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plated such au ac., and ho also urged the probability
that alter all the affair was the result of accident.
Mr. Ju3tica Wightman havin,,cr summed up,
The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a ver-
dict of not guilty.

• NEW COURT.
(Before the Pek.lor(ler.)
John Jones. 55, seaman, John Williams, 29, labourer,
and Richard TVilson, 29, clerk, were indicted for break-
ing and entering the dwelling-house of Jehn Faulkner,
and stealing therAn an iron box, &nue plate, and other
articles valued at 201.

Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted ; n d Mr. W. J. P4ne, Mr.
M'lntire, and Mr, Biogtialu Daley severally defended
the prisoners.

It appeared thatabout 11 o'clock last Christmas morn-
ing two of the prisoners were seen to come out of the
house of the prosecutor, a gentleman living in Cornwall-
place, Holloway, bring with them a box, which they put
into a dogcart at the door, minded by the third prisoner,
and then drove off. The open way in which the robbery
was committed disarmed the suspicion of. several per-
sons who saw the prisoners go in and come out of the
house, but still the circumstance impreised itself upon
their minds enough to make them take particular notice
of their persons. Upon the return of the prosecutor he
found that his house had been entered by means of a
skeleton-key. Nothing► was heard of the prisoners until
Wilson and Jones were taken into custody for being,
without lawful excuse, in the garden of a house at
Ball',-
pond. Upon this they were detained, and the
police, to whom the prisoners were all known as asso-
ciates, proved that on Christmas morning they saw all
three prisoners leave the vicinity of Horsemonger- lane
Gaol in a cart, which was brought out of the yard of a
livery stable keeper near there. The cart, and horse by
which ib was drawn, exactly answered the description
given of the one the prisoners were seen to leave the
prosecutor's house in.

The jury found them guilty, and another indictment
against Wilson and Williams for a robbery of a similar
character was tried, atd upon which they were again
convicted.

In answer to the Court,
Sergeant Whitcher, the detective officer, stated that
in 1839 Jones, who went by a variety of aliases, was
transported for 15 years. A few years after that he was
tried at Liverpool for returning from transportation,
being found at large in that town. He was then
transported for life. In 1852 he was apprehended in the
Thackfriars'-road, and tried at this court, when he was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and again to be
transported for life. Again he came to this country,
and was one of the persons charged with the Leigh.
ton Buzzard robbery. He had escaped from Nor-
folk I-land and Hobart Town. He had also written a
book upon the horrors of transportation.
Other officers proved that Wilson, when lying under
sentence of six years' penal servitude, passed in January,
1854, had broken out of Horsemonger-lane Gaol. Wil-
liams had undergone two years' imprisonment for break-
ing into a house at Lambeth, when his capture was
effected by Mr. Flexrnore, the well-known pantomimist.
They were each sentenced to 15 years' transpor-
tation.

(Before the Common-Sergeant.)
John Curran, 46, saddler, a very respectable-looking
man, Rebecca Curran, 41, his wife, who also was of very
respectable appearance, and Daniel Smith, a boy about
11 years of age, were indicted, the boy for obtaining a
quantity of flour and meal by false pretences, and the
other two prisoners with receiving the same, knowing
that it had been obtained by fraud.
Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Rihton defended.
The case was a somewhat singular one. The male
prisoner Curran has been for many years one of the sad-
dlers at Woolwich Arsenal, and in constant employ-
ment, while his wife kept a lodging.house in the town.
The !little boy was the child of a neighbour, and had
been in the service of a Mr. William Cocking, a baker,
in Woolwich, but had quitted his. service about four
months ago. Mr. Cocking was in the habit of dealing
with a person named Woolf; a corn chandler, in Artil-
lery-place, Woolwich. The boy Smith when in Mr. Cock-
ing's service used to be cent to Mr. Woolf's for goods
which were booked to his master's account. After he
had left he continued to go to the shop and get flour
and other things, upon the pretence that they were for
his master, and they were entered to his account. Up
to the let of February Smith had so obtained flour to
the value of 11/. Upon that day he went and asked
for ss. worth of halfpence for his master Ix chaTige. The
prosecutor told him that he had not got any halfpence,
and he said that threepenny and fonrpenny pieces would
do, and obfained 3s. worth, which he said Mr. Cocking
would call and pay for ; but he not doing so, some in-
quiries were made, and the fraud was found out. From
what subsequently transpired it turned out that the
female priSoner had got hold of the boy, and urged him
to get the flour, which she bad sold to her neighbours ;
and, upon her house being searched, about 1501 b. of
flour and a quantity of biscuit, meal, and 'other things
were found. The male prisoner was, it appeared, much
away from home.

The boy pleaded "Guilty."
The jury convicted the Woman, and acquitted the
man.

The Common-Sergeant sentenced her to 18 months,
imprisonment, andpostpomtd judgment upon the child.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—March, 6.

GUILDITALL.—fIenry Lahtbert, a clerk in the em-
ploy of Mr. 'Greendeld, a stockjAher, of Throgmorton-
street, was charged with defrauding his master to a large
amount.

