The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-22 00:00:00

LAMBECH.

Thomas Farrel, a middle-aged man, of rather respectable
&Flee,
Luiwee placed at the bar, before Mr. Elliott, on a
c of burgously breaking into the dwelling-house of
Mr. Joseph Woods, omnibus and stage-carriage proprietor,
Victoria-place, Lock's-fields, and stealing therefrom a roll
of carpet and other property.
A polionconstable said that on the night before, about
eleven o'clock, he wee on duty in Lyon-street, Kea-road,
and saw the prisoner and two other men going along, the
prisoner at the time carrying the piece of carpeting then
produced under his arm. He stowed the prisoner and uked
what he had got, and his reply was, " What is that ao you r
He told him that it was everything to him, and that be
must know before he parted with him. The prisoner then
said it was spume of carpeting, sad that be bought it twelve
months ago at the shop of Mr. Edwards, in the Walworth-
road. Witness told him he must go with him to the shop
of Mr. Edwards, and he walked along a short distance? when
be threw down the piece of carpeting before him (witness)
and tried to poll him over it. He also tried to make bin
escape, and in the struggle tried to strike and kick him, but
be ultimately overpowered him, and removed him to the
station-house. Since his apprehension he (witness) found
that on the Monday night the house of Mr. Woods bad been
burglariously broken into, and that the roll of carpeting was
part of the property stolen.
These last facts were sworn to by the nephew and foreman
of Mr. Woods, and the prisoner was remanded to give time
for further inquiry.

Richard Davey, in the employment of the Crystal Palace
Company, was charged with stealing 355., the monies of his
employers. From the evidence it appeared that Polies-
constable Short. 77 G, while on duty at the Crystal Palace,
observed the prisoner, who was at one of the turnstiles at
the front of the building and receiving money, put nevem'
of the shillings Le received into his pocket. He communi-
cated the fact to one of the officers of the company, and on
the prisoner being further watched for about 20 minutia, it
was found that he passed two persona through the turn-
stile at the same turning, and thus he was enabled at every
turning to put a shilling into his own pocket without its
being discovered by the "telltale." He was at length taken
into the office of Mr. Grove, the secretary, where he was
charged with the offence, which he, in the first instance,
denied, bat in a few minutes afterwards he contemn' his
guilt, and said he " hoped the company would look over
it, as he had been let into it by a men in the palms,
whose name he mentioned, having taught him the way to
do it." . .

The prisoner was sentenced to three months' hard labour.
Mr. Wontner attended before Mr. Elliott with a person
named Fredericks, to know if the police, as they had stated,
had his worship's authority to put a stop to a fair, to the
injury of his client, or whether they had not exceeded their
duty in doing so. The learned gentleman said that his
client had obtained legal possession of a field for 21 days,
and for which he held an agreement in his band, aod be-
lieved lie had the right to hold a fair there, and did so. The
police however thought proper on the evening before to
prevent all persons attending it, to the serious loss of his
client, and the excuse they offered for this strange proceed-
ing was that they bad his worship's sanction.
After some diacussion,
Mr. Elliott said—My opinion is that they are perfectly
justified in removing the things. The whole thing is most
illegal, and the fair a perfect nuisance.