The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-12 00:00:00

THB POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Wm. Hicks vrm charged welt ea alio(a queatity of
leather, value It. 2a. 6d., the property of Mr. W. Fitch, Old
Fuh. . . .

• —The prisoner, it appeared, had been recently entrusted by
the prosecutor with emus minipleo of bookbinding leather,
upon an nods...ding that he should be showed • commis-
sion on oil goods he might edl, and that all his traneactioes
went to be for cosh. On Friday latt he represented that ho
bed obtained in order from Mr. Shepherd, of Sheernakees.
statiostar, for goods to the event of If. 2.. 6d., mid when
&eked for the cosh over the counter, be mid he bed ao mew/
then, bet that Mr. Shepherd would pay en delivery, sad that
if • boy were sent with him he would bend over to Mtn the
amount paid by that gewleman, bee Me diaconal. A boy
aecompenied him sccordinsly, mid waited outside the ship
while the prisoner went in, but when Ms latter mule ow, and
the boy said Wm for the money, ho raid he could not pay
him unless he first had • receipt. The boy offered to give
him one in petted, which, honey, the prieoner would
not do. se be wanted one to iuk, sun when the boy ached him
to go tote a nriehlr name o, wheo• he could write each
• receipt, Übe prisosat Wised to psy Ws the mossy at all,

med mill tea world tell ant day and pay the prosecutor him-
seff. Not calling then, nor anbanotaitly, the poling wets eat
an his track, and he woo apprabeaded.
The prisoner wanted to show that it was a mere matter of
debt, which be intruded to awls at the earliest opp ndonity ;
bat when with WOO ditßoulty he we convinced that, legally,
the sot was ow of that, be pleaded guilty, and we vs-
mended, In order that be might be dealt with summarily in
petty session.

EOW-STREET.
A youth named MN Smith alias Jew.: was charged with
steeling a silver watch from a young man named Benjamin
Brown.

The proeecutor stated that he wee standing in the Bird-
cogs-walk, looking at the soldier., on Monday morning bet,
when he Jett a tug at his breast, and instantly missed his
watch. Hs auspaotad and pursued the 'orisons?, who was
taken into custody by fisegeast Robinson, of the de-
tective force, who happened to be on duty near ths ow., and
who found the watch is the poisoners possession. he latter
having readily delivered It up to the officer. Tb. ow
had bean remanded for inquiry as to the prisoner's
antecedents, and now a constable named Clarke, of
the division, was in attendance. He said ha
bad known the prisoner foe some time as the daily
associate of thieves, but mold not .ay he had ever beat com-
mitted. His hiends, a set of the worst thieves, had accosted
bun (witates) on the way to the court, and offered him Is. 2d.
not "to sly anything spin him."
Prisoner—That's a falsehood, I know ; and as for being an
associate of thieves, thee another. Toe officer is himself
an associate of thieve.. I have seen him constently in their
company. He a good deal more among them then I ever
was.

Clarke—Yes, became it is my business to go among them.
The Magistrate—You seem to forget that the witness,
being • constable, is obliged to go among them.
Prison's—But he Wet obliged to drink and Lail with them,
Is be? lies always with them.
Clerks ladigsantly repudiated the imputation ; and Ser-
geant Robinson sold be Ina a vary respectable°Moor.
Ms prisoner was committad for trial.
MARLBOROUGH STREET.
:alert Proctor, of the H Troop, had Life Guertin, Albany
&wracks, woe charged with sasankting Robert Therapies,
doomibed la the charge-skeet as • printer, of Groot l'ye.
street, Weir. niisster.
. . .

Tht c.041.7de;;0i Said be went about twelve the previous
night into a public-house in Piccadilly, at the time having
his child in his arms, end hie wile and mother female with
him, when the amused, who was drinking, asked hire why he
die not get en honest living like a men, and salmi as he bat
done. He told him that was his Modems. He imesedietely
struck him a slight blow on the back with a riding whip,
and afterwards billowed him to the door and struck him •
blow on the forehead, causing the mark as it then appeared.
The soldier had been drinking.
195 said the soldier admitted striking the complainant, and
said It served him right, as he came in begging and annoying
him, and wield not go sway. He bad seen the man about
begging with children.
The accused, a fine-befit moo, said the man welt out of
the house, and then mum into the part where he was and
begged, and as he u-ed very annoying language and would
not leave, he certainly did strike him.
Mr. Bingham said he believed what the soldier bad said,
and he should like to know what bushman the complainant
had to be about at twelve o'clock at night with a child in his
arms begging. He had so doubt be had bettered sad
aggravated the soldier, who had .track him, se he weld sot
get rid of him, and had gate a little beyond the mak.
Fined 905., or awes days.
Remit Faulkner, a respectable-looking women of 32,
described es • imam, of 22, Oration-street, City-roed,
Cambridge, was charged with attempting suicide by drowning
la the Serpentine River, Hyde-park.
Mr. Bingham asked /s/ what could induce bee to attempt
so raab an ect

—The defeWdant reOkril that the belonged to Cambridge.
Her father had left her and other of his children in poverty.
She added that there was • gentleman who owed him 1001.
and had bees, as she wee informed, to Cambridge, and hail
said it he could dud out the children he would cheerfully pay
them the amount, and It was to tied him she had come to
London—to Hyde-park-terra, but found ha had removed.
The magistrate directed the supenmendent to take the de-
fendant to the authorities of St. George's Workhouse, and
ordered that the expenses for conveying her back to Cam-
bridge should be paid out of the poor-boa.
MARYLRBONE.

A young man naricadjr;sts7—ii".i; was charged with
being dumb end ritutiog bells.
Police-constable 271 8 said he was on ditty in Gloucester-
road, Regent a-perk, at 4 In the morning, when be saw the
defendant coming along with @ever.' companion., the lot of
them being drunk. The prisoner. who was more jolly than
the rest, amused himself by ring= the bells as he was
coming along. Heise. several polls at a bell at one of the
bousee, when a lady pat her head out of window, and gave
him in charge. He went very quietly to the station.
Prisoner now moll he was very sorry. He was a forseter,
and had been to one of their dinners at Chalk-farm Tavern.
He had taken to) much to drink, and wart quite unaware of
what be was doing at the time. He wee vary sorry for what
be bed done.

hlr. Broughton ordered him to pay a Sae of 5.., or go to
prima fir .even day..
The floe wee paid.