The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-04 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX
_BESSION3:

(THIS DAY.)

BROOND COURT.
(Before Kr. Payne.)
OSTER CAPTURE 07 A NOTORIOUS settatet.
Rear, Bdoe, 20, described se a clerk, gag
dressed, was indicted for breaking and enteeiiisi.r44
ing-bones at William liills, end seeslimg a
PraerYprisoner pleaded not guilty.
The caw is one which reheated some credit lige g.
police, and celled forth an observation from thr
to their assiduity and sharpness. —••
George Dudley, polieweenetsble 47 N,
quarter peat 8 on the evening of the 14th of licogecrg
was on duty in Thornhill-road with another corm!
151 N,
. and noticed the prisoner, who was, wiel
lei about Brooksby-street. He noticed Wei.
to the of several bonen, and after PA
down for a short time they stepped at No. 3watlig i 4
street, and opened the door with a akelstee key,
female otenbAr up they went away, and the heals wia,4
the house. Witness then bet sight of them until 8
when he met them walking arm in arm along
road. The prisoner, who had something edd
arm, ran away immediately he perceived why
did also the other man. A hard chase egigel-74
witness followed them to Ramsey's hams, rire
is some considerable distance from
Tant:iaPliscaermagtoricttthoirugglewthseompeeetrirender,
,abuwatanYhde
sW(uironetebiccile4i2:4o6lll,
him safely lodged at the police-station. The *beim
got away, and has not been apprehended since. gee*
' was in custody witness returned to Raw,
uins, and found the tablecloth he produced in cerg:
Mr. Wm. Mills, of 124, Offord-road, haniabaryo
leaving his house perfectly safe, and after a short sew
returned and was much surprised to end apiece
on the doorstep, and shortly afterwards fogad ake,
cloth bad been stolen, and it was evident the hour IN
been entered by a false key, end the burgh" rises
they were, had been dirt-tubed.
The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses win gee
ingenuity, but failed to shake their evidence.
After a short and impartial summing up from the reek
during which the learned iudge took occasion to We is
the conduct of the police as being praiseworthy ed ce

awkausa,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. George Lockyer, sessions-house officer, prays& yes
prisoner wu an old and accomplished skeleton•kay ihnj
and put in a certificate of a former conviction fat leis?
which was read by the clerk of the court (Mr. 110416:
son), and proved that after a previous convicts' for
felony he was convicted at the Middlesex Felker
sentenced to 12 month" imprisonment for stadia' fn.
the Great Northern Railway vans, in company 0tkt,,,,,
other men, who went about with a truck, folio* tie
vans, and when an opportunity presented Jag
goods were extracted from the vans and curled sag
quickly in the truck. He had also bees na.
victed at the Lambeth police-court se • rout ad
vagabond and sentenced to three months' impriscuat
He was tried in that court and acquitted of a TAT if
a cash box, which was thrown into a canal, and bent it
was not recovered the prisoner got off.
Mr. Payne said, as long as he could combine the pap
tion of the publics with the reformation of the prisurie
would always do so and pass • light sentence, bet ••••
he bad to deal with such persons as the Fame, its
was clever at his profession as a thief, it was kis My to
send him away. The sentence of the court span Lm
was that he be kept in penal servitude for seven yen.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

BOW-STREET.
TAN RZTORM PROCEMON.
A small, slight, active young man, named DesaieffOr.
a ticket-of-leave man, woo charged with stealing a ens
from the person of a coachman, out of plea, ransilJe
seph Prestige.
The prosecutor was standing in the street at ChM"
cross, near Spring-gardens, looking at the proclaims
passed on its way to Beaufort-house, when the jam
snatched his watch from his pocket. PIMA*
seized him, and attempted to detain him, but he got FR!,
Two young men walking in the procession, with tides'
their hate, endeavoured to seize him, bet he maaegel
get away from them also, and they were a little dela**
their pursuit of him by the crowd. M
he got clear of the crowd he ran, as one of the vs
noises said, " like a deer," and had nearly mei
the further end of the Haymarket before he me
overtaken by the two young men, who took the Woking
him and gave him into custody. He was taken toile
street station-house, and thence to this court Us
waiting in the gaoler's room he made another stlesSie
escape, but was stopped by the officers of the mart oil
whom received from him an injury from which he le
feting some indisposition.
The prisoner who offered no defence, was conmitiei
trial

CLERKENWELL.
COMMITTAL OF A POUTER PAL ATEALING OVUIOOI.
Williams Anderson, a porter, was charged oa read,
before Mr. Barker, with stealing from his employee 111.
Prinoe, of 2, Flora-villas, Hammersmith, the said la

