The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOIDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1864.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
Adelaide Hyde, Emma White, and Henry M'Cormack
were indicted for highway robbery, committed on the per-
son of Harriet Pease,

The prosecutrix met the prisoners accidentally near
Cranbourne-passage, when an angry discussion arose, and
ultimately the prisoners asked the prosecutrix whether they
were thieves. She said they knew best themselves whether
they were so, which led to a quarrel, during which she was
robbed of her purse containing 3s. A constable came up,
when the three prisoners were taken into custody, but not
before she was violently assaulted, and also were the police-
constables.

The jury acquitted the prisoners of the robbery.
They were then indicted for the assault. The former
evidence was repeated, when the jury found them guilty.
The police-constables gave all the prisoners a bad cha-
racter.

M'Cormack said the witnesses were mistaken as far as
he was concerned, for he was at work at Hampstead-road
when the asssult took place.
The Recorder directed some inquiries to be made at the
place mentioned by the prisoner before he passed sentence.
William Smith, a potman at the Roupell Arms, Lower
Charlton, was indicted for stealing a quantity of brandy,
rum, gin, two legs of pork, a leg of mutton, and half a
cheese, the property of his master.
The evidence was entirely circumstantial, and the prisoner
denied all knowledge of the robbery. He further stated
that ho was in bed when the property was removed, and
instead of stealing the property of his master, he should
have done all in his power to protect it.
The jury acquitted the prisoner, and he was at once dis-
charged.
A man named Reeves was indicted, with certain other
persons not in custody, with robbing Henry Stevenson, the
captain of a trading vessel named the John Murray, of
Whitby, of £47.
The prosecutor, it appeared, met the prisoner and some
other people in Bermondsey, and after a little conversation
they adjourned to a public house where the captain insisted
on treating the whole of the people in front of the bar. They
then went to different other public houses in Tooley. street,
and ultimately a row took place, when the purse of the pro.
secutor was stolen. The prisoner was present, and some of
the witnesses said that he was the person suspected of the
robbery, ani from certain matters that took place after-
wards, he was taken into custody and charged with the
offence.

Mr. Lilley addressed the jury for the prisoner, and con-
tended that the witnesses were in such a state of inebreity
when the captain was robbed that their testimon) was not
to be relied on. He said it was just as likely tke man had
lost the money as that he had been robbed of it.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
A police constable said the prisoner had twice before been
summarily convicted for stealing whatever he could lay his
hands upon in dockyards during the hours the workpeople
were at meals. On one occasion he cut a supply pipe from
a ship, which would occasion the greatest inconvenience
when it was discovered, the ship having proceeded to sea
before the loss was discovered. He had also been taken
into custody with a quantity of Muntz's metal concealed
about his person.
The Recorder asked the constable if he had ever known
the prisoner do any honest work.
The constable said the prisoner had worked now and
then in different dockyards as a lumper.
The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment
with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.