The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-01 00:00:00

AN UNRULY APPRENTICE SENT TO 111IID LABOUR.

Charles lictuanita Lot, a lad about 17 years of age, re-
siding at 19, Upper RIMOUI4II strert, Clerkenwell, was sum.
mooed by his master, Mr. Richard Canham so ironfounder,
li of Clerkenwell, for unlawfully absenting 'aufalf from his
service without his authority or other lawful excuse so
to do.

The complainant stated that thedefendant wee very badly
advised, and seemed determined not to do anything that he
was told. On the 13th and two previous daps he stopped
away from his work without giving ■cy notice, and when
he returned and wee asked why be did so, he said he bad
done so to please himself. He had bad to bring the defen-
dant here on a previous occasion for disobedience to Lis
commands, ►od then he was not punished because he pro-
rnieed to behave 'oetter fur the future. He wished now that
the defendant might receive some alight punishment ea a
warning to others.
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Mr. Idanstield asked the defendant what be had got to
say in answer to We charge.
The defendant, i 0 a moat dogged manner, replied that he
had nothing to say except perhaps that it was all right.
Mr. Mansfield sentenced the defendant to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for 'A
days.
The defendant, on being removed, said he did not care
for that little lot.

GREENWICH.
A WOMAN [H zsuLDIEA.3 CLOTHES.

Hannah Lark, a young woman about lo years of age, of
L111:11b. lane, linrenwich, was charged with being attired in
the uniform of a private of Royal Marines in the public
streets.

Police-constable 21;3 11 said that meeting the prisoner in
the street attired as a soldier, and knowing Ler how seeing
her frequently iu the streets, be took her iuto custody, when
she said the clothes belonged to her husband. He
took her to the station, and then ascertained that the
clothes belonged to a private of marines who h►d been left
asleep in a house to which the prisoner had taken him.

Mr. Traill—Where is the Marisa now to whom the
clothes belong!
The constable—He is still at the house, unable to leave.
(Laughter.)
The prisooer said she bad merely put the clothes on for
the sake of frolic, and for which she had paid dearly by
being locked up several hours io a police cell.
Mr. Trail' told the prisoner that she had acted very
foolishlT, and having been found in possession of
sMiliers clothing she had rendered herself liable to a prose-
cution acd to the payment of a heavy tine or impnsonmeut.
The authorities did not appear to wish to proceed &gams;
her, acid he should dischatge her, with a caution not to oils.
conduct herself in future.

The prisoner thanked his worship, and immediately
alighted from the dock amid the laughter of those in court.

HIGHGATE.
♦ NEST OF ROBBER', IN iitußGArt wnoo.

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William Stmmonds, Tilol,ll4s Sfratra.p,
Henry Taylor, and Pere,. Cutqll, were charged with
slaughtering and stealing a pig value 21. 2a. the property
of Mr. John B. Bateman, at the pariah of liorosey, on
the th inst.

Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, of Frederick-street, Gray's-ion.
road, appeared on behalf of the prisoner Simmonds. The
other prisoners were undefended.
James Holloway said—l ■m servant to Mr. Bateman,
and I live at the Black Bull public-house, High-
gate. Last Monday afternoon, about half-past
4 o'clock I fed the pigs. There were three pigs ; one
of them being in a sty by itself. I went nu the follow.
toe morning, and it was gone. The sty was else by the
side of H•ghgste Wood. I fed the pig with potatoes, milk,
and acorns. It was a white pig. and the tail produced re.
sembles that of the missing pig. (A laugh.)
Cross-examined by Mr. Ricketts.-1 di.l not notice foot.
marks outside the sty.door. The sty is within a )aril ot the
hedged the wood. The pigs were all white. The footpath
is paved with bricks, so that you could not see footmarks
on it.

