The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-25 00:00:00

ASTZAORDINAIr 11100131 l Ol d PURSZ
POOH d 2111111.

The following is about the most extraordinary in-
stance of the recovery of stolen property from a thief that we
remember to have heard of:—Between twelve and one
o'clock yesterdey, two respectable women wen walking is
Corporation-street towards Market street. One of them
in her right hand a smell velvet puree and also • paned.
The puree contained 9/. 10e. in gold, 10a. in silver, gad a M.
note; the money being par ly saved, and portly borrowed, met
all intended as a means of entering upon • smell Madams. In
Corporation-etriet, the women were met by three rough fele
lows wearing tape. who boggled in pursing, as if they wen
sot certain whether "to keep to the right would he
right." While this was going on, the purser
Inner (whom we may call Mrs. A—.) heard a ,aharp
asap, ea did alto her friend; but Mre. A— looking dews,
obeseved that her shawl-brooch was unfastened, and to its
L'gshe ettributed the mdse. After walking • few
she discovered that the handle of her parasol wee
maidens, having been 'mapped off; but, incomprehensible se
it may appear, dm bad forgetten that the bad been aarrying
bee parse in her hand, Gni she sill bad no suspicion of bee
Ism. Not until two hours bad parree.l did she secortein that
the puree, and the 131. it cemeined, were no longer in bee
harping. Then she w almost distracted; foe not to have
recovered the money wield have been ruin to all her pram
pelts. But in the lest MIMI of the wade, Mrs. A.
gems to be really • " sicnig-isileded woman; and, mun
jecting the advice of • friend to go at eon to the
police sad deneelbe, se well se she could, the deletes
whom she now supposed to have robbed her, she
stated rapidly for the residence of the lender of the
61. note, with a view to ascertain its number. Is this she
succeeded, and hurriedly she retraced her steps to the centre
at the city, intending more to go to the Detective-of/lee
and gain the all of the polio.. In Desnagets, when nor the
Panocage, she saw standing seven or sight roes, looking
very much of the sense class as the thus she had such strong
la aeons to remember having encountered in Corporation.
street. Bhe neared them; sod with a comprebenaive end
most keen glance is pawing, the saw that one of the
group wee in the act of showier g something to his oonara&
that that roosethieg wee of the coheir of her purse, end
that the fellow had hastily turned so as to bide from
her his act and its object. At the rune instant,
she recognised this man se having been the neared
to her of the Cern in Corpontleseetreet ; and, &sh-
ine through the group, she cried what the thief
held. Ile and they were all but paralysed by the muldennme
of the meting and the pounce ; he strove to fling her at;
end they began to hustle 4 r, but she maintained bee yen,
sad with •lest wrench, wires all but ezhaneted, she carried
et —her parse, with nob., gold, and silver, .as it left her
hand some four hours previously. Daring the reef& 20 or
30 peewee asitise.d round, hat they may well be excused
for not erempeeltendieg the real nature of what was going
on ; and Mrs. A--, la bar ezeitemant, was sot likely to
give them much inforeintion. There happened not to be a
policeman near, and act the thief has emend for the present.
A"morel" may be appended: As Wine generally are not
likely to be, under &din eheesistracce, so tacky or so
daring as Mrs. A—, all should avoid walking in the
Areas with vim in band, lest Its erthibition should erode
in the bee sot of a thief en sticomeellable impuleo " (se
deeten in limey phrase it) la pursers hie vocutiou.—Nese
Anew Guardian.

(ATOM PALACE.... ONE SHILLING Dail...—.
TCLIDLY, MAT 24. A d raissioca ca mama, 3,696 i
OM, by soma skims, 611. T(.161 Tabora 4,207.