The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-13 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION HOUSE.

Snore CNANON AGAINST • 1110114? 51111 T Theses
MAN.—MT. E. Williams, of No. 211, Regent-street, was
charged before the Lord Mayor Rader the following aired&
Mr. domes A. Northover, is the employment of Mesas.
WWI, of No. 6, anther-lane Cbstpalde, silk warehowe-
mos mid on Friday evening, between SATAN and alas
Vault, there was stolen from oar warehouse about 80 pieces
of plata sad fancy silks vans between 5001. and 6001
They were 24 inches wide aid from 12 to 80 yards in length.
At a quarter to seven o'clock the porter and I went through
the premises and left all right. The porter locked the
warehouse door and the hall door. We occupy the ground
bet.
The Lord Mayor—Was anybody left In the house to
Match it ?
Witness—Nobody. I shoal know the silks agile, if I saw
Ibsen; they are of so peculiar a character. They were
made (or us, and not f any other persons in the trade. I
have ISSN the patterns of some of the silks, but not
the bulk.
The policemen who apprehended the prisoner bore produced
22 patterns of frothy silk.
Witness—l believe them to be patterns of some of the
rode which were lost.
The Lord Mayor—Are you sure that these goods were
made exclusively for your house ?
Witness—Yes. We have also lost goods of several other
patterns.
The Lord Mayor—Have you any knowledge of the
primmer ?
Witness—None whatever.
The Lord Mayor—What are the prime of the pieces which
you have lost, and of which them are patterns?
Witness—From 3'. to 4s. 611. a yard, with the exception of
sae piece.
Mr. Jahn E learode—l am in the employment of Mum.
Shoolbred and Co., Tottenham-court-road, drapers. lam a
buyer for the house Last evening at 6 o'clock I was called
by Mr. Brown, one of the partners of the firm, and intro-
duced to Mr. Williams, as having a lot of silks to sell, of
which he had brought patterns. I saw the patterns ;sad
ssked about the price. The prisoner said be bad them to
sell for a party, with stated at first that the prise was 21 ,
but afterersrds that Is. gds was the price, and that if that
prim would not answer he would take en offer, and that
the silks were to be sold that evening. Mr. Brown
said to Mr. Williams, if we buy these silks, who
do we bay them of t are we to bay them of
you ? The prisoner said, " Tee." Mr. Brown said
will it do to let you know in an hour and a
half ? Mr. Williams replied Ia the affirmative, and
appointed his boom, No. 211, Regent-street, for the place of
mesas.; and he said to me. " Take me of these patterns ,•
don't let any one see them." I looked at the patterns. sal
having emu things of the kind at Mesas. Watts anti Co.'s
at 3s. 14. some tines before, I thought ft to be my duty to go
round to the house to make inquiry, which I accordingly
lid. Mr. Bhoolbred went with me, and, having common',
est: d with the house, we afterwards communicated with the
polio.. At half-pest sir, the appointed time, Mr. Shoollusd
west with see to Mr. Williams, and we asked him whether
we could see the goods. Mr. William said No, be had only
got the patterns. We asked him if the lengths were
replier; and he said they were long lengths, and
that the shortest was forty yards. Mr. tihoothred
said, " Whose ars the goods ? Where are they ?" Mr.
Williams mid—" I am a kind of an agent employed to sal
the goods for a party, and, if you particularly wish to see
the party, I shall go on mid let you know all the particulars
in the MIMI of an hour." We then lett the ;slam- and Mr.
William* came accomingly in the course of an hour. He
then said he knew nothing more of the party than that be
had left the patterns.
The Lord Mayor—Had yea seen the prisoner before ?
Witness—Never.
The Lord Mayor—Have you any other evidence to pro-
dues ?
Inspector Mitchell—No more at present, my lord. We
wish for a remand of the prisoner.
Mr. Clsrkson, for the prisoner, said that under the circum-
stances he had only to ask the Lnd Mayor to accept of ball
for the appearance of the prisoner upon a luture siay. Mr.
Williams was a tradesmen, residing in and carrying on
business in Regent-street, and it eould not be supposed that
• gentle man so situated would not make effort to bring
to ju•ties the persons by wtom he had been imposed upon,
or that he could have been guilty of the offence of house-
breaking himself. If Mr. Williams were locked up it was
quite inspowible that the apprehension of the parties who
were the employers of Mr. Williams could be acc..implished.
Inspector Mitebell—The prisoner, upon being questions.'
about the parties for whom he acted, could give no descrip-
tion of theta. All he could say was that one was a tall man
and the other was • stout man, and he declared that he knew
nothing at sll about them.
Mr. Clarkson said the Lord Mayor would take it into
consideration that nothing was found in the possession of the
prisoner but patterns of goods which were said to have been
stolen. _

The Lord Mayor said the circumstances were such as in-
duced him to look at the proposition to take bail with pecu-
liar care. The prisoner had declared himself to the parties
to whom he went to sell the articles of which he produced
the samples as a kind of agent to thine who were anzions to
dispose of th•. m, and offered to sr isfy all the inquiries of the
former, and he afterwards denied all knowledge of hi. em-
ployer,. His lordship then stated that he would take bail,
bat it must be unexceptionable bail, in two enrollee of 2601.
each, and the prisoner himself in the sum of 6001., to appear
on a Suture day.
The prisoner was then remanded.
MARYLEBONE.

