The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-21 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAL

GUILDHALL.—MAKIIIMIADINO.—Two young men
were brought up on a remand from Monday, charged
with stealing a pin. It appeared that between 12 and 1 on
Monday morning, Mr. Parry, builder, of Houghton-street,
Clue-market, was proceeding from Smithfield towards Rul-
born, when he was accosted near Farringdon-street by. It
prisoners, who were dressed in female attire, and appeared
to him to be fine looking young women. They asked him
where he was going, and he replied home. They then
came up to him and walked as far as Field-lane, when they
invited him to come with them home, or to twat them,
which he refused to do. They still continued with him up
a part of Holborn-hill, when one of them caught hold of liim
by the collar and asked for some money for them to drink,
it he would not have any with them, and on
his again refusing, they left him, and went up
Shoe-lane. Ho immediately missed his pin from
his stock, and gave the alarm, when they were
pursued and taken into custody. When taken to the station-
house they gnve the names of Emma Anderson and Jane
Wilson ; but their sex was of course soon discovered. When
brought up on Monday it was strongly suspected that they
assumed the dress of females for other purpousi besides rob-
bery, and were, therefore, remanded. The pin was found on
the following day about the spot where they were taken into
custody. Both prisoners now denied that they ever saw or
touched the pin, and that complainant was the first to speak
to them, and ask them to come with him. Their real names
were John Anderson and Edward Sullivan.—The prisoners
declined saying anything in their defence beyond the mere
denial of stealing the pin.—Alderman Musgrove committed
them for trial, and said be should instruct the City Solicitor
to prosecute.
BOW-STREET.—STRANGE APPLICATION.—Yesterday,
Mr. Marrand, solicitor, of Skinner-street, Snow-hill, ap-
peared before Mr. Jardine, to apply that a summons might
issue ruminst Lord John Russell, to show why he detained
certain documents of great importance, alleged to be in his
possession.—Some years back? Mr. William Titmouth, for
whom he appeared, was a spirit merchant, in Sunderland,
and, having discovered a deficiency in the measure of gooes
sent to him by his distillers, upon settling his accounts with
them he proposed that a deduction should be made, which
was resisted, and upon which they took proceedings against
him for the amount in dispute. The case was tried at Dur-
ham, before Mr. Justice Littledale, and the documents con-
nected with it, together with the rules made by the learned
judge were forwarded to his lordship, who was then in office,
a part of which were returned, but the remainder, which
precluded his client from prosecuting his suit,were withheld.
The answers to the applications at the liome-office, showed
that the papers had been forwarded in 1836, when his lord•
ship was in office, and subsequently. to Lord Duncannon,
setting forth that his client had been incarcerated in the gaol
of Durham for 18 years.—Mr. Jardine said that the presump-
tion was, the papers in question were at the Rome-office,
with which his lordship had nothing at present to do ; besidt
it would be necessary to show that there were reasonable
grounds to suppose they were actually in his possession ; in
addition to which, "goods" were technical phrases ; and ho
did not thick himself warranted in granting a summons,
such reasonable grounds not being shown that such docu-
ments were actually in his lordship's possession.—The Ap-
plicant said that the documents were of the most vital im-
portance to his client, as he could not proceed with his suit
in their absence, and which were admitted by letters pro-
duced to be in the hands of the government, the expense of
which had already amounted to no less than 10,0001.—Kr.
Jardine said that the subject of the application was too great
for him to suffer a summary proceeding to issue for the rceo-
very of the documents in question, and the applicant retired
with his client, intimating that he should adopt another
course.
MARYLEBONE.—EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A DM-
CRAROED SERVANT.—James Curling was charged with
having stolen property to a large amount, belonging to Mr.
Boosey, music-publisher, Holles-street, Cavendish-square.
The prisoner had been in the service of the prosecutor, who,
at the latter end of last year, discharged him for dishonesty.
lie subsequently missed a vast deal of property from his
warehouse in Plicenix-yard, in which he placed publications
of bis own, for which he had not room at his shop ; and he
recently
.missed many entire copies of " La Sonnambula,"
" Ethan]," and " Linda." From information communicated
to him, he caused the prisoner to be given into custody, and
he felt confident that no one could have committed the rob-
bery who was not well acquainted with the premises.—
Defter, 215 D, now produced several keys which he found.
on the prisoner ; one of them fitted exactly the lock of Mr.
Boosey's store-room, where the music was kept. Several
pawnbrokers were in attendance, bringing with them a num-
ber of music-books, and they identified the prisoner as the
person who had pledged them. —Mr. lloosey, on exam:axing the
property so pledged, found that the whole of it was his, and
that it had been laden trout his warehouse ; the value of it

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Was cometle.,re about 331., but his loss altogether aranneed
to at least four times that sum.—The prisoner, who hed
nothing to say, was committed for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.—A Fuornva Wtra.—Mr. Wm.
