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the 80, Police--- -Ifore Mr. Jardine, charged

Iw-street,

lice-court, bo)

on suspicion of being concerned in stealing gold and
silver watches from the shop of Mr. Jones, of 308,
Strand, in the night of the 9th of October last.
Mr. John Jones, the prosecutor, deposed as follows: I
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am a watchmaker and jeweller, living at 308, Strand.
Oa the night of October 9, a large quantity of stock, con-
sisting of gold and silver watches and jeweller; ,was stolen
from my premises. I offered a considerable reward for the
property. Yesterday evening (Thursday) a man named
Ashley called at my shop. I had a partial remembrance
of him, from his having applied to me for work on a fer-
nier occasion; but 1 had no other knowledge of the man.
He showed me four silver watch-eases, without either
the movements or glasses belonging to them. They
strongly resembled a portion of the stolen property,
and
I consequently took them to one of my workmen.
From information given to me by Ashley respecting the
watch cases, I was induced to confer with Mr. Pearce,
the superintendent of police, whom 1 afterwards accom-
panied to the house of the prisoner Casticborg, at 23,
Newcastle-street, Whitechapel-road. We found Cas-
tleberg there. Mr. Pearce produced the four silver
watch cases, and showed them to him separately, at the
sumo time asking if he had ever seen either of them
before. He said, " No." Pearce then asked him if ho
know add-
ing,
" watch "that
adone little jobs for
him." Pearce asked him if ho had ever given the four
silvern a an
h Ashleycasesnamed to Ashley, or either of them? The
Aslicle cyas? ion Heal ly replied
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prisoner replied " No." Then Pearce said to him, " I
am a police officer, and I charge you with having stolen
iwmat
property in your possession," subsequently announcing
his intention to search the house. The prisoner then
asked who I war, and who the other parties were (my
workman and two police-constables)
who accompanied
us? Pearce told him that I was Mr. Jones, upon which
he exclaimed, " Oh, Mr. Jones, I am a watchmaker; the
slum as you are." Pearce began searching about the
shop, and presently opened a drawer,_ in which we Aaw
the inside works (or movements), and the glass, be-
longing to each of the watch cases. I took up the
movements, one after the other, and fitted them into the
oases which I had received from Ashley. I can swear
that the works found in the prisoner's drawer belonged
to those cases.

The Attorney for the prosecution Can you also
swear that they ere part of your property?
Mr. Jones—That requires some explanation. In their
present state I cannot swear positively to the movements.
Upon my examining them minutely, the prisoner Castle-
berg said, " I am only a workman, Mr. Jones, and those
watches wore brought to me in pieces, ready gilt and
engraved, for me to pat together and get the cases
polished. " I asked him, " Who gave them to you?"
He said he did net know the name of the man, but that
ho would be calling at his (Castleberg's) shop the next
morning at 10 o'clock, so that if we watched for him we
might take him. I said to him, " Tell the truth, like a
man," or words to that effect, " for you must know who
brought them to you." The prisonee then said, "The
man's name is Hart," I inquired if it was Levy or Aaron
Hart, and I understood him to reply that it was Robin
Hart. I asked him where Hart lived, and he said that
he did not know, but could take me to the place. The
officers present agreed to accompany him to Hart's resi-
dence, and I remained in Castleberg's shop with his
workman, a Polish Jew, who could not speak English.
Mr. Jardine—Will ,you explain the alteration which
you say has been made in the works since they were
in your possession?
Mr. Jones—The movements have been tiled down
much thinner, and the names and numbers erased from
throe of them, and the plates re-coloured. I can tell
this from my knowledge and experience as a watch-
maker. With respect to the fourth watch, the plate :s
also much reduced in thickness, owing to the erasure of
the original maker's name. Another name is now en-
graved upon the plate, and the number of the watch has
been altered. A figure 7 has been prefixed to the ori-
ginal number, and the figure 1 has been altered into the
figure 4. On looking at the watch with my eye-glass I
am prepared to say that the original number on the
plate was 1,610. It now appears to be 71,640. If you
look with the eye-glass at the figure which has been
made into 4 you will see that the up stroke of a figure
1 still remains. (The magistrate examined the watch,
and appeared to concur in this opinion.) On reference
to my stock book I am enabled to say;that a silver watch,
No. 1,610, was among the property stolen, and I believe
that the watch now produced is the same. Indepen-
dently of the obvious alteration of the figures, and of
the self-evident fact that the figure 7, prefixed to the
original number, is engraved deeper than the old figures,
I am confirmed in this impression by the character of the
watch, which resembles the one that was stolen.
Cross-examined, by an attorney who attended for
Castleberg—My stock-book is here, and I find, ea re-
ference to it, that the watch in question (No. 1,610) was
taken into stock in September last—the maker's name
being Betty and Co. I cannot refer to cuy entry respect-
ing tnc eraser watches, because the names and nawbors
upon them have been altered. For the same reason, I
am unable to swear that they were in my possession on
the day previous to the 9th instant, when the robbery
took place; but I may mention tho fact that the cases
are made by my case-makers and the springs by my
spring-makers. The name of "Setty and Co." has been
obliterated from the fourth watch, and none other sub-
stituted. Any watch-maker could tell that the name-
plate had been thinned by the operation.
Mr. Jardine—Would not 71,640 be a monstrous num-
ber to be upon a watch—it it indicates the number of
watches made by the manufacturer ?

