The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-13 00:00:00

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MANSION-HOUSE.
J. Pater, eltarpd with having stolen five pietas of iron
from the premises se an boatman in Upper Thasaes-street,
and J. Sallie, who mules on burin's' on the other side of
Southwark-held p, charged with having received the pro-
perly knowing Mat it had been stolen, were pat to the bar
before Aldermen Wire.
The Alderman, who had from time to time adjourned the
ease in the expectation that the precentors would have made
particular inquiries about the parties accused, and the mys-
terious circumstances connected with the charges which
were some days ago detailed in the public papers, asked
whether farther evidenes had been elicited, and the
following i. an &hottest of what took place upon the
subject :
The only evidence against Pate) as the thief was,
it may be recollected, that of Sallie, the suspected
receiver, who stated that Patsy brought the iron
to his premises about de o'clock in the morning,
and was to sell for the price of it in the course of the day
on which the property was stolen and deposited on the
premises, and who gave Patsy into custody in the evening
of the same day, for having attempted to sell it.
Mr. nobler, for the prosecution, said he bad no further
evidence to Produce, and that as the two prisoners could
not, according to the statements made, be both of them
committed with any chenee of conviction, he was desirous
that the man accused of receiving, being charged with an
offence more dangerous to the community. should be sent
for trial, if the magistrate entertained the same opinion.
Mr. Woatner, who append for Sallis, submitted that
hie client had exonerated himself, by showing that Patsy
was the person who had brought the iron to the premises,
and by giving him into custody when he called to receive

the money.
Patsy said his mother, who could prove that he wan ill in
bed at the Hoeft was stated that he was delivering the iron,
was present, to show that it was quite impossible that he
Gould have been out of his room at the time.
Mn. Patsy then presented herself, and swore that her
son was in bed with his wife at the moment he was said to
have brought the stolen goods to Sallis's yard, and that she
n beard that her son had been involved in any criminal
difficulty before. The witness detailed several circum-
stances in corroboration of her statement, and underwent
cues- examination by Mr. Holster, which led to the con-
elusion that she had come forward merely for the purpose of
getting her son out of the danger of committal, and was
ready to say anything to effect that object.
Upon the part of Sallie Mr. Wentner called witnesses,
one of whom, a respectable person, made a statement,
which, although not at all calculated to exonerate that pet-
sower from the imputation of being the receiver, added to
the belief that Patey was the thief. The other witnesses
called, however, gave such evidence as obliged the adenine
to say that he did not believe one word uttered by any of
them.
After a meet strict investigation into the case, which was
considered to he one of peculiar importunes to adeemen,
Alderman Wire said he had no doubt that witnesses,
whose evidence had been framed for the occasion, had been
brought forward by both prisoners. He had no doubt what-
ever upon the subject himself, and he lamented that facili-
ties were given by men who were apparently conducting
extensive establishments with some character, to the dis-
posal of property stolen, and conveyed too at an hoar when
honest and industrious people were going to their work. It
was palpable that the iron bad been brought into the pre-
mises of Sallie br a thief, and that Sallisbad no objection to
deal with the thief, and had appointed a tints for the pay-
mint of the price, whatever it might have been, of the pro-
duce. It was evident, too, that the mother of Patey had
perjured herself, for she had sworn t that she bad never
known her eon had ever before been in any difficulty of a
criminal nature, for it had been ascertained that Patsy hod
been imprisoned before for dishonesty, and that there was
no dependance to be placed upon any one represen-
tation she had made. The matter involved a
great deal of contradiction and legal difficulty, and there
appeared to be no chance of a conviction in the event of a
prosecution of either of the prisoners, for the only witness
against Patsy was his fellow-prisoner. Under such circum-
stances the only course left for the magistrate to pursue was
to discharge both prisoner., with the conduct of whom it
was necessary that the public should be made acquainted.
The alderman, in conclusion, said be thought the prosecu-
tors ought to have taken are in such a case to have acted
more vigorously:in the investigation, but he said that without
imputing the slightest blame to their solicitor, who had, he
had no doubt, acted completely up to their instructions.
The prisoners were then discharged, and Patey'e mother,
who had been temporarily committed for perjury, was also
discharged with a severe reprimand.
BOW-STREET.
A woman named Sullivan was charged with creating a
disturbance on 1 hunday evening, in Sheffield-street, Lin- •
culn's-inn-fields.
The prosecutor, John Treherne, said last night he was •
very much alarmed by a violent noise in the street. Shortly
afterwards the disturbance was increased by the prisoner
smashing his windows. The landlord of the premises bad
a fruit stall in front of the house, and it was with the
apples and oranges there exposed for sale that the prisoner
broke the window.. She demolished 18 out of 20 squares ot
glue. lie believed there hed been ft gnerrel between Sul-
livan and the wife of the landlord of the house in which she
as well as himself resided, in consequence of a moan-
tug created by the prisoner's dog, and also from the fact
that a short time before the disturbance Sullivan had been
served with a warrant for assaulting Mrs. Daly.
On the prisoner being asked what she had to say, she com-
menced a long list of grievances, but the magistrate stopped
ker, and told her that her quarrel was no justification for
breaking Treherne's windows. Re should fine her 20e. for
broken windows and the fruit she had destroyed, or, in de-
fault, he should commit her to prison for six weeks. 4
Prisoner—They don't get a farthing from mo. I'll go to
ID prison.
The charge of assault was then proceeded with.
Catherine Daly, an aged female, said that in consequence 1
a the prisoner persisting in keeping a dog to the annoy-
once of other lodgers, she had given her notice 2
to quit her apartments. Sullivan thereupon commenced it
abusing her, and called her and her husband swindlers ; 31
and, finally, gave her two blows on the side of the head,and
blackened one of her eyes. She also said, so help her Ood,
If I was not an old woman she would give me a good hiding. I
She told the boys in the street to come round the home in 26
the evening, and she would give them a scramble with the
fruit mentioned above. a
Brown, 142 F, said he took the prisoner into custody last Si
night. Oa Sunday evening last she created a disturbance 171
in Sheffield-street, and last night she did the same. She 231
was a very troublesome person. 11
The magistrate, after very patiently listening to the re-
lation of an Irish row described by the prisoner, said for the la
assault on Mrs. Daly he should fine her 405., or six weeks' 1
2

