The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-18 00:00:00

lature without delay. It would lethal be a peat grievance
not to obtain a re-hearhag. Pb. guestima wee of sub im-
portance, that it must be brought before a full court. The
matter stood over for the decision of a full court.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT.—SATURDAY.
Boons one Common finuitara
THE BUYOLAZY AT ST. PANCRAS 171111T1T.
Wm. Jackson, slims Mayhew, alias Morgan, alias May.
alias COLCIIICUS, aged 63, described in the calendar as an
agent, was indisted for • burglary in a dwelling house be-
longing to the overseers of the pari.h of St. Pan-
eras, and stealing 201. In gold and 15..51. in silver, the
moneys of the said overseers.—Mr. Prendergast and Mr.
Parry prosecuted, and Mr. Huddleetone defended the
prisoner.
It appeared from the statement of the learned counsel that
between the bight of Thormlay, the Bth of February, and
the following morning the vestry-rooms of the abet. named
parish were broken open or entered by some one, lino pro-
perty to the above amount stolen from the place in which it
had been deposited, and the circumstances &minding the rob-
bery were enveloped in a considerable deal of mystery. One
thing, however, wee very certain—the affair, if not planned
and partly effected b some one connected with the
place—the thief or thieves had made themselves well
acquainted with the place, and also with the
custom adopted by the parochial authorities, who,
as usual, had only placed thy money there a very
short time before it was abstracted, and on the day following
were to have paid it away for the current expenses. Use
the discovery of the robbery the following morning an exa-
mina, ion of the plate was made by the police and the result
was a supposition that the parties who committed the rob-
bery either had, or wished it to be believed that they had,
escaped from a window overlooking the man road, an' upon
bigotry. it was discovered that upon the ground In the imme-
diate vicinity of the window a p.ir of carpet slippers, a dark
lantern, and some housebreaking implements had hem found
on toe morning following the robbery. Still to duo could
be obtained, and all traces were lest, the thieves having only
taken the money ; and but for the following circumstances
nothing further would have been discovered. Ice the course
of same inquiries that ware being made about a woman,
noes convicted of attempting to steal a banker's parcel from
the Cross Keys, St. John's street, the prisoner, who is a wen-
known character, was found in Guy's Hospital with • free.
toyed thigh, having been admitted on the evening of the
robbery, and the police having obtained et idence an to how
he canoe there, he was, as soon en sufficiently convalescent,
taken before the magistrates, and, after several remands, sent
for trial.
Evidence was then given to prove the ittlibery, the finding
of the implements alluded to, and the pnitionot the window
near where the prisoner was found previously to hie mask-
sion to the hospital.
Joseph Lye was then called, and he sai3, I am a compoid•
tor, and early on the morning of Feb. 9th, I was womb'.
home ; WLOD I got laver the railings surrounding St. Pancras'
workhouse, I heard some one call, and upon going to the
len found the prisoner inside of them, and he seemed to be
in great agony. lie asked me if I would assist him over.
I asked him what was the matter and he said that some men
had thrown his bat over the railings, and that in trying to
regain it he had fallen, and he feared broken his leg. I sail
I would go to the p ner's lodge and ask for the key, so that
the gate might be unlocked and he got out. He immedi
ately said he did mit wish me to do so, as he had been drink.
ibg with some friends, and had not any business in that
neighbourhood, and did not want an exposure. I then ea-
noted him over, and found that his kg had been broken
above the knee. Whilst I was getting him over he was very
anxious that I should not touch him round the body. He
felt very heavy, but did not seem very bulky. He wished
me to get him a cab, and get him into it. I led him about
twenty five yards from the spot end found I could not assist
him any further, and two men coming up I left him with
one of thim, whilst the other end myself went for a cab,
and also for a doctor. When the cab arrived, the prisoner
would not wait for the genteel of the doctor, but was as.
slated into it and he gave orders to be driven to High 110 l
born. lam quite sure the prisoner is that man.
It was then proved that when the cab arrived at Holborn,
the prisoner directed that the cithhion should drive him to a
house in the Slackfriar's-road, which was done, and when
there some person COM out and spoke to him, and they had
a canteen ce, which the cabman did not overhear, as he had
left his sett and was looking to bit horse. After the prisoner
had some conversation with the person whom he called upon
the person said the best thing he could do was to go to Guy's
Hospital, where he was accordingly taken.
Two girls, who were casual poor waiting at the door of
the workh mile on the night of the robbery, deposed to hear-
ing • neim like a fall come from the direction at the window
before alluded to. A moan followed, and then some one
said, " God help me ! God help me !" Not any one had
come from that way, or had they seen any one throw a hat
or cap t ver.
After some further ev:dence,
Mr. Huddlestone contended that the case was only one of
=opinion against his client.
The Common Serjeant reviewed the whole of the evidence,
and salt it was certainly one of strong suspicion, and ren-
, dared more so by the prisoner not attempting to show who
he woe. It was not at all improbable that he.bad
dispns-
sessed himself of the money when in 13:aelefriararoad ; at
least, ht might have called evidence to show that was not
the case.
The jury found him Guilty.
Wm. Cot krone, a police-constable, said the prisoner was
one of the most experienced crsckemen. He had been tried
and acquitted in this court for a burglary at Woolwich; he
was aloe one of the parties concerned in the Custom-house
robberies in 1836, and was at that time a returned transport.
The Crennton Serjeutt then sentenced the prisoner to ten
years' transportation, whoa be rose from his seat and hobbled
out of the dock on lie entakee.

