The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION&

(Before Mr. J. Payne, Deputy-Assistant Judge.)
Cornelius Mwreasi 22, and Jeremiah M'Carthy,2s, wen
indicted for ate three Alm watches, a metal wateb,
and 10 brooches, value 71., the property of Daniel Brown.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Ribbon and Mr. Flood de-
fended the prisoners.
Emma Brown, wife of Daniel Brown, photographer, of
King David-lane, Shadwell, said, on the evening of the
SOS of December, between five and mix, she heard a noise
in her shop and on going into it saw a men get up from
under the window, and two other persons outside.
The man Maids said be was fastening his boot
lace, and asked for • drink of water. A boy entered and
gave her some information from which she went to a glum
case and missed three silver watches, a metal watch and
some brooches, amounting in value to V. She ran into
the street, aud the man who was in the shop, sad
the two men who were ontaide all ran away. Her I
bust and got a constable immediately and gave informa-
tion to him. She subsequently identified M'Carthy
et the station-house, and picked him out from a number
of others. She knew him by sight and had seen bim son-
ral tunes looking in at her window. About a week before
she had seen him with a boy, who came into the shop and
slaked the price of the watches. The man who was in the
shop was the prisoner M'Carthy, and Murphy and the
other man ran away.
Win. Freestou, police sergeant 58 IC, said—About 10
in the evening of the 9th of December he took M'Carthy
g,llmon's-lane, Limehonse, and told him the charge.
Re said ho was not there. Murphy was previously taken
into rusted, in Brook
Flood
Ratehlif.
Mr. Ribbon and Ur. having addremed the jury for
the prisoners, Mr. Payne summed up the came, and the
jury were about considering their verdict, when
Mr. Ribton said he had received a very important com-
munication, and he wished to ask the prosecutrix a few
questions before the jury gave their verdict. In the in-
terests of justice, he thought that be ought to be allowed
to put a few questions to her, and also to the policeman
in the case, for the purpose of showing that she was not
to be believed upon her oath.
Mr. Payne—l will not allow you to make a second
speech, and all that I will allow you to do is to cross-
examine the proucutrix.
Mr. Ribbon—l will do so. (To the proseentrix)—Do you
recollect the explosion at Clerkenwell ?
Proseentrix —I remember reading about it in the papers.
Mr. Ribton—Did you go to the solicitor of the
Treasury, and offer to Five evidence in reference to it!
Proseautrix—Never in my life.
Mr. Ribten—Do you swear that!
Preeeentrix—That has nothing to do with this case.
Mr. Ribbon—l want to know.
Prosecntrix— If you wish
tions. Oto know
the I will
unday a tell you wi
thout
your your asking nie any quesn S
after the explosion I went with my husband to see the
steno of the eiasster. My husband left me near the Broad-
street Railway Station while he went to the station, and
when he was gone I saw four men in a recess with two
Lags, which they opened. One bag oontained pistols and
revolvers, and the other ammunition and bottles of
liquid, and I heard the conversation that took place be-
tween them. When my husband came back I told him,
and he went to the station-horse and gave informa-
tion. The inspector took down my description in writing,
and I wee afterwards taken to Bow-tweet station, where
I saw the witness Vaughan, and I immediately said, "That
is the man I saw sharing the pistols," and that is all I
know about it. I did not come here to be insult.sl.
Mr. Ribton—Did you go to the solicitor for the Treasury
or any one else, and offer to give information
Pioessutrix - I went to the inspector, and he took me
wherever he pleased.
Mr. Ribton—Were yon examined ?
I'rosecntrix—No, nor did I wish to be.
After some remarks from Mr. Ribbon as to the non-
credibility of the prosecutrix,
The jury considered their verdict, and found :I`Cartby
Getify, and Murphy Net Guilty.
Mr. Payne sentenced BPCarthy to be imprisoned and
kept to had labour for IN months.

THE POLICE COURTS.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. Th.mas Krafino, chemist, 79, St. Paul's-church.
Tied, was munitioned before Sir Benjamin Phillips and
Sir James Duke for having in his possession six unjust
weights.
Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humphreys and Morgan,
appeared for the defendant.
\ Turtle" said that on the 26th of November last
lec went with Mr. Ledger, OHO of the City inspectors of
weights and meaeures, into the defendant's slere,e, and
found six weights light. One ounce weight was .1 grains
wort.
In reply to Mr. Morgan, Mr. Ledger said that one of
the weights was the 24eith part of an ounce light.
Sir L. Phillip* said the inspector had only done his duty,
Inn it was R very trumpery mire, and perhaps they would
has e been better without it. He then dismissed the
summons
blond, who gave the names of Thomas Shard,
and flame Sh..rt, and refused to give his address, was
laced at the bar before Sir R. W. Carden, chargea with
Iwiug in a bedroom on the third floor of the Black Lull inn,
Italborn, with intent to commit a felony.
