The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—KINGSTON, Dec. 28.
(Before Mr. Baron Pigott.)
DARING ROBBZRY.

Frederick Cox, 30, John Curry, 17, and James
Elsey, 16, were charged with a robbery, accom-
panied by violence upon Edward Law.

Mr. C. Smith prosecuted; the prisoners were un-
defended.

The offence committed by the prisoners was of a
most daring and aggravated character. The prose-
cutor is a publisher, residing in Essex-street, Strand,
and it rappesred that at hall-past five o'clock in the
ever,ing of the 29th of August last he was walking
e.long a place called Crobem Hurst, about a mile
from Croydon, in the direction of Coombe, when,
as he was passing a small coppice by the side of
the road, he heard a rustling in it, and at the same
instant two men, whom he afterwards recognised
as the prisoners Cox and Curry, rushed upon him,
and Cox struck him a blow, either with his
fist or a stick, at the back of the head, which
felled him to the ground and rendered
him for short time totally insensible. They then
endeavoured to drag him out of the road into a field,
no doubt for the purpose of rifling his pockets; but
the prosecutor having somewhat recovered attempted
to give an alarm, upon which Cox seized him so
tightly round the throat with one hand that he was
scarcely able to breathe, and with the other struck
him several blows on the head. The prisoner Curry
then snatched his watch from his neck, breaking
the guard-chain; after which all of them ran away,
in consequence, as the prosecutor supposed, of their
hearing some one approaching. The prosecutor also
stated that before the attack was made upon him he
observed the prisoner Elsey following him, and ap-
parently dodging his footsteps, and there was no
doubt that he was oa the watch ready to give an
alarm. The prisoners made their escape, and were
not taken into custody until November, when it ap-
peared that Curry sold the watch that had been
stolen from the prosecutor to a boy named Crouch,
and his father suspecting there was something
wrong in the transaction gave information to In-
spector Smith, of the P division, and this led to the
prisoners being taken into custody.
The prisoners, when called upon for their defence,
merely asserted that they were not the parties by
whom the robbery was committed, and they so-
ecunted for the possession of the watch by saying
that they "picked it up."
The Jury found all the prisoners guilty.
Mr. Baron Pigott sentenced Elsey and Curry to
12 months' hard labour, and Cox, who there was
reason to believe was the ringleader in the affair,
was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, and to
receive 25 lashes with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

Two other cases were then disposed of, the details
of which are unfit for publication, and this concluded
the business of the Home Circuit.

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