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

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before the AseishelelJelge.)

BMWS, Pile, 17, shoprean, wee thelleted on Tusk, fee
ethaling the sum of 21. Ids., the monies of Thomas Bowsteed
Oemaoo, his master, and 98 pieces of paper called pawn-
brokers' duplicates, the property of the same Immo.
Kr. Taylor prosecuted fur the Pawnbrokers' Society ; the
primmer de:ended himself, and with • good deal of pert
tannin and ingenuity.
The are, though complicated in ire details, may be very
shortly stated. The prosecutor was • pawabroker in De
Beauvoir-place. 'Copland, sad the prraor was in his ser-
vice from the 13th of March to the 20tk of October. He was
engaged by means of an advertisement, and hie mother told
the prosecutor that he had never been in • pawnbroker's
ceiploymeot before, though in fact he had, and had
been convicted of rubbing has meter, and sentenced to three
mouths' hard labour, and had been in custody on a charge of
stealing a wateb, at Marlborough-street. The ammo be
was now charged with was committed in One way. He
was employed behind the prosecutor's counter, and pro.
cured • number of please of wood the size of • Geneva
watch with a thin pesos of lead upon each, placed them in
the stock as pledges, and took the money supposed to have
been advanced upon them out of the till. A pocket.
book containing 98 duplicates was foetid in • coal
cellar. The prisoner had substituted these dummies
in some Instances for real pledges, and placed
the proper ticket upon them. The prosecutor found
in his stock about 80 spurious pledges, t 2 of which were
dummies, and where chains were referred to in the ticket,
screws were used to make up the parcel. These spurious
pledges were entered as cash at the stock taking. The
amount of cash represented the amount on the tickets. It
was the prisoner's duty to file all the redeemed tickets on •
file. The prosecutor examined the tickets os the redeemed
file and found the principal sum represented by them to be
181. Ire. Yd., and the money in the till was 151. ltka 9d.,
being 21. 16s. leas than the amounts represented by the
tickets.

The prisoner was found Guilty, and
Jones, polins-conitable of the L division, proved a
former conesction against him for robbing Mr.
Folkard, a pawnbroker io the Borough, and that he had
bees in custody at Marlboroughetreet, with a man who
now attended to give him a character, for stealing a watch.
The prisoner said he was lona:eat, imputed the guilt to
other parsons, and made assertions which were positively
denied. He said that he bad the things which were called
dummies made to perform emus Chinese tricks.
Jones, the umoer, laid the prisoner bad robbed one
master of over lOW., which he believed he had spent with
strolling reortstebasks.
It basin Mw
_Meted that further inquiry might tarnish
Wieland ihemailsa respecting him, the sentintee wee die.
!erred.

In the awe Mary Newell, it should have been Mated
that the honed judge said the conduct of the anew I.
tracing the psdaseer 'ad nemesia( the property was such
that, had Ise She pewee, be shield artier ion $ reward, but
it would ►e espetasand la the prepsr quarter. The dhow
was M. J. elm% et the B who apprehended the
reiesan at Yonne&