cohn Troup. The signature to
the bill produced, dated 9th of April, 1848, for 12;500
rupees, was not in Major Teoup's handwriting, and was
a forgery. • The letter produced, bearing the same date
and signature, was also a forgery.
Cross-examined by Mr. W ontner—The last time he
received a letter from Major Troup was in 1846. Was
well acquainted with his handwriting. Witness was pre-
sident of the district court-martial, and in that capacity
frequently received letters from Major Troup on official
business. Major Troup always wrote in a bold and
sharp style, whereas the handwriting in the letter pro.
duced is small and cramped.
Mr. Humphreys said he should not enter any farther
into the case at present, as he must beg for remand, in
order to be enabled to produce the witnesses in another
case, where the prisoner had obtained upwards of 1401.
from the Peninsular and Oriental .Steam-packet Com-
pany, upon a bill for 4,500 rupees. This bill had been
sent out to India, and a notice had been received by the
company of its dishonour. The bill was expected to
arrive in a'few days, when he should be in a position to
prove that it was a forgery.
The prisoner was then remanded until Saturday next.
Mr. Roberts, a tailor in Holborn, applied to Mr. Bing,-
ham to allow the prisoner to deliver to him a quantity of
new clothes, which, he had not paid for,
Mr. BINGLIAIi desired the officer to give them up to
applicant.
Several other victims, amongst whom was the pri-
soner's laundress, applied to have their bills paid out of
the money found upon the prisoners
Mr. Humphreys said lee had not tbo least objection,
providing the claims were authentic.
The bills were then paid, and the parties left the
Court.
John Frederick Young, a waiter in the employ of Mr.
Benjamin Caunt, landlord of the Coach and Horses, St.
Martin's-lane, was placed before Mr. Bingham, charged
with having„stolen several bottles of stout, soda-water,
and a quantity of cigars.
The prosecutor said the prisoner was employed by
him as parlour-waiter, and to attend to the cellar-work.
On Wednesday last the prisoner went into the cellar for
some sand, and from information witness had previously
received from_Mrs. Gaunt, he was induced to watch the
prisoner's movements, The prisoner, after being in the
cellar for a few minutes, came upstairs with a basket
of sand, which he deposited in a cupboard near the par-
lour-door, and went away. During the prisoner's absence
witness- examined the basket of sand, and found concealed
therein four bottles of stout and a bottle of
soda-water. Just at this moment the parlour
bell rang, and the prisoner answered it, and
received an order from a gentleman for a bottle
of stout. Instead of coming to the bar, as he ought to
hare done, the prisoner went to the basket of sand, took
out a bottle of stout, and carried it to the gentleman,
and received a shilling in payment for it. 'The prisoner
was about disposing -of another in a similar manner,
when witness collared him, and gave him in charge.
On searching him, witness found several cigars, which he
identified as part of his stock. Witness had since
looked over his wine-cellar, and discovered that several
bottles of wine had been abstracted, but he could not
swear that the prisoner took them. The prosecutor
added that the prisoner had been in prison since Thurs-
day last, and as he had a wife and young family depend-
ing on him for support, he would not press the charge
further.
Mr. BINGIZAM said the prisoner had had a narrow
escape. If the prosecutor had not interceded for him in
such a kind manner, he certainly should have sent him
for trial. He now discharged him, trusting that this
would be a warning to him to act honestly for the future.
WORSHIP-STREET
A:young man, named Frederick Augustine Moore, was
placed at the bar, before Mr. Arnold, charged with
having extorted various sums of money from Mr. Tho-
mas Phillips, a gentleman of property, residing at East-
side, Bethnal-green, under a threat that he would accuse
him of conduct of an infamous description.
Mr. Jarman attended, from the office of Mr. Hum-
phreys, the solicitor, to conduct the prosecution.
The prosecutor, • an infirm and elderly gentleman,
stated that the father of the prisoner was formerly the
proprietor of some baths in Tabernacle-square, Finsbury,
which he had been occasionally in the habit of visiting,
and at which a younger brother of the accused was one
of the attendants. Hs discontinued his visits to the es-
tablishment some years since, and saw no more of the
prisoner until the 14th of November, 1846, when the
latter accosted him as he was passing down the Hack-
ney-road, and:told him that he had been informed he had
acted in an abominable manner towards his younger
brother, and unless he gave him some money he would
expose his conduct to the world. Witness indignantly
denied the accusation, but was so greatly alarmed by the
threats which the prisoner held out to him; that he gave
him two sovereigns, upon an assurance that he should
never again be molested. Only a few weeks had a!apsed,
however, when he was waylaid a second time by the
prisoner, who imperatively demanded the sum of si,
which he banded over to him under the threat that he
would communicate the alleged transaction to his wife
in the event of his refusal. On the Ist of March follow-
ing he was again stopped in the street by the prisoner
and one of his brothers, who told him they must have
p where he handed them another
some more money, and enforced their demand with such
menaces that he was induced to accompany them to an
adjoining public-house,
51. note, and they gave a joint receipt for the money.
Only nine
his way to his residence while he was seated at
days after this transaction the prisoner found
dinner with some friends, and having requested to
see him, was shown into the drawing-room, where
the wife of witness, who had been partially made
acquainted with the object of his visit, immediately
went to
ing language and behaviour that she handed him
him, and was so terrified by his threaten-
five sovereigns, and he left the house with a promise
that they should never again hear from him. The pri-
soner kept his word until the commencement of the
present month, when the prisoner tapped him on the
shoulder as he was leaving an omnibus, and again impor-
tuned him for money, which he positively refused to
furnish him with, and hastily left, but had no sooner
reached home than he received a peremptory epistle,
stating that his brother,
Rickthan, had just joined him,
and that they both intended shortly to visit him to-
gether. On the following morning they accordingly
presented themselves at his house, and the prisoner's
brother having assured him that he was about starting
for Australia, witness gave them 101., receiving a
memorandum acknowledging the recept of that and
the previous sums, and declaring that they would
never again annoy or extort any more money from
biro upon any pretence whatever, and that they al-
together disavowed any accusation they had previously
made prejudicial to his character. A few days after he
received a letter, stating that the prisoner required 231.
more to enable him to leave the country, and that he
would call at his house to receive the money. On Fri-
day evening the prisoner came to his door, and after
ringing' violently at the bell, until the handle came
off in his hand, he commenced battering the door with a
large stone which he brought from the road, and con-
tinued his violent behaviour until the police came up and
took him into custody.
Upon being called upon for his defence, the prisoner
declared that at the time he accused prosecutor
for of the im-
proprieties with his brother, he exclaimed,
"
sake, say nothing about it, and I shall always furnish
God's
you with any money you may require," and that the
different sums which he subsequently received, were voT