The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-28 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION&

(Before Mr. Serjeant Dowling, Deputy Aristant.Judge.)
Archibald Logan, 40, a man of gentlemanly appearance,
described as an engineer, was indicted for stealing two
cloaks, value 551. Lis., the property of Grace Lillicrep.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
A previous conviction was proved against the prisoner at
Doncaster on the sth of July, 1864, when he was sentenced
to be kept in penal servitude for three years. He was
only liberated on the 4th of July, 1867, from Portland
prison.
Mr. Sleigh, who appeared for the prosecution, said it
was right the court should know something of the previous
history land career of the prisoner. His first fraud was in
1852, he being then in Exeter, where he obtained
goods from tradesmen on the faith pf cheques
drawn on bankers, but to meet which there were
no effects, and soon Exeter became too hot for
him. He next turned up in Church-street, Paddington,
where, with a woman named Fanny Fairbrother, he
managed to run into debt to the extent of 251. with his
landlord; gave I 0 U's to other people to the amount of
401., and obtained a gold chain and a ring from a jeweller
in the City worth 1051. In 1852 he again made his ep-
r= ee at Exeter, where be was served with a writ by a
tradesman for 001., which he settled ;by borrowing
money from a young and handsome widow of a major' to
whom be paid great attention. He next appeared 4421,
Green-street, Grosvenor-square, where he ran into debt,
and for which he was put into Whitecross-street Prison.
In 1853 he was found living upon his wits out of the
people of Plymouth, but that plans becoming too hot for
him, he returned to London, and lived at Holton-street,Piecdilly, and afterwards at Hill-sheet, Knightsbridge,
living upon swindling. He did not stay there long, for
in October, 1856, he was living in Hallmoon-street, Picca-
dilly, from whaitydlace he gave large orders. His career,
however, was • y checked, for being involved in debt
be went Dublin, where he took the benefit of the Insol-
vent Act, and in the course of his examination it was
stated that he owed the tradesmen in Regent-street not
ins than 8001. In August, 1858, he was again in
London, living in luxuriant style, keeping his brougham,
with livery servants, at Kensington-gore, where he was
again arrested for debt, ands...send time sent to W bitecroec-
street Pelson. In June, 1860, he got possession of No.
57, Pall-mall, where be obtained a brougham under false
pretences, but the owner having his suspicions aroused as
to the honesty of his customer, sent three orlon: men and re-
covered it. In September of the same year he obtained a
chandelier of the value of 231. under false pretences, and
for this he was committed for trial, but the jury by whom
he was tried aNui tted him. He then returned to his former
lodgings in PO-mall, where he formed an acquaintance
with a widow who bad an income of something like 1,5001.,
representing himself to be the sew of a rich merchant, and
a marriage was agreed upon, but the lady's solicitors
traced the character of the prisoner, and although the
marriage was set aside be managed to secure in borrowed
money the sum of 5321. He then got three valuable
horses, but gave them up to avoid criminal procedings.
His next act of fraud was at Hyde, in the
Isle of Wight, from which place he decamped
I and was next heard of at Leek, in Staffordshire,
where he endeavoured to And a " mutable partner," but
failed to do so. He was about to marry a lady of some
property at Ashford, in Derbyshire ; but being unable to
deny that he was the person who was tried in London for
obtaining goods by false pretences, the match, fortunately
for the lady, was broken off. He appeared at Scarborough,
where, for cheating at cards, he was kicked out of the
house. He had the impudence to bring an action for this,
and on going down to York to be a witness he stole • car-
riage clock, for which he was tried at Doncaster, and sen-
tenced to be kept in penal servitude for three years. There
were numerous other acts of swindling of which he had
been guilty, and, with the exception of the case at Don-
caster, for all be had escaped punishment ; and, indeed, he
seemed to have borne a charmed life ; but he trusted his
career would be put an end to for some years to come.
The judge mid that the prisoner had had a long career
of crime, and carried on with a considerable degree of craft
rod ingenuity ; but the time was now come when the
public must be protected from his depredations, and the
sentence of the court upon him was that he be kept in
penal servitude for ten years.
The prisoner said he bad been unjustly convicted ; and as
he had stated in the bearing of the prison officers before
his trial that if he was convicted he would never leave the
dock alive, two officers immediately seized him and eon.
veyed him to the cells below.