Police•sergeant William Martin, 9s, said—On Tuesday
morning, the 6th inst., I received information of a pig
baring been stolen. I with Police-sergeant Harrison and
another constable went to Highgate Wood. There the
prisoners are employed to burn charcoal. The wood is
called Church-yard Bottom Wood. I saw Simmonde and
Swatrage near a but in the wood in which all the
prisoners cook their food. I saw Sergeant Harrison
find some pig's hair buried under the ground in the
hat. I searched a covered cart in which four of the pri-
soners slept and found the trousers produced. The prisoner
Sinimouds said they belonged to him, They are ytained
with blood, Ytid have pig's hair on them. I found hair
on ell the clothes of all the prisoners excel,: Catbill. The
prisoner Taylor said it was dog's hair. We took the pri-
soners into cuatody. I went from the ate and found traces
of blood leading from the sty into the wood, in the dire,rtion
in which the prisoners hail been living. I made further
se.rch later in the day, and found two tube 20 cards from
where the prisoners were sleeping. I emptied one of the
tubs, and found it to contain mud and water and the pig's
tail produced. . .

Croassessruined by Mr. Ricketts—The prisoner Sitnosonds
accounted for the blood on kis trousers and boots by ii)-
ing be bed slaughtersd • horse on the Weducalsv pre-
vious. I canuot say if such is the fact. There are two hula
in the wood, and the Lut in which the heir sais
found was not the one in which the prisoner siiiituonds
slept. I bane not put the prisoner's trousers in the snare
bag with the hair.

Police-constable Robert Hoffey,3osS,said—l searched the
wood in question, and iu the but where the prisoners live
I found the knife produced. The prisoner Simm.oels said it
belonged to him. It has blood on it. I made further search
mid in • are of earth wbrre the prisoner Coutts @leaps I
found the stick produced with blood on it.
Police-coostable Robert Delwin, 72 S, sworn.
puled the other constables to the wood. I saw mould and
earth fresh disturbed against two tubs. I dug and found
the entrails of a pig. I took them to the police station.
Mr. Ricketts, for the defence of his client Sinimonds,
said the prisoner had asked for a rimmed, but so far as his
cheat was cenoerned, ho must 'Ominously oppose such a
course, for there was sot one tittle of evidence against him.
The polio* relied entirely on the blood found on the trousers
and boots to connect him with this charge, but the bench
would remember the account the prisoner gave of ibis when
first apprehended, which wag strictly correct, as
be (Mr. Ricketts, would clearly prove by the
disinterested testimony of a man who satiated
the pawner to slaughter the horse ; then as to the uig's hair
alleged by the police to have been found oo the prisocer's
clothes no one but the police, with eyes more penetrating
than ordwary persons could undertake to swear that the
hair discovered was not horse hair, and when the bench exa-
mined the hair he (sr. Ricketta) held in his head they would
be sati-fied that it was in truth horse's and not pig's hair.
Ile wished to nay nothing to the prejudice of the other
prisoners, but it was in evidence that the prisoner was in
the habit of visiting his mother, who resided close by, sod
the other prisoners or anybody else had ample opportunity
of stealing end killing the OA unknown to the prisoner Sim.
monde. Nothing baring been shown directly to implicate
the prisoner, nothing ought to be presumed against
him. He was entitled at once to his discharge. oi at all
erects if the magistrate thought that suspicion pointed at
him then be was entitled to be discharged on his own recog•
nuances, or at all weenie on bail to appear further to answer
the charge.
The bench ultimately remanded all the prisoners for a
week, and Waled bail.

Mr. Price, the well-known proprietor of the
Grand Circe and TOUrIMM4IOt win ow= oo Elating-MY at
the Agricultural Hall. The Christmas Entertainments
will be on • very extensive seals, far surpaning anything
that has been sees in this corro. This will be so km
than 100 horses and 500 performers. Preparatioua are
already io progress to enmplete the various fittings for the
Hiprondiroinv, and it leap staff of carpentery are emplaced
for this purpose. The whole of the arrangements will be
coder the management of Mr. John Henderson, who has
just returned from the Continent —Morrow.