The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-25 00:00:00

POLICB COVETS

MANSION-ROUSH.
A rough-locking who said Mr name WO Tann'
Thomicoa wee brought up child ander the following
eicommeMiees:.
Pobeentaa 129 H said—Lest Sitarday night 1 was In
Thaw street by the Custom home, and I saw the primer
with two other
.men following a peatlegaaai The primmer
lifted up the pocket of the geadleseates coat, and took oat
his pocket handkerchief. I saw him then tarn up the
arose, sad kegka to rue sad I plowed him, urging "Stop
thief." • Cuatosa-how; sneer Immediately taught hold of
him, but he broke sway from the grasp of the Aker and
ran away ; bat I pursued and apprehended him, end he then
put Me hand into his tremors pocket, and drawing eet the
handkerchief, threw It bask, and ' stooped down
and took it up. He amassed to get away. I did not see
him until to-day, whoa I found him in George•strmt,
field., in one of the low lodgiurlyinses, sod told him he
Mat won:piny me to the station house. After he had got
hie boots on `he drew eat a clasp knife, and said, " How
naive( you are going a take me—a lichen 1" The other
weastable who mcompanied me said, "Pic, there are only
seam of us—two inside oat Be 7 outside." He then swore
sad mad* no. of very foal language, and said that if
any one laid hold of him he would use the knife.
bat if 'eroild go down stairs he would follow
as. We considered it prudent to go down etalm,
knowing that he had no other way est but by
following as or leaping oat of the wiailow. • When
we got down stairs we heard the mashing of glaw.
sad Immediately found that the prisoner had broke* the
wludetir sad was makieg his nape. He jumped nom the
window, end when he slighted we secured him.
The pripmer said—Leelutowledge committing the °Sum
but I could not get wash, end was obliged to get the price
of a meal.

feheemen 64 H emiltmed the would of the Ant Wit.
SSW, led said the prisoner drew oat the bulb deliberately
mid resolutely, sediment be would sun no through.
Policeman 17711 said—l know tke prisoner. He was
mistimed at Cierkenwell, ler picking pockets, is Much,
1852, end sentenced to transportation for your, soil
is out es a tiskiii-ensavo.
Tits peewits—WWl, I can't get work. What as Ito
do

—ills prisoner, it was subsequently stated, had bun in-
dicted at Clerkenwall, in the name of Florence llTarthr,
and his ticket-of-leave, Which was numbered either 6,448,
or 4,644, war in the name of Henry li•Carthy, and was
muted about the end of November lest.
Ordarsuiro given that a letter stating the cirenmetenou
of the cue and describing the desperate oharsoter of the
prisoner should be forthwith transmitted to the flemetary of
State, and the prisoner wee committed as a rogue and rose-
bud for throe months to Holloway prim'.
Richard Forster pleaded guilty to the charge of hubris
robbed a sentlemned b bandlorrddef in Oractichurch-
street, and was senteseed to hisprisonmest, as a rosin and
vagabond, for three mouths in Hollowly rime.
Seems &luster was charged with having antataltsd Mary
Anne Demur, her lodger, with a poker.
The nomplamant, it eppeued, owed 110101 nut, and her
landlady, exasperated at bar etgialt in the haws, deter
mined to get rid of her between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morn-
ing, after having ceased the window to be takes sat, sot w ith-
standing the sours Muse of the pen women's hatband.
A rurwas et curio the sonmeaucet, end the defeadaat
Galled. out for a pekoe, was accommodated with one, and
knocked down her lodger by a blow on the head, which
made her insensible.
The defendast declared that she
her hand, and that the person who gave the blow was the
sick hothead of the somplathast, who mistook the one
woman for &ha other, and used the weapon accordingly.
The deka ant was seatenoad to pay a flu of id, or to be
intarimoned for oaf month.