The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-12 00:00:00

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herself
creature. She had
with her a valuable accordion, upon which she played superbly,
and otherwise exhibited the fruits of an excellent musical
education. On Saturday evening she went to Astley's
Theatre, and prior to starting to that place of amusement,
produced a cheque on the Fareham Bank for 99/. 13s.' the
name of the drawer being Purkiss, which she requested Mr.
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About this rime it wan discovered that a cash box, containing
upwards of 1401. in gold, two double sovereigns, and a cheque
for 991. 13i., had been stolen fromthe house of a ship-builder
living at Fareham. A reward of 201. was offered for the
apprehension of the thief and recovery of the property,
and Mr. Clow, the superintendent of the Hants
county constabulary, having obtained a clue to the
probable retreat of the depreda!or, proceeded to
London on Monday morning, and accompanied by the
guard of the same train that had brought Milne. De Sau-
mares to town, went over to the hotel, and seeing that that
person tallied with the description given of the supposed
thief, immediately took her into custody. The prisoner
threw herself upon her knees, and in the presence of the
superintendent, police-serjeant Moore, 12 V, and policeman
Bent of the V division, gave the following extraordinary
statement. That a few weeks since a gentleman brought
her to England, and after remaining with her for a few days-
left her at Gosport, where she obtained apartments at •
boarding-house. The family with whom she lodged showed
her many kiodnesses.and she was introduced to their cousin.
who resided at Fareham. Here she remained a week on a
visit, and during that time saw the mother of her friend's
cousin give him fifty sovereigns from a cash-box, which she
afterwards deposited between the sacking and bed
of a bedstead. The prisoner added that she left the house
and went to Southampton, where she purchased a cult box
resembling tin one she had seen, and, returning with it,
complained of her head aching, and requested permission to
lie down for an hour or so before she left for Gosport. She
then went to the room where she knew the cash-box to be
deposited, and substituting the empty for the full one, suc-
ceeded in leaving the house without exciting any suspicion.
She then went direct to the railway st.rion, and choosing a
firstelase carriage, in which there was no other passenger,
the broke open the box with a knife, and having abstracted
the contents, threw the box out of the window. She said
she bad felt miserable ever since, and inclined to give herself
up to justice. Upon being searched, the cheque and two
double sovereigns were found upon her, and Mr. Howse,
upon opening the bag, discovered it to contain 146/. in
sovereigns. The money was given up to the superintendent,
who started with the prisoner the same night for Fareham.
On Tuesday she was taken before a magistrate, and re-
manded for the attendance of witnesses from London.
Loss OF £3oo.—Yesterday the clerk of an exten-
sive linen draper, in Oxford-street, whilst proceeding from
that district to Cornhill, either lost or was robbed of a pocket-
book containing, in addition to other valuable papers, bank
of England notes to the extent of upwards of 3001. No clue
being o itained likely to lead to the recovery of the property,
a large reward was offered fur its restoration.
FIRES.—Yesterday forenoon a fire, caused by
children playing with lucifer matches, broke out in the first
floor of the premises occupied by Mrs. Hood, No. 31, Union-
street, Somers-town. It appears that during the temporary
absence of Mrs. Hood, one of the children procured a box of
Inciters, and whilst playing with the same the contents of
the box became ignited, and set fire to a quantity of linen,
and also to the bed and furniture in the room. The cries of
the children brought up Mr. Flindell, the landlord of the
house, who succeeded in saving them from being burnt to
death. With the aid of a few buckets of water the fire was
extinguished, but not until considerable damage was done.
The occupier, unfortunately. was uninsured.---Late on
Tuesday night the inhabitants of Saint Ermains-hill, Broad-
way, Westminster, were alarmed at hearing violent screams
proceeding from the house numbered 4 in that thoroughfare.
Upon proceeding to the house, the neighbours found the
clothing of a lad named Jahn Moore, a son of the occupier,
in a general blaze. After some trouble the flames were sub-
dued, but not until the lad was meet frightfully burnt; he
was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, where he re-
mains in a very precarious acute. The disaster was occa-
sioned
by the lad's clothd•g having come in contact with a
lighted candle.—Last night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, a
I fire that did considerable damage, broke out in the spacious
patent-leather factory, belonging to Messrs. Collison and
Co., Star-corner, Bermondsey. From inquiries made of one
of the proprietor' of the establishment, it appeared, that
I the discovery was made by a Mrs. Davidson, who
resides at the rear of the factory, throueh perceiving
smoke issuing out of the upper windows. Feeling convinced
that the building was on fire, the party instantly raised
an alarm of fire, and the police coming up, one of the officers
was sent to give information of the disaster to the engine-
stations. The parish engine, with numerons others of the
London brigade, with the foreman of the district, Mr. Hen-
derson, and the superintendent of the catablishment, Mr.
I Braidwood, arrived at the scene, and also the West of Eng-
land engine, with Mr. Connarton. An abundance of water
being quickly procured from the mains in the district,
the engines were set to work ; but upon the win-
dows being opened, to introduce the hose of the engines,
the smoke rushed out in such bodies, that the firemen
were unable, for a considerable time, to find out the exact
seat of the flames. At length they found that the fire had
originated in the basement, and having forced its way through
the flooring, had extended to the floor above. The stock in
trade being very valuable, the firemen exerted themselves to
the utmost in endeavouring to prevent the flames from at-
tacking the top floors. In so doing they were forced to get
upon their hands and knees to convey the branches of the
engines to the place where the fire was burning most fiercely.
