The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-06 00:00:00

SINGOLAR CHAZGUIOF ZOBBIZT.

dliebetA Beads, a middle.eged woman of very respectable
peptersom, was placed at the bar charged with stealing a
oreariver.
Williams Chan, shopboy to Mr. Mills, pawnbroker, mid
Yet bowels 9 and 10 on Saturday evening he saw the pri-
sm take the table-cover from the door and walk away with
1 Bs Mowed and tapped bar on the shoulder, when she
pee hha up the tableeover, which was worth 9e. She im-
mediately said that she picked it up.
Prisemr-1 declare I did so. I emporia* a shoemaker's
111/1 deer to this pawnbroker's, when I saw this Uhl*.
err rolled op, as It is now, on the ground. I took it up
ma prod it sada, my peat part of it being thee ea.
pese4 a that anybody it to might own it. This
.wiped mien the shoulder, and on his saying the War-
ier/ was his, I pre it to himi
Mr. kite—Was the tabs-cover hanging up?
Wirer—No, it was lying on a board at our door.
Mr. Salts—Wee it fastened is any way?
Witless—No, it was not ; it was lying with other goods
af a me:onerous description.
Mr. Salle—ls them scything known of the priaoner ?
The prim—She is a very respectable married woman.
Mr. William Bares, groom, 2, Waltonatreet, Brampton,
lopped forward and said—This is a very honest, upright
worse, incapable of committing a felony. 1 have known
kw a Went time. She is a married woman with three
Ymos2
Mr. Riffs—Are they ia any dideret ?
Witore—Not the last They have a nice house well
fereigad in John-street I have tasted her with every-
the( le my place and never missed anything.
The pawnbroker's shoprasa said his master did sot wish
le propagate. He had only peso prisoner into custody be-
anie she persisted she had packed it up when she had not,
r it was not dirty.
Mr. Selle-1 doe% think it at all probable a jury would
comer, sad as the prosecutor does not wish to proceed
farther prisoner is

THAMES.
LOIDINABY CAB FAR&

George Pipe;:4lMaterint;;;;. wroriteife, a respectable
mew carries oar a heehaw which he has neglected in
Caldeetrest, Whitechapel, wee brought up on a. warrant.
'barged with refusing to pay 40., is a cabdriver earned
George Jaques.
The primer hired the complainant's cab on the 2nd of
Jester, last, and drove him to lamas places in Stepney and
ether pleas for ten hours, finally setting him down at
the Risiag Sun public-house, Oxfordatmst, Stepoey. Here
the enamor gave the cebmas the slip, by escaping over a
beck wall. rho complainant sought for the prisoner in
veia, and west home. He came to the condemn he had
be "bilked" of his fare. On the following day the pri.
lOW again hailed Jaques in the street, made an
acme for leaving him on the previous night,
tad mid be had jest beau to his master's
yard is search of him. He again hired the complainant
who drove his fare over the woe ground, finishing the job
s before, at the Rising Sun. The primes: again made his
Imps, sad the cab-driver never saw him again until he was
is custody. A summons was originally applied for and
served cc the prisoner, to which he did not appear, and a
wriest was then applied for OD which Piper was arrested
by &eked, an officer of the court. The complainant drove
the primer in his cab ten boars the firet day and sloven
boom es the sewed day, in all twenty-aes boars, bat he had
rely reamed for twenty hours.
The prism, said be was unable to pay the cab driver,
sad he was committed to the Home of Correction for
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