The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-11 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION&

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SNP= am immure Auden. ewer axe MOGI. APO • INIKE TIT
TIAINITTAATIS, AT TSB OVILAMIAIA. WAITIMISTATA
&lad Arm. $ supple, was inclined on two chars= of
boils
M. Delp poseseated ; Mr. Payee appeared be Ili
poisoato.
We was a case of whit is termed " ossdIBS slieges."
TM pilaster and another man not I.a wont w Ile
ship aimlooker named Kees No. 10, , am/
offend se sell him a gold chin, tolling him till ho snail
melte ten or fifteen shillings by it. Lies graboadsse
understand much shoat the qsality se woe& of isli selb
etas, upon which the prisoner suggested that be ebesid take
is to a watchmaker's and have it tested, and easerdhigly
peaseatter teak it to Yr. Day, watchmaker, Nos lb Byer*
pass, VimamMnistave, who, having welied mei ise,.
peeseessed the Own a good one, sad ea peormialler sip=
edlhood the polsoser 30s. for it. The paimrsitamello like
that mum, ea/ the prosecutor gave km Wit la skein and
they went away. The prisoner sad his imeepmilemselemmil
soon after, sad agreed to WWI* Ilk 7411 pellemar
handed over a chain, which the prenewaler of SOWN he-
hewed to be the same as had been tested jut
before ; it was of the same pattern, tin, and co-
Icor, bat it tamed oat to be brass, and had been
substituted for the gold one. The prosecutor paid them the
mosey and they west away, but feeling anxious to be again
enured that the chain was gold, he went again to his fnend
the watchmaker, who applied a little aquafortie, and found
that it was not the same chain as he had tested jut before.
The prosecutor, who had previously known the prisiner,
seemed to have some knowledge of his whereabouts, for on
discovering the imposture he went direct to a robin-house
in Toihill•street, and there found the prisoner drinking, but
his friend was gone. When shored with the fraud, the
prisoner said his friend had deceived him, and that be
would endeavour to procure the genuine chain or the money,
bat he did not know where to find his friend. The other
ease was precisely similar.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the court sen-
tenced him to four months' hard labour.
John Entoserson, 37, was indicted for having stolen a 101.
Bank of England note, the property of William Thomas,
the elder.
Mr. Parry appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Francis for
the prisoner.
The circumstances of this case were rather peculiar. The
prosecutor was the keeper of a beer-shop, called the Pea-
tiroke Castle, in Gloucester-road, and occasionally he had
dealings in cattle. There were transactions of this kind
between him and a Mr. Victors' and some short time ago
he sold two heifers to him for 151., but there was a balance
of a former account duo to Mr. Vieean from the prose-
cutor, which, being deducted, left the amount due to the
prosecutor 121. 9.. The prisoner was a pint and pine cus-
tomer at the Pembroke Castle, and it would seem that by
some means he became aware that the prosecutor was about
to send his son, a boy about 12 years of age, for the
mose_y, and of the time and place he was to meet
Mr. Vinare. The bey west, by hie father's direction, to
the Swiss Cottage, and he had not been there long
_before
the prisoner made his appearance, and when Mr. Vicars
arrived be found them together. Mr. Vi are had sone .
previous knowledge of the prisoner, and, as he required
change for a cheque, he drove the boy and the prisoner in
his cart to Church street, and having got change they went
to a robin-house in that neighbourhood, the Duke of York,
sod then paid the bey the money
_-•-a 101. note, 2 sovereigns,
and 9s. in silver. After Mr. Vicars had gone the pri-
soner called for hot gin and water, with which he
plied the boy freely until he became stupefied and sick, and
!nein; got him to go oat of the room, on some pretence,
while the money was still lying on the table, he took the
101 note and put it in his own pocket, and wrapped the re-
mairder cep is an envelops, and gave it to the boy as the
whole. This was the substance of the evidence of a man
named Rice, an exa-Eaceliceman, ex omnibus conductor, and
now porter oat of and he positively swore that he
saw the prisoner t the note ; and the boy, a sharp, in-
telligent little fellow, was certain that the note was on the
table when he left the room. The note had in no way
' been traced. The prisoner sated the boy to lend him a
shilling, to toss somebody with for drink, and the bay
handed him the envelope, sad told him to take can of it
for hie father. The prisoner went home with the boy, and
the prosecutor at once noticed how ill the boy was, and of
comae asked what had become of the money, when the
prisoner offered him the gold and silver, but he refused to
take that, and eventually he made a charge against him at
the police-station, but be did not press it then, as he could
not tell what money Mr. Vtecars had paid to the boy; but
after communicating with him, and ascertaining from in-
quiries what bad taken place at the Duke of York, he then
charged him with stealing the note, and gave him into cus-
tody. Before this course was adopted, however, a threat
bad been made of legal proceedings being taken against the
prosecutor in respect of the first charge.
Mr. Francis, in his address to the jury, dwelt with much
force on all the salient points of the case, end urged that
there was no ground for the charge beyond the evidence of
Rice, and that, he oonteuded, was not entitled to credence.
The Assistant-Judge having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of Oniity, and added a re-
commendation to mercy on the ground of its being his first
offence, and that the theft was committed under great