Rom Matthews said she was servant to Mr. John Clark,
the landlord of the Slack Bull public-house, IT2, Holborn-
hill. About IS) minutes past II o'clock on the previous
night she went up to bed. Iler bedroom was on the third
ewer, neat to her mistress's. Just as she was about to get
into bed she heard a match struck three times in her Mil-
leelroom. She called out. " Master, is that you !"
hut got no answer. She then put on her dress again, sod
went into her mistrem's bedroom, and found her in bed
esieep, and behind the door was the prisoner standing
with a lighted wax taper in Lis hand. She asked him what
business he had there, and lie said he understood that was
the taproom. She then took him by the collar of the coat,
aua pulled him out of her mistress's bedroom, and when
they got on the lauding he caught her by the .Iress and
tel .1 to pude her over the banisters. She, however, took
La I down three flights of stairs by the coat, and then
c Mel the waiter, who took the prisoner from her. Her
matter also came, and they put the prisoner into the
smoking-rota, until an officer arrived and took him
into custody.
Sir ilohert W. Canlen Pala there was great praise due to
her for what she had done, and if she had been a man he
would have recommended Ler to the police.
Mr. Clark corroborated • port of what the last a itness
hail *tenet, and added that he asked the prisoner what he
wanted in the be .11.;ous, and he replied that he thought it
Was the billiard-room.
Sir Robert W. C.eraen said he hoped Mr. Clark would
reward itosa Matthews for her conduct, for she deserved
it. Very few young women wallet have collared the man
:48 she did. LIC LIT OF THE LIVERPOOL " MEAD CENTRE" TO
Mr. Clark mid she did deserve it, and he would do it. AMERICA.—Several weeks since a man named Chambers
She was a very good servant. was arrested in Liverpool on suspicion of being concerned
In answer to sir K. W. Carden, the prisoner raid his in the murder of Sergeant Brett at Manchester. The
real name was Short, but be would rather not give his arrest was regarded by the police as of an important
addle sa. character, as Chambers WWI looked upon as one of the most
Sir It. W. Carden remanded the prisoner, to flail out dangerous men the police had to contend with is eons
sometLiog more about Lim. 'sexton with Fenianistn. After his arrest in Liverpool
MARLBOROUGH-STREET. he was conveyed to Manchester, and, with others, was
Cr•rrlot Birk& 11, n strange looking man, was charged brought before Mr. Fowler, but the evidence against him
het. e Mr. !Coax with loving drunk end disorderly. was so incomplete that he was discharged from custody,
Pelice-constable Timberlake, 12'J A division, said that and went back to Liverpool. On his return be visited his a
on the previous evening he saw the prisoner, who was old haunts, and though the police knew that he was the
drunk, following a gentlemen in Green-street, Leicester- " moving spirit" in local Finnan's], they were unable to ig
square, and annoying him, and he then took him into bring direct and conclusive charges against him. A strict ID
cattily. surveillance, however, surrounded him, and finding, pro- 150
The prisoner void he was acquainted with lu.pector bably, that under existing circumstances he could not .12
Thompson suit the police at Scotlandeani, and Led been ' well promulgate his republican ideas, he left the Mersey a tr.
ordered to arreet a general connected with the Feeitins, few days since for America.
and because he lied mot dose so he was told that he would 1 MILITARY PRECAUTIONS IN LIMERICK.—The et
be charged as a Fel:dal:1. He asked the constable to as Limerick correspondent of Saunders' News, writing on 44
him in arresting the general, and the constable refused to Wednesday, says:—" For the last two days, in pursuance
10
do so, and on his telling the constable that he would report of an order from the heads of the military department,
hi. to Sir Riehard Mayne, he made the prewar. charge the interior of all the barrack squares in garrison have bees •
din I
ug t Lim. supplied with large quantities of sand as • pavanes le
Mr. Knox said he did not believe that the pris.,ner was against Greek fire, evidently demonstrating that some in- II
employed in any such way as he stated. formation has been given that it is intended by the Fenian' m
The prisoner said that if the magistrate doubted it he 'to 11Pa this explosive combustible for the destruction of n
could ass the Secretary of State. I barracks in Ireland. No civilians are allowed to enter to
Mr. Knox said he should not think of troubling the military quarters, and the carriers state that the sand is ee
Secretary of State on such a matter and if the prisoner heaped in small mounds through the squares tataide the IN
had any complaint to make against the constable he could barrack rooms. Yesterday a large quantity of gunpowder et
report him, and he should have his name for the purpose. was received into the magazine at the Castle Barracks, II!
