The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-04 00:00:00

TIER POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Iforiat Bateman, a well-dressed lad, aged about 18, and
George Payne, aged 27, were brought before Alderman
Hunter, charged, the former with having broken into a
house in the Old Jewry and stolen a bag containing 20
sovereigns and 1.36 farthings' the savings of an industrious
old couple, and all their wurdrolie with the exception of the
clothes upon their backs, and the latter with having received
the property well knowing that it had been stolen.
ayt, City policeman 64, said— At about four o'clock
Ilfterllooll, as 1 was in Bishopsgate-strect, I saw
is a eers, and having seen him once before 1 sus-
rathat be lad something with him which he ought not
g, and followed him into Union-street. '1 he cab
eloped at the house of Payne,the other prisoner, and Bate-
ems oless out and carried a bundle with him into the shop
Ind it behind the counter, alter which he asked
he a shilling and paid tho cabman his fare with it.
Rs; nest into the shop and asked Bateman what; he bad
la the bundle ? lie replied that he had nothing but his
GA wank* apparel. Payne then asked him why he had
asa tabs them to his own lodgings? I then took the
leahs b. the place in which it bad been deposited, and
emossiai that and Bateman to the station iu the cab which
bid boa Jast used by him. I found twenty sovereigns ,and
a sixpence in a box wrapped up in a pair of stockings, and
156 farthings in an old sock, and a long list of articles of
dress for both sexes. I afterwards took Payne into custody
The cab-driver mid at twenty minutes before four, Bate-
man called me in the Poultry, and ordered me to drive to
Union-street. Ile had a bundle with him which he desired
me to put in the cab. When I stopped. five doors down
Union-street, he got out with the bundle, and was followed
by the policeman into Payne's house.
Mr. Fosberry (inspector of the City police).—After I
took the charge, and Bateman was locked up in the cell I gave
the officer's directions on the business. Bateman then from
the cell requested to speak with me, and he said that he
would tell me where he got the things. I cautioaed him in
the usual terms, and he then said, .• I took them from the
top room in the office, next to the 'three Crowns, in the
Old Jewry." I then went with Jarvis, the officer, to the
house described by Bateman, and saw there Mrs. Clarke, to
whom the property belongs. We went up stairs, and Mrs.
Clarke said, " Oh, my God, the place is broke open." We
found that a box in the room was broken open, and thee'
the furniture was pulled about, and other symptoms of
robbery. 1 found a sort of screw driver, which COMM.
ponded with the marks on the door. Mrs. Clarke ocean-
panied me to the station, and there identified all the pro-
perty in the bundle. Payne afterwards identified the screw
driver as his property, and said that Bateman had been in
his house yesterday morning, and had taken it with him.
Maria Ana Clarke said the house in which the robbery
had been committed belonged to Mr. Ashurst the solicitor,
and that she and her husband took care of it' for that
gentleman. She had left all safe iu the room atitalf-past
two o'clock, locked the door, and put the key in her pocket.
She had been saving farthings for 30 years.
Bateman did not deny the accuracy of any of the essen-
tial parts of the evidence, but said ho wished to ask the
prosecutors whether they wished to press the charge ?
Alderman Huntsr then said it is my duty. to commit
Bateman for trial. There is no evidence against Payne,
and I discharge him.
Bateman was then committed.
Upon the representation of Janis, the officer, who pro-
duced several articles on Payne's premises for which that
prisoner could not satisfactorily account, bail was required
fur his appearance on a future day.

WORSHIP-STItEET.
William Burden was charged with having stolen a bay
mare and a pony, the property of Mr. John Wood, of
Dodd's Farm, in the Cambridge-road, Mile End.
'The prosecutor stated that about eleven o'clock on the
preceding evening he left the mare and pony safe in one of I
his stables, the door of which he carefully secured and I
shortly afterwards retired to rest, from which he was dis-
turbed at an early hour that morning by a policeman, who
had taken the prisoner into custody fur stealing the mare, ,
which had been found in his possession. On entering the
stable he found the puny running louse about the place,
and discovered that the back of the door had been wrenched
off and a massive chain which secured it broken to pieces,
apparently, by means of a heavy bricklayer's hammer which
was found lying near the spot.
Police constable Brown, K 421, stated that while on
duty in Cleveland-grove, Mile-end, shortly before three
o'clock that morning, he served the prisoner mounted on
a bay mare, followed by a brown pony, which he was en-
deavouring to lead along by a halter. The pony, however,
resisted violently, and suddenly stopped short, upon which
the prisoner, atter repeated but fruitless efforts to urge it
on, at length dismounted from the mare. which was no
sooner at liberty than it turned sharply round and galloped
back in the direction of the prosecutor's stables. At the
prisoner's request witness endeavoured to stop the animal,
but without success, and the prisoner then hastened after it
himself, having previously. told him to take charge of the
puny until he succeeded in catching the horse. Witness
accunlingly secured the pony to an adjoining gateway, and
remained watching it till the prisoner came back, some time
afterwards, but without the horse, and informed him he
had been employed by a Mr. Watson to take both animals
to a farrier's in the Mile-end-road, but as he could not
catch the mare he should return with the pony to the stable.
The prisoner then led the pony away, but after proceeding
round his beat lie again met the prisoner on the recovered
mare, which had apparently cast one of its shoes, proceed-
ing at a rapid rate towards Bow, and he saw no more of
him.
The prosecutor here intimated that be had found the odd
shoe in the stable that morning, which bad evidently been
wrenched off by the prisoner to facilitate hie commission of
the robbery and furnish a colourable pretext to anyone who
stopped hint with the animal in his possession.
Benjamin Cope, an agricultural labourer at Dagenham,
in Es•ex, stated that between three and four o'clock that
morning he met the prisoner in the Mile-end-road, riding a
' bay mare, which he at once recognised as the property of
the prosecutor, in whose service he had formerly lived, and,
not being satisfied with his explanation that he was taking
it to the farriers, he intimated that he should detain him,
when the prisoner hastily dismounted and darted otr, but
witness immediately jumped on the horse, pursued hint, and
1 kept him in sight until he was intercepted and secured by a
; constable.
On being asked if he wished to say anything, the prisoner
expressed his intention to reserve his defence, and was fully
committed to Newgate for trial.