The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-29 00:00:00

TM POLICE COURTS.

WORSE' P. lITHEE
Thomas Jobosen alias Peters, a ticket•of-leeve convict,
and George Gable, a private in the Tower Hamlets Militia,
but who was alto recognised as a convicted thief, were
placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyneourt, charged with
having broken into sad plundered the mains
Inc
Mr. George
Davis, landlord of the Fountain Tavern, High-street,
Shoreditch.
The prosecutor stated that on the night of Saturday, the
16th ultimo, after carefully securing all the dews and
windows of his house, he retired to rest, with his family ;
but shortly before six o'clock the next morning, be was
hastily roused from sleep by one of his servants, and on pro-
eeeding downstairs, be discovered that the house bad been
entered through a skylight in the passage, the glass and
framework of which were completely shattered to pieces. On
further szanaination, he found that his bar•parlour, the
door of which bad been forced open, had been tho•
roughly ked, and that a large quantity of pro-
perty, amongst which was a ponderous iron•chset,
upwards of 300 lbs. in weight, had been carried
off by the thieves. The chest in qaestioa con-
tained a considerable sum of money is gold cad silver, to
gather with several deeds and valuable private documents,
me portion of which had been since recovered.
Willem Henry Hughes, the son of a coach lace manatees-
Weer, in Sherwood-place, Bpital6elds, stated that while
posing through Collingwood street, Bethnal-green, between
in and saves o'clock on a Sunday morning, about flee weeks
since, he met the prisoner and three other men with a spring
truck, in which he observed a large iron chest, which two
et' them was dragging along. After watching them a short
distance witness returned home and communicated what be
ked seen to his father, who gave information to the police
Polies Coustablo Beane, 0 145. stated that the prisoner
Gable was taken into custody by Sergeant Jackson, about a
fortnight after the burglary, bet be was instantly rescued
by some of his confederates, who beat and kicked the officer
in such a brutal manna that be was disabled for several
days. The prisoners had eluded apprehee sloe until the
previous evening, when witness at length traced them to a
low lodgicg house in Shorediteh, end after a desperate
resistance they were overpowered and secured.
The prisoners, who declined offering any defence, were
remanded for the completion of the depositions.

SOUTHWARK.
Frederick Lawley, a smart-looking lad about 14 years of
age, was charged with stealing a valuable gold watch from
the person of Mr. John Heath.
The prosecutor stated that he was a warehouseman em-
ployed in the City, and he resided in &menet-place, Cam-
berwell. On theprevious evening, understanio tha there
would be a meeting of the electon of Soutdhwag rk,t at the
Southwark Literate Institution in the Borough.read, to
bear Sir Charles Napier, one of the candidates for the
borough, he went there and remained until the close of the
meeting. His watch was then safe in his tight baud waist
coat pocket, and before quitting the theatre of the institu-
tion, he took the precaution of buttoning his Goat all the
way up. He was then leaving the place, and while passing
along the passage he saw several boys crowding about, and
all at once he felt a tug at his watch, and putting his hand
down immediately he missed it. He called " Police," when
a constable in private eiothts came up, and asked what was
the matter. He told him that he bad just been robbed of
his watch, and a few minutes after he sew the prisoner in
his custody. When at the station house the constable
showed him the watch produced, which he identified as his

property.
Mr. A'Beckett—Did you see the prisoner anywhere near
you at the time you felt a tug at your watch ?
Prosecutor-1 saw several lads like him hustling about
me and other persons ; but I can't say distinctly that I saw
him near me.
Sergeant Torpid, M, stated that he was on duty at the
Literary Institution on the previous evening, at Sir Charles
Napier's meeting, and when the crowd wes coming out, be
heard • gentleman call out " Police." He entered the
passage, when the prosecutor told him he bad just been
robbed of his watch. Perceiving the prisoner running away
as fast as he could, he followed him, and stopped him. He
then asked him what he had got 'hint him, when be put
his band lato his pocket, and pulled out the gold watch,
saying that • wan had just given it to him. He took him
into custody, and when at the station-house the prosecutor
identified the watch as his property.
Mr. A'Beckett asked whether he was known to the police.
Torpin replied that he was not known; but, from the
manner in which the robbery was committed, he must have
been an expert thief, as the gentleman's coat was buttoned
all u.
The p
prisoner preferred pleading guilty to the charge,
when Mr. A'Beckett committed him to the House of Car-
recticn for three months, under the " New Criminal Justice
Act."