The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-29 00:00:00

THB POLICE COUBTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Jeremiah Lobate, au Irish labourer, was brought before
the Lord Mayor upon the charge of having mashed a
square of plats-glass in the shop window of Mr. Toole, a
mathematteal instrument maker fa Leadenhall-stmet, and
stolen therefrom a telescope ad Stied, of the value of ten
guineas, sad a pair of opentgluaes, of the value of Are
glass.
W. Bettie, an errand boy t• the service of the prosecutor,
said—About eight o'clock last night I was in say master's
shop, when I beard a lugs moue of glass swab, and saw
the prisoner in the act of drawing the Mistress produced
from the window. Mr. Tonle at the lame moment ran oat
of the shop end pursued the primes, whom he overtook
and gave into the eastody of a policeman.
Mr. W. Toole said—About eight o'clock last night I
beard a tremendous crash at my shop window, sad thought
the whole place was coming in. The prisoner dragged the
telescope oat with such form that he drew out with it •
pair of opera glasses and patois galvanic appasatea, and very
conoiderably damaged SOUS other Metranseate in the win-
dow. I ran after the prisoner and secured his, but before
I reached him he dropped the telescope in the street. The
value of the telmoope and opera pieties is fifteen guises',
and I value the plate glees at 21. 10s., but Ima insured for
that in the Limitatmet Plate-glass Immo* Company.
W.
sline4l,4tetie othatable He. 621, said—l saw the pH-
meg with the penetrator and several *ter per-
am% esti leek se late eestody. When charged with the
rebbely, bob la the street and at the 030 st-home, he
said be had deem It ►excuse he w►nted bread. He had a
pair of this& wonted gloves on his hands, and one of his
wrists was at and bleeding. He told me that be watched
a mutable who was on duty in the street out of sight before
he smashed then glass.
The Lord Mayor asked the prisoner vast he had to say in
answer to the charge
Prisoner (with greet cdolnees)—He (the dear) has
finished his saunas with a W. I id I watched
the mutable away. I did not want to get away. lam

guilty.
The Lord Mayor committed the prisoner for trial.
William Aatrope, formerly untwist( clerk la the employ.
mint of Mr. B. Stephenson, stationer, Lime-street, was
again brought bet ore the Lord Mayer upon remand, charged
with having embattled various sums of money, amounting
le the aggregste to nearly lOW , belonging to his master.
The evidence taken at the former examinations bevies
bees wad over the witaesses signed their depositions, and
*epimeer (who had been taken into the service of the
Magentor on account of his tint:mod circumstances) was
slommitted for trial.
Thomas Bilis, a young man who said he was a journey-
man baker, wee brought before the Lord Mayor and Sir
I. W. Carden in petty sessions, charged with stealing •
Mat from the shop don of Mr. Brien; a tailor in Aldgate.
The priaoaer pleaded guilty to the charge, *ad was sew
Owed to loaf mouths' imprisonment with bard labour.
Henry Hawkias was Merged with having committed •
*Saar offence to the last at toe ship door el another tailor.
The prisoner, who pleaded guilty, and against whom a
previous conviction was proved, was sentenced to six
senthe imprisonment with hard labour.
Emma Lee, a servant oat of place, was lost placed at the
bet Merged with bevies robbed her aunt of a shawl and
peilissat, which she had pledged.
The proneutria, In answer to guiltless pat by the magis-
trates, said she was from home at the time the theft was
committed, and that the primmer was without money, d
had nothing to live upon except • trifle she 'anted by
needlework.
It also appeared that the prisoner hod lest her last stmt.
tioa through staying out all night.
She pleaded guilty, sad was sentenced to one month's
imprisonment with bard labour.
W BSTIIINSTBR.
Jane Jukes, an old woman, was charged with begglag.
Mr. Healey Holding, an engiseer, stated that as he was
pawing through Victoriestreet at 8 e'elock a the previous
insaing,the prisoner eolisited alms for • night's lodging.
He inquired why she did not go to the workhouse, when
she replied that she had bun there, but could not obtain
admission. He then west with her there, and knocked and
sung for ten minutes without onion any one, and when a
policeman cam up shoat the middle of that time, he tried
also at the door, bat with the same molts. Complainaut
then gays the woman into eustedy, with a view that if truly
aftessitoes and duetting, she should be assisted, and ff
otherwise, punished.
Defendant said she left prison after seven days confituel
meat for Inggieg, and baring neither food nor shelter, lip-
ped to the workhouse, but they would not take her is.
She had been committed from this court.
The confab's said that the defendant told his that eke
came from Liverpool, bat on goimp to 15, St. Peter.street,
Westminster, be fund her husband sad a little sit I there.
Defendant said they same te town while she was in prises,
and she was not swats fit,
Biased Webster,‘ Me odicity ofHeer,said that the defend-
ant was on old beggar, and that her deughter was at pre-
seat in custody for the same offence. When defendant was
lcommitted from Marlborough street a abort time ego, Mr.
Bingham told her to apply, when she was released, to the
pariah In Westminster, sad If they refaced to relieve her,
to represent the matter to the ensgistrate.
Mr. Arnold observed that it bad recently beta reneweated
to him by one of the relieving clan in of St. Msererm's.
that there was always a person on duty at the workhouse
reedy to attend to costs of urgent necessity. Bat it seemed
by the evidence that this was not the cue. He could oat,
earns his extreme *famishment that at eight la
the noising any person should knock tea manatee
at the door of a workhouse in London without obtaining en
answer. As it was, the person in whose behalf Mr. Hold's,
had kindly interested Memel( was undeserving, but what
was to prevent • similar application at the door of the
house in a case of extreme necessity, perhaps involving life,
fir the person receiving no answer might die in the strut.
It was • Oats of things excessively amp, after what had
been said by the relieving Dicer of the excellent or elitists*.
I tory way in which bulge's relating to the poor was con-
dacted in that parish, with respect, however, to which he
must say he entertained • widely diffsreat opinion. He
must, however, speak of the defeadsnt. If abs wasted
relief, she ought to have gone at the proper time to the relief
°face and not to have been begging about. It had bean
proved that she was an old beggar, and he felt it his duty *
commit her for a month.
MARLBOROUGH-STREBT.

Herbert Edgar Stsobridge, a young mm of fashionable
*desist, said to be very respectably' connected. was
'barged with obtahtleg • Helios velvet testy drew, value
33J., from J4ba Nathoo, cootoodor, No. 18, Cattlo.otroet,

aomesem-nee.e.
The proseestor stated that about the beginning of this
samtb, the prisoner, who was a stranger to him, drove np to
hie warebouee, to Castie•street, in • brougham and pair,
and said he wanted • fancy dream made, as be wee going to
Mr. Hemp's fancy dress h.% at Maids-bill. Witness knew
that Mr. Kemp wi about to give a tread fancy drew ball,
and on asking the prisoner what style of dress he requited,
he said it mart be made of the best Oenoa velvet, or he
would not wear it. He showed the prisoner • book
of ecistases, sad the prisoner elms a Mai the