The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-16 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LnwooL, Avo. 14.

MORI CIL SAWN PLAIT.
Joseph Pattnegton, 30, baker, was charged with haying
entered the shop of Mr. Gregory, provision merchant,
Sattermirket-street, Warrinroe, and stolen therefrom
about 101. in copper. Mr. Moak and Mt. Crete app-sired
for the prosecution, and Mr. Wheeler for the prisoner.
Oa the night of lie 26,h of March last the prosecutor
stated that he had mein his premises ammo before retiring
to rest. but apes gait eg up la the morale, he found an
estrange ismi Wm breed by a back window, and that the
thieves, perks theengh the house to the shop, had with•
draws the MIMS hem the lock of the door, and stolen the
mosey from •be. in the shop. Soon after the robbery the
prisoner wee mopped by a polies °Meer with about U. 1a
copper, which he mos tarrying in a carpet bag. Whet it
was searched he meld not eves tell the amount of mosey it
contained. It was found that among the coppers there
were several coins which the prosecutor eau his wire were
enabled from certain marks to identify.
The landlady of the Unicorn, Warrington, proved the
primmer having obtained some drink at her house on the
evening before the robbery upon credit, and to his having
called the neat atomise and paid for it.
lire. U. Lecklaod, whose husband keeps the Three runs,
In Wigan, deposed that the prisoner called there and gave
her the carpet bag containing the coppers to keep for him
a short time, alleging that he had changed his badness, and
wee now is the jewellery lice. It was while In her house
that the bag was searched by the paint. The copper wee
wet and dirty, sad appeared to have been concealed in
some midden. _

Mr. Sim, chief constable of Wigan, gave evidence to this
effect—When questioned about it, alter being taken into
Custody, the pnmner said, "It's my own; I here berm
getting from 20e. to SOL a-week, tthii dy to copper. I bass
had it eososaled."

It trammed, la the oross-examination of some of the
witness's, that, although the prisoner was a baker by trade,
he also followed the occupation of a hawker of ginger-
bread, and that he sometimes had a considerable quantity
of copper money in his possession, bat nothing like the
cluantity which was found in the carpet bag.
Mr. Wheeler addressed the jury for the prisoner, con-
tending that an unfair method of "pumping" had been
resorted to by the police for the purpose of extracting from
him expressions upon which a conviction might be founded.
With respect to the coins which had been identified by the
prosecutor and his wife, that branch of the evidence for the
prosecution ought to go ter nothiag. People lived nowa-
days in strange times, and they had lately seen a return of
the amount expended by certain quack doctors, and others,
in advertising. Among the devices resorted to was that of
placing names of parties end firms upon the coins of
the realm. One of the penes was marked by Lloyd's
Wiskly Naas, another by an implement maker, and a third
with ioitials. Hundreds—nay, thousands—of pence had
been similarly marked, so that speaking to their identity
was impossible.
Verdict, Gstilly. Bentence—four years' penal servitude.