The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

Patrick Houston, 30, described as a traveller, was charged
with stealing a quantity of crape cloth, the property of
Matt/wor Stow.

Mr. Moicalfe was instructed to prosecute ; the prisoner
on &nand by Mr. Cooper.
The primmer, it appeared, was in the service of a firm at
Bradford, mad his duty we. to obtain orders in London, for
which be was paid a commission of 1 per cent. He wrote
to his employers, representing that be had obtained an order
for certain goods, and when they arrived he obtained pos-
session of them and pawned them.
Mr. Cooper said that he found it impossible to a
with the facts, and the prisoner would, therefore, with Lit
saactiork pies& guilty to the charge. He was at the man
Ws is usleA to urge on his behalf, and in mitigatios:X
paaidoont, that the prisoner received only a very
commission upon the orders he obtained, sad that he
found it impossible to pay the expenses he wasersapilled to
incur. In consequence of this, in as eve hen be wee in-
duced to pawn some of his employees' premny, sad he was
never able to recover from the sereesitnauses of this first
false step. He had, however, made all the reparation In
his power to the proescutom, and they had obtained pones-
'ion of the whole of their property.
Mr. Metcalfe, on the part of the prosecution, admitted
there were some mitigatory circiunstanom in the ease, and
mid that the prosecutors were anxious to recommend
the prisoner to the merciful consideration of the court.
The Recorder said that, under ordinary circumstances
where there was • breach of trust by a servant, the court
always felt called upon to pass a sentence of penal servi-
tude, but in the present case he felt himself justified in re-
training from passing • sentence of that description. It
was necessary, however, in all such rearthat the main-
mint should be one of some severity, and he felt calked
upon to order him ho be kept to hard labour for twelve
months.

John Miller and Henry Johnson surrendered to taw
their trial upon an indictment which had been removed
from the Surrey Sessions to this court by certiorari,
charging them with misdemeanour, in having unlawfully
conspired together by divers false pretences to obtain cer-
tain property from Jonas Sweeting, the prosecutor.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted ; and Mr. Gifford and Mr. Metatlfe
were counsel for the prisoners.
The proeseator in this case stated that he was a carman,
tying at Lullinptone, in Kent, but although be was a
young man from the country," he was evidently tot at
all • green," but understood perfectly well what he was
shout. According to his statement he met the prisoner
Johnson in the Waterloo-rond, al the sth of December, and
he accosted hies, sad told bins AN he wee • police sergeant,
and that he woo so tabu look cot for roses pWrpockett, sad
wished him to mist him la emotional, Am. The pro-
secutor consigned to do so, and they walked about for some
time, and at Iseglii went to • public-house, when
the prisoner Mks sad another seam jawed
and the Owners mil tea third me boos tookrZ
wanted the promoter to &the as, wed to elk his watch
Eill‘a Metkall beak-note which was pusduced by use of
pelufwere. The prosecutor admitted that he was per-
fectly well aware throughout the entire precescling that the
intended rob him, and it missend that efts/
reisLudirs to
been some time in their company bi called a police-
man and gave them in charge.
The Recorder expressed his opinion that upon the feats
before the court the indictment against the prisoners
could not be supported, and the jury, therefore, nods,: his
lordship's direction, returned • verlict of Not Guilty.
George Johnson, 15, and Joorp.4 °apneas, 17, ploadod
guilty to several indictments changing them with obtaining
goods by means of forged onion.
Mr. Orridge was instructed to prosecute.
The prisoners were sentenced to nine months' hard labour.
Caroline Wilson, 24, was charged with stealing • gold
chain, the property of John Benno&
The jury returned • verdict of Guilty, and the primmer
w esetenosd to be kept is penal servitense far three me m,
the Recorder observing that robberies la the streets hyena
and women confederated together must be put a stop to,
and with that view it was the determination of the count to
inflict were punishment in all such eases. The priaooer,
as she wee leaving the be,, exclaimed in an impudent tone,
" Thank you, my lord."
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COrlleilef Tripe, 30, pleaded guilty to a charge of em-
battling various sums of mosey, the property of his marten
George [taker and another.
Mr. Lawmen, who appeared for the prosecution, in-
formed the court that although the rams charged in the
indiotnsant only amounted to about 25/., he was instructed
to inform the court, that upon an examination of the books
it was discovered that the total amount of money the pri,
soots bad misappropriated was over 2001. He also thought
it right that the court should be put in poeseedon of the
fact that the prisoner was convicted, in 1862, with maker
man named Montagu, of obtaining money by false pre-
tences, and sentenced to seven years transportation.
Mr. Baker, the prosecutor, in answer to a question put
by the leaned jades, said that he bad a character with the
prisoner when be entered his service.
The Recorder told the primmer that be had been con-
victed before eta very serious offence, and having had the
good fortune to be afforded an opportunity of retrieving his
cloinemer, be had again abused the confidence that wee
placed in him. Ho, therefore, felt it his duty, under these
circumstances, to sentence him to be kept iu penal servi-
tude for four years.
Rutert Worrell, 20, a respectable-looking young issa,
pleaded guilty to a chem. of uttering a forged order far as
delivery of au outfit of clothes, with intent to defraud Ed.
ward Josiah Mounery.
The prisoner, who is said to be respectably we're:lied,
was recommended to mercy by the prosecutor, and it was
stated that arrangements hail been made to send him 43 sea.
He wee sentenced to (oar months' imprisonment and hard
kboar.

