The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-29 00:00:00

HAMMERSMITH.

Mary Saunders, a well-dressed young woman, enveloped
in a large silk mantle, was brought before Mr. Ingham on
remand, charged with stealing a purse and its contents from
the pocket of Mrs. Elise Ann Harwoad, of St. Clement's
Church-yard, while riding in an omnibus to the Exhibition
on the afternoon of the 21st inst.

The prisoner and another female, who pve the name of
Mary Lewis. entered the omnibus belonging to Mr. Hughes
of Notting-hill, at the top of the Haymarket, and they took
theirsesta between the prosecutrix and the door, the prisoner
being near to the lady, and on the side of her pocket in her
dress. Freeman, the conductor, entertained suspicions of
their intentions, and as they proceeded on their journey he
watched them. He saw the prisoner place her mantle over
Mrs. Harwood's dress, and of ter they bad passed Sloane-street
he obeervei a movement as of the band under the
mantle. On reaching the Exhibition-road, Lewis and Mrs.
Harwood alighted, upon which the conductor shut the
door, and prevented the prisoner from getting out. He
then asked the prosecutnx whether she bad lost anythin&
and on feeling her pocket she Mood her purse gone. Recalled
police-constable Seymour, of the X division, and the pri-
soner alighted. She then told them to look inside the
omnibus, and on their doing so Mrs. Harwood's pure wu
found lying at the bottom, close to where the prisoner bad
been sitting. The prisoner and Lewis were taken into ems-
tody, and were afterwards remanded ; the latter only until
the following day, when she was discharged, as it was found
that her address was quite correct. Both the females de.
dared they were innocent, and that they were respectable
persona. On the first examioation the magistrate inquired
of the prosecutrix whether she bad coy bole in her pocket
by which the purse could have fallen out, and she answered
in the negative, but she appeared very much anpriatil on
raising her dress and showing her pocket, to find a large
alit to the extent of three inches at the bottom of it. She
stated positively that there was no hole in her pocket when
she left home, and she also said that it was not an old
dma.

A small penknife was produced, and the constable Mated
that it wee found upon the prisoner.
Sergeant Cole, No. 23, Cdivision, now stated that he knew
the prisoner as a companion of thieves, and he had seen
her out with thieves, and had watched her repeatedly. Be
also said he knew the other woman who was discharged as
well as his own father.

Mr. Lewis. jun., who defended the prisoner, at first sub-
mitted that the evidence was very weak, and asked for an
acquittal, but on finding his worship icteoded to send her
for trial he pleaded for a sumreary conviction.
Mr. Ingham at first refused, but at the solicitation of Mrs
Harwood, and it appearing doubtful whether there bud been
any previous conviction he consented to deal with the case.
The prisoner then pleaded guilty, and she was sentenced
to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.

TRICKS OF UNDERTAKER/I.—Last eveniniDuer..
Lankester held an inquest at the King's Anna,
Castle-
street, Long-acre, on the body of a newly-born male infant..
The evidence adduced went to show that on the night of
Thursday lest, Mr. Francis, an undertaker, of Compton-
street, Soho, supplied a coffin for the body of a Mrs. Norton,
who died at 28, Tower-street, Seven-dials, and after the
body had been placed into the coffin, Mr. Francis proposed
to immediately screw down the lid, on the plea that the body
was rapidly decomposing. The friends in attendance,
I however, warmly protested, and noticing that the head of
the corpse was improperly raised, they were induced to
investigate the cause, the result of which was the discovery
of the deceased child tightly wrapped up in a cloth and
carefully secreted under the bead lining of the coffin. The
Police were directly
,sent for, and the child's body was
removed to St. Giles 's workhouse. Mr. W. Bennett, the
medical officer of the workhouse, deposed that he examined
the dead child and found it in a state of advanced decompo-
sition, so much so that the boom of the cranium came away
with the slightest touch. It was a full grown child, but he
had not the least doubt that it was still-taro. Other
evidence clearly proved that a Mrs. Kingdon had been
delivered of the infant, and that it had been still-horn. The
Coroner said suspicion had naturally been excited by the
most improper nature? in which the child was disposed of,
by being thrust into the coffin of another person. No doubt
some difficulty crated in burying still-born children, but a
Christian child should have Christian burial, at lent in a
box. The jou returned a verdict that deceased was still-
born, and amoral of the jurors severely animadverted on the
conduct of the undertaker.
ACTION AGAINST THE GREAT NORTHERN Ran.-
WAY COIAPANT.—GALAUER 5,000/.—A protracted inquiry
into the question of the damages sustained by Messrs.
Barber, Walker, and Co., the propneton of the High-perk
Colliery, by reason of the flooding of the shafts of their
mine from the reservoir of the canal now in pretension of
the Great Northern Railway Company, was brought on
Monday night to a conclusion. The learned assessor, Mr.
Roden, Q.C., having then summed up, the jury retired at •
few minutes to seven o'clock, and at nine o'clock returned
the following verdict :—" We find for the claimants, that
the water from the reservoir flowed to the shafts, and we
assess the damage at the sum of 4,9921, 3e. 10d."
A COLLIERY INUNDATED.-0003 of the disastrous
effects of the late flood was the partial inundation of the
Machen colliery, near Newport, Monmouthshire. Fortu-
nately the men were not working at the time, or else it is
very probable that the consequences would have bees
serious. The water ettaiaed • height of thirty-two feet in
the shaft, and the engines have been kept at work night and
day since the accident. It is expected that the colliers will
be able to resume work next week. The colliery is the pro-
perty of a London company, and the damage is estimated at
from 8001. to I OM.
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