The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-06 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(TRIB DAY.)

LA MOTH.
11011 DIEVISIXITION 0! CLOMIL

IcompA Skipper. 20, a pauper, belonging be daunted
Workhouse, was charged before the Hon. G. Norte' Mit
destroying a coat and pair of trousers bekaging to ne
guardians of ties parish.
The task-master at the workhorse said thatenthe 9tkil
last month the prisoner applied for admission into Is
house' and he was taken in there. It was then bed
that he belonged to the parish legally, sad he au
allowed to sleep there until that morning, shin
demanded his discharge. The master of the weekluen
told him (witness) to let him have a coat and Monism ml
he brought them to him, bat the moment be tumid big
back he destroyed both garments, saying they rut set
at for weer. .

166strate—Was that the *tee?
Witaees—Certainly not, your worship, they was my

good.
Prisoner—No such thing, you know they WWI set.
Magistrate—Eves so, you Led oo right to destroy Min,
If they were not flt to wear you should have implied to is
muter of the workhouse and he would have pm you
some better. I shall commit you for foudsss days' b
labour. _ _ _ _

.--Patrick Keefe, an Irish labourer, was charged with ab
seconding from Oamberwell Workhouse a suit d
clothes belonging to the governors and guard ass of tie
Mr. Mr. Smithery, the master of the workhouse, mid that the
=had been treated with much kiadeess in the week
and the Tatum he made was to absecod with emit
of cloths..
The prisoner was sent to prison for ten days hard Wash
THAMES.
• 001111ZECIAL MAIIMLIM ',MATING NIII naffs
Thomas Parrott, t well-dreised man, aged 45, sad di.
scribed u • coesnierele/ traveller, was brought up as ri
mead before Mr. Paget, charged with strafing three fowls
sod three phials of salt pork from the shop of Mr..Utred
Sweet, poulterer. of No. 620, Milemnd.tood.
Mr. Sweet sa.d be had recently het s gnat mazy feels
and • oonsidorable quantity of meat from h's shop. On
Saturday eight • girl told him • gentlemen had taken UM
fowls off the wiodow board, and gene up the mai with Mesh
Hs at ogee mimed three fins capons worth 12a.0f the Mk
dow board cease* the shop. He saw the miaow wan*
briskly along with three tapou in his had. He took
him by the arm and asked him for the foils. The
P" They me mine." He said to him,
" Are you sure they are yours ?" The
adopted this question himself, and he took im 1j
the arm and led- him beak to the shop. He held bin mg
• police-constable arrived and gave him into custody. AI
the station-home • bag which the primer wee may*
was opened, and three pieces of milt pork ware forted it hi
They bad been taken from his shop.
Mr. Paret—Then he took the pork first sod eme bark
for the fowls ?
Mr. Sweet—Yee, Mr. He was very choice. He Mk
three pieces of piekled pork, and thee retuned and Wt
the throe best fowls in my shop.
Henry Boulton, shopmaa to Mr. Price, buteher,No.
Priory-re:nos, Bow-road„ said the prisoner had be. la
the habit of buying • lot of pieces at the shop, end
the dieoppearasee of joints bad followed kle
visits. Oa filaturesy night Via prisoner picked Si
piece of veol, sod said "My style is
halfpenny per pound." He said he could sot take=
pito* as that. The misuser raid, " I will seed my Iris to
you; she menages those things better than me.' llem
after the prisoner had left there was a band of peek aim
log. He saw the prisoner cline by the shop in custody slot
balf-an-hoer steer wards, and followed him to the swim-
house, where he saw the miming hand of pork take hes
the prisoner's be;. A piece of rite et lesl
and • piece of muttoo, alas belonging to Mr. Prier, end
which had been stolen trim the sbop about the maw Mt%
were also found in the bag.
Lewis Lambert, police-constable N , 311 H. as °almd*.
fowls and six pieces of meat ; the Tight of the whets Ni
about 451 b., sod it was se mach as he could lift is allarklis
"Here are the fowls," said the witness, "three pis" I
pickled pork, a hand of fresh pork, a fine piece of MOW=
• piece of mutton."
Mr. Paget—ls the prisoner • provision dealer? (A 1144
Lambert—No, no, sir ; he said he went to market Po
rally in the beet way he could, and that be bouehl_ti
whole in Leadenhall-market. He lives at No. 6, Ea..'
street, Sespeey.
The peleeser—l will leave It all to the mercy of theta*
I did it through distress, sir. I have • good charade*
here is one of my testimosials.
Mr. Paget—l oaonot look at it.
Imi.Theinprima
unct7r;linbpAaveatafoeurid..yrestne
mehmildwren., inirteci. I kali.
meat and fowls for my poor children. r wit. read Kulisl.ll
Mr. Paget —I mono' accept your plea. You hsviA
about systematically from shop to stop,
meat sad fowls. You have been v chow
your selection of fare for your ehadroo. I
bave the greatest empathy for • poor swam
Meshes • bit of food to se ray cue czarinas of Integer,
sone for a man who hoe committed an extensive rattrs
and whom 1 unspent to be a practised Olio'. Tredemlo,
have a right to be proteitsd from awl depmdatiom
shall not accept your plea of guilty, but commit pal.
trial for stealing the fowls and meat,

Mr. Sidney Smith, the secretary of the land re
gistratioa of the City of London, conkeds in the cause
of the Tines, that for the purpose of ascertaining there
her of persons whowill bs enfranchised by 'qualifier's's!
61., Mr. Baines's return is " ridiculously fallacious."
A private of the 60th Rifles was charged al
Dublin yeeter lay with a wanton assault upon • &MAW
odium. As the oftlaer was pus,ng through Lower Oaf
y late at night the soldier assaulted him with
his belt, sal cut him about the bead. The detective bed
just come from 0 rk, where he had given evidence at 111
court-martial, which is rid to have instigated the sage
to commit the assault. After being flued by the rosaf'
tote the soldier was taken into custody by the maitsil•
The friends of stazzini in Genoa, says the coo*
pendent of the Nord, having commenced preparations le
celebrate his election for Messina by s public misfire.
lion, the polies authorities Intimated that they would IA
permit any such demonstration, and would, if measselolll
peer any assemblage of this kind by armed force.
The Libertd of this day is headed by the follow*
announcement, signed by A. de Tension'', the editsdal
eserrery :—" From this date the on-operation of Falba.
Girardin, Clement Davernois, and Auguste Vermorel
been secured for La Lacrti. Nothing shall be errido_
nothing shall be neglected Weems for this] urnal,
has the nobleel name a newspaper eau possess, that plass
the first rank of the Paris press which Be title iodirish
and which fa itself is the most complete of all prom
Ls Liberte.

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