THE POLICE COURTS.
WORSHIP-STREET.
VIOLENT ASSAIILT AND ROBBERY —A NEST OP THIEVES.
—AR athletic young fellow named William Daferry, and
Ellen Palmier and Mary IVilliams, two women of abandoned
habits, were charged with the following daring assault and
robbery upon Mr. Alfred M. Cleveland, chief mate of the
Pauline Houghton, government store-ship, now lying in the
West India Docks.
The prosecutor, who exhibited the marks of severe inju-
ries en his face and person, stets d that, while passing through
an unfr.quented "ant in Spitalflelds, about 12 o'clock on
the previous night, he observed a woman proceeding in the
same direction, and, being entirely unacquainted with the
neighbourhood, he requested her to direct him the nearest
way to Whitechapel. She replied that that was ber own
destination; and, having volunteered to ecnduct him there
by the shortest cut, he followed her down an adjoining court,
until they reached a house, at the door of which several other
women were standing, to whom she addressed some hur-
ried observations, and the wnole of them instantly surrounded
him, and dragged him into the passage of the house, where
they threw him down, and bolted the door to prevent his
escape. After a severe struggle he succeeded in recovering
his feet, and got the door open, but had no sooner crossed
the threshold than he was assailed by the three prisoners, and
upwards of a dozen other men and women, 'enabled outside.
While endeavouring to extricate himself, the male prisoner
rushed forward and struck him a terrible blow across the
Gen with a heavy bludgeon, and felled him to the ground.
After beating and kicking him until he was rendered oom-
plet-ly powerlese, the prisoners commenced rifling his
pockets, from which they abstracted the whole of the con-
tents, comprising a sovereign, a quantity of loose silver, a
valuable chart, end other articles, and having also secured
his hat, gloves, and handkerchief, they made off in different
direr ions, leaving him in a state of partial insensibility, in
which state he was soon afterwards discovered by the

police.
A constable named Johns, stated that he was attracted by
cries of " murder " from the court in question, on reaching
which, he found the last witness lying upon the ground
in a state of stupor, wi.h his clothes saturated with blood,
which was streaming down from a deep gash over the temple.
On learning the particulars of the outrage, he accompanied
the prosecutor and another constable into one of the houses,
where they found the female ner', whim he at ones
identified as two of his assailants; and, while conveying
them to the station-house, they discovered the male prisoner
crouching down behind some railings in on adjoining yard,
and took him also into hadh pliceman added that
several other daring robberie lately been committed in
the same court, which was the haunt of the most desperate
characters in the metropolis.
In answer to the charge, the prismen stoutly protested
their Manion, and vehemently denied that they had ever
seen the possestor until the moment they were given into
rowdy.
The prosecutor, however, swore positively to their iden-
tity, and the prisoners were reminded, in order that the de-
positionepay be taken.
SOUTHWARK,.
Ilzeirrissa Coroner or PAtiliN Orncenti. As-
lintrTlD SI:101D1 or ax OLD WOKAN THILOI7OX BlWA-
ston.—Sarah Potter, • poor old woman, 70 Jean of age,
was charged with attempting to drown hen& near South-
wark-bridge. It appeared that, Oa Wednesday aft' moon,
the primer was seen by the mate of a collier lying mar
Southwark-bridge.raad, to descend the steps leading to the
water, and plunge herself in. He instantly lowered his boat,
and, after considerable difficulty, succeeded in nearing her.
Sue was Drought before Mr. Cottingham on Thursday, to
answer the charge, when she stated that the reason of her
attempting sash a rash set was the heartless conduct of the
reliant* officers of St. George's and St. Saviour's, who turned
her adrift wi-hout the means of procuring food or lodging.
Mr. Cottingham accordingly remanded her until Saturday,
for the attendance of the Missing oMeen, in order to give
them an opportsoity of explaining why they had so acted to-
wards en old end decrepid female.
Bodeen, the officer of St. George's, and White, the return-
ing &Mon of St. Saviour's, being in attendance., Ply. Cot-
tlngham desired the poor woman to relate her story in their
presence. She then stated that she WY born is St. Saviour's
parish, and had lived there many years, until she fell into
rot distress, when she removed into St. George's, and lived
there four years, etniggUag to get a livelihood. She became
so ffistreseed that she wee compelled to enter Bt. George's
workhouse, where she remained also months. She left with
the intestiem et being pared to her own parhh, 134.8ee
viour's, sessallatt to the advice of Coslake, one 0 the re-
lieving oars% when they gave her Ile. However, they did
net remove Mir, sod belay in gram Melees she went be-
fore the tram at Ile. Owners, who allowed her le. 'a
week see listWeimsoksy, when they tensed kw adrift, ta-
bs( her she mpg wither own perish. ISM maim dispirited
'Mt Oak eimivet, Way witheat feed or money, a.
was delves Se make as attempt to drown herself.
Mr. Ceetingham mind her whether she applied to Mr.
White for relief T —Primmer replied that she dui, end he had