The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

;TILE 11XPRE88, TUESDAY ETENING, MARCH 7, 1848.

an ironmonger in Whiteorosostreet, on taking stock, found
a deficiency of 2001 , and believing himself to have been
robbed, he applied to Sergeant Brennan who undertook
to discover Ste thief. Suspecting th'e prisoner, he
kept a strict watch over his habits, and soon found that
although his wages wars but eighteen shillings a week,
lopt • took servant, and wu living in a very expensive
isassow. At length Brennan sent persons to the prosecutor's
shop with marked money, to purcbue some articles, sad the
marked coins being found on the prisoner, be was given into
custody. Brennan searched his lodgings, where he found
1371. in loose cash, in a coat pocket he found sevensovert igas,
231. in his trowsers pocket, and various other sums wrapped
op in paper, concealed in other places.—The jury found the
prisoner Guilty.—The Common Serjeant sentenced him to
b• transported for 'even years.

POLICE.—YESTERDAY.
MANSION-HOUSE.—Sra•LING BANIRUPT STOUR.—
Mary Jones alias Mrs. Johnson, was charged with hav-
ing. stolen a it uantity of silk, the' property of the
assignees of a bankrupt. Mr. Gale, Wicker to the
assignees of a woollen draper who had become bank-
rupt, and whose warehouse was at No. 5, Queen-street,
Cbeapside, stated that the messenger of the Court of Bank-
ruptcy had put two men in possession some weeks ago, one
of whom had let the prisoner into the house on the preceding
night to visit the other,and the lady had availed herself of
the opportunity thus fforded her of visiting the cellar in
which the silks were deposited, and winding a consideble
quantity of that valuable manufacture round her body ;~
she
was, however, observed by a City police sergeant, who soon
decreased her size by removing from her person some of the
goods of the assignees with the marks of the broker
upon them, so that there could be no mistake as
to their identiry.—Sergeant Sheppard said that between
two and three o'clock in the morning be saw the prisoner
coming from the house, No. 5, in Queen-street, Cheapside,
and observing that she appeared to be very bulky be
stopped her, and asked what she had been doing at that
place at such an hour. She replied that she had been to see
• friend. lie told her he was not satisfied with her state-
ment, and perceiving that something was hanging down
from under her clothes, he turned his lampto the officer on the
adjoiniag beat as a signal for assistance, and he took from
under her petticoats upwards of 20 yards of black talk. He
then sent the other policeman to the house in Queen-street,
to make inquiry about her them; and as she walked
towards the station-house he saw somethiag else hanging
from her persm, and pulled from her several yards or prim-
rose-coloured silk.—After some further evidence the pri-
soner was remanded.
GUILDHALL.—WINDOW Webber was
charged with breaking several large squares of plate glass in
the shop window of Messrs. Berens, Blumberg, and Co., St.
Pad's Churehyard, foreign warehousemen. The damage
done amounted to nearly 501., but to bring the case within
the jurisdiction of the worthy alderman it was found neces-
sary to lay it at 51. only.—Policeman W. Allen said he was
turning round St. Paul's Churchyard, inte the Old 'Change,
when he heard a crash as of glass breaking. He ran back
into St. Paul's Churchyard, and saw the prisoner throw
something through the windows of the prosecutors' ware-
house, and before he could get near enough to secure him he '
smashed a large square of glass. When taken into
custody Webber said, " I am satisfied now; I've'
had my revenge." The officer here produced the stones,
which were large flint ones, weighing from 41b. to 51b. each.
—Alderman Moon considered it a mercy, also, teat no one
was killed. When mantes of such a serious and dangerous
character as those produced were used with such reckless-
nese, regardless of consequences. the guilty party ought not
to be treated in the ordinary manner, and therefore he had
decided on remanding the prisoner for further evidence as to
where the stones fell, bow near to any person, and whether
any one might have been injured. In the meantime he
would take the advice of the City solicitor, and sea if some
means could not be taken to punish the prisoner more se-
verely, and in a different manner, to the usual mode of dis-
posing of such cases.—The prisoner was then remanded.
BOW•STREET. Tan MEETING IN TRAFALGAR-
/MUMMA-8 I pickpockets were charged with pursuing
their avocations in the crowd collected in Trafalear-equare,
Charing cross, and committed for trial or sent to hard labour,
according to the nature of their offences.
A young man, named James Marchand, was also charged
with inciting the mob, by exclaiming "Down with the
polioe—no national guards," and throwing stones promisee-
ondy among the people.—The Prisoner said that, in the con-
fusion, it was impossible for the officer belonging to the C
divines, by whom he was apprehended, to distinguish who
was the aggressor, and he denied having ever made use of
the laeguage imputed to him, or to have incited the mo in
any manner.—Mr. Hall ordered him to pay a fine of 20sb ~ or
to be imprisoned for sight days.
James Drehalthorne, whose head was severely wounded,
was charged with assaulting the police, and obstructing them
in the execution of their duty.—Sergeant Shepherd, A din-
OW, stated that he was suddenly availed by a volley of
stones by the mob, while standing with other cons:ebles,
and, on attempting to force the crowd back, they were again
• remitted in the same manner, during which he was knocked
down and struck by the prisoner with his fist, in his attempt-
ing to rescue a prisoner, in consequence of which he was
compelled to use his staff to protect himself.—The Prisoner
said he did not belong to the crowd, but had just parted with
some friends when he received a blow of a truncheon on the
back of his head which stunned him.—Mr. Hall ordered the
prisoner to be discharged, the constable being unable to
satisfy him why he used his truncheon in such an indiscri-
minate and cowardly manner. Several other cases of a
similar description were brought up, which detained the
