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CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
MR. E. T. SMITE, OF CREMORNE, AND EIS SERVANTS.

Aaron Fisher, a respectable looking man, aged 81, de-
scribed as a clerk in the employment of Mr. E. T. Smith,
of Cremorne-gardens, was indicted for feloniously forging
an endorsement to a cheque of Mr. Smith, for the payment
of £25 4s. 6d., with intent to defraud. He was also in-
dicted on two charges of feloniously forging an endorse-
ment of two several cheques of Mr. Smith for the payment
of £l2 10s. and £8 4s.

Mr. Hemp, the Clerk of the Court, read the several in-
dictments to the prisoner, who pleaded guilty to them all.
The prisoner was then ordered to be put back for.a time.

A young man named Barnes, a member of Mr. Edward
Tyrrell Smith's baud at Cremorne, was then indicted for
stealing certain lustres, the property of his employer.
Mr. Pearce again prosecuted, and stated that the lustres
were of foreign manufacture, and could not be matched in
England.
Mr. Pearce, the counsel for the prosecution, wished to
call Fisher as a witness, but this was objected to.
The Recorder said it was useless to go on with the case
any further.

The jury readily acquiesced in this suggestion, and re-
turned a verdict of " Not Guilty."
Aaron Fisher was again placed in the dock, and
Mr. Montague Williams, in an earnest and impressive
speech, pleaded for mitigation of punishment. Mr. Smith
they had been told was anxious not to press heavily upon
him, and although he could not perhaps take him back into
his service he would readily pay the expenses of his journey
to some country where he might retrieve his character and
enter upon a new course of life. He believed that when
the prisoner signed the names of the tradesmen to the bills
he was instructed to pay, he was not aware of the enormity
of the offence he was committing. During the season im-
mense sums of money passed through his hands, and there
were no previous cases of breach of trust against him. He
had a wife and two children, and ho (Mr. Williams) im-
plored the merciful consideration of the Court on his behalf.
Mr. Pearce said that Mr. Smith had no doubt a high
opinion of the prisoner, and was most anxious that the
Court should deal with him leniently. Large sums of money
had been entrusted to him, and the cases which had come
before the Court were the only ones against him. Mr.
Smith was willing to pay the prisoner's expenses to America
if he could be allowed to go there.
The RECORDER said that must be a question for the
Hone-office. He had no discretion in the matter. Ad-
dressing the prisoner, he had been convicted of very seri-
ous offences, and he could not understand how a person
who had arrived at his age could plead that he did not un-
derstand the enormity of the offence. He had been strongly
recommended to mercy, but there were no circumstances
of mitigation in evidence. The fact that he had been
entrusted with large sums of money was rather an aggra-
vation of the offence. Mr. Smith had strongly recom-
mended him to mercy, and if it had not been for that re-
commendation he (the Recorder) should have sentenced
him to penal servitude for several years. The sentence
of the Court was that he be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for a period of 18 calendar months.

The Alleged Case of Child Murder at a

Ladies' Seminary.

At eleven o'clock in the forenoon, Mr. William Carter,
the coroner for East Surrey, resumed in the board-room of
Camberwell workhouse the adjourned inquest respecting
the circumstances attending the death of a newly born
female child, the illegitimate offspring of Annie Booth, a
servant employed by Miss Graffrey, the proprietress of a
ladies' seminary at 487, Old Kent-road.
The jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict
of accidental death.