The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1862.

TILE POLICE COURTS•
(THIS DAY.)

CLERK WELL
COMMITTAL OF A NIUE POLICEMAN.

Bran Doled!, a waiter out of employ, residing at 7, Berke-
ley.coart, Berkeley-street., Clerkenwell, was clrirged with
falsely representing bimself to be a constable of the Metro-
politan Police, and also with obtaining 2s. from Mrs.
Donovan, the wife of a bricklayer, of Peter's-lane, St. John-
street, SmiNfleld.

Mr. John Walceliog appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence of the complainant that
about eta weeks since abe had a silk dress stolen from her
apartment, and she gave information of her Ices ►t the
►tcguigge•wella Police•statioo. She then went into a public-
home, and meeting a friend told her over a drop of gin what
she had done. The prisoner, who was standing near, over-
heard the converratiou, and said, "lam a detective. You
have gone to the wrong police-station. You should have
gone to Old-street, to which I ant attached ; but never
mind, I will take a description of your dress and do my best
to get it foryou." She gave hint &description and some beer,
and be went away. A few days afterwarils he came to her and
said that he had found that the dregs was p►wned in the
Blackfrians.road, but that he was so ill that he must ride
there, and asked for and obtained 2.4. front her for that
purpose, He told her that she must go with him to identify
the dress, but when she was in the street he said " Your
husband might as well come with as ; go and fetch him."
She went back for that purpose, and then the prisoner
decamped. When the prisoner was io custody, he gave the
prosecutrix the 2s, back, and asked her not to prosecute.
Police-constable Pardon, 425 A, said the prisoner had
before been in custody, and sentenced to six mouths' hard
labour for a similar °geom.

Mr. Wakeling said be hoped the magiatr•te would deal
with this cue under the Police Act, sad not put the county
to expense hr sendiog the priaooer for triaL
The magistrate said it was • serious charge, and fully
committed the prisoner to the Middlesex Session, for trial,
WO/ZBIIIP-STILEET.
CAUGHT IN TIM FACT.

aeorge Ferry, ► tall sod very powerful men, respectably
dressed, was charged before Mr. Leigh with housebreaking
and robbery.
George Turpin, a brewer's drayman, who was yet taller
than the prisoner, said—Last evening I was at home in New
Derbyshire•strent, Bethnal-green, when a person whom I
knew came to me and stated that from his window he had
seen a man in the house of his neighbour, a Mr.
Brown, at 2fi, Mary Ann-terrace, and that knowing the
family were from home he believed him to be a thief.
I instantly went there and found the street door ajar. I
enteral the passage and could then distinctly observe the
prisoner in the beck parlour wrapping somethir.g up that
laid upon the floor. Suddenly a light that he had was put
out, and he came towsrds me, passing through the front
room, as he must have believed, unobserved, but
I seized him a moment by both arms, and there we stood.
" What do you want with me," mays he. " What's that to
you," says I. " I've got you, and -- me if you get
away." " Won't I." says he, and we had a struggle. We
got outside the home, he tried to bend my arms, and I
threatened to skin him alive, big as he was, and I kept him
that way until the constable came.
Luff, 90 N—l found the prisoner and last witness in the
street as described, surrounded by a great crowd. At the
station-house prisoner said, " Here's the watch," and gave
me this I produce from his pocket. He afterwards took
out these five skeleton keys and this screw-driver, saying.
"I may as well give you all I have got." Subsequently I
found that the street door of Mr. Brown's house had been
forced by aid of the 'screwdriver.
Mr. Brown identified the watch as his property taken
from the back parlour of the house mentioned. Two boxes
there had been turned out, and the contents, consisting
mostly of wearing apparel, were packed up ou the floor
ready for removal.
The prisoner offered no defence to the charge. He is
twin-own to any of the officers of this caurt, but from cer-
tain appearances there is little doubt of his being a returned
convict.

Mr. Leigh had the depositions completed instanter, and
Cully committed him for trial.