Sergeant Shillingford, 4C, said that when he went to I where the military force has been augmented. To-day !
visit the ernoner in the cell he said " You are not going to an officer from Dublin, who arrived at Cruise's Hotel
put handcuff. on sue ; four have tried to put me in a mad. proceeded down the Lower Shannon to inspect the fork
house before, hut you can't do it, because I belonged to the and towers. Ammunition has been also forwarded to the
United states Federal army, and lam in England now." ! different stations. This city is very tranquil, and the
Mr. Knox tuned the sergeant whether he thought the I rumour given oat about • military sentinel having been
prisoner was in his right mind. fired at last week while on duty to the rear of the Castle
Sergeant Shillingford said he believed he was, but be Barracks is set down to the soldier's imagination. It is
had been drinking. ' said the police have traced it to the squibbing of son by
Mr. Knox asked what was the prisoner's conduct in the • party who was rabic out fowling."
cell. I POACHING TN WINDOM GanAT PAHH.—Yeater-
Sergeant Shillingford mid that while in the cell he
ed
da• at the Windsor petty sessions, held at the Town-hall, ,
talk all the time to himself. before the Mayor, Kr. J. W. Wellman, and Mesas. Cope-
51r. Knox asked the prisoner whether he could refer to lane, Devereux, and Bedborongh, borough
any one who knew Lim. Wells was charged with peaking. Or tetramoral
The prisoner said that he had been employed by a person ing of the Bth inst. be was met by a wadable with 24
in Chancery-lane as is pace= server. rabbits sad 15 nets in his poeseesionosounfng from the
Mr. Knox said that if the prisoner's state bad been such direction of the park. John Cole, the head keeper of
as to have justified him in thinking that he was in an un- Windsor Great Park, informed the bench that
sound state of mind he would have committed him to the of men were in the habit of constantly pealdar Inge=
House of Detention, that he might be examined by the park. several men would go together, on
the
doctor. He should deal with the case as an ordinary case nets, another the ferrets, and so on. Whin observed •
of drunk and disorderly conduct. i k r the gang would separatmandeatliessanfellowed by
The prisoner said he was neither drunk nor disorderly. ' the Woad have nothing with him. the pap were
Mr. Knox fined the prisoner 10e., or seven days, and as able to cony on their poaching and sleeps detection. Dr
the prisonerwas leaving the court, lie said he was only fondant said he had bought the rabbits tress another man
doing her Majesty's duty by the Secretary of State's for a sovereign, and the nets be had just received from the
orders. he bad lent them to. As he had once before bees
LAMBETH. =the bench, sod told nearly the sane story, he was
Edward Johnson,• young titan, who refused his adaress,
was charged with breaking into the booking-office of the fined 5f., or two menthe' imprisonment.
therm =ROI= ST Do BAzwee Poop TO ?MB
Elephant and Castle railway station, and stealing therein eyoRAM, armdeeps. Merited dd
1/. .vs. fed.
est mediates or aPons!. 43/4011Into MO=
Mr. Harris, chief inspector of the ocespany, attended to dientea, meaty, heesesses
watch the case. I sleeplessness (WSW, ereellah Noe%
Alfred Bristol, living In Hamptceretrest, Walworth, flee, low setai
dre aimed eeseig line=
said he wsabooking clerk at the Elephaat and Cutts station !icines• that et lmKellam the Peva It eaves
Its sea In other essentisa—Tlaa la d., 1195.„
of the Londou, Chatham, and Dover Railway. About four fifty
fits: ti
telo.. dos.. at ed. per meel.—Dl /WM n meow
that morning he menses usual to the station, and on enter- eaadrant, London ; also Fortuna' sad Sara, end M
ire the bookangeedice he was surprised to me the primmer el, Gt.:meet:lachrimose :4. Cl==a32ll6
with his hands in one of the money tills. Witness asked sal allgrocers and camas&

When it became known that the prisoners lea
Burke, Casey, and Mullady were to be committed to it:
Warwick the greatest excitement seemed to prevail. 110.
In the neighbouring public-houses large assemblages of .11101
persons had gathered, and soon a few who bad gam
been in the court were seen running, apparently to convey 1:
the intelligence. The arrangements and precaution' Re
against an attack were most formidable. Precisely at me
the appointed time, 1.15, a large extra body of police
in reserve, to the number of about 300, issued simul- se,o
taneously from the police-court and the station oppo-
site. 10 sooner were the long lines formed when loud er.i
cries of " The van is coaling !" ran along the lines of ifs 4
people in the distance, and were taken up by the people
who thronged ever/ window in the locality. The foot MI
police were all armed with cutlasses, and in a moment
more the mounted escort galloped up. Then came the van, Al
and on the door being opened an officer in plain clothes 111'
was called therefrom by one of the inspectors to bring
the handcuffs and put them on the men in the cells. It -
was, however, thought advisable not to handcuff them
till they were in the van. The first who was brought
from the lock-up was Burke, who, escorted by an officer,
walked into the van, and, on being locked in his compart•
anent, the officer went back and brought Shaw. He
having been similarly secured, Casey was then fetched,
and all having been duly placed in the van,
the word " Face to the tight" war given. and the line of
foot officers on guard round the van then opened. The
van guard started at a rapid gallop, then the van started,
followed by about forty mounted men, all armed with
cutluaes and revolvers, and in this way the prisoners were
conducted to the Great Western Railway station for con
"-
yance to Warwick.
We learn by telegraph from that place that the pri-
soners arrived safely there by the 5.50 train from Pad-
dington. They were in charge of two superintendents and
seventeen police officers armed with revolvers and cut-
lasses. The prison van met them at the station, and they
were safely taken to the county gaol. 10 disturbance of
any kind occurred.