The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-23 00:00:00

CRNTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

SIXTIXCIL
At the rising of the court as Friday, John Stevens, the
post onto letter carrier w►o ►ad pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment charging bin with stealing a letter oontainiag motley,
wee brought up for judgment, and seateamd to be MUM-
ported for um years.
Two or three eases of felony of a trifling c►aracter wore
disposed of, sad the mom then adjourned to Monday,
January 6.

THE POLICE COURTS.

BOW•STRKET.

Tan War or • Pcsuc Pnosactrrox.—Mr. Montague
end °then, who have interested themselves in preferring
charges against Adolphe Derwinaki, • Pole, for committing
• MIN of brutal assaults upon the person of Mary AM.
Richards, a poor orphan, with whom, on pretence that he
was her parent, he cohabited since she was ten years of ego,
waited npcn Mr. Jardine, before whom the case was repeat-
oft investigated, to request his advise as to the tonne they
skald pursue, the messed having been discharged by pro-
clamation at the last Middlesex samisen in consequence of
the bias of indictment not being prepared in sufficient time
to submit them to the consideratien of the grand jury before
the judge diensimed them, their duties having terminated.
Mr. Montague, son-in-law of the girl's nurse, sail that a
bill had been preferred in which only one cleat was inserted,
and not being considered by the clerk, at the Middlesex ses-
sions, sufficient to ladle* the accused for a common reach,
there was no time to cornet the error before the jury was dis-
missed, and the primer dieetiarged by proclamation.
Mr. Jardine said he would give directions that Thompson
should prefer the bill of indictment, and it was to be hoped
that the inability to pay certain lees on the part of the roes-
cuter insult a flagrant ease should noted as an impediment

to the ends of justice.
The girl was then ordered to be furnished with relief from
the poor box, for which she expressed hermit grateful, and
the applicants left the court.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Ttcxrtrtso FOR Bans.—Colossi Short, the boo. mere-
tary of the Rouse of Charity, Rosa street, sooompuied by
Miss
i Earl, the matron, applied for a summons against a
an tradesmn Orford-street, under them circumstances
Colonel Snort stated that Miss Earl, having been com-
missioned to select • boa for a young friend, went on Friday
into 011ortetrest, and entered a fur shop, intending to snake
a purchme if she found an article to suit her. She was
shown some boas, but none would suit, and, though very
much pressed to make a purchase, she persisted In leaving
the shop. She walked into another shop. followed however
by some person from the shop she had just quitted, and
made a purchase at itho second shop. As she came out,
the person from the first shop touched her en the'
shoulder, and asked her to go back to his shop, as a boa'
bad been missed, which she was suspected to have
stolen. The person said there were seven boas
placed on the counter before her and six oaly were
oand after she bad left the place. Miss Earl immediately
consented to return to the shop, and when there brat for
the warden, a clergyman, to whom her character was known.
The persons belonging to the shop wished her to go upstairs
and be searelied by one of the females be!onging to the
establishment. Miss Earl refused to leave the shop, or to
allow herself to be searched until the warden bad arrived.
As soon as the warden came she said ale was quite willing
, to ha searched, and she did undergo some kind of searching
epention, but of course no boa was found. The person be-
longing to the shop said, in the warden's presence, that eight
bees bad been placed on the counter, and that only coven
wets found. Col. Short said his motive for bringing the we
forward was to protect the public, and ladies especially, who
went into ticketing shops in Oxiord-strest, from being either
Imposed upon, treated with rudeness or vial/nee, or subjected
'to a chug* of felooy, if they would not make a purchase.
Miss Earl was • person of unblemished character; and as he
was made acquainted with the foots, he brought her to the
court to make an application for • summon'.
Mr. Hardwick asked Miss Earl whose shop abe referred to ?
Miss Eail replied the 'name of Siockbndge was ever the

op.
ihMr. Hardwick said the assault was the touch on the
shoulder, but, seder the circumstances, he hardly thought
such • charge maid be sustained. The real effects was
detaining Miss Earl o• • charge of ftlony. However, it
there was evidenoe enough to make out • cue of assault, the
penalty which • magistrate could inflict would hardly be
• sufficient punishment. H. should advise the aggrieved
party to apply to an attornty, who would, no doubt, recom-
mend an satin to be brought in We County Court for
damages.
The parties thanked the magistrate, and left the court.
LAMBETH. _ _

SISOIILAIL CHARON os CHILD STILLI NO.—Emma Smith,
a pirl of fifteen years of ago, was charred with taking away
• little bey of two years of ago, the child of her master, a
tradessaan is Hill-street, Walworth, and disposing of several
sedates of his drew Two females named Allen and
M'Csrfhy, and • man named Donohue, were also charged
with being implicated with the first-named prisoner. The
assn occupied some time In its investigation, but the brief
facts are these:—
Oa Friday week the girl Emma Smith, who was in the
Benin of Mr. Clerk, of Hill-street, Walworth-road, was
sent by her mistress to got some sausages, and was given ,
halt-a-crown to pay for them. She took her master's
child, a fine little boy of two yean of age, with her,
and from that time until Thursday evening the family
could not learn what bad become of *IAA. Oa Mon-
day last Mr. Clerk mused printed bills to be issued by
the police, descriptive of the girl and child, and on
the Thursday morals( following • second bill offering
• reward of 61. for each information as would lead
to the discovery of the missies parties. In the last bill the
address of Mr. Clerk was omittod, though it was given in
the first; but, notwithstanding this omission, the mac
Donahue on Thursday evening called on Mr. Clerk, and
took him to a room occupied by Mrs. Allen, Plough-court,
Wkitechapel, and there he found his child and Emma Smith.
Tke latter, when questioned on the subject, said that on
Friday week, while going along Walworth-road, cm her way
to the pork-boteher's, end dragsiog the child of her master
in a small wicker basket cho.3 , she was wooded by the
female Allen, who asked when she was going, and on ,W
telling her, and showing her the half-crown, she said she
moat go with her as she had something to show her, and
took her to her lodging in Plough-court. Here she was
partly kept until found as before stated, and while there
Mrs. Alien had disposed of the wicker-basket amiss and •
portion of the dress of the child to support them. The state-
. ment of Mrs. Allen, on the cestrary, was that on Sunday
week the prisoner, Emma Smith, wee brought to key by
another young female, who asked her if As could oblige her
' by letting bar remain with her a few days. Smith at the '
' time represented that she was the mother of the child, that
' its father wee a Front* gentleman named Palmer, midis,
on Brizton.hill, and that in • few days slil:diaected a large
sum of money from him. Allen Ahoy heels' sold
j port of the child's dress, but said she dam so at
' Smith's request, and to enable her to procure food foe the
child Awl she got money from its father, sad that she
itzdtv had made the same miarepresentatkiss Atka West
Union, where she slept several nights, that she had
made to her.
II Smith, in reply to the questions of Mr. Nonce, admitted
that both her and her master's child had slept in the union
for several nights, but said the roreseatatioss she made
were those dictated to her by Mrs.
I, Mr. Norton ultimately remanded the prisoner Smith for •
' week, end desired that Mrs. Allen, Mrs. M'Carthy, sad
Donohue should also be la attendance.