The Express. — 1851-10-27 (London, England)

MBETII.__  John Mason, alias Be;;;;;;,iiia;-.11arnet, alias the Per. W. J. Butler, alias the flee. C. W. Talbot, alias Blind Johnny, and Jane Farrar, alias AP Ewen, two notorious impostors, were placed at the bar for further examination, on a charge of couepiriog together to defraud various members of the nubility and gentry. The pretended rev. scoundrel, it appeared, had succeeded in obtaining at. from the Dowager Countess of Shaftesbury, in answer to a letter of " urgent distress " be had sent to her ladyship. The scamo hail also obtained 21. from Lady Beater by a moving appeal to her feelings, and representing himself as the Rev. William John Butler. The prisoner, who is a notorious begging.letter impostor, bad, with the woman, been tried before on a charge of conspiracy to defraud, by obtaining money undofalse pretences. The magistrate said he would remand the prisoners, in order that the case might be completed against them. During the investigatiou, a letter which had been received at the eotlee-.hop, addressed to the Rev. W. J. Butler, Priory Lodge, Southampton," and re-addressed "Cheltenham Coffeehouse, Bridge-road, Lambeth," was handed to the magistrate, who opened it, and found it to contain a of. note from that benevolent nobleman his Grace the Duke of Portland.  Elliott at once, and to the evident mortification and annoyance of the prisoners, handed the letter and its contents to Mr. Ferguson, of the Mendicity Society.  Cornelius Carry, an Lash labourer, living in Green Manlane, Poplar, was charged with committing several violent amanita, and, amongst others, one upon Ellen Quin, a girl aged 13 years. On Sunday night last the prisoner had been quarrelling with and beating his wife, who ran away from him and went to the house of her father, in Silver Lion-court, Poplar, fur protection. The prisoner, who was armed with a poker, went after her, and not being able to gain admittance to the house, he smashed every pane of glass in front of it, and shivered the door into a thousand pieces. The row became generslamong the Irish in the court, and the prisoner, who was mad drunk, laid about him with a poker, and after knocking down his father-in-law, pursued his wife's brother, an 1 made a blow at him, which fell on a girl named Quin, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Quin, very respectable people, who keep the Silver Lion, public-house, in Poplar, adjoining the court. Tho girl, who had given him no offence, sail, " Don't you know me, Mr. Carey?—it's Ellen Quin;" on which he inflicted another tremendous blow on her head with a poker whisk felled her to the ground, and he then commenced 'Lain! her. Some persons went to her rescue, and the fellow lai about him iu all directions with the poker, and meeting • youth named James Cannily, he attacked him with great fury, and, after dislodging some of his teeth with the poker, he fastened his teeth upon Conolly's cheek, and bit him severel Mr. Yardley said it was not the prisoner's fault that he had not committed murder, and his conduct was more like that of • savage than anything else. Several persons had been wounded ; a lad had suffered severely by the prisoner biting him, and an inoffensive girl had been seriously injured. Ile would give the prisoner time to reflect on his evil conduct by fining him SL, and in default of payment sentencing him to be imprisoned iu the House of COMX• don for two months. The prisoner was committed.