Martha Perry, 24, itt,l Joseph Palmer, 90, were jointly
charged with perjury and uttering a bill of sale with Want
to defraud.

They were also charged with feloniously forging and
uttering a promueory note for the snot of 5.50/., with the
same intent.

The female primmer pleaded guilty.
Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Orrido conducted the proem'.
ties. Mr. Sleigh &feuded Palmer. and Mr. Ripon was in.
idructed to watch the cam ou behalf of the prisoner Martha
Pery.
col!itaspeared from the opening statement of the learned
for the preescutioo that it wail instituted by a loan
society. carrying on its huskiness io St. Martite&-lase, totter
the Kyle of the " London and Westminster Loan and Dis-
count Company," sad that in the month of Attest lei the
prisonerspplied to the company to edemas him a loan of
4001., and be offered as 'securities his mother-in law,
Maria Perry, and throat These securities were not con-
sidered suillcieet, and shortly afterwards the prisoner
proposed as an additioaal security another sister of his
wife, Emily Perry, who was a person of some means
residieg in Boyk-etreet, St. James's, and the com-
pany accepted her ae a security, and it was &t-
-riaged that the mosey should be advanced upon her exe-
cuting • bill of sale of her furniture, and also siginog & pro•
mimory night for 550 f. jointly with the prisoner Palmer sod
his mother-in-laws Maria Perry, the mother al Emily end
Martins Perry Is pursuance of this arrangement both the
attended at the once of the company on the 2nd
tember, accompanied by the mother, Maria, and the
warmer Martha signed all the instruments in the naree of
her Mater Emily.
It aappppserred that the mother, Maria Perry, was originally
laeleded n the indictment, but the grand jury ignored the
bill agates& her.
Mr. Albert Davis, the secretary to the company, was
called, and be proved the above facts, and stated that the
maw was advanced solely upon the belief that the yd.
Dauer 'testis was Emily Perry, and that she was understood
to be Emily Perry when she signed the instruments that were
She warded of the charge. In answer to negations that
were put by Mr. Sleigh, on behalf of his client, this whiner
ales mated that the amount of the loan was 4001., sad he
explained that the amount of the promissory note for MO/. '
was =de up by 1501. being added to the original sum for
three yeses' letterset at the rate of 12i per cent, per swam.
He likewise said that the money was used to pay out use
execution that was in Palmer's hones at the time uuderen.
other bill of sale, and that only a very trifling sum came
into the poessesias of the prisoner himself.
I Him &nay Perry proved that in the beginning of Sap-
Umber she was at the Isle of Wight, end she left ber
' boom in Londen ie charge of her sister Martha, the fetal&
primmer. She stated that the simeature Emily Perry to
the bill of male and the promimory note for 5301. was not
bee handwriting, sad she never gave the prisoners, or say
one elm, authority to place her name to such instrument.
By Mr. Sleigh—The prisoner, Martha Perry, was her
sister, and the other prisoner was her brother.in-law, having
married another sister. She had been surety for him foe
'kens several times previous to ibis transaction, and in
August, before she wept into the country, be again rude
an pliostwe to her to become aunty for him, and ahem.
hmed-to do so. During her abeam ham tow, she left ler
deter Martha in °harp of her Issues, and she bed authority
to sips her name for any buriness abet required it, but sat
to any such dormunesta as these that were sew the subject
of inquiry.
Martha Perry, She prisoner who bad piebald guilty, sae
Sim maid by Mr. Metcalfe r a rime kr the proessu.
Hew and she wee placed in she winsome-boo and swop. In
mem to the questions that wen pet to her else
Miami She awe of Emily Perry to the prernisersy nide
end the bill of ads that base been mewed. I did es at
the request of my brother-in-law, Joseph Palmer. go
row et the her, who hod seised rude it a week Wens.
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sissubi de en sod be add 4611 is soda sot nolim.-as •