The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-23 00:00:00

POLICE COURTS.-{THIS DAY.)

CLEIMENWELL.
mizoLD ROIIIZET or 30W. worm or 0000 i.

Oe ripe dive!, o tie-plate c;ritei.---iras---clWrileil with
breaking into a warehouse, 44, St. John-square, Clerken-
well, and stealing silk and cotton elastic boot uppers, and
other property, of the value of 300/., belonging to Mr.
il George Wslaiw, leather merchant.
Mr. Ricketts prosecuted ; Mr. John Wakeling defended.
The
.prcsecutor does not reside on the but
the prisoner resides in • back room, which is only
separated from the prosecutor's warehouse by a
thin lath and plaster partition. The warehouse
was locked up in the evening of Saturday the 12th,
and on the foreman opening the shop on the following
Monday he found the plans had been striZand there
was a hole at the back of the warehouse ' into the
prisoner's apartment which had been out the par-
Potter, with Foster, 711 G, and Wake-
field, 37Inr:tirt into the room and found • packet
of dubbing which the prosecutor identified se his
property. The coals in the grata were warm,
anci the water in the kettle was hot. They then
wen to where the prisoner is employed and found
him at work, and he then MaW that he had
been at his sister's from Saturday night to Monday morn-
ing, and this the officers on inquiry found toed correct.
None of the miming property has been recovered.
Mr. Wakeling ably contended that no case had been
made out against the prisoner, who was • rospeetable
man, and asked for his immediate discharge.
Mr. Ricketta said a prima facie case had been proved,
and showed that the prisoner might be sent for trial.
The magistrate remanded the prisoner on his own re-
coguisaoces for a week.

ROBBERY BY ♦ PORT= ON TUB ORLY NOIIIILERR
RAILWAY. _

Charles Mitchell, a foreman porter in the employ of the
Great Northern Railway, was charged with stealing a
rack of potatoes.
Mr. Wontner prosecuted on behalf of the Great
Northern Railway Company, and Mr. Ricketts defended.
The prisoner had been in the employ of the company
for about fourteen yearn. From trial mime to the know-
ledge of Green, one of the detective silken, he watched
one of the others, end saw a seek of penalises removed.
The man who took them gave up a pass at the gate, sad
when he had gone some &Ames wWi the Worm
stopped him, and asked him who the toes belonged
to. He mad the prisoner had given him the pus, and
that the potatoes belonged to him. On Green
Questioning the prisoner he gave three or four
diflannt lansuita of now he became powers&
of the potatoes, all of which tamed out to be
false. He mu then taken Into custody, and at the
he said he was very sorry for what he had
teZatadticathat be ought to be transported for doing such
a thing!
Mr. Ricketts eontanded that the felony was not made
oat, and said if anything had been prov it *as only that
of unlawful poneeesion.
The snses mid he &odd deal with the case as one of
unlawful pompanos, sad smismeed the prisoner to two
months' hard labour in the House of Correction.

00MINIMIT DOOv Mlu 00=0 aeraAv.
Willisui He Saptam, described am a ontleatan of in-
dependent mane, was charged with bavies in his posses-
sion a black Amorist& cloth bag containing a number of
and documents, the property of the That Lord of
papers
Admiralty, and refusing to give any account of the

Mr. Neale defended.
Sergeant Foley, of the L Divistos, said, from informa-
tion received he went into the Duke's Head public-house,
Kennington-lane, and there maw prisoner and a witness
present said to him, " I have been to the dation, and told
them all about that bag." He (the sergeant) said, " I
understand you hem this bag at your house," and he amid
be bad. He desired prisoner to go home and bring
it to the station and give some account of it. as he un-
derstood the papers to be government property. He re-
fused, when he told him he must take him then to the
station. The prisoner resisted, and mid no policeman
should lay hands on him.
Magistrate—You had no warrant then to fate the pri-
soner F
Witnese—No2 your worship; but, understanding the
papers belonged to government and were of great value,.
I took the prisoner after be refused to produce them.
Prisoner—Ton dragged me out of the home in a violent
manner.
Witness continued to state that on going to prisoner's
bones be found the bag produced with the side torn open,
and the papers prodeeed therein. They are government
dommeents.
Primmer said he did not intend to keep the papers.