The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-30 00:00:00

30, 1800.

did not have any fruit) in the meantime' making ott. les-
ion's), morning the robbery was reported at the police eta-
and a portion of the stolen property wee identified.
Deakin, the prceecutrix, deposed that she had a stand
in Covent•gardcn 3larket, and ou Tuesday night, having
placed her fruit baskets together and ooveredthem over with
carpeting nailed down all round, she left as usual for the
night. Oaring to her stand at 8 o'clock yesterday morning
she found the cloth or carpet had been cut in several places,
and several half-bushels of pl greengages, &c., taken
out. She had lost 21. worth of fruit within the last fort-
night.
Mr. Henry said he was well aware of the frequency of
robberies in Covent-garden Market, and had often pointed
out the only way of preventing them, namely, the admi.s.
don of the police. The market was private property, the
Duke of Bedford and his agents having hitherto declined to
admit the police, although it was obvious that if they could
walk the avenues of the market they would be much more
efficient than the limited staff of beadles could possibly be.
The robberies were generally committed by costennongers,
who sold the fruit in the streets afterwards.

The prisoner, who mid he bought the fruit of another
boy for 2d., was committed for trial.

MARL BOIIOUGH:STREET.

Timothy Neale and William Walker, two young men,
were charged before Mr. Beadon with attempting to enter
burglarioualy the house No. 12, in New Compton-street.
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George May, • constable of the F diviehni, said that
between three and four in the morning he heard a noise in
New Comptonetrest, and going there he found the pri-
soners near the house No. 12, the shutters pf the shop being
down. On seeing him approach the priooners turned round
and ten off. On going close up to the house he found that
two of the shop shutters had been taken down and a win.
dow broken. He pursued the prisoners to a coffee ahokin
High-street, and went in and took them into custody. The
prisoners said they had not been in New Compton-street,
and that they had been in the coffee-shop half an hour.
Frisker, 168 E., said he saw the prisoners in the coffee-
' room, and, with the previous witness, followed them in.
They said they had been over the water till then.
Mr. Robert Garrett, of 12, New Compton.street, said be
was called up by the polite, but found- nothing removed,
though the shutters were down and a window broken.
The prisoners Irian put back,' and inquiries made, but
nothing against their character found out. Walker was
found to have only lately left the small.pox hospital, and is
an apprentice-to aworking jeweller iu Clerkenwell.
Mr. lierdon said ho should remand them, but would
take bail for their appearance on Friday nett, but it was
not provided.
WESTMINSTER .
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A girl, only 18 years of age, having the appearance of a
regular Leggiir who gave her name an Manduret Bogen,
was charged with the following disgraceful behaviour :
Mary lane, 'errant to Major lk Padrone, 1, Montpelier-
square, linnpton, said that at 4 O'CIOCk on Tuesday after-
noon the prisoner came to the house and rang the bell, offer-
ing some laces for sale. She was told to go away, and she
then asked for some money or bread. The family were out of
town, and witness told her that she was not allowed to give
anything away, upon which prisoner became very abusive,
ceiling witness and her fellow-servant the most filthy and
obscene names. She was repeatedly told to go away, but
continued abusing them for nearly half-an-hour, till at
length witness went for a policeman.
The second servant having corroborated this, the police
proved that when she was told logo away from the house
she refused to do so.

The accused, in defence, declared that when she spoke to
the servants they abased and swore at Ler, and she merely
retaliated ; and her mother, who looked even more like a
beggar than herself, declared that her daughter could not
possibly use such language as was imputed to her, but Mr.
Dayraan considered the case fully proved, and sent her to
prison for seven days.
LAMBETH.

Nary Rosier, who did not appear to be more than 18 or
19 years of age, but who was described to be a married
woman with one child, was placed at the bar on a charge of
stealing from the person of Thomas Taylor eight sovereigns
and swallowing the lot. •
The complainant, a weather-beaten seaman, said be had
just been paid off, and receiving 44/. from his owners left
Lie lodgings at the Blue Anchor, in Lemanetreet, White-
chapel, on the morning before with 21' sovereigns in his
pocket, and proceeded to the Blue Anchor, in East Smith-
field, when be fell iu with the prisoner and another female
then present, and made up his mind " to go for a
He accordingly bent for a cab, gut into it with his two female
companions, and desired to be driven to the London-bridge
statics,. On reaching that place he told the cabman to
drive to Oteenwich, and, after drinking a great deal, the
prisoner put her hand into the pocket in which his sove-
reigns were, and took them all with the exception of 21.105.
She also mashed a silver watch which cost him 5/., and he
gave ber into custody.
William Read, a cab-driver and owner, said the prosecutor
and his oompanions were three-parts drunk, and gave a
lengthened history of their trip, the number of public-houses
they stopped at, and the number of bottles of rum and gin
the prosecutor purchased during the journey.
The magistrate severely censored the conduct of this
witness in driving penons about in such a state, and it ap-
peared to him very suspicious, and as if he had lent himself to
the robbery.
Kate Harrington, the prosecutor's second companion
corroborated Ids evidence in many material particulars,
and said she distinctly saw the prisoner swallow the sove-
reigns.
Police -constable Samuel Perch, who took the prisoner into
custody, said she had been carefully searched at the station-
house, but nothing was found on her.
The prisoner denied the robbery, and was remanded to a
future slay.