The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-05 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE

In the Court of Criminal Appeal on Saturday, the Court,
in delivering judgment in the case of the
QuEEN V. ROEBUCK, said the prisoner was charged with
obtaining 103. by fraudulently and falsely pretending that a
certain chain was silver, well knowing at the time that it
was not so. He took the chain to a pawnbroker, who
advanced 10s. upon it on the representation that it was silver.
Subsequently he went to another pawnbroker, when he was
searched, and a large number of the same description of
chains were found in his possession. The prisoner was
tried and convicted before the Recorder of Liverpool. The

question for their consideration was, whether the prisoner
was guilty of a false pretence within the meaning of the
statute of the 7ch and Bth Geo. IV., cap. 29. They were
of opinion, acing upon the authorities cited and the cases
which had been decided, that the conviction was right.
Conviction affirmed.

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the concern, or crediting the firm with the money received The evidence upon the convtction was, that the prisoner,
been
eavdtieosrniynce last quotations. American wheat and flour,
there, which they appropriated to their own use. That said with several others, was travelling in an excursion train to
Zeise in said conversation further stated, that said P. R. Brighton, when he introduced a pack of cards, and asked
Scherr instituted a suit and recovered a verdict against his the prosecutor, who was a vcrf green young gentleman, to CAPruaß or AN EscAPED PRISONER. —A- few weeks
hpalortowevreyer, continue at low rates, on account of the large'
par ner, the said Gerner, in one of the courts in the city of play a game of "odd man." The young man lost severa since two convicts, under sentence of lengthened terms of stocks on hand from the recent sales by auction—these
casks flour. A sale opste'ar4lessbtoaoirlfrseLol.fonwiTshiheaaentacfaron:
marketnat
Philadelphia, and that the said Garner, as well as the said pounds, whereupon he assumed that he had been cheated, penal servitude, contrived to effect their escape from
Histhe offceßooannisttiiis,mitnoerodesilta:toudaryt,4l;rt.h,ooo bushels of whew:, and 900,000
Henry Hertz, were obliged to leave the said establishment, and, at the termination of the journey, he gave the prisoner Model Prison, Pentonville. One of them, Henry Mitchell,
the latter being actually turned out of doors as a man who into custody. Evidence was also given that the prisoner was soon afterwards re-captured; the other, Henry Simp- realised 74,r. per 200 kilos., and some hundred casks of
had wronged his employer by a swindling operation. TlaJt was one of a gang of card-sharpers frequenting railways. son, alias Peter Williams, was apprehended one day last
said Z -ise, in said conversation, also stated that said Gerner The Brighton justices committed the prisoner "tor playing week at Manchester, on a charge of housebreaking.mixed,tindoirßri
?gr. per 50 kilos,. for middling, 90fr. for low do , and
and said Henry Hertz, on one occasion, endeavoured to at a pretended game of chance, in an open and public place?' description was sent to London, when Sergeant Pug, P rom 85fr. for inferior sorts.. Coffee commands an irn-
induce him, the said Zeiss, to Join them in the swindling There was no evidence of cheating. it was now submitted division, remarked the singular fact that the man so
process of sending articles of merchandise to different per- that a railway carriage was not an open and public place, captured wore a black wig over a sandy head of hair. Upon Ceylon,psarloeyseemoemntrinepdresvowousbap,rsices,with at faiiir7crtemoand.
per 50
sons, without charging them in the books of the concern, and that the facts did not warrant the prisoners committal. being sent down to Manchester, he at once recognised the kilos. • 850) comprised
Laguayra'and orto Lbella, frsouac.79Df. 50c.
lor of giving the firm credit for the amount received there- . Baron Martin made the order. man who had escaped from Pentonville Prison. .to Blf.' 50e. the 50 kilos.