The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-20 00:00:00

THIRD COURT.

(Before Thrum Chemises, req., Q.C., Comeost-Ssideent.)
John Ease, 50, comae, and Jams Navas, 40, labourer,
wen indicted for stealing ese pad of herrienp, value 55., the
goods of Arthur Mammals lie youngr-, the master of the
primer LA
Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted; Mr. Metcalfe and Mr.
Lloyd defended.
It appeared ea the evidenced Peter Singleton, the watch-
man of the peoesoutor cites
bo toy; carrier, wryly on Mai-
m' in ), of Mr. Juts (the traffic
LC) sad ol6diletilliam Gale (a City polies-oonstable),
that the prisoner East was • mom is Xi. Maceirnent's
OUTiOS, and that at six o'clock os the suoing of the 28th
ultimo be was driving a vaa lead of ilsh to Billingsgate,
and, demanding St. DitesSiVe-hiU, waa observed to
off from the vaa • pad of herds's, which wee imme-
y picked up by the other puone-, Mackie, who was
evidently waiting for the purpose, and who ran away with
the spoil, but was pursued and taken shout on the spot,
with the property in his possession. The other prisoner ma
taken the 11111118 afternoon at the Eastern Counties station.
When before the Lord Mayor both prisoners protected that
they were lesseest.
The jury retuned • verdict of Guilty against both the
primers.
M. F. H. Lewis mid that the prosecution was more
neessary, inamr rich as the robberies committed in &Maar
manner of this claw of goods had been going on for some
months, in fact ever since the promoter has undertaken
the particular Mos of contraaa ; and as he Lad of mum to
make good the losses, he found in the long run that be was
• loser by the esetreet. He calculated that the loss had not
bees Les thy 110 L week.
Mr. Alderman land (who was on the bench) asked
bow many servants the prosecutor employed
Mr. Jacks (the traffic manager) replied there were be-
tween 100 and 300 altogether, but only about 50 in this par-
ti
The
The = Mate MINN o, is we appeal, sewed the
wart t tbe was jaw:mat of the charge, sad urged that
he was sot only a besmear of the Ci.y, but was also a
Fellowship ports..
The Common Serjenat told the prisoner it was useless for
him now to deny his guilt, for be was pseactly Mailed of
it. The prisooers had hem way carefully and property
watched, ard there could not be a shadow of a dub: as to
their guilt. In party statue* his lordship told the pi-
sorer East that It was of the utmost importance that persons
in the position of carmen should be most severely
punished when convicted of &lioness:as of this kind.
Thee were entrusted with a vast amount of property,
over which their employers had no ' ex-
cept in the honesty of their servanta• h
the value of the property taken in this instance was s I,
the offence was not the lees serious. It was the duty of
servants to do their utmost to protect their meter's late-
mita, and when any breach of it was brought
home to the parties they would always be
subjected to severe punishment. This ease he
was compelled to say was not one of an onlisery Muster.
With regard to the prisoner Mackin, nothing was known of
him; but his urging on the court that he was a liveryman and
fellowship porter was not • ~cry circumstance, for he
learned from the worthy adenoma who as; beside hint
that they enjoyed • monopoly in obtaining work to the ex-
clusion of many other labouring tom He should, bowery-,
make a distinction between the case of the servant and that
of the accomplice ; and the sentence, thereto-o, upon the
prisoner East would be four mars' penal servitude, and upon
the prisoner Mackin 18 maths' imprisonment with hard
labour.

A few ewe of small felony, net eaMeg for a report, were
=e , sad terminated the badmen of the imakoa,
of, adjounwd to Monday, the 6th January.