The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-13 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

John Carr' 42, pleaded gallty to a charge of brealdng sod
entering the d welling-house of William Borchett,and stealing
three watches, value 141.

Mr. Cooper, who appeared for the prosecution, said that
this 'ramose of those desperate robberiro that had of late been
of somewhat frequent occurrence. The prosecutor wee a
watchmaker I. Cheap"lde, and ft appeared that the prisoner,
at five o'clock in the afterimage, dashed his hand through the
window and snatched out the property mentioned in the
Indictment and ran off with It, butweepurened and taken into
custody.
The prisoner, who was not known to the polloe, woe sea-
towed to twelve months' hard labour.

lama May, 24, was charged with steeling a gold watch
from the person of Charles Smethurst.
The prosecutor ie a merchant in the City, and on the
evening of the 29th of November he was in Cheeped*,
when e moo fell down before him, apparently in a fit. The
prosecutor very kindly attested him to it.., and a crowd
assembled, and the prosecutor felt his watch snatched from
his pocket, and the prisoner, who was close to him, nut off.
The prosecutor pursued him and caught bold of him, and
several men got round him, and he sew the primmer peas
something that glittered M one of them, and he tea off sad
made escape, but the primmer wee secured.
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The jury foillid the prieeper (huffy, sal attolteer Informed
the court that he was a regular @asocial' et thieves.
He wee seatesced to be imprisoned sal kept to hard
labour foe twelve mouths.

Wicks, 34, was charged with riesling a cheque
for 71. 16s. 4d., a money order, and 171. in gold, the property
of Thome. Forster.

Mr. Platt prosecuted. The prisoner we. defended by
Mr. Ms,.
The prolocutor in this case iela tee desler In the Ci,y, sad
the primmer had beer. for • considerable time in his serries
carman and to collect debts, and a gond deal of madame
ores placed in him. On the 29th of November the primmer
was entrusted with* cheque and • poet-office order and cosh
to pay into Meson. Hockey's, the limiters, with whom the
prosecutor kept an account, sod Instead of doing en he
absconded and appropriated the money to his own um. When
he was apprehended he said that he had drink with some
strangers in a publio•house and that he soon afterwards
became @twilled *ad was robbedi of the money, bat there was
nothing to show that there was an foundation for the story.
Mr. Ulm made a very energetic appeal to the jury on
behalf of the prisoner, and targed upon them the fact that he
had been engaged for • long time in a confidential capacity,
and that he appeared to bare had opportunities of possessing
himeelf of much larger sums of money on previous °combos,
if he had bean so mindud.

The jury, offer a short deliberation, returned a verdict of
Guilty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy un account
of the good character he had previously deserved.
Mr. Fonder, in answer to a question put by the court, said
he was sorry to state that the prisoner had upon several other
occasions miesppropnated money that had come into his
poeftesion.
The Recorder said that this would make a great difference
in the sentence he should otherwise bars felt himself celled
I upon to pronounce. If the former awe had stood alone, it
might have been possible that the prisoner had yielded to
some sudden temptation ; but it appeared that upon other
occasions he had been gamily of similar misconduct, sad under
such carcuaugancee he felt it neoseeary to pus a sentence of
some severity. He then ordered the prisoner to be kept to
hard labour fur 18 mouths.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Berjeant,)

Williote Thomas Hopkins was indicted for stealing twe
bort!"s of oil of cloves. the property of William Iii•Collock
and encoder, his roasters.

Mr. \V. Cooper prow:voted, and Mr. Ribton defended.
The prosecutors are druggist* In Bishopegate-etreet, and
the prisoner was In their employment. Some suspicion being
entertained of hie honesty, a watch was art upon him, end he
was seen to plans • bottle of the an in question upon a shelf,
from whence he was about to take it away.
The jury returned • verdict of Not Guilty.
Joseph Plassleoutor wee indicted for having M hie poma-
des and publishing Indecent stereoscopic pictures.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Metcalfe, who appeared for the prisoner, maid that he
had acted under his advice in pleading guilty, and now
through him expressed his sorrow for what he had done, sad
begged to secure the court that he would never offend
He was • nun of respectable family, and It was his first
atones; and what he. the learned counsel. had to ask of the
court wee, that the prisoner might enter into recognisance,
to comer* for judgment if called upon.
Mr. Sleigh, who appeared on behalf of the Society for
the Suppreesion of Vice, said that after the course the
defendant had taken and the contrition he had expressed,
he, upon the part of the society, would leave the matter he
the hand. of the court ; but in not opposing the application
for the defendant to be mercifully dealt with he trusted that
It would not be thought that the society intended to Telex
in thou eadeavours to put • stop to the traffic existing in
these filthy and obscene pictures.
The Common Sedjeant, after alluding to the offence of
which the prisoner mold .elf-ooavicted. and expressing his
approval of the strenuous efforts which the moiety was
Making to check the circulation of such disgusting erode°.
times, ordered him to enter into his own recognisance iu 1001.,
and two sureties each in 1001., to come up for judgment
when called upon. adding that If he was caught again offrad.
lag, and brought before the omen, be should pus upon him a
very 1101N130 sentence.
Is the course of the day the grand jury retuned a true
bill for murder against Ammo loom They also threw oat
the MU preferred against Janes Potters, who was commlttrid
en Friday last from the Mansion-house, by the Lard Mayor
and Mr. Alderman Abbi.e, for • rape on HamushPercival.

/WWI ilkAer. • polio's oonst•ble of the R division, sraa
tvnowtedr of staling • es. •nd •n oilstone belonging lo some
of elan workmen in the Woolwich Arsenal whilst be woe on
duty there.
Sentence, IR months' imprisonment •nd turd labour.
Mt. Langbotd prosecuted.