The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-25 00:00:00

THE POLICE COMM.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Several of the idle fellows who have been for • length of
time loitering shoat Leadeehall market, with the intention to
plunder, were charged with having stolen poultry, con-
victed, and sentenced in petty sessions, before the Lord
Mayor and Alamos' Boss, to visions tams of imprison-
ment with lied labscr. Amongst the market thieves were
two of the serviate of Mr. Howard, who his been long
known to be one of the meet liberal bf masers.
lees Smith was third with having robbed Mark Hart of
a linesC.a=
03111•L"to town from Little Ellingharo,
Is Norfolk, b see his bele sold in Liefrahall-roarket.
After the sale he get • drop of drink, end then he came Ur
redact with • whom he was shout to treat to • cup
of colfre, when the whom he had never NM before,
walked up to him, tapped liar hind Into his pock.litzLtippcd
eat hie purse, sod mob • rite for it. He and
caught her, sad oared told her go if she w consent to
let him have his money; but she emote that the other
woman who wee meant had stolen the money, and had it
=Szastsl. la Mr mouth at the moment. The stolen property
Tye lard
It
mid he considered the case a very
game ens ; Indeed was rather remarkable that the lie the
primer lead told, with the view of filing the offence
open sin %nom* reason was the ennead evidence of her
met. lordship then sesame- d the prisoner to im-
prisonnemios a rogue and vagabond, for all weeks.
/sheen. OfiliagAcis a street-walker, who hie been
in the beta of robbing gentlemen on their return
from eoavivial entertainments, was committed for three
months see rogue and vagabond. She had been treated to a
tide in a cab on • very cetny night by • gentleman who
thought she was an object of companion, end listened to a
very sorrowful history el her troubles, dunng the recital of
which she contrived to crib all the money he had about
Nun, and hand it out of the window to an accomplice who
had watched the cab. The prosecutor, suddenly ending
that all his money wee gone, ordered to. cabana to drive
or Bow-lane station, end there charged the prisoner, who
mid that she was sa honest a woman as ever cense from Ire.
kind, and that she never before kaew what • ;eta= wee_ f
best what could • poor woman do smonget each • host of bad
pickle ?
Withers Began was sentenced to imprhiarmat for three
=Nabs for having attempted to rob John Whalen of his
watch in Leedenhall -market.
The priaoner, it was stated, had followed the prosecutor in
the market, and the moment an opportmilly resseat:d itself
whipped the watch out of his waistooat, but could not brink
it from the guard, and was caught with it In his hand.
The prisoner mid the crowd am enormous in the market,
sad ft wee quits impomible to my who war the thief, but he
was quite confident that he had never engaged in anything
of the kind, end he mild refer to hi. cbvacter fora number
dud rat* as picot rhea, he had had no had experience of any
10.

- The Lord Mayor requiem, that the press would aclmow-
lee Ms receipt of ?M. from the Grocers' Company, M. from
P. O. H., 11. la. from J. 0., Parthenon Club, pff Bir R.
Mayas, rod 11. to postage stamps from 0. A.
WORSIIIP-STREET.
lama Alfred Harman, a young man of respectable &p-
-romos, ascribed es a trimming manufacturer, reading at
oN 27, Anclice-street, Bethnal-green, was charged on sus-
pleicm of having wilfully set fire to his house, and caused
the death of three of his lodgers, named John, Anne, end
Jolla Metcalfe.

Mr.Levris,of Ely-plam, attended for the prosecution; and
Mr. Sleigh appeared for the defendant.
Mr. Lewin called the following mtnesses :
Pollee-oonstable Andrews, 11 33, said—On the morning of
Salim:lay, the 19th inet., between 12 and 1 o'clock, while on
duty in Anehorstivet, Bethnal-green, I nut the prieoner,
who had just come out of it public-house immediately oppo-
eh, his own reeidenee. He at oneemid, " Policeman, I have
jest been robbed, and my house has been gripped of 601.
worth of rods emulating of my own and wife's clothes and
jewellery.' He added, "It had such an effect on me that I
nude sa attempt to cut my throat ; put your 6nger up and
tsar' I did so, end felt something like a mulch. I asked
him who he supected, and he answered, "My wife and my
wies's member;' adding, "I wish you would march the kire-
mime I told him to go and see the inspector of the station.
Heltro you cannot at thin hour of the night." Ile
i„..:1 No, I will not; can 1 get a search warrant 2"
" N
than , " I shall leave it until the morning," and
asked me to hare something to drink. I mimed, and he left,
and returned to the Coilipmeee public-Louse. I saw Lim
again at half-put 1 o'clock, en hour afterwards ; he was
carrying al gallon an of beer. Ito bade me good night,
and entered his home. I neat eaw him at three o'clock the
came morning. He was then in Anchor-court, neerly
opposite his house. I asked what he was doing there, and
be returned some trivial mower.

