The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-12 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Crompton.)
(Continued from yesterday s Express.)
Eliza Harriett Mary Pellhamt, a well-dressed woman,
surrendered to take her trial upon an indictment charging
her with stealing four doyleys and a pair of mittens, the
property of Sir Robert PeeL
Lady Emily Peel was examined, and mid that she had a
stall at the fair. She remembered the officer bringing back
the doyleys produced. They had been on her stall about
an hour and a half before ; she had then pinned them higher
up on the stall. The mittens were like those on her 'MIL
By Mr. Serjeant Ballantine—Sorne articles had fallen from
my stall before. I found them. There were things of
greater value at my stall. It is nut at my desire this per-
son is prosecuted.
Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, in a most energetic address, con-
tended that the story told by the police was without truth,
and contended that his client had found the things, and
that the police had for their own purposes made the charge
of theft. _

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The learnedjadge in summing up, left it for the jury to
say whether the police were to be credited.
The jury then retired, and coming into court shortly
before seven, said there was no chance of their agreeing,
some being of opinion that the prisoner had picked up the
things.
His lordship told them that even then if she had not en-
deavoured to find to whom they belonsed that was larceny.
The jury found her GviltN, recommending her to mercy,
in which the prosecution joined.
His lordship sentenced her to six months imprisonment
in Newgete.

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANSION-HOUSE

WiUirtmi Silk and John Knight were charged, Silk with
stealing, and Knight with receiving with a guilty knowl,
a quantity of milk, sender circumstances throwing some light
on the adulteration of that article in the metropolis.
The prisoner Silk, who is a airman in the employ of Mr.
Wills, a dairyman, in Percival-street, ClerkenweD, was seen
by George Mullineaux, a detective police constable, between
6 and 7 o'clock that morning, to stop a cart belonging to his
master, which he was driving, and to which were two large
tin vessels containing milk, rat the corner of Cutler-street,
Houndsditch, and to take from owed the cans six measures,
of two quarts each, of milk, and pour it into another
can. A few minutes afterwards . the prisoner Knight
drove up in a cart, which he stopped alongside
that of Silk, and handed a pail from his own cart containing
a dark liquid mixture, to Bilk, who poured its contents into
the ea from which he had previously taken the six melt-
' sures, or twelve quarts; of nulk. They then both drove
round the corner into Aldgste, where Silk got out of his
cart and handed to Knight the pail—filled now with
milk—which Knight had just before passed to Silk contain-
ing the "dark liquid mixture." Silk then drove away, and
Knight was abous to do the same, when Mullineaux stopped
him, saying he was a police-officer, and asked him what he
had got in the pail. Knight replied " litllk," which he had
bought from the man in the other cart, but had not paid
for. The officer shortly afterunirds found Silk delivering
one of the large cans of milk in Jewry-street, at Messrs.
Hill and Jones's, large wholesale confectioners, who have
also a shop in Bishopagate-street, and took him into custody
for stailing milk belonging to his master, • him at the
same time that Knight had been given in c age. Silk
replied that he had neither sold nor given milk to any man.
When Knight was taken to the police elation he sought to
excuse himself by saying that he was short of milk at the
time, and that he hail authority from his master, who was
a dairyuian, to buy it wherever he could get it. [Sir It.
Carden remarked that he could scarcely have said he
was short of water.] It appeared further in evidence that
Silk had to deliver every morning two large cans of milk,
one containing sixty quarts, the other about fifty, at the '
two warehouser of Meseta. Hill and Jones, and that he was
ou that errand when the transaction took place to which
Mullineaux spoke.
A man in the employ of Hill and Jones deposed that on
the previous morning he saw Silk stop his milk art in
Camomile-street, and, getting out, take an empty pail up a
yard in which there was a tank, and return with it filled
with water. Getting into his cart again with the
pail, be drove into Bevis Marks, thence into
Castle-street, where he poured some milk from
a full can into an empty one, sod then poured the water
from the pail into the can from which he had just taken the
milk. A woman who appeared from her manner to he
acquainted with Silk, passed by at that moment, and going
up to Silk told him he was watched. Silk asked by whom
The woman replied by a man round the corner. Witness
then made elf, but a few minutes afterwards he saw the
carte of the two prisoners standing in front of a tavern
near Aldgate church. He had frequently seen them together
for the last fortnight.
The prisoner Silk declined to say anything in his defenee,
and Knight , under the (Asia) of Mr. Heard, who appeared
for him, reserved what he had to say in explanation of his
share in the transaction until another occasion.
Sir lt. Carlini remarked that the case was one of public
interest, as showing how in London an article of universal
domestic consumption was systernatiailly adulterated by
unprincipled person. like the prisoners, and he committed
them for trial, refusing to take hail.