The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-08 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

C CILDHALL.

George Clarke, foreman and manager to Yemen. Joseph,
boot and shoe manufacturers, at Skinner-street, and William
Par., a walehossernan in the same establithment, were

brought up for further examination before Alderman7Cope-
land, relative to the charge of !robbing their roasters to a
very considerable extent of goods, a great quantity of which
a person named John South, a journeyman bootmaker, was
charged with feloniously roceinug, knowing them to have
been stolen.

Mr. Lewis, jun., was engaged for Smith • Mr. Beard for
the prisoner Pike ; and Mr. Buchanan for dlarke.
It will be recollected that on the last examination it ap-
peared that property consisting of uppers and other material
used in the manufacture of boots were found in the
sion of Clarke and Pike to the value of about 101.,and
the premises of Smith siini/argooda to the valueof nearly r,
the whole of which was identified as the property of the
prosecutors, which had been stolen from their premises.
Since the prisoners had been under remand, Huggett and
Jarvis, the detective officers engaged in the case, had
succeeded in recovering a much larger amount of property,
which bad been disposed of by Smith to various persons in
the same business in town and country. Of these goods,
some to the value of 831. had been sold to Mr. King, of the
Gray's-inn-road, who had given every insistence to the
officers as woo as they called upon him.
Mr. Sleigh, the banister, said he was instructed to
attend and watch the case on the part of Mr. King, who be
was bound to say was a highly respectable tradesman. He
bad carried on business in the same place for upwards of
eleven years, and his father before Lim for a much longer
period, and be was therefore anxious to impress upon the
court and the public that in his dealings with the prisoner
Smith he bad not even the meet distant idea that the goods
had been stolen, and that having given a fair price for all
be bought there was nu sacrifice upon the value, as is usual
in the disposal of stolen property, calculated to arouse his
.
suirls.
ing, on being examined, confirmed the statement of
Mr. Sleigh.
Mr. Wontner said the police met with a very different
reception at Pinner, in Middlesex, where they cellist upon
a bootmaker named Glailman, who also filled the °Moe at
Pinner of pariah beadle. That individual had thrown
every obstacle in the way of the officers, who had reason
to believe that Gladman had received an intimation that
they were going to pay him a visit, and that a large amount
of property been removed just before their arrival.
James (Badman, the parish beadle of Pinner, was called,
and said he wasa boot and shoe maker, and a dealer in
=. He had known Smith about three or four months,
bought goods of him on five or six different occa-
sions. On the first two the quantity he bought was rather
considerable, but the latter transactions were much smaller.
He dud purchased to the amount of U. 7s. ad. at one
time, but did not enter these purchases in his books.j
Alderman Copeland inquired if the witness meant to say
that he was in business, buying and selling, and kept no
books.

(Madman maid they were principally ready money trans-
action; and as such he never entered them. He did nod
enter goods be add if he received ready mossy.
Alderman Copeland said he was quite sure that the
gentlemen who appointed witness parish moldable would
never continue him in his appointment if they knew that he
conducted his business in inch an extraordinary =UMW as
he appeared to have clone in this instance.
Gladman—The first quantity consisted of 80 pairs of
uppers, and the last, which he purchased on the 27th of
August, was 36 pars of uppers, for which he paid 41. 4s.
He did not render the officers any assistance. When they
came he sat still awl told them they might search' the
house, which they did, and took away 18 pairs of uppers.
On the following day he gave them 13 pain which they had
not seen. Two men, one of whom was in Smith's employ,
were waiting with a cab at his house to see him on the day
the officers came, but ho did not send any goods away by
them. He told the otficei •he would assist them if they
wanted him. He did not threaten the oilmen with an ac-
tion for searching his premises, but he did write to the pro-
secutor to say that he would hold him responsible for the
goods taken away.
Some further evidence having been given the prisoners
were fully committed for trial.
WORSH P.STREET.
Mr. Knox, the sitting magistrate, celled the attention of
the reporter to the following application for amistan.x• and
advice : . .

