The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-20 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Joke lirearty wasitiarieci with stealing a horse and cart,
the property of James Oanimerford.
On Saturday, the 4th Mat., the prosecutor went to the
Borough-market to purchase vegetables, and left the horse
and cart at the corner of Park•treet, in the charge of a
boy. Whim he returned in half-an-hour afterwards he
found that the boy had been sent to a public-house by two
men who had then driven away the cart. The prisoner was
afterwards stopped at Deptford by a policeman, who saw him
driving past in • reckless manner, and who subsequently
found that the hone and cart had been stolen. .

The defence was that the prisoner took away the home
end cart in a drankim frolic.
Committed for trial.
GREENWICH.

Henry Austin, a :d;l;sed young man, who
refused his address, was placed in the dock before Mr.
Train, charged with loitering in Lee-park, Blackheath, with
• hone and gig, for the supposed purpose of committing
felony.
Policernestable Skinner, 198 R, said, about twenty
minutes past three, on Friday afternoon, be was on duty at
the Blackheath station of the North Kent Railway, when,
in consequence of information received from another con-
stable, he went into Lee-park, Blackheath, and raw • horse
and standing at the end of • road in charge of a man
employed in roadocraping, who saki • gentleman had
given him 2d. to stand by it. On looking along the road
witness saw the prisoner, and followed, and saw him call at
a cottage, sad baying watched him some time witness ww
the prisoner return to the gig and get into it. Witness
then asked the prisoner if the gig belonged to him. The
prisoner replied, " Why r —and then "No ; a gen-
tleman asked me to mind it," Warns' told the prisoner it
was a strange thing that he should leave the horse and gig,
if it had been left in his charge ; when the prisoner re-
plied, "He had done so because be wanted to take • walk
around the place." He asked the prisoner if he knew the
gentleman to whom the horse and gig belonged, and he
mid he did not ; and on remarking that he should have to
take him into custody, the prisoner said it was •
very bard ease, as the gentleman who asked him
to mind the gig was • friend with whom be
had played cards on three or four missions, but be did not
know his name. Witness took the prisoner to the station,
and oa searching the gig found a felt hat, R pair of leathern
leggings, and • common table knife, the latter article being
ly used by thieves to force back window fastenings.
the prisooer's person were also found • gold ring, a gold
breast-pin, 34 10a in gold, and a turnpike ticket, issued at
the Green Mao toll-gate, Old Kent-rood, that day.
Police-constable 90 It said about • quarter to 3 on the
afternoon in question he saw the prisoner in a gig near
Aberdeen-tensor, Blackheath-park, and as soon as the pri-
soner saw him he drove off. Witham placed himself against
a wall, and afterwards saw the prisoner drive up to the
spot where the horse and gig were left, and having put
another coat on over the one he was wearing, the prisoner
got out. Witness asked the roadsivan to whom the horse
and gig belonged, and he replied that • gentleman who had
irked thu road to Deptford had given him 2d. to take charge
of the horse. The witness corroborated the further testi-
mony of the last witness, the home and gig being taken by
him to the greenyard.
Polioe-coostrible 173 It deposed Loosen* the prisoner and
another man. the latter of whom was wearing a light cap, in
the gig at Blackheath, an hour previous to the prisoner
being taken into custody.
Mary Welford, housemaid to Mr. Farareigh, of 10, Aber-
deen-terrace, Blackheath, said that • few minutes after
three on Friday afternoon she saw a man, whom she could
not identify, jump from the side wall of her master's house
into the front garden, and make his escape through the
gateway. Oa the wall above the doorway there were foot-
marks, as of • parson attempting to get in at the bedroom
window.
Boer Stanley, marmot to Mr. Braby, of Stanstead-
• Stasieteaddane, Lewisham, said between three
and four o'clock on the afters/ow of Sunday, the 28th
nit., a gold chain, a gold brooch, and a gold locket were
stolen from a bed-room in hermaster's house. On going up-
stairs she saw a man, whom she now identified as the priso-
ner, making him swaps out of the window over the door-
way. se. caned out, "I think I shall know you again."
the •priereser replied, "I dare say you will," mad
jumped tate therwdea sad made his imams. Wanes ran
to the gateway, and there saw that the prisooer was driving
awe y is • gig with another men as fast uhe could.
prisoner maid this witness wee mistaken. He had
cad y strived ta Loudon from Bristol on Wednesday, and
bad dna Dm lodging at a coffee-hearer in she 'Unlinked-

road. He declared himself as innoomat as a child, and said
he had been brouOt into trouble. not knowing who the
parson was he had s..n induced to ride with.
Mr. Tali remanded the prisoner tor a week.

Edward Larier, a Frenchman, aged 43, described saapro•
(emir of languages. of No. 74, Stamford-street, Blackfnare-
road, was ehaegd with writing a threatening letter to Priam
Louis Lucien Bonaparte
The letter in question contained phrases of an indeomit
character, and an expression to the following effect :
" Know, then, that death shall know you, notwithstanding
you belong to a family of perjurers and meassios."
The prisoner pleaded guilty. He was in misery at the
time be wrote the letter. He was now ♦cry sorry for what
he had done, and was very auziM• to be discharged upon
entering into his own resoguisames, as he said he should
be able to provide sureties.
The prince having waived his claim to have the prisoner
bound over with sureties, he was discharged upon entering
into Lis own recognizencee in the sum of 1001. and upon
paying the costs.