The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-16 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

John Brown, 23. smith, and Thomas Knowles, 19, tenor,
were charged with assaulting and robbing Mary Anne
Brown.
Mr. Dickie conducted the prosecution.
The prosecutrix, it appeared, MSS a married woman, and
on the evening of the 7th of November she was at a public-
house in Weatmilater, and the prisoners. with tome other
public-
men, were also present. As the prosecutrix was about to
leave, the prisoners followed her, nod one of them pushed
her down, and she was robbed of all the mono- she had in
her pocket, about twenty,three shillings. 'the prisoners
got away, and were not aprrehended until some time after-
wards, and when Brown was taken into custody be com-
mitted a violent assault upon the police constable who took
The jury found both the prisoners Guilty, and it appeared
that they were both associates of thieves. and that Knowles
had been before convicted of felony. Brown, it appeared,
had also been previously convicted.
The Common Serjeaot said it was quite clear that both
the prisoners were persons of very bed character, and if
they had used any violence to the proeecutrix, or had done
her any injury, be should have passed a much more severe
sentence than the one he was about to pronounce. He then
sentenced Brown to be kept in penal servitude for ten, and
Knowles for four years.
When the judgment was pronounced, the prisoner Brown
exclaimed, " Why don't you hang me at once
Richard Johnson, 17, was indicted for a burglary in the
dwelling-house of John Page, and stealing some money and
several articles of wearing apparel, his property.
Mr. Orridge conducted the prosecution.
The prosecutor in this case was an engraver, residing at
No. 3, Seville-row Mile-end, and it speared that on the
night of the 30thof October he went to bedabout eleven
o'clock, having previously secured all the fastening, of the
house. Some one appeared to have obtained access to the
premises during the night by getting through one of the
tack windows, and ems rather remarkable circumstance in
the case was, that the thieves, whoever they were. must
have gone into the prosecutor's bedroom and stole the pro-
perty from his bedside while he MU asleep. The prisoner
MSS taken into custody very shortly after the robbery was
committed, and the greater portion of the stolen property

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was found upon him.
He was convicted, and sentenced to four years' penal ter.

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Benjami* Buchfry, 37, Charles Meson, 35, and Joseph
Percival!. 24, were charged with a robbery with violence
upon Thomas Str
Mr. Cooper ted. The prisoners were defended by
Mr. Itibton, r. Orridge, Mr. Kemp, and Mr. Taylor.
The ore was represented to be one of those garotte
robberies, as they are termed, that bare lately been the '
came ei so mach terror to the public, but the facts that
were dieckated is the course of the inquiry put vmy
didereet complexion apes. the affair. The prosecutor, it
appeased, wee tailor, resding in Philpot-street, Stepney,
aiid, according to his statement, as he was gag
to his residence about eight o'clock in
erenieg of the 12tb of November, he yap
seised by some one from behind, who squeezed
his throat, and at the same instant his watch was
snatched from his pocket, and he stated that be saw it la
the head of the pteL sr Buckley.