By Mr. Harnmill—He appeared in liquor when I first saw
him. He exhibited • swaggering manner. He appcsred
11011110 at three o'clock, but not so bad that I should hare
titan him into custody for drunkenness.
ases-exasnined by Mr. Sleigh—When I saw him in the
Boat, and 'poke toldm, be asked—" Do you know me r
replied, " I do; your macs is Hannan." We then walked
down to the bottom of the easel, and he observed, " I shall
go in and go to bed ;" but instantly added, " No, I shall go
to my brother's, or teothse-Inlaw, at the West-end, and
get him to look sitar my pr mien." At that moment I
looked eaves, end saw what I believed to be gm barn-
its in the house. I saw ft through the muck
in the shutters; then I sew amok. issuing from
the top put of the shutters. I said, " Good heavens, Har-
man, your house ie on firs, end do you Ithow it P" He said,
Where, whore?" We both ran eases the road. I gave
an alarm by springing my rattle. The lower part of the pre-
mises was then in genies. He ran against the data end
forced it open with his body. If. tried to enter, but could
not, in consequence of the genres. He then ran to the Ma-
door, and tried to form it, bat it would not give. I set foe
the ere escape, and returned to the front aids* house. sae
then I saw a woman with• child at the window of Urea' :ad
door. Abou. three or four minutes had elapsed ethos I had
left the front of the bowie presionsly. The , I be-
lieve, has not wale any remark. Prisoner allwwatde went
, to the door of the next house, where his mother-In-law re-
' sides. I ink the door wra by that time open, and I did
not use hie again. The woman at the Callow was In her
night dram.
r .rgeant Egerton—On the mowing in qu 'lion I went to
the house, which I found in fiancee, and heard some persons
exerts out there were people 'node who bed nude their
way to the top. I went to the adjoining boom, No. 28, end
ewe-reed to the attic, where I MN the prisoner and two
c'o lane 'en, as he wr, evidently in extreme excite-
ment. Berri ant Purchase then emceed, and be was oon-
veyir-r biro Unto stain% when prisoner exclaimed, " There
ere people still it the house to whom I Five pat been speak-
ing." I then made my way along the parapet, and coming
open one of the window. of the next house, called out loudly,
but rewind no reply. The smoke woo aufrocatiog, and the
flames extended halfway scram the, road. The fire-escape
then mica!, end was placed against No. 28. Tao
conductor, however, could not, in conseqenci of the
euvvire heat, obtain soar to the burning premises. I after-
wads saw three bodies brought down Mem, and soon after
saw the pritioner and said to him, " From what I have
heard, I think there le something very serious about this
business, and on asking him if he hod teen in the court re-
ferred to, he answered in the negative." I then asked, " Hen
your house been robbed ?" He replied "No, it has not, mad
that he had not statid so to the policeman." In answer to
farther questions, the accused emphatically amerted his in-
nocence of my complicity it the transaction. After some
farther evidence, the counsel for the pros-widen required •
remand, as he would on a future day be enabled to ell wit-
napes of importance, and
Mr. Humid, observing that there appeared a strong
pries tai ie caw against the prisoner, romittiled blot, at the
WWI aloe refusing an urgent appeal for bail to be put in.
W EST Al I N STEIL
Jaws Ifmrdiag, C4arles Sneak and Bridget Smith were
charged with the following disgraceful extortions :
Police-cunstade George Edwin* 161 ii, stated that at six
last evening he Was on duty In the Fulham-road, when big
attention was called to the conduct of the three defendants,
which was of the mod disgraced deuriptima. They were