The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.
Strom Te■ Itzcomant.
INCITING TO SISAL -ROMANY OP INDIGO.

Moses Barnett, 67, was indicted for feloniously inciting
one Henry Sellers to commit a felony, and also with remelt. g
part of the stolen property.
Mr. Bal!entice conducted the prosecution. The prisoner
was defended by Mr. Huddlestone.
It appeased from the statement of the learned counsel
foe the proercution, and the evidence that was adduced in
sup put of it, that Sellers, the person mentioned in the
indictment, wes a lad, fifteen years of age, and was
employed as errand boy to Myers. Wich, Newman, and C s.,
Indigo brokers. According to his testimony, about the
month of October, while he was standing near the Commer-
cial Sale-rooms, in Mincintlsne, the prisoner entered Into
conversation with him, and, after Disking some inquiries
reepecting the amount of salary be received, and other
matters of the same kind, he told him that he could
put him in the way et getting more money ; and he
then said that if he brought some indigo to his house,
he would buy it of him. Sellers at first refuted to
have anytbieg to do with such a proceeding; but
be said that the prisoner was continually throwing hintaelt
in his way, and suggesting that he should do what he pro•
posed, sad at length he said that he consented, end on the
le.h of December he took five pounds of indigo from a box
in Messes. Week's warehouse, and carried them to the pri-
soner's house iu Grace's-alley, Well-street, and the prisoner
weighed the indigo and said there were only three pounds of
it; but, upon Sellers tellies him there wee more, as he
had weiehed it, the prisoner said he had male • mistake,
and then gave him five shiaings for the indigo he had
brought to him. Alter this, according to the statement
of the boy;he carried on a regular system of plunder, stealing
a quantity of ind go and cocnineal almost every day, and
the whole of it b. ing sold to the prisoner. At length it ap-
peared that suspicion was excited; and, upon Sellers
being about to leave the warehouse of the prosecutors upon
one °SCALD°, he was stopped, and ten Fe owls weight of
indios were found in his possession. Upon this discovery
being made, the boy threw himself upon his knees and
begged forgiveness, at the scale time detailing the
whole of the transactions that had taken place between him
and the plischer. An officer was then called in, and the
indigo was marked, and the lad was allowed to take away a
portion of the Indigo, and be was followed by the officer to
the house of the prisoner; and, upon his coming out, the
officer and one of the clerks to the prceecuturs went into the
prisonet's shop, and behind the counter they found the
merkea indigo in • scale, and Sellers handed over to the
officer the money he had received for it from the prisoner.
Mr. Hudiffistone addressed toe jury for the defence, con
tending that the charge had been trumped up against the
prisoner by the boy Sel:ers, in order that he might get him-
. self out of the scrape, and that there was no confirmation of
his testimony.
Two respectable witnesses gees the prisoner a good
character.
The Recorder .ua.rned up, and the jury returned a ver-
die: of Guidy.—Judgment was respite&