The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-17 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION HOUSE.
RoBBINO CHILDREN.—St ~charged, a girl about 18
years of age, was brought up. with having robbed
several children of bundles of clothes in the streets.
The prisoner has been for a length of time in the habit of
stopping little boys and girls in the street, and getting from
them whatever bundles they carried. Nies or ten children
appeared against her.
From the statements made by the children, it appeared
that the prisoner's plan was as follows :—She followed a
child who carried a bundle from a house, the name of the
owner of which she became acquainted wide, sent the child to
another place on some ineffectual message, and ran off
with the bundle, and pledged the contents. In vine
eases she snatched the bundles from the poor affrighted
children, and left them screaming. Some of the goods were
prcduci d by pawnbrokers who had lent money upon them to
the prisoner.
The prisoner maid she was quite innocent, and she was
sure of it.
Alderman Carden asked one of the little girls who had
been robbed how the prisoner was dressed when the robbery

wag committed ?
Ths child said she had a black velvet bonnet on, and a
different show).
The prisoner—No, your worship; I had the same shawl.
(Laughter.)
Alderman Carden—Why you are taking trouble to convict
yourself.
The Prisoner—l know nothing at all about any of the rob-
beries.
The mother of one of the children said—" She has now
upon her my flannel petticoat and my chemise, which were
contained in the bundle she stole from my child."
The prisoner was committed upon four charges of rob-
bery.
MARLS01101:1011•STREBT.
CFIAIOI 07 AOSAIILT.—Mr. ThOnStOPI. of Gloucester
place, was sumensared for having assaulted Hr. Cummins,
one of the private secretaries of the Woods and Forests.
It appeased. lea the statement of the complainant, that
few inesiees ego he was returning to his residence in
llimmenelhoiles, Bayswater, and hailed an omnibus at the
1110111NOWIMIL The conductor said he was full inside, but
wed* Mee seem is a few minutes, on which complainant
jumped as he Imeeboard, saying/ he would ride there until
there cum seism. le which the conductor, who had before
asked him to piap outside, made no objection. The
omnibus had eserealy gone on a dozen yards before he
received a dm an the neck from a person 'aside, who
ordered hit senghly to get down. He remonstrated
with the penes, and asked his name and address, but the
only reply was several blows with a stick, or an umbrella,
end a volley of abusive epithets, such as that he was a cursed
mob, vagabond, end a scoundrel. He asked the conductor
to get his assailant's address bat the answer was, that when
he got out he would give him a repetition of the beating.
Complainant insisted on the conductor not allowing the de-
fendant to quit the omnibus without giving his name and
address, which the conductor promised, and complainant then
took a seat on the roof at the latter's request, until they came
o WestSourne-terrace. The defendant there got out, and
the conductor having told complainant of the fact, he also got
down, but the defendant, although a heavyand
" stricken in ymn," went away with such celerity that he
could not overtake him. He, however, managed to keep a
dark ken in view until he saw it enter a house, the door
of while was quickly closed. With the assistance of the
police, be, after great difficulty, managed to get the defen-
dent's name and address. Aa oar had been subsequently
made to eenay remise the matter by but on public
pea& he refused any other kind of Iboa but that
widelklbs law provided.
esessumaination, complainant said he did not call
dellarieat a blackguard, and provoke the blow he re.
Pied.
TM conductor proved that the blow was given by the
delandett Titia his fists, and that it knocked complainant
off the step.
The defendaat's solicitor said he was rather taken by ant.
prise, and coked the magistrate to adjourn the case, to enable
bin to find one of the other passengers, who might be able
to state what had occurred.
The defendant, with the permission of the court, then
made a statement to the effect that, seeing the complainant
was blocking up the ply panes* for air, he requested him,
in the civilise maser to get down, but he paid no attention
to it, and the pump= all loudly declared they would leave
the omnibus, V IM seance*: did not make him get down.
The compldffisffit felled him a blackguard, and demanded his
card, whisk lee WIMP be would give lira when he alighted.
Wheelie got oat be empathised the complainant, and was
quite fencreat he was lambs him to his louse.
TM desbeel Me dehMenes statement was a
time ef ef the tests.
Ida. mid all press emend to have been in
the imam Mt meetly the essinseer, who had infringed the
W Awing the empialmmt testis cm the step of the
onewilsee. Ile eseuildhe the ddisabat's request, adjourn
the ams, Is eider te Ms ea ',wealthy of geWag •
whams se te what leek Ow mug the plungers in
the omnibus.