The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-06 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

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ZICTINSIVI BOBBIBMS BT FOUR BLIITANTS. -COMICITT NI.
JOWPA Mer/WM and Bony Merrydew, father and son,
Wolter Orin and George Clarks, all in the employ of
Mann. ()ottani, engineers and tronfounden, of the Sr.
Pancras Iron Works, St. Penass-nad, wen charged with
stealing a large quantity of articles belonging to their m-
em
and Mr. Daly, bar.
PI°L. Wakens, solicitor, prosecuted ;
rister, defended Clarke..
The taste are very simple and the whole of the prisoners
since they have been confined at the Hone of Detention
have written letters to the firm admitting their guilt, and
ea* excusing the other of inciting the robbery. The hot
was the first discovered with some small iron ban in his
i parmesan, and be was given into the custody of poli hices
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constable Charles Taylor, 98 Y. who searched
residence, and there found such a number of the promo-
toes articles that he was induced to take the elder Merry
dew into custody. He at once admitted his guilt, and the
officer subsequently went to the residenos of the other pa-
' tone and finding none of Mr. Cottanes property, re-
, turnere,d to the works and took Clarke and Oxley into

custody.
Mr. Ricketts asked that the whole of the were
might be sent to the Middlesex &room for trial, as the
presenters had beam syMematkally robbed during
_the past
eight mouths to the extent of some 2001. The elder Mer-
rydew had oleo been previouely convicted and seaweed to
four years' penal servitude. Whim the proper time arrived
the proseantor would °onside( what could be beet dew for
the boy, who, no doubt, had acted under the advice of his
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father. -
• Mr. Daly maid he should advise Clarke to reserve his de. 481*
fence, and the other garotters doing the rme, St.
Mr. Barker committed them all to the Middlesex Sessions St.
for trial, and refused to sorpt bail. St
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woßsimaTßarr. 5,.
JUST SATZD-TIII TALUS OF • OH/taken& St
A/Minder Reuse, a Tenth, wss charged with bong 0043. 64.
aimed in sterling a watch from the
.person of an elderly !Fr
gentleman, named Moore, while prang through William- '81:.
street, Shoreditoh, a week since. de- gt St
Mr. W. Heritage, from the offices of Mr. Beard,
fended the prisoner, who was on the point of being sent for st,
rid, in consequence of • lad swearing to having seen him FA
oa the moth( in question is company with two others,
attack the prosecutor and commit the robbery. Proescutor r,
admitted that he could sot identify the prisoner, but the u
' I testimony of the witness insured • remand. As a matter u
of course!, inquiries were made into the character of both a

lads, and
Mr. licwitage proved that young hoses was not taken
into custody until three or four days after the Welt;
that be was in employ at a timber merchant's in the Old-
greet or Curtain-road ; that he had been entrusted with a .
considerable sum of money, and, in fine, was quite unlikely
to have been mixed up is any felonious matter. These
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facts weighed splint the statemeat of the one wit.
ge
nen, whose amount of himself was not equally snide*.
set
tory, settled the matter in favour of the awned, when yi
he was immediately discharged, for which he appeared st
TNT thankful, and spin Parted his innocence.
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LAMBETH. SI
STEALING A DONLEY. It
John Marshall, a rough-looking fellow, was finally ex- SI
smined before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of acialing a donkey
and barrow, the property of James Forrest.
The prosecutor said he was a hawker. On the 30th of
October last he sent the prisoner, who was then si
in his employment, out with a donkey and barrow ti
and six bushels and a half of onions, to sell for SI
him. He never returned and be (witness) had not :jute 1€
seen say of the property nor had he seen the prisoner 71(
until he was in custody. 9
Sergeant George Hall, 82 P said—l took the prisoner
into custody on the 27th of last month in Walworth on a
charge of stealing the donkey and barrow and onions. I
told him the charge on which I apprehended him and cau-
tioned him that what he said I should have to st:te before Si
a magistrate • and his reply was, " 2
I had it, but I am not
guilty of stealing it. After the onions were *old spent
the money with two others who were with me. They left
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me, and I wept and slept under a haystack, and left the
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donkey and barrow in the lane close by, and have not seen dl
either since." I asked him where it was, and he said it Si
was near to DartfurcL
The prisoner i when asked what he had to say to the
charge, replied—The onions were bad, and I could not 8
sell them, and I had no money to buy food for the donkey,
so I left him in a lane, and went to sleep under a haystack,
and when I awoke in the morning I went to look for them
but they were gone.
t Hall said that a conviction for hone stealing
wotrenproved against the prisoner, and he was fully com-
mitted for trial.