The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-20 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

SOUTHWARK.
pmug Bard was brought before Mr. A'Bealtett for
so onamMaSsas. olbserd with stealing a gold watch and
Maas tba priaporep if Emily Devonport.
Mr. fleinsawa spin stboadod for the primmer.
It offessood from wevidence given on Tuesday after-
sass lbat dm primer was at the bode of the prosody's
et dso Hof On 19th of November. and perceiving
bee gall oaten sad shake lyieg on the mantel-shelf, he
leek them up sad suspended the chain round his neck, de-
positing the watch is his waistcoat pocket. The proseentris
requested him to hand them back to her, but be refused,
promising to return them in half sa hour. He then left the
house with her, and proceeded to Windmill-atreet, Hay-
market, when 14 ran away from her with the watch and
'has, and she saw nothing more of him and her property
seta she met him on Monday night last at the Holborn
Ceaiao, when she gave him into custody. When examined
ea Tuesday he stated himself to be a clerk in the Bank of
England, and acknowledged that he had taken away the
watch and ehain,bu t with the intention of returning them. He
east the namable to his mother, a lady residing at Deleon,
who case to the court a short time afterwards, and pro-
eased the watch, but not the chain. Mr. A'Beckett
eamodkayily remanded the prisoner until yesterday, to give
the Mime ea opportunity of making further inquiries.
Polineticastabis Wells—l omitted in my last examination
lofty miss Om prisoner was in my custody be said he had
part of this property at home ; that be had gent a friend
with the watch to deliver it to the preeectutrix, and if he bad
not given it to her it was not his fault, but he would adver-
tise for it. The female, however, told me he had pledged
it. I took a note from the prisoner to his mother, and she
same to the court aseprodueed the watch to me.
Emily Davenport—The watch produced is mine, and the
owe the prisoner stole from me. There has been a new glass
fixed en it since then.
Mr. Solomon—l protium the Azle. The prisoner's mo-
ther gave it to me. Elbe found it in the prisoner's bed-room
immediately after returning home last 'Tuesday, and she ia
ready to prove
cha that. I merely want to show that neither
watch nor in ever was out of my clients pCOMeliOll.
Prorsenuiz—His mother told me the watch was pledged
dm SI. 65.
Illr. Solomon to prouentrix—When ave him lat.,
eastody, did he not say, " Come to my lodgings, and have
raw property 1"
Proseeutris—Yes; but I did not know where be lived,
atwhat
home hwith hise was. Hmother, but did not bets he watch and chain were
said, " I dare gay I eon
get them." I have no desire to prosecute. All I want is
gay property. If that's restored, if the magistrate will
permit, I will withdraw the charge.
Mr. A'Beckett—l can have nothing to do with that.
Mr. James Palmer, one of the officers of the Bank of
Eaglmitl, said that he bad searched the books, and among
the 800 clerks employed by the directors, he could not find
such a name as prisoner's. The prisoner was quite unknown
to him.
The prisoner ben, with some hesitation, said that he be.
longed to the National Provincial Bank of England, a
statement which Mr. Solomon, in reply to • remark from
Mr. A'Beckett, said he believed to be true.
Mr. Solomon—l think there is nothing in the case to show
that be took the property with intent to steal it, for when
he sent to his mother it was immediately brought here.
Mr. A'Beckett—Not immediately.
The prothentris, in reply to Mr. A'Beckett, said that the
prisoner bad, at times, given her money, but she had not
gees him from July to the day on which he stole her watch
sad chain. He bad lent her any money, nor had she
ever allowed him to wear the watch before.
Mr. A'Becket..—l should like to know where the watch
hes been.
The prisoner's mother was then called, and on being
morn, said she took the watch onto( pawn for 21. 10a. The
duplicate was upstairs in her son's bedroom, and when she
beard from him she went and redeemed it, and brought it
to this court. The chain was not pledged.
Mr. Solomon—l bops after what you have heard, sir, that
you will see there was no guilty intention of stealing the
property, and that you will deal with the prisoner for
illegally pawniog, as such is the fact.
Mr. A'Beckett, to the prisoner—lt is very lamentable to
me a young man of respectable connexions, and in a good
social position, placed in such a degraded situation as you
am, caused by forming bad connexions and conHacting blot
habits. You have by this act brought your family and
yourself to disgrace, but I have my doubts as to whether
you took the property with the guilty intent of stealing it ;
and as I think the jury would be of the same opinion, and
give you the benefit of that doubt. I will deal with the
cue. I think that after you foolishly took the watch, you
pledged it to satisfy your depraved habits, and I hope this
will be a warning to yon for the future. I shall deal with
you for unlawfully pledging the watch, and fine you 61. for
that offence, and, in default of payment, commit you to
prison for one month.
MARYLEBONE.
Alfred Elkins was finally examined and committed for
trial, charged with ernbualies sums of mom y einousiVog to
1201., the property of his former employers, Messrs.
Chaplin and Horns, carriers, to whom the accused acted as
clerk.

LAMBETH.

