The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-23 00:00:00

THE POLICE COML.%

MANSION-HOUSE.

Eliza AleA, a de4;ll;in g7iidill;sged women, vie
brought up and plead at the bar, whinny= the Lord Mayor
suddenly quitted the chair, into which Mr. Alderman Hale
installed himself, while the chid magistrate of the city was
sworn by the usher of the court as WIWI'S and macaw in
the case.

The Lord Mayor acid—On the 16th of February, the
, whom I have known these sis years, and always
Celeecl to be a respectable woman, came to is. with a pitiful
tale, beseeching my aid. She mid she had been for scene time
past in St. Thomais Hospital, and had just been discharged
only partially cured, in consequence of bad. beinfasseardted for
fresh applicants for admission. While in the she
said, she had got behind in her rent, and as her wee
pressing her, and she had no means of paying, she begged of
me to amidst her. Believing her tele, and pitying her esse, I
gave her a sovereign, for which she teemed to be very graft-
(al ; sad when the produced some pawn tickets, and said eB
her clothes except what she wore were in pledge, I gave her
another sovereign to redeem them, and she went away. From
something I heard shortly after, I sent to St. Thomas's
Hospital, and found that no woman named Elba Filch had
ever been an in-patient there; and I else discovered that the
address she had given, and where I had always ..Bared
lived, was (alp. I saw nothing more of her until this
morning, when she came to me again, and asked me
to assist her once more, as she had obtained a
good place for her eon in a family at the west-end,
but she had no money to buy him clothes to
go in. I then told her I had discovered her deception about
St. Thomas's Hospital. At first she persisted in saying
what she had before told me was true, but when she found I
knew all about her, she admitted she had never been there,
and offered me back the 2!. at so much • week. I gave
her into custody for obtaining money under false pretences,
and I may my I have learned that when I gave her the
mossy she applied a part of it in hiring a band of music for
the purpose of annoying her landlord. (Laughter.)
The prisoner mid his lordship had been misinformed, for
it was at another time she had hired the band of music. The
truth was, instead of being in St. Thomas's Hospital, as she
had represented, she was in Whitecress-street, where her
landlord had put her ter dale; and, as she did not like to
tell where she really had been, she invented the tale about the
hospital, the band having been bleed by her on the day of her
discharge from prison. She was certainly in great distrese
whin his lordship gave her the 21., and as, when he did so,
he told bar he should like to hear how she was getting on
afterwards, she gave him another call that morning.
Mr. Goodman (thief clerk) rid she had been known as a
regular applicant for relief at that court for eleven yearn,
but having himself found her out three years ago, she had
sines gone to the private door of the Mansion-house to ap-
pellee the Lied Mayor private')

Lora Mayc
The Lord Mayor—Slia has had 131. or 141. from this court,
and I am told that at this time she sticks to her hours, for
which she has paid no rent for two years, and will not go out
unless her landlord will give her 61.
The landlord's agent, who bad been seat for, confirmed this
statement, and said the prisoner owed 601. for rent.
Munday, officer of the court, had made inquiries in the
neighbourhood of her residence, and found that she duped
everybody who gavp her the chan,e of doing so.
The prisoner appealed to the Lord Mayor for mercy, but
Alderman Hale told her he was sitting magistrate, and as
there could be no doubt of her being • regular impostor, he
should send her to prison and hard labour fur three
months.