The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-25 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION. HOUSE.
SIRIOI7/ CHARISM or INCITUIO TO SOBBILT.—Henry
Sellers, ineasional errand boy to Misers. With, Newman,
and Co., general commission merchants, is liary-court, St.
Mary-au, was charged with having stoles • quantity of
Indigo anal other good., the property of his employers, and
Mons Bennett, • dothreutan, was charged with having
received the property. The appeared to be of • deeply
criminal nature as regarded the reenter.
A clerk to the prnecators Geld Sellers had totem to a large
chest of indigo and several small ones, and had been in the
habit of taking out samples. On the His of December we
mined about Win. of cochineal, value 21 104 , from • drawer
lit the sample-rum. Nest 'lay I mat Sellers coming dews
stain with a bag, and he looked into the counting house and
naked sae if there was anything to be done. Observing that
his pockets were encumbered, I told him to walk into the
cennting-house. He then asked me to forgive him, and upon
my desiring him to empty his pockets he pulled a bag of
iadigo from each of them. 'The quantity be eshibited
was worth 31. 17s. Ile begged that I would forgive
his for the sake of his poor lather, who knew nothing
at all about the banner; and he said it wu all the
doing ei • Jew, who prevailed upon him to rob the indigo

rooms.
Mr. Wick (of the Arm of With, Newman, and Co ) said-
Sellers said he had robbed as since the last Monday, in con-
witeenee of as old Jew is big at him for the last month to
bases him to steal, to increase his wages. He told me that
the Jew's sass woo 'Lanett, and that be lived untewhere
new Welleloie Kure. I went to the police station and ob-
seised the aid ot an 'Aar, and 1 sauced the indigo which
, bad bean Lend upon she boy to b marked.
' Vow, the oolier-1 • kid Sellers, upon taking him into
mestody, where he was going with the indigo. He said to
• Jew named Barnett, who kept a clothes shop. He told
me also that he had taken indigo to the piece about three
Yews before that; Barnett met him about two weeks ago in
Mincing lane, and said to him, " Boy, where do you work
Yon are in the indigo trade, are you not r' To which be
replied, yea`; and to other questions put by the Jew, he
replied that he was in the employment of Messrs. With tad
Co., and that he was paid a eluillog a day ,• that the Jew
offered to oily samples of him, and at last, by frequent soli-
imitation prevailed upon him to role his =listen. It wee
weed ;hat the boy should go with the marked indigo to the
Jew, and that one of the eleek. and 1 should follow. When
we got to Gramealley, Watches-Notre, Sellers went into
the house No. 16, which is a clothes shop, and after remain-
ing there &boat two minutes, came out with 4s. in his haled,
and said he had sold the indigo to the Jew far that sum
We all then went into the shop, and I saw him with a scoop
Kole containing indigo, which he was examining. I said, I
want this indigo, which you have just bought of
this lad. He said, here it is; but 1 have not
bought It. The boy has left it here. I said the
boy says you gave four shillings for it, and 1 have got them.
He made no answer to that. I marched his place, and with
the assistance of lielley, an akar, who accompanied me,
found one bag of rice, three bags of raw coffee, one bag of
tutu percha, one bag containing some chesoute, one beg
gootaining 23 brass 'tempt, 12 sample bottles containing
Tarim* eamplee, one bottle of causes pepper, a quantity
of Glassman, of °equal, of shellac, two bags of sago, and
ether begs contaioing black dye, ginger, arrowroot, gum,
guar, an: vomit a, corolla indices, &c
Upon his ernss-examination for Bartlett the withal* said it
was not at my suggestion the boy went to Barnett's house
with the bog of indigo. 1 have taken away from Barnett's
house some invoices and pipers. Barnett looked through
them for the porpou of asoertataiog that he had paid for
those goods, but he only found one relating townie castor-oil,
which 1 did not consequently take. He wee in • state of
greet trepidation and fear.
Upon his reexamination the witness said—lt did not ap-
Ipeor from the appearance of the shop that the Jew dealt in
ndigo. The anklet I wised ware some of them under the
mutter and e tme behind the counter. The gutta perch& was
in • bag before the counter on the floor.
