The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20 1865.

THE FIVE-FOLD MURDER.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

MAIDSTONE, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The prisoner Southey was brought up this morn-
ing at 9.30, and wanted to speak, but Mr. Justice
Mellor said the case must be left to counsel. It
was, therefore, postponed to 1 o'clock this day.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

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COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

HILL V. FINNEY.

The hearing of this case was resumed this morning by
the examination of Dr. Steele as to the condition of Capt.
Hill. Mrs. Hill was also examined, but her evidence was
a repetition of matter quite unsuited to the columns of a
newspaper. W hen a verdict Ivill be delivered seems very
uncertain.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUR r---This Day

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.)

THE RUSSIAN NOTE FORGERIES.
The court was occupied the whole of the day with the
trial of Berrans, Holchester, Silbermann, Davis, Brawn,
and Bayer, the six persons charged with being found in
possession of an immense quantity of forged Russian five
rouble notes of the Imperial Bank of Russia. The last-
named prisoner (Bayer) pleaded guilty.
The facts of the case were published at great length in
the columns of The Sun, on the apprehension and examina-
tion of the prisoners at the Lambeth-street police-court.
The trial will, it is expected, extend over two days.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
William George Head, 18, cloy k, pleaded guilty to an
indictment for forging and uttering a cheque for £620,
with intent to defraud.

Mr. R. Williams, who appeared for the prisoner, said the
circumstances attending the offence of his client were
somewhat peculiar. He had been a clerk to the prosecu-
tor, Mr. Elliott, a solicitor, and the cheque had been taken
from the cheque-book of his employer, who used to leave
it in a drawer unlocked. The prisoner was well connected,
and his father had died upon the coast of Africa, and the
prisoner, who was very fond of reading accounts of travels
and adventures, had expressed a wish to travel and live
alone in the woods of Africa. He also thought that his
father was still alive. As soon as he had obtained the pro-
duce of the cheque he bought several rifles and other
things that he would require for such travelling as he con-
templated. His father had held an important official situa-
tion, and died when the prisoner was very young—about
eight years of age—and it had always strangely affected
his mind. After the robbery he had fitted himself out and
he took his passage for Oporto, and from thence he went
to Vigo, where Huggett, the City detective, who had
gone in pursuit, took him into custody.
Mr. Sleigh, for the prosecution, said the officer who took
the prisoner found £530 upon him when he apprehended
him.
The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to 12 months' im-
prisonment, with hard labour.
Tho indictments against John Medlock, aged 16, who
had been a student of the lives of Jack Sheppard, Blue-
skin, Claude Duval, and other literature of the same de-
scription, for feloLiously firing and discharging a certain
pistol, loaded with gunpowder and shot at Michael Collins,
with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm, was ig-
nored by the grand jury, and the prisoner was discharged.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant,)
James Williams, a soldier, was indicted for feloniously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Chas. Allen,
and stealing therefrom one £5 Bank of England note and
a sovereign, and other moneys.
The jury found him guilty, and the learned judge sen-
tenced him to 18 months' imprisonment.
Henry Kilham, goldbeater, was indicted for feloniously
receiving a quantity of gold and other articles, the pro-
perty of John Law, well knowing the same to have
been stolen.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to six months' imprisonment.
John Norrington, Henry Williams, and William Tom-
kins, pleaded guilty to an indictment, charging them with
feloniously breaking and entering the warehouse of Fre-
derick Eden Waddington, and others, with intent to
steal therein. Williams was also indicted for having been
Previously convicted.
The prisoners wore caught in the premises by the police,
and therefore they all pleaded guilty to the indictment.
The Common Sergeant asked whether anything was
known about the prisoners.
Lockerby, one of the warders of the Middlesex House of
Correction, proved no less than six convictions against
Williams, commencing in the year 1844 down to 1862,
when he was sentenced to three years' penal servitude.
A warder from Holloway prison proved a previous con-
viction against Tomkins for two years' imprisonment with
hard labour.
Nothing was known about Norrington.
The Common Sergeant sentenced Williams to 10 years'
penal servitude ; Tomkins to 7 years' penal servitude ;
and Norrington to 18 months' imprisonment, with hard
labour.
The learned judge ordered a reward of £3 each for the
courageous conduct of the police-constables Kilby, Oliver,
and Fisher.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Air EXPENSIIM AMUSEMENT.—Henry Dawson, a printer,
residing in Queen-street, Seven Dials, was charged with
ringing the bells at different houses in Cranbourne-street.
Allwood, 186 C, said that between 1 and 2 that morning
a person came to him in Cranboume-street, and complained
that his bell had been violently rung. Ile went after the
defendant, who was with some other young men, and saw
him ring three bells, and he took him into custody.
The defendant said he had been drinking, and did not
remember what had occurred.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a mischievous and dangerous
practice to ring persons' bells in the middle of the night, as
there might be persons ill, and who might be seriously
affected by it. He well knew there was a certain class of
persons who did not care what mischief they did. He
should fine the defendant 405., or in default 14 days' impri-
sonment.