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London, England, 1863-11-19 00:00:00

heda between the second and third; two lengths third and
fourth. The others beaten off.

Nursery Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, for 2-yr-
olds ; winners extra, One mile. 10 subs.
Mr. Grevillo's Bradamante, Got 121 b (J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. Osborne's Fauconberg, Gst 91b (carried Gat 101 b

(Whiteley) 2
Mr 11. Joice's Antoinette, 7st Slb (carried 7st 101 b)
(Challoner) 3
The following also ran :—Oawinus, Fearnought, and
Letcombo Lass colt,

BAting-2 to 1 each agst Fauconberg and Antoinette,
and 3 to 1 agst Bradamante.
Fauconberg made strong running, followed by Antoinette
and Bradamante to the centre of the stand, when the latter
got her head in advance and won easily by a length and a
half ; half a length between the second and third. Fear-
nought was fourth, Letcombe LABS colt next ; Oswinus was
last, beaten off.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov, 17,

(Before the Assistant-Judge,)

Philip Beeson, 22, and John Unwin, who pleaded guilty
on Monday to an indictment on which they were charged
with stealing three jugs and other articles, the property of
G. R. Cheshire, their master, was brought up for judgment.
Although the amount of property laid in the indictment
was small, yet a robbery to a great amount had been com-
mitted. The prosecutor is a glass and earthenware mer-
chant, his depot being at 3, Wharf, York-road, City-road,
and on Monday, Oct. 19, he told the prisoner Unwin to
pack up an order that was going to Camberwell, and to put
the goods into a van. The van was driven away in the
charge of Beeson and Unwin, but they were accompanied
by a man named Berry. When they got to the Angel Berry
went away, and the van was watched to Bagnigge-wells-
road, where the prisoners pulled up at a brushmaker's shop;
Beeson got down and took three jugs from a cart, and took
them into the shop. After the van was gone Mr. Cheshire
went to the brush shop, when Mr. Birbeck, who kept the
shop, handed to him three jugs which had been left by
Beeson, and they bore his private mark. Beeson was taken
into custody, and afterwards on going to his lodgings, No.
20, Lev
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i chstreet,two hampers full of china and glass were
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ed as his property. The prisoner
Unwin was subsequently taken into custody, and a quantity
of property belonging to the prosecutor was found in his
found,
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possession.
Mr. F. 11. Lewis having been hoard on behalf of the
prisoners,
Mr. Metcalfe said this was a most extensive robbery, and
the prosecutor hardly knew the amount of which he had
been robbed.

The Assistant-Judge sentenced Beeson to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for 12 months, and Unwin fofnine
months.

Henry Wrench, 21, who Was convicted on Tuesday of
embezzling divers sums of money received by him for and
on account of Stevens's Patent Bread Machinery Company
(limited), was brought up for judgment.
The prisoner at the time of the trial stated that Mrs.
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day in attendance to answer such questions as might be put
to her.

This day Mrs. Riley accordingly attended, and she posi-
tively denied all that the prisoner had alleged.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced the prisoner to be im-
prisoned and kept to hard labour for 12 months.
George Gibbs, 22, late a police• constable in the S division
stationed at Hampstead, and Mary Gibbs, 21, his wife, were
indicted for stealing a gun, value 205., the property of Wil-
liam Hodge. There were further indictments against them
for stealing 12 blankets, two table covers, and one counter-
pane, value £G, the property of George Stinton, and with
stealing a lamp, value 53., the property of Maurice Drum •
mond, the Receiver-General of the Metropolitan Police.
Mr. Rowden and Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted ; Mr. Met-
calfe (instructed by Mr. Charles Young) defended the pri-
soners.

Mr. Inspector Webb, of the S division, was in attendance
to watch the case on behalf of the Commissioners of the
Metropolitan Police.
Mr. Rowden having briefly opened tho case, called the
following witnesses :