The prisoner is a young man of about 18 years of age,
awl very dissipated appearance, and attewled this court
on Saturday last to prosecute a woman of notorious
character for robbing him of his purse, containing about
4/. On that occasion the woman was committed for
trial at the Central Criminal Court, and the prisoner,
who then swore his name was Henry Dobson, was bound
over to prosecute.
After evidence had been given in support of the
charge,

Alderman Challis said there appeared to be only two
cases out of a number of very serious frauds, and he
should therefore remand the prisoner for a week, in order
that the case might be completed for trial, for it was evi-
dent that the prisoner bad been carrying on this practice
to a considerable extent.

BOW-STREET.-4 man of about 50 years of age,
named William, Thompson, was brought up on remand,
charged .with uttering two forged notes.
He was given in custody on Wednesday of last week,
by Mr. Hunt, manager of Messrs. Moses and Son's
branch establishment, in Hart-street, Bloomsbury, for
tendering, in payment for some clothes he had purchased,
a document purporting to be a Bank of England 51.
note, which on examination was found to be a forgery.
Who: brought to this court he stated that he was a
brickmaker in a good business at Biggleswade, Bedford-
shire, and offered references to his neighbours, and to
persons by whom he had been employed for years hefore
commencing business. He said he had received the
note from a boy, his nephew, who had picked it up
in the street at Bedford. He was remanded for further
inquiry, and it was then ascertained that his account of
his occupation and antecedents was strictly correct, and
that he' bore an excellent character. But, on the etuer
hand, a shopman in the establishment of Arr. Pee .e,
tailor, High Holborn, attended to prove that, two days
before his apprehension, the prisoner had nassed at that
establishment what was supposed to be a Bank of Eng-
land note for 51., and was only found to be a forgery the
following day.
The prisoner's friends had secured the attendance of
his little nephew, who stated that on Sunday week be
found a Si. note in Potter-street, Bedford, and took it
home to his uncle. On saying that he found one such
" piece of paper," the prisoner interrupted. him by ex-
claiming " both of them ;" but the buy, who appeared
not to understand him, went on in the singular to tLe
end of the story.
The prisoner was committed on both charges.
A great portion ~f the time of the Court was again taken
up with charges againtit reputed thieves and suspected
persons—mostly boys—for picking pockets in the crowds
assembled in the streets immediately adjoining the ruins
of Covent-garden Theatre ; and
Win. Williamson and Win. Robertson, two young men,
were fined each U. for being drunk and disorderly on
the previous • evening, in Bow-street, nearly. opposite
what was the grand entrance.
A gentleman from the office of Mr. Reeves, the Go-
vernment Surveyor, applied, on the part of the Com-
missioners of Police, for an order to take down certain
portions of the walls of 'Covent-garden Theatre, which
which were in a dangerous condition. It was proposed
t 3 lower the northern wall abutting on Hart.street, and
the southern wall (which appeared to threaten the police-
court), and entirely to remove them, if necessary.
The required order was at once granted.

WORSEUP-STREET.—Mary Anne Hopkins, Jane
Thompson, and Mary Anne M`Donald, three showily-
dressed young women, were charged before Mr. Ham-
mill with the following robbery :
Larter, one of .-the officers attached to the Bishops
hate terminus-of the Eastern Counties Railway, stated
that' on the arrival of the train from Colchester between
twelve and one o'clock that day, his attention was par-
ticularly attraoted to the conduct of the prisoners, who
were loitering about the platform as though waiting for
friends, but every now and then pressed in such an evi-
dently intentional manner against some of the lady pas-
sengers as to leave very little doubt as to their object.
This course they pursued for some time, when Hopkins
quietly walked up to a lady who was engaged in sorting
out her luggage. at the barrier, took something out of
the pocket in the side of her dress, passed it to Thomp-
son, who stood nest to her, and Thompson as rapidly I
yapsferred it to a well-dressed man who was, standing
alone behind both, and manifestly screening their opera-
tions. The four then moved away, and the witness has-
tened up to the lady and asked her if she bad lost any-
thing, as he suspected she had been robbed. The lady
felt in her pocket, and at once said her purse had been
stolen, on which he called to another constable and se-
cured the three women, but their male confederate bad
contrived to get out unobserved. The women were taken
to the station-house and searched, when, in addition to
a qte,ntity of loose money being found upon each, two
photographic portraits were discovered upon one of them,
and one of these portraits bore so striking a resemblance
to the man he had seen with them as to leave no doubt
of its being his likeness ; he had scarcely obtained pos-
ses.‘k n of it, however, than the woman snatched it out
of his band, and dashed it to the ground with such force
as to shatter it into fragments.
Alderman, the gaoler, accounted for the frequent pos-
'session of these photographic portraits by pickpockets
and other thieves by stating that a great number of the
swell snob and. their confederates had now so systema-
tined their plans of operations thst tloy wero is tibe con! s