The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-23 00:00:00

POLICE.-Y,

MANSION-HOUSE.—DitnnOTINO ♦ NOTE OF SALE.
—Mr. Edward Lucas, of the firm of Lucas and Sons, corn-
factor., was brought before the Lord Mayor:—Mr. E. Scott,
of No. 7, Mount-place, Whitechapel, flour-factor, said: About
two months ago I had dealings with the defendant. I
bought of hint about 100 quarters of peas, for which he gave
me a sale note, and an order for the examination of the
article. I bought them at 445. per quarter, and he was to be
allowed the regular market commission for reselling them ;
and if I sold them myself, he wee still to have the
commis ion. The peas were lying at Donden's granary, in
Horeleydown. It was a time bargain, and a regular market
transaction, vie., a sittlement at two months, which expired
on the 61. b of January. About the 29th or 30th of Decem-
b I called at the defendant's office, and wrote a note to
Mesas. Lucas and Son, expressing my wish that they should
sell the petition my amount, or I would take them at 535.
and allow them their commission. I served a notice on
the clerk to sell the peas, and last Wednesday I went to the
defendant's stand in the Corn-market and gave his father a
bill of the peas. It left a balance of 491. las. 9d. in my
favour, having charged them .5.55. for the peas, which sum I
had been offered for them. About ten minutes afterwards
the defendant and his father were standing by their stand.
I was beside them, and a gentleman came up, and I took
from my pack( t the sale-bill which I had received, and held
it is my hand fur this gentleman to look at, and I asked him
if it was not a legal sa'e-note of the market? Whilst the
gentleman was reading the paper the defendant stretched out
his hand, tore it from mine, rent it in pieces, and walked
away. I called yest:rday and tow him, and asked him to
sire me the sale-note, and he said I had better be off, and if
I annoyed hint any more, or mentioned it in the market, he
would charge the police with me, and to-day I mentioned it
to the police, and gave him into charge. I could have sold
the note at a good profit —The Lord Mayor said he coned-
dered the conduct of the defendant in snatching the contract
out of the complainant's hand inexcusable, and requested
him to enter into his own recognizances in the sum of 100/.
to appear at 12 o'clock on Saturday to answer any charge
which might be preferred against him—Mr. Lucas then
entered into limo own recognizances to appear at the time
specified.
MARYLEBONE.—DRAWINO our Tan TlLL—Jones
Kirby, who upon former occasions has been tried for felony
and convicted, was charged with robbery. On the previous
evening, the prisoner took the opportunity of creeping into
the shop of Mr. Klein, a baker, in Idolyneux-stnet, Limon-
grove, and, making his way behind the counter, he drew out
the till, containing a quantity of money, in silver and copper,
with which he was about to " bolt," but his movements
having been perceived by Mrs. Kuntz, a relative of the pro-
secutor, be dropped the till on the floor and ran off es fist as
he was able; a cry of "stop thief " was raised, and he was
shortly afterwards taken in cmtody by Beckley, 158 D.—He
was committed for trial.

SOUTHWARK.—Dstoxo STRATAGEM.-31artho Joel
was charged with stealing money from some of the suitors
of the Newington Court of Requests, by the following strata-
gem—Mrs. Elizabeth Dutton stated that a short time since
her husband was summoned before the commissioners of the
Newington Court of Requests for a debt, and adjudged to pay
41. 95., in instalments of 10s. a month. On the preceding
day the witness attended at the court for the purpose of pay
iog the first instalment, and while waiting to pay that sum
to the clerk, she was accosted by the prisoner, who stood be-
tween her and the clerk of the court, who was busily en-
sued in receiving and entering monies. The prisoner, per-
ceiving that she held her money to pay in, and her book to
have it entered, ready in her hand to give in to the clerk,
when he was at leisure to receive the same, said to wit-
ness, "Give me your money and book ; I will hand
them over to the gentleman, or otherwise you may be
detained here for a considerable time away from your
family." Witness handed her the amount; the moment,
however,:the prisoner got the money, she pretended to pay it
over, but instead of doing so, by an ingenious desire she
slipped the 10s. up the sleeve of her gown. Immediately
afterwards the prisoner said she must leave the court for a
short period, desiring witness to remain until the clerk re-
turned her the book with the entry of the money received.
Shortly after the prisoner's departure it was discovered that
she had not paid in the complainant's money.—Harriet
Duprase, another poor woman, also attended the examina-
tion, and gave evidence of her having been robbed by
the prisoner in a similar way.—The prisoner was committed
for trial.

LAMBETH.—Music AND DIRCORD.-Mr. John Nelson
Russell, a violin player, appeared to answer to • summons
taken nut against him by the officers of the parish of Lam-
beth, charging him with having deserted his wife, and leav-
ing her and his son chargeable to that parish. The coin.
plainant said that in September, her husband, to whom she
had been married for 14 years, hod left her without any cause,
except his taking up with a young woman who used to come
occasionally to her house, and with whom he was at present
living. She had repeatedly applied to him for the means of
supporting her, but he had refused to give her anything, and
the consequence was that she had been obliged to apply to
the parish. In reply to a question from Mr. Norton, the
witness said that she had been enabled to support herself
and her boy from the time her husband left her until she
had applied to the parish, by selling her furniture and pawn-
ing her own and her husband's clothes. She also said that
her husband was in the habit of earning a great deal of
money, as he had engagements during the various sessono at
the Italian Opera, Vauxhall-gardens, balls, Jullien's Con-
certs, and was at present engaged at the Adelaide Gallery.—
The defendant, in reply, said that he had endured a com-
plete martyrdom since his marriage with the complainant,
on account of her thoroughly drut,ken habits.--After much
conversation, Mr. Russell agreed to allow his wife 6s. a week
for the maintenance of herself and son, a boy of 13 years of
age, and thus the matter terminated.
THAMES.— BUROLARY.- James and George Barker
brothers, were brought up, after repeated remands, charged
with having committed a burglary and robbery in the house
of Mr. J W. Edmonds, Naval-row, I'oplar. The details of
this case have already appeared. Mr. Ballantine committed
the prisoners to Newgate for the burglary and robbery.