The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-30 00:00:00

THE POLICE COVETS.

MANSION•HOUI3.II.,

James Barton was brWiltibeforeiceLord Mayor upon
the charge of having stolen a pietas of sloth from Mr.
Aroma*, of the Minors., °status.
Policeman (567)-4 saw &wiener with a handle under
his ann. I stopped him, and he threw down the bundle,
wh:oh proved to be a pine of cloth, and an away ss test as
he Gould, and a stranger, who was passing by, picked it lap
sad gave It to me. I followed, and apprehended the pri-
soner, and asked him for his address upon Wang him to the
station-house, bat he refused to give it.
Mr. Arundle—The piece of cloth, whisk is worth four
guinea., was on the shelf in my shop, and I had tut the
making of a mat from it a short time before it was mined.
The prisoner—l saw ft in the street, and took it up with
the Intention of taking it to the station-how—(laughter)
—nomething came over Imo that I might get into a bobble
shoat it, aid I threw it down, and went off rather fast, end
then the calmer took held of se. 'I thought of steal-
ing it, or anything else.
The Lord Mayor said the *Mena was of such a kind
that it bees= his duty to seed the cue to the Central
Court.
The primer—l'd much rather that you would Weises of
the cue yourself, my lord.
The Lord Mayor—l can dispose of it, hut you mut plead
guilty, and if you say you are innocent I cannot think of
etordetisg you.
The Prisoner—Why, my lord, I should much rather that
you would aludicate. I leave myself in your lordship's
hands altogether.
The Lord Mayor—Than this defence of yours ;1 &Its-
ptber a *ham, is It?
The Prisoaer—Oh no, my lord. I am not guilty in the
least ; but I wish you would set send me for trial at the
Old Belley—sentence me yourself.
The Lied Mayor—Not at all. Vast wield be quits in-
ocedellent. Your ease asap Imam a jury.
The prisoner wee this asmmitPliNtaM.
Behar Parker appose& apes a somomas, to answer the
of Thomas Near, perry to Mr. Hewitt, of 221,
geniatMolbrim, that the defendant had threatened to put a
kW.
Nu:it-ebbs.' pat into the Vine Inn by Mr. Hewitt,
oats oder aoliaste to the estate of Mr. Parker, who had
bream 'realigns he that astablishasat, but bad maintained
• Kilt of letetatip there, very mush to the annoyance
of the asst . It appeared that Mr. Porker's wife, who
was In a dentate state of health, merited on the
that the defendant met with impedimenta in the enmity.
eisto
hr visits to her, and that the lady suffered from the want of
the treatment which her militias required, that the
defendant was exasperated by the conduct of those is pos-
*tufo°, and that La had used unwarrantable threats in eon.
sequence of the hardships to which to supposed his wife to
be ntfet4e4.

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BOW-STREET.
A loam wenn amid Mary Minh°lin, wee charged
with robbing her mistress.
Mn Sank CoUlm, who home a sideshow in the Snead.
stated that she employed the prisoner as 'enact abort a
math lark ; she had a good eitareetor hen bar last pies%
WIWI, however, tented ant to be Mee. Prom time to Was
several articles wets sensed, asseaset others a rid bra*
and suspisioa Waft Miss ea the primate, witness entered
her ream and Ism' a. Maw piked up ready to send
away. TM prissawn en being quietism& said she was
foul to and the hamper away to bar father. On swain-
sag the hamper witnen found it cintaiaed the brooch it
question, a quantity of tee, five pounds of candles, and a
amber of mall articles of clothing, dc, valued in ail
at U.

The imams', who made no defesoe, was committed for
trial.

Mary Dodgett, as elderly woman, was charged with giv-
ing • fairs character to the prisoner in the above ease.
Mrs. Conine said that Mattholin applied to her on the
28th of September, and referred her to Mrs. Dodgett, who,
she said, was a housekeepet in Tavistock.strev, Covent-
garden, and with whom she had bees IT months. Witness
ailed on Mrs. Dodgett, who cenfirsted the story, saying
that Mattholin would leave her in a week. She said
Mattholin left of her own accord, to better herself, and gave
her an excellent character for honesty, sobriety, and clean-
liness. Witness engaged the girl on those representation,.
She had sines ueettained that Mrs. Dodgett did not keep
the house, but sou only pot is to take care of it, and that
the woman Mattholin had been in the service of a lady
seemed Ellison, residing in Busselirtinare, daring the period
she was »persisted to have been with the defendant; and
ttat she had robbed Mrs. Ellison, and had been discharged
from that plan in couttguesee.
Mn. Ethan proved that the prisoner was with her four
months, and lett In July.
Defendant said that Mattholin was formerly in heyeertice
for about • year, sad left four years ago. As Matthelin
bad n applied for • character till now, she thought it
no harm to say whet she would have said when the girl left
her. MatthoUnislel her she had loot her pleas by not
genial is in tine at tlselt Mese having a holiday.
Kr. Jardine remarked es the extremely dangerous nature
of this practice of giving tales characters to servants. In
this saes, whatever ins the motive, perhaps • charitable
see, the false character was given, and enabled the girl to
get seituation, which she had so sooner obteined than she
began to pilfer everything she could lay ter hands on.
Peoplemut In taught that these things were not to be
dose. He would Inflict a penalty of 101., or, in default,
thin soatbs' imprisonment.
' A 'tress appal having bun made to Mr. Jardine by the
boyhood, end a neighbour of Mrs. Dodgett, his worship
ordered her to be brought up again at the does of the sitting,
and, after a swift* admonition, informed her that is con-
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aidoestion of he, good anemia', sad of how having acted
apparently Iran a charitable native, and without iatention
of fraud, ►e would 'litigate the penalty to the Moans of

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