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Campbell atthe time contrived to effect his escape, but having
received information, John Cook, police-constable, 198 S,
apprehended him en the morning of Dec. 31, at 47, Dudley-
street, Seven-dials, when he was told that he was charged
with being concerned with another man named John Goff,
alias Jerry Cotter, with breaking and entering the house at
No. 5, Hamilton-street, Camden Town, on Christmas night,
and stealing a quantity of property, he replied in the phrase.
ology of a th'ef. " I hope you are not getting this up for me.
If the ' slop raps' (the policeman) swears to me, with my
character, I shall get something for this." He was told
that he must g ) to the station-house, and that there he
would have nothing bat fair play, upon which he put on a
Scotch cap. He was told that he might wear the cap; but
if he did so, he (the policeman) should take the hat also to
the station-house. He was put into the charge-room with
a number of other persons all wearing hats, and Ballard,
the officer, identified him from amongst the rest.
It was proved by Sergeant Holmes, 3 F, that he had seen
the two prisoners repeatedly together during the last fifteen

months.
Ackroll, another police-constable, 43 F, also proved that
he had often seen the prisoners together,
Mr. Montagu Williams made a very able speech on be-
half of Campbell, setting up as his defence an alibi, and
called three witnesses, who swore that they were at the
prisoner's house on the night in question, and that ho was
never absent for more than ten minutes during the whole

of that time.
Mr. Grantham replied, and said that with regard to the
witnesses who had been called on behalf of the prisoner'
one was a sister and the other tho brother-in-law, and they
were directly interested in the acquittal of the prisoner,
therefore, their evidence was worthy of no credence what-

ever.
Mr. Payne summed up the evidence in a most careful
manner, and
The Jury, after some time spent in deliberation, returned
a verdict of guilty against the prisoner Campbell.
Mr. Payne asked if anything was known of the prisoners.
William Ackrell, 48 F, said on the Oaks day of the Epsom
races last year (1863) Campbell was sentenced to imprison-
ment for six calendar months at Epsom by the magistrates
for picking pockets. He also knew him to be a companion
of the worst of thieves and burglars, and one of his com-
panions was now serving ten years' penal servitude, and
another 20 years.
Sergeant Holmes, 3 F, corroborated this statement.
Henry Bingham, a constable of the F division, said on the
3d of February, 1851, Goff was convicted of burglary at the
Central Criminal Court, and was sentenced to ten years'
penal servitude. After serving four years of t his sentence
he was liberated with a ticket of leave. On Oct. 15, 1855,
a few months after the prisoner was liberated with a ticket
of leave, he was again convicted of burglary, and sentenced
to seven years' penal servitude in the name of James Tre-
lawny. He was again liberated on a ticket of leave, and
since then had been the constant associate of thieves and
burglars.
Mr. Payne said he looked upon this prosecution as a very
effectual one for the protection of the public ; for in this case
it appeared that these persons went out for the purpose of
spending Christmas day, when they were robbed of property
amounting to upwards of £3O ; but the most aggravating
part of the case was that the prisoner Campbell had called
several witnesses on his part whom no one could believe.
With respect to the prisoner Goff, all kinds of punishment
appeared to have been without etlect. He had been senten-
ced to penal servitude for 10 years for a skeleton-key rob-
bet y, and after serving four years was discharged with a
ticket of leave. He had not been out long when he commit-
ted another burglary. and was sentenced to seven years pe-
nal servitude, but was again let out for the second time with
a ticket of leave. On both occasions he had got portions of
his sentence remitted with a ticket of leave; therefore his
present sentence must be a heavy one. lie had been guilty
of wholesale robberies, and therefore the sentence of the
Court now upon him was that he be kept in penal servitude
for this offence for 15 years. As regarded Campbell, the
sentence upon him was that he be kept in penal servitude
for five years, for although he had never received any seri-
ous punishment, he was an old offender.
Eliza M'Neil, 25, convicted on Wednesday of stealing a
piece of lin- ey, the property of John Richard Palmer, was
brought up for judgment.
At the trial Mr. Abram, who appeared for the prisoner,
urged that as she was in a certain state, she was unaccount-
able for her actions, from peculiarities which sometimes de-
veloped themselves in married women, and she was put
back to allow inquiries to be made.
Mr. Payne, having made some inquiries, sentenced her to
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months.

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