The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-04 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MLNSION-HOUSK

Ada Tniatott, a young female of deceit appearance,
aged 18 years was placed at the bar, by Folios-Sergeant
Hawks, 699, before Mr. Alderman Stone, charged with a
series of robberies committed by her en Messrs. Reynolds
Brothers, of 28, Dunning's-alley, Bishopapte-street, whole-
sale stay manufacturers, her masters and employers.
The prisoner had been in the employ of the prosecutors,
and had worked on the premises for the last nine months,
without any suspicion being entertained se to her honesty.
On the contrary, she was considered to be a well conducted
and industrious young woman. It, however, ap-
peeredthat on the 27th of March she was seen
fellow workwoman to take a pair of
stays from a basket on which she was sitting in the
work-room, and to secrete the stays under her dress, and
afterwards to remove them and put them in a place of con-
cealment in another part of the premiums. The stays were,
however, taken to Mr. Leathern Reynolds, one of the firm,
by another workwoman named Bates, and Hawks, the
officer, having been sent for, she was given into custody on
the charge of stealing the single pair of stays.
Sergeant Hawks proved that he received the prisoner in
charge, and that since the apprehension of the prisoner he
had instituted inquiries at the different pawn'brokers' in
the east end of the town, and had traced no less than 94
pairs of stays, which bad been pledged by the prisoner at
12 different pawnbrokers, between the early part of January
last and the 24th of last month. The amounts re-
ceived varied from Is. to Is 6d. per pair, and it seemed,
when the property was produced by the pawnbrokers'
assistants that a considerable portion of it was in an un-
finished state, and wrapped up is the cloths which were
given out to the hands in order to enable them to keep
their work clean.

The ;ntor, Mr. Leetham Reynolds, identified the
property as belonging to himself and partners, and was of
the value of about 121. The prisoner could earn about 12s.
per week, and she had a sister who was also in the em-
ploy of the firm.
The officer Hawks added to his previous testimony that
when he received the prisoner in charge she fell on her
knees and implored to be forgiven, and that subsequently
she made to him a statement to the effect that she had
taken the property from time to time to enable her to pro-
cure articles of nourishment for her mother, who was in
extreme ill health. He (the officer) had entertained the
truth of the latter assertion, and had found the home of
the prisoner and her family in a miserable condition.
Toe prisoner, who appeared to feel acutely the position
in which she was placed, now burst into a flood of tears,
and, repeating the statement she had made to the officer,
said that she was guilty, and by direction of the presiding
alderman, she was removed from the justice-room for a
time. After a short interval the prisoner was again placed
at the bar, and it was announced that her mother was in
attendance, and, by direction of the alderman,
The mother was called into the witness-box, when the
recognition between her and the prisoner was of a most
painful character. When both became comparatively com-
posed, the mother, in reply to interrogatories put by Mr.
Alderman Stone, stated that the prisoner had always been
a kind, affectionate, and dutiful child, and that she inva-
riably brought home to her the whole of her earnings,
and when she gave her money in excess she stated that it
was money she bad borrowed to purchase the nourishing
articles which she (witness) required in consequence of ber
ill state of health. She (witness) had not the slightest
notion that the money was procured by the purloinuig of
the property of the prosecute:ea.
Mr. Reynolds was recalled, and in reply to the alderman
said he had no wish that the case should be sent for trial
at the Central Criminal Court ; on the contrary, he was
desirous that the case should be disposed of here, and he
also begged to recommend the prisoner so the lenient and
merciful consideration of the court.

Mr. Alderman Stone said that, believing the truth of the
prisoner's statement as to the wants of the family, CORO.
boated as that statement had been by the testimony of
the mother, he should act upon the recommendation of the
tor. But for that he should have felt it his duty to
prosecutor.
the primmer for trial at the Old Bailey, which
would have been ruin to her character and reputation.
He should, however, not treat her as a felon, but convict
her of illegally pawning, and sentence her to pay the
value of the property, together with a fine of 40e., and in
default to be imprisoned with bard labour for six weeks.
He hoped that this would operate as a warning, and that
after her discharge she would return to her fernier habits
of good conduct, and become a useful member of society.
The prisoner wsa then removed, and the property was
ordered to be given up by the pawnbrokers to the pro-
secutors.

CLEBIES'IVELL.

Thomas Brown, described as a pegilist, again surrendered
to his recognisance, chargcd with the nianalaughter of

John Loremin, an cannibus-driver, at the .nrchwaitavern,
Upper Holloway, under circumstances already described in
Ger columns. _ _

Owing to a conflict in the medical testimony,
Mr. Barker said the case for the manslaughter had better
not be gone into. The prisoner stood committed on that
charge, so that the evidence bad better be waned to the
assault.

igs was dams, and the prisoner was committed few trial.

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