The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1964.

COOKE' OP ALDERNSP.

A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday, at
Guildhall. the Right Hon. the Loud Mayor preeidinc.
The bumbler was chiefly of a routine character. Several
deatlemse were admitted to the freedom at the Qty.
Three geatlonea, Mr. Win. Ramsey Luff, Mr. Jobe Poole.
and Mr. Nathaniel M'Nair were swore ea broken. mid
William Trotter and Mr. Jobe Mania Vaahoess, las., wen
allowed broken. The sherds promoted their Wane an to
the mete of the City prisons, and it appeared that the
number of primmer' in Newinte wu 142, in the City prima
at Holloway 3.19, and in the debtors* prison 9L The report
wan wroompaaied by medical certificates ea to the fit state of
the prison.

The usual orders were belied in reference to Lord Awe"
day, for the erecting of barriers and keeping the street.
Mr. Alderman HALE (the Lord Mayor elect) said it had
been the custom for some years past to have men in
armour in the procession on Lord Me or's-day, sad in coo-
sequeoce the streets had to be strewed with petal that the
hones might keep their feet; and he wished to know
whether the expense of the ganef was borne by the corpo-
ration or by the Lord Mayor and sheriffs,

Mr. Alderman COPILAXD thought it • very extraordinary
application. Ever since he bad been connected with the
corporation the expense had been borne by the Lord Mayor,
who was provided with a good sum from the City emit, and
the &heath, who bed honour and dignity conferred upon
them.

Mr. Alderman WrLsow also thought it wee the custom
mar mince be bad been as alderman.
Mr. Alderman HAL' did not see how what he had said
could be construed into an application. He had merely
asked a question. and ha should not think of asking the
corporation to bear the expense ; and after what he had
heard be would not accept it.
The eosin then dimmed.

MIDDLESEX SESSION&
(Baton tho deigisetJadge.)

Joke lowa, 26., tad Will Shearesee, 18, were in-
dieted tor Messapimiit to Meal • web& from the person of
a mew Timm maws le eelmaire. JONI 1111111 further indicted
for ataaiiea two cloth repos, of the mho of 2s. 62., the pro-
pewal 'ims Madam
Amieleat-Judge sestomoid Jams to be kept is penal
esnitide for sena Teen, sad ab 5.,... for in yaws.
As soma as the esatimos was pronounced Joshes bawled oat,
" Yoe —, when I some out sole I'll shoot you r mid the
other • Leeched out ieto • volume al shun to the
Issraed judge, sad it was with some show of mistime they
were takes to the cells below.

Jain 18, aed:ianSeilisood. 20, were indicted for
steeling a silver watch, six silver tesspooae, a pair of mint
roger-tangs, six oat bottles, beseohee, table-cloths, table-
covers. and an immense quantity of wearing append, the
property of Hoary Etrecklen. There were four other indict-
meats of a similar description, sod the enumeration of the
articles stolen occupied the court a oassiderelde time in
them.
rlslcsile awe of Yr. Boulder, it sponged that he wee a ra-
dian, Err' et Wiry Hatch, sod on Monday, the 19th at
September, he went from home, locked up the house, end
left everything isle. On Ws Warn borne about 3 o'clock in
the afternoos he found the door and windows broken open
and some slats. taken aff the mot. Amu mined JOOllll Mr
• castermonger's barrow with a posy stinding in Oolsey
Hatch-road, and Belwood wee airing in it Powell put a
seek to a man who wee Weide • fence, and shortly after this
the man came beak doming • seek which was then quite
full. As soon se he sew the witness Jones he dropped the
, seek, jumped over the feces, got into the barrow, aid
made him crepe. Sewell and Sellwood were also men et the
ram by other witasser. The prisoners were subs/grimily
taken into custody on another charm and on the person of
Sewell, on his being searched at the Tottenham stenos, a
silver thimble wee found., which wan identified by Mr.
Bruldin es one of the articles stolen from his premises.
The metre of the it appeared, wee to go
:mud Homey, Caney Hato6, and its neighbourhood, with
• barrow end pony, under pretrial of selling greengrocery,
sad thus got score to premises to sill their articles. When
they saw a favoimble opportunity they plundered the
honer of anything they could lay their hands upon and
drove away with it.
The jury found the prloomen Guilty, and the other in-
dirmeits.were not Jtone into .

