The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-14 00:00:00

,UST.

:111BER.

RACING FIXT

Ascot
Beverley, Hull, and East
Riding l4
Liverpool - 19
Hampton 2l
JI
Newmarket July
Carlisle
Jersey 5
Worcester
Pontefract
Abingdon
Stamford l3
Hungerford l3

AUG;
Itrighton
Brighton Club
Knutsford 3
Lewes 4
Huntingdon
Wolverhampton
D.ialry . 10
Reading
Radcliffe
Egham l5
Stockton l6

SEPTE
Warwick
Leicester I
Dover
Hereford
Doncaster
Brecon lB
Richmond

OCTO:

Bedford
Caledonian Hunt and

Oxford l7
York
Great Yarmouth 22
Plymouth
Lichfield 2B
Devon and Exeter 29
Tunbridge
T,>,4,4, il mraor 3O
Ipswich
IVeymouth 3l

Canterbury l9
Hendon (Welsh Harp) 2l
Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Ist Oct 26
Walsall
Lanark

113EIL
IPerth
West Drayton
Kelso
I Newmarket Ho. M
i Worcester Autumn

Edinburgh 4
Northallerton 5
Newmarket 2d Oct 9

NOVEMBER.
Lincoln Autumn
Liverp00l Autumn
Shrewsbury

LADVERTISEMENT.I
James Lowe, 157, Strand, London, executes commissions
(by letter only) to any amount on receipt of cash. A list
of the latest betting sent free to any part on receipt of a
stamped addressed envelope.

CRIMINAL COURT—Yesterday.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

STEALING THE LATE EDITION OF " THE SUN" NEWSPAPER.

An auxiliary sortor, named Thompson, was indicted for
stealing a newspaper (the late edition of The Sun), the pro-.
porty of her Majesty's Postmaster-General.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
_ _ _ _ _

Mr. Metcalf, who appeared for the prosecution, said the
prisoner was in the service of the Post-office authorities as
an auxiliary sorter, and in the evening on which he
stole the newspaper, he was engaged sorting the
newspapers preparatory to the despatch of the evening
mail. While he was performing his duty he was observed
to place the paper in his pocket, and when he was taken
into custody by the officer attached to the Post-office, he
said he had taken the paper merely to-read the American
news, as he had a son in that country. It however appeared
that that explanation was not deemed necessary, es-
pecially as on searching him a gold watch and chain,
a betting-book, and a large sum of money in gold.
were found in his pocket. The inference was that ho had
taken the paper for the purpose of making himself
acquainted with the latest betting, which is always
published in the third edition of The Sun. There was no
desire to press severely against the prisoner, although such
leniency would not be extended to other prisoners com-
mitting the same offence. All that was now required was
a punishment sufficient to show that the Post-office
authorities were desirous of making it known that the
greatest care was taken of everything passing through that
establishment.

The counsel for the prisoner said his client had acted in
a very imprudent manner in taking the paper but for a
short time. He had a son in America, and being anxious
about him ho had taken the paper not with the intention
of stealing it, but of reading the American news, and re-
turning it to its proper place before the mail left.
A number of witnesses gave the prisoner a very excel-
lent character for honesty.
The Recorder said it was a very serious offence to inter -
fere with any letter or parcel in its process through tho
Post-office. Although it had been urged it was only a
newspaper, yet that newspaper might have been of the
greatest importance to the party to whom it was addressed,
and it could not be too generally known that it
was equally an offence to delay as it was to
appropriate a letter or newspaper. The statement of
the prisoner's counsel was just possible, although the fact
that the prisoner had a betting book upon him favoured
the suspicion that the paper was taken to ascertain the
state of betting, and not to read the common news. Under
all the circumstances ho should fine the prisoner .£5, and
order him to ho detained in prison until the fino was paid

however, another case of a similar nature was brought
before him, the person committing the offence would not
escape with a fine.

THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF /POST-OFFICE

MONEY-ORDER FORMS.

Henry Charles Watson was indicted with stealing, forg-
ing, and uttering a number of Post-office money-orders,
whereby the Post-office authorities had been defrauded to
the extent of nearly £6OO. It will be recollected that a
short time ago a very artful but ingenious fraud was per-
petrated upon a postmaster at Netherstowey, in Somerset-
shire, by a person who represented himself to be an in-
spector of the Post-office. The prisoner succeeded in obtain-
ing possession of nearly 400 blank forms, with the letters
of advice, and the money-orders the prisoner had presented
for payment were made out on some of the forms stolen on
that occasion.

The postmaster at Netherstowey was examined at great
length, and repeated the evidence ho gave at Bow-street.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced
to ten years' penal servitude.