The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1862.

with violently assaulting and robbing Susannah Pellivant,
• very intelligent girl, 13 years of age.
The evidence showed that oo Monday evening the complain-
ant was passing through Bunbill-row, St. Luke's, With • petrel
containing four mantles which she had to deliver to Men
Gilley, • dressmaker, in Chiswell-street, and observed
the prisoner on the opposite side of the way in
company with another man. Prisoner suddenly
crossed and grasped the parcel, to which, however,
she tenaciously clung, screaming loudly. He then
seised her by the throat, and pinched her so tightly
that she could not utter a sound, and sank on the
pavement. It was very dark on that spot She
was compelled to loose the property, and prisoner
ran off with it jut as another man, whom she
believed to be the prisoner's companion, came up
and kicked her on the heed. She, however, was able to
follow shortly afterwards, and a woman who told her she
bad witnessed part of the outrage joined in the pursuit, but
the fellow of oonrse soon got clear off.
Sergeant Evans, G division, stated that he apprehended
the prisoner last night from • description given by the girl
and the woman alluded to. The latter person was not now
present. Prisoner on hearing the charge said, " I was not
in Bunhill-row on Monday evening last. Witness replied,
" I did not say when it was." At the stationlouse com-
plainant idenliSed prisoner from several other men.
Mr. Vann closely most-examined the girl, and elicited
that prisoner was at the time of the robbery dressed very
differently to the present, but she swore positively to him,
particularly from having seen him in the same place • few
hours previously.
Sergeant Evans, when asked what was known of the pri-
soner, replied that he was an associate of thieves, and had
been charged at a polies bar.
Mr. Vann smarted this to be a case of mistaken identity.
Prisoner was remanded.
SOUTHWARK.
CONVICTION OF • LADY RAILWAY THIS.

A tan f;;:ido;:lly-diOseedoy woman, who gave the
name of Et izabetlt Ford, was brought before Mr. Combs
charged with stealing a pane containing some silver money
from the person of Mrs. Rose Meggs, at the North Kent
Railway Terminus, London-bridge.
The proseoutrix, the wife of a tradesman, residing at
Woolwich, said last night she was on the platform at the
North Kent Railway, and just about to get into a carriage
for the purpose of proceeding borne. A minute or two pre-
vious, she deposited her puree containing • few shillings
in her dress pocket. Before she actually got into the car-
riage an officer tapped her on the shoulder, and asked her
whether she had lost anything. She pat her hand in her
pocket and immediately missed her purse and contents. A
few minutes afterwards she saw the prisoner io custody, and
her purse in possession of the officer.
Dennis Scannell, a detective sergeant of the Metropolitan
Police, specially employed by the South Eastern Railway
Company, said he saw the prisoner on the platform as
the train was about to start. She went up to several
ladies, and conducted herself In such a suspicious
manner that he was induced to watch her, and at last he
saw her go up to the prosecutrix at the carriage door, and
lift up her dress and afterwards walk away. As soon as
he secertained that the lady had been robbed he followed
the prisoner, and stopped her in the waiting-room, when he
took from one of her hands three shillings, and the lady's
pine was seen to drop from the other. Witness then took
her into custody.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, asking his worship to deed
with her at once.
Mr. Combo sentenced her to four months' bard labour.