The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-30 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COUNT.—Sasrtamv.—Doton Mr. Bullock.
BITZLORDINAILY ROBBIIItIr IN KNNAINOTON-041,11D1N11.
—J. HwyNee,6, deseribed am a woolcombsr, was indicted
Ike fetwieW robbing Catherine Biseett of • purse, • bag,
sad an elder for the payment of M. The indictment also
:MOat the Wooster struck, beat, and inflicted other per-
it:gram apes the prosseutrix.—kilos Catheria• Bisset;
the pecaseutrix, deposed that she resided in Oleustatec-ter-
rose, Hyde-park, and about one o'clock is the Klemm of
the 3tl Nov., she was rasing through Kthaingten-gerdess
on her way home, and going towards Mount-gate. Sim had
a reticule upon her arm, in which there were a cheque for
!W., another for 501., and • purse sad sow silver, and the
strings of the reticule were twisted tales round her wrist for
better security. the did not observe any one is the walk
aloof which she was proceeding, but in an 'aslant she
received • tremendous blew on the shoulder. which at once
felled her to the ground, and on her looking up she observed
the penman standing over her, end endeavouring to force
her reticule from her ann. She struggled, and at last the
' strings broke, and the prisoner ran oft with the reticule and
its ecateuts, except the cheque for 101., which had fallen out
dude' the truffle. Upon recovering from her alarm she
picked up • black kid glove, which was dropped by the pri-
smer during the time he was struggling with her. She saw
himthe next day, and immediately identified hiss 111 the
men who bad 'ebbed her.—Blesin Benjamin, ahem* to
111 r. Myer!, • tailor in Wigiaorectreet, deposed that about
two o'clock the same day on which the robbery was com-
mitted, the prisoner came into the shop. and he observed that
he had a black glove upon one hand only. He purehmed a
suit of clothes for 61.. sad tendered in payment the stolen
501. cheque, stating that it had bees given to him by
his mistress for wages, and he was to hand her
over the balance. The story was not considered
satisfactory, and he was detained is conversation us.
til loquiry was made at the banker's, and the result was
that therlollltr wee given into custody. The park keeper
produce the glove found is the perk, and it corresponded
exactly with the one oe the primates band when be was
taken.—Mr. Huddlestone having brit fly addressed the jury
foe the demos, Mr. Bullock rammed up. and the jury im-
mediately returned a verdict of Canty.—The court inquired
if anything was known of the prisoner ?—Mr. Ballantine
said he was informed that he had formerly been In the A di-
vides of pollee, and that pi for to that period he woe is the
B army.—Kr. allock then addressed the prisoner, and after
'smarting upon the outrageous character of his Wham, gen-
tamed him to be transported for 15 yeses.

Beane the Leed Chief 'woke.
At Ain* Lord Daman took kis seat apes the bench.
A seem/ 'Men of the Calendar wee then placed Were the
ogre, by whisk it appeared that 60 additional prisoners
have bees oinentitied since the first edition was made up,
the number at present blot 267.
Several mess of ufteriog brae cola were then heard.
A WITS STASSID ST MSc HUSBAND.— W. Hill, 32.
plusher, was indicted for cutting and wounding his wife,
Sarah Kill.-11r. Payne prostoated, and Mr. Robinsonsp.
peoed for the prisoner—The prosecutris deposed that the
poorer was her husband, but they had separated, and she
had gone to reside with her mother at Woolwich, and she
misted her to carry on her business as a fruiterer. About
11 o'clock at night on the 18th of November, she had been
engaged in the shop, and wee standing outside talking. to a
person, named William Hammond, when the prisoner
walked by, and, as he pasted her, he made use of an op-
probrious expression to her. About • quarter of an hour
afterwards he went by again, and she observed that he had a
knife in his hand, and when be gut close to her he mad* a
stab at her breast, bat the knife struck the steel in her stays,
and the point was broken. She fell from the violence of the
blow, and the prisoner again attempted to stab her, and she
received a wound in oat of her fingers.—Cron-exlmined
Site bad been obliged to leave the prisoner because he would
not support her, and he had been the means of gettlar her
turned out of two houses which she had provided for
benelf, hy his extravagance and getting into debt. Mr.
Hammond was merely a customer to her mother, and there
was not the least ground for supposing that there was any
improper intimacy between them, and the grinner had
never quarrelled with her on hie mount. She had offered
to go and live with him at any home he might provide for
her, if it was only one room • but she would not lit him be a
charge to her mother, who gad enough to do to support her-
self.—Some other evidence was adduced. confirmatory of the
evidence of the proescutriz ; and the constable who took the
prisoner into custody said that as they were going to the
station-hoots be told him that he meant to stab her.—Mr.
