The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-09 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

CLERKENWELL
James Padoe, 42. area Jemmy Riley, described as a
dealer, and Catherine Padoe, 32, his wife, were charged
be'ore Mr. Cooke with stealing a brown le-then travelling
case, containing :11 doz. gold watch chains. g doz. gold
locks, 24 doz. gold bars, and 6 doz. gold split rings, value
800 f., the property of Mr. George E. Walton.
Mr. Lewis, jun., of the firm of Lewis and Lewis, Ely.
place, appeared to prosecute, and Mr. Ricketts, of Freda.
rick-street, Gray's.inn-road, for the prisoners.
Mr. Lewis said :—On the 24th of May my client,
who assists his father, amanufacturer of gold
chains, at 15, Hylton-street, Birmingham, and stayed
with a friend of his, a Mr. Flint, of No. 12,
Wilderness-row, returned to the house, and left
the case in question with another, in the passage, whilst
he went into the parlour. Shortly afterwards Mr.
Flint came in and said how foolish it was of
him to leave the stock there, and the stree; door
op He went out, and at once missed one of the cases.
The police were communicated with, and the ease put into
the bands of Mr. Inspector Potter, of the C division, who
calud to his assistance two detectives of the same division
named Ranger and Knowles. who apprehended the priso-
ners o'2 Saturday evening last. They had obtained such
evidence as be thought would fully justify him in asking
for a reward. The pawnbrokers would be p'o•lrced
where some of the chains were pawned, and it would seem
that from the time Inspector Fetter received information
of the robbery he gave his directions, and the prisoners
bad never been lost sight of.
It transpired during the bearing of the case thst the
male prisoner had a banking account, and that the balance
to his credit even before this robbery took place was close
upon WM.
The prisoners were remanded.
GREENWICH.
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Kate Benton, apparently 18 or 20 years of age, but who
was dressed in male attire, was placed in the dock before
Mr. Traill, charged with personating herself to be a boy, and
obtaining admission to the house of Mr. Richard Mitrell,
of 6, Emerson-terrace, Forest-hill, Sydenham, for a sup-
posed unlawful purpose.
The prisoner on entering the dock failed to take off the
boy'. cap she was wearing, evidently imagining it was her
11 ordinary bonnet or hat, and during the inquiry she con-
tinually applied a rose she held in her hand to her nose.
It appeared that the prosecutor is the proprietor
of an educational and boarding establishment at Syslen-
ham, and on Tuesday last a gentleman called at the
promeutor's house with the prisoner, whom he represented
as an orphan and his nephew recently arrived from
Ame :ca, and whose education had been neglected. An
agreement was then entered into, by which the prisoner
was admitted a pupil and hoarder, she coming to the
house on the evening of the same day, and remaining
until Sunday. In the meantime the prosecutor and his
' wife had their suspicion as to the prisoner's sex, and one
of the s•rvanta of the family took the opportunity of
looking into a box belonging to the prisoner, which had
' been left unfastened, and which was found to contain
I nothing but articles of female wearing apparel. The pri-
goner was then challenged as to being a female, which she
confessed to being. but declining to give any account of
herself, or where her friends were to be found, ahe was
given into custody.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, denied that she
had any felonious intention in being admitted to and re-
maining in the house of the prosecutor, the proceeslin7
being nothing but an act of folly upon her part. She asked
that two letters which had been addressed to her through
the post and received by the prosecutor that morning
might be given up to her, as she wished to read them.
Mr. Train said as the prisoner declined to give any
account of herself or to name any one who would become
bail for her appearance, he should have to keep her in
custody until the necessary inquiries were made concerning
her. The letters might be given to her to rend in the
presence of a police inspector, and then to be detained
until the next inquiry.
The prisoner was then remanded, and it was afterwards
stated that one of the letters contained a post-office order
for 205., and that the prisoner was expected to arrive by
an afternoon train that slay (yesterday) from London to
Portsmouth, to meet the writer.

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DAY, JULY B.—Adroistrions oa payourat, 4,275 ; ditto by
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