The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION&

(Before Mr. Pathley, Q.C.,leteat-Judge.)

EJias Cbok, 19. Jane Arlaitroug, 17, sad He t Pant, 17,
were indicted foe stealing a puree value Is and the sum of
18.., from the person of Mary Allinson.
This robbery wee committed in a very artful manner. The
whom' went to the shop of the postmen:, who is a
milliner, 240, Tottenham-court-road, on the lib of Decem-
ber, and said they wanted to purchase a bonnet. One wee
tried on Cook, and while promoutrie wee arranging it on her
head—Cook pure y keeping her bands so engaged—Arm-
strong picked her pocket of her puree. The prosecutriz trlt
a tug at her dregs, and looking down saw Armstrong's hand
withdrawn from the pocket. Cook was detained and given
into custody—the others got sway. Bite said she warn a
rearrectable married WOMAN end that she was quite unac-
quainted with the others; but they were keown to be com-
panions, and the constant sesociates of thieves sod other
bed characters. No mosey wee found on Cook ; it wee
she who paid she wanted to buy the beaulet.
Armstrong was taken into custody by D 261, at
14, Charles. street, Limos-grove, when she mid It wee "Miss
Eases doings," and they would all three go together. She
then took the mustable towhees Fast lodged, and she too said
it vas all through "Mims BlirA;" it wee no nee denying it,
they did do It; but it served her right for being with then;
she wee drawn into it by others.
The jury found them Guilty.
Cook and A, "Wrong were then indicted for a similar rob-
bery committed upon Mrs. Tarring, millibar, Great Rowell-
street, Bloomsbury.
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The prosecutrix stated that seeing in the newspapers
report of the examination of the prisoner on the other charm
she thought they might be the same persons who committed
a precisely simile, robbery upon her on the 3M of December,
and in consequence she watt, and on swing them imme•
diately recognised them. As she was trying a bonnet on one
of them, the other picked her pocket of her puree, which con-
lathed money. She wee positive they were the same persons.
The prisons ea positively dented it. They admitted they
were guilty on the other charge, but they sauteed the jury
that on the day when this robbery we. committed they were
selling fruit and vegetables in the street.
11m. Terrine said there was a peculiarity about Arm-
strong's hoe which was unmistakeable, end having mimed
her prose sad money immediately after they left the shop
(they meth no purthate). and knowing, from the fact of her
porn brag rfe jut before they came in, that they must
hue takes it, their features end appearance became im-
provised sore deeply upon her memury.
The jury band them Guilty,
They wre proved to be well known to the police of the
D divides as bad characters themselves, and the emulate
of others trill worse.

ootir4semtatToed Cook sad Armatrwag each to Bib,
mouth■' hard labour, and Fast to three months.
(Mors Yr. Cressy.)
Rertry Telly, 24, described as a musician, Emma Telly,
18, and ANN Wallare, 49, ware indicted for wading port-
maetsaus from cabs in the streets.

There were three Indictments spinet the prisoner., and,
from the evidence upon which the charges were founded, it
appeared that on the evening of the 22nd of December Lieut.
Lawrence Paulat Shaw, R.M., unattached, arrived at the
Waterloo Station, and took a cab to Huston-square
to proceed on to Preston. His portmanteau, containing
• uoiform coat and other articks, value shout 111., wee
placed on the roof of the cab, beat before the cab got to
Euston-square, it was gone. On the 23rd of October Mr.
I'hipeon, the barrister, took • cab from Waterloo Station,
and pieced his portmanteau and some luggage belonging to
a friend on the roof, and whim ha got to his friend's hone 4 In
Albert-road, Regent's-park, the portmanteau was gone. A
waistcoat which Wallace had pawned in Great Queen-street.
and the ticket of which was found upon her, was identified
by Mr. Phil son as having been in the portmanteau when it
was stolen. On the 3rd of December Mee. Bright, the wife
of • warder in the liouee of Correction, Coldbatti-Gelde, took
• cab from Endell-street, Long-acre, to Pentonville-road,
sied placed a box containing chintz on the top ; when ohs
got home that wee gone. On the 23rd of December two
constablea of the A division, named Joy and Dawson, from
information they had received, went to No. 8, Little Wild-
street Drury-lane, and in the first floor front room found
the three prisoners. Wallace was the tenant of that room.
The constables took them into canted, on suspicion
of having stolen property in their possession, and,
on searching, they found most of the articles stolen
en the three occasions above stated. Lieutenant Shaw's
portmanteau was found under the table broken open, and his
uniform coat, silver !pains and forks, and other articles
marked with his name were found on the bed. Henry Kelly
Paid two young men had brought the portmanteau and had
left it. Wallace, Kelly's mother, said ohs well not at horns
when the truck was brought, and the female, Kelly, whose
real name wait Tarrant, and who had lived with Kelly, made
• statement to the effect that one evening, that on which
Lieut. Shaw's portmanteau was stolen, she was sitting alone
when there waa • knock at the door, and on her opening it
two men brought in the portmanteau in question, and asked
for permisaion to leave it until neat morning. She said they
might, and accordingly they did, and it was placed under
the table. When Kelly and his mother came home and
were raid about it they had • great curiosity to know
what It oontsined, and as the men did not come for
it next morning they opened it out of inquitativenees, and
while they were examining the contents the police came and
took them into custody. The box in which the chintz be-
longing to the prosecutrix Bright was, was found in the
room. 11,11 y declared it was hie. Mrs. Bright was at
issue with him on that point. She positively claimed it oaths
one stolen from the cab she hired, and among the other pro-
party found were two lags and • neck tie, which Mr. Phip-
son wee enabled to identify, besides the waistcoat, are his pro-
perty, end as having been in his portmanteau at the time it
was stolen. Kelly was believed to be the actual stealer, and
his mother and the young women he lived with were abettors,
and aided in the disposal of the plunder.
Ths jury found the prisoners Guilty, andZ.ervie• eirdared
I, rto be brought up judges's,* at the next
Mr. Hotly and Mr. that win the otanad engaged in the
awe.

THE POLICE COMTE.