12a. hr
The prosecutor formerly carried on !minas at 10,
tonville-road, and the prisoner was his porter. Os the
12th of June last year the prisoner was sent to thaw
don and County Bank, Islington branch, with the Awe
sum to place to his employers account. Instead it kit
so he decamped with the money, and nothing fortairot
heard of him until Sunday week, when Policeessent
Abberline, 24 Y, heard that he was detains' it
Chelmsford. The sergeant went there, and took dame
custody, and on telling him the charge the primmest'
he was sorry for what he had done ; test r Ist
spent the whole of the money, and bad we
been in the greatest of distress to get bread; be fader
said that he had bad to deliver bills for s trsolikt
circus, and that the thoughts of the robbery,
with his distress, had made him give himsell up; at ww
that he bad done so he felt more comfortable than ls tai
since he had committed the robbery.
The prisoner said he had no questiou to ask or Mk'
fence to make.
Mr. Henry Francis Smith, in the employ of the lois
and County Bank, proved that the sum of 101.11 a to&
not been paid in to the prosecutor's account between de
10th and 17th of June last year.
Mr. Barker committed the prisoner to the Midget:
sessions for triaL

MARLBOROUG H -STREET.
POCKET-PICKING.
Patrick Curry, an impudent young fellow, was dwitd,
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with attempting to steal the "Wag
Mr. Samuel W. Reynolds, civil engineer, o Rust
f ic.
street, Pimlico.
Mr. Reynolds was in Piccadilly yesterday.M
the prisoner tried to pick a quarrel with
by asserting that he bad pushed against 104 -
object, no doubt, being to cause • dittirhal
so that the prosecutor might be the owe wall
robbed. Mr. Reynolds walked away, but 10 IF
gone a short distance when a fight occurred hetwee
men. Mr. Reynolds feeling a hand at his trousers p00k,..„,
into which he had just put Lis watch, having trldP"'
for safety from his waistcoat pocket, turned and iss
prisoner close to his side. He immediately seized t
prisoner, and a crowd gathered round them sad Writ
make him release his hold of the prisoner, but vi 6.11
effect. Without his saying what be had in titat°
still got your watch." A constable Mani,
pocket the prisoner replied, " See if you het
89 Nei!
to his assistance he gave the prisoner into custody I.°
denied having attempted to rob him.
The prisoner, who said be was a butcher livirg •
Luke's, denied attempting to rob thenrowcuter.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the per for two May
with hard labour.

WORSHIP-STREET.
MORE ItOSIBEItIES PROM LUC:GAGS SRAM.
Georoe Crume, 43, many years in the service'
Great Eastern Railway Company, and at the time is
tion employed as a " pointsman" at the Bricklater•_,
station of that line, was charged with being in Pour.„
of a variety of property and not satisfactorily wow"
for the same, it being reasonably believed
fo to
pro,
be stoke.
Mr. Straight, the barrister, appeared r the
tiers ; and Mr. Daly, barrister, for the prisoner.
It appeared by the evidence of Mr. Josephdins
:
superintendent of police on the Great Eastern
from suspicions entertained by bim the prisoner had
watched and stopped while carrying a basket. C'S'
questioned as to its contents he instantly dropped
ran away. Portions of a pig were found there.
quently (on Saturday, the 24th ult.) be was takes
custody, by Richard Crawley, an inspector of pale!,
at No. 6, High-street, Shaawell, in the oh
person named Knight, and he asked " Who told Ta
was here ?" When the pork was mentioned,.
said " Another ten minutes and I should bac '
• I
gone, but u it has come to this
quietly and see it out. I did not steal tbe niesk.7
know who didd and that it was wrong when I 1."
I have brought disgrace on my wife and (sal,
had I thought it would have come to this, 1
have made away with myself." At his hall_
7, St. James's-place, Old Ford-road, a search cro_r),
resulting in the discovery of numerous articles
about 51b of nutmegs, cigars, foreign fruit, moo 'r
(inclosed in each wrappers as cover mat sat
the country), oil of the same description
for working the signals of the comps*,
and malt sacks branded, sample bottle of rum, sac,'
bottle, of wine, with tin cans, all sunk in the arc
and full of water, respecting some of which palm!. 0,
" As to the rum, it will take you all your Jig° Lid
out how I became powered of that." To Supeclsr,"
' Rusell, when questioned as to his possession of
perty, he replied, " I shall not say here ; this ic
• not a magh place."
Richard McGuire, a sergeant of police,
• rug broken open the prisoner's locker,
prisoner's signal-box, and to finding five pig. ~Jit
there Mb, in weight, similar to that found in Me