The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-06-12 00:00:00

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THE MISSING BRACELET.

At the Central Criminal C.oirt in London, Thomas
Clifford, aged twenty.five, a well dressed ivom.g
iorribed as a carpenter, and Julie Alartin. aged
t went -five, It fashionahly•dreemed WOlllBll, werecharsed
with etealing a diamond bracelet, value kBOO, the pro.
perty f John flu, t and =alter. They were also
charged with let ibluely receiving the same bracelet
knowing it to have been stolen. This case was one of
a rather singular character, as the following outline
will show

The prowcutors are the well-known jewellers, Messrs.
limit and Koskeil, who carry lot Inisin,s in New B I.
stre t, London, arid the robbery in s.est ion aas coa•notteti
at that e•tablishnient on the lath of August let year On th-
afttimoon of that day a Nair ahem and pair of horses drove
up to the shop, and three feodniohablydressed persons, two
men and a Woman, got out, and Cent iute the shop and asked
to see mone tidermiaes ; they were shown a vat iety of articles
of jewelery fd that description, hut one of the men matte the
remark that they were not "rich enough. and the) wi-hod to
see some diamonds. They were then taken to the dianond
counter, where a variety of costly articles %ere Shown to
them, and among them the bracelet in imest 1111 l , ti hiCh was
valued at eight hundred hunt... One of the men took up
this bracelet, and observed that it was vet y heautiful, and it
was the sort of article they r. mitred. hut all the party said
that they did not exactly see »hat they requited, aua they
wished wone drawings of a moupletely pat ore of jewellery to
he prepared for them, alit' said they woad call on the
following Wednesday and make a selection The three
persons then went to the carriage, and one of the men
and the Wonaall got in, aud the other man ordered the
coachman to drive to he Charthg-cross lio,ll, and then
walked away the diremion of Crtforthareet. The
man who had taken up the bracelet arid examined it w s
,yet. to put It hack up ut the tray; hut immediately after
the part) had left, and, mdeed, before the carriage arts hardly
I alt of sight, it was missed, mid 11, trace of it has BiliCe
been eltscovered. It sh.mlel he stated that, while tie party
were in the shop, a card was handed to the assistant belong-
ing to a gentleman of position in Be, keine«, and no inform.
lion could be °ht.'. ed as to how they todained possession of
this card, and the circums, tutees left no down whatever that
, the bracelet mutt have liven stmen oy the persons who weut to
the shop nil the hrosecutors ; and the only question it, the rase
, was sato the identity ,4 the two prisoners it at peered that the
1 carriage had been hired on the day in question, atid that the
coachman. in the first instance, was directed to drive to the
Charing-cross Hotel, .4i the detective officer who Is em-
ployed at the hotel exitras)el a wrong opi ll ill n that the pri-
soners %ere two of the ',emote who got out of the itronghani
and went into the re4ani ant, and mod that when they mune
tint he lienrd the coachMati ordered to drive to Ilotel.street.
The idiaoners were not m ken Into custmly n,n,lil rea °ldly, and
the ta .. gentlemen wilt/ bad waited U Olt there at Meturs.
Bunt mot Roskella picked them out from aumng seueral
other persons, and e)pre-sed a strong belief that they were
two of the parties who came la the brougham.
James Shaw, one of the Corps of Cormuissionalres who is
emplo) ed to attend to the carriagen coming to Mesa. s. llnri,t
and Bosketrs, also gave some mmili matory evulence earth
regard to the question .4 identity, and caused a good deal an
laughter by statnig that his atumtion was particularly di.
remed to the ma e prisoner., on acconta of ins going
away frun the car. iage Wilda raistt g nile het to
the lady, which he said induced him to come to
the conduston that he was not a gentleman. This
prisoner, it appeared was not apprehended until recently,
upon some other charge, and while he was in Ilorsettionger.
lane gent, the female prisoner went to see him, and she wirt
apprehended by Serjeact Mit klejono, A detective officer, out-
side the prison, ail upon being told that she WaS charged
with heing concerneo with Thomas Clifford it, stratum a
diamond bracelet from Messrs. Hunt and Roske•rs lat
August, she said that she knew nothing about it. She after.
can is Adlnittell that she had been, cot/Memos with the pri-
soner, ut persisted in di maring that she knew nothing about
the rolbery.
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The learned counsel for the prisoners addressed the
jury at some length on their behalf, and he contended
that the evidence of identity was not sufficiently con-
clusive to jmtify them in convicting the misoners upon
offences committed such a long time ago, and under
such peculiar circumstances.
The jury retired to deliberate, and, on returning into
court, found Clifford guilty, but acquitted the female
prisoner.
It was proved that the prisoner had been previously
convicted, and sentenced to penal servitude.
The Recoider said he would postpone passing sen-
tence until the prisoner had been tried upon ither
indictments which have been preferred against him.