The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-19 00:00:00

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COUNT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
John Freer, 28, William Martin, 25, and Henry East,
20, all described as labourers, were indicted for stealing
a number of packages, containing a large quantity of
property, consisting of moussefines de laine, shawls,
cloth, ribbons, gloves, and other articles, described no
being of the value of 7001, the property of Messrs..
Weaver and Co., who represent the firm of Crowley and.
Co., carriers ; and Samuel Freer, 27, John Cherry, 28,,
Joseph Taylor, 27, Joel Taylor (who surrendered), and
Charles Austin, 37, dealer, were indicted for feloniously
receiving the property knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Huddlestone conducted the
prosecution ; the prisoners were defended by Messrs.
Clarkson, Payne, Horne, Doane, O'Brien, and Hurry.
This case occupied the Court the whole of the day,
and was not concluded until a late hour. The robbery
in question appeared to have been committed in a very
daring manner. It appeared that on Easter Sunday, the
4th of April, Messrs. Crowley sent a van laden with
goods to the station of the North-Western Railway at
Camden-town, which were to have been dispatched the
next morning into the country. The van was placed in
the station yard, and it was discovered that during the
night the covering had been taken off and a great quan-
tity of property stolen.
The railway constable was called to prove the fact of
the V,lll and its contents being safe about two o'clock in
the morning ; and, iu answer to a question put by the
Learned Judge, he said that he was the only constable
whose duty it was to watch the property at the station
during the night. Although the premises were so ex-
tensive that it took him sn hour to go over them, there
being nine different lines of rails and sometimes as many
as a hundred trucks laden with goods in different parts
of the station.
Joseph Page, a lad 19 years old, who had been com-
mitted to give evidence, arid who was brought from the
gaol for that purpose, was examined, and upon the
statements made by him the case against all the pri-
soners, with the exception of the two Taylors, mainly
rested. He gave a circumstantial account of the rob-
bery and the manner in which it was committed. Ac-
cording to his evidence, he was walking in the fields
near Chalk-farm on Easter Sunday, when he saw the
prisoners East and John Freer, and they asked him to
go up with them to the railway station the next morn-
ing and get some goods out, and he said that he at
once consented to do so. Freer at the time said,
that as it was Easter Sunday the men would be all out
getting drunk, and therefore would not be at work
so early in the morning, and this would give
them a good chance. They made an appointment for
the evening to meet together, and they were joined in
the course of the day by the prisoner Martin. About
three o'clock in the morning Martin, John Freer, East,
and himself went to the railway station at Camden-town
and he said they saw several persons about, but no one
took any notice of them. The van was standing outside,
and Freer wished to know whether it contained " up" or
"down" goods, and he explained the " down" goods were
usually the most valuable, as they consisted of silks,
drapery, and valuable articles, whereas the " up" goods
were mostly hardware, and other "Brummagem" and
Sheffield manufactures. Upon ascertaining that the van
contained "down" goods they immediately proceeded to
ransack it, and having obtained a horse and eart from the
premises of a carrier close by they conveyed away the
packages and bales containing the prop6rty mentioned
in the indictment. The witness said that on the follow-
ing Tuesday he went to a beer-shop at Peokham, kept
by the prisoner Samuel Freer ; and he then heard that
all the property was concealed in the cellar, and East
said that he had some one cowing to purchase it.
While he was there the prisoner Austin came in,
accompanied by two Jews, and they went down
into the cellar, where he saw the boxes and packages
opened ; and after the Jews had examined all the
articles they offered 501. for them, but eventually they
agreed to give 5/. more, and it was arranged that they
were to come at six o'clock the same evening and take
part of the goods away. They came at the time ap-
pointed, bringing with them a chaise cart, and after they
were gone the prisoner East said they had got some of
the goods and had paid 201. on account, and they were
to come on the following day and take the rest of the
goods and pay the remaining 351. On the following
Friday he again saw the prisoner East, when he told him
the mea had not fetched away the rest of the things.
and that Samuel Freer was afraid that his house would
be searched and the property discovered, and witness
then told him that he knew a man who would take them
away; and on the following morning he went to Cherry,
who is a carman, and upon his seeing him he said
that Cherry called out, "Holloa, pa'n't somebody had
a 'go in,' or a haul,' up your way ?" and he told him
there had been such a thing, and they wanted
his horse and cart to fetch some of the things away.
Ile said, that after this Cherry, himself, and East,
went over to Peckham with Cherry's horse and cart,
and when they got there East gave him 2/. to enable
him to make his master's books straight, he having
expended some of the money that had been paid to him
by his master's customers; and he went away, leaving
Cherry and East with the cart at Peckham. He was
taken into custody, it appeared, the same day that this
happened; and on the next morning he said he made a
full statement of all he knew regarding the transaction.
These were the principal points of the evidence against
the prisoners whose names have been mentioned in the
above narrative; and with regard to the two Taylors, it
was shown that, soon after the robbery was committed,
a cart which contained a portion of the stolen property
was discovered upon the premises occupied by them;
and in a pigstye upon the same premises there were
found seine other articles, which were also identified. In
addition to these facts, it appeared that some articles
were taken from the house of Samuel Freer, which it
was attempted to be shown had formed part of the stolen
property, but the evidence as to their identity was by no
means conclusive.

