The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-24 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Before the Common Serjeant.)
Simon Deck, a respectable looking young man, and
henry Taylor. who surrendered to take his trial,
were jointly charged with stealing and receiving a large
quantity of gloves, the property of 3les.rs. Dent, Allcroft,
and Co., wholesale glove dealers, in Wood-street, Cheap-
aide.
me, Gifted, Q.C., was specially retained, with Mr.
Poland and Mr. Grain, to conduct the prosecution ;
Digby Seymour, Q.C., also specially retained, with Mr. F.
H. Lewis, appeared for the prisoner Taylor, and Mr.
Ribton appeared for the prisoner Duck.
This case created a good deal of interest on account of
the circumstances connected with the alleged onence and
the respectability and position of the prisoner Taylor, who
carries on an ext,nsi,e Imsiness as a glover anti hosier in
St. Andrew's-stress, St. Ones's. It appeared that on the
16th of -Lino, the 3rd of August, and the 22nd of June,
the prosecutors hail a large consignment of gloves
sent to them from their works at Worcester, and the whole
of these parcels, the contents being in value about TOf.,
were stolen or lost, but whether they were abstracted
while in the charge of the railway company, or from the
van while being convey ed to the warehouse in Wood-street,
was never ascertained. Shortly after the last parcel of
gloves had been lost the prosecutors discovered that a par-
son named 'Nine..., who was in the habit of selling goods to
hosiers and persons engs,. ea in that description of trade,
had disposed of gloves of the sante description as those
which were lost, anal from facts that came to their know-
ledge they placed the case in the hands of detective officers
of the City police, and from the inquiries they made they
proceeded to the shop of the prisoner Taylor, and inquired
whether he had sold some gloves recently to a person
named Nincr. The latter was with them at the time,
and Taylor appeared to have at once admitted that he had
done so, and, on being further questioned, he said that
he had purchased a " job lot " of gloves of a person
whom he hail krown two or three months, at a public-
house iu Long-acre, and that he had paid IW. for them,
and be produced an invoice and receipt for that amount
signed in the name of Turnbull. The officers went again
eft the following day to the shop of the prisoner, and at
that time they found the other man, Duck, there, and
Taylor said that he was the person from whom he bad pur-
chased the "job lot." Duck then stated that he had
bought the gloves of n person with whom he was casually
asquainted, at the Sun puhlic-honse,inLincoln's-inn•fields,
and that he wanted 101. fir them, and said that if be sold
them for him he would give him lf. for his trouble, and he
sold them to Mr. Taylor, and received the amount of 1/.
that was to have been paid him. He was asked to account
fey signing the name of Turnbull to the receipt, and he
did so by stating that the man from whom he purchased
the gloves had the rheumatism, and could not use his hand,
and be therefore signed his name to the receipt. These were
the principal facts of the case, and it was admitted
that enormous quantities of gloves were sold by auction
every week, from his bankrupt's stocks and otherwise; land
it also appeared that when the prisoner Taylor gave the
gloves to Hiner to dispose of, it was done quite openly,
and that he was at liberty to sell then wherever be