The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-18 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

Mr. Henry Jarkson. alias Loy, alias Taply, Dizo Jack-
son, his wife, and Mary Ana Lon., respectably-dressed
persons, were charged with conspiring with others, not in
custody, to defraud Messrs. Bowdon and Co., upholsterers,
6, Minerva-terrace, Old Kent-road, of goods to the amount
of 116/. 16s. The prisiners were further charged with
being concerned in carrying on with others a most extensive
system of swindling, and obtaining goods from Sheffield and
other manufacturing towns to • considerable extent by false
representations.
Elias Phillips, foreman to Messrs. Bowdon and Co., de-
posed that in the month of July last the male prisoner
cams to the warehouse of hisemployers, Messrs. Bowdon and
Co., and requested that • competent person might be sent
to No. 5, Grove-terrace, Hill-street, Peckham, to take the
measure of the rooms for new carpeting. He gave the
name of Edward Low, said he was • cattle salesman, in
which business his family bad been for upwards
of • century, and that he banked at Hill's, 17,
Smithfield. He (witness) asked him if he did
not require something in the furniture way as well as
carpeting, and be replied that he did, that he should select
a few articles, but would give him a more liberal order on a
future day. The things he selected he requested to be sent
home as soon as convenient, as he was about to he married,
and should send the lady he was about to make his wife to
*elect other things. A day or two after, Mrs. Jackson, as
she called herself, called, and having represented herself as
the future Mrs. Low, selected goods to the amount of 52i.,
which she desired might be sent to Hill-street, the same
house as the others. Witness subsequently called at the
house, when a person who was represented to be the servant
to Mr. and Mrs. Low, said it was the wish of her master to
have a couple of chimney glasses and same fenders and fire
irons, and these he also sent. He went agnin to see Mr.
Low, when he was told he bad gone to the country on his
wedding excursion, but that his brother front Hackney
called for his letter, and would forward his bill, so that he
might expect to timbre its amount in a few days. He did
not, however, see either of the prisoners from that time
until the morning before, when he found them in custody
at Carter-street Station. The younger female prisoner was
a stranger to him.

James Fester, • clerk in the employment of Vern.
Bowdo•andCo.. said that on the29th of July last he went to
the house No. 5, Grove-terrace, and towed it shut up and
all the goods removed. From information be received be
went in search of the vans that removed the goods, and
found one of them at the door of • person named Cooper, •
van owner in Old-street-road, with • part of the property
obtained hom his employen in it. He in consequence sent
to the polite station for • constable, and had the property
removed to the been-yard. He subsequently traced other
portions of the goods to the possession of George Best, •
broker in Rochester-terrace, Pimlico, who refused to deliver
them up, and stated he bad purchased and paid IW. for
then,. _ .
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Sergeant Hull, • detective oMoer belonging to the P divi-
sion, laid that on the evening before, in company with In-
spector Worrell, he went to the house 2, Elizabeth.place,
Windham-road, Camberwell, and having effected an entrance
by the back way, found the prisoners there. On seeing
the male prisoner, he told him he was an odicer, and that
he must take him ioto custody for obtaining goods, in July
last, from Mews. Sowdon and Co., by false pretences, and
he replied that be never had them, and that he had been
led into it by others, and never had the things or the money.
But he said he hod stated that be had paid 30/., and
Jackson 2111. for the property ; but that was all false, all
they paid was 4/. between them, in two permeate of two
sovereigns each. He further said that his wile end himself
bad got the goods by the dictetios of Low and Ids wife, and
were made their victims. Before taking the goods Best
asked him whether he bad got them ou hire or otherwise,
and he replied otherwise, and be then said be should have
them. In different parte of the house ho found several
articles belongiog,to the prosecutors, and on the table •
pocket-book containing documents relative to other and
moat extensive swiedling tram/Actions.
Mr. Inspector Worlds corroborated much of the teal-
moor of Hull, and said be found in the house 60 duplicates
relating to property of various descriptions, the greater
portion of which he had no doubt was property obtained
by fraud. The male prisoner told him his real name was
Thomas Henry Tapley, and that he had been married to the
oldest of the female prisoners in 1853, and that having
been made the dupe of others, he intended telling the truth.
Evidence was then given against the younger prisoner,
Low, of obtaining goods from two tradesmen by false pre-
tences, andall three were remanded.

SOUTHWARK.
Hen" momie.e, a smart, entire-looking young fellow,
well known to the police aa a notorious convicted thief, was
brought before Mr. Hurchatu, charged with stealing three
pairs of ladle? boots from a shop in the Grange•mad, Ber-
mondsey.
Thomas Mark, a tanner, residing at Star-corner, said
that a little after nine that morning be saw the prisoner
running from the direction of the Orange-road, with some
boots under his arm, followed by a man calling out " Stop
thief." He caught bold of the prisoner, and saw him drop
the three pairs of boots produced. A constable then cams
up and secured him.
This evidence we. corroborated by Elizabeth Cadfud..
Mr. Sunhat' asked what was known of the prisoner.
Downes, the gaoler, isformed his worship that he we.
one of the most active thieves in the district,
Mr. Surebam—Has he been convicted!
Downerioh, yes, sir, a doses times, but there is not sa
officer now in court to prove his former convictions.
Primmer-ok, deal with me new, sir, do.
Sr. Burnham—That I shall not. You will be remanded
until Monday for evidence of your former convictions to be
tame, adWs I obeli seed roe for trial