Snell, a tradesman at Ipswich, made application to Me.
Bingham, in great mental distress, fur his advice and @Wit-
Ana. He stated that about &twelvemonth since be received
ae a temporary lodger in his house at Ipswich a man newel I
C. Elam, who suddenly left soon after, on the pretence •:gag
he was called upon urgent business to London. Due.en
hie
stay Mr. S. had never observed any act of familiariti beaten.
the lodger and his wife, with whom he had li.red en the
most affectioaate terms for 20 years; but on r Ranting home
after a short absence, few de subseq,neeAry, he hand tbal
she had absconded with her torte chibota and had mow
off the whole of the furniture. He had gam sae
incessant efforts to discover ',,es retreat, bat wigwag.
success, until the prrnedin s evening, when he basal
her to a house in C'..stlesstreet, Shorediteb, eththe
she was living under the protection of the man Muth, •lo
apartments stocked "oath his (applicant's) own funguses.
On remonstrating with them upon their perfidious conduce,
• they. both answered hie' with derision and defiance, and
pertinaciously refused to restore either his children or his
property.—M.r. Bingham directed Holland, the warrant
officer, to accompany the applicant to the house, and adopt
such measures as appeared most expedient. —The officer soon
returned, and reported that the woman and her para-
mour had again absconded, delivering up the key to
the landlord, and removing the whole of the furniture;'
but, after considerable difficulty, he had traced thee
to a lodging-house in WhitechapeL Elson, hu
had escaped. He hart left the property under thees=
another officer, but as the complainant positively refused la
pardon his erring wife, who was now abandoned by bee
'
paramour, and had no place of shelter, he had brought has
and the children to the court to ascertain how they were to
be disposed of:—Mr. Bingham said that the husband was
clearly entitled to exercise an absolute control over the chil-
dren and all the furniture that he could identify ; but with
regard to the wife, as her immoral conduct had reduced her
to the condition of a pauper, and absolved her husband from
all legal liability for her future supped, the only course open
to her was to apply to the parish for admission into the
workhouse.—The misguided woman, whom appearance was
rather attractive, made an imploring appeal to her husband
for forgiveness ; but he turned contemptuously away, and
left the cunt with his children.
WESTMINSTER.--Cessna AGAINST A MINISTER--
Mr. Symes, a person connected with Charletts-street Chapel,
Pimlico, came to this court, and said that having lien a
report in the papers of some circumstances connected with
a man named Reid, reflecting upon the conduct of Mr.
Kelly, the minister of the chapel, Mr. Kelly was, he said,
in no way to blame. No steps had been taken in conse-
quence of any will of the deceased; as, in point of fact,
there was none, the instrument so called being nothing
more than waste paper, never having been executed. The
deceased, in consequence of her father's intemperate
habits, had given the few articles she possessed,
whilst she was lying ill, to her mother, who sold
them and defrayed the funeral expenses out of the
proceeds, retaining a trifling balance in her possession. On
the very afternoon of his daughter's death, the man Reid
was in so extreme a state of intoxication in her room, that
the undertaker had some difficulty in performing his office.
Mr. Kelly did not interfere further than to recommend the
mother who solicited his advice to remove the furniture, lest
her husband should dispose of it to procure drink. The
piece of paper which had been called a will had been shown
to the husband, although he now denied that be had seen it.
—The wife, a poor miserable-looking woman, corroborated
this statement —Mr. Burrell considered that the explanation
exonerated Mr. Kelly from any imputation.—On the wife
pressing for a peace summons against her husband, the
magistrate granted one.
LAM BETR—Rxteraus DIVPERENCES:—The Rev. T.
Cutfe, ministerof Carlisle Chapel, Kennington-hue, which is
used as one of the district churches of the extensive parish of
Lambeth, applied for a warrant against Captain Wills, a
gentleman residing in Chester-street, Kennington-road, for
sung threatening and offensive language to him. It ap-
peared that on Wednesday last, the complainant had been
sent for to attend Mrs. Wills, an aged
. lady, a member of I
his congregation, who was in a dying state. On going to
the house he found the lady very ill, and, while read-
ing some passages of' scripture to her, four young. ladies, her
daughters, behaved themselves in what he conceived to be a
very improper manner, so that he had to remonstrate with
them, but he soon discovered that their conduct arose from
their being Roman Catholics, and their having an aversion
to him, as a Protestant clergyman, attending their parent. On
that occasion, however, nothing very particular occurred,
and, on the following day, Thursday, he, Mr Cuffe, called to
see the dying lady. On seeing the niece of Mrs. Wills, who was
a Protestant, and the landlord of the house, who was a
Sunday-school teacher, he was told that there was no use in
his going up-stairs again to the dying lady, as a Catholic
priest had been called in since he had been there the day
before. He (Mr. Cuffe), however, was anxious to see the
lady, and was about to proceed up stairs, when Capt. Wills
made his appearance with a stick in his hand, abused him
and asked who had sent for him, and told him if he attempted
to go up stairs he should fling him down. The captain also
made use of some very improper language, and repeatedly
told him that Rho attempted to go up-stairs he should throw
him down again.—Mr. Elliott : Did the captain strike or
assault you at all?—Rev. Mr. Cuffe: Not at all, Sir, but he
made use of very violent language and threats towards
me,—Mr. Elliott: Were the threats made use of in
the house, or were any of them made outside the
door ?—Rev. Mr. Cuffe: They were all made use of in the
house.—Mr. Elliott: Then I cannot assist you. The threats
being made use of in the house, the law does not enable me
to interfere in the matter.
