The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-14 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Before the Recorder.)
Frederick Jacob Pillott, 40, • German, respectably
dressed, and described ea a hormobreaker, was indicted for
having Woolard, seat to Rachel Chapputs a certain letter
demanding money, with M• 1311011& and without reasonable
sod probable cense.
There was also an indictment against the defendant
which charged him with having published a false and scan-
dalous libel coseerning the same lady.
Serjeant Baud:lee wee specially regained to conduct the
proesiontios, with Mr. Montague Williams. Mr. ()fridge
wan couseel for the defence.
The particulate have already appeared in oar polies re.
ports.
The jury, after a abort oonsultetion, found the prisoner
Guilty.
He was then arraigned upon the charge of libel, and to
that charge be pleaded guilty.
Mr. Orridge urged, in mitigation of punishment, that the
primer had suffered• severe injury by falling from a hone
upon his head ; and that although be could not go so far
as to say that his brain wee effected by the accident, still
there wee no doubt that he wee in a dote of great irritation
when be wrote the letter, and that be never entertained the
evil intention imputed to him. He now wished to with-
draw all imputation upon the character of Madame Chap-
pais, and expressed his deep contrition at having written
ouch a letter.
The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner
bad pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with pub-
lishing a libel upon a married woman of a very serious
eharactor, with intent to extort money, and it appeared to
him that there were very few more serious effacer that
weld be oommitte& The awe also, se it seemed to him, we.
esv of very considerable aggravation. He had been One-
sally on a footing of friendship with the prosecutor, and his
wife had also been on friendly terms with him. She we.
so doubt guilty of imprudeoos in holding communication
with the prisoner after her husband had brought the
action against him and lad forbidden him the house,
bat so far as anything appeared to the contrary
she might have acted with the good intention of
eedeavouring to prevent litigation 'between her hus-
band and the prisoner. He had, however, taken ad-
vantage of the circumstance to endeavour to extort
from her the money that her husband had recovered in the
action by threatening to make • oliuge against her, for
which, so far as the court could see, there did not appear to
be the least foundation, and he was very glad to see that M.
Chemical; 'curtained the same opinion. Hs then sentenced
the prisoner to eighteen months' hard labour.
Jamu Henry Wilson, 41, hatter, was charged upon
several indictments with uttering forged 101. post-office
orders.
Mr. Meteelle and Mr. Pattetion prosecuted. The prisoner
was defended by Ma. Pater.
The offence imputed to the prisoner was committed under
nary extraordinary circumstances. It appeared that on the
12th of Msy a man drove up to the distilot post-offin at
Nether Skoog, Somereetshire, with a hone and chaise,
and he announced himself, in a pompom and authoritative
moaner, to be • postoffice inspector, emit down by the Poet-
niester•Gueral to mike inquiries into certain alleged irre-
gularities in the establishment. Re thou seemed to have
overhauled all the papers and made minute enquiries relat.
log to the money order business of the ogle', and at length
' be told the postmaster that he had too many money order
forms, and that as a fresh form was about to be issued he
should take away some of the forms, and he obtained pos.
session of a hundred of these forme, and at the same
time stamped them with the ofßoe stamp, for the purpose,
as he said, of denoting the day on which the transaction
took place. The postmaster seemed to have been quite
deceived by the mapper in which the man (meditated him-
self, and he drove off with the money orders, • great num-
ber of which were subsequently filled up for the mud 101.,
and made payable at different money-order officio in Lon-
don. The prisoner wee proved to have been in coavereation
with the other man in the aeighbourbood of other ElOwey,
and he appeared to have presented tome of the forged orders
for payment, and about 1231. were obtained by mean" of
them. When he wee taken iato custody by Hanc ou
of the Oily polies, he made use of the expression tha be bad
been made • " mug" of, meaning a dupe of others, and as
he was being conveyed to Bow.street Poliascouri, he said
" he would take ten years for the job without going& step
fertber."
The fury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Recorder,
observing that he appeared to have anticipated his sentence,
ordered him to be kept in penal servitude for ten years.
Joseph Thompson, 41, pleaded guilty to the charge of
unlawfully detaining • newspaper in the coarse of its trans-
mission by post.
The prisoner was employed se an auxiliary letter sorter,
and while scampioyed, he Val seen to slip a third edition
of an evening newspaper lobo his pocket.
Mr. Kemp, who appeared for the defence. said that be
was instructed to state the prisoner had no intention to steal
the newspaper, but merely desired to read the American
news, se he had a son in America. The mail would not
have been despatched for 20 minutes, and there was plenty
of time for him to have replaced the paper in the me beg.
The Recorder said it was very impatient it should be
known that peruse is the employment of the Pcet-ollios
were liable to punishment if they detained newspapers that
came into their posessioe ; and although the prisoner repro-
seated that he merely intended to read the paper, it was
very doubtful whether when ones • pope was take, it ever
got into the bag again. Under the circumstances of the
present case, however, he thought it would be sufficient
punishment if be ordered the primmer to pa a lige of Si.
1. The mousy was paid, and the defendant was
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