The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION HOUSE.
Bohrtuo A Morass.—A girl, aged 15, was brought a
few days ago before tits Lord Mayor, charged with harios
bastes her smother, a widow, who had evidently icon better

da7de complaisant upon that occasion said her daughter had
been at service for three or bur years, and had always acted
with filial affection until very lately ; that she had nt.ost ten
days ego gone cut for the purpose of inclAring after a place,
and upon ber return said she had succeeded, suddenly de-
ported from !inn., sad stayed away nearly a week; that
upon her second return she proceeded to peek up bet tiptoes
in a boo, and said she was going to another Sitilllll.ll, and
upon being expatula-cd with in I r. quested to give some
ezplanation of such erraordinsity conouct, she not only
and the most revolting language in reply to the anzicus
request of her p/41111t, but was deprtved enough to toe

Micas.
The Lord Mayor asked the complainint, who appeared to
be in deep afilittioe, ehetbsr she bad been able to ascertain
at what piece her daughter bad spent an dap of ter
absence from home?
The policeman into when custody it had been found
neenli ry to place the girl, said she told him she had been
passing along Old-street, and Taking at an advertisement
in • window for a servant, when a female walked up to her
and salted her whether she wanted a situation, and was
immediately joined by a gentleman, who hired her as nurse
to his daughter, • child about 6 years old, but as he pro-
posed to her the nerterrinacen of services GI a vs ry different
kind, she had quitted him ; that ehe was about to go to
another place when her mother interfered, and that in her
passion she bad acted wilt the unnatural violence described.
In answer to questions put by the Lord Mayor, the
policeman said he had reason to believe that there were
frequently to be seen prowling about the immediate neigh•
bourhcods in which tillers for the registration of servants
IMO kept, penons of loose morals, whose practice it was to
hire such girls as pleased the eye, sod appeared to be in watt
of situations, and who, alter convincing the poor creatures
of their mistake. turned them adritt, upon being able to
procure ethers by similar mean,. lie had no doubt that the
gill before his lordship had bean imposed upon Icy a man of
this discription.
The L,rd Mayor—Well, defendant, what have you to say
to this very had account of you?
The girl said it was true the man by whom she had Men
hired, under the circumstances stated by the policeman, had
made vile proposals to her, but it was as true that she had
rejected them and left his sirens on that account. She had
no i4ea that the father of • female child whom she was en-
gaged to take care of could entertain any bad design egainet
her, although it was the fact, as she afterwards learned, that
he tad been in the habit of getting young nurses for the
little girl and turning them away after • very abort trial
indeed.
The Lord Mayor said he apprehended the case was one of
frequent occurrence, and directed Scott, the Mansion House
officer, to snake inquiry into the alleged practices of the
individual, and to report the particulars of 'his investigation.
Yesterday Scott said he had ascertained that the girl had
been hired by a man who resided in Cbart.street, to attend
to his daughter, and that the child was thin made an
unconscious pander to her lather. Of the unsurpassable
baseness of the father there could be no doubt, but it was to
be feared that in the present case it would he impsesible to
get together evidence, especially as the girl denied that his
plans against her had succeeded.
The Lord Mayor—How has the girl conducted herself to
her mother since she was first brought before me ?
The complainant said the advice which his lordship bad
given to the defendant on the occasion of the language and
aseault complained of, produced • great change for the bet-
ter ; indeed to greet that she was likely to become a comfort
to her family. The poor woman was moat grateful to his
lordship for the resolute kindnees he had displayed, and
ascribed to that charitable interference the actual saving of
her child from destruction.
The Lord Mayor.—l shall take care to have the conduct
of the person who has been pursuing these vile practices
more closely irquired into. We have new an act of parlia-
ment which will enable the magistrates to protect young
females from the fraudulent practices so frequently resorted
to for procuring their defilement, and there is no function
of mine which I should feel more pleasure in performing
than that by which I am empowered to it,fiict a heavy cas-
tigation upon such atrocious malefactor..
The girl then retired with her mother, after re•araurirg
the Lord Mayor that his lordship s kindnem allotted her
almost as much as her mother's forgiveness.
BOW-STREBT. _