The Assident-Judie mid thews were daring robberies, wad
it became his duty to wad the primers away. He then
sentenced them to be kept in peed servitude tor Ave years.

THE POLICE COURTS.

IWIEgON-11017EL

Jots Keegan, dssuribstissa draper, of 20, Groat Suffolk.
street, Borough, waa brought before Mr. Alderman Lusk,
who sat for the Lord Mayor, chiuipd with baring is his
=ta quantity of /lyres, forming part of several rob-
owing them to have base stolen.He wee also
charged with mosiviag tits property knowing it to hays lase
stolen.

Mr. Maynird, of Mr. Bunn office, appeared for the
primmer.
It appeared that several robberies of glove manufac-
turers have lately taken place at Worcester. Mr. Williams
and Mr. Causer being two of the sufferers. On Monde
afternoon Detective Sergeant Foulger was in company with
• gutlegnan named Hulett and Sergeant Vaughan. of the
Wormier police, in the Old Change, where they law the
prisons. sad from informatian be bad previously received
Foelger stopped the priamer, and after telling hen he wee
an officer told him imbed bees sue offering a quantity of kid
gloves for sale to Mr. Haslett, sad asked him to account for
the possession of them. The prisoner seemed confused. and
said be bought them of • dark young maa, who be believed
' lived a few miles from Worcester, and that he was ietro-
dooed to bins by • man named Neweang, who lived Dome-
where in the New Bent-road, and gave him 12s. • doses
pain for them, and mid that they were sot worth moge as
they were nofinished. He told the officer he lived at 20,
Great Suffolk-strut ; sad open going to thst address and
searching the place realm found 45 dozen end six pairs of
gloves, and a quantity of silk sad Dome other articles, all
strewn on a bed in • very saboingen-like member.
Mr. Hulett, of Bexley Heath, draper, proved buying •
quantity if gloves of the prisoner, whom he had biome for
several years. He bought two lots of him in Avenel list,
coo/listing of six doses and three doses, and gave him 18a.
a dozen ter them. About tea days back he called on the
primmer, bought ten and • belt down pain of him, giving him
13e. 6d. the dues, and sold them to Mr. Keys, of the Old
Cheap, for 1&. 6d.
Mr. Ouse,. of Lansonorplue, Worcester, glove manu-
facturer. identified ten sad • bell doses pairs of gloves, sold
by Mr. Hulett to Kelley., as hi property,which be bad no
doubt formed • portion of • lot that wee stolen from his
warehouse on the 10th sod 12th of Sept., whoa an entrance
wee effected through the roof, and about 1001. worth of pro-
perty takes.
Wm. Neweam, by whom the prisoner said he was ietro-
&iced to the man of whom he bought the gloves, denied all
knowledge of the privateer, or having had any transectioas
with him.

- Ws:Maynard nose-eammieed the witness= at some length,
but failed to elicit scything material in favour of the
prisoner.
Foulger raked fora remand, as there bad been several rob-
Iberia in Worcester, and he thought it likely that some of
the property found at the poinoom's shop might be ideati-
fled,-aed be believed that soma of the gloves formed pert
of .a lot stolen from the warelionee of Mr. Williams, of
Etilmotreet, Worcester, on the bit July.
Mr. Maynard said than were a great many invokes
foantl, and there bad been no time to go through them, but
he had so doubt the goods foetid, with the saniption at the
10i deem gloves, would be Amid secounted for amongst
them ; and he asked, if the cave were remanded, that the
prisoner might be admitted to bail.
The application, however, was not granted, sad the pri-
*once was remanded without bail.
BOW 43TREET.
Robert Warrington, a ticket collector employed on the
Metropolitan Railway, was charmed with assaulting Elisa-
beth Doris, who described bernalf as • teacher.
The complainant stated—Between 8 and 9 o'clock LA
night I was at the Metropolitan Railway stalks, at Gower-
street, waiting to take a ticket. The window from which
the tickets are issued was closed. While I was standing
there the prisoner came up the stain leading from the plat-
form to the lobb7 where I stood. When he got on the
landing he pat his stick order my dress in an indecent
manner. He was going away, but I followed him to remon-
strate with him upon his conduct. He keeled at me. A
gentleman who was with him said if he had done it be ought
to be ashamed of himself. By this time some people were
collect them, and the primmer said, " Take core of
your eta,' es if he thought I wanted to get a crowd
er to pia pockets.
r. Flowage—Was thaw any ces with you?
Witness—Tim a Lily.
Mr. Flowers—la she in attendance?
Witness—No. Her husband would not let her come.
The prisoner—Did you send for the policeman or did I?
Witness—You said you would look me up if I did not
go away.
. . . . . . .