Mr. Jones—The number is a large one, no doubt, but
sometimes numbers are put on capriciously.
Mr. Jardine—Oh, that's another matter.

Superintendent Pearce, of the F division, after con-
firming the evidence of the prosecutor, said—When the
prisoner Castleberg was asked where he obtained the
four watches, he replied, " The person who gave them
to me told me not to say where I obtained them from,
if any inquiry should be made." By the direction of
Castleberg, I accompanied Pocock and another officer
to Hart's house, 4, Hann's-place, Whitechapel. We
waited for him some time. He returned home at about
half-past 12 o'clock at night. I told him I was au
officer, and asked him if he knew Castleberg. He bai I,
" yea." I asked him if he ever worked for Castloberg.
Ho replied " I have occasionally done a job for him."
I asked him if he had any of his watches with him at
that time, and he said, "No ; I have none in hand."
Wo went up stairs, and Pocock pulled out a box from
under his bed. It contained a quantity of articles iu
pearl, electro-Plato, &c., but nothing which Mr. Jones
could identify as belonging to him. Hart said ho was
a tailor. This morning (Friday) I was standing in the
yard at the back of the police-station when Hart came
out ,of his cell. The other prisoner (Castleberg) ehex-
claimed, on seeing him, " That's the man I bad the
watches of."
William Gallington, journeyman
worked for
I live at Henry-street, Limehouae, and have
watchmaker, said—
have beenin the habit
Mr. Jones about eight years—and five years of the timo
on the premises, 308, Strand. I
I know the watches produced
of repairing watches.
very well,
and can identify throe of them positively. I
e ks age in a
the
possession of Mr.
t() the other watch
Jones, and
saw theta folaarmortofilvee weeks
certain
also. The movements were given to me originally to
take to pieces and to repair, and new eases were to be
made for them. Finally, I delivered them into the hands
of Mr. Jones's sister. (The witrtese described the altera-
tions and erasures upon the name-plate, as already
deposed to by the prosecutor.)
Cross-examined—l would not swear that it was not
rather more than five or six vvooks ago; It might have
been two months ego since I saw them last. No doubt
" &My and Co." have made and sold a good many
watches, but I remembered the watch in question more
particularly, because I had never met with the maker's
name before. All Mr. Jones'e watches do not puss
through my hands; but this sort generally doer.
There being no further eviderice at present, ju r.Jar-
dine remanded the case for a we ek, and
either of the prisoners to bail d refused to admit

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