&TRAITOR CONFESSITII.:R;;TTFenning Coles, of Old
Loretto, in Quebec, who was described on the police sheet
as • teller in the Quebec City Branch of the Montreal Bank,
was charged, upon hie own confession, with having absconded
on the Bth October lest from Canada, being a dessuPer to
the amount of 7,000 L and upwards, the property of the
banking company, his employers.
Mr. Child, the solicitor, who appeared for the prisoner,
said he was placed in a very unpleasant situation, es he was
of opinion that hie client was decidedly labouring under an
aberration of intellect, and bring, only recently instructed
by his relatiene, he could clearly perceive from his manner
that suck was the fact, judging from his manner and cot-
venation.
Sergeant Lockyer being sworn, said about half-put eight
o'clock on Tuesday night I was on duty at the police office,
In Scotland-seed, when the prisoner having entered
said—" I wish to give myself into custody, and there is •
reward offered for my apprehension." I said I was not
aware of such a circumstance, and on asking Lis name he
replied Mr. Coles, and that he had absconded from Quebec,
in America. I then asked him the cause of his having
abeconded, and he replied that he had been a teller in the
City Bank, Quebec, and that it was in consequence of defal-
cations in his accounts. I next enquired if he had
any relations living in London, or anywhere near,
and he replied that he had a brother living at
No. 6, South-buildings, Clapham-common. He also
said that be bed come up from Dover that afternoon,
and bad left his luggage at • tavern near the Maa-
sion-boue. I then searched him, and found 13 sovereigns,
14s. in silver, and 61d. is
copper money, after which I con-
veyed him to the station house in King-s'rest, Westminster.
I subsequently went to where he said his brother resided,
and having inquired of him if he had • relative holding the
situation of toiler in the Bank of Qaebee, he replied that
be had.
Sergeant Wither, a detective officer, produced the wariest
which had been placed on Sunday week in the hands of
Field, who was absent on business at the Central Criminal
Court.
Mr. Henry said, that in order to comply with the pro-
visions of the 6th and 7th Viet., under which the warrant
was granted by the magistrate in Canada, it should be backed
in this country by the Secretary of Suite, to enable the
court to act, which not having been done, the inspector
should take the document to the Homo-office, to have the
necessary signature attached to it in the usual form.
Inspector Baker A returned to the court in the afternoon
with the warrant not endorsed, and being asked if any per-
eon from the firm of Glyn and Co., the bankers, who are
agents for the Bank of Quebec, was in attendance to give
evidence,
Mr. James Kentish, clerk in the service of Moire. Glyn,
came forward, and in answer to the magistrate, amid that he
was not prepared to make the slightest charge ugainst the
prisoner, nor had he any instructions from Canada to that
effect. He had no proof from any public authority to
show that the warrant was a genuine instrument, nor
were any instructions received by his employers upon the
subject. Moreover, witness did net know of his own know-
lege or from any official authority, that any charge was to be
preferred.
Mr. Henry—l have no power to detain the prisoner, as
the act of parliament expreuly decline that a warrant
against any person escaping from the colonies must be
endorsed, which was not the case in the present instance,
as I am given to understand that no intelligence has been
received at the Home-office, in consequence of which I
cannot transfer the case to the colonise.
Mr. Child observed that the warrant was dated 30th of
October, and having examined a correspondence which
took place about that time, a strong feeling existed which
might hove caused the warrant having been issued.
Mr. Henry said there was no evidence before him, and
ea the prisoner should be discharged he would advise his
brother, who was in attendence, to take him under hie
protection.
The prisoner was accordingly discharged.
MAKYLABONB.
CaxsLrr or AN OMNIBUS DRITIIII.—J. Mead, the driver
of an omnibus, running from Camden-town to Hungerford-
market, was charged by Mr. Thomas, secretary to the
Anal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with
cruelty to • horse.
Watson, an officer in the employ of the society alluded to,
deposed that he saw defeedent drive up to the Britannia
public house, High-street, Camden-town, levers], passengers
being at the time in the vehicle ; he (witness) observed that
the off-side horse had a large wound on its shoulder, just
beneath the collar, and blood we, oozing therefrom. Os his
speaking to defendant with regard to the inhumanity et
working an animal in inch • condition, the observation he
made was, that there was not anything the matter with the
hone, and he wag not present when it was harnessed with
its fellow hone in the yard, previous to its coming out upon
its journey.
Cook, 86 8, whose attention was called by Waimea to the
condition of the horse, described the wound, as belag deep,
and an lock and a half in diameter. Witness told kin that I
be ought not to tabs the horse out, as it was not In a fit
state to work, but he paid no attention to the intimation, and
drove, off with his passengers.
Mr. Thomas, In reply to questions from the magistrate,
said that with regard to omnibus drivers, but few cases of
cruelty had, he was happy to say, been r.motly brought
under his notice ; the present ems, however, was one for
which he felt bound to press for a conviction, as the allega-
tion against the defendant bad been clearly proved.
Defendant, who repeated what he had told the officer, as
to hie not being aware of the horse having upon it a wound,
was fined 20s. ; or, in default of payment, 14 days' imprison-
ment.

EiTi•ORDINAIIt PIOCIIIDING AT ♦ PC•ETtra CHURCH.
—Thaws Doyle, a tall poosetal Irishman, employed u
beadle at Charlotte-street Chapel, Pimlico, appeared to •
,moss chanting him with unaltieq Mr. Iliseard Simms,
timber aterthiust, residing at 36, Gillingham-street,
Wilton-
rad, Pimlico.
Mr. Simnel said, oa Sander evening, tits 25th of December
I went to Charlotte-street Memel, Pimlico, and was re-
quested by stelreadant to take • seat in Qs dinetion ho