The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-16 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAY.

WORSHIP-STREET.—A FENIALN FAOIN.—S. Brown, ;
M. Garmon, J. Hughes, and T. Coyle, boys varying in age
from 10 to 14, were charged with various acts of robbery,
and a woman, named E. Galloway, was charged with in-
citing
them to the commission of the offence, and feloniously
receiving the stolen property.—About a week since the pin- ,
sonar Brown suddenly absconded from the house of his
parents, honest hardworking peoplo, and after an anxious ,
and incessant search to discover the fugitive, they at length
obtained information that he was harboured with several
other boys at the house of the woman Galloway, in Flower
and Dean-street, Spitalfields. Hither the boy's brother ac-
cordingly
proceeded, accompanied by a constable named
Grady, who abruptly entered an apartment on the ground'
floor, and discovered the female prisoner presiding at the
head of the table, round which the younger prisoners were
seated, and in the centre of which was placed an hetero-
geneous collection of articles, consisting of saltcellars, sugar-
Mains, a flower vase, and other property, evidently the
produce of recent robberies. There was also a piece of meat
in the prices of being drea•ed before the fire, the col respond-
ing portion of which was deposited upon an adjoining shelf,
and upon further search the officer discovered a long brass.
mounted whip, secreted beneath the bed. On requiring
them to account for the possession of the property, one of the
boys at once acknowledged that the whole of it had been
stolen within two days, from various shops, by the juvenile
members of the gang, and that the meat which the woman
was dressing for their dinner had beau purloined from •
neighbouring butcher's on that very morning. The woman
Galloway denied this statement, and said that the boys had
brought the property to her house without her privity or
sanction, and that they had only arrived a few minutes be-
fore the officer made his appearance.—Mr. Arnold directed
the child Coyle, who was only ten yearn of age, to be given
up to his mother, a poor widow in Finsbury-market, but
ordered all the other prieesiers to be remanded,
FINING AT A RAILWAY TRAIN.— W. Fitch, toll-oollector
at the Ilford turnpike, was finally examined, charged with
having fired off a gun loaded with ball at one of the fint-
class carriages of an express train to Ipswich, to the immi-
nent danger of the passengers. The case has been already
stated in our columns.—None of the other passengers who
actually witnessed the transaction were in attendance to give
evidence as to the prisoner's identity; and a geneeman from
the office of the company's solicitors intimated that he was
not instructed to
.press for the further detention of the pri
loner, if the magistrate would bind him over to appear upon
• future °cession, as it was the intention of the company to
offer a large reward for any further information tending to
elucidate the transaction.—Mr. Arnold said he should cer-
tainly accede to that course in the absence of all evidence to
implicate the prisoner; and should only require him to enter
into his own recognisance to insure his appearance whenever
it might he required.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Faun
Jane Smith was finally examined, charged with having ob-
tained 21. by means of fraudulent representations from the
Rev. John Mills said that the prisoner had
called on him, and, referring to a person named Smith,
whom he knew, said she was in immediate want of 12s, and
if she had that sum she should be enabled to get 101., which
was due to her from a burying club at Kennington. Prose-
cutor believing her, agreed to advance her the 12s. The
prisoner then said as it was late and she could not expect to
get the money that night, would prosecutor accommodate
her with the loan of 21.? Prosecutor let her have the money
and she went away. A day or two afterwards prosecutor
saw the prisoner near the Colonnade in the Haymarket, and
he made her accompany him home to give an account of the
money she had obtained from him. The prisoner acknow-
ledged that she had spent the money, principally in drink.—
Mr. J. Smith said he had not sent the prisoner to the pro-
sccutor.—The prisoner was committed.
MARYLEBONB. —ALTA° ED ROBBINLY IN A CHAPEL.-
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Mr. John Haroey was rrazinitined on the charge of having
stolen a leather. case, containing a bible and prayer-back
front the Kentish-tows parochial chapel. Tne partiallars of
what previrusly transpired have already appeared in our
paper. The inquiry was adjourned for the attendance of the
verger and the owner ef the property.—Wm. Kentish, the
verger, stated that on Saturday afternoon the prisoner ume
into the chapel and walked about ; he looked at many of the
monument', the inscriptions upon which he read, and also
expressed his admiration of the paintedvindow. He went
into pew No. 74 and sat down, and on his coming out of It
ha went away, wishing him good Night. Observing that he
1 ing left thg pew door open, he went up to shut it,
sad mimed the leather cue now produced. He (witness)
Itiotosed out, and seeing the prisoner making his way in the
&lotion of Highgate, he ran after him and overtook him
by Craven-place. Ifs said to him, " I beg your pardon, sir
butt I think you have taken some books ham the dmi,eml
To which ha replied, " Don't make any plum of work about
it, Ana ra go back with you". He accompanied wham,
to the chapel, and as he was approaching towards the pew
awe. he being just behind witness, he heard sometkiag
ha dent by the gros mats. He looked round and picked