The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-05 00:00:00

WESTMINSTF/L.

JamesMOnTa ostler i; Tb;;;;vios of Mr. Watling, pro-
vision merchant and pork-pie manufacturer at Pimlico, was
charged with robbing his master.
Mr. James Bird, of 26, Denbigh-street, Pimlico, Mr.
Watling's foreman, said that from some information he had
received of some hahaving been removed from his =a-
wes loft, he placed himself in a room over a gateway lead-
ing to the stable and watched. At a quarter paid nine at
night he saw the prisoner leave the yard with a truss of
bay on his back, and following saw bun rake it to Mr.
Rawlings' stable in the Wilton-road. As be left the stable
witness embed him by the oeck end charged him with
stealing the hay, when he deeded having bad scything to
do with it. . .

Mr. Arnold—Hays then been any previous losses from
your &titbit*?
Witness—We have mined a greet quantity of hay. This
robbery bee been going on for some time pest.
George Haploid', aroma to Mr. Watling, said that he
lived over the stable, and saw the prisoner lean the yard
with a truss of hay. fire had been three trusses in a cent
in the yard just before.
Edwird Stowe, 227 B, said he apprehended the pri-
soner, and when told by Mrs. Watling that she should give
him into custody, he and he had lent the nay to a Mr. Raw.
Bogs, in theWilton.roed, in whose place it had been found.

Kr. Arnold (to Mr. Bud)—Had the prisoner any autho-
rity to land his master's hay !
lir. Bird—Not the least, nor to remove it from the
premises.
Prisoner was remanded until Tuesday.
SOUTHWARK.
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Herman Caspar, asniciiaid clock maker of Snow's.
field". Bermondsey, was finally examined on the charge of
fraudulently converting to his own woe upwards of twenty
watches and clocks entrusted to his care to repair.
It appeared that the prisoner's father had for many yews
carried on basins.. in Spew 's-fields, and at his death the
prissier succeeded to his teed. and connexion. The neigh-
bours continued to send their watches and clock' to him
for repair. The prisoner, however, Deflected to do the
work, sod put off bis customers from time to time until
they became tired of calling. Representations were made
to this court by twenty or thirty people in the course of the
last two mouth., and the result was that all the property
estnisted to him was discovered at various pawnbrokers',
where the prisoner bad pledged it almost as soon es be
got it into his •a. A warrant was issued, sad
he was apprehen ed a week ago by N'Carthy, 134 It, who
Nita on him 14 pewahrokers duplicates relating to_mast
the property. As soon as the prisoner was placed at the
bar the court was crowded by the owners of the property
and pawnbrokers. Three cases were deposed to, and there
were twenty others wherein the pawnbrokers produced the
property, which was identified ; but the magistrates did
cot consider it neceseary to burden the deposition with more
evidence.

Tie prisoner admitted pledging the watches ; and
Mr. Bonham folly committed him for trial.
THAMES.
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George Salmon, a Labourer, 25 years of age, with a bloated
face and Ellen Cunningham, a withered old woman, both
as dirty and dissipated as it is pantile to conceive, wars
charged before Mr. Partridge with being drank and dis-
orderly, and the woman warn charged in addition with trekk-
ing a large pane of plate glass, vaned at N. 10a., is the
window of the Roebuck public-honae, in Oaanometreetroad,
St. George's-in-the-Past.
The prisoner Johnson said be was for three years in the
employ of Marra Taylor brothers, cocoa manufacturers,
sod had been out of work twelve weeks ; all be had had to
drink was half a pint of beer.
Mr. Partridge said a half piat of beer would make no man
intoxicated. He should doe the male prisoner sa. for being
drunk and disorderly, and order the woman to pay 255. to-
wards the damage she had mused, and a fine of 5e., and in
default of payment to be imprisoned for one month.