imprisonment.
Prisoner—Then every day of it I'll serve ; they don't get
nothing out of me.
LAMBETH.
John Fish, Mary Ann Fish, his mother, and Jane Fish,'
his sister, were further examined, the men on a charge of
being concerned with others not yet in custody, in breaking
into ;the dwelling-house of Mr. Alderson, a draper, in
I Mount-street, Lambeth, and carrying away silks, velvet,
lad ribbons, of the value of 4001., and the female prisoners
with receiving and dealing with the property, well knowing
it to have been stolen.
Mr. Alderson, the prosecutor, deposed that in the course
Of the night of 9th of last month his house bad been
burglariolisly entered. The thieves had managed, evidently
with considerable difficulty, to get into the back yard, and
from there got on to the fiat roof of the back part of the shop.
They next forced open a skylight, and having made fast a
tripe to a strong gas-pipe, they lowered themselves
kb the shop. They then collected together 4001.
VII* of the most valuable part of the stock, and with it
elliefied an exit by the street or private door. Three men
wsena about 6 o'clock on the following morning remov-
terrow from the door of the prosecutor, by an engi-
asee is the employment of Messrs. Maudsley, but though
by simildeas were somewhat aroused, yet being in a hurry
to go to lie employment, and observing no policeman near 2
the spot, he did not give any alarm, and the thieves were ,
allowed ,to carry away their booty. Nothing further had
been heard of the thieves until a few days ago, when Set- 44
rants Romaine and Harris, accompanied by the prosecutor, el
entered the house of the prisoners in Somers-town, and there 2
found several small articles of silk and ribbons, all of which „!
Mr. Alderson identified as a portion of the property stolen.
On searching the place the officers found 188 pawnbrokers'
duplicates, a number of them relating to the property stolen
from Mr. Alderson, and others for property which it is
hoped will lead to other robberies being brought home to
the gang. The pawning of a portion of the prosecutor's
property was clearly brought home to the elder female pri-
soner,/ and the evidence of half-a-dozen of pawnbrokers
was taken and, at the request of the officers engaged in the
case, the Prisonen were remanded to a future day.
Their solicitor (Mr. Lewis) applied for their liberation on
bail, but Mr. Elliott refused the application.
Alexander Dronsett, a collecting clerk to Mr. Mark Saun-
derson, proprietor of the Suffolk Brewery, in Addington-
square, Camberwell, was finally examined, on a charge if
embessling upwards of 3001., the moneys of his employer.
Several eases, wherein the prisoner had received various
and large sagas of money on account of his employer, for
which he had not given any amount, were proved, and the
prisoner was fully committed to take his trial on each.
THAMES.

