The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-25 00:00:00

CRIB. CON. AND ALLEGED SOBBELY.

At the Surrey Sessions on Tuesday, George Haynes, 21,
labourer; was indicted for breaking and entering the
dwelling house of John Bailey at Norwood, and stealing
therefrom forty sovereigns.. Mr. Robinson prosecuted,
and Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner. Mr.
Robinson, on opening the case, said that his client
was a cowkeeper at Norwood, and the, prisoner was
the son of the beadle of the old church there. The
prosecutor, not being much of a scholar, employed the
prisoner to keep his accounts, and attend to his horse
and cart. -He also knew that the prosecutor had a large
quantity of gold in a box which was kept in a room in
the upper part of his house. On the 7th of December the
prosecutor had forty sovereigns there, and he then had
occasion to go to Brixton, where he remained all night.
On the following morning when he arrived home he found
some tiles had been removed, and that an entrance had
been .effected by smashing some windows. The box had
been broken open, and all the money was gone.
While the prisoner was putting the proeecutor's
horse in the cart he saw that his hand was
bleeding and bandaged up, there being blood also
from the window to where the box was. Sus-
picion fell on the prisoner, and 'he was given
into custody; but there not being sufficient evidence against
him, he was discharged by the magistrate. On the 12th
of March the wife of the prosecutor went to town,
and missing the .prisoner, he was suspected of being with
her. On the 13th the prosecutor himself came up to
London after them, and at five o'clock in the evening he
saw them drive up to the London-bridge Terminus in a
cab, in a very loving manner. After they alighted from
the vehicle the prosecutor followed them, and heard suf-
ficient to show the unfaithfulness of the wife with the pri-
soner, when he wentup to the latter, and upbraided him with
his ungiateful conduct. They were both given into cus-
tody for riotous conduct at the railway station, and fined
five shillings each at the Southwark police court, where
Mrs. Bailey called on the prisoner. The prosecutor then
heard the latter say to his wife, "Never mind the b- ;
I have got all his money, and can make a better husband
tkan he." The wife replied to him, "You have done for
mb for ever." The prosecutor then, feeling satisfied that
the prisoner was the party who robbed him, gave him into
custody, and he was committed for trial in the usual way.
The prosecutor was then called, and he deposed to
the facts related by the learned counsel. He also
stated that he had known the prisoner from boyhood,
and had been very intimate with him. He engaged him
to look after his books, and attend to his horse and cart,
because he had nothing else to do. While witness was
abroad the prisoner became intimate with his wife, and
after he was robbed they both came up to London, A
I great deal of other evidence was given, and the witnesses
were cross-examine d at some length by Mr. Charncck
who addressed the jury, contending that there was net the
least evidence to show that he knew anything of the rob-
bery. The Chairman summed up very carefully, and the
jury returned a verdict of acquittal.