Yesterday Mrs. Pima, the widow of 'sergeant of police,
who had served for ems years in the P, or Camberwell
division, sad was uni ily respected by his brother
officers, but who had terrain +led his services as well as his
existences is the Crimea, attended before the Hon. 0. C.
Norton, is compliance with a message seat to her by the

magistrate. •
It will be recollected that, owing to the defective state of
the commissariat in the East in the summer of last year, an
application was made to the polio, for a certain number of
respectable and well conducted sergeants to join the army,
and set as keepers; and several of the sergeants be-
' longing to the different divisions volunteered their services.
ffeeh wee the enthusiasm of those who had so volunteered,
mad so great their confidence in the liberality and consider-
ation of the government, that they thought of making
soy terms as to their present emoluments or tutors settle-
ments, and the consequence was that themselves, their
wives, and families, and particularly the latter, were placed
is a most painful situation.
In Mrs. Pocock's Cal* her husband, as before sated,
went away without making any particular arrangement as
to her future support, believing, no doubt, that she would
continue to receive his pay from Scotland yard, and that
thereinto she could not be inonr eenienced in the means of
Providin.. for herself and his children. On making applies.
tion to Scotland-yard, ho -ever, she was told that her hue.
band had left the service of the police, end as be bad ceased
to be a member of that forte he could no longer receive the
pay as • constable. She nest appl.ed to the Horse Go rda,
and finally to Sir Charles Trevelyan ; bat in neither dr
parttime% had she received the slightest assistance, and ia
the depths of poverty she applied to Mr. Norton at this
genet for some temporary assistance from the
=box. Her distressiag ease at the time pot
the public in the usual channels. Os
Wednesday Mr. Norton received a communicatioe.
dated Balaklava, April 2, enclosing 14 sovereigns, and es
its contents related more particularly to her, the magistrate
forwarded a message to her, requesting that she might att.
tend at the wart yesterday. She was accordingly is at-
tendance, when Mr. Norton read to her a communiralen
received by him from Balaklaea, by which it appeared that
her ease, and that of the widow of another aeilistantstore-
keeper. named Elliott, forni-rly a mutant in the IE Division,
had attracted the notice of lb.• assistant storekeepers of the
commissariat at Beale's, twenty one of whom had sub-
soils-4 141., which they had forwarded to Mr. Norton, to
be apportioned at his discretion for the relief of Mrs. P •eoek
mil Mrs. Elliott, and that of the widows and families of
nub earn of their deceased comrades as might teas under
Mr. Nortes's notice.
Is reply to the questions of the magistrate, Mrs. Pocock
iaM4hat, rises she had been lest to the court, she had re-
esived a letter from General Filder, which she took to the
Patriotic Fund-office, and there it was kept. The gentle-
men there agreed to allow her 10s. a week for three
nestle.
Mr. Norton was glad to bear this, and remarked that be
Ifelt eertain that the reason the public did not respond, and
sebeerilte in her caw, which was truly a distressing one,
' was solely from a feeling that, under the circum
1 Mantua, the
_government should provide fir her sad her
diddren. For his own (lit. Norton's) part, he had an
Arabi whatever that the goverment would do something in
bar as well as in similar eases, particularly after the pro-
files and declaration of General Filder.
Mrs. Pooook ezDrested her gratitude for the kind interest
his worship was taking in the matter, and for the substan-
tial relief he had on the former occasion afforded her ; and
left the court.

THAMES.
AU Hew*" a co/oured man. was charged with frond.
The prise:mar had gale iNevoral bawdier-holm holots,
sad by rvnressating that he had just arrived in the UMW
Miamer B.ole from the Crimes, and had a lam. sum to re-
mho for wages, sumeeded in obtaining goods and moot, to
•mosidorabta amount. On inquiry, it was s•osrtained that
M llad boos pat on board the Bites to Do conveyed to
Itaakad aa a diftremd maim, and bad no wages to to-

Mnonerion.—The tide of emigration is beginning
to a this year as rapidly se ever. Oar quay, are crowd.
ing with emigrants to the land of the "far West." Nothing
eau stem the tide—go they will—although from all that eau
he learned of the land of "Brother Jonathan," it Is not
now that haven of repose it was in "days of yore." The
Man steamer left oar quays on Friday, for Liveepool, hav-
ing on board nearly 200 emigrants—well tiled and ociasfor-
*able, and apparently of the better slam.—Waterford
Chroosick.

[Advert ieememtl—iiOLLOWAT'S 01IPPYINT AND
MIA A PIIIITICT ROWDY Ma TIAN (VAII 0/ IlOYMPLA.—ltztrist of
Muer tram Vt. P. Me Kawilit deed Mei N. IOC—
"Po PIIVIAPISI Moiloway. MK—Mett7 Yaw mee Melptimet-
heed haw &dyed Wein Mem the um el per meileime. Omm
Lamm/ mem r palleelee, Mb led milleed letwas Mee led Mime
TOM soniiii Mb 115, old visesemp ww seedy dispeiral
of. WI limo Itimat mei Mr the we et Ibis. Wier wise Ohm
temease hoe SAW sedkbrmnm adly tilmsteeelm oda
word, Om Owl% hem, sal welds. at4l Amid le la Ore
bps=?..*-11•41 by •Il droops% and at holm iNwgti
144. Stria‘ Lea&