The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-11 00:00:00

SINGULAR OMAIWZ OP ROBBERY.

At the Hunt:don:l 8818i0118, on Wednesday,
thane, Coombe, 36, was indkted for stealing 400/., the
property of tfMiam Morris, at Dokinfieid, on the fith
February, under the following extraordinary Arena.
stances .—it appears that Morrie is a carter, in receipt at
17s. per week. His wife had 400 sovereigns unknown to
him, which she kept is a box in her bedroom.
The only pigeons who knew of the money were
one el bar demotes* (and she only knew he part)
and *be prisoner, who was • saloboar, and bad been
U Mrs. Norris to the bank et Deldsheld to get tbs
ohmage& into cash. Whilst Mni. Mamie and her
des ware at church on a &today evening, the pri-
nlessrend bee enter (who bad a ohild in her arena) paid •
AO he the prosecutor's house. During their stay, the pri-
emssr, ander pretence that she was poorly, kept continually
ping in and out at the beck door. This she did for the
purpose's' hotting into the beam two men, who proceeded
to Mn. Monies bedchamber, broke open her box, and took
out Ins 400 sovereigns ; and then, in order to prevent say
mese they might make being beard by Mr. Norris the pr.f.
sow's sister remained with him in the front room, and
kept rolling bee child on the Boor, making it laugh
bed cry to such a degree that its sone effet.
Welly drowned what wee going on in the beck Fart of
the bows. Ou Mrs. Morris's return from church
she discovered her low She at ono, taxed the
prisoner and informed the polio.. The former denied ell
knowledge, and when the latter went in search of the
two men with whom the had been men to enter
Nestle's house on the Sunday evening, and with one of
whom she cohabited, they could not be found, and
bed aot bean heard of since the robbery. But Mr. Morris
did not know that Lis wife had a fertilise, arid de-
clared that be had not the remotest idea where she had
it frees, till she came to give evidence is the court on
Treaty. Max Morris had refused to explain how she
some to be possessed of 4001., but under the pressure of
Mr. Kletyre, who appeared for the defence, she was made
to disclose the secret. She said 0001. was given to her by
• patinae* friend after she had hew to Lowden with him
fora month. Her husband did not kw,' wince she win
sordid he family. She lived with this" patleincus friend"
as hie wife, and on her return to Dukiadsid he gave her six
1001. Bank of Englund notes to take care of. She pre him
about 2001. back again, but spent some on herself. She
changed two of the notes at a bask is Lee-street, Mae-
cheater, and the rest she got cubed at • bank in Dubin-
field. She changed them into emit in the phloem's
presence, on Leering of so much Bank of England paper
having been stolen. Her hinband wee quite ignorant of
the money, and of the circumstances under which it had
Leen obtained. On being pressed both by the court and
by Mr. M'lntyre, she mid the gentleman friend's name was
Raines, taroasely • boiler maker, but now independent. She
had done • des/ of work for him, such as getting up limn.
He lived vat far from bee house. In summing up, the chair-
man alluded to the enormity of the disclosures made by the
worms Morrie. At first he was inclined to disbelieve that
she ever hod 4001., but on hearing the shocking revelatiorie
that had been wrung from ter, be thought her statement,
had as it was, strengthened rather than weakened the pro-
babilitsee of the case. The jury, after being looked up,
fouled the prisoner guilty, arid aht was sentenced to twelve
months' hind labour.

Tics CHAMPIONSHIP or THI Timm—The final
deposit of 501. • side was paid yesterday lath the heads
of the final stakeholder for the ran betwesa Robert Cham-
bers, of Neweastle-upon-Tyne, sad George Everson, of
Greenwich, for 2001. a side end the slisaspioeship of the
Thames. The ontomay at portion the mosey took pled on
Tkunday sight at Barnes, when 201. wee banded over to
Chambers as ae equivalent for his expenses. The champion
is trateing at the Feathers, Wandsworth, la *Deputy with
the voters' Harry Cleaver and li Winship. Iverson, who
is-in first-site form, has taken op hie quieten at the Boll's
Heed, Barnes, sad is sooompsaied by Gems Dreeitt
Members is the favourite at 5 sad 6 to 4, hot the friends of
the Leaden widen:mu are very oonldent, and accept the
Metter odds very kindly. The race will be rowed over the
usual championship course—viz., Putney aqueduct bridge
to a boat moored off the Ship, at Mordake, ea Tuesday
mornion Dent, at hell-put close.
Feat- n tech thrDeswarrees. —Wm. Green-
home), the resider of the barque Mary &sort, was yesterday
brought up before the Liverpool magistrates cm a charge of
aturenpte a; to defraud the underwriter. The prisoner bed
insured his chronometer for COL before his set voyage,
when his ship foundered off Cadiz. Os hie return to
Lirerpool
;repreeeoted that his threneureler had ea
lost. theme' t arkeesaatly *aspired that the arrow-
meter bad bees eared by the steward, sad that the pri-
soner had mimed 161. epee 11. The prisomm wee remadlted
far trial, lea beleg edema