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London, England, 1846-07-16 00:00:00

ASSIZE IN TELLIGENCE.

HOMS ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, July 15.
The Commission for the county of Essex was opened
on Monday, but owing to the pressure of business at
Hertford, it was postponed from the usual hour, and as
neither of the Learned Judges were able to leave
Hertford until very late in the day, the ceremony of
opening the Commission was performed by Mr. Sergeant
Dowling. Both Courts commenced business on Tuesday
morning; and Mr. Justice Coltman, who sat on the civil
side, was occupied the whole of that day, and the greater
part of yesterday, in disposing of a case which was made
a remnant from the last assizes, and in which the only
question involved was the title to a small piece of green
sward by the road side at Brentwood. Mr. Baron Parke
was engaged nearly the whole of yesterday in trying
charges of criminal assaults upon females, the details of
which are of course unfit for publication,

NORTHERN CIRCUI T.—Yolk, July 13.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)
KING V. GREW.

This was an action of assumpsit, brought to recover the
sum of 1981. 7s. 6d., alleged to be due to the plaintiff from
the defendant in respect of a sale of railway shares.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. Hall were counsel for the p'aintiff,
and Mr. Martin for the defendant.
The plaintiff, Mr. Edward King, is a sharebroker, of Leeds,
and the defendant, Mr. William GRig, a butcher, living at
the same place. During the last summer plaintiff had been
employed as broker to act for the defendant in a number of
share transactions to the amount of about 9001. The former had
purchased far the latter in various railways, viz., the Grand
Union, the Leicester and Bedford, the Wakefield and Brad-
ford, and the South Midland. Many of these shares were
sold by the plaintiff as on the defendant's account ; but after
their sale by the plaintiff the shares had considerably risen
in vrlue, and the defendant, when called on to deliver them
declined doing so. The consequence was, that the plaintiff,
to make good his engagements with others, was obliged to
buy in at the advanced price, and to charge the defendant
with the difference. The transactions between the plaintiff
and the defendant were proved by two clerks of the former,
whose
.testimony agreed with the particulars of demand
delivered by the plaintiff, containing a debtor and
creditor account between the parties. Two other witnesses,
who had called.on the defendant for the plaintiff, to obtain
payment of the balance of 1931. 7s. 6d., stated admissions of
the debt made to them by the defendant, and to one of these
he bad allowed that he owed Mr. King somewhere about
2001. 4 the month of March last he had said that he intended,
in the course of the summer, when things should brighten up,
to pay some money on account, but that he could not do it
at present.

kr. MARTIN, for the defendant, submitted to the jury
that the plaintiff's case was deficient in proof, because his
claim ',was for the difference in value of shares which he al-
leged to have sold to other persons, and there was no evi-
dence given that there were actually any shares sold to such
persons. The plaintiff had the means of adducing evidence,
if it existed, to that effect. Some one of the buyers at least
might have been called; but the plaintiff had produced no
such party, and no documents to verity that part of his
ilellint=s with the shares.

liisloansinp, in summing up, remarked that a hardship
to the dcfendant had been complained of, in the manner in
which the plaintiff proved his case. But if the plaintiff pro-
duced none of those to whom he had 5,t1,1, it was to be ob-
served that a broker did not usually disclose the names of
the persons for whom he was acting, whether as buyer or
seller. On the other hand the plaintiff relied upon the de-
fendant's own admission that he owed a balance which ad-
mission was made in the month of March, and to two per-
sons who bad no interest in the matter in dispute, and who
at different times had heard him say that the balance
was due.

Verdict for the plaintiff for the fail amount claimed.

WESTERN ClRctil T.— Wirichester, July 14.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron Paserv.)
George Thomas ilostrick was indicted for having feloniously
stolen two post letters containing one sovereign acid one half
sovereign, the property of the Postmaster. General, he being
at such time a person in the employ of the Post-office.
Mr. Rogers, Q.C., and Mr. Pouldon conducted the prose-
cution ; Mr. Messing and Mr. C. Saunders defended the
prisoner.
Mr. ROGERS, having stated the facts of the case to the
jury, called
John Romsey—l am the superintendent of the missing
letter department. I went to Portsea in April last by direc.
tion of the Postmaster-General. On the 22d of that month
I directed two letters—one, " Mrs. Somerville, T. Parker's,
Esq., the Green, Camberwell ;" the other, " Miss Donalson,
Woodbine Cottage, Leamington." In the one directed to
Miss Donalson I put a sovereign, which I marked. That
letter was sealed with wax; th other was sealed with a
gum stamp. Portsea is a receiving house only. It is kept
by Mr. T. L. