The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-09 00:00:00

BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS.

Tnx FEMALE BuitoLan.—Hester Elizabeth [Mite was
finally examined on a charge of burglary at the house of Mr.
Jones at Ealing, some particulars of which appeared in our'
paper of this day week. The prisoner appeared to be in a
very weak state from the effects of the cold she caught in the
commission of the robbery, and was accommodated with a
chair.—Mr. Jones, having identified the property found at
the kwisoner's lodgings, as part of that stolen from his house
on uesday, October 20, Emma Kent deposed that she had
been in the service of Mr. Jones for the last four years. On
the 20th ult., the prisoner called on witness at Mr. Jones's,
as she said, to bid witness good bye before she went to a situ-
ation at Bedford. She carne about-six o'clock, and left about
nine o'clock. Witness, with the servant next door, accom-
panied the prisoner to the Ealing station of the Great Wes-
tern Railway, and saw her take her departure. On that
evening witness fastened up the house between five and six
o'clock, and sprung the bars of the kitchen window shutters.
The next morning witness, on coming down stairs, was
greatly surprised on finding the drawing-room door open,
having seen it shut as she went up to heel the night before,
and, on getting into the kitchen she found that door shut,
which she had left open, and the window shutters open, and
the curtain hanging down. She then saw on the window
sill muddy marks of some person having entered. Having
searched the house without missing anything she gave in-
formation of the circumstance to Mr. Jones. Saw nothing
suspicious in the prisoner's conduct the evening before the
robbery. Inspector Lorton, T division, deposed to having re-
ceived information of the robbery, and examined the premises,
he found that the entry had been effected by some Hat instru-
ment being introduced between the kitchen window shutters,
by which the bar had been lifted up from the outside. lie
also found foot-marks, evidently of a female, on the lawn in
front of the kitchen window, and tracked them to the wall
at the side of the house, and over that in a field, where he
also found the knife produced, which he had no doubt had
been used to open the window shutter. The knife was Mr.
Jones's. Witness had since traced the stolen notes from the
Bank of England, into which they had been paid, through
the hands of several tradesmen, and one of them, No. 88,061,
to have been paid by the prisoner to a Miss Warren, of Han-
way-street, Oxford-street, in the purchase of two pairs of
stays, to whom the prisoner had given her real name and
address. On Friday, the 30th ult., witness went to No. 20,
Crown-court, Pall-mall, and was shown by Mrs. Lee, the
landlady, to the prisoner's room. On entering he found
the prisoner and another female in the room, both undressed,
having just got out of bed. That was about ten o'clock in
the forenoon. He told the prisoner he was come to appre-
hend her for the robbery at Mr. Jones's, at Ealing, the stolen
notes having been traced to her, when she became greatly
agitated, and nearly fainted. In the room he found the
wills, and deeds, and other documents done up in a brown
paper parcel, directed to Mr. Jones,Woodland-place, Ealing,
and under the pillow the stolen desk produced, with the
coins and most of the stolen articles, except the notes and
sovereigns. He then took the prisoner into custody.—Ser-
jeant Tull, T 22, deposed to conveying the prisoner to the
station-house at Ealing by railway. At the Paddington
terminus, the prisoner said she hoped Emma Kent would
not be discharged through the robbery, as no one was to
blame but herself (prisoner) ; and, in addition, she said,
" They can't say I took anything except that," meaning the
desk. She also said she had folded up the wills and deeds with the
intention of sending them back to Mr. Jones. Witness
cautioned 12. n• that what she said would be used against her,
to which she replied, " Never mind, I have no wish to con-
ceal anything."—The prisoner was further identified by
Miss 'Warren, who sold her the stays, as the person who
gave her the stolen A/. note; and also by Mrs. Glover, a
person to whom she had given the stolen penholder; and
Mrs. Lee, the landlady where she lived in Crown-court, de-
posed to her coming home on the morning of the 21st ult.,
about eight o'clock, wet through, and in an exhausted state,
and that she soon afterwards saw the desk in the room, and
the prisoner break it open.—The prisoner, who declined
saying anything, was fully committed.