The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before the AosistuttJudge.)

George Neiman, 49, described as a horse dealer, was in-
dicted for fraudulently obtaining by false pretences, from
Hugh Want Saunders • cheque for the payment of Kg.,
with intent to cheat and defraud him thereof.
The awe which was a rather protracted one, may be eery
shortly stated. The prisoner, it appeared from the evi-
dence' was mixed up with a regular gang of persons who
lived by cheating and swindling the public by means of ad-
vertising horses for sale as warranted in every respect, but
which were utterly worthless except for Atcheler's yerd.
The prosecutor in this case wee • gentleman residing at
Charlton, in Kent and on the 'kith of June last he went lb
some stables, le, Baker's-mews, Portman-square, in cones-
queuce of an advertisement, of which the following is a
oopy
A first-clue riding or driving gelding, lb hands 2 inches,
very handsome, a bay with black points, possessing breed-
ing action, and substance ; carries a lady, capital temper,
and easy of management. Property of a gentleman. A
warranty end a reasonable time given for approval. Sta-
bles, le, Baker's
-mews, Portman-square."
de found the prisoner there in livery undresii, and on
inquiring about the hone he was informed that it was Mr.
Cook's, a gentleman of fortune, whose eon had had it, but
be had joined a rigiment of carbineen that had gone out to
India. The price asked for the horse was 50 guineas. The
prosecutor agreed to give as manynds, and the prisoner
gave hima warranty (produced).pou The prosecutor then
pee him a cheque for bW., payable to " William Cook,
Fag.," and took the horse away. He Lad it examined. It
turned out perfectly unsound, worthless for the purpose he
required it for, and unable to work, and it was returned. The
prisoner had given the address of eeWm. Cook, Esq.," as 5,
Hanover-cottages, Regent's-park, where it seemed a Mr.
Cook was known, but he had not been seen there since the
Derby-day, or about that time, and the prisoner could not
be found. The prosecutor gave the cheque fully believing
the prisoner's statements to be true. While the bargaining
was going on the prisoner said Mr. Cook had a arm of
200 acres a abort way from London, produced a written
authority to sell the horse, and said he was Mr. Cook's
bailiff. A person culling himself Cook did, in May, l!pPlYi
in answer to an advertisement, about taking a house, No. 5,
Hanover-cottages, and be . promised to take it in throe
weeks, and received permission to have letters sent there
as his future residence. The case was placed in the bands
of Police-sergeant Edward White, 16 D, who knew both
the prisoner and " Wm. Cook, F.sq.," as companions iu
horse-chaunting transactions,. and on the sth of July he
succeeded in finding the prisoner somewhere near Mon-
tweequare. They were also in the habit of using one
public-house. The prisoner's answer to the charge was that
be had merely sold the horse on the authority of Mr. Cook,
between whom and himself there existed the relationship
of master and servant only. The cheque was cashed directly
after it was given.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The Andstant-Judge said it was important for the pri-
soner that there was no former conviction laid against him.
but it was quite clear that lie was one of a class of persona
who carried on a systematic course of plunder upon the
public by means of mock advertieementa for the sale of
horses, which they would warrant sound though utterly
worthless. The prosecutor was entitled to the thanks of
the community for the way in which he had acted when be
discovered the fraud which had been practised upon him,
the result of which was that one of the principal agents of •
dangerous confederacy had been brought to justice. He
doubted whether be ought not to pass • sentence of penal
servitude ; but, as • warning to the others, he must pass a
severe seutence of imprisonment and bard labour—eighteen
calendar months.

(Before Mr. Payne.)

A young woman, named Smith, who WM convicted in
F•bruar7 last of larceny u a 'tenant, nod sentenced to ma
inonthe.lurd labour, applied to Um learned judp under

these circumstances. She stated that when she was taken
into custody the left at hat master's • box containing all
she possessed, except the clothes she was wearing, and some
wages were due to her. On being discharged she applied
to her master, Mr. Adams, a publican, in Air•street, Picca-
dilly, for the restitution of her box and the payment of her
wages ; but she was told that the wages would not be paid
unless she sued for them and the law compelled the pay-
ment, and, as to the box, she found that her muter hail,
on her conviction, given it up to the polioe, who delivered
it to the High Bailiff in the usual way as prisoners' for-
feited property, and sold in a fortnight after she was in
prison under her sentence. She had, therefore, now
nothing in the world except what she stood up in ; and
what could she do? She had no means of getting another
situation.

The learned Judge said be was afraid he could not help
her in the matter, but he thought her master had no right
to give up her box under the oireamstanoes to the police, in
order that it might be sold by the High Bailiff. It was •
very hard proceeding.
In a case of • barony in • dwelling-house, which was
committed by the prisoner while she sent a little girl out to
bay • pennyworth of crinoline cane, the learned Judge re-
marked, on the crinoline being produced, that he certainly
had never seen any crinoline before, but he, like everybody
Glee, had often experienced the inconvenience it occasioned.
JoAn Border, 68, sad Charles Border, 28, drovers, father
and son, were indicted for • fined committed under circum-
stances exhibiting a great deal of cunning and ingenuity.
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Beat were counsel for the praseca-
tine ; the prisoners were defended by Mr. M'lbanell.
The younger prisoner went into a public-house kept by
the prosecutor, Mr. W. V. Townsend,at Hounslow, and
called for some beer. He was joined soon afterwards by his
father, who pretended not to know him, and they got Into
a eent;emation about a Wee, which one wanted to purchase
of the other. It was outside the house in a cart, which bad
the name of " Benjamin Yelling, Godabning, Surrey,"
upon it. The old man pretended that ha had been in great
distress, and begged that the other would buy the horse,
as he had the bailiffs in the house. It was agreed that it
should be sold for 16f., and a warranty was made out, and
I Charles asked the other his name, and asked the landlady
to write it, as be could not. Charles then put down
fourteen somethings, which were 'supposed to be sovereigns,
but John said he could not trust • Ringer, and must have
the other two. Charles then asked the landlady to trust
him with two pounds until the next day, and he would
leave the horse in her stable the while. Believing It to be a
genuine transaction she lent the 21., and the horse was taken
out of the cart. It then occurred to the old
one, that he had to take the cart somewhere a mile or en off,
where he had sold it, and be was too weak and feeble to
drag it himself, so they borrowed the horse to take the cart
home, saying it would be all right, and would be returned
in half an hour. It is needle., to say it was not. The pri-
soners throughout pretended never to have wen each other
before, and the son addressed bis father as "sir" while
dealing for the bone. By this artfully-contrived trick they
cheated the landlady of 2f.
The jury found both Guilty, and it seemed that they had
been before engaged in hone-dealing matters of a very
questionable character.
Mr. Payee sentenced each of them to eighteen months'
bard labour.

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