The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-01-09 00:00:00

A DISHONEST G.W.R. GUARD.

At the Bristol (4 tarter Sessloo. on Friday, George
Prescott, 32, goods dUald, was indictel for felonionall
stealing one gold went. one pale of sleeve links one
necktie, one tobacco_ le ouch, one ripe and cue, together
value .00 6.. 61., o November Zth Int, and on On ibis
14th, a pair of trousers. vein. Mi., respectively the pro-
perly of the (lent Western Railway C =piny, his
employer., at Bristol. Mr. Well Inas ounsd. Prisoner,
who was undefended., pleaded intiltY. Mr. Well sod tbs
case was a very bad WIC. Prisoner was a goods guard, and
on Saturday night was perraltted to travel back by the
1134 ii from Rxeter in order tioat he might reach hls home
at Bristol. A series of robberies, near:, thirty in number,
had taken piss,' errantly and all from the Saturday night
mail. On November ffitle prisoner travelled t.y the train,
and a porttuatiteau of a gentleman, named Kalil. Levin,
of London, was found to have been plundered on its being
opened at that gentleman's residenos. Amongst the
a•ricle, stolen from it was • golf hunting-watch, value
.610, and . verity of other articles. Prisoner wss con-
clusively proved to hays stolen this. He (the learned
counsel) might tel his Honour that the property had not
been stolen from the ordinary lineage van, but from •
composite carriage, in the centre 01 which the passengers'
luggage eas put and loulud sp. Prisoner, according to the
theory of the prnecutioe, secreted himself in this
carriage, Anil, by mean, of skeleten keys tampered with
the Ingsrase and took whatever he thought fit.
Honour—how lout haw he been in the empiny of the
company
Mr. Wall —V iurtoen years. Prisoner had said he had
done it through wont:but this ;soul I scarcely be so, for
he bad been 14 p.ns in regular work, and was receiving
2145. • week. The railway company considered the case a
most imp .rtant one. There had been a number of rob•
bort., and the amoont of property in the prevent charges
• amounted to Lit, lie (Mr. Wall) was instructed to press
the charge.
Prisoner said be warn sorry he had done what he had.
Through the continued sickness of his cltildnn he had
got hishind in money matters.
The Recorder expressed sorrow at seeing a man who had
been for fourteen years in a'respletabis position in the
plats where prisoner than was. He would have to pass upon him a very severe sentence. In fast, be had ltssitihtsd
whether he was not bound to pale upog.him iron a
heavier sentence than he wee shoot to do' but, on
ref, .cUon, he found that he had tise power, although he
! had misesings whether it we. adequate to the areas
prisoner was guilty of. Sentenced to 12 months' hard
ntour.

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