Hoary Bailers, the prisoner, was then ordered to go from
the bar to the wigwam-box for the mimosa of being examined
as *widest's spinet Bassett.
The following, which was listened to with extreme interest,
was the principal pare. of the statement of the boy :
" The first time I saw Batnett was in Miacing.lase, and
after asking me whether I was lot la the indigo trade end
who my master was, he naked it my master had any odd in-
digo samples to sell that were left at the sale 1" I said,
" No, air, he returns them I believe to the warehouse."
He then said, "do you ever have any dust of your own,"
(miming indigo dust.) I said, " I have no perquisites
allowed me." Hosaid, "Oh I then, you have high wages I
suppose 1" I said, " No, I have not; I have five shillings
a week, whist I am employed at the sale times, sad if my
motes wants Ene any day after the sale, he gives me a
shilling • day." He said, ' I know boys less aged than you
and smaller, and get more meaty a week than yon do."
I said, "Do you ? I wish I had better wages and a better
place, but I have very little walk and my master was vet,
kind." He then stopped to consider, and he said, " Your
master hoe a great many eamplss open." I said, "=yummier
bad at sale times." " Can you not," said he, " take •
small pion out of each sample? If there is only an
outs out of each sample, and there was a hun-
dred eemples, that would be • hundred ounces, and
I would give • shilling a pound for any you bring
me—will you do it?"it?""! said, no, I will not steal."
He then said, " Why, you are having very low money, and
that would help Joe on." I said " Tee ; but an honest
petty is wank a silver shillisg." 1 saw:Barnett afterwards
several times in the late. Bach time be spoke tonic in the
sane kind of way. At length on Friday, the 6th December,
I consented to steal. I met him then in Hut-street, and he
mid to me " Well. have you made up your mind 1" 1 was
considering what I shield do, as I had no employment that
week. Says he " Wrist are you betaking your head about 1"
I said " About nothing." He said, " Yoe are • young
fool to be thinking about anything when you have nearly a
golden ball in your band.' He said to ea " Wlll you
Wing any indigo ?" I said " I will ;" and I said to him,
" Shall I bring you some to-morrow 1" He said, " Not to-
morrow, that is my sabbeth ; bring some on Monday morning,
as early es you can." I want on Monday morphs; to my
employee's place at an early hour. The housekeeper
was the only person there. I went up stabs, where
there Inn tome chests under a table, and I took about
five pseuds of indigo, put it in two papers weighed it in
the min, sad took it to Barnett's shop. It we. about •
quarter to 10 o'clock when I went there, and I saw a woman
there who called out " Barnett ono bare." The carat
waa la the hitches, and Barnett mid, "Oh ! you want a
pair of women," and put • pair into my head. He said to
me, " Well, if you don't like Oat pair, there is a pair behind
the 01111 Mer," and I went behind the ranter sad took out
both parcels and gave them to him, and he put does boa •
ore. He said there was three pounds, sad I amid you
make • mistake; there to five. He said thee, " Oh, yes! 1
sese now," sad be gave me 6e., and I went away; and on
the next morning I want again to my mastic's place, and
took four pounds from the same chest. I put that in one
pared sod took it to Barnett, who was standing
at the door. I went into the shop and looked
at • fasseersues pipe, sad he said I could have
it fee six pounds of indigo. I said there were
fear reads there • sad be said he would trout to my gene-
=being ll* other two pounds. I said "No, it was
too mash of • market of meow it woe • pipe I could
11e folr. two shinier and stspers," and ho wasted six
foe it, He praised the pipe up, bat I did ost lobe
7,11te ger so four Sallies. for the indigo. The seem
rate out of the trier sod asked me it I road get any
sables? I said, I dart say I sus," BIN said, I use It
fee eolourisg my_ seep. I said, Whet, lasoodef turaistio
Sb. old, yea. I wait beak to my master's, bat sera sot
dad say earn, but I saw some eashineal, mad Ito& Mar
prude* that sod put it ins a pool, and leek it the
ear day. I said to him, " Yoa saws give OS • wid rise,
foe it I. • beautiful rile*" He said It es 4 fatilied
two shillings sad *Mesa a pound, sad It was one the lost
silver grey. He eared sr • shillimpoLC I
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