In that expedient, however, they were highly successful, and
by half-past 1 o'clock this morning, they succeeded in
entirely extinguishing the flames, but not until a very
serious amount of property had been either burned or ex•
tensively damaged by fire and heat. Had it not been for
the timely discovery, it is quite probable that the entire
factory would have fallen a victim to the fury of
the flames. It was stated to the reporters by
Mr. Collisnn, that upwards of two hundred men
were employed on the premises, but whether or not they will
be thrown out of employment by the disaster could not be
ascertained. Mr. Yates, inspector of the M division of
police, with a body of constables, had a difficult task to per-
form in keeping the great body of spectators out of the way
of the firemen.
ACCIDENTS.—A MAN ON FIRE IN THE STREET.—
Yesterday a very singular occurrence took please in High-
street, Newington, to a MAU named John Davis, aged thirty-
two years, a carpenter, residing in Francis-street. Walworth-
road. About twelve o'clock he was on the way home to his
dinner, and, whilst passing the Fishmongers' Almshouses,
several foot passengers were suddenly alarmed at seeing a
strong body of smoke issuing from his left-hand pocket, and
before they could reach him his clothing was found to be on
fire. He instantly pulled his coat off, and threw it on the
ground, where it was extinguished with a pail of water from
the coach-stand. The accident was caused through placing
apipe of tobacco in his pocket which he had not thoroughly
extinguished.—Loss or Lire ON THE Riven. —Yester-
day afternoon, about four o'clock, a boat on the river, oppo-
site the Thames Tunnel steam-boat pier, in which were
three youths, named respectively George Somers, William
Hawkins, and Edward Brotherton, run foul of a heavily
laden coal-bur, and was instantly capsized. They were
consequently immersed in the water, and neither being
able to swim they struggled violently for a considerable time,
and, in the meanwhile, assistance arrived, through which the
watermen on the barge which caused the accident sumeeded
in recovering the two elder occupants of the boat, Somers
and Hawkins, but their unfortunate companion Brotherton,
although the utmost exertions were made by those who had
immediately put off to his assistance, could not be reached,
he having sunk and disappeared almost directly after the
accident. The deceased, who was only pardally known to
his companions, was a very promising youth of about
sixteen or seventeen years of age, and was under-
stood to be apprenticed to the business of a silk-mercer,
at a merchant's of extensive connexions in the City.
--Seitious Oceranesies TO A CONVICT IN THZ ROYAL
ARARNAL.—Yesterday, as a gang of convicts were employed
in removing a heavy piece of timber from a barge on to the
quay, at the Royal Arsenal, one of them, named James
Rudlu, was caught by the chain, and thrown from the
wharf into the barge with such violence, as to cause the
fracture of several of his ribs. He was immediately re-
moved to the convict hospital ship Unite, but his recovery is
considered doubtful.
INQUESTS.—FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CHELSEA PEN-
SIONER.—By Mr. Bedford, at the Rising Sun, Charles-street,
Grosvenor-square, on the body of Hugh Galaglser, axed 60.
The deceased was an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, hay-
ing formerly belonged to the 27th regiment. On Thursday
last he received his pension, and, in the evening went to the
Three Crowns, Royal Hospital-row, which he left at nine
o'clock, singing a merry tune, but sober. He was then in
the act of crossing the road, when a cart, belonging to Mr.
Carr, butterman, Bishopsgate-street Without, came along,
driven at a fast pace, the horse in which knocked him down,
and the near wheel of the vehicle passed over his head. He
was picked up and carried to Mr.-Love'e, surgeon, where he
was found to be dead, and the body was then conveyed to
the workhouse, Mount-street. The driver, Charles Barker,
was taken into custody, as some of the witnesses imputed
blame to him, and he stands remanded till this day (Thurs-
day) from Westminster police-court. The evidence, which
was very voluminous, having been carefully gone into by the
coroner, the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."—
DESTIITTION AND DEATH AT NEWINOTON.—Before Mr.
W. Carter, at the Royal Standard, Flint-street, Park-place,
Newington, on the remains of Margaret Soloway, aged 72
years, a widow, who died under very painful circumstances :
The deceased and her daughter had occupied a wretched
apartment at N 0.13, Flint-street, for the last six menthe, in
a starving and filthy condition. She had formerly received
ss. per week front her son, in Ireland, but the money had
not been remitted for a considerable period. The deceased
had never applied to the parish, hut lived is a state of abso-
lute starvation, their only subsistence being for days and
weeks together nothing more than a slice or two of bread
and weak tea, which they obtained by selling a few articles
of clothing at the rag-shop. On Monday week the deceased
had not partaken of any food for two or three days, and
through her weakened condition, was confined to her bed,
which consisted of very filthy materials on the floor in the
corner of the room. The following morning the daughter
called the landlady up-stairs to see her mother, and when
she entered the room she found the deceased dead and stiff,
and to all appearance had been in that state some hours.—
The daughter, who was evidently of weak intellect, stated,
in answer to the Coroner, that she could not say when her
mother died, but she recollected feeling the body of the de-
ceased on the Monday, and she was then quite warm.—Mr.
Boddy, a surgeon, said that he g
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the hody
of the deceased, which he found in a very emulated