The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-03 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL
" norta AT MOM.*
Mary Anne Jones, SUMO Honour, and Caroline Wars!,
three nell•alrnosal and respertable.look log females, were
Agreed under the following circumstances:
Mr. Goalnto, au acrotint.bo,k manufacturer, of Great
tachestoevtreet, saki—The prisoners came into my shop
..stentay onerous, about o'clock, in a state of intorioation.
Wsol pared into my back sitting-room, and seated herself
i.sofortably in my arm chair in frost of the fire. I
asked her what she wanted there, upon which she
calmly ordered three cups of coffee. (Laughter.) Is the
meautune lease west into the beak yard, and afterwards
with the other's/Imm endeavoured to pa up ',Wm but in
doing so the fell beck and I thought she bid killed herself.
They created a peat disturbance in my house sad I was
oblngost WWI in the police to remove them. Jesse the
complaised of lasing her purse, which wee attenrards
rowel in the huh yard. He, however, believed it was all a
owl/4e as the part of the prisoners, who, is their &makes.
arras. took his shop for a coder shop.
Polieeman LIT mini--When I removed the prisoners I
would have allowed them to hove gone quietly away bad
they been so but Jones said she had been knocked
down and roi.bsd of her purse in Mr. Gocdwin's house, and
..-coned me of having part of the motiey. They were ell
tory drunk and caused • greet disturbance in the shiest, end
I was obliged to take the into custody.
The prisoners expressed great onetrAion, and explained
that they were not and to , and that wan the ren-
s. that the small quisisty they had taken had affected
lieu so seriously.
Aldwous Gabriel mid it was most disgraceful conduct an
the pan of nepreetsble halides like the prisoners, bat from
they eppearunie he wee sere that the frightful degradation
of being in the heads et the polies on sea • sharp would
ewer upon their Weide far the rep of their lives the evil
stens of dreakesana. That he thought would be saillnent
purishesest for
heeled them. their present offence, and he therefore (be-
,

ItARLHOROMH4TREET.
♦ CLZIGT MAX CRAW= WITIII 11108MENT.
*Weems °Awry. Veralam•Vb Albans, Wesleyan
wirier, wee charged before hie itt with stealing a
*deer wreath at the Cab Ramses. property of • young
hos", earned Alioe Elisabeth Coker, of In, Shaftesbary•
Pimlsco.

wereingPreimentrie said eke woe in the rd., lieseece that
shout three o'ekek, sad placed a silver wreath oa
the lade sued naked the waiter to take rare of for. her.
The pawn" had bees sitting at as adjoining tebb haring
labi
=tor
sapiger..
kin site was Ileaviag the place the wreath was
the

Luke Jenny. 4i CI, said the prosecutrix came op to him
sad told lin do bad last her wreath. He asked her d she
rempested urea, and "Tea. that perms," •
lag the pioneer. The presaawr was then outside, and hs
aimed bins 111 he bed lfle deeded it. He then searched a
red ho bad es Ms sm, but ceakl sot and it. The
Ina dill persevering in the belief that he had it,V
NO aged the primer to bike on his hat. and on his s-
ee be there fogad the wreath.
Primmer amid thin he west into the pleas to take scone
retreekinuat, being perfectly sober at the time. The lady
sad dhows wen taking snorer, and an altercation arose
human seen fore and other.. and than warn a talk
of • audio's, mad of pistols sad sword., sad he tried to
quell it- to throw oil os the troubled waters—sod thrust
thew It the orialusion, in has hat. As soca as he left
tlio house the lady charged ham with stealing the wreath.
lie had takes it up, bat with so idea of sambas it.
Yr. Tyrwbitt said he could not understand why it was
put into his hat.

.- - -
The prisoner rid it was dame io trying to slop the die.
tartanee.

Tynriutt said that prisonerdid not explain how it tram,
tr►vo the cosetable looked ander his rug, that he did not
say it Was ii hea hat.

414frilly11:1ai it7.10;11100ef WY quite sober, ...Lo wee the
ierrreutriz.

Ur. Ty rwhitt mid it was a Armco place sad time for the
prisoner to be there.
Primmer mid he way et the café simply to see what he
could see. He cookl give a amiabietory proof who he wee.
Hr. Tyrwliitt said he moat again say it was rather an odd
ewe to ha M. However, be would WO owe bail in
for his reippearsoes that day week, and the wreath
Mould be detained.

TVS COMM/MIT/ AGALNNT R. MASIIASIT'S PARISH.
A poor attenuated lad. of seventeen or eighteen years of
applied to. Mr. Pardee, the sitting magistrate, under
the following carcumnances
The poor boy said that he waa without • home and per-
fectly destitute, and they would sot take him in at the
melamine.

Mr. Paynter—What workhouse did you go to?
Applicant-711e workhouse of St. Margaret's, in York-
street, Westminster.
Mr. Psynter - Yon don't surely OMB to Illy that they
would not take you is on such a night as last night
Applicant (altiost an tears)—No; I was there some hours,
and at 10 o'clock they told me they could do nothing for
I.e.

Paynter—lt's shameful. Oo to the pariah and tell
them from me it is at their peril to keep you out.
Mr. Hunt (the usher of the court)—There is a woman here
who knows esseethis about it.
A very reeperstable-loolms aromas Mood up, and mid she
knew he bed applied to the workhouse, as he ague to her
homes sad mt about the doorway, and she knew he was
~uite destitute.

Mr. Pantos (to the boy)—Whisre did you sleep last
night?
Ths boy—Nowhere ; I walked about the streets.
Keowlaad, the sommossieg edlemr—l know be was at the
loTae, far I maw him aboutthsra

Paynter (to Knowlsad)—Go down to the parish
•.th him and me about it. It is perfectly intolerable,
timse constant complaints spinet this parish.

Pt NCH.% RAILWAr.—I pre•ume that the Thames
I unction Railway is no more. What has become of its
ihrectors and its shareholders, ita Molter' and its pokers
I think that in the early days of Ponca the wap of that
Lirete publication, and some of whom dwelt about }1111.1•
h.-month sod shephenrs-hush, used to make the " Ken.
i-ortoo Railway" a standing butt for cheerful sarcasm. I
r,ruenther • rtme.r. iption of one human passenger who entered
IL.- station before it wait • coal cake, and insisted on being
'amed to Paddington, wormholt Scnibbs, Birmingham,
Flrist..l, or elsewhere. The excitemeet caused by his demand
•Imeribed as astounding. Sundry hens and chickens were
.hived out of an engiue and tender where they had been
tP.mting ; • souttleful coals wee borrowed from the searest
.v•ro to feed the furtmoshre withaL Water was bed oo
Li.tily from a neighbouring pump ; the engine-driver was
'ragged from • barber's shop, where he had assumed the
t-aerialpreteerine ; • stoker was found sitting by • tape
',rim fire ; an old mu from the workhouse war im
:maid. The station-clerk-there bad always =
del not know exactly how much to cheep the pas-
..•hcer, but asked eb.ven and fourpence. At last veers-
It.rig was ready and the train started : but what became of
•• of the pneeenirr no
some tosiruc could ever tell.
• „ tire muss of deed spezulation.—Tempis Bar.