In order to confirm the evidence of the accomplice,
itnesses were called to show that he was really in com-
pany with them at the places he described prior to the
commission of the robbery, and also that an address
card that had been upon one of the boxes was found in
East's possession when he was taken into custody. It
also appeared that upon the premises of Samuel Freer
being searched a large quantity of wood was found
broken up into small pieces, and it appeared evident that
this wood consisted of the fragments of boxes that had
been used to pack up the stolen property.
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pasting sentence, said that the pri-
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depredation, and he felt it his duty to order John Freer,
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share in the plunder; and on those grounds the Court
felt justified in passing upon him a sentence done year's
imprisonment, with hard labour.

NEW COURT, May 17.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
James M'Lean and Charles Gardner were indicted for
a misdemeanour in having obtained money by false pre-
tences.—Mr. Ballantine conducted the prosecution.
This was a prosecution instituted by the Commis-
sioners for Emigration under the following circum-
atances:—lt appeared that a number of poor Germans
arrived in London at the latter end of April for the pur-
pose of emigrating to New York, and theytonoakmued Ip their
abode at a public house kept by a person
Ire-
land. in Gravel-lane. The prisoner 111, Leanintro-
duced' himself to them as a shipping agent, and repre-
-,ented the other prisoner, who accompanied him, as
was lying in the Surrey Canal Dock, and he under-
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per day for every day the h.
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was delayed. Upon the faith of these representationss ship
appeared that nine of the unfortunate persons were in-
duced to give the prisoner Gardner
.1/. each as part
payment of their passage money, and it turned out that
the story told by the prisoners was merely a scheme to
although defraud the poor people of their money, and that,
sea
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M'Leau had made some proposition to the
owner of the vessel with regard to chartering her, he
refused to entertain it, and declined to enter into any
agreement whatever with him. It was also proved that
instead of being a shipping agent, as he represented him-
self, the prisoner M'Lean, in point of fact, was s journey-
mu) baker.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both the
prisoners.
The CommoN SERGEANT, after observing that the
conduct of the prisoners had been most base and cruel
in defrauding unfortunate persons in the position of thine
poor emigrants, sentenced them to be transported for
seven years.

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Nell, Greeno June 11,
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June 11, at twelve, at the New Court -room, Falkirk. ,
H. W. Goodair, hatter, Inverness, Nav 26 and June 16, at
two, at the chambers of Mr. Campbell, Inverness.
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Jom Campbell, draper, Edinburgh, May 24 and June 14,
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John Calwell, manufacturer, Paisley, May 24 and June 14,
at one, at the chambers of Messrs. Reid and Henderson,
Paisley.
Alexander M'Grigor and Company, upholsterers, Glasgow,
May 24 and June 14, at one, at the Crow Hotel, Glasgow.