The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-02 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(TILD3 DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE, •
CONVICTION OF TWO SWILL THIEV •IN
A young and =ibis geod-looldng wooing, mind Mry
wbo was dressed in fashloaable deep inciareisi,
wall-dressed young man, named John Edwards, wbo
scribed himself as a vocalist, were this morMagfirceen
beim* the Lotd Mayor, °barged with attempts& pick

pockets.
It appeared tram the evidence of a detective MUM
that shoot 1 o'olook on Wednesday morning be wss misty
near Fenchnrchmtreet, when he saw the primes ssi
another man and woman, also very well drama. keg*
about them in a suspicious MOWN, and he MIS Weed,
watch them. Be then saw them go up to several lid* la •
the mimeses felt their pockets. but in coesapowel tie
crowd, be waa unable to see whether they teok gutting
not They then walked along Fencburch-strisst. !Oro
the railway station, where they also attempted to Wt is
packets of severed parrs by. Before this the poems
and their commune ~ had opened out" sad the prim
want on one side of the street, and their eemeniamos
other. When they were taken into custody se Me, go
found upon either of the prisoners, but the mat his
small quantity of sugar wrapped op in paper in bear pocket
poliosmfficer named Underwood said that be knee
thebat
primers, and the man was convicted io Septuple.
1861, of piekieg pockets, sod @Mewed to three mould
Imprismotent. The Oseeers were coutantly proving
about the OW, and they were well known ss *ism, Oa •
he bad upon some imam when he met them, ordold
them to leave the City.tY
Both the primers merely denied the Marge. i,
man said it wan true that he had been convicted abggt
years ago, but it wasnot true that he was orinvidei et do
time stated by the ofilesr.
The toed Mayor said be had no doubt that theit fikoo,.
were in the City for the purpose. of
and be sentenced the man to be migismi far thlber:
the woman for two moths.
BOWifiTREET.
sR
INFAMOUS 001FDOC? or a FOILMAN OF wow
Samuel Chula Sirs, a well-dressed,
foreman to Messrs. IMAM, builders, of Beerr•"'"
Om's-inn-road, was brought before Sir noose Mesh
charged with stealing 5001 be. of sheet copper, the gligeol
of his employers.
Mr. Lewis, pm., appeared for the prosecrotioo.
Mr. Alfred Jobe Mansfield deposed that he was aria!
in the arm, and the prisoner, who had 2/. 10s. pa go°,
was employed as foreman over some watts Mel
carried on by them at the Patent Office is lea
s!
amt. Yesterday, when witness was as the
and
prisoner informed him that he had felt it his Of
die:Moths shisi scadolder and Us of the laboemoi gbg°
be enmeshed of stealing several rolls of carp!,
been takeaway from the premium. He mid be onrild
bring the charge home to any one of them, bet
they were all implicated. Witness said be _:
bear this, sod regretted that the real odesises bed o"
besn discovered, as he would have preesistod' tl"
The prisoner mid, " I should have ulna'
Mk custody if I could have procured the
Wevidence to commit them." Aterl:o
the works he received an anoeymons letterer
eaneed him to make inquiries, sad to visit Wt.'
store dealer's shop, in Brook- street,
be saw gust quantities of sheet copper. ~,zr..
for isle. Carrington, the man who kglo'
store, stated that be bad bought the copi**;
the prisoner with wheat he had hid 109°7
dealings, and 'he produced a written order ic the hav
writing and bearing the signature of the Prig°
authorising him to fetch away
the ups, ha
Tooke's-eoort Oa making this studiag rd
witness returned at ones to the works. ,":
some conversatioa with the prisoner, who age.
hired to his statement " that a great quaatity dor'
hid been stoles from the works by the aim ._tte.ll.
seemed hint of being the thief himself, and Prollw";
inemorsednm received from CarriegM, which 'WV.
astonish him. The prisoner said, I hops Po •
look ou up, for I have a sick wife at home and it wu
the ruin of us." Witoess than gave him into eastadf.
Bir Thera Henry—Led the min whwi ome Wolf *
soled of this charge cad dismissed
with a foal cod ty,
merited stain upon their character are still out of eafFloP
e
presumll•
T proesontor mid he would take care to reinstate titt
Ceniagtoo, who imid be was I a " wholamle
marls, store dealer, said he went to the weeks bl_.",
• ordeentined the sapper, caul gm 761- I *1
MlT:llene fins ts,
10m 4 IVY about SOMM, and he ICai WOO
the leensesties. Be gave ad. only for the mat let
Sir Thomas Beery—Do you keep books?
CO loaded op a small *menses* rogmmswill
Jaw fr
book " Yes," bat on befog asked tO ••-r
" miry" of the above transaction, le said be
seedb Pr;
book at Mee. The purchase was sotared hme
OM," and be denied that the name had been Pot th_,ITY
Tfonas EA I it ins a moot invelis Ira,'