The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS•

(THIS DAY.)

(Itefore Mr. J. Payne, Deputy-Assistant Judge.)
A PI.VNI,EItER OF TURNINHED lA/DGINGS.
.0 MIIIIOI, 24, was indicted for stealing a sealskin
other articles, value 401., the property of Dru-
-1; ieloch, in a dwelling-house. A second indictment
her with obtaining by false pretences from Sarah
heaket containing a gown and other articles value
a itb intent to defraud. A third indictment charged
• it b dealing a table cover and other articles value 71.,
p7operty of Alice Lulled.
oe ',weer pleaded guilty to all the indictments.
. t!... ca., of Kinloch the articles were stolen from the
• 3 lodger in the house No. 11, Weattnerelsiid-pleee,
and consisted of a sealskin jacket, cloaks, linen,
dl:lothing, and other articles ; the sealskin jacket
valued at 241 guineas. This jacket was pawned
pi i•mier at Messrs. Dobree and Avant's, 4:1, Drury-
- . i,.l U. In the case of Mrs. Fisher, the prisoner went
rouse in Blarelnuont-street, Brunswick-square,
• olte had been sent by Mrs. Young, the laundress,
washbm, as she was unable to come herself,
articles to the value of 11W., as well as the
euocruet fur the lsst,week'a wash, which bad been left
laa the cane of Mts. Luffert the robbery was
...att.-.1 in the same house where Mrs. Kinloch
I.llbre the prisoner took a large number of
WWI in addition to that forced open a writing desk
:.,cree-driver, and took some small articles found
There was no doubt she was led to a belief that
contained looney, but in that she was distil,.

•t• Franklin, 20 E, said ho was present at the
f this court in January, 1.1.64, when the prisoner
d of robbing children in the street of their
001 toe ntenced to be kept in penal servitude for five

ii,sre. warder at the Honse of Conection,West-
.l.o proved two other convictions against the
••.. one fur nine months and one for twelvemonths
i ....nt aid hard labour.
.1...1,:e raid every kind of punishment had failed
~ ~.,n,,,nt warning to the prisoner, and the *en-
h..a urn' her was that she be kept in penal
.t...h. for ten years.

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

HANNON-HOME.
A OF SHAM JEWELLZRY.
I • • 't, a respectable-looking elderly man,who
us u hatter, was charged before the Lord
• sit!, endeavouring to dispose of several spurious
• f Jewellery by falsely representing them to be gold.
II n V 11..6gd• a City police-constable, gave the follow-
F.: • si isms.He stated that yesterday, about half-past
rn, tl,e rfteru„on, a young man named Arthur Baxter
li •..1. a I..drdresser m Berumudsey, came up to him
bridge and told him that the mate of
•• • : 1:.,-1 offered to sell him a gold watch chain and a
ring and scarf pin for 2f. 18.., and that he had
1••:• u,d got the money and had had a look at the
mud thought they were good. At that
tLe prisoner passed, and Howard said that was
Witness told hint that he was a " duffer," and

a Le Ka, e him into custody he would take him to the
amt. This was done, and on being searched the chain,
pin and some sham studs were found in his pos•

a former ocasion the prisoner bad offered some
metal jewellery to Curtis, a Plain clothes officer,
Into into custody, and he was then sentenced to
imprisonment. The story he told was that he
L!,,, of a ship, that the captain had died, and that he
opvn his hot and taken the jewellery.
1 I.,,,anded fora week.

CLERKENWELL.
• nunotan's arInTARE.
q.• rqc !kalif, a young man well known to the pelt ,
!" charged before Mr. Cooke with burglarionsly breaking
.I.* the house of rolice-constable Joseph Rowe, =4 AIL,
. Gastigny-place, St. Luke's.
• prosecutor said—lsist night, about half-past 8
I is.,s with my wife in the kitchen, when we heard
all of some one forcing the front door, and also of
„,..,:ilpinvetr.heons:agti My wife wentt higletrehe area
was s, and
man
0.1, door, who said to ryewiyfe,ll Is your name Thomp.
•i have you got a pony for sale r My wife said" No
:::Lskell him what he wanted in the passage, noon which
repliedthat the door was open and that he had knocked
Just then I came into the passage and saw the
.nerat the parlour door, and on seeing me he ran
r'.s, as did also the other man, but I pursued and cap-
"r'l the prisoner about 12 yards from my house. On being
%ken he said, "Oh let me o as I have a wife and
0,11.1 sia weeks old at home. 'I
said I would not let
go, and that he had just rushed into the lion's den, as
'u a policeman. He then resisted violently, until con-
to the jKilicestation. He had on a pair of woman's
shoes, in order that he might walk softly.
This evidence was partly corroborated by Mrs. Rowe,
•aslr. Cooke remanded him for a week.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DAMAGING A FINN ISCAPI,
r'n Brand, • cab driver,
as wee charged before Mr.
,rshitt with being drunk during his employment a
,
driver, and damaging a fire escape, the property of the
"401ilditan Board of Works, to the amount of 3/.135. 6d.
I he was also charged with breaking a pane of glass, of
value of 71., in the show-room window of Messrs. Jack-
l!and Graham, upholsterers, 34, Orford-attest.
''voitrnin Wright, the conductor in charge of the fire
!oaee stationed at Messrs. Jackson and Graham's, said
L'at shout 2 o'clock that morning the prisoner drove his
Ntainat the fire escape, and damaged it to the amount
k Us. gcl,