The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-31 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MANIIION-HOD BE.

John .Drieve, • earmattinthe employment of Mr. Richard
Finning, boot and altos warehomeman, of 11, Cllngelde,
was charged, before Hr. Alderman Wire, with robbing his
nailer

J.C. Knight, constable No. 437, sad—About ere o'clock
yesterday dternoon in consequence of information that
mashed me, I watched the prisoner away from the proem-
leitimenime. He was driving a home and cart, and he
up In the Old Jewry. I asked him if he had anything
the hampers, end he said he had not. I told him I was a
polloe-constable, and upon making a march I found the pair
of bouts produced in one of the hampers. I afterwards
searched hie lodgings at Waltham/tom, where I found several
palm of boota, shoes, and slippers. All the property hes been
identified by the prosecutor.
bfr. Penning, the prosecutor, said—The prisoner ben been
employed by me in the joint capacity of groom end light
=rag the last 16 mouths. I ham warehoesea in the
-road, and I generally call there on my rod to the
My tetra Walthamstow, where I reside. I drive hum
Welshman., to Hackney, and thus far the Flamer ha base
In the habit of acting a groom. I there change my vehicle
sad bete[ manufactured goods to my premiere in QUOIM•
Meet& The hampers should be returned to the manufactory
in the evedeg. It would be the prisoner's duty to take back
the empty hampers. Yesterday my attention was called to
• pair of boots in my cellar. As they were In an unusual
place I canninsloated with the police. At a later period of
the day the prisoner left with the hampers in the out, and the
dim took from tee of them the pair of boots now produced,
which are worth lA. 6d. The other boots, ito., I produce I
had at the prioner's lodging,. They ere my property.
The primmer admitted Ilia guilt, and asked that the case
might be of then.
Shortl rards the Lord Mayer entered the court, and
set hy the•elde of Mr. Alderman Wire, when the prisoner
was ken& up in petty sessions, and having pleaded guilty,
wee esmtenad to fear months'imprisonment with had
Mow.

Jolt; Harem, • earman's drirer, was charged with stealing
11 lb.. of wool belsegtag to Hears. Gooch and Comma
It appeared hem the evidemos of James Hogg, a ore stable
In the amnia of the London and North Wotan Railway
Company, at their premises In Aldgats, that the promentore
have she premier in Aldgate, where wool is Mowed. On the
=day the prisoner brought some wool to the ware-
ad as he wee having with the waggon, the witness
asked him what he had In the nose-bag. He replied
that It contained food for the horses, but the
whams disbelieving this etatement opened it, and
found it to renteth 11 lbs. of wool. He then said he was
avers be had it, bat hod forgotten to deliver It op. Wit-
s= szendned or of the bales, and found that exactly
11 nis. had been stetreeted thentrom.
Jame Donoghue, foreman to the prosecutors, Mentided the
wool, which woe worth 33a., as tbeir property.
The primmer, in reply to the charge, said be bad picked
the wool up in the waggon, and put It into the beg, intend-
ing to Wirer it, but forgot to do eo.
Alderman Wire—Then how emus you to tall the officer that
the bag contained homes' food r
Primer—l don't know bow that was. . _

He was untamed to one months imprisonment, with hint
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Jolt; Heflin ald of 13 years of age. in the service of Mr.
Nadler, wholesale stationer, of en, Upper Thanam-strest,
was brought up upon remand, charged with having stoles
florin and twe pussy pieces from hl master's till.
lie pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two months' im-
prisonment, withhard labour.
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