The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-30 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION•HOUSE.

L FaxALL Etiaoila.Zingel; 11onoltee was brave:it
Wore as Lard Mayor upon suspicion of bating bans cos-
osern4 is • burglary and contrary iw Barge-yard, Backless-

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bury.
George Trew, the offitier, aid—l went with Penwell and
ether oath, tea beershop called the Hope, la Hope-street,
Spitalfields, at 8 °think yesterday 'seam, sad saw the
primer studios sear the bar parlour. Withia she saw me ,
ski meat to the other aide of room. I west Loathe, and
she was staaffing by hareelf.snd I told her I wished to speak
to her, and told her to step outside. She did to, and I then ,
asked her what she had thew doing with another female, on
Saturday morning, at 7 o'clock, in Charlotte-row.Eike ‘,
replied,-" I waa not then ; I was In bed." I said, I shall
I apprehend you upon suspicion of being conversed, with ,
others, Is breaking into • warehouse in Barge-yard. She
said sue knew nothing about it, and requested that I would
let her ath her husband, who was in the taproom.
I caseentod, and she called out bet husband, and
told him I had taken her into custody for a rob-
bery in the City. She then said she wished to go
for her child, and Fussell and I accompa, fed her and her
husband to No. 34, Anchor-street, Spitaltields, where they
lived. Her husband got • light, and we began to search the
place. When I put my hand to • little basket which was
hanging up, her husband leaped from the top to the bottom
of the stairs, and *seeped through • trap-door into • cellar.
In the basket we found 17 skeleton keys, • picklock, • pair
of film, two pair of nippers, two saddler's oodles, such as are
used by thieves in braking windows, as old very sharp
knife, several other housebreaking implements, and a piece
of rope, which was no doubt and in sealing walls.
The prieoner—lt liner was.
The Lad Mayor—Did the man escape
Trow—lie did. The man had not been identified, and he
did not attempt to go, before I put my hand to the basket.
George Lying, en officer—On Saturday morning. last,
when I went on duty at 6 o'cloth„I saw the rimer in the
neighbourhood of Charlotte-row, and ahe seemed to shun
me. At a quarter to 7 o'clock I again saw her. She was
with soother woman at the corner of Buthlerstrary and
Charlotte-row at that time, and I questioned them as to why
she was there. The prisoner said she was waiting for • friend,
that she had waited need 'be got so cold she could not stay
any longer. Last night I thempenird the Met Lune, and
saw her at the Hope bambop, in the taproom, when there
were hoar men playing cards. She was laughing. and had
what &proud to be "the crib" in her hand. When she
taw me she pat down the cards, took up as umbrella, and
walked out. I followed, and ate stopped to talk to the lead.
lady. I aocompakisd Trew and Fennell to her residence in
Anchor street, Spualaelds. Oae of the men who bad bees
playing cards was hat husband.
Another t nicer, whs.' bad been on duty fa the neighbour.
hood of Bucklersbury, stated that he had seen the prisoner
and another woman at half past 4 o'clock going down
Bucklersbury. They stopped:at the corner of Charlotte-
row, and looked back,"eiad they thee went along Charlotte-
row, towards the Poultry, At half past 6 o'clock witness
again saw them. They wets going down Backlersbut7
again, suod they stopped sever.al nsiaatee at the corner of
Charlotte-row and Buchlersbary. He did not speak to them.
He saw them about 20 yards from .Nalll•-lard-
Mr. Gabriel G. Webb, one of the Society of Friends, said
et I have a warehouse is Barge-yarc:. It was broken open
between Friday night and Saturday morning. I left the
warehouse at about half past four o'ck ck on Friday, and
during the night I bet cloth from the "robot," to the
valise of 901. It was principally the best sb.'t of cloth. This
cloth (pointing to a smell sample which ka.l been found In
the basket with the housebreaking thaphmet. 4) is not any
part of what was moles.
Cromezamined by Mr. Nobler—l nom sawthe Phone*
before the present moment.
Falwell said he found in the prisoner's on several
duplicates, but they did not relate to the robbery.
In answer to a question from the Lord Mayor,
Trew, said he was in pomemiou of information which juati-
fled him in stating that he bad every reason to believe that
he could bring forward additional evidence against the , "'-
weer, aid others, who were suspected of having been cc
reined in the burglary.
Mr. Mohler submitted that there was not sufficient groans
for detaining the woman, and that whatever might be in-
ferred against her husband from the circumstance of hie
sudden disappearance, she could not be looked upon as •
responsible agent.
The Lord Mayor said that putting the conduct of her
husband wholly out of the question, that of the prisoner,
who had been seen to frequently in the immediate neigh-
bourhood in which the depredation had been committed,
w.a attended with quite suspicion enough to authorise a
remand of the case.