M. ion.
Mr. Parry concurred in this recommendation.
The Assistant-Judge said the prisoner had been already
in custody a month, sad sentenced him to three months'
Yard labour.
Alfred Ray, 25, and Charks Rathbolara, 21, two men
attired in the moat recent style of feshion, were indicted
for having stolen a watch, value forty.five guineas, the pro-
perty of Alfred Tubbs Windus.
Mr. amides appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Parry on
behalf of Rey, Mr. Ribton for the other prisoner.
Tha robbery with which the prisoners were charged was
sammitted on the night of the 6th of March, at the Turkish
Divan. kept by Towson( Ben Ibrahim, in the Haymarket.
The prosecutor was standing I. front of the counter, when
there was a considerable pressure from the number of par-
secs aseemb:ea, daring which his watch was stolen from his
pecket. The evidence of Towson( Ben Ibrahim, Blab
Ibrahim, his wife, sad Aika Ibrahim, his sister, fined the
theft upon the prisoner., though they got off at the time.
Nearly a mouth afterwards they paid the divan another
visit, when Youssouf at arm neognised them and gave them
loM enstody. Ray then said his friend Rathbotam was e
sap& in the navy, and Rathbotam said he (Ray) was
Copula Mackenzie, who had large estates in Ireland, and
so they had better be metal what they were about. After
• long investigation,
The learned counsel for the prisoners respectively ad-
d:wed the jury, contendiag that the evidence did not clearly
owl undoubtedly make out the guilt of the prisoners.
Tie jury found both prisoners Gurley.
It was proved that the meaner Rathbotam was an old
offender and the " pride" of the London swell mob. There
was no previous history of Ray laid before the court; he
was a Frenchman. Rathbotana's emcees as a pickpocket
was such that he was enabled to live almost in luxurious

style.
The Anistaut Judge *satsuma Rathbotsat to four yeah'
petal servitude, and Roy to one year's bard labour.

Janos Cook, 22, sad Elssa6•ll4 Palm, 19, were indicted
for stealing a watch and other article,, sad the sum of 164.,
Ilse property of John PeasiHy, from person.
Mr. Moamar' prosecuted ; lir. Homy defended.
Oa the alibi of the 2004 of March the prosecutor last the
finale phonon is Osford most, and after being in her
ea sem time, *d at eavoral places, they sent to a
pshiN ia intepterd•street, where they were joined by
she mils vigspeow. may had • bottle of vial aftZltheal.
after width a ash me mat for, and they althea, get mil
the mile palmate diemaid the driver • primed wthe
Poirdisolpisad. TM sebum, Mat : be bed oh.
semi ia the demesne el the rehouses, sad him oto-
that amity ea ems es the pessimist had pi into
the he fell wimp, wee Mamma to welsh their plowed-
isge, sad be Mid his bead SI that he goad rte wit they
WWI lila& As M wee drinks eines Csmadhlompose he
sow the to Mks the promenese's welsh, sad made doe
to theother rheum, es if te nik him whether she amid
take bia skirt iftik bet It• seeddimmest, sad is did
sot take them. whenthey get to the Poetised-read the
male pima whited to get est, but the abeam wee
set disposed to IP him p, sad Waled to let his
set melees they all west teptise. The male primer then
re altered the Tobias, Ydsrd it to be driven to Ster-
iliser, Edgware need, bet the abase stopped directly ite
saw a policeman, sad pee the primers into meted=
male primer this attempted to Neap, bat the pc

assured him, ad gettlagoir the eak the eabnua tiros all
(oar to the statism ki a shirt alai, Ise., sad
watch halt were pMhad up at Me bottom of the cab. Me
watch was found It the presseater's vaistbaad, where it bad
beat threat by the Moak whoa the heed of the onstabis
apposed at the
The Jug Miwdwignitaly, sad Mr. Witham slammed
them mak to el: swabs' bud Ulmer.
Mr. MIMI" ealmilled whether this was sot a ease la
which WM UMW 'sibs to be gives to the cabana far his
maisswerthy wiadamt.
Mr. Withal. NM be should gladly have acceded to this
rogasatthat segeeited that the sass was sae whisk did am
ems wima the statute.
TM eabames mime was William Walton, badge 499.