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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
--WESTERN CIRCUIT.Exeter,
March 22.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
John Hill (on bail) was indicted for shooting at Wil-
liam French, with intent to do him some grievous bodily
harm.
Mr. Collier was counsel for the prosecution ; Mr.
Stone, Mr. H. T. Cole_ and. Mr. Cox, defended the
prisoner.
This case excited considerable interest, from the re-
spectability of the accused, who is the son of a veterinary
surgeon residing at Colebroke, in this county.
The witnesses for the prosecution were subjected to a
severe cross-examiaation, and varied considerably in their
account of the transaction. It also appeared that so vio-
lently was the prisoner treated in the efforts made by the
prosecutor and his man to take him to the farm-house,
that they tore his coat, waistcoat, and shirt from his
back; he, however, slipped from their hands and ran
home. He went the next day and lodged a complaint
with the magistrates against the prosecutor for assault-
ing him, and a counter charge was made by French, the
prosecutor, against the prisoner, the same day, of his
attempting to shoot him.
Mr. STONE addressed the jury for the prisoner, con-
! tending that it was impossible for a jury to rely on the
evidence adduced on the part of the prosecution, and
that the prisoner was the really injured party. The gun
no doubt went eff in the struggle, but by accident.
A host of most respectable witnesses were called, who
I gave Hill a most excellent character, as a humane, peace-
I able, and well-conducted young man.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS having summed up, the jury
instantly Acquitted the prisoner, who was immediately
discharged.
NISI PRIUS COURT.— (Before Lord DENMAN and a
City Jury.)
Samuel Ijorrup was indicted for having stolen a post
letter, containing two brooches, the property of the Post-
master-General, he, the prisoner, being in the employ of
the Post •office.
Mr. Rogers, Q.C. and Mr. Poulden, were counsel for
the Post•office, and Mr. Stone and Mr. Pool defended
the prisoner
It appeared by the evidence that the prisoner was in
the employ of the post-office at Exeter, his business
being to assist in sorting the lettere, and also to act as
letter-carrier. During the time that the prisoner has
been employed in the office numerous letters, containing
valuable property, have been lost. On the 9th August
last, a lady named Walters, who Was staying at Chel-
tenham, gave an amethyst brooch to a jeweller there,
named Basket, to repair for her. She also gave him
some small cameos to be formed into a brooch. When
these orders were executed he WAS to send the brooches
to her in a packet, through the post-office, directed to
her at Torquay, and also to write to her there, inform-
ing her that he had sent them, she being about to proceed
to that place to reside. On the 19th August Mr. Basket
enclosed the two brooches in a packet, and posted it, di-
rected to Mrs. Walters, at Torquay. He also wrote a
letter of advice to her there. The letter arrived, but
the packet did not, and nothing more was heard of the
brooches until the 10th October, when a London police-
officer, who came down to make inquiries, searched the
prisoner's house, and found the cameo brooch in a lady's
reticule, which the prisoner took out of a drawer. It was
shown that, the Torquay letter came to the Exeter post
office, and was sorted there, when the prisoner could
have abstracted the packet if he chose. The brooch
was clearly identified as the one sent by Mr. Basket
through the post.
Mr. STONE having addressed the jury for the prisoner,
and called witnesses to his character, who had been nine
years in the Must-office, the jury found him Guilty, and
he was sentenced to be transported for ten years.
Alarch 23.

NISI PRIUS COURT.----(l3efore Lord DENMAN.)
THE MAIL ROBBERY ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY,
Henry Pool and Edward Nightingale were placed a'
the bar charged with having feloniously stolen twelve
post-letters (containing various articles), the property of
the Postmaster-General, at St. Thomas's, in this county.
In other counts the robbery was laid to have been com-
mitted in Somersetshire.
Mr. Rogers, Q.C., and Mr. Poulden, prosecuted; Mr.
Cockburn, Q.C., air. Stone, with whoa was Mr. Collier,
defended the prisoners. •
This case created the greatest interest, and the court
was crowded to excess.
