The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-11 00:00:00

7HR POLICE WORM

BOUTRW•RIC.

Themes Preston N'etarthy, dessibed u a wholesale taw-
conies, of Rope! Mlnt-stroet. Tower-h,ll, and No. 24, Bier.
lase, C.ty, ead AAA Bwessus, a totacoonbrr, carrying on
bu-iness at No. 20, West n-street, Southwark, were eharg,d
wi'h Bing conosneed with an Aber (in custody) la Veahag
thirty-ore valuable nuerrchaum pip ties acme os
board the Jobs Ball, Hamburg Osamu, the property of
Messrs. Woolf and Co., dial:gook-use, Bariegballs• rest,
City.
Mr. Lewis, ass. spuered for the prosecution, and in open.
lan the race mid that as the 17th of December last the
John Bell araved la the port of Loudon, on board of
which was continue 1 a CYO of valuable meerschaum from
Vkona to Mull.. Woolf and Company. It was de'ivered
on the blowing day, wh•ts thirty-Ono of the pipes won
Os the Mat o/Jassary, one of the woks pp a was
tweet to the poestuks of Henry HUI& a gusto= wet.. r-
mete, who was WAS into custody sad remanded for fur h• r
evidence.

Jarvis said he was • &dative officer of the City
police.. From isformation he received from the prisoner
gammon, wbo was at the Seethiag-lane police .t.t cs, he
went with Hagbes, as officer of the 11 divisi. n, to lloyal
Mint-stre t, Tower-WU, on the previous even'ag, where be
salt WCartloy, and asked him to accompany him
to the station-hours in Seething-lane to be idea-
Aga or to identify another men who was thee.
He connoted, and ea loon as they eaten& the elation-house
&warners called out, "That le the man 1 had the pipes
from," at the same time pettifog out M'Carthy. The hitter
denied his moertion, at the a .me time calling Seamen a
vamthund. Wit 's. then took M'Certhy into easterly as
w.ll an Summers, and brought theca to this court. When
M'Carthy wasolarged herald t' Bs did nut steal the pips.
He bated them ht the usual way, as smuggled goods, and a
costume officer, who wee in custody, .tots them and brought
them onshore." Be aim mode • communication to witness
which he did not with to mak.: public, es it might &feet the
ends ofjoedco. IdtCarthy refused to give his addrem but
WitDele knowing It, went to 24, Bear-Yam, City, and having
meshed it he found • large quanity at keep tobaoce,
snuff, cigars, sky's, Berlin wool, and two immudable.look•
log life-mmervers.
Wealthy mid he kept them for his own protection.
hr. Lewis here aslod his worship to discharge Summers,
and allow him to be made • whom..

11117nOter ;;;;I;ierstwi sad put fa tn. wither box. He
rid that he beet s tobacconist's shop at 20, Weston-street,
Southwark. Ha had known M•Carthy ax or seven years.
H. saw Me pipes prodtred on tho 20.11 of Deeetuber, wl-es
be lived In Marble-court Bortneada4 On that day
N'Carthy brewed three to him ea ram whets he said be
W a umber of them at home, and is witness 11 be could
sail them for him. He said he required tle. Bd. for each of
the claws, and 7.. lid. fee each of We plain ones. Witness
told him to Isere them, and he would see what he conk! do
with them. He left the three earmles, end on the following
tie/ lea saw M'Cartby again, sad told him he bed ken to •

tradesman In Piccadilly, who would give an order for Dome,
bat before he did so, be wanted to lee some of the others.
, M'Carthy then gate him 12 more, making in all 16 pipe..
' Witness took him to Mr. Simmon.'s, at 62, Piccadilly, and
sold hint the ten sow nrodaoed for 41. 6e., at the rate of
134.6 d. each, and received the money. Whams sew WCerthy
at his own boom the same night, sad handed him 31. 19a.,
leaving Wm 60. for hie trouble. The ere rwastatas pips
witness sent to him on the I,llllring day by hie errand boy.
Mr. Coombe asked when all this mewed?
Mr. Lewis replied, on the 19th and 20th of December,
about the time the pipes were stolen.
Summers had said that previous to ICCarthy bringing
him the samples be called ois him, and asked him to wait on
him, and look at some smuggled enemata= pipes. Wit-
ness kaew him as a tobacconist and dealer In smuggled
goods.
&Maltby acksowledgel selling the pipes, but stated he
bought them in the regular way.
r. Comb* asked whether the piped now produced had
been Identified as those stolen from the case is question?
Janie replied that they had.
Mr. Lewis here informed him worship that Rinds, the
Customs officer, who mood charged with being concerned in
the robbery, would come up for farther examination on Bs-
' tarday. the 19th Met, therefore be sated his wor.hip to
[remand the ',risotto. Il`Carthy until that day.
Mr. Corobe accordingly remanded him, and refused to
leant bail.

LAMBETH.
Mr. Emote was ergaged for upwards of en hoer in investi-
gating a charge of amtaalt preferred by Frederic]: George
Hewing, a Bremen belonging to the brigade, spies: lhomas
WAitaker, the Wanes to Mmes. Hodges', the distillers,
private dm brigade, and ia whose charge a powerful engine
Ntlonging to Maws. Hedges is placed.
Mr. GSMhr
the the barrister, Instructed by Mr. Humphreys,
ir i Te
imp
t ort the completed ; and Mr. Solomon
aed

IteTithrocii, the;uperinteadcat, and Means. Hender•
era and Holloway, the t nsineere to the fire brigade, wee
also pretest t) watch the proceedings.
eillzpeared that for some time pest a misunderstanding has
between the brigade men tad those atttchei to the
citrate testae belonging to Homers. Hodges. Scone weeks age
the defeedsat Whitaker bad b•en earomoned to this coast
awl was coevicted in a penalty for assaulting a petiolate at
a Ire. The mate for the present complaint arose on the
Nth el lest week at a fire that took place in the house of
Dlr. Oliver, a hater, at Heeningtoa-crose. The coutplahmat
warn the dm* to metre at the lire, and baying, with the ae
'Weft of others, thrown several buckets of water en the
menesed to confine it to one room, and wet on beheads
sad knees, looking for the source of the fire, when the deem-
&et, who had brought his easing, rushed up stain. He
mew him, the ddent said, Get out of the way, yea
Ilireseeps
deer Imo man,eosplaisant what can
replied you Insowthat he aboatberamdene a
to the
brigade. mid to the Waterloo-statioa, and ehis
somber (90), upon which he said he had only
ladensed to the brigades few days, caught him by the collar,
him out of his way. In his CMS.
aeamiatloa the complainant admitted Ilist he was not much
hitt, and that it was the indignity of babes treated m that
he t most of. Be 'also admitted that the defendant
with him a hand-pomp, an ineinneent generally
asliggthisess in patting out alight fires in mom, and Hr.
Holloway who wes called as a witness, admitted that this
pomp had been wed to it:Unpaid& the reesa;nhig Ire In the
room.

Elbott observed that there could be so doubt ft was
rag kind on the pert aliases. Hedges to beep ma mese to
• at in eatinguirhieg firm and that their servants hod a
right to &vend at aeon but at the same time the magi=
should to Vetoed under the control sad management of a
discreet sad proper person, and not one giving way to sued
tamper as that indalged in by ths defendant. His conduct
on the poem acesaire was most improper, and for the
smault complied of he mast pay a penalty of 405., or 20
days. The penult woe pi&
Mr. Githird some' the magistrate that in all other parts
of the mime& lie Wale men were on the best possible
terms with tie eNumbele as private engines.