The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

THE POLIO! COURT&

YANSION•HOUBE.

A notorious thia,..i.;;Citid«ilfelmes, who has kw
years been known to the pollee as • robber of great-onto and
umbrellas from rem Sall coentiagthoesse, was brought up
upon remand, charged with having stolen four costs and a
cope from the pump of the house of Mrs. G. M. Townsend,
of 3, Suffolk-kw.
The prossoutrix keeps •boardingthouse for Merchant
Tailors' School boys, sad at the Otk instant sn errand-
in Inc service saw the prisoner leaving the house in • harried
manner with the property la question over his um. He
mind a cry of " Beep thief l" and the prisoner was stopped
by • rotatable inflames-street with the articles ia his pre-
session. It was stated that as the day Feriae& to the rob-
bery ids other coats had been etolen from the same home be-
i ale to Merchant Teflon' School boys.
ltir primmer wee folly committed for trial, and several
officers, who said they were in • condition to prove farmer
emulations sgshat his, was ordered to produce records of
the cams at tles central Cruelest Court.

Joh* Ern, 144; "sad* Miami Smith, and Conitine
lkosky, bo• wan-knows edam, who have beta sours]
iii Mel la custody, were placed at tM bar, i barged with opa-
ls( Ur dons of several house in the parmhee di Islington
and Basks, with lan* to commits nicer.

It appeared from the mi fence of Sergeant Devitt, 32 N,
that he was in the City-road about nine in the morning, when
ha law the prisoners together. They went into Great Chart-
drag, Huston, when the pricanora tried a door with a key.
Finding themselves disturbed they uent to the end of
Morray-eireet, where Fred-bin tried the doom of the rector's
home, which is situated at the corner, but not succeeding
there they went up Herbert-street to Church-Meet, where
Smith opened soother door, the poisoners Knight and the
female standing in front of the window. Devitt, who is a
cunt active officer, at the time seeing a hone and cart In
Charelbstreet, took the whip out of the cart, and standing
by the horse's head, heard Smith say to the others that
it was ell right. At this time a boy came up, end Mend-
ing in front of the houses baulked their designs, when one of
them said, oi Wall, wa are crabbed now, and if I was
near him 1 would break his sob." After that they watt
over the Block •bridge, and being again followed by the con-
stable, were seen to open another doer. Devitt then went
into a carpenter's shop, and taking the man's basket followed
them, while another constable went and obtained monotone°
and took the whole of the rhmnee into custody. While on
their way to the station, if yen threw several skeleton keys
away, and when the prison: no were taken to the station and
searched, eight more keys and a large hag were found upon
O them. n going to the house at which they had previously
been, eeriest ad the skeleton keys were found to open the
door.
Police-constablz Tompkins, 316 N, also gave similar evi-
dence, and said that while taking the prisoners to the station,
one of them mid, "12 b a great pity you spoilt us, for you
can
ms only give as a dreg." (Three dpionibeli
The pigmy', who made a rambling but did not
deny the charge, were embraced by Mr. Tyrwh.itt to what
the prisoners said they would get, viz., three mouths' hard
labour in the House of Correction.