The prisoner was theft remanded.
BINEVOLINCIL—The Lord Mayer requested that the press
would acknowledge the receipt of 51. from " Bingham
Richards, HA.," 11 (filth domvion) from " W. H. Haler,"
.ad 101. from " Md. Wt.," per Hoare sad Co., for Ike
poor box.
GUILDHALL.
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SMITING A Warr.—M'. Day, of 113, London-wall, ap-
peared in &WM to a InienniOne CDUSing him within assault
upon Joseph James Powell, clerk to Mews. Wilson and
Wind, *twit' ye.
Complainant stated that be bad 'ailed at defendant's house
very frequently, and in reply to all his inquiries he received
the answer of " net at home." 0a the 23rd of the present
month complainant received instructions tram his employers
to serve a writ on defendant, and he accordingly proceeded
to his house in L}ndon•wall for that purpose. The boy
said he (defendant) was not at home. Complainant de-
sired him to go up stairs and see. The lad went up,
followed by complainant, to the drawing room door, wham
he opened, and complainant, without waiting for an lasi-
tatiut, walked in, and on seeing defendant banded him
the copy of the writ. Defendant read it carefully through,
laid it down, and then roes from the table and collared
complainant and shook him very violently five or sin times.
Re then threw complainant down, and held him there for
about five or ten minutes, frequently in the interim shaking
his fist in comp/ailment's face and threatening to strike
him. Defendant then *sized him by site head, which he
knocked several times against We door, in a mat brutal

Ccoss.4lamined by defendant—Complainant said defect.
dant did not strike him. Complainant did not open any
door to get at him. Ile was not told to leave the room. lie
did not tell defendaat that he bad better put him oat. De-
fendant said he would each complainant to come into
his rooms, bat not that it was like his impudent, to
do so. . .

Defendant denied the charge altogether, and farther
alleged that complainant was desalt at the time, and refused
to quit the premise', daring t►e defendant to strike him, or
he would Mike him pay tar it.
Compl►inant's employen were in coact, and able to mar
tradiet that part of the defense stating he was drank.
The Alderman said it wax quite elms that an assault had
bean committed, by defendsat, of a very aggravated male,
as complainant was only esecatiag a duty Imposed on ►im
by his muter,. Taking into mmaideration the chagrin
defendsat mast have exparionsei as bolas served with a writ,
he woali fins him in the mitigated 'malty of 3/ and costs, or,
in default, to be ce =MUM Impian MN ens month.
The mussy we/. then paid int, SOW, the defendant ex-
pressing at Use sums tiles lib iateatioa of appealing. He
was, however, bib:masa there was no appeal from the deci-
Bias of the 11111,4iittS&S of this out.

BOW-STREET.

Tana Hnt.cote konsnaY.—COMILICT OF IVIDINC2.-
- WAite and Robert. were again pissed at the bar for
essinatie,n, &sited with haying stoles 00i. hoes the San
and Punenbowl public house, is Holborn.
The treidance adduced on this oseashia lawman rather
than lesions the difficulties of this, one of the most mysts.
tics cases which has for a long time come bolero the mart.
The depositions of the former witnesses having ben read
and. signed,
The warmest of the Punchbowl swops that at half-put
tea on the Saturday evening, a tow hours after Whits -had
been apprehended, he was talkies to the prisoner Roberta
outside the door of the house, when Courtenay, one of the
witnesses called by Whits in his Wears, came within a few
ysrds of the spot, beckoned Roberts away, and want with
him down Holborn. Oa the saws night Roberts absconded.
lie was quite sue he had not mistaken the man.
His basalt, daughter of the propriety's of the San and
Punchbowl, said that ono o 9 the parses frequently al-
luded to by the witnesses for the defence, and for whom
White brought the letter produced oa the last occasion,
had slept on Several, 000alleas at the house in a room nest
to that whence the property had hen .Wrested. Hs had,
moreover, asked both witness and the barmaid why the
bell, which rang every time the bedroom was entered, had
been put up, sad had been Stormed that it was for the
purl*** of giving an alarm upon entry of the room.
White had mentioned this person as his brother.
Mr. Henry said A. mast give the Sawa still farther
time, for the pupas of making inquiries, and throwing
light upon the cue. In the meantime, anwilliag sa he
was to put prosecutors to expense, he mat Tarp ups Mn.
Podia the necessity of employing counsel to conduct the
us, when it should be sent to the Old Bailey. It was one
which especially called foe the aid of loose person skilled
in criminal pressations and the laws of skims.

THE NORTH KENT RAILWAY.—A memorial having
he. sent to the Coutnissionen of Ballow by a number of
gentlemen of Blackheath, Lee, Lewisham, and the neigh-
bourhood, representing the danger ceased by them been
bat one line of talk between the ticket-rallwatot's Madre
sad London•bridge, and askiag far as investigation into
the circumstacces which lad to the lats lamentable oxideat,
and into the moral management and the state of the ear-
days, mid soliciting that ruck promutioaery ead stringent
=a for the future government of the liaa may be
as may protect the public be. the mamma of a
dada, misfortune,—the oommiesiosen, by their secretary, I
have forwarded aa answer, stens/ that they have mom-
needed that the Greenwich trains should not follow the
North Kent at leu intervals than three annutes, which, as
the former stop at the Spa read station, they consider will
men the safety of the public. With respect to the large
earriages, they state that the company are about to have the
doors altered to open inwards into the carriages, and they
resemmend that the line should be so altered as to do away
with the necessity of the ben across the windows, which, la
the ease of an:ideate, appear objectionable, as the panniers
sonnet liberate themselves.—Rock afar Gowns.
TORONTO AND LAYS MINION RaILIOAD.—Mr.
Copreol bee telestapttai from New York, that the agreement
for the beading of the long talked of railway kw been
signed, sealed, and &livered by the ciontrecton, and that
ensineera will be on the ground forthwith.—Toronto Globs.
—Bileerieements have been timed is Canada, calling for
tenders for the constraction of the list section of the Canada
Great Waists Railway. This locks like Wiliam