The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-30 00:00:00

DLUMBOROUGH-STREET.

Jews Noss, of No. 82, Chancery-lane, bootmaker, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt on a warrant charging him
with obtaining 11. from Mr. J. Willis, naturalist, of Great
St. Andrew-street, Seven Dials, with intent to defraud
him of the same.

Mr. Froggatt appeared for the prosecution.
'The prosecutor said that on the 2.5 th September the pri-
ecner called on him, and told him that he had the lease of
a house at No. 22, Dees-road, Islington, for which he
had paid lUtif., at the same time showing him a
piec of paper, —he could not say whether
it wee receipt or not—with 1001. written on it. As he
(prosecutor) was desirous of taking the shop of the house
No. 22, Emez-read, for a fortnight, for purposesconnected
with hie business, the prisoner offered to let him have it
for a fortnight for 21.. and upon the faith of the prisoner's
representation that he had the power to let the shop he
agreed to take it, and paid the prisoner It. as a deposit.
lie subsequently ascertained from Mr. Winter, the land-
lord, that the prisoner never had a lease of the house. and
was not in pout:aims of the house at the time he paid him
OA money.
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In answerto Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor mid that he
wr lit to have and found it shut up.
The prisoner asked the prosecutor whether he did not
tell him that he had purchased the lease for 100!. and
showed him the receipt for the money.
The prosecutor said the prisoner showed him a piece of
raper, but he could not tell what it was.
The prisoner aqkcd the prosecutor whether he did not
give Lim an lOU for the 1!., and the prosecutor said he
did not.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.
WESI'MINSTF.R.

Mesas Edo-twig, a boy about 15 or 16 years of age,
was placed at the bar charged with steeling • gold watch
and a sovereign the property of John Inglish.
Prosecutor said he lived at 75, Queen's-road, West
Chelees. A box in his bedroom there had been broken
open early this week and a gold watch and • sovereign
stolen. He placed it there on Monday and locked the
box, and when he got up on Wednesday morning, he
found it gone. His belief was that it was stolen by the
prisoner on Tuesday evening while he and his father went
to a house opposite to have a glass together.
Mrs. Mary Inglish said that the boy, who had a distant
relation lodging in the house, bad been lurking about her
place for several days past. On Tuesday evening, during
the prosecutor'■ absence at the house opposite she met
the prisoner coming down the stairs of 75, Queen's-road
West.
Louisa Peelle, a little girl, said that after the robbery
she beard the prisoner tell another person that • boy
named Begley took him upstairs into the prosecutor's
room, broke open the box, and stole the watch and 80,0-
reign. Begley gave prisoner half the sovereign, but never
gave him part of the watch, which he took to a shop cud
hod a new hand put to it.
Prisoner—l didn't get a new hand t the watch.
Mr. Bello-1t there wasn't a new hand put to the watch
it is pietly evident an old hand took it.
Prisoner was remanded.

11001. s- - Sir Richard Mayno has in t insue.l un
order to the police, instructing them to take possomiion of
all hoops bowled by children in the public streets. Some
thoioande of boys' and girls' hoops are now to bo found at
the different police stations in the metropolis.