BRUTAL OCTlAoll.—Matthew Irbb la-
bourer, who h.s many times been in custody for drunken-
ISM and assaults of a most violent nature, was again brought
up and planed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, ion a mur-
derous outrage upon Ellen II Dermot, his wife.
It appeared from the evidence that at five o'clock Tester-
day evening the wife came to the station.house bleeding
crewel, from the head and one of the arms. Pontoon's.
stable 158 D onveyed her without lose of time to the die-
penury, when the surgeon dressed the wounds, that on the
head having been inflicted with a poker, and the other with
a knife ; the first-named wound was pronounced to be of a
dangerous description. The officer subsequently captured
the pri.oner at his lodgings in Horace-street' Elsware.road
(the resort of the lowest characters), and then locked
him up.
Mr. Bronebton (to the offiler)—ls the woman hero now ?
Officer —She is not, your worship, and I understand she
does not mean to some forward. On former occasions, when
assaulted by her husband very seriously, she has declined to
appear against him.
Mr. Broughton remanded the prisoner till nest Thursday,
FLACAA AT • ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPIL.—Mr. Joseph
Turnbull, an independent protestant gentleman, residing at
No. 18, York plate, Kentish-town, wee charged before Mr.
Broughton on a suasion which bad been ob'ained against
hi. by Mr. Joseph Bourne, who described himself as an
ecclesiastical student, going into the ministry of Br. Alezia,
Roman catholic chapel, situated in the vicinity of defendant's
Mr. Wontner attended for the defendant; and the hearing of
the cue, which occupied a eonsiderahle deal of time, excited
mach interest. Complainant, on being sworn, said on Ban-
day, the 3rd inst., at a quarter put eleven, I was in the
chapel, service hod commenced, and the priest had
just gene Into the sacristy to change his vestments. I
looked round and saw the defendant standing at the door-
way, lust within the chapel, at a spot where the priest
would precisely have to pus ; he bad his hat on, end I told
him that I would thank him to take ft off, he said he should

sot de so, and I then said to him that he mat go out of the
dispel I took off his hat and gave it to him, and as I turned
round to go into the musty be struck me as the head a
tolerably hard blow with a walking stick ; he was mush
excited at the time • a polioeman who was attending war-
ship in the chapel, 'tiering a distukenco, went ont and took
defemient to the statics-boom, whore I shagged him with the
aimult, and he then said he should Marge me with washing
him by taking his hat off. The mount on duty said be
would not take either chugs, u there with no marks of
violates perceptible, and he advised the parties to make
application to a magistrate.
Oa cromezaminauon complainant would not swear that
he did not tell the officer at the station.houts that he
" knocked off " defendant's hat.
The evident* of several other witnesses was gone into, and
it appeared, from the 'tenement of Sergeant Orem, that
complainant, whoa emeasti of !teem knocked off de-
fendant's hat, adMilltsi Nut he had done so.
Mr. Broughtem • strong opinion with regard to
the impropriety of rnat not taking off hie hat while
standing in a plus Ili warship, no matter of what denomi-
nation the worshipper might be. Complainant had aa tam•
doubted right to require dlefaudant to take his tat off, and
open his refusing, to remove it for kiwi. He had no right,
however, to knock it off, which at the station he admitted
he did ; and as ke (the magistrate), after taking into cos-
ederatim the esettradictory statements made by eon-
Painant, could not do otherwise than consider lie (the
latter) had committed the fist assault, the SAINISIONI was
Contend.

FM AND LOllB or LITZ AT ROCECINTEN.—on
Monday evening, shortly after mine o'clock. an alarmist
fire broke oat at the essidena of Mr. R. Hansa, as It
Margsreeebsak, Rochester, sad which unfortaaately re-
sulted in km of life. It originated M a bedroom, in whisk
an infant was asleep, and appears to have bean caused by the
certain. of the bed taking fire, through the illealltiollll set
of the arrant, who on discovering the danger, ran to a
front window and gam the alarm, anti from which she
escaped ; the child, however. before assistance could be
' rendered, being suffocated. The Ire made rapid progress,.
sad although bet a short time elapsed before the satinet of
the Sae and Kent Fire-anew strived, tesseme with tg•
city eagles maimed by the Boat Mated Fin Brigade,
miring to the want of water, it epeedil iseamentostsd to
the adjoining Imam, sad, Le bet,' t &stow
iron to s largo menet et property. A samisagar wan
dispatched to Wet bursas, and with that meal
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