The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-10 00:00:00

POLICE •-•-YESTERDAT.

MANSION-HOUSE.—//cnry Morgan, a young man em-
ployed by Messrs. White and Co., of No. 108, Cheap,file,
warehousemen, was yesterday charged with having robbed
the firm.—Mr. White, jun., having been informed by one of
the servants of the establishment that a shawl was found
wrapped up in a piece of brown paper in the dust bin, sus-
picion fell upon the prisoner, who was occupied in the shawl
department of the warehouse, and who was placed in the
custody of Funnell, city policeman. No. 32, after a short in-
vestigation. The prisoner, on his way to e station-house,
confessed to the officer that he had secreted the shawl, and
said that as it was his first offence, and caused by the illness
of his wife and his great poverty, he hoped Mr. White would '
forgive him. The officer found in the prisoner's pocket
21. Bs. Id., and in his lodging a piece of satinet, worth
31. 10s., which had been missing since last May from Mr.
White's warehouse. The prisoner made no defence, and
was committed for trial.
Thomas Johnson, porter to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne,
was brought up fur reexamination, upon the charge of
having stolen a truss of silk, value 121/., which with other
'property he was entrusted to deliver. The house had
received a very good character of the prisoner. John
Fry, a lad in the employment of Messrs. Chaplin and
Home, stated, that it was his duty to attend the waggon, to
watch the goods taken out to be delivered to the various
consignees. On the 24th of November he attended the
'waggon to several places with the prisoner, who kept the
book. He saw the truss safe in Bishopsgate-street ; but
after they left that street he never saw it. They then
went to Ratcliffe-highway, and thence to Charter-house-
square, where they were to deliver some property. Upon
going into the square, the prisoner Raid he had forgotten the
book at the last place they visited, and he sent the witnes
for it. The delay was considerable, and when witness re-
turned they went to Bunhill-row, where prisoner told him
to put out the truss ; but the truss was nowhere to be found,
and the prisoner said it must be lost or dropped off.—The
Lord Mayor desired to he informed whether anything had
been said to the prisoner about the value of the truss ?—Mr.
Riches: No; but the mark "silk" was on the delivery
ticket, and he of course must have known that it was of
considerable value. In the cross-examinasion the witness
said he had never left the prisoner except when he went
back to the place in which the book had been left, and which
was at a chemist's shop, where they had delivered some
hampers,—lnspector Woodruffe said, it was evident the book
had been left at the chemist's shop, in order to give an ex-
cuse to the prisoner for sending away the boy from Charter-
house-square, as the prisoner must have heard a person from
that shop will out to him to return for his lwok. The
prisoner was ordered to be brought up for final examination
on Friday.
CLERKENWELL.—ArremeT To STAB.—Anne Nacre,
a middle-aged woman, residing in Little Ormond-street,
Queen-square, was charged with attempting to stab Mr.
Pullen, a broker, residing in Red Lion-street, Holborn.—
The prosecutor deposed that on Tuesday night last he went
to the house of the prisoner, in company with the landlord,
to distrain for rent. The prisoner no sooner learned his pur-
pose than, running to the cupboard, she seized a knife with
which she repeatedly attempted to stab him, and the point
of the weapon pierced his neckcloth.—A formidable looking
knife was produced in court--The prisoner appeared to be
very penitent, and the prosecutor said he did not a isle to
punish her. She was, nevertheless, sentenced to two months'
imprisonment.
AN INTENTION TO Mennza.—Nicholas rerge, a labourer,
was charged under the following circumstances, by police-
constable 17 S:—On Tuesday evening last the offierr saw
the prisoner in Brill-row, Somers-town, with a large horse-
pistol in his possession, and having ben informed that he
intended to commit murder, and that he had been in a shop
in the neighbourhoon purchasing a flint, witness took him
into custody. The information he received turned out to be
correct. The prisoner when arrested said he hail been
savagely attacked by some ruffian in Pocock's-fields, upon
whom he was determined to take revenge. He had pur-
chased the pistol for the purpose of blowing oat his brains.—
The prisoner admitted before the magistrate that he bought
the pistol with a murderous intent, and in default of bail he
was committed.
WORSIII P-STREET.—A FEMALE Foot. n.—Marva
Clarke, a very corpulent middle-aged woman, was charged
with having assaulted and robbed a master carman, named
Collins, living in Hoxton-old-town.—The prosecutor stated
that, on the preceding night, he was passing along the
Kingsland-road, when he was suddenly stopped by the pri-
soner, who clasped him tightly round the waist, and, in
spite of his resistance, forced him against a brick wall. He
used his best efforts to extricate himself from her suffocating
embrace, but, before he could succeed, the prisoner thrust
her hand into his waistcoat pocket, and extracted its contents,
amounting to as., with which she instantly made off. He
gave information of the robbery to the police, and Serjeant
Saunders of the N division proceeded to her lodgings soon
after, and took her into custody.—The prisoner was Temg.
nised by the officers as having been repeatedly in custody
upon similar charges.—The prisoner, who stoutly dented the
charge, was fully committed for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Twe INFATUATION OF
DRINE.—Mr. Besant, of the Boar and Castle Hotel, Oxford-
street, solicited the advice of Mr. Hardwick as to the best
mode of acting towards a young woman of very respectable
connexions, who had threatened to destroy herself. The
applicant proceeded to state that the person referred to had
resided at the hotel for about a fortnight. She appeared to
be so inveterately addicted to drink, that under the advice
of a doctor every kind of stimulating liquor was withheld
from her except a little brandy, in which an egg had been
beaten up. She had made frantic declarations of her deter-
mination to commit suicide, and so much fear was enter-
tained of her laying violent hands on herself, that one
of the servants was appointed to watch her and sleep
with her. On Tuesday, however, the young woman
took two of her shawls from the hotel, pledged them' and
got drunk with the money. She did not return to the hotel
that night, and fears being entertained for her safety, inqui-
ries were made, and it was found that she was at a house in
Percy-court, Charlotte-street. Applicant had gone to her
brother, a merchant in the City, named Barry, and had ac-
quainted him with the deplorable and dangerous situatiosof
his relative. Mr. Barry said he would see her uncle on the
subject, but his sister had been so often extricated from the
difficulties brought on by her propensity for drink, that be
could not promise that further interference would take place.
Under these circumstances, fearing that the poor creature
would do herself some fatal mischief, the applicant bad de-
termined to state the case to a magistrate. —Mr. Hardwick