The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-05 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
M twt.n was brought before the Lord Mayor yeater-
-16%, charged with being found concealed under • bed in the
!nave of a coffeehouse-keeper, 48, Leadenhalbstreet, for
the purrxiee of committing& felony.
The prisoner, it appeared, went into the house in the even-
ing, and asked if he could have a lodging, and after sitting
in the coffee-room seine time, he was shown to his room by
oue of the sei yenta, having first paid Is. Shortly afterwards
the servants went up to bed on the floor above that ou which
the prisoner was to have slept, and one of them
happened to look under toe bed before getting in,
when she saw the prisoner concealed there. She
went down stairs and told her master, and • policeman
was seat for, who found the prisoner in his own bed appa-
rently asleep, and he denied having been upstairs. He
was taken to the station, and on being searched a duplicate
relating to three bagatelle balls was found upon him.
The hells were produced by the pawnbroker, and were
identified by a person named Christopher Shelton, landlord
of the Ship, in Wardour-street, who said that the prisoner
slept at his house on Thursday night, and after he left the
neat morning he mimed the sheet which he slept in and
some other articles, together with the three bulls produced.
The misoner was sentenced to three months' hard labour.
GUILDHALL.

Af,;i 0, a potnian at the Lamb and Lark ral4lli:a
Louse, in Printing-housestreet, Hlackfriars, was c
with robbing the printers at the Time, office.
Henry Wm. Bull, • compositor on the Times, said the
prisoner was in the habit of bringing refreshment to the
office, and in consequence of some suspicion he entertaired
relative to the disappearance of various articles from time
to time, he marked two penny pieces, and placed them in
the pocket of his coat, which was hanging up at the end of
the room, and in aboutun hour after the prisoner entered and
proceeded to collect the empty pots, when witness saw him go
to his coat, and on looking for the marked money immediately
after be found both pennies gone, sod at once accused the
prisoner of stealing them. He did not deny the charge, but
instantly gave up the marked coins. teveml other persons
bad missed things from their coat pockets, but this was the
first time he had lost anything.
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Police-constable Moore, .94:4 said he took the prisoner into
custody, and found on him a silver-mounted rutty pipe,
which had since been identified by a person employed on
the Times as his property. He then went to the prisoner's
room at the Lamb and Lark, and there found seven other
pipes. He also ascertained that the prisoner had sold
a pipe to a compositor in the same office for 3s. lid.
and another pipe, which the purchaser gave in exchange.
Thomas Derry, an apprentice compositor, identified the
silver-mounted rutty pipe as his property. It was safe in
his pocket at 2 o'clock, and at ten minutes past it was gone.
Albert Della Gana, atereotype.fouuder. employed at the
Times, said he went to the lamb and Lark to get some re.
freehment. He purchased of the prisoner the meerschaum
pipe produced. He gave him his old pipe, which coat him
and 3s. tid. in exchange for it.
Wni. Collins, a compositor on the Troy., said the nicer-
schimin pipe produced by the last witness was his property,
and the value of it was 1/. sa. He missed it from his coat
pocket about six o'clock in the morning, and the prisoner
had been in and out of the office all through the night. On
the following morning he missed another pipe, which the
officer had since found in the prisoner's possession.
The landlord of the Lamb and Lark said the prisoner had
only been with him a fortnight, but he received an excellent
character with him, and he also found be had received the
best of characters for ten months' service on board ship.
The prisoner was committed fur three months with hard
labour.