The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-12 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

G. Hawn and William Si(tray were charged on minima
with stealing two 101. Bank of England Onus, a quantity at
fourpenny and threepinry piece., *unto tub.oce and NOM
cigars,
tlgare, from the Queen. • Head publio-house, Upper Thames-
street, and with burg ariouuly breaking out of the lame
hour.

—Wt;en originally charged it wet deposed against these
that they had been in end out of the Clasen'. Head till jut
before its being closed at night ; that about two boars after
a policeman found the door standing open, with every ladi.
cation of having bees =restated from Um amide, while a
mar= shoat the place led to the discovery that two 101. totes
had bean taken from a pocket-book in a cost which had been
left hanging in the bar parlour, and the other oriels. above
enumerated from the bar itself. Suspicion falling en the pd.
80011111, they were apprehended ; and some foonnarkimprinted
to the sawdust on the floor of the cellar, where the Mid or
thieves had evidently masted themselves before the haunt
was Mond, were found to correepond exactly with ildway's
boots, which were of a somewhat peculiar construed= about
the whs. The Dotes wets not found or traced, bat some
tobacco found upon the prisoner nmembled the prommater's
stook, and • threepenny. piece found on Sit way being past of
a sum of 31. Ilk. 9d. takes from hie pockets, the prosecutor
was strongly iodised to swear to at being his property, bat
than wasnothing to the Maps :.bf=f actually to =avid
either of the prisoners with to.
The Lord Mayor. after being mede acquainted with there
Soy Meshed whether them was any additional evidence?
Tlis Maw sable etas at all with regard to therms= ow.

but It the phonon were remanded for a week he thought he
oould prove soother ease awake them.
Mr. Goodaea (chief elark)—Have you uy evidence upon
that ere now ?

OttleTerZ.rio; we only heard about it this morning.
Hr. Goodman—Well, we cannot remand the prisoners
upon a now charge without some evidence being offered.
Offloar-811way refused to account for the 31. No 9d. toned
on him, and it's a very large sum for him to haven:items it was
the produce of the notes.
Mr. Goodman—However that may be, you cannot compel
Mtn to amount for the money being in hie rammion, unless
be lease.. You have not traced the some
tor-1 feel quite sure about the threepenny-piece
*the bale in it.

Thos Lord Mayor—lt is a very common thing for three-
penny and fourpenny.pieces to have holes in them. I must
have some stronger evidence before I send them to a jury.
The case is one of great suspicion; but the proof ie alto-
gether deficient, and therefore they must be ducharged. And.
with regard to the new cam you alluded to, officer, if you
get any evidence, you can apprehend them spin.
The prisoners were then discharged.
William Ward, stall, well-dressed, and gentlemanly-looking
man, whom deportment and appearance generally were well
calculated to disarm suspicion, was brought up fie further
examination, on a charge of having stolen a coat, value 21.,
from the luncheon rooms of the Commercial Sale Rooms,
Mincing-lane. flanging about the place in the middle of the
day in a desultory way, he at length fixed himself near a
• chair on which a coat was hanging, and ordered a steak ;
but before his order could be executed he walked off with
the coat, after placing it on his arm under his own, but befog
observed he was followed and given into custody. There
, were grave suspicions that he had dishonestly come by sees-
' ral ot.hr articles which wets found at his lodgings, and be
wus remanded for inquiry—his defence, through his solicitor,
Mr. Wean's:, being, that ha wassbortalghted, and had taken
up the coat by mistake.
There was no other evidence against him now, but it was
stated that be had been previously convicted, and the pn-
ease than, by the advice of Mr. Weimer, pleaded guilty,
in cedar that he might be summarily dealt with.
Polies-constable 38 A &poet d that he was on duty at the
Rouse of Commons in April, 1868, and had the prisoner
(whom he had previously suspected) in custody for =
coat and an umbrella from the lobby there; and on
him, found in his pockets no fewer than nine pair of gloves,
arid three cigar cases. The prisoner on being taken to
the Westminster police-court, pleaded ;laty, and was stet-
tamed to four month. imprisonment. At that time he gave
the name of Robert Thompson, but witness had previously
lateens him by the name of Robertson.
Mowry Carpenter, inspector of the Loodon.bridp Rail-
way Station, deposed that ha had twice seen the prisoner la
the refreshment rooms there, and kept his eyes upon him,
but that being called away for a few minutes on each occasion
he found the prisoner gone, and a cost which had been hang-
then previously gone too.
The Lord Mayor (with whom rat Mr. Alderman4iteS
bold the primmer his oondaot was atrocious, since he
to make robbery a system, and to live upon otter people's
coats and umbrellas. In the present inatance, want, how-
ever, could not be pleaded in extenuation, for when he was
taken into custody a sum emmeding 141. was found in his
pocket. The court felt they would not be justified unless
they inflicted the utmost amount of punishment in their
power, end therefore henna be imprisoned, with hard "'boar,
for six months.

