The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-27 00:00:00

IN ILL NEODE4 MMISABINI.

THE POLICE COLLETS.
(THIS DAY.)

BOW-STREET.
NOBIERT AT I N.tRING-CRoss STATION.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

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again.t him before the headers of I.incolris Inn,
the judge of the l'ountplleurt of Staffordshire.
.'f he Commissioner—What were the charges' You know
beneLers of Liucoltis-inn would not disbar you for
thing.
foe bankrupt—There were a number of charges—almost
:00 numerous to mention. (A laugh.)
After heariog Mr. Miles, who appeared for the bankrupt,
His honour said he was of opinion that the bankrupt
,a no reasonable expectation at all of being able to pay
.'s He had been both a barrister and an attorney,
ought to have known much better ; be had clearly
,ought himself within the meaning of the act of paths-
ent : and the order of discharge must be suspended for
mouths.
Mr. Miles appealed to his Honour to pass a milder sen-
nee. iu con•hleration of no creditor appearing to oppose.
The Commissioner— How can Ido it ! If we visit with
..unishinent ignorant people who dont know the law, what
re we to to a gentleman who is both a barrister and
. solicitor. and who ihnsitransgresses the law The
s•olei of discharge must be suspended for 12 months.
Mr. Miles --1 hope your Honour will grant him protec-
The Commiesioner— Ile may have protection for one
~,,k, not to be renewed without notice being given to
Mr. Aldridge. I don't think it a case for protection but
~ther for imprhionment.

Tile bankrupt was described as a journalist, of Lewisham-
,l, Kent, formerly a director of the Imperial Land Credit
.rroration (Limited). lib; debts were :".30f., of which
war stated to be in respect of 50 shares in the
•hipany.
There was no opposition.

The bankrupt, who speaks excellent English notwith-
.; aiding his Italian name, stated that he had taken part
as the formation of the company, and had recommended a
ntleman for the appointment of surveyor, in respect
which he received 24. , the gentleman paying to
the directors 2501. for his appointment. He hod been im-
prkoned one week, and had been once before insolvent.
Ile h ol nothing of his own, but an allowance made to him
I.y his brother.
The Commissioner—A most proper man to be promoter
.t a company. As no one opposes he may take his order.

A well-tbvssed young woman, who said her name was
J.,.(l4ine Th.no,, but refused to give her address, was
chArged with stealing a leather hag from the ladies' first-
class waiting room at the Clearing-crass Terminus of the
South Eastern Railway.
lire. Woolley, the attendant at the ladies' first-class
waiting-room, stated that on Monday morning she arrived
at the terminus (from her residence at New-cross) at
about a quarter before 10 o'clock. The prisoner
wee then sitting in the ladies' waiting-room. Wit-
ness placed her bag under the table. A little before
12 o'clock witness had occasion to go ont for a short time.
At that time there were only two persons in the room—
the prisoner and an old lady. They were both there still
when she came back. After the prisoner had left witness
misted her bag. She gave information to Sergeant
Mouckton. The bag and keys now produced were those
she had lost.
_ _ _

Sergeant Monckton, the officer specially appointed for
duty at the station, said he had frequently seen the pri-
soner loitering about the platform and waiting rooms when
not a passenger. From the description given by Mrs.
Woolley of the person she had seen in the waiting room,
be suspected that it was the same person. Last evening
be saw the prisoner on the platform, and sent for her to
Mr. Richardson, the station-master's room, in nnler that he
right see her. She then said she was going to Woolwich by
the train which started at She was not then detained,
but they watched her. She did not go by that train.
After it had gone she went out into the street, walked
about the Strand and neighbouring thoroughfares, and
entered into conversation with three different men
whom she met. With one of these she went back to the
station to have something to drink at the restaurant. At
this time she was carrying in her hand a black bag which she
bad hitherto kept concealed under her dress. lie took her
into custody. She was at once recognised by Mrs. Woolley,
who also i lentified the bag, and a bunch of keys found in
it. A diary and some other articles were miming. The
prisoner said " If that is the lady's bag, I moist have left
mine in the waiting-room." Witness said " Then, what
have you done with the diary?" to which she made no
reply.
Woolley said the prisoner had no bag with her on
Monday. nor was any left in the waiting-room.
Mr. Richardson corroborated Sergeant 'Mondrian's e•-i-
-deuce, and asked fur time to inquire lute other charges
against her.
She was accordingly remanded.

Charks Martin and Pkrre Alamo, two Frenchmen,
charged with stealing some blankets from the coffee-house
of Mr. Whitlock. (Charlotte-street, Portland-place, were
brought up before Mr. Tyrwhitt for final examination.
Mr. Albert interpreted.
On the last occasion it was proved that the prisoners
took a bed at Mr. Whitlock's, and on leaving the next
morning Mr. Whitlock, observing that the prisoners were
rather bulky in appearance, sent upstairs, and ascertained
that the blankets were gone from the bed the prisoners had
occupied, and he then sent after the prisoners and caused
them to be taken into custody, when the blankets were
found rolled round them.

S..veral coffeahouse-keepers and others stepped forward
vi.l said they had charges to prefer against the prisoners.
Mr. Tyrwhitt naked if the property stolen in any of the
cases had been traced.

Polioe-oonstable Shaw, I•_'3 E, said it bad not; but there
au a person present who had a charge to make against
Mason, who when taken into custody was weming a coat
which proved part of the stolen property.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would bear the case.
Mr. Richard Oliver, master tailor, of Trevor-square,
Knightsbridge, said the prisoner Mason, accom-
panied by another foreigner, whom he represented
to be bis brother, took a furnished apartment in his
house. They afterwards came and took possession of the
room, bringing with them a large box, and they left early
in the morning, taking with them a quantity of clothing
belonging to him and his son, some clothing and materials
belonging to his customers, and a quantity of materials
from the shop, and they left him without a pair of
trousers to go out in. Opening the box he
found it to contain bricks, stones, and oyster shells.
Police-constable Sbaw produced the coat which Mason
was wearing when he was taken into custody, and Mr.
Oliver identified it as one of the coats stolen from him.
Mr. Tyrwhitt considered the two cases gone into suffi-
cient, and committed the prisoners (in whose possession a
number of keys such as are used for opening drawers and
cupboards were found) for trial.

THAMES.
sHAVEML ARANDoNMENT OF CHILDREN.
Catherine Itnl,in.on, alias Connor, alias O'Donnell, an
Irishwoman, was brought before Mr. Knox charged with
deserting her two illegitimate children, Joseph, aged b
years, and Mary Ann, aged 3 years, and leaving them
chargeable to the pArish of St. George-in-the-East.
Mr. Rolston, relieving officer of St. George, said the
prisoner's children bad been maintained by the parish,
one for three or four years, the other for about two years.
She took them out of the house again, and on the Rth of
June last, a woman named WOW brought the children
to the gate of the workhouse in a destitute condition, and
said they were starving. The children were admitted, and
htd been maintained by the parish ever since. The pri-
soner had kept oat of the way ever since until yesterday,
when she was taken into custody.
lie. William Folo, porter and superintendent of labour,
stated that the children were in • deplorable condition
when they were brought to the workhouse in June.
The prisoner said she bad no questions to ask and no
defence to make.
Mr. Knox said that the prisoner was • most unnatural
and unfeeling mother to abandon her children as she bad
40,,e and put the bnrthen of maintaining ahem on the
rate;uvern. fl.r sentenced her to three mouths' imprison-
tent and hard labour.