The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-12 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SLIY.
Six—From yoz known desire to render justice to all classes of
oe,tety, I appeal to you for the insertion in your paper of the
foltoOlnk,,. explanation :
In the 1110-tni7:g Post of yesterday, ender the above head,
there is a report or the trial of a George Wilkinson for felony,
and who is there described as a Reader to Messrs. Handsards,
the great Government Printers. As far as Coe name and em-
ployment goes, it is a true description of myself : but I was
i never n a Court of Justice in my life, either as criminal or

witness.
The name of the prisoner is C. N. Arle. He appears to
have Bs.tumed ray name for the purpose, app The
arently, of throw
ing the scariddl from himself upon an innocent party.
prisoner, was, pruviously to his committal, a Reader to the same
firm as myself.
You gill see from Ote above that I have been tried for felony
before all the " reading" world, without having ever be ennded
in a
criminal court in my life; and I run great risk of being ha
down to posterity both as fri,;:7 and a madman, if you should
refuse this explanation a place M ;'our Journal.
a
I left a letter of explanation of ;lift above circumstances wi!
the Editor of the Morning Post, but at. la
that paper, I may conclude they deny rne that justice which
it was their duty, and in their power, to yield.
I am, &c., &c.,
GEORGE WILKINSON.
it does not apper

May, 12, 1836%

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUNT.

OLD CO UR T.
Jones was convicted of stealing a great coat, the pha
ro-
perty of Wm. Taylor. From the evidence it appeared
left
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the prosecutor, who was a soda-water-manufacturer, had
his great coat in his cart while he stepped into the shop of.
customer, during which time the prisoner took the opportunit
of running off with it. The prosecutor upon coming out ob-
served the prisoner running off with the coat and immediately
followed and captured him with the propprty in hi, r""DI hiN
fris- Anieav no aerenee, and the Uourt sentence
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to seven years' transportation.
Posr- OFFICE 11°mm-tr.—Henry Starr and Mary AnS
Starr were indicted, the first for stealing,!and the latter
cfor re',
ceiving knowing to be stolen, a 10/. bank note, the property )
John Titus Cordingly. The risoner was a letter carrier
ythe service of the General Post-Office and in that capacity
abstracted the note from a letter addressed to Mr. Cordin,lP,
There were several other counts in the indictment, one 110;
which was stealing bank notes from the dwelling house
t
Earl of Lichfield. Another count charged the male prisoner
with simp:le larcn in stealin the letr.
The prisonerse aty g te
first both pleaded not guilty • but the vila.e
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prisoner afterwards retracted his plea and pleaded guilty to.,tune
simple larceny. The jury, under the learned judge's direetw
acquitted the femle riner.
David Martin,a
Aaron Moses, Joseph Aaron, and Soloniag
Hyam, were indicted for burglariously entering the dwelliagi
house of Jane Hart, and stealing therein 18 remnants o
printed cotton, four of merino, and other articles, herrtir
perty. From the evidence it appeared that on the nigP"
the 18th of April, shortly after six o'clock, Mrs. Hart left hbe,
house in the evening, and went to a near neighbour's near at t
time the property in question was safe upon a table n the
window. Shortly after she had arrived at her neighbouTsP
she was surprised by a person of the name of Phillips coal
there with a bonnet which was hers, which he said went
had picked up in the street. She instantly
rtY
to her house, found the window open, and the Pr°Peed
gone.th roplenacyontoseaquheonuesee oifninTfohir•meeatTiounns-h:oeurt, receivedA she traced
pied by Hyams, at which were seen three of the' Ipcirgisaotneers°,csactici
Hya Two
was observed running away from it.
be
witnesses were called, one whom swore that '
th
""d
was not the person who run away from the house ;
eatre at
other stated that she had been sent to the Garrick Th
half-past eleven o'clock, at which Hyams was to tell Dire °AAt
some persons had brought stolen property to his house. „r
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great many persons gave the prisoners a good chars
Mr.
Justice COLERIDGE summed up, and the Jury follou
the prisoners Guilty.