The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-17 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Before the Recorder.)
THE ILETRAOILDHIERT CRAWS OF PEILTCHT.
The trial of the Frenchmen, Jean irgfouraile, °couplet
the whole of yesterday's sites:.
After the exarniestios as reported la the Express,
Mr. F. T. Hall, his brother, Kr. C. K. Hall, and throe
daughters of the defendant sad several other palms weft
exagaised as witnesses for the defence.
Mr. Rib= them proceeded to sum up the evidence width
bad been edam= is the part
.of the prisoner, coalmen&
In the first pleas, that in the important arida= given by
Yr. Hall that gentleman had afforded a perfect, complete,
sad gatisfeetorc explanation of the triumetion of the der
poet of the 4801. in the bank. He submitted that there wee
no harm in off erieg • reward to recover stolen property. It
was de= every day, god therefore so blame attached to
Mr. Hall acting in behalf and tieder the authority of his
client, N. Bottillos„ sad yet that gentleman had been
eran-eziunined as though be had bee* oa his Vie. though
there was not the slightest pretense for saying that
be bad dome anything that was wrong. The whole of that
matter bad nothing whatever to do with the question into
which the jury had to irmalre, which was of the simplest
kind, namely, whether Madame Valentin bade= extreme&
lb tateatioa of going to America. This, be =tended, bad
been amply proved by the three datiobters of tba primmer.
If the jury believed their testimony.there wse an and to
the ease slimiest their father. With respect to the testimony
of Madame Racy. he felt satisfied the jury would climbs it
from their oonsieratioe. after hearing the evidence given
before them by the two French gaolers. The jury could sot
fail to remember the examination of the primer is read
from the shorthand-writer's notes, in the course of which
the primmer on hi oath distinctly negatived the
statement of Madame Valentin that the bed sever
been in Loam until the sad of September, whereas
the had seen him early in the tuanth, sad bad Maned to
Paris with the premier, because they had failed to effect a
sale of the shares in this country. On this point the pri-
se= was folly corroborated by the two witnesses be had
called it the aloes of the ease for the defence, tad who had
travelled with them from Dieppe to Landau, arriving here
mitted the 12th
that or 14thadame of September. On
Valeetin was not entitle this groped be sub-
Md to be be.
On the whole he maintained that the cans was
enveloped in go much mystery and doubt as to entitle him
to en =Gifted.
Mr. Sleigh then replied on behalf of the prolecation.
The Recorder, in summing up to the jury, expressed him
regret that a member of the legal profession like Mr. Hall
should have lest himself to the fraud under which the
arrest of Madame Valentin was effected. Sham writs and
other demise= hod been used in a manner which could not
reesive any wantons= from the bench. It like totassr
be (the Recorder) eould not but 000demt the manner in
which poseessioa had berm illegally =rived of the prose
outrix's bag from the landlord of the hotel ; and farther,
the manner is which that beg was forcibly opened. and the
valuable contests, belonging to the promentria, *hefts.=
and withheld from her when she was actually in custody
under the writ which Mr. Hall had issued. After rue-
pitulaldeg the whole of the evidence with his usual minute-
ness and clone ass, the learned Reese= told the jury that
the inquiry before them Ma both anxious sad important,
but he felt soured they would oonerientiosly dithers*
their duty to themselves and their country.
The jury retired precisely at eight o'cilook. and, after an
shame of a quarter of an hour, returned into court with a
verdict of Grainy, the jury at the game time ex
their unanimous opinion that Mr. Hall wee deser:aaduiegoi
, bigh censure.
The Reorder, without comment. =Mooed the prisoner
to 18 months' Imprisonaleat with hard labour.
The court adjourned at half-past eight o'clock.
IBefore the Common !Wristlet.)
Hoary Cornice, 19, Frederick Barmy, 23, GeonfabPorter.
25, sod Dominick Carroll, 92, all risearibed as
were indicted for falcrairotely breaking sad catering the
Church of St. Jude's, Chelsea, aid stealing therefrom two
bottles of wise, a table cloth, two orate, an umbrella, and ,
two =easy boxes and their contents, the property of Mr.
Robert Kraig and another, the obnrchwardere.
Mr. Cooper aoaductel the promotion. The prisoners
were sot defended by coulee!.
The feats of the cage, though the trial ocespiel a consi-
derable time, lay in a very narrow compass. It appeared that
St. Jade's Church bed been forcibly entered, sad the pro-
peaty set out in the indictment was abstracted. To cavil
the -four prisoners of the offence it was proved that they
were seen together loitering about the church at 10 delsek,
and agate at 12 o'clock on the night of the robberi,bl/4nd
again et as early hour in the morning after the ro .
The ichetlty of the prime= wits distinctly established
the testimony of a amber of the polletteemetthfte el the
B dirigioe, sad il area shown that the three feet round pet-
moors lodged together in the name lodging-boom is Chelsea.
and that they were ebseet hem their beds on the night of
the robbery. The polies searched the lades., eat =Aar
the bed at the primer Ogreish was found the We= um-
brella, under the bed of Pewter two bottles of wise. mei es
Harvey the two coats abstracted from the =try ef the
=rah. Tbereemplisfty of the iris= Carroll wee esta.
Wilted by the feat that about 2 °Week en the manning of
the robbery be was mot by a polies esentable with a wine
beetle, the top ef whisk bad bees broken off. The prim=
invited the emendable le drink, whisk be refused, bet smelt
at the bottle, =I dissevered it to =leis wise, but sot
then Meowing of the robbery the ethers pmesitled Cumuli
to wowed me hi way.
The petamur, who mode Lag ranffilizoodefeneest herald
prodt any milteiheu. feted and •th'
Orme, it was peeved that be was ;rove mat on •