The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-14 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Edward JoAltaoa, • smut-looking man, was placed at
the bar for final examination,. charged with having in his
'on skeleton keys of moutons contrivance, with
tent to break into a jeweller's shop in Great Suffolk-
street, Borough.
It appeared from the evidence of Sergeant Ball, detective
officer of the M division, that on Wednesday night, the 4th
instant, he was paring down Great Suffolk-street, when
he saw the prisoner and another man loitering about in
front of a jeweller's shop, three doors from Blackman-
street. house had recently been divided, and the other
half was occupied by Mr. Taylor, a hairdresser. Witness,
suspecting them, watched them, and • few minutes after-
wards he saw the other men give something to the pri-
soner, who went towards Mr. Taylor's shop-door, and did
something to the look. He accordingly rushed upon him,
and told another constable to seise the other when the
prisoner dropped the skeleton keys produced. After a
severe struggle he conveyed the prisoner to the station-
house, but his companion escaped.
In answer to the magistrate,
Witness said that the shops were divided by • very slight I
partition, and bad the thieves gained an entrance to Mr.
Taylor's shop they could easily have cleared the jeweller's
of all the valuable,.

An assistant to Mr. Taylor said that latterly the prisoner
and another man had been frequent eustomen, and gene-
rally while waiting to be attended upon sat near the parti-
tion. They asked several times about the jeweller's, and
made other observations that at last raised suspicion. On
the night in question he fastened up the shop and gave the
keys to Mr.Taylor,when beasw the prisoner loitering about.
The prisoner here pleaded guilty, and boned of his
worship to deal with him at onoe.
In reply to the magistrate,
Serjeant Ball said the prisoner bad given a false address,
and he had not been able to bud whether he had been con-
victed before.

The magistrate had no doubt that his intention was to
break hit° the jeweller's shop. He sentenced him to three
months' hard labour.
THAMES.
The Board of Works for the rapier district have been
for some time actively engaged in the laudable task of en-
forcing the provisions of the Sanitary Act. A few days
li since Caroline Smithers was convicted by Mr. Benson for
not having complied with the order of the beard to carry
' out sanitary works in six houses belonging to her in
Hunt's-row, Poplar. Mr. Layton, the clerk to the board,
gave a dreadful account of the state the six houses were
in. The roofs were out of repair, the ventilation defec-
tive, there wee no supply of water for the retiring places,
and the houses were very dirty. Mr. Layton, jun., also
stated that last year the district was visited with cholera,
and the bmrd he bad the honour to represent
were determined to carry out the provisions of
the Sanitary Act. Mr. Shadrake, the junior in-
spector of nuisances, applied for summonses against
John William Stocker, of the Cubitt Estate (Mice, Cubitt
Town, Poplar; John Oarnhani, of 9, Bread-street-hill,
City ; Elijah Heefield, of 2, East Ferry-road, Poplar ; and
James Russell, of High-street, Poplar, for not complying
with the orders of the Board of Works. The persons eon.-
plsined of are either agents to owners of houses in the
district or owners of numerous other houses let to the
poor. Many of these houses were represented to be
in a very defective condition, and wanting in sanitary
arrangements. It was determined by the beard to pro-
oeed against all homeowners and agents who did not carry
out the requirements of the board, and put their places in
order.
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Mr. Paget granted summonses against the parties named
by Mr. Shadrake.
Ellen LOWY& Webster. aged 22 years, was charged with
stealing money from the till of her master, Mr. Thomas
Sherwood, eating house keeper, of No. 69, Cable-street,
hitechapeL
The prisoner bad been in the service of Mr. Sherwood
for a few weeks. He bad frequently missed silver from
his till in the shop, end suspected the prisoner. He
consulted Dunaway, No. 11 H, who advised him to
apply the teat of marked money. A shilling and three
expenses were marked and put into the till ; next morning
the marked shilling was missing. Dunaway was sent
for, and the marked shilling.was found in her bosom.
The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. Paget committed
her for trial.

Susan Wager was brought up on • warrant, charged
with attempting to Bre • canister a gunpowder, with the
intent to commit murder.

Mr. John Church, house agent, of Talbot-road, Notting-
bill, stated that on Thursday morning last he went to
No. 9, Golden-mews, where the prisoner lived, and die.
trained upon her goods. While engaged in removing
them from the rooms which she occupied, she took up •
metal mister, and upon his asking her what it con-
tained, she said, " show you in • moment." Ms
went to the mantelshelf, took from it a lucifer match,
struck a light, and applied it to the canister. She held
the flame close to the edge of it, and • woman called
out, " That contains gunpowder." Ho jumped back in-
stantly, and his son ran to her and took the canister from
her.

The clerk—How close were you to the canister when
she applied the lighted match to it ?
Prosecutor—About two feet. I was so frightened
that I cannot tell the exact distance. It might be
nearer. I said to her, " What could you have been
thinking about? You might have killed yourself
and us, too." She said, " I wish I had, you have no
business hem." The woman who called out said, " You
would have destroyed your-elf as well" She replied,
" I should not have oared if I bad." She was very violent,
and I was obliged to take hold of her. I examined the
canister and found it contained gunpowder.
Prisoner—l told you I merely did it to frighten you.
Prosecutor—l do not remember you saying so.
Prisoner—You only pushed me back, you did not hold
me. lam very sorry for doing such a thing.
Prosecutor—You did not appear sorry at the time.
In answer to the charge the prisoner said she was very
sorry for what she had done, and she hoped the magistrate
would overlook the case. She was much excited at the
loss of her things, se she had not a minute's notice of the
broker coming to take them away.
Dayman then committed the prisoner for trial at
the neat seedoes of the Central Criminal Court for the
attempted murder sad refused WI.