The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-04 00:00:00

He replied only a fortnight.
Sir R. Carden asked if he had • character with him.

Mr. Jarman said he had a very good charac er with the
prisoner from a lady in Spring-gardens, with whom he
bad lived as butler, but he was only in her service for a
fortnight.
Sir R. Carden inquired of the witness whether he had ob-
tained any further information respecting the prisoner.
He replied that he had ascertained that the prisoner had
been in the service of a captain in the navy before he was
engaged by the lady to whom he referred him.
Birk Carden—How long did he live with that gentle-
man

Witness—A very short time, not more than a fortnight.
Sir R. Carden said he should advise Mr. Jarman to be
more careful with regard to the character of the persons
whom he took into his service. Here it appeared that the
prisoner bad been in two services, and had been discharged
from each at the expiration of a fortnight.
Mr. Jarman said this was no doubt the case, but the
prisoner's last mistress told him that she had entrusted him
with the whole of her plate, and found everything safe,
and she sias also satisfied with the character she received
from his last place.
Sir 8.. Carden said that might be. A private person ran
his own risk, and if property was stolen he alone was the
sufferer. The proprietor of an hotel was, however, in a very
different position, because he was entrusted with the pro-
of the public, and not being licensed he would not be
rigs:ll;i fortsonT.!ose thati ;rya' sustalowellti It be-
hovellYhim regaed
to the character of the persons whom he took into his em-
ployment, and he advised Mr. Jarman to be a little more
careful in future.

Mr. Thomas Gordon, the prosecutor, was then examined.
He proved the fact of the reoeipt of the proceeds of the
cheque on the day before the robbery, and said that he
placed all the money in the box in question, and he saw it
safe on the night of the 29th June. On the following morn-
ing it was removed, and the prisoner was the first servant of
the hotel who answered the bell when he rang to make some
inquiries respecting it. He told the prisoner that the box
was taken away from the place where it was on the pre-
ceding evening, and he seemed surprised, and wished appa-
rently to have it inferred that he knew nothing about such
abox. The prosecutor added that besides the money there
were a good many documents of considerable importance to
him in the box, and he had been put to a great deal of in-
convenience by the loss of them.
Sir R. Carden asked the prosecutor if he thought the
prisoner was aware of the contents of the box'
Mr. Gordon replied that he knew perfectly well what was
in the box, and he had frequently given him money out of
it to pay bills with.
The case being completed,
Sir R. Carden asked the prisoner what answer he bad to
make to the charge!
Prisoner—All I have to say is that I know nothing
about the robbery.
The prosecutor upon hearing this suddenly turned round
to the prisoner, and before he could be prevented, said,
" Then where aid on get my 50/. note from!' (A laugh.)
Sir R. Carden told the prosecutor that be must not ask
the prisoner any questions, as the law did not allow it. The
jury would have to answer that question, and he had no
doubt they would give a proper one.
The prisoner then said, I got the note in an " under-
hand" way, and I shall be able to explain all about it at the
proper time.
Sir R. Carden—Very well, you are committed for trial.

The prosecutor intimated that it would °cession Lim a
good deal of inconvenience to attend and give evidence.
Sir R. Carden inquired whether he wished the prisoner to
woHve
e replied—Not exactly.
Sir R. Carden said that if be did not, he must give his
evidence. He had had every facility afforded to accommo-
date him, and the prisoner had been remanded a good many
times for hi convenience, and his duty to the public re-
quired that he should attend at the trial and give Lis
evidence.

