The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-14 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION&

Haus Cash, 36, was indicted for having stolen two
thousand feet of gas, the property of the directors of the
Commercial Gas Company.
Mr. Ballantine appeared for the promotion ; Mr. Duncan
for the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner was a smith and brass-
founder, carrying on business at No. 1, Heneage-strart,
Bpitalflelds, and he also occupied premises in Brick-lane. In
1852 the Commercial Gas Company, by whom he was suppl ied
with gm, declined to caution* the supply for reasons which
did not transpire, but the prisoner connected a
pipe to the company's service pipe, by which,
unknown to them, he carried a supply to his pre-
OHM, which he had contrived to consume up to the time
he was detected, precaution being taken that the light
should not be seen from outside the premises. The prin-
cipal evidence against the prisoner was given by two men
who had been in his service—they were discharged, and
then they gave Information to the company. It was calcu-
lated, from the site of the burners and the number
used, that he consumed, on an avenge, about two thousand
feet a day, and that since the company refused to supply
him any longer he had defrauded them of over 3001. worth
of gas.
The defence, founded on the erns-examination of the
witnesses, was that the prisoner was not the master of the
premises, but that his brother, Jabes Cub, was ; that no
proof had been given that the gas had not been paid for,
and that the chugs possibly was trumped up and conoucted
by two discharged servants.
Mr. Bodkin having summed up,
The )urry found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Ballantine said the present charge had reference only
to the prismer's premises in Heneage-etreet, bat there was
no doubt that the same thing had been going on at his pre-
mime in Brick. lane; indeed, at the latter, he was caught in
the fact of attaching a pipe to the company's main, but in
that case there was not sufficient evidence to support au
indictment. He had used the gas for the purposes of his
business sea smith, as well as for light, and as this bad been
going on for three years, he mast have plundered the eons•
patsy to a very grist 'anat.
Mr. Bodkin said he could not conceive a more serious case
of theft. The prisoner was a tradesman, occupying an ap-
parently:respectable position; and if persons so situated would
not be honest, could it be expected that the poor and deeti-
tate would be ? It was a ease in which to make so example,
sad therefore the sentence wee, that the prisoner be kept to
bard 'thaw is the House of Correction for twelve calendar
mouths.

Dlr. Ballaatine said the mull of this wee would prove a
far better example dna going for peptide,.
The solicitor for the prosecution said trot
of that.

was no doubt

John Furze, 29, formerly a policeman, was indicted for
stealing a dish containing part of a pigeon pie, wale sherry,
and a pair of shoes, the property of the Committee of
Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum fir Middlima, at
Colney Hatch.
Mr. Parry appeared for the premonition; Mr. Horry for
the define..

On the 28th of July the Visiting Justices of the Celney
Hutch Asylum gave en entertainment to the patients, and
the chirp against the prisoner, who was night watchman at
that imputation, was, that after the entertainment was sver,
and the room (the dining hull) in which it was given locked
up, he got through a window and heiped himself to the
articles mentioned in the indictment. It wee a ease of cir-
cumstantial evidence, and witnesses were called on behalf
of the prisoner to prove am alibi.
The jury returned a verdict of Not (hilly.

George Lewis, 21, shoemaker, was indicted for felonious:,
breaking end catering the dwslliog•house of William
Pettitt, and stealing therein two watches and other articles,
his property.
The prosecutor were a watchmaker and jeweller at No. 3,
Athol•place, New•road, and on the mercies of the 4th Jut.,
his wife observed three amen hanging about the shop dror.
Presently she heard a crash of glass, and on running out
she found that the window had been broken, and a number
of articles taken oat. Two watches were lying on the
pavement, aid part of a chain was hanging from the window.
An alarm was given, and en undertaker named Reynolde,
seeing the prime,' make off, por teed and captured bins. I
He tb»w7 gold pencil c ises and 6 gold chains down an
area, but at the same time assured his captor that It was,
doing him (prisoner) a gross injustice to norm that he
could be capable of doing anythiag wrong. The chains and
pencil cases were identified as part of the property taken
trout the window. The prisoner had in his possession a
gotta pvrcha life preserver heavily loaded with le►d.
The jury found him Guilty.
/dr. Witham sentenced him to 15 months' herd labour.