James W'illiairt Kelly, Lb delivery clerk in the employ
of linen. Fairie Brother, sugar refiners, Church-lane,
Whitaeltapel, was charged with stealing 24 cwt. of refitted
sugar, the property of his employers, and John Maher,
commission agent, 11, Parr-street, Roston, was charged
with receiving the same, knowing it to have been stolen.
The investigation occupied several hours, but the fads
may be briefly told. The prisoner Kelly, who had been
some years in the Messrs. Fairies employ at a good salary,
and had great confidence reposed in had at different
times directed the prosecutors' warehouseman to deliver the
sugar upon orders received from Maher. The sugar was
taken away on each occasion in a van sent by Maher, and
sold by him below the market value, to various grocers
with whom he had business transactions. No entry of the
goods thus taken away was found in Kelly's delivery book,
nor had he had any note or invoice respecting them. When
spoken to on the subject, be denied any knowledge of the
missing sugar.
After a great deal of evidence tending to establish the
one against the prisoner,
Mr. Yardley said be should commit them both for trill,
and most refuse bail.

OF BM

There are four societies in London for employing
boys from the Ragged Schools as shosblacks, posted in the
streets.
On Thursday evening all the boys, more than 190 in
number, were assembled at a united tee party in the lesser
hall, Buts? Ball, and as they were dressed in their re-
spective uniforms—red, blue, yellow, and dark blue—the
Nene was one of unusual interest. The hall was profusely
decorated with flags and other ornaments, and very soon
filled with a large number of ladies and gentlemen. The
Earl of SnArrzsavar presided on the occasion, and ex-
pressed the high satisfaction with which he regarded the
rapid progress of this movement. These societies were at
once educational, industrial, and reformatory, and they ex-
ercised an influence, through some fifty ragged schools,
over a large and important, but hitherto neglected, class of
people. The first formed society (the boys of which wore a
red uniform) had succeeded so well, and had established its
financial position so satisfactorily, as to induce the forma-
tion of three other bodies, all conducted on the same plan
and for similar purposes. Thus the number of the shoe-
blacks in London had been doubled during the last six
months, and seven or eight ether towns had also begun to
employ them. The earnings of the boys of the original
society ware stated to be 10e. per week, even at this, the
most unfavourable season of the year ; and by their healthy
and cheerful appearance, it might be judged how well they
were cared for and instructed. Several hymns were sung
in chorus, accompanied by the organ, and after addresses
from one or two friends of the institution had been listened
to, a testimonial, in the shape of a handsome silver-topped
cane, was presented by the boys of the red brigade to their
superintendent. The shoeblacks, preceded by their banners,
and loudly cheering, then marched off to their dormitories,
and the meeting dispersed, every one being greatly pleased
with the good behaviour of the boys, and the evidence
thus afforded of the results of religious and moral training
when combined with active industry.