The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-08 00:00:00

THE FX PRESS, FRIDAY F,VENITG. NOVEMBER 8, 1861.

placed his life in jeopardy. Sergeant Evans, V G,
saw thei sesault, and went to assist Gilroy,
when be was assaulted also by Dimmock, who kicked
him. if the kick indicted upon Gilroy had been an inch
higher it would lime at least injured bins for life, in the
opinion of Mr. Mather, the divisional surgeon, who exa-
mined bim.

Himmock pleaded guilty to the samult, and
The jury found him Uzi/ty of the attempt, and Acquitted
the three others, no evidence on the charge of assault being
offered by the prosecution against Howard.
Dimmock was sentenced to one year's hard labour for the
attempt to steal the box and two years for the assault on
the police-constable—three years altogether.
In a case of • man named Russell alias Edwards, con-
victed of • plate robbery in the dwelling-house of Edward
Cobb, and for stealing a watch, value 10a., the property of
Samuel Bell, and sentenced to six years' penal servitude,
the grand jury recommended one of the witnesses, a sweep,
named James Paul, who pursued the prisoner and caused
his capture, to the coosidetation of the court for a reward
for Lis meritorious conduct, which bad been as well eulo-
gized by the committing magistrate.
His lordship said lie quite coecurred, and directed •
reward of 2/. to be given to the witness Paul.
Harriet Mather, 44, was indicted for stealing two six-
pences, the money of Frederick Wyatt.
The prosecutor was a surveyor in Maddox-street, and ho
stated in evidence that on the 13th of October he performed
the office of sideman. at the offertory in St. Andrew's
Church. R-ell•street. The prisoner was there, and he passed
the collection plate to some ladies, who sent it along the
row on which she was sitting. She shuffled her hands
about, and he distinctly saw her take two sixpences from
the plate. She then handed back the plate, and looked at
him very hard in the face. He went out and found a police-
man, and when the service was over be gave her in charge.
She de•oial the charge, and said she placed four penny pieces
on the plate, but lie was positive that be saw her take the
two sixpences.
She was found Guilty, and a former conviction for felony
was proved against her.
She was sentenced to hard labour for 12 calendar months.
Ed war( Lyons, 25, and John Mahone'', were indicted for
stealing three cmton dresses and other articles, the pro-
perty of Thomas Martin, from a sitting-room in the house,
O._Wentworthatreet.

They were found by the police in George street with a
bundle, and were taken, when it was (dund that the bundle
contained the property stolen from the prooecutoe's house.
They were found ("nifty, and were proved to be well-
known and convicted thieves.

Lyons was sentenced to three years, and Mahoney to five
years' penal servitude.
Jane Montrose Turner, 11, was indicted for steeling
three silk dresses, and other articles, the property of
Messrs. Jame. Whiskin and Co., of the Metropolitan
Bleaching and Dyeing Company, of Wharf-road, City-road.
The prisoner, it seemed, was taken upon another cha►ge,
and in a drawer in • house in which she lived there were
found a number of duplicates relating to articles which
bad been sent to the company, and had been taken from
their premises in • very mysterious manner. The
prisoner had been employed there, and used to
be tint on the premises, and instead of going
out with the other young women employed, to
dinner, she preferred to take dinner where the
articles were, and also to be about last to leave. The
company had had to make compensation to the amount of
over !M. fur the missing articles, and one claim was still
pending for some 4!. 10s. The prisoner pledged some of the
property produced, which covered the witness-box.
The defence she made was a very wicked one. She sug-
gested that the manager or the company pawned the things
himself, and gave her the duplicates to outset a debt he
owed a deceased aunt of hen for borrowed money, which
bad been owing live years, and that part of the property
produced was her own, and marked with her aunt's initials.
That she, her aunt and the manager came to London in the
same railway carriage five years ago. The manager proved
that he was in Cornwall at the time. She asserted that he
was visited at his office by a young woman,which was entirely
denied, as the manager had never received but one visit, and
that from his own mother, and as to the lent money, he
never borrowed • penny of any one in his life, never maw
say aunt of the prisoner, and never saw the prisoner her-
self until she cense to work for the firm.
The prisoner several times, in speaking of the alleged
debt, said it woe sf. then 101., but could nut tell, as her
aunt was dead, and that it had not been looked after
bemuse the manager could not be found, as he had been
inquired after without 'access, and his family had dis-
owned him.

The Ibuiager swore upon his oath that there was not one
scintilla of truth in any of these statement.. He called • $
a witness u man who had been in the employment of the
firm as a warehouseman, and who had lost his situation in
consequence of the property which was in his charge being
lost. His evidence proved the impossibility of the truth
of the prisoner's statements as to the duplicates and the
pawning by the manager, and in this be was fully borne
out by the dates on the tickets, and the loss of the pro-
Port
After a long trial the prisoner was found Guilty, and
sentenced to 12 mouths' hard labour, the learned judge
remarking that the defence had greatly aggravated the
offence.

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The jury said, as the warehouseman had lost his situa-
tion through the dishonesty of the prisoner, they hoped the
company would reinstate him, or that something would be
done for him.

tiiieOtinircesee tried in both courts were of die ordinaiy
description of larceny.