A few days sines ► delicate and very young woman handed
• letter to the bench, in which she made • statement that
induced the magistrate to order Edis, one of the warrant
officers of this court, to make inquiries into the subject
matter of it. _ _

Applicant stated that her name was Lucy Davis ; that
four years ago she accompanied her parents and a brother to
Toronto. in Canada, in the ship Montezoener ; that they
lauded there on the let of June, and that the applicant
married a person named Davis. whom she had known in
Englaud—a boy and girl was the result of that union, ,
the relative ages of whom were now three years and
fifteen months ; that suddenly informative was afforded
of a relative named Christopher Jones having died here,
leaving the applicant's family • sum of money, which cir-
cumstance, combined with the distressing fact of her father's
death, and other matters, induced applicant to return, ac.
nom vied by her husband, the children, her mother and
brother ; that on arriving in England by the ship Loudon,
they found that the relative had been dead two years, but
that the representations made were totally false, he having
died miserably poor. Applicant's husband then procured
work as a painter, but not understanding the trade, lost
his employment, and was seised with violent illness ; their
little stock of clothes was then pledged to procure
nourishment and pay for medicine • the infant be-
came afflicted with diseased glands,' and its life
despaired of, unless restored to its native country;
to add to these accumulated troubles, applicant's mother
and brother returned to Canada by the assistance of a lady
closely connected in relationship with them, and that finally,
as they, the applicaot, her husband and children, were now
quite destitute and starving, the landlady of their lodging
rn Henry -place, Heaton, who had been very kind to them,
advised her to date the whole circumstances to the presiding
magistrate of this court.
Mr. Knox now mentioned that he hail received • comma-
niceties from the lady referred to by the applicant, and
whose name it wia unnecessary to meatier, which did not
I gainsay any of the statements made to him.
Applicant said she bad written to the lady begging to be
sent by her aid back to Canada, where she doubted not
health would be restored and her husband would get work.
In consequence of that letter a missionary named Smith had
visited her, and that he, after some delay, had assured her
that nothing could be done in the matter, the lady haring
afforded them all the meaus of taking that journey formerly.
Yr. Knox observed that he, of course, could not interfere
in any matters of such a character, the lady had a perfect
right to do as she pleased about it; he would give the appli-
cant a letter to the emigration commissioners, and she must
acquaint him with the results ; in the meantime she should
have a trifle in addition to its. he had on the former occe.
sine ordered her, nod the warrant officer would accompany
her to the workhouse, with • request that until the funds
could be raised for defraying the return of the family to
Toronto, the authorities would continue to afford • little
1 assistance. _ _ .

Applicant remarked that she bad received from them on
Saturday last worth of meat, the same worth of grocery,
and three quartern loaves, but that she was infonned no
further aid could be rendered, be she sent by whom she
might.
Mr. Knox asked the officer if he was satisfied that appli-
cant's story was correct, and was answered that the wretched
home presented the appearance of destitution and illness.
The magistrate again directed the young woman to accom-
pany the officer to the workhouse with a repetition of his
request.

Jaw. Harker, &HAM MOM". • bp y_ 15 Jew, of ago, was
charged with effecting his mann, in Ysis* from Tothill-
fields Pri,on, and stealing a suit of clothes, the property of
the visiting justices of the gaol.
Richard Stone, warden at Tothill-fields, saki the accused
was sent to that prison on the litth of last April, to undergo
• sentence of six months' confinement for stashing a sove-
reign. On the 15th of May witness was mowing the grass of
the lawn in the prison, and prisoner and some other inmates
of the same age were employed in sweeping the green up.
Witness had put the key of a pie which led to
the outer walk of the privon in his cost pocket,
and while mowing had taken his cost off and
Placed it oa a garden roller, and prisoner watch.
mg his opportunity, while witness was engaged,

stepped behind the roller, sod getting procession of the key
entered the outer walk, and soiling the wall escaped, having
on at the time the prison clothing.
John Fauldham said, that although search bad been made
for the prisoner he eluded thevigilance of the police until
last night, when he was captured at Woolwich, and brought
to London upon the present charge.
Mr. Paynter asked when the visiting justices met'
The Warders said they would meet tomorrow.
Mr. Paynter remanded the prisoner until the visiting
justices should determine what had better be done, as it
6rdly seemed a case in which they might deem it neces-
sary to institute a new prosecution, but might consider the
ends of justice served by the boy being again oon+igned to
gaol to undergo the remainder of his original sentence.