The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-15 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—NorriNosma. MAN= 13.
CLOWN COCRT.—(Before Mr. Justice Ca ridge.)
NXTRAOLDINLIM 0•11 OF KOMI lITBAIJNO.
AU leg, aged 23, wee charged with stealing a horse, the
property of James Bird, on the 14th Jemmy, 1868.
defenMr. Mundell conducted the proseoation; and Mr. O'Brien
ded the prisoner.
From the evidence it appeared that Thomas Bird (son of
the prosecutor), went to Nottingham to sell • horse, the
of his father. When in the cattle market, a man
Harrison asked Bird what he had got to sell.
He replied,' A horse ;" to which Harrison mid, " If it had
been • mare he would have bought it; he had bid for a
maze." Soon after this conversation, • man named Hall
came up, and Harrison asked him what he thought of the
horse (Hey being then ten yards off). Harrison then asked
Bird to go with him to the Dolphin public-house
to see a mare that he had bid for. Harrison
add to Hall, if he would try to buy the
he (Harrison) would fry to buy the mare. Hall then agreed
to give Bird 261, for the horse and immediately Harrison
laid he would give Hall 281. for his mare. They then went to
the Clinton Arms, and while drinking some ale, Harrison
&eked Bird to lead Hall's horse a few yards down the street
for him. He did so, when he returned Harrison was gone.
In the afternoon prisoner met Bird, and told him there was
a giandered mare at the Dolphin, and Bird said he believed
it was the same mare that Harrison had bought of Hall.
Pli/101Xt said that Bird was the owner of it, that he (Key)
wee a policeman in disguise sent by superintendent Pale
-
*aye, and that he should make Bird own the mare. He
then collared him, telling him he would take him mm where
where he should rest himself. Prisoner mid it was his duty
to make him own the mare. It was glandered and must
be mold for dog's meat. A man named Gibson said he
bought all each like as that ; prisoner remarking that if he
did not sell the mare for something, he would not 4et any-
thing for his horse as he (Bird) had sold it to •
lot of thieves. From other evidence adduced it appeared
that Police-constable Ratcliffe saw the prisoner riding the
horse between eve and six o'clock on the evening of the
14th of January down Middle Pavement. The officer having
heard of the robbery, and knowing the description of the
hone, at once identified it end went up towards him. Pri-
soner rode down the Low Pavement, end when about half
way down Ratcliffe went up and spoke to him, Prisoner
turned his head and immediately dug his heels in his horse's
.ides, but the officer seised the bridle and clung to it for a
minute or two, but was unable to keep it. Prisoner gal-
lopped down Carrington-street and on the London-road. He
was overtaken by another policeman, when he turned his
horse's head and proceeded back again. Policeman Hol-
loway followed him, and asked him if he wee the master of
the horse; to which he replied that he was not, and did not
know the name of the master. He said he bad given him
sixpence to take it to the Trent-bridge, but did not know
him. He was then taken into custody.
Ofeilty.—Four years' penal servitude.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT—Huitmonox, 'MARCH 13.

(Before Chief Justice Cockburn.)
Aleseesefor C. Handley, 33, station-master to the Eastern
Counties Railway Company, at the Godmanchester stivion,
pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling two euma of
mom In September last, which he had received for car-
riage, and had not entered. The whole defalcation amounted
In Nam& of 601.
The Chief Justice addressed the prisoner in • very immo-
dest manner, and endearedmanner, him to twelve months' ttnpr-
matt and hard labour--.ii months for each offence on which
he had pleaded guilty.