The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-23 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Thomas Kitchener was brought up for final examination
before Alderman Cubitt, upon the charge of having plun-
dered Mr. Smith, of Queen-street, stationer, his employer.
Mr. Smith having suspected that the prisoner, who had
been in his employment about 3 months, was robbing him,
gave instructions to Brett, the detective officer, to be on the
watch about the premises. The officer soon observed the
prisoner leave the warehouse and proceed rapidly along the
streets, followed and stopped him, and took from him a
brown paper parcel containing articles of stationery, which
were identified by Mr. Smith. At the prisoner's lodgings
the officer found not only several goods which bad been
stolen from his premises, but duplicates of ether plundered
property.
A pawnbroker, at whose shop the property was pledged,
said lie bad known the prisoner for years as a customer in
the habit of pledging hie own property, from a gold watch
down to an old shirt.
The prisoner upon being asked by Alderman Cubitt whe-
ther he wished to snake any defence at that time, said, I am
in a condition to plead guilty with regard to same of the
things, and therefore it will b 3 necessary to go throngh the
whole seriatim, so that Mr. Smith may be put in PJOSZbiOII
of his property. But I hope your worship will deal sum-
marily with the case.
Alderman Cubitt —lt is quite impossible to deal sum-
manly with a case in which a eervant is proved to have
been robbing his master.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
WORSIIIP-STREET.
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James Flsteher,.;rascisarifed7;i7iCa;ing been cencerned
with others, not in custody, in robbing John Dove, an infirm
and aged man, of 20!.
The prosecutor stated that having invested his savings for
many years in the Whitechapel fiavings'llank, be proceeded
there on the previous afternoon, and drew out the money,
' which he deposited in a I"ather purse and placed it in his
' waistcoat pocket. lie called at a public-house, and was in
front of the bar, when the prisoner and three other men,
strangers to him, entered and invited him to drink with
them. lie declined to do so, and after pressing him for
some tic:e without ettxt, one of the men called for a glass
of spirits which he raised to his lip., and forced a portion
of its contents into his mouth. Oa turning his head at the
moment, he observed one of the men in the act of pouring
something out of a glass into the liquor he had himself or-
dered, and feeling satisfied that it was • premeditated
scheme for hocussing and robbing him,he refused to drink any
more of it, and hastily left the house. lie had only proceeded a
short distance when he was overtaken by the whole party,
who had been joined in the interim by two or three others,
two of whom laid hold of each of his arms. under pretence
of ass:sting him, and led him aloeg until they reached a beer
' shop, when they again offered to treat him. He positively
declined the invitation, and endeavoured to disengage him-
'elf, bat they thrust him into the house, and called fur some
lie, a small quantity of which they forced him to swallow, but
he had no sooner drank it than he was overcome with sickness
and stupor, which obliged him to retire into the back
yud. Ide was followed there by the prisoner sad his con-