The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-28 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

Jug as Mr. WoolryclTwas;boiii to leave the bench, •
batch of four determined young fellows were brought up
from Dulwich, by half-a-dozen constables, charged with
card-sharping in Half-moon-lane. They gave their names
as Gruen.. Albert Cole, 17, bricklayer, of Peckham ; Henry
Joeheon, 22, no home, hawker; James Collins. 19, tra-
veller, of East-street, Walworth ; and Frederick Somer-
ville 23, general dealer, of Hooper-street, Westminster-
road. A large crowd followed the police with their
captives, three of whom had been apprehended after a
most exciting chase over Dulwich-common on to Camb. r-
well-park, the officers being compelled to follow the pri-
soners in cabs before they could be overtaken.
Constable Walkley, 248 P, said, from information he
received from some gentlemen that afternoon about half-
past two o'clock he went to the spot which forms the
junction with Half-moon-lane and the New-road, Dulwich,
and there found above a dozen men, including the
four prisoners, assembled, all more or less concerned in
gambling. On approaching Cole he saw him put some-
thing into his pocket. Witness asked him what he had
got, and he said, " They are the cards," and witness took
them from his pocket. There were three cards produced—
a king and the six and seven of spades. He searched the
other prisoners at the station, and found on two of the
prisoners several duplicates relating to pins, rings, cigar-
cases, cigar-tubes, and other property.
Mr. Woolrych remanded the prisoners for inquiries to be
be made.
THAMES.

William Young, a tailor, about .10 years of age. was
brought up on remand before Mr. Benson, charged with
burglary and robbery:
On Saturday morning last, at half part 3 o'clock, a
police constable named Fitzgerald, 434 K, was on duty in
High-street, Stepney, and saw • man and a woman loiter-
ing scar the shop of Mr. Ashby, oil and colourman. They
departed in opposite directions as he approached them,
and, suspecting something wrong, he went to the doors of
several houses and found the door of Mr. Asbby's house
was open. He was about to enter the shop when a man's
voice exclaimed, "Is that you!" The constable immediately
turnedon his light and saw the prisoner in the shop. The
prisoner, withgreat coolness, exclaimed, "I am very glad you
have come. I heard a noise outside the door and came down
to see what it was all about. I hope you will keep a sharp
look out r This assumption of being the master of the
house did not deceive Fitzgerald, and he was confirmed in
his suspicions that the prisoner was a thief when he tried
to shut the door upon him. With the assistance of
another constable the door was forced open. The prisoner
was behind it, and Fitzgerald dragged bun from his hiding-
place. Mr. Ashby was alarmed, and he came down stairs,
and said the prisoner was a stranger to him. The prisoner
was searched, and eight keys were found upon him.
Two of them were skeleton keys. In a pocket-book
also taken from the prisoner a packet of money
was found. The police afterwards discovered •
dozen keys, two knives, • screw-driver, a wedge,
some lucifer matches, and a wax taper on the
prisoner. He was conveyed to the station-house, and the
officers returned to the premises of Mr. Ashby, and found
marks on the first floor front window, which was partly
open. It could be reached by a waterspout outside the
house. Mr. Ashby identified a packet of coin taken from
the prisoner. It had been abstracted from a desk. Other
things and two pocket-books in the possession of the
prisoner wore taken out of the same desk. The street-door
was fastened on the previous night, and it was opened from
the inside. Mr. Ashby could not say whether the window
was fastened or not.

Mr. Benson asked the police-officers in attendance if the
prisoner was known
The reply was in the negative. An officer from each
division of police had seen the prisoner in the House of
Detention, but no one could identify him.
The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. Benson com-
mitted him for trial at the Central Criminal Court.

Reward ItKenzie. a gentlemanly-looking, middle-aged
man, who described himself as a wine merchant, of
Leicester-place, Leicester-square, wascharged with stealing
a gold watch belonging to Mrs. M. A. Shaw, of 15, Fawcett-
street, Kensington.
It appeared from the evidence that on Monday morning
last the prisoner went to the prosecutrix's house for apart-
ments, he being admitted into the dining room by the
servant. He represented that he required four bedrooms.
On Mrs. Shaw going down stairs, she found the prisoner
in the hall, standing very near her bedroom door, which
adjoined that of the dining room. She told him that she was
sorry she could not accommodate him, and he thanked her
and went away. She, however, .lid not miss her watch and
chainfrom her bedroom until the following morning. She
wanted to wind up the watch, and, on looking for it, found
that both watch and chain were gone. The prisoner was
suspected of stealing them, and when he was seen on the
following Thursday to enter a hairdresser's shop in the
Fulham-road, information was given to a police-constable,
who took him into custody. He denied being in London
at the time, and stated that he arrived from Birmingham
on Tuesday. Both Mn. Shaw and her servant were posi-
tive as to the prisoner's identity; and on his stating, in
reply to the magistrate, that he could call witnesses, the
maguitrate granted a short remand in order to enable him
to do so, and for the police to make inquiries about him.
The constable now reported the result of his inquiries,
from which it appeared that the address was false. He
was, however, known at another house in Leicester-place
as an occasional visitor.

Mr. Cayman remanded the prisoner until Thursday.
GREENWICH.
. .

Richard Bishop, aged 22, a convicted thief, belonging
to Sydenham, was brought up on remand, charged with
burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of
Mn. Mary Elliott, of Stone House-villas, Lewisham-road,
Deptford, and stealing three oil paintings, value If 4/.
It appeared that on the night of Wednesday, the 16th
inst., the house of the prosocutrix was forcibly entered by
wrenching an iron bar from the kitchen window, and
three oil paintings, which had been cut from their
frames, carried away. The prisoner bad been seen
in the neighbourhood on the evening in question,
but he was not apprehended until two days after-
wards. While in the cell at the police-station he
was visited by Inspector Digby, who inquired of him
what he had done with the pictures. The prisoner asked,
" What pictures?" and on being told the pictures taken
from the house of the prosecutrix, he replied that if the
prosecutrix would not appear against him, and he was
allowed to go unobserved, be would go and get the pictures
and return them to her, adding that they had been sold
in Whiteohapel. Pollee-constable King, 178 K, subeso
quently traced the pictures to the possession of William
Manzi, • picture-Game maker, of No. 35, Cable-street, St.
George's-in-the-East, who purchased them of the prisoner,
he representing himself to be a broken-down artist, tra-
velling from Gravesend.
Mr. Trani committed the prisoner for trial at the next
Old Bailey sessions.