The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

THE ROBBERIES ON THE YORK AND

NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.

At the Hull sessions this week, Thomas Hall, a
publican of Hull, has been tried on the charge of feloniously
receiving property stolen from the premises of the above
company, under circumstances recorded in our columns at
the time of his elimination before the magistrates. Tho
only case upon which evidence was taken was a charge of
recessing, knowing it to have been stolen, a quatiOty of
damask, forwarded, by the manufacturers, Messrs. John
lioldsworth and Company, of Halifax, to Hull, ea raule
to Arbroath, North Briton. A truss of damask had been
lost during its transit upon the line; the York and North
Midland Company had been called upon to indemnify
the owners; about two months since a search was
made in the prisoner's house, and some of the damask
was found made up into bed-curtains. Additional
evidence to that taken before the magistrates was adduced
in the persons of William Lungbottom, a plate layer, and
Itobert Ilurten, an engine driver, formerly in the service of
the company, but now undergoing imprisonment fur rob-
beries of goods conveyed upon the line. These men deposed
that they abstracted the damask from the luggage.van, to-
gether with other property, at a Mat about seventeen'
miles from (lull, and forwarded it by packet to the prisoner
Hall, receiving some money in return, which was divided
amongst them. The cue was a very long one, hut the pri-
soner was finally found guilty, and was sentenced to tin
years' transportation, the learned Recorder observing that
the evidence lett no doubt but that his (Hall's) house had
been for years past the receptacle of stolen property belonging
to the York cud North klidlandCompany. There were uo less
than 8 additional emerges against the prisoner, an immense
Mail of property of various descriptions having Leen found
upon hie premises. Another ease involved four prisoners,
named John Capes, Elisabeth Capes, Mary Eyelid( n, and
John Atkinson, who went charged, the two former with
• stealing, and the two latter with receiving, a chest of tea,
value I:if., the property of the came company. The robbery
in this case took place on the nth of October last, and the
chief agent was the prisoner John Capes, who was master
of a vessel called the Harriett Jane, belonging to a Mr.
I Wilburn, who was employed by the York and North Mid-
land Railway Company to carry goods for them. All the
prisoners,with theezeeption of Atkinson, were found guilty.
John Capes was sentenced to ten years' transportation,
Elisabeth Capes to three months' Imprisonment, and Mary
Erenden to twelve months imprisonment, with bard
labour. Charges of a similar nature to those just
disposed of are now pending against other persons, and
it is understood that ]fall has made a confession, in-
volving as receivers of the stub n property individuals
who have hitherto been considered highly respectable. At
the police court on Tuesday a counter charge of perjury was
preferred against one of the witnesses, W. Kendall, who
was formerly iu the Down pools Department of the line,
and on whose evidence depended the chief points of the
charge :prefernal against Marshall and daverach, two
other servants of the company, who had been committed fur
trial st the present Sesaio6l, but the indictment against
whom for the present had been withdrawn. The evidence
was very contradictory. On the one side, it was peeved
that Kendall had, after giving evidence against Marshall
and Sarcrach, confessed to a police cuu.table that what be
had said on that particular charge was quits false; and on
the other hand, Mr. Muss, solicitor to the railway cons-
' pony, who defended the prisoner, stated that this alleged
" confession" was itself untrue, and bad been elicited from I
Kendall by undue induences which had been exerted
Over him. The charge occupied the attention of the I
magistrates fur live hours, and the prisoner was finally
dismissed.

TIIP. FORGERIES ON THE YORKSHIRE BANKING
CultPAKT.—Yesterday (Thursday) the three prisoners,
James Ellis, Edward Marshall, and John Green, in custody
un the charge of utterring forged 61. note., purporting to
have been imued by the Doncaster branch of the above
bank, were again bronght up at Leeds Court-house for final
examination. Some further evidence of uttering wee given,
which added nothing-Material to the ease. In reply to the
usual qui-,tion, the prisoners Ellis and Marshal: said they
had nothing to say at present, and Green said ho was inno.
cent of the charges preferred-weird him. Thy were then
all committed for trial at the next Yorkshire waxes.
TROOPS FUR THY. CAPE. Her Nfiticidy'n titertM
troop-ship Birkenhead, haling on board drafts from the
depot companies of the, several regiments now serving at
the Caere of Cape of flood Hope, ordered to juin the o• nice
communes of their respective corps, sailed from Queenstown
on Wedie Way for her destination. The lullus ing officers
have embarked with the drafts on hoard the Birkenhead,
vise:-12th Lanes rs—Cornets A.N.Bond soul Jelin halt:
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2nd Foot—Ent.ign 0. A. Boylan ; 6th Foot—Fmkian L.
Metfurd; 12th Foot—Captain P. F. Blake; 43rd Regiment
Lieutenant J. T. tiirardot; 73rd Regiment —Lieutenants
C. W. Itokinwin and A. 11. Bolth, and Ensign U. A late"
74th Regiment—Major A. Setae. and Ensign A. C. Itwwell;
81st Regiment—Captain E. W. C. Night; Medical Staff—
Surgeonr of the t4ceond ('law, F. !wing, M.l) , and R.
Bowen; Arialwat-Surgeons W. Saunders., M.D., and J.
Robertson, M.D.