The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-08 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

WORSHIP-STREET.
' A young woman named tWiroA White was charged on
suspicion of having stolen the sum of 2291 in gold and
silver money, the property of her master,Patrick Cavanagh,
a general postman living in Bristow-street, Hoxton.
It appeared from the evidence that the amount in ques-
tion was kept by the prosecutor in a deal box in his bed-
room, which was constantly locked, and that the prisoner,
who had lived with his family for six months as a domestic
' servant, was well aware of the fact that a considerable sum
of money was deposited in the apartment. At an early
hour that morning the prosecutor left home to attend to
the duties of his situation, and was shortly afterwards fol-
lowed out by his wife, who secured the door of the bed-
room and placed the key in charge of the prisoner, but in-
cautiously left upon her bed the key of the box containing
the money, which she had counted over and locked up on
the preceding evening. The prosecutor returned home
between ten and eleven o'clock, and finding, on
proceeding upstairs, that the bedroom-door wu wide
open, ho immediately examined the box, and ob-
served that the lid waa raised up, and the whole of the
money abstracted. As neither of the locks presented the
slightest indications of external violence, and had evidently
been opened in the usual manner, the prisoner was closely
interrogated on the subject, but she positively denied that
any one had visited the house during their absence, and de-
clared that the key of the bedroom door had never been out
of her possession since she received it from her mistress. It
having been 'ascertained, however, from subsequent inqui-
ries, that shortly after the departure of the prosecutor and
his wife, a man had been seen in an enclosed garden at the
back of the house, whose description exactly answered the
appearance of a person who had been in the frequent habit
of calling upon the prisoner, a policeman was at once sent
for, and she was given into custody.
The prisoner, who disclaimed all knowledge of the rob-
buy, was remanded fur a week.

LAMBETH.
Joseph Kiwi, a confidential servant in the employment of
Mr. Thomas Modes Green, an ironmonger, in Braed-street,
Lambeth, was charged with plundering his muter to a con-
siderable extent, and II Simpson, marine store dealer,
in the New-cut, was char with receiving the property
with a guilty knowledge.
It was stated that information received from a private
source had induced Mr. Green to take out a search warrant,
and on searching Simpson's premises two large casks full of
nails of different descriptions, and of the value of nearly
401., were found. These nails, as well es a quantity of
screws, and valuable locks, &c.. also found there, Mr. Green
believed to be his property, and to have been stolen from his
premises by the prisoner King, who had been in his service
for six or seven years. On this discovery having been made
Simpson absconded, end kept out of the way until that
morning, when he gave himself up to Sergeant Goff.
Cocking, the former shopman of Simpson, gave a length-
ened statement, to the effect that the prisoner King had
been in the habit of almost daily bringing to the shop of
Simpson, or sending, various packages of nails, screws,
locks, and other things, and getting paid for them. The
area's were at once removed from the paper parcels in !
which they were received, and the papers ordered by Simp-
son to be destroyed ; but, notwithstanding this order, the
witness preserved a quantity of them, and these were
spoken to by the prosecutor.
The prisoners were remanded ; but Simpson, on the ap-
plication of his attorneT, was admitted to bail, himself an
4001., and two sureties an 2001. each.