The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-30 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-110IISE.

Joseph dams, witb robbing his
employers, Mem% (Tim►le and Davis, 45, Fuh-etteet•hill,
boot and shoe manufacturers.

About six years ago the prisoner, who weir well known to
Mr. Davis, presented himself at the warehouse, and re.
quested that some light employment might be given to
him, as he was, he mid, 111 receipt of a pension from the
East India Company, and required only • few shillings •
week mon to make him comfortable. More from charit-
able feelings, arida( out of old sanniations, than anything
else, Mr. Davis espied him at 12s. • week, believing him
to be a strictly hondarable man, and under conditions
which gifted him upon a footing of pester freedom than
that of the other people employed there ; but something
recently occurring to excite soaps ion as to his honesty, Mr.
Davis. stopped him as he was quitting the premises
stesPntiiirt. had eseented took tons hinlie a bour ilinal instentlychildren's
discharged him- Subsequently, however, seses=z;
found, which led to the dissonay that le bed
in such goods en his own account, and Wessel= lad Dm
given to the pollee. Roma, • detective, gresembil to As
prisooer's resideeoe, at Haelmay, sad to him Ile
admittiag that he had made a very poor Mu= for =r'
d.
nem shown to We iq Mr. Davis, Wawa& ne es et I
children's boots and mom, value about 401., which stated
that be had stolen from he employers. The good'
u sere entified by Mr. Ark as being the prw,wso given
ty of
ha Arm, and the Flamer, who had not a word to offer in
extenuation of his conduct, wee folly °muddied for
Margaret Quill, aged 10, was charged with begging in
hoot of the Royal &chap" having Imes frequently simi-
larly charged on previous oesuions, as well as her
three eiders, of more tender years. Altogether,
there had been no fewer than seventeen charges
preferred against one or ether of the four, and
their mother had emend Mass been summoned to the
court, and motioned to keep them out of the streets, prin-
cipally through the iertromentelity of Sir It. Carden, vial'
attention had often been directed to them while begging,
miserably clad, early and late in the moat 1021110011 t
weather, and who had interposed in the hop of proteeting
the ohildren from what he ooncenediebethehsertlese selfish-
nem of their mother. Thus, he had mused then to be rer
watedly sent to the workhouse, but direct) 'berths mother
took them out again ; and on one ooe she demanded
them both on the very same evening, and seat them out to
beg, all but naked, on one of the severest nights in winter.
Asa general defence of her conduct, she urged that she had
been deserted by her husband for nearly three years, and
that, being unable to provide foe-thea by her labour,
she sent them out to beg that they might want food;
end further, she alleged that the ' would neither
give her outdoor relied nor take her to the workhouse, be-
muse she could not wear to her plinth, so as to enable
them to lases her home to Ireland.
She was now told the court had power to deprive her of
the custody of her child for bye yean, and that unless she
gave the menrance required by the act of parhammt, that
she would prevent the primer from ommitting say act of
revelry for the next twelve moths, that powerwould be
exercised. With many professions of sincerity, she gave,
and duly the required assurance, and the primmer
was then ven up to her, but with an intimation that a in-
petition o the offence would be followed by their separa-
tion for five years.
LAMBETH.

Henry now, a blight of the brush, whe appeared in his
wedding clothes, and as black and as sooty as if he had just
destiended from a "foul flue," appeared to answer to a sum-
mons, e him with assaulting his brother Francis
Shaw, and used such threats that he went in bodily
fear el him.

-7111; ooMplaisent, whom smart and military appmrsnos
bore • strilong eonteset to that of his broths, rid that for
a leeath of tins, be had been subject to onwidershlis mow-
linos from his brother, who whenever he met idea easn-
meneed a volley et "low lived" abuse mated Um. Oa the
day ins bond in the summons his brother ems up to the
mar pablie.howee la Norwood, in which himself asii abhor'
wire Laving nom refreehment% end, after a good deal of
low &bee% pulled his nom as well as kb nosnidliwhe sad
vides.% end ezebbsed, "A pre*, vet of fellow you are
for as

Norton—Do you belong to the rides
Complainant—l do, your worship, and that is one of the
things that makes him jealous of me.
The complainant called as • witness one of the Gipsy
Cooper family, who not only corroborated his statement,
but said he himself came in for his share of what wee going
on, se the defendant had not only gives him • spank with
hi; open band, bat covered his face and filled his eyes with
soot.

The defendant, in reply to the charge, said his brother
had married a widow, who purchased a business for him
and kept him like a mpitleman, and he looked upon him as
dirt, and treated him as such whenever he met him. He
also Mied to get his business sway from him, but he had no
objection to sell it to him at a price.
Hr. Norton—Perhaps that would be the best course for
you both. How mach should you expect for it
Defendant—A hundred pounds.
The complainant said he had no wish for the business,
and certainly should not pay that price fur
The defendant called some witnesses, and after their
examination
Yr. Nortim remarked that such proceedings between
brothers were Tory unseemly, and ordered them both
to End bail for six months.