magistrates beyond the usual hour.
WORSHIP-STREET.—IIIPORTaNT TO RAILWAT TEA-
VELLERE.—Afr. William Broom, a tea broker in Fenchurch-
court, Fencherch-street, appeared to answer an adjourned
charge of having unlawfully refused to deliver up his ticket
as a passenger by one of the trains upon the Eastern Coun-
ties Ilealway, and also with obstructing and assaulting the
officers of the company in the execution of their duty.—lt
was proved at the former examination that the defendant
arrived at the Stratford station in a second•class carriage of
the Bury train on Tuesday last, and having positively re-
fused to deliver up his ticket when required so to do, he was
ejected from the carriage, after a strenuous resistance, in the
course of which it was alleged that he made a violent attack
upon one of the inspectors, and was thereupon given into
custody.—After hearing the evidence in support of the
charge, and the counter-allegation on the part of the de-
fendant—who justified his refusal to surrender the ticket on
the ground that the seats of the carriage were in Such a
damp and filthy condition it was impossible to use them,
and that he wished therefore to detain it to
enable him to lodge a complaint at the termines—
the magistrate expressed considerable doubt as to the legs,-
' lity of the defendant's arrest, and postponed his decision for a
more perfect exposition of the grounds upon which the com-
pany proceeded.—Mr. Duncan, the solicitor to the railway,
now attended, and directed the magistrate's attention, first
to their fifth bye-law, by which it was enacted that any per-
son wilfully obstructing the officers of the company in the
discharge of their duties might be forthwith removed from
the premises, and besides forfeiting the amount of his fare
should be liable to the penalty of 40s. for such obstruction :
and secondly, to the 16th section of the act for the general
regulation of railways, which authorised the officer so ob-
structed to seize and detain such offender and convey him
before a magistrate, who was empowered to impose any pe-
nalty not exceeding 51. for that offence. In this instance it
had been proved that the inspector was acting in the execu-
tion of his duty in requiring the defendant to deliver up his
ticket, and that, having refused to do so, he was legally ex-
pelled from the carnage in order that the train might pro-
ceed on its journey. His arrest, under these circumstances,
was the natural and proper consequence, and the assault he
subsequently committed upon the officer was clearly a sub •
jut for the summary adjudication of the magistrate.—Mr.
Parry, for the defendant, was about to reply, but was
stopped by Mr. Arnold, who intimated that he had arrived
at a clear opinion upon the question, without troubling him
with any observations. The solicitor of the company rested
the ease entirely upon the construction of their tth bye-law,
which authorised the removal of any person from the car-
riages who should obstruct or impede an officer in the exe-
cution of his duty, and he conteaded that a refusal to give
I•p a ticket amounted to such an obstruction. He (the
magistrate), however, entertained a contrary opinion, as he
considered, first, that the obstruction contemplated must
mean some act committed by a person, and not a mere cana-
-1 'ion to perform an act; and, secondly, lsc cause the conse-
quences of the non-delivery of a ticket had been expressly
provided for by the first bye-law, in which it had been held,
I in the case of " Chilton o. the Brighton Railway," that
i such refusal would not justify the arrest of a passenger,
although he might be required to pay the whole amount of
tare from the place whence the train originally started. He
felt satisfied that neither of the clauses warranted the re-
moval from the carriage or subsequent apprehension of the
defendant. Without expressing any opinion as to the pro-
priety of his conduct, he felt it his duty to order him to be
discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A DIAMOND Bitoocu.—
The Hon. and Rev. Augustus Cavendish was charged with
having obtained fraudulently 601. worth of diamond brooches,
the property of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, jewelers and
silversmith', New Bond-street.—Joseph Broadhurst said,
that on the 4th of September last the prisoner called at
Mears. Hunt and Co.'s warehouse, and stated that he had
been commissioned by. a lady to select a diamond brooch for
her, but being a bad judge of such articles he wished to be
allowed to take some brooches away on approbation, in
order that he might have the lady's opinion before he con- I
eluded the purchase. Thep riaoner was allowed to take
away six diamond brooches, value 601., on the promise that
he would bring them back the following day. Nothing was
seen of the prisoner until Saturday, when witness met with
him in Argyll-street, and spoke to him on the subject.—
Defendant said he had been told if he gave up the brooches
it would be all right. The witness Broadhurst knew who
he was, when he obtained the brooches, from the fact of
his having been present when he was married.—Mr.
Hardwick considered that the offence took the character of
a constructive larceny.—Mr. Green, who said he was con-
nected with the Society for the Suppression of Fraud, stated
that if the prisoner was remanded, he had reason to believe
other charges would be brought forward.—Mr. Hardwick
remanded the prisoner until Wednesday, with an intima-
Von that if good bail was procured he would accept it —The
prisoner had not procured bail when the police van came
rouad for the prisoners, and be was accordingly sent to

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prison.
THIS STIIIBLItO CASE DIIDLIT-STBSIIT.--J. Parker,
who was charged on the 21st ult. with stabbing Eliza
Burgess and Mary Ritchie, at Na. 26, Dudley-street,
was Curtner examined.—Sergeant Bain said there was no ad-
ditional evidence at present, and produced the surgeon's
certificate, stating that Mary Ritchie was doing as well as
could be expected and that Eliza Burgess was confined with
a female child on Saturday last, and is going on very favour-
ably. The prisoner was then remanded till the 21st inst.