The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-13 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

3[ANSION•HOIISE

John Fleming was brought before the Lord Mayor
charged with stadia( a quantity of uppers of ladies' book,
the property of Mr. A. -Flatow, wholesale boot ead shoe-
maker, 84 Leadeuhall-street.

The. prisoner was in the service of the prolocutor se •
cutter, and was employed to cut out the soles of boots,
sod had been employed shout eight months. On Friday
afternoon six pairs of uppers, which had been made for a
special order, were marked and placed with some
others in • basket in the room where the prisoner
worked. On Saturday morning one of the pairs was missed,
and the prisoner was called into the counting-hone by Mr.
Flatow and accused of taking them. The prisoner
acknowledged that he bed taken them the night before,
and they would be found in a box at his house with
two other pairs. Mr. Flatow asked him if he bad taken
any more, and the prisoner said he had taken twelve
pairs, which he had pawned in Walworth. Prose-
cutor and detective officer Hawks proceeded to the prisoner's
house, where they found three pairs of uppers, and they
afterwards went to the shop of Mr. Chapman, a pawn-
broker, in Lock's-fields, and there saw 11j pairs of uppers,
which Mr. Flatow identified as his property. The pawn-
broker said be knew the prisoner as • journeyman, and he
said the goods were his own property.
In 'newer to the Lord Mayor, Mr. Flatow said his stock
was so large that except in cases like the present, where •
special order was to be executed, a dozen or two of uppers
would not be missed, sod he was subject to very peat loss,
and was robbed nearly every day.
The Lord Mayor sentenced the prisoner to three mosthe
Imprisonment with hard labour ; and advised Mr. Flatow
to take legal opinion as to whether proceedings could be
taken against the pawnbroker for taking in the goods in an
unfinished state from • journeyman.
Charles Stephewaon was charred with causing an annoy-
ance to Mr. H. Jones, the proprietor of the Boar's Head, in
Cannon-street.

Mr. Beard appeared for the complainant.
The prisoner it appeared is one of the touters who loiter
about the corner of Cannon-street, and it appears that lot-
fatly • number of men who used to hang about the Euro-
pean, opposite the Mansion-house, have been removed, and
bare taken up their quarters opposite the prosecutor's
house. The prisoner has been for some time met • con-
tinual annoyance to Mr. Joao., being in the habit of drink-
ing at other public-honses, and getting intozioated, and
then standing opposite the Boar's Head, where his language
is of so disgusting a n►ture that he has been on several oc-
casions removed by the police, and on one occasion was
locked up, and was imprisoned for seven days. On Satur-
day night the prisoner and his wife ware both opposite the
house of the prosecutor, and were making such • disturb-
ance and using such disgusting and °beetle language that
Mr. Jose, was compelled to lock the prisoner up.
The Lord Mayor said the primes, had been cautioned
over and over again, sad had bad seven days' imprisonment,
which appeared to be of no avail, and he should fine him
20s. or 14 days' imprisonment.