The prosecutor and the other witnesses were then
bound over in the usual form, mut the prisoner wee fully
committed to Newgate for triaL

William &Jan, who was remanded upon a charge of
robbing Mr. Robert Grant, a warehouseman, of a watch, the
robbery being accompanied by violence, was also brought
up for final examinatiou.
The prosecutor, it will be remembered, was in Ironmonger-
lane about ten o'clock in the evening, when lie was accosted
by a WOllll4ll who forced her conversation upon him, and
succeodeil in snatching his watch from his pocket. He
gave an alarm, upon which the prisoner, who was no doubt
RD accomplice of the woman, came up, and she handed the
watch to him, and when the prosecutor tried to secure him,
he struck him several violent blows in the face, and then
tried to get away. He was, however, stopped by a police-
man, and the stolen watch was found Just inside the
railing. of the churchyard, at a spot near which the
prisoner was, seen to stoop down for an instant during his
ht.
The only additional evidence offered on the present occa-
sion was that of *police sergeant of the E division of metro-
politan police, who stated that he bad the prisoner in cus-
tody in 1856 for burglary, and that he was tried at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, and sentenced to four years' penal ser-
vitude. He had since then, he was informed, been convicted
of another robbery, and sentenced to six months' imprison-
ment.

>!r R. Carden observed that the prisoner could only have
been every short time out of prison at the time this offence
was committed.

The sergeant said he had been out about three months.
The pnsoner was then fully committed for triaL
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Thomas was charged with obtaining some brass
mouldings by the following artful means :
Thomas William Baker, an intelligent little fellow of ten
years of age, errand boy to Mr. Tilbury, of 14, Cleveland-
mews, said, while going on an errand for his master the
previous afternoon, the prisoner stepped up to him and asked
him if he would go into a shop at the corner of Upper
Rathbone-place, an ironmonger* and ask for 121bs. of
French brass mouldings, at the same time telling him not
to forget to say that it was for Mr. Ross, of Denmark-street,
and that he would give him 2d. for doing so ; and, on corning
out with the mouldings, which weighed 1311b5., he handed
them to the prisoner, who was at the time ;standing a little
distance from the shop. He walked with the prisoner into
Tottenham-court-mad, when the prisoner gut change at
a baker's, and gave him 2'd. and a little loaf.
Mr. Everist Pottelet, brass dealer, Sc., 19, Upper Rath-
bone-place, said he had a customer, named Ross, liviog in
Denmark.street, and believing the boy was sent by him, let
him have the scrambling' of tie value of 14s. 4,1.
Mr. Donald Ross, brass finisher, of 13, Denmarkatreet,
said he dealt at Mr. Pottelet's, but never authorised any
parson to fetch him any Troubling'.
Lambert, 68 E, proved going with the boy to the Grapes,
Bennett-street, where he pointed out the prisoner ea the
man he gave the mouldings
The prisoner, who made no defence, was committed for
SOUTHWARK.
William Stokes, a pi-ter in the employ of the South
Eastern Railway Company, was brought before Mr. Combo,
charged "AI stealing a quantity of tobacco from a parcel in
the tempany's warehouse at the Bricklayers' Arma Station.
Mr. John Modica, an inspector of the railway company's
polite, said that the prisoner had been for some time em-
ployed in the goods department at the Bricklayers' Arms
Station. On the previous afternoon he saw the prueuergointo
the parcel ace, and having some suspicion as to has CON-
duct he was induced to watch him, and he saw him go up
toa late paperparcelcontaining tobacco, tear the paper, sea
take a large quantity out, which he put into another paper
and deposited it in his pocket. He then left the place, and
was about to quit the station, when witness Moppet hint
and asked him what ho had been doing to the parceL He
denied having touched it, but when he took barn into ens-
, tasty he found the tobacco produced on him.

Mr. Iverson, the superintendent of the goods department
at thel South Pastern Railway, Bricklayers' Arms, said that
the prisoner was brought to him with the tobacco produced.
It was taken from a parcel directed to a tradesman at Mar-
gate, as the paper was torn at one of the corners, and it
corresponded exactly with the contents.
Mr. Combs asked how long the prisoner had been in their
employ!
Mr. Iverson replied that he had been in their service
about three years.
The prisoner pleaded guilty ; and
Mr. Conibe sentenced him to six menthe bard labour in
Wandsworth House of Correction.