The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-02 00:00:00

POLICE. v - _ESTERDAT.

MANBION•HOUSE.—CMAROE OP RECEIVING STOLEN
0001)6.—H. Stevenson was charged with baying received
stolen goods. Mr. 0. E. Mitchell, partner in the house of
Welch and &Sweetie:Lot 134, Chespside, said that on Wednes
day, the 25th alt., in Whitmore place, Horton, he saw a hand-
kerchief of their manufacture in the window of a haberdasher's
shop. This handkerchief he knew hod not been sold, and to
have been in the care of one of their warehousemen. lie bought

the handkerchief and compared it with those in possession of
the firm, when he found a deficiency of six in each pattern
of the Russell " handkerchiefs." He went back to the shop in
Horton and found twelve other handkerchiefs which he

bought, all of which were the property of the firm.. Front
what Mies Collins said, who kept the shop above mentioned,
witness caused the prisoner to be taken into cuato ly.—
Martha Collins, haberdasher, said she had known the
prisoner some years; she had bought two or three
handkerchiefs at a time of him. On the 10th
ult., he called with the handkerchiefs produced
for which she agreed to give him 2!. 13s. 3d.—J. Lloyd,
warehouseman to the prosecutor, stated that the three hand-
kerchiefs produced were made by the firm, and that the
patterns had not yet been issued. The handkerchiefs had
been in his care, and bad not been sold, but he missed half a
dozen of each pattern from the stock.—Thain (City police.
man) said that when taken into custody the prisoner, on
being questioned, said he had sold some handkerchiefs to
Miss Collins, and that they were an accumulation of stock
which he had had by him for eight mouths—The Lord
Mayor said the case was a clear case of receiving with guilty
knowledge, and he was more glad to have a person of this
kiud detected, than a number of the thieves whom the re-
ceivers took so much trouble to make, and to lead to inevi•
table destruction.

(.11, ILDIIALL.—DEATII OF A CKILD 11l NEGLIGENCE.
—Julia Sullivan was re-examined, charged with having so
neglected her child, about a month old, that it died. The
case waa reported in our paper of Tuesday.—Policeman
Hewitt stated that an inquest had been held on the body and
a verdict returned of " Natural death, brought on by the
continual intoxication of its mother."—Aid. Hughes asked if
the prisoner was going to be indicted ? —The constable said
that the coroner had given him no such intimation.—Aid.
Hughes said as that was the cue the prisoner must be dis-
charged.
ROBBERY BY A WAREUOUBEMAN.—J. Dixon, a foreman,
employed in the firm of Mears. Bradbury and Evans,
printers, and Emma Dixon, his wife, of 13, Fetter-lane, were
charged with robbery.—Mr. F. M. Evans stated that having
received information that a bookseller, named Fellowes,
living in Tottenham-court-road, was selling on the previous
morning certain numbers of the" Pickwick Papers," which
ought not to be published in the ordinary course of business
until live o'alock in the evening, inquiries were made how
they came into his possession?—ln reply, Mr. Fellowes said he
purchased them from the prisoner, Emma Dixon, and on pro-
ceeding to Dixon's lodgings, a barrowful of publications,
printed by Messrs. Bradbury ant. Evans, was discovered, con-
sisting of numbers of " l'unch," the " Pickwick Papers," and
the "People's Journal." Same of the numben ere stitched,
end there were other sheets of works of an antecedent date.
The" Pickwick Paper," would be placed in the publisher's
hands for sale at .1 o'clock on Tuesday evening ; therefore,
the numbers must have been surreptitiously obtained to base
been in Fellewes's hands on Tuesday morning. There were
alio some numbers of " Punch" and the " People's Journal"
in Mr. F.'s possession, which would not be for publication
until Thunday.—J. Fellows now deposed that he hod
known Mrs. Dixon since a child. About two months since
she said that she was now publishing several works in num-
bers, and that she would be very much obliged to him if
he would assist her by taking some, He consented to
take weekly aix numbers of "Punch," 1.3 "Pickwick
Papers," and four " People's Journal.." They were
usually delivered on the Tuesday evening, and the reason she
assigned for bringing the " Punch's" so early, was, that
having a large country connexion she got them sooner
so that they might reach their destination on the day of
publication. On Tuesday his wife told him that the usual