The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-13 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

William Jones, aliai James Jackson, was indicted for
feloniously stealing two sovereigns, the property of Mr.
James Adams, publirari, of High Holboni.
IF. appeared that the prisoner went into the bar of the
prosecutor with a companion, and called for some bet
and commenced a conversation with the son of the pros,.-
eutor concerning tile leaking of the tap, and succeeded in
diverting his attention to it ; and while he was in the act
of insrectinz it he heard a jingling of money behind him,
and on turning round inquired of the prisoner what he was
about, and the prisoner immediately raq away; the you'g
man followed, iso,u hint into custody, and brought him
back to th! house, whore be wae, searched, and one sove-

reign was found on his person. upon which was a sticky sub-
stance, and on the person of the prisoner was found a stick,
on the end of which was the same so.l of substance as that
on the sovereign. There was also a vary i..eniou; con-
trivance found on the prisoner, which consisted' of a kind of
hovel, lined with cloth, made to fit into the above stick,
The Jury at once found the prisoner Guilty, and
The Learned RECORDER sentenced him to seven years'
transportation. _ _ _

Ki/lick, aged 34, and Jolla Hurst, aged 18,
were indicted for stealing .24ibs. weight of soap, the
property of Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M.P.
It appeared that as kmes Brook, a police officer, in
company with another officer, both in plain clothes,
were walking down St tmlord-street they saw the pri-
soners together. On arriving in Sutton-street, in the
York-road, Hart handed a bundle, which ho held under
h.s arm, to Killick, upon which Brook, the officer,
stopped him, and Hart ran away, and the other con-
stahle pursued him and took him into castody. Tao
parcel was then opened, and found to contain six bars
of sea?, and four half-bars were found in the pockets of
Kiil:ck.

The prisoners were in the service of Mr. Hawes, as
carmen. Hart succeeded his faller, who had been in

the same service for a period of thirty years, and the
prisoner had himself held the situation seven or eight
years. Killiek had been in the employ three weeks
only.

The Jury found the prisoners Guilty, and they were
sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

Edward Ricketts, aged 23, and Ann Clifird, aged
21, were indicted, the form,ir for stealing twenty-one
paiis of boots and other articles, value 41. and upwards,
property of his master, Charles Thomas Marshall,
as ,1 ,:_c latter with receiving a part of the same, know-
ing them to be stol

The prosecutor is a boot and shoe-maker in Oxford-
street, and the prisoner Rickett> was in his employ as
far back as September last. He had missed boots and
shoes, and a few weeks ago, from information that he
rec eived, he proceedei to a pawnbroker's shop in Mary•
lebone, where he saw several pairs of boots and shoes,
which he identified as his property. A short time
afterwards the female prisoner was brought to his shop,
in consequence of several pairs of boots and shoes and
a great quantity of pawnbrokers' duplicates having been
fouhd in her possession by the officer who brought her.
From a conversation he had with the prisoner Ricketts
he gave them both into custody.
The prosecutor being corroborated by the evidence
of the officer, and the property having been traced to
the possession of the male prisoner, the Jury returned
a verdict of Guilty against the prisoner Ricketts and
acquitted the female.
The prosecutor and Jury recommended the con-
victed prisoner to mercy, in consequence of the respect-
ability of his parents, and he Was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment.