The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-23 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-ROUSE.
The Lord Mayor requested that the press would acknow-
ledge the receipt of the following donations for the poor
hoz :—front W.G., 405.; John Fleet, 205.; Mr. Pugh, 101.;
J.R.D., 61.
BOW-STREET.

The flea! examination of Charles King, the ex-policeman
and thief-trainer, took place before Mr. Rail, and attracted,
u usual, a crowded court.
Mr. Bodkin, on behalf of the crown, stated that although
inquiries were still being pursued in relation to the various
mitten disclued in the course of this long and important
investigation, he did not see any ground for believing that
he should be able to offer any fresh evidence before the
period fixed for the ensuing ensionfifthe Central Criminal
Court. Under these circumstances, he could not help feeling
that it would be unreasonable to ask for any farther delay,
sad therefore be now proposed to complete the third case
which was opened at the last examination, and then to ask
his worship to commit the prisoner for trial. It would be
remembered that the boy Reeves, in giving the particulars
of a robbery which occurred at a charitable buur in Cam-
den-town, stated, casually, that he spoke to a policeman
named Lockerby the same day, and this constable was now in
attendance to confirm the fact.

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Bergeaat Lookerby, 23 8, deposed that he remembered
the fancy fair held at a chapel, in the liampstead.road, in
1853, and heard at the time of two ladies being robbed
then. On that day he saw the boy Reeves, wbo spoke to
witness la the middle of the day, ekes to the bazaar, and
who was in the company of two or three others, but he
eoald not identify King as one of them, and did not know
him as a constable at that time.

FicToatersrTitieetia being offered by the learned counsel
for the prosecution,
Mr. Beirut, who stated that he came from the office of
Mr. Bussell, solicitor, and had been engaged for the defence,
dried his client to say nothing in reply to either of the
charges at present.
Teo prisoner King was then fully committed for trial.
Shortly after his removal from the bar, a woman named
Shanks, who had attended several of the examinations upon
a subparna, but was not eventually required as a witness,
applied to the 'magistrate to protect her from the violence
of her husband, who had threatened to murder her
if she made any statement to the prejudice of King.
She had lately lived apart from her husband, but previous
to this she was a witness to the fact of King's extorting
some money from her husband while the latter was la a
state of drunkenness in their apartments (in the yard where
young Beeves's pony was kept at stables, on the alleged
posed that it was part of the produce of a robbery upon
• foreigner at the Beak of Bnglsnd.
Mr. Ralf said the ewe was over now, but if the husband
and maetyy ponied Mimes towards her, she should have the
peoteofisaf the med. He probably knew better than to
risk his lffiesty Iwo& • mimeo of proceeding.
It is NM 11.1iftelli the a:untie width the government
inquiries have lisse piesesetoi ia this aft that a aeon of
witnesses have shook' task miersholisa Masai being
Galled ups. to make has sispodtleas to dm meet, owing
chilly, eel way eaterally, to the dillealty of speaking
positively as to the identity of the primate or the boys after
so hag as Wirral of time, although is all other respects
the oases is may have been cuenmstantially proved.
It is aeesNessd dasirabbs to state that many of the pawn-
brokers' deplisoles head in King's lodgings relate to gold
pins, date. sad artistes of jewellery, which a person in his
statist of life would be hardly supposed to parses in an
anther, way. TN oespotty is is the heads of the police,
sad ma be mimeos& by mat poems bevies lost articles of
that assolphim The pmaaeesn will probably be adver-
tised ha the sommoss ammo as they are accurately mar-
Weed.

G.... Baia, sandosthil clerk to Mews. Dagard row-
chaste, Dralmat-smart, Philpet-lane, woe charged with ob-
Wang large aammat of property from Wiggle jeweller,,
oa the fans protean that the man was remind oa anent
of his ors.
TM , who appeindosildinessod, was re-
in ardor that no pen Ink muse the pro-
port', own of whisk had Ws Mrumbeekon.
Mr. Wank, loadlord of no Baolefle-
moinread, waited ea Mr. ?penile, w 10,. eon-
Winded by a few gostlinon booms's', of In boom, is
old of the wife sad 'IN of pass asestablo Prank
etakee, win loot Ids Lk Is afAwirpsons la ono awn of the
Mann stn. hien wk onostir MI be Isliagin. Ms.
Wink Ind en no wabsidloon aminored it a an most
doinvift al
Ur. TyrsaleCribtioalt you sad the nt.'s:When
for year moron oesiddintits of the can; it is a sad no

for the rafortunate Eau was a most worthy officer of H
Teen' earvkts, and one who when he did his duty performed
it effectively but unobtrusively. His distressing fats is one
that Palls for the komane sympathy of the benevolent and
the public generally. In furtherance of your benevolent
ohj( et I have to state that the following donations hart
been forwarded to me. Mews. Wakeling, solicitors, U.,
end Mr. Therm RWateon,

Use" has seat ss. is one shilling postage stamps for
Rachel Clarks, whose husband, s sweep, cleated to go to
prison wooer Skew premise not to black her eyes or terrify
his family say man. "H. 11." has seat Si. for the poor
boa.