The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Before the Recorder.)
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vises: sonvisted of felony, and sentenced to three years'
peed servitude.
Mr. F. H. Lewes, who appeared for the prosecution, in-
formed the court that the promontory earned on badmen
as merchants in the City of London, and the prisoner bad
been in their service for about three years and a half.
They had been induced to take the prisoner into their ser-
vice by the false reprerentstlona of • person of apparent
respectability, • tradesman at Chelsea, and were, or course,
entirely ignorant of the fact that he had previously un-
dergone a matinee at penal servitude. The total 'meant
of the defalcations of the ',droner was between 3001. and.
4001., and that km had been sustained solely in cones.
=alit the gross fraud
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haracter !.te:lie raised upon
The Recorder seelonced the prisoner to be kept in penal
servitude for seven years.

Henry King, • ;atable-looking young man? wow
charged with feloniously stabbing Joseph King, with intent
to do him grievous bodily harm.
The circumstances of tbis case were of a very painful
nature. It appeared that on the night of the 18th Deosm-
ber the prisoner, who lived with his father at Richmond,
returned home 'drunk and a quarrel took pines between
him and his brother, in the course of which the latter was
stabbed in the nook with • large knife which bad been
picked up by the risoner. The father and brother of the
prisoner appeared in court to depose to the facts of the
can, and they expremad a hope that his lordship would
deal with the ease as leniently as possible.
After a brief deliberation, the jury returned a verdict
finding the prisoner Ginley of unlawfully wounding, and
recommended him to mercy.
The Rooorder sentenced the prisoner to six months' im-
prisonment, remarking that any further punishment
would only be adding pain to the feelings of his father and
brother. He hoped that this would be • lesson to him
never again to Lice drink.

(Before the Common Serjeant.)

Beheard herd, 41, a respectable looking man, described
as a builder, was indicted for having In his possession a
quantity of counterfeit coin with intent to utter the same.
Mr. Crawfurd and Mr. Straight conducted the prosecu-
tion on behalf of the Mint authorities.
This caws was one of rather a peculiar nature. The
prisoner appeared to have become acquainted with a
person named Reid, a beer-shop keeper at Peckham, who
was the principal witness for the prosecution. According
to his statement, the prisoner represented to him that he
was in a position to procure counterfeit coin to any
amount, and he said something about a thousand pounds'
worth for a thousand shillings, and that the witness might
make a very good thing of it. The witness very properly
seemed to have communicated with the late Inspector
Brennan, who had the management of such cases on behalf
of the Mint, and he subsequently acted under his directions.
The prisoner on several occasions appeared to have shown
the witness several counterfeit half-crowns and shillings,
and asked him to circulate them, but he refused to do so.
Upon one occasion the prisoner undertook to procure •
quantity of base coin for the witness, and took him to the
neighbourhood of Spitalfields, where be left him in a
public-house for half an hour. On returning, he said he
could not get the coin, because the " deliveries" only
took place at certain hours in the day. The witness was
crosaexamined by the prisoner, but his evidence was not
at all shaken, and some other evidence was adduced to
corroborate his testimony.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and it was stated he
had been known for some months to have been connected
with utterers of bees coin.
TheCouimon-Serjeant sentenced him to eighteen months'
Lai labour.
Thomas Phillips, 20, labourer, wss indicted for • robbery
with violence on Joseph Budfield.
Mr. Douglas conducted the prosecution, and the prisoner
was undefended.
I It appeared that on the 13th of December, the prottecu-
ter, who had then only recently recovered from an illness,
Ives walking along Weston-street, in the neighbourhood
el Pentouville, at twelve at night, when he was
attacked by five or six men, and struck to the ground by a
violent blow on the face. He got up and seised hold of
one of the men, but was again knocked down and dragged
about the ground, and its. Bd. was stolen from his
trousers' pockets. Some further struggling took place, in
the course of which he was struck by the prisoner, who
wee the only one of the gang who was captured. The
rimer was positively identified by the prosecutor, who
dated that he was still suffering from the injuries which
I Whom inflicted upon him. Some corroborative evidence
having been given the jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Common-Serjeaut said that if any of the men had
used a weapon of any saki should certainly have passed
a sentence of penal sede. As it was, the elms was •
very serious one and the sentence of the court was that
the prisoner be imprisoned for fifteen months and receive
twenty strokes with the cat.