The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-04 00:00:00

POLICE v
- _ESTSJIDAL

MANSION-HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor acknowledged
the receipt of 61 from Beta, and 11. from • lady, for the
poor-box.
WORSHIP-STREET.—ELOPEILINT AND ROBBIRY.--
W. Saari was re-examined charged with having stolen a
quantity of household furniture, the
property
of Mr. J.
Groves, • poulterer, in Poole-street, lox on, with wboee
wife he by! absconded. The case was reported in pester-
day's Express. Some further evidence was now gone
into, which went fully to establish the fact that the prisoner
had been instrumental in the removal of the property, which
was deposited, with his assistance, at a house in Mark-street,
Finsbury, where it was subsequently discovered by the in
jured husband in the joint po-seesien of his wife and the
prisoser.—The depositions were ordered to be taken, and the
prisoner was committed for trial, the magistrate rennin to
accept ha—lmmediately the case was disposed of, the wife
4 the prosecutor entered the witnesob and made an ear.
nest appeal to induce a mire faecurable cotsideration of the
prisoest's conduct on the part of the magistrate ; but, find-
ing him inexorable, ehe besought him, with the utmost cool-
ness, as she was now without the means of support, to com-
pel her husband to enter into some permanent arrangement,
with a view of providing for her future maintriance.—Me.
Hammitt told the woman, that after the heartless ;profligacy
that had been developed in the whole of her conduct, be seas
astonished at her assurance in making such an opplication,
and ordered her instantly to stand down and quit toe court.
BeetsvoLexca.—A donation of 21. from "J. lf. II.,"
through the sodium of Messrs. Gosling and Sharpe, and
else of 11. from "E. W. 5.," were received in aid of the
poor-box fund.
MARLBOROUGH STREET —A FEMALE BuitaLke
Elisabeth Sainsbury was deafly examined, charged with
having feloniously broken into the shop of .1. F. Parker,
and stolen therefrom five teapots, two coffee.pote, Ana oth. r
articles.—The prosecutor said he was proprittor of the
Reform Coffee-house, No. 11, Moor-street, Soho. On Toes
day week he fastened up the shop, and left it secure. He
did not live in the same house, but occupied an adjoining
one. In the morning he was Wormed that some person had
broken into the place end had robbed it of a veriety of
articles. He found le window in the back room ad been
forced open. Witness was certain that the window was
secured before he left the shop the previous eve, ing.—
Policeman Keech, said that on Tuesday morning he saw
the door of Mr. Parker's coffee house open, and he went
up and pushed against it. The door was immediately shut
is his face, but he knocked repeatedly, ant!, at ler, a voice
inquired who was tkere. He answered, " Police," and in-
sieted on having the door opened. It was opened by the
prisoner, who asked him what he wonted. lie
asked if Mr. Parker was inside. The prisoner, with
great coolness answered that he was, and that be did not
want to be iuterrupted. Witness then went away.t.l.
13ackler said he bought some teapots from the prisoner en
the 2oth of December lsst.—E. Smith also bought some
articles.—Other portions of the property bad bees
by the prisoner.—The arielev produced were identified by
Mr. Parker, who recognised the prisoner as a frequeet
customer at the house.—ln defence the prisoner said she was
in very great distress.—She was committed for trial.
Urreautko COUNTIEFILIT Coln.—S. Ward was charged
with attempting to utter a counterfeit half-crown, with in-
tent to defraud Mr. Henry Broome, landlord of the Opera
Tavern, Haymarket. On the previous night, the pneener
went into prosecutor's house, end in payment f r some
brandy tendered what appeared to be a sew half-crown,
which the prosecutor detected as being a counterfeit. Prose.
cuter, on looking at the prisoner, identified her as having
passed off • similar coin about en hour before. He then
gave her in charge.—Tne prisoner, who mild she had received
the money from a geutkman a short time before, and Lad
not the least idea that the coin was bad, was remanded.
BINIIVOLLECA.—Iieesived from J. H. 11. an order on
Mann. Gosling aed Sharpe for 21.
LAMBETM.—Kecau.sitaa.—B. Wilson was charged on
suspicion with steeling a surplice, a pulpit unities , and
other articles, from some church or the . —Policemen T.
Canon, and W. Woodward, deposed t that afternoon
they stopped the prisoner in the Brixton-road, with a lerge
bundle, and, on questioning him as to wliet it contsined, he
instantly dropped it and walked away. They, however,
soon secured him, and, on examining the parcel, they fouud
it to contain a cleric man's surplice, the autniture of • pew,
two cushions, one of Palmer's patent lamps, a set of fire
irons, and other articles; and ell those things they (toe
officers) were of opinion had been stolen from some church
or chapeL—The prisoner was remanded until Tuesday.
Coates ore BuitaLeeko.—E. &one alias Ginger. a
member of the " swell mob," was charged with being
eonserned with two ethers, not in custody, in breaking
into the house of • widow lady, named Tinian, in Leipsio-
rood, Camberwell, on Sunday evening last, and stealing two
watches (the one geld and the other silver), two gold cosine,
brooches, rings, and ether property. On Sunday evening
L Mrs. Tinkin left home about half-past four o'clock, and
es her return at about a quarter before eight she found that,
during Mr absence, the house had been entered by thieves.,
and the properev before-mentioned stolen. The thieves, it
appeared , had first tried to get into the haw by means of
skeleton keys; but the door having been double-locked they
could not manage it is that way. They then broke a piece
oleos in the parker windbw. sufficient to enable them to
undo the fastenings and throw up the under sash, and thus
gained an entrance. The prisoner was identified as
one of the three seen coming from the house,
by a little girl, who lives next door to the pro-
secutrix —Mr. Robinson, the superintendent of the P
division of police, informed the magistrate that the
prisoner had turn frequently in custody for the most daring
robberies. PO, years the prisoner had been without the
slightest visible wens of existence, yet he bad at this mo-
ment as elegantly a famished house as any of its she in the
perish of Camberwell.—The prisoner said it was perfectly
true, that by getting into bad misplay, be had been fre-
quently taken into custody, and suffered imprisonment, but
be was perfectly innocent of the present charge. Indeed,
the offence, be said. was one in which he would not join, as
he had recently lost the tea of his left arm, and such touch
work as that of housebreaking would not snit
was remanded.

SOUTHWARK. CIAII,OII or r 17211110 FONOED
Bnaman's OADZIIII.—C. Pallor alias Black was charged
Mwwith having obtained mosey of several tradesmen by
of forged season% orders. Mr. Hyams, clothes
Wonsan, stated that ia April, 1848, the prisoner called
at hie shop, sad represented his name to be Black,
and that he was mate of an Ir.dianian the cap-
tain of wbi h the complainant was acquainted with.
The prison., then produced an order, purporting to be
signed by the captain of the ship, and said that he (prhoner)
wanted it to be cashed, adding. that he should regnlro a suit
of clothes and the remainder in money. Complainant sup-
plied the prisoner with the garments, giving him the di4
ferenee in cash. Some days afterwards complainant ascer-
tained that the order was forged, and although he had made
inquiries fur the primer he had not seen him since the
transaction until the previous day, when he met him and
gave him into eastody.—A policeman stated that since the
prisoner's apprehension it had been ascertained that he had
; uttered several other forged orders to tradesmen, from some ,
of whom he obtained goods cud others money ; that it was
also ascertained that he was not mate of the ship to which
he represented he belonged, but was resident in the suburbs
of Landis, and generally wore a seaman's dram, the better
to deceive tradesmen. Ii the pricklier was remanded, there
was no doubt several persons would be la attendant* to
prefer charges against the poisoner. Re was remanded.