Carlo Potrocini, an Italian, was charged with annoying a
Mr. John Bobber, Mather, surgeon, of Bates-street, feting-
toe. by playing an organ in front of his bowie.
The prisoner and a number of ether nits have been in the
habit of daily annoying the oomplainent, and this they have
done by the *direction of an opposite neighbour for three
months. When he had given the prisoner into custody the
neighbours abused him. The annoyance we. rgrist that
le could not hest his psalms is his wiry speak. When
the prisoner was told to go away he refund.
The prisoner said he was playing his organ, but he wee
told to do so by a man.
Mr. Tyrwhitt raid—The facts of the matter appear to ha
that. The neighbour, OW/ through undue or spite, twinge
the prisoner to the front of the boobs to annoy the com-
plainant. He had before decided, and he should continue
to decide until he wee upset by a higher authority, that the
law did not allow a neighbour to bring any one to annoy kb
fellow•neighbonr. He would take care that it was not dons
while he Nat on that bench. The defendant had hal
Sale himself, and he should tins him 200. Add
kimself to the *Tone, the magistrate said that he was the
fellow who had brought the prisoner from a distant country
for hie own profit and gain, and he wee the man who ought
to be flied if possible. Such fellows as the padroni wan
the can.. of much misohief In England. Respectable
people in this country were not to be annoyed by a
parcel of low foreigner., and aster am ha could be would pre-
vent it. The country would not be worth living in if it was
to be continually annoyed by such fellows. Some time
MIMS& MMUS was introduced into parliament for lmi
en
end to this nuisance. The remedy proposed wae t
advised and reek, and was such that it could not be aspeeted
to be peened, for -by that measure it we. stated that • man
could not play his flute on Hempstead Heath. He was of
opinion that when the men were brought before the court
he should have the power to detain the organ for aim months,
and then the sadrons would get tired if he had twenty or
thirty of them taken away, for the organs were expend...
If the inhabitants were to conaidor a reassure of thin kind,
and were to petition pediment, he had no doubt such •
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The MAW this dropped.
- • SOUTHWARK.
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John Bigyerial, aaho;n7sker, reaiding in Heat-etritet.
Newington, area brought before Mr. Combo, abused with
airaulting Ann Biggerden, hie wife.
The latter, who exhibited a large bruise on the forehead,
said that abs had no charge to make 'game her husband.
He never struck her in his life, and the brain wea owned by
ea sooident.

Cu be 'eked whether any one maw the smelt tea
inittealf

Frederick Leewood, • printer, Paid he was pude, slow;
Kestittreet that morning, when he heard a fends sonanting
ht ohs of the hoes's. He wet to the spot and saw the °oat-
plainant bleeding from a cut in the face, and at that time a
towable cams op and took the prisoner into custody.
Mr. Combs Liked him If he saw the prisoner strike hie
wife P

He toggled that he did not, bat It looked very mach as if he
had.

Garrett Munro Poems, 69 said he wits on duty in
Kent-street that morning when he heard scream for maw.
&nob profited from a house near the Cattle publio-house. He
went there and row the female bleeding. Her husband was
in the room at t►e time, rod broken crockery wee lying about
in all directions. At first she said her husband had been
beating her, but on the way to the station-house she said
that she fell down accidently, end cut her face with a basis.
The prisoner declared that such was the truth.
Mr. Combe odd he did not believe him. His wife we a
foolish woman to be knocked shoat by such a fellow without
complaining. bat he should pat a check on him by binding
him over to keep the peso) foe six months,

LAMBETH.
Amongst the persons who applied to the presiding magis-
trate, the Hon. G. C. Norton, for assistance from the poor-
box, wee a poor woman, who said her family and herself were
distressed to the utmost owing to the length of time her hue-
band had been out on strike, and out of employment.
In reply to the questions of the magistrate,
The applicant said that her husband was a builder's
labourer, and was thrown out of employment by the strike.
slam which time he had been allowed the smell sum of about
three shilling, a week from the society, but this small sum
being quite inadequate to pay even their rent, they wen re-
duced to the greatest distress.
Mr. Norton observed that it was quite shocking to behold
such a state of things as workmen refusing to labour at mon-
nerative employment, and rather then do to, and miming
sufficient to maintain themselves and their families com-
fortably, choosing to being both to • state of misery sad
wretchedness. It had always been his wish to amid to the
utmost ponces whose addresses, temporary or otherwise, bad
been brought ea by accident or misfortune, and without any
positive fault of their own• but in such a cam as the present
he did not think he would be justified in appropriating the
funds of the poor-box to the applicant, inasmuch as it would
only be encouraging a principle and practice very generally
disapproved of, end very much to be lamented. Tuus mush,
however, he should promise to do for the applicant, in the
event of her going home and inducing her husband at once
togo to work, and that was, after doing so, and then coming
to rim, to give her some assistance.
The applicant mid she feared she could not promise that,
as her husband was about going on the tramp, and left the
court.