Thomas Foster, police-constable 28 S, said he knew the
male prisoner, who wes formerly a constable in the metro-
politan police, and the female prisoner was his wife, He
remembered the constable joining the Hampstead division
about two months ago. Witness showed him round his beat,
Williamee
and also round the premises of Mr. Mills, at West-end. He
had the key to go round the premises, and he saw him twice
on his
sbeatn Hodgeinan said id he was gardener to Mr. Mills, of
West-end, d
Hampstead, and had been so for five years. The
gun produced he broulht with him to Hampstead five years
ago last Jane. He knew it by the ramrod, which he made
himself. The gun was kept in a toolhouse in the kitchen
garden, He had also a saw there. The saw produced be-
longed to him, and it was with the gun in the same shed.
He saw them last shoat the Bth of October, when they were
safe in the shed. The police made a communication to him,
and he went to the ptisoner's house on the 29;h of October
in company with a nan named Castle. Castle said to the
female prisoner, " What about that gun ?" She said she
knew nothing about any gun, and that she had never had
a gun in her hands in her life.
In cross-examination by Mr. Metcalfe, he said he had
the gun in his pssession for the purpose of keeping birds
off the crops. The gun and saw were locked up in the tool-
house, of which ho kept the key. The lock of the toolhouse
had not been forced. He had not lent the gun to any one.
He had used the gun in September. He was passing Mr.
Castle's shop, and he saw his gun in the window.
In answer to questions by the Assistant-Judge, he said
there were windows in the toolhouse, but there were no
fastenings to the windows, The windows were two feet
wide, and a man could get through them.
Isaac ,astle said he lived at No. 7, Flask-walk, Hamp-
stead, and was a marine store dealer. Ho bought a gun of
Mrs, Gibbs on the Bth of October, and gave her 8s for it.
On the 29th of October he went to the prisoner's house and
saw the female prisoner. Ile said to her, "'What about that
gun ?" She replied she knew nothing about any gun, and
had never had one in her possession. She went away, and
witness waited outside the house. The female prisoner went
away and up to the town, and was absent about 10 minutes,
and when she returned he again asked her what was to be
done about the gun. She said she wished him to see her
husband, who came home some time afterwards. He then
told witness th'it he had better come up with him to his
room. Witness went, when the male prisoner said he had
had the gun in his possession for three or four years. He
said that it was his gun, and that he could bring witnesses
to prove that it was his. He said be would take back the
gun if they would give 'aim the 83 ho had got for it.
Mrs. Castle, wife of the last witness, said she bought the
saw produced by Mrs. Gibbs, and gave her 6d for it. That
was on the 10th of October, Her husband had bought a gun
of her ou the same day.
Charles Kemp, police constable 22 S, said the male pri-
soner was a constable under him. Ile saw him on Friday
morning, the 30th October. He said to him, " Gibbs, did
you see a man last night respecting a gun ?" and ho said he
did, Witness told him that he should detain him until the
question as to the property was cleared up. He said it was
his gun, and he had had it for five years. 'Witness showed
him a gun, and he said it was like it, and that he had offered
on the night before to give the man the money back that it
was sold for. At 6 o'clock the same morning witness waited
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This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Metcalfe asked his lordship if he thought there was
any case against the woman.
After a short discussion, the Assistant-Judge directed
the learned counsel for the defence to confine his observa-
tions to the male prisoner only,
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the jury, as it was a most doubtful caso, to give him the
benefit of the doubt end acquit hire'.
The Assistant-Judge very carefully summed up the evi-
dence, and
The jury found the male prisoner guilty and the woman
not guilty.
Mr. Rowden said there were two other indictments
against the prisoners, and ono of them was for breaking into
a house on Haverstock-hill, and taking therefrom twelve
blankets, two tablecovers, a counterpane, and various other
articles. Some of the articles had been recovered, but a
large quantity was still missing.
Mr. F. H. Lewis said this was really a weak case, and
rested on a counterpane which had been pawned ; but the
woman who was said to have washed it did not identify it.
Mr. Rowden said the woman was seen on the night near
to the place where the robbery was committed with a large
bundle in her possession, which she did not have when she
went there.
The Assistant-Judge said there was, no doubt, a good
deal of suspicion abcut it.
Mr. Rowden said there was some of this property thrown
over a hedge, and a good deal more had not been found.
Mr. F. H. Lewis remarked that there was no evidence
whatever that the woman had acted independently of her
husband in the commission of the robbery.
Mr. Rowden said he was informed by Mr, Inspector
Webb that this man had only been 7 months in the force,
and during that time he had been thrice reported for being
drunk, once being taken before a magistrate and fined 10s.
The Assistant-Judge said the prisoner had been convicted
on the clearest evidence,and his offence was so much greater
as he was an officer of the police, to whom the protection of
the property and lives of the Queen's subjects was in-
trusted, and it was the duty of the Court when such
things occurred to make an example of the offender, so that
others might be taught that if they were convicted such
matters would not be lightly passed over. Notwithstanding
the able defence which had been made for him by the
learned counsel, it seemed that ho not only stole these
things, but he used his wife as the instrument of getting rid
of them. He would be separated from her for a considerable
period, and the sentence of the Court upon him was that he
be kept in penal servitude for three years.
The female prisoner was then ohargoti on the other two