BOUT ARK.—STOLEN GOODS PLIDOZD.—Mr. Arch-
butt, a pawnbroker in Blackfrius-rond, was summoned for
refusing to deliver up a gold watch, the property of Darcy
Mahon, residing in Cambridge-street, Edgware-road. It
appeared that the complainant, a very aged gentleman, was
robbed of a gold watch and appendages on the evening et
September 15, 1845, by a man, who snatched them out of
his pocket as her was in the ail of ascending the steps to
knock at his own door. The thief escaped with the property,
and the following day the owner gave information of the
robbery, together with a description of the watch, fie. The
usual notice was served upon the different pawnbroben of
the metropolis, and amongst them upon the defendant.
Some time afterwards, Seejeant Oray, of the C
received an anonymous communication relative to the
recovery of the watch in question, and also describing the I
mushy whom it was stolen. Upon this, he proceeded to the
defendant's shop, and found the watch had been pledged
there a day or two subsequently to that on which it had been
stolen, and be afterwards apprehended the man who
• was described as the thief, and who turned out to be
a returned transport. The complainant was unable
to identify him, and he was consequently set at
liberty. Application was afterwards made to the defendant
tq deliver up the watch, which he refused to do without pay-
ment of 41.45., lent upon it —The defence was, that the
former owner of the shop was since dead, and that his
nephew now carried on the business ; that the person who
took the watch in pledge (an apprentice) had since left the
service, and that the article was taken in the regular way of
business.—Mr. Seeker: The notice left by the policeman at
the shop three days after the robbery ought to have been
attended to; thep!rson who offered the watch in pledge might
thea have been given into custody, and the delinquent who
stole the watch punished as he deserved.—The defendant
said he was not aware of the notice being left, although he
'would not say that it was not.—Redford, the constable,
proved that fact.—The magistrate, under all the circumstan-
sere, ordered the watch to be delivered up on the payment of
IL 2a. half the sum that was lent upon it ; remarking that
if it had not been for the negligence apparent in the trans-
action with respect to the notice above referred to, he should
have directed the whole of the money advanced upon the
Watch to be returned to the defendant.
THAMES.—JOBEPH ADY AC/AlL—This notorious cha-
ratter was brought again yesterday before Mr. Ballantiae, I
sen the oft-repeated charge of having obtained 20s. by the
/false pretence of "something to your advantage."—Mr.
Pelham appeared for ;the defence. It seemed that Mr.
Henry Bourne, a rice-president in the inland department at I
"'the Post-office, received one of Joseph's usual missives I
:about a week since, and being aware of his practices, he
.called on Monday last, and paid Ady a pound on the un-
,sktstanding that it should be returned, if required, should
lhe promised information not prove advantageous. Ady said
he would send the information by poet, refusing to give
It personally, ox the ground, as he alleged, that he (Mr.
Mourne) might not be the person he represented himself to
be. Complainact eubeequently received a note, informing
Aka that as he belonged to an amicable society, which, con-
trary to the statute law, included clerks in orders amongst
the directors, he had better withdraw whatever fundshe
had ;invested as qviokly as possible. The witness admitted
that he did hold a life policy in the society alluded
to, 'bet denied that the information furnished by
the prisoner was of the slightest value to him.—
lir. Pelham contended that no cue had been made
out august his client, certain information having been
furnished, tough some question mt be raised as to its
-value ; and, also, as there was no specified time for the re-
payment of the money after its being demanded, the charge
could not be maineined.—Mr. Ballantine concurred in this
view of the matter, and the case wasdismissed.—Mr. Bourne
then' aid that he charged the prisoner with an assault, Ady
having fsrcihly ejected him from his house when he went to
demand the repayment of the 11.—Mr. Pelham said he
would require sonic time to answer that charge, upon which
]sir. Ballantine observed it could he heard upon a summons.
—The complaisant expressed his intention to adopt that
-souse, and alsothreatened to have Adv before the Court of
Requests for the recovery of the IL—the most curious fea-
ture in the case was that Ady, when arrested, had in his
hand a large blue bag which contained upwards of 300 let-
ters addressed to persons in various parts of the empire. One
was directed to the Lord Bishop of Winchester and another
to " The Magistrate at the Thames Police court."