The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-05 00:00:00

MIDDLEBEX SESSIONS.—YEsTERDAy..

11.117011 lia-SILLIZMIT ADAM., A.•TANT Jr 1,41, £H • Fuj. MINCE
or 31.ain
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The court sat to-day at Clerkenwell to hear appeals.
There were 30 parish appeals, 16 rate appeals, and '2 appeals
against convictions, entered on the last.
itAILWAT RATE AEPLALA.
The learned judge on taking his seat on the bench read a
report from Mr. Bodkin relative to the appeals of the
Blackwell Railway Company against various parochial
rates, which were referred to him. The report was to the
effect that the learned gentleman was not then prepared to
lay before the court his award, and with the convent of the
parties asked the court to allow the cases to stand over until
the 18th instant, with permission fur Mr. Bodkin to speak
to the cases a few days afterwards should he not be fully pre-
pared by that time.
The court made an order accordingly.

THE POLICE COURTS.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
WsMont Canty, 69, and John Tyler, 62, were charged
with stealing from the branch establishment of the London
and Westminster Bank, St. James's-square, a caah-box,
containing two 5!. notes and an account-book, the property
of the directors thereof.
The depositions having been read over, the prisoners were
folly committed.
The prisoner Canty was then charged with stealing from
tb• Oresvenor Arms, Belgrave-place, Belgrave-square, a
lash bat containing 401., belonging to klrs. Mary Alien, the
I lianalir
Tha prosecutrix stated, that on the 15th of May last, the
VasCanty came to her bar and called for a pint of por-
illse did not see him come in. He stood at the bar for
some time. The bar door was partially open, and the pri-
soner walked in and asked permission to write a letter
to a Mr. Lane, who he stated was an intimate
friend of his. She allowed him to come into the bar, and
he then inquired about a Mr. Webb, who was a customer
of hers. Site replied to his enquiries, and he then told her
that he always made his (Mr. Webb's) house his home
when he (prisoner) was in town. A few minutes before the
prisoner came in she had paid her brewer some money,
which she took from her molt box, and which she after-
wards placed in • cupboard in the bar parlour, close by
where the prisoner was sitting, and which the prisoner
must have seen while he was standing at the bar. While
the prisoner was iu the room she had occasion to leave for a
short time, and on her return she found the prisoner gone,
and her cash box, containing about 401., also. She saw no
more of the prisoner until Monday last, when she saw him
in custody.
The prisoner was identified by two witnesses as the man
who had been in the bar parlour, and who had seen him
leave the house in a hurry.
The prisoner was fully committed on this charge also.
The prisoner Canty is one of the most remarkable persons
of his class, and perhaps the only survivor of that peculiar
and superior class of " receivers and " putters up" of bank
and jewel robberies which existed in the time of the old
police, and which is fast disappearing before the effects of
the new police system. Canty has been known to the old
police officers and to the new detectives for about 40 years.
But his history is principally remarkable in the old police
times ; a retired police officer who has had a very intimate
acquaintance with him professionally having declared to the
bench his belief is that Canty hod had not less than 600,0001.
at property, consisting of jewels and bank notes, through
his hands during the last 30 years. Some of the trifles in
which Canty has, more or less, been concerned or privy to,
are the 50,0001. bank notes and bill robbery at Messrs.
Rogers and Co. He admitted very recently to one of the
detectives that be had all the notes in his possession for 18
days. Ha was also concerned in the well-known Custom-
house robbery, in which booty to the extent of 40,000!. was
obtained. The robbery at Sir John Pinhones bank was
" put up" by Cauty, the robbery having been effected by
his companion Jackson, since transported fur a robbery at
IL Pancras Workhouse. The Andover mail robbery and
As Both bank robbery also had the benefit of Cauty's ex-

perience. It would make a little volume to give even an
outline of the cases in which Canty has been immetened, the
particulars of which have been collected home papers hand
in his possession and from Cauty's own commaniestiona
Cauty has also declared to the police that the recent South
' Western gold-dust robbery was put up, and he knows that
not a grain of the dust has been touched as yet. It is stated
that Canty has not lived at the rate of less than 2,0001. a
year for many years past. His appearance, though now
verging towards 70, is of a kind to disarm suspicion, being
that of a country gentleman rather than of an associate of
thieves.

RAILWAYS.

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