The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-20 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Ellen Corcoran was charged with having robbed her mis-
tress, Mrs. Carter, landlady of the Horns public house, in
Petticoat-lane. Prosecutrix said the prisoner lived with
ber as servant about ten or eleven weeks. She originally
took her in from charity, u she was starving. The com-
plainant had placed 111. in a purse. which she had put away
in a box in the prisoner's room. The box was locked. The
prisoner left her without notice, and the day after she dis-
covered the robbery. The prisoner was taken into custody
at the house of a dressmaker in Petticoat-lane, where she
was sitting with other young women. When charged with
the robbery she made no reply, but the prosecutor's purse
was found on her chair. The prisoner said she did not
steal the money. Many people went into her bedroom and
might have taken it, but she could not account for having
the purse in heir possession. After the prisoner had left
the prosecutor's house, • letter was addressed to her from
Ireland, returning thanks for money transmitted. She was
committed for trial.

The conductor of a Plaistow omnibus was summoned by
• gentleman for having refused to admit him when there
was room in the carriage.
The conductor said he had agreed to call for two ladies a
few doom beyond the spot at which the gentleman hailed
him, and he stated that such was the case when the com-
plainant applied to him.
The Lord Mayor said he was obliged to fine the defend.
sat, but he hoped the commissioner would take the exact
state of the case into consideration, and not stop the license
of the conductor—an extremity to which it was:believed to

be necessary to go in order to' check the bad practices of
omnibus servants.

WORSHIP-STREET.

Thomas Hurtable and Henry Day, two athletic and
determined-looking fellows, and a woman named Caroline
Phillips, were placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill,
charged with having been concemed, with others, in the
commission of several daring robberies.
It appeared from the evidence of Edward Williams, an
ex-policeman, but at present carrying on business as a
marine-store dealer, in Baker's-row, Whitechapel, that, on
the morning of Wednesday so'nnight, the female prisoner
engaged a furnished apartment in his house, of which she
took possession on the same morning, when she was accom-
panied by the male prisoners, who had been in the con-
stant habit of visiting her ever since. On the following
evening, the prisoner Day called upon her, with a small
trunk upon his shoulders, which he conveyed to her mom ;
but it was afterwards brought down to his shop by the
female prisoner, who told witness, in a confidential
manner, that they had been unable to obtain any
more " swag " that day. The female prisoner then
exhibited to him the contents of the box, which
consisted of a pair of bracelets, a number of books, and
other property; and, having consented, for obvious rea-
sons, to purchase them, at ►er urgent request she left them
in his possession. About two days after the prisoner Hun-
table called at the house, and in the course of conversation
informed him that they had made rather a poor day's work,
as they had only succeeded in getting a time-piece from the
east eide of Bethnal-green, and that he had since sold it for
a sovereign. On the succeeding Saturday the prisoner
Hu:table again presented himself in a state of coosidersble
excitement, and asked him, in a hurried manner, if he
could accommodate him with the loan of a crow-bar. In
answer to his inquiries, as to his object for requiring such an
instrument, the prisoner told him that they bad just made a
capital haul of silver plate from a house in Cambridge-ter-
race; but that, in consequence of the immediate
pursuit that was made alter them, they had been
compelled to secrete it in a water-closet, which had
been since locked, and that they wanted the crow-bar to
break open t►e door to secure the booty. Witness accordingly
furnished one to the prisoner, who subsequently returned and
told him that he had unfortunately been disturbed in his,
operations, and had been obliged, to leave the crow-bar
near the place where the property was concealed. Having
elicited from the prisoner the exact locality where the
stolen plate was deposited, witness at once entered into
communication with the police, and the prisoners were
soon afterwards taken into custody.
Sergt. Smith, K 28, stated that, in consequence of infor-
mation he had received from the last witness, he proceeded
to a detached water-closet in Bethnal-green, on searching
which he discovered the silver cream jug and decanter.
stand now produced, the owner of which was in attendance.
On further search, he also found a crow-bar secreted near
the spot, which was identified by the last witness as the
same he bad lent to the prisoner 11u:table. Witness suc-
ceeded soon afterwards in taking the prisoner into custody,
and, on apprising 11u:table that he was charged with con.-
mi'ting several robberies, he exclaimed in a jocular tone,
" Pop goes the weasel," and made no other observation.
The prkoners, who declined offering any defence, were
, remanded for a week.