The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-17 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

BOW-STREET.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY. James Lockh.dral, a clerk in
the General Post-office, was brought up en remand, charged
with stealing a letter containing one shilling, the property of
the Postmaster-General.
Peake, the chief constable attached to the Post-office de-
partment, observed the prisoner tearing up a piece of paper,
and scattering the fragments with some care in different parts
of the great hall in St. Martin's-le-Grand. The prisoner
then joined a lady who was apparently waiting there for him,
and noticing at the moment thet Peake was near him, he
sail to her, " Come, and I will show you our foreign depart-
ment." He then went up stairs with her, and the officer
immediately collected the fragments of paper scattered by the
prisoner, and on putting them together he found them to be
the pieces of a letter which came into the prisoner's hands
for that morning's distribution, and which had contained
one shilling.
The letter and its enclosure were this morning proved to
have been sent from the cook ir the family of Mr. Parry, at
Hasler-hospital, Portsmouth, anti were aced to the pri-
soner's office.
lie was committed for trial.
SOUTHWARK.
CHARGE OP ROBBERY IN TEE BOROUGH MARKET.—
Jamn Shaw was charged with stealing a bushel of apples,
the property of one of the salesmen in the Borough Mark .t.
The constable of the market said that a little after five
o'clock that morning he saw the prisoner about the market,
and knowing him to be a suspicious character, he warned
him away. He proceeded to another part of the market,
and an hour afterwards witness was informed that the pri-
soner had stolen a bushel of apples, and had run away with
them. He went in pursuit, and while turning the corner of
York-s•reet he perceived the prisoner running along with
the apples on his head. He called out Stop thief," when
the prisoner threw down the apples and attempted to make
his escape, but a policeman of the Id division stopped him
and took him into custody.
In 'ewer to the charge, the prisoner said he got his live-
lihood by carrying things in the Borough market for the
salesmen and others, and about six o'clock that morning he
was requested by a man to carry the apples to a cart in the
Borough. When he got into High-street he could not see
the party who employed bim, and hearing the cry of stop
thief, he thought the apples had been stolen, and to save
himself he dropped them and ran away, not wishing to get
into trouble.
Witnesses having proved that the prisoner stole the apples,
Mr. Becker committed him to Brixton for two months.
THE CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED FRATRICIDE. C. Brahma,
ntanufacturiag and operative chemist of No. 9, Alfred
street, Grange-rood, Bermondsey, appeared upon his recog-
nizant:es to answer the charge of attempting to shoot William
Braham, his brother.
The particulars of this ease were fully detailed in the
&press of yesterday.
Some additional evidence having been given,
Mr. Hardman, on behalf of the prisoner, said that the
complainant had expressed no desire to press the charge
' against him, merely wishing that he might be held to bail to
keep the peace, with which he would be perfectly satisfied ;
that the prisoner still miintaini d that the gun was not
loaded; and that he never meditated or thought of diseharg
big such a weapon at his own brother. The facts were that
the complainant was the originator of the quarrel himself,
sad the prisoner seized the rusty gun to protect himself from
violence. Under these circumstances, he trusted the magic
trate would be satisfied with ac opting of the requisite bail
for the accused's keeping the peace.
The prisoner expressed a wish to put a few eland ins to
the complainant, and he then asked the latter it he had not,
on a recent occasion, procured some nitric acid, and threat-
ened to throw it in his eyes, and blind him ?
Complainant.—l deny it.
Mr. Secker.—This only tends to show the bad feeling that
existed between you. I shill there ore at onto finish the
examination by adjudging the prisoner to enter into his own
recognizance in 801., ant find two sureties et 01., to appear
a, at the next sessions.
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