Robinson having defended the prisoner, the Lord Chief
Justice rammed up, and the jury, alter a short deliberation,
found the prisoner Guilty of an assault, and acquitted him of
the felony.—His Lordship instanced then risoner to be im-
prisoned and kept to hod labour tor twyears, and at the
expiration of his imprisonment he should require him to
enter into kis own esognimaes ha 1001., with two sureties in
MIL each, to keep the pose hr tempers.
ROBBIST or PLATS ST MISCASTS. ElisabelA
Rogers, 26, Isabella Jennings. 30, and J. Jennings, 23,
were indicted for stealing a silver teapot, coffeepot, two
silver waiters, 24 forks, 42 spoons, and Ober articles of plate,
of the value of nearly Mi., the propeny of Ur C. G. &clout.
—The prosecutor, who is a retired military officer, resided at
11, Wimpoletstreet, and on the 29th August he had made
preparation for leaving town, and had packed up his plate
and placed it in a closet, resolving, contrary to his usual
custom, to allow it to remain in the house during his
absence, instead of sending it to his banker's. The prisoner
Rogers was engaged as housemaid in the family, and the
other prisoners • ood in the position of sister and brother-in-
law to her, bat the prosecutor was not aware that she had
any suck relations ; and when be lelt town be gave her per
mission to allow another married sister to visit her, but for-
bade any one else Wog admitted to the house. The precise
period when the robbery was committed was not very clearly
made out, but it was shown that very soon after the prose-
cutor and his family had left London the Jesniagees frequently
went to the house, and upon several occasions bundles were
MP to be removed by the female poisoner and taken away
in • sib, and the woman Jennings was proved to have
pawned a considerable portion of the stolen plate at different
pawnbrokers' shops, giving false names. It further ap-
peared as against the prisoner Writs that on the 2nd Oct.
she oiled in the pollee and that the house had been
robbed, telling a very lame story en the subject, and deny-
Jog that the other prisoners had ever been to visit bee during
't her master's abier os. It likewise appeared that when Jen-
nings's wife was taken into custody her husband went to a
person named Osborn and told him that he had committed the
robbery himself, end that hiked buried the plate; but he should
say nothing about it until he was is custody, and then he
would lay where the plate was hid it order that it might be
obtained for the purpose, as he said, "to pay counsel." He
dietwards, however, said that it was not he who had
both' the plita, but another rpm ; but he said he did not
Maw where to fled the; pence. Several other facts were
sin depend to, which left no reasonable doubt of the guilt
elate whets of the prisoners.—The jury, after a shoo &Wo-
man Is the box, expreased a with to retire, and they were
absent surly as hour, when they gave a verdict of guilty
against all the prisoners, but recommended the wommi to
mercy upon the ground that they had been led a the eon
mimics of the offence by their male oompanion.—Sentence
was deferred.

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CRAWS OF Rossea• AOLINST A RAILWAT P 01123.--
1/. Coo*, abed 21, a mil maker, was indicted for arasligg a
pair steer-rings, and other articles, the propertyof the South-
Eastern Railway Company, his masters.—ln September,
11347, a young woman named Ryen, who Weill a passenger
from Canterbury to London by the South-Eastern Railway,
left a trunk at the Canterbury station, to be forwarded to
the Bricklayer's Arms statics when written for. Raving
written the boa was sent, but lost at the last-named station,
and the primmer at the bar, who was a porter in the com-
pany's employ, was closely questioned about the box, but
denied all knowledge of it. A few weeks ago, in conse-
quence of information received, the company sent an officer
to the lodging of a girl named Cooper (niece to a porter
named Hun's, also in the company's employ), with whom
the prisoner kept company, and she gaveup the preoccupies
earings, rings, and said she had received them from the prisoner.
She wain consequence given intocustody and sent loft' court
for trial with the primmer fur the receiving, but the grand
jury ignored the bill—The girl Cooper stated that about the
time she received the ear-rings she law • work-box answer-
ing the description of one in the trunk belonging to peso-
caul: in the posserairmot her uncle Haynes —Mr. Billantine
said the man Haynes had been discharged from the com-
pany's service, and it was then information was given which
led to the prisoner bring taken on the ebarga.—The Com-
mon Serjseat said there was no case for tkejury, and directed
ma aevattal.