The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-28 00:00:00

MB POLICE COURT&

MANSION-HOUSE.

John Rader slias7;;;;; ii:;;;;; young man of about 18
years of age, wee brought before Mr. Alderman Hale, charged
.Th.his own oonkanion with having robbed his late em-
Messrs. Symonds and Company, wholesale stationers,
criTCArtillerru., of several hiudlred-weight of paper.
0. W. Wells, police constable No. 641, said that on Sada-
Igh,lght the prisoner came to him in the street, and said he
to give himaolf up for having stolen a quantity of
paper from Messrs. Symonds, while he was in their service.
He therefore took him into custody.
Mr. W. C. Symonds said that while the primmer was in
the service of the firm, which he left in the month of July
last, amoral of the workmen complained of constantly losing
money from their pockets. Some coins were then marked
add pat into the pockets of jacket.,mon after which the
money ma found upon the prisoner. He was then
given into custod , and after undergoing a abort term of ire-
Firmament was . Feeling an interest in the pis
mew from the fact of his father having been for many years
in the service of the firm, the prosecutor sent him to see,
with a view of enabling hint to retrieve his diameter, but,
upon the arrival of the vessel in the Thames, he refused to
proceed in it • second time. Jut previous to the prisoner's
quitting their employment several hundred-weight of paper
was mined from their stock.
The "'Owner who again mid ho wee guilty of having
stolen the paper, was remanded.
A lad, named Frederick Simms, was, brought before the
Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Hale, • , as stated on
the Meet, with having " maliciously publi ed a defamatory
libel of and concerning the Bank of London, in Threoshoodle-
abeet, 11111 d the director. thereof."
Mr. Paine, solicitor to the. Bank of London, who appeared
for the prosecution, said that the prisoner was given into
custody for parading in front of the bank with the
produced b the officer, on which wan printed, "Bank
t of 140 ahareboldors. For list of mums
see Joint Stack Companies' Journal, sold here." It wee sot
his intention to prom-ate the charge *vend the priscour,wlse
had furnished him with the name and address of the person
who had employed him to °any the 'Mimed, and to sell the
publication therein referred to. Mr. Pains then applied for
a ennimens against that person, which the magistrate Mums
diately granted. As the application was of en ex writ ma-
ture, we omit the statement made by Mr. Past upon whisk
it was &Gadd.

fit; boy was.then set .t liberty.
GUILDHALL.
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Beams dim Ifeneilice, the woman barged with writing
and sending threatening letters to numerous merchant*,
benkeri, and others, connected with the City, with the view
to eaten money from them, was again brought up before
Aldermen liumphery.
Mr. Wffilain Allieghnm said—On the lith of February
lest I received the letter produced from my houselueper.
The letter commenced with • request that I would red a
sovereign by post to either of three oddnesm mama, end
threatened shat miler I complied she would memo me of the
most awful Mimosa it in possible to commies. The letter
concluded with a caution not to lay any tempo to catch her, se
no mosey would he received unless sent by post ; and that M
I arepleeled to send, I might expect all libido of annoyance,
se whet she began she always went through with.
Jarvis, the detective officer, said—l have soon the
write upon two °mambo., and to the beet of my beVt:er
whole of the letters produced are in her Made-raw. I bine
received two letters of the same description, one of which
wee thrust under the door of the Bow-lane Police Station.
One el the letters I received is dated on the came day *stint'
produced by Ms. All' ham, and contained the fallowing
remark, " I have mint • letter this morning to Allinghain
threatening to expose him." Those letters ere, I believe, in
the prisoner's handwriting.
Bull, the detective Office,, said—When I apprehended the
primmer I took her to the station and searched Ler. I found
upon her • key which she said belonged to her mew, end 012
proceeding to her lodgings 1 opened the door with the key,
and in a boo which was emu I discovered two hitters, the
writing and contents of which are similar to three already
produced, but they were addressed to other individuals.
Priamer—Those were letters 1 had delivered to rm..

Bull—lalsOprodu; terO;tier fettere,Oite;iviiirb the
•ynaomer acknowledged to too she had Written, end the other
I mew her write.
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Them, the detective °flirty, said—l was with Bun, and
while searching her boo I found the book of poems I pro-
duce, and up,cs erenaning it I had that one of the 4-lessee
ha. bees torn out, and upon comparing a letter which I
remised from Mr. Brough written upon the fly-leaf at a
book, I discovered that the torn edgm of the letter came-
sponded exactly with the torn edge of the remnant of tholes(
left in the book. The sire, quality, end colour of the paper,
se well as the these gilt edges, also corresponded with the
hook. The letter contained minim disgusting and abominable
thresh to those in the other letters produced.
Mr Fessein Babb—• The prisoner has been in my employ,
sad I have frequently seen her write ; I believe the letters
produced are in her handrriting.
Bull—l have ascertained that these filthy lettere have been
sent round to every person holding a respectable petition is
the City. And every one who has employed her during the
last five years has been subjected to the annoyance of receiv-
ing these abominable letters continually from the time she
first attend their service. . .

Alderman liumpbery—Tou have hoard the evidence;
what have you to my in answer to the charge?
Prisoner—The officer poems to forget that I have been the
first to give information of this matter. I never wrote an
anonymous letter to any one in all my life.