It appeared by the evidence that on the night of the
Ist of January last, the mail• bags for the west were dis-
patched from the Post-office, St. mardn's•le-Grand,
London, in the usual'manner, under the care of a guard
called Leonard Barrett, to the Paddington station of the
Great Western Railway, to be dispatched by the mail
train. They were then placed in the mail tender. It
was the custom for the guard to remain in the snail ten-
der with the mail-bags until the train arrived at Bristol,
where a carriage is attached to the train called a tra-
velling post-office, to enable the letters going further west
to be sorted, the west mail being carried by the railway
as far as Lairs-green, near Plymouth. Two clerks of
the Post-office always went down by this travelling
post-office to sort the letters, and they were also as•
sisted by the guard of the mail, who left the tender
at Bristol and went down by the travelling post-
office on the night in question. The train arrived at
Bristol in due time, all safe, and on the guard leav-
ing the mail tendcr all the bags were safe.
He gave the Bristol bags to the Post-office porter, and
received the down bags, put them into the tender, and
arranged them; and then, as was his duty, went into
the travelling post-office. He was there joined by the
two Post-office clerks, whose duty it was to sort the
letters in the travelling post-office, whose names were
Silk and Bircham. When he got into the travelling
post-office he was informed by the clerks that a robbery
had been effected of the mail bags of the up-mail train
from Exeter. Barrett upon this was anxious about his
bags, and again went into the tender, and tound all safe.
He returned to the travelling Vost-office, and the train
backed out of the station where it arrives, and was run
down to the station from whence the express trains start,
and from which, also, to save time, the mail trains start.
At this platform the two prisoners, Pool and Nightin-
gale, got into the train. The train when it started con-
sisted of the engine and tender, then two second•elass
carriages, then the travelling post-offices; next to this
was the Post-office tender carriage, and then one
first-class carriage, containing four compartments,
two of which were divided in the middle
by doors with windows in them, the other
two compartments being undivided. The only
other carriage was a luggage van. When the prisoners
got into the train they looked into the different com-
partments, and the train being about to start, the guard
(Rynheart) said to them, " Come, gentlemen, get in;
we can't stay;" and they got into a compartment which
was divided. In the compartment nearest to the plat-
form was a gentleman named Andrews, a solicitor at
Modbury. The prisoners passed through this first divi-
sion of the compartment, and went into the inner divi-
sion. They shut the door, and pulled down the blind. At
this time Mr. Andrews observed a piece of string clinging
to the foot of one of them, and part of it removed in the
division in which Mr. Andrews was. Ho picked it up,
and pulled off the piece which remained in his division
of the compartment. The train started, and did
not stop, as is the custom with the night mail train,
until it arrived at Bridgewater. Barrett, the mail
guard, then went into the mail tender, and imme-
diately discovered that some of the mail bags
bad been disturbed and opened, the strings with which
they had been tied cut, and the seals broken. They
had been tied up again, but not resealed. On making
this discovery, Barrett immediately communicated the
fact to the two clerks, Silk and Birchen]. They then
communicated with the two guards of the train, Ryn-
heart and 'Thomas, and also the policeman at Bridge-
water. Inquiry was immediately instituted, and no one
allowed to leave the carriages, which were watched on
fiborstht
csoidmepsa.
rtTmhenetcaortriatghee first-class carriage onlys were then examined. In the
one
gentleman was found; in the next there were Mr. Bar-
low, a director of the Great Western Railway, and also
Mr. Hennet, the contractor. They were known to the
guard. He informed them what had happened, and
they came out. In the third compartment persons were
heard talking, the blind being down, and it must be
here mentioned that the train stops at the contrary side
of the line to that which it does at Bristol—both
the up and down train running into static ns on the
same side of the line, but a little distance
from each other, there being a crossing from
the down line ; consequently, the division into
which the prisoners had got was nearest to the platfo rm,
although it had been the farthest at Bristol. Oa the
door being opened two persons were found in the divi-
sion. The guard insisted on all the persons in the car-
riages being searched, and he entered into the corn part-
merit where these persons were, one of them was dressed
in a large cloak with a Jim Crow hat on, and a hand •
kerchief UP to his face, and this person was lying curled
up, with 4i4 11904 to the platform. The other hoci

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