The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-18 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

lease Woodger, a well.dressed young roan, surrendered
is duehar sof his 6ml to answer as indictment charging
Lim with telosloualy receiving 9 oz. of gold, well knowing
the same to bare been stolen.

M.r. Tindal Atkissos appeared for the press-taloa ; and
Xr. Serpent Itallastise (specially retained), Mr. Stank,
sad Mr. Baas appealed for the defence.

This was a erre of mine peculaarity, and from the opening
statement of Mr. Tindal Atkinson it appeared that the mi-
asmic was fermata are manager of Mr. Savage, who cornet
oa the Iseabsess of a pawnbroker sad dealer in Million in
the WhitechapeLread. On the 11th June lest the POO of •
goldfistter in Little Britain. of the name of Sommer; was
robbed of the quastity of gold mentioned in the iedietment
an his way from Si. Mertiiimlane, where he bad received
it, to his father's place of busbies& The robbery
took place at between three sod four o'clock in
the afternoon, end it would he proved that it had
bees =rebelled by the prisoner in the shop of Lis employer
for the rum of whoa its real value was 341. Of this
purchase the primer made an entry in the bc.ok, dated the
11th Jam, and it would be shown that ou the following day
the prisoner altered the date from the Ilth to the 12th of
the mouth. Then this singular state of things took place.
On Cm Ltth June, the prisoner, about three o'clock in the
afternoon, came to Mr. Monktoo, in St. Martin's-lane, and,
producing the gold iequestioo, desired to have it assayed,
and it was thee immediately recognised m the identical gold
I'hick bad bean delivered on the 11th to Mr. Sommers, Ma.,
aad subsequeetly dolga from him. flodee these circumstances
the gold was detained, and the premier, on beige iu te 'opted,
gave the card of his employer, Mr. Savage, without any dis-
guise or attempt at enema/meat, but was aubmemeotly given
rum custody ea the present charge. The leararl morsel
added, that the Jury would find that under the statute 39th
sod 40th George ILL, cap. 90, commonly known es the
l'iwubrokers' Act, it was provided that no pawnbroker
should purchase property at 7, or take in a pledge after 8
c'olock at night, and as the purchase bad been made between
8 and 9 o'clock a suspicion attached to the transaction. That
suspicion was increased by the alteration of the date cubes
quietly discovered in the book ; still further by the fact,
that the prisoner. instead of taking the gold to be assayed
by /deems dobtisoo and Walker, of Aldentgate, who gene-
rally did this work for Mr. Savage, took it to Mr. Moukton,
iota Manin'it lone. • stranger to the firm ; and, lastly, the
yrnsecetko relied epos the cirmansaance that the prisoner.
had bought the sold at 31i per cent. below its marketable
value. Them were the fact; which would be presented in ,
evidence to the jury, sad upon them, after hearing the de-
fence, the jury would have to decide upon the guilt or in-
nocence it the prisoner.
Police-sergeant Thomas Evans, 32 0, was the first witoess
culled, and, in his examination by Mr. Tindal Atkinson,
proved that in (=sequence of information be received he
vent, in corapsey with an officer named Jarvis, to the shop
of Mr. Savage in the Whiteehapedniati, where he saw that
gentleman and also the prisoner. The witoein addraweed
Mr. Savage, and said he came to make ioquuios reepectag
mattold which had been stolen, and which lie had our.
Mr. Savage replied, "No, not by me, but by my
young mac," pointing to the prisoner. This was oo the
morning of Saturday, the 13th June. The witonas tier
asked the primmer from whom he bad got the gold.
and when. The premier replied that he had =reheard it
after business hours on the previous Thursday evenicy from
man whom he did not know, and had never seen before.
The man. however. had the appearance of belonging to the
gold -a k ing trade. At the mqueet of the w items the pur-
ctiam-hook was produced from the dining-room up stairs,
sad the entry of the purchase was pointed nut to him, when
he observed that the date had been altered from the 11th
the 12th. Oa bets, interregitted the prisoner explained that
be bad made the alteration bemuse the purchase. having
been made after business bon's. the busk would mat cone-
spend with this habinoe in the caal,box, and hence the alte-
ration woe necessary, in order to make it go regularly into
theoextdey's irenonata.

Mr. tesorge Alexander Monition was seat &led and
proved that ha wee a gold molter and tLitter, tarrying on
bullet's is St. Martio'slase, sod that Mr. Hummers of
Littlaßritama. was to the regular habit of ...din to him
Feld to work. Oa the 11th June but wail gold WWI
brought to bis place, sod in about as hour it was
returned (Mae MOMS in quantity) to Mr. Summers, juo.
Os the aftersoos or tbe 13th the 11111111 gold was again
brought to his (oilers''s) premises by the prisoner, and sit-
tees immediately r it. He at once told the prisoner
there was • 11111 NIA 'no attached to it, sod be would
rather sot melt it. The primmer said that if that was the
case he was quite agreeable that it should not be done. la
&mower to questions put to him the Prisoner said ha bad
brought it from Mr. Savage, of the Whiteehagre-reed. tad