The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-05 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MANSION-HOUSE.

Just before the rising of the court a man named John
Cleyg was brought up in custody of Foulger and Smith, the
detective officers, and charged before the Lord Mayor
with having unlawfully in his possession more than a ton
weight of valuable wool, the property of Messrs. Gooch
and Colleens, wool warehousemen, of Heydon-square.
Mr. H. F. Valiance appeared for the prosecution.
It appeared that, upon the stock being taken by the
prosecutors in December last, it was found that a very
large quantity of wool was missing, and a reward of 400/.
for the discovery of the thieves and the receiver, was offered.
A man named Joseph Cohen was subsequently taken into
custody by Foulger, and charged with receiving three bales
of wool worth 100/., and he is at present under remand,
the evidence against him being that he had hired a cart,
and had taken the three bales from the warehouse of the
prosecutors. In consequence of information that was sub-
sequently received by the officers, Foulger, accompanied by
Smith, another officer, and Inspector Hamilton, went to the
largewarehouse in Half Moon-street,Bishopegate, where they
found the prisoner, and inquired if he had any wool upon
the premises. He declared that be had not, and the
officers made a cursory search, but did not make any dis-
covery, and went away. Yesterday morning, however, in
consequence of further information received by the police,
Foulger and Smith went again to the warehouse, and upon
making a close search they discovered eleven bales of wool
concealed under grimy bags and in various out of the way
places ; andl the prisoner, who declared that he knew
nothing about the wool at first, but who afterwards said
that they had been placed in his warehouse as security for
100/. that a person owed him, was taken into custody. A
witness was examined, who proved that a large quantity
of wool was brought to the warehouse in Half Moon.
street shortly before Christmas-day, and that it was taken
out of the bags in which it was brought by the prisoner,
and placed in other bags, and these bags were placed about
in different parts of the premises.
The prisoner was remanded.
BOW-STREET.
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John le Lennan , a middle-aged, shabby-genteel-looking
man, was placed at the bar on remand, charged with
stealing a mutton chop, value 3d., from the shop of Mr.
Payne, butcher, Drury-lane.ll.l /1411111.
The case against the prisoner was, of itself, • very trivial
one, but the prisoner himself had acquired a notoriety
amongst the police from the number of timesim had been
taken into custody on various charges of theft. On one
occasion he was charged with stealing a book from a
railway station, be having on that occasion repre-
sented himself as an ordained minister of the church of
England. He was fully committed for trial ; and being
tried at the Surrey Sessions, the presiding judge addressed
him at some length for the disgraceful position he
occupied for one in his station of life. He on that occa-
sion got off with • very few weeks' imprisonment, the
judge not being acquainted with his real character, as he
had carefully changed his name on each occasion of his
being taken into custody.
Lockerby, the officer appointed by the magistrates to
identify offenders, now attended at Bow-street, and in-
formed Mr. Vaughan, the magistrate, that he had known
the prisoner ever since Dia, during which he had been
convicted no less than fourteen or fifteen times. He was
a regular old thief.
Mr. Vaughan having cautioned the prisoner, he said in
his defence he was innocent of stealing the chop, and that
the whole thing was a mistake.
The magistrate said he thought otherwise, and there.
fore he should fully commit him for trial.