Yiteiliriaower —Did I may, " You had better not kick up
• row ar I will give you iri cuatod► V
Witweee—l gave • boy acme hal/pewee to go for • polio-
MO.

Flowers—But did he may that?
Wig—Yea ; he did say so.
The prisoner here observed that it bedid touch bar dram
it was by accident.
The complainant said it was net merely touebiog her
dress ; she felt the stick touch her in a manner which she
dcearibscl. She was quite positive that it could not have
been accidental, but that he did it wilfully and deli-
berately.
Mr. Flowers—Now Miss Davie, this is a very serious
matter for this man, and what I ace most anxious for is that
you should be careful and not make any mistake.
Witness—Sir. I am most primitive.
Frederic Gibbous, station inspector at Gower.street,
stated that the prisoner had been nix months in the
pany's service, and bore a good character. He had pre-
vioasly been in the polio*, end had been well recousnmoded.
He came to us as a policeman, and was promoted to be a
ticket collector for his good conduct. At the time this
occurred be was not on duty. He west off at three o'clock
in the afternoon. He wee sot in uniform, but in plain
clothes—his own private dress

Yr. Burnaby (the chief clerki— That is important. The
complainant did not tell the court that he was not in
uniform.

Mr. Green, a builder, residing in the Caledonian-road,
mid he was passing up sake with the prisoner, who bad
been a passenger by the same train in which he himself had
just arrived from %Mee-cram He knew the prisoner ea •
ticket collector. The primer wished him good evening.
The prisoner's stick might have touched the young 1/0111S11'.
drat, but he did not believe that it was doe. wjlfully. He
did not think anything so deliberate as the act deecribed by
complainant could have been done without his seeing some-
thing of it.
The prisoner said be certainly did not tomb her wilfally.
He insisted most strenuously that the stick was not under
her skirt at all. He admitted that when she first spoke to
him he laughed at her, but said that was because he really
thought she was only jesting with him, so little idea had
he of any assault or even of having touched her. He also ad-
mitted having suggested that she was trying to get a crowd
together to afford an opportunity of pocket picking.
Mr. Flowers—This ohm is to me one of considerable
anxiety, because if you are guilty and I punish you it is a
terrific thing for you, the oosseqaeoces being far more
serious to you than any soutanes I could impose on you. I
was more disposed to believe your declaration that this was
accidental until you made a statement which seems to cos-
tradict the complainant so far, that if it is to be believed it
is impossible for her to leave the court without some inept-
dos of having committed perjury. Now, I am quite satis-
fied that she has not committed perjury, end it is • pity
you should have taken that line of defence. Still, I don't
think what • man sap when he is charged with an offset*
ought to be weighed too strictly against him, for • man in
his aeziety to escape from a charge will sometimes put
forward staassouts which certainly an advocate would not
make for hire. If you are guilty it is a very bad case, for
you do this is • plane where you ought to protect the
public, and it is aggravated by your turning round and
charging her with • design of pocket picking ; and if I were
quite Welled of it I would inflict a very heavy punishment
vow yes. Bo; by as law of this aawatry, a pesos analui

is satatloi b this Wilda of any doubt., Now I bandju
that doubt, end I shall embargo you. It Ido wrwrg la
that, I mall hops that this will ha mph a Isom to yos Oat
you will owns ran lug a risk again so long as you lies.