The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-03 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

01.1► CUUIt?.-Betenu.►t.
Ma. 131'1WILT.
Smnarths, 16, pleaded guilty to a charge of (elo•
aim,. killing and shying Henry Planyin.
It will he nineeila reel that the prisoner and the ilecraetvl
wi tr.. in the wink.. of a cab-proprictor named Page, and
wl..h• tln•y so re at work in the .table a th.pute and fizfit
between them, and the prisoner wounded the
d. with a stable lurk in such a nsauncr as to cause
hi. ,lath. It was ',Well in miti._ntion of the act com-
mitted by the pri.onre that the derica.ril had first struck
him and knocked hint under the of a vicious hone,
and, having the fork in hi. hand At the time, he made• us•
of it in the end, lucid of the moment, but without any in-
of exii.ing the• (Alai result which unhappily was the
1011,1111.11, of the
Mr. Gurney sindenced the prisoner to three months' hard

moons Ma. lease Marie a.e MM. jeensca Casement-
ti,erye **l.., 44, surrendered to take his trial for felo-
niouely recessing • large quantity of mousseline do lathe,
Indict, and other valuable article., the property of the
Lsdun Ind Semi W. darn Railway Company.
Mr. leallantine and Mr. fluddlestone were eimmel for the
pr. -.curies. The prieuiter was defend:4l by Mr. Parry.
3he tarts of life ease were given tiry full. at a recent
•s•ein upsoi the triad of two pereons named 'Whither and
Poe ord. when the fernier war, convicted of stealing and the
latter of net is ing the same property, and Whicker was
seuteneed to be tr imported and Seward to be imprisoned
for a year. the iirineipal evidence againet them being
Out of • mon named l'ansplin, who was convicted of
at, aline • large quantity of gold dust from the railway,
an 1 who upon his conviction gave such evidence as
en tided the enupany to take ptheredings against other
The prisoner at the time i.f the robbery kept
a !midge-lime... and it appeared by the es idence of Simard
and l'amplin, that he bud acted an the agent to dispme of
tli, stolen property. and that a portion of the uterine was
gig ,-n to him. There wag very little it indeed any coustruc•
tise testimony of the statements made by these persons, but
with the exception of some slight diecrepsnetes in their
statements the evidence they gave was of such • character
ns to lent. veer little doubt they were telling the truth.
Mr. Justice >Li tile summed up with gnat imparteality,parti-
ralarly canine t heath-Mimi of the jury to the absence of any-
thing in iletendant's testimony to corroborate the statements
via•de by the potties who had boo already convicted of the
ethane, hut at the same time leaving them to say whether
under all the circumstances they were satisfied that the
charge had been established -aainst the prisoner.
'l' be jury retied and wire in deliberation about half an
hour, when they returned into court sod gave • verdict of
Inspector Brennan informed the court that from inforrna-
lion received be the police with regard to the proceedings
of the prisoner 111. house had been repeatedly watched. but
ow ing to the adroit manner in which all the transactions he
was cornerin.l nl were carried on they hail never been able
to establish any caw agaitut the prisoner until the present
occasion.
The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said that although
he should possibly himself not have come to the same con-
eludern the jury liad upon the uneontiniti d testimony of
the aceonsphees in the robbery, yet as they were the proper
judges of such matters, and they had felt themselves justi-
fied in coming to the conclusion upon the evidence laid
betide them that he was guilty, the court were bound to
act upon the verthet. The offence was • very serious one,
for the evidence went to show that he warn • whole-ale re-
is e r of stolen property, and that he carried on his voca-
tion with great skill and ingenuity. The sentence of the
court therefore, under these circumstances, was that he be
transported for seven years.
Thomas Per. a lad of 13. pleaded guilty to the charge of
placing a piece of wood upon the London and Brighton
Railway, and he was sentenced to a month's imprisonment.
Edward Ilvary Pope:, who had been convicted of fur,;-
lug an endorsement to a bank post bill, was brought up ar
judgment.
Mr. lustier Cresewell said that the duty he had to du •
charge on the occasion, was amain painful one. The prisoner
wie most respectably connected, and the son of a person who
hail filled a high positionothil had himself also been a captain in
the army; and it was, therefore, • painful duty to be com-
pelled to pees upon hint • sentence of • most severe charac-
ter. The offence was not committed by him under any
sudden impulse, but in the most deliberate manner, and
committed, too, after he had been convicted on a former
occasion of an offence of a similar character ; and although
upon that occasion a most lenient sentence was passed upon
hem, yet he should have thought that even that sentence
would have bees such a shock to the feelings of a gentle-
man and • man in his position that it would have effec-
tually deterred him from ever again committing any simi-
lar act. This, however, was nut the case, for within
a very short period after he had obtained his liberty
he applied to the hankers for one post bill under
a forged name; and, being successful, he made a
second application fur two more which he also obtained, and
he then exercised the utmost cunning and ingenuity in
order to get rid of the Instrument he had fraudulently ob-
tained. The ewe was one then of forgery, and without any
extenuating eiseenriteseek are Memel, painful it might be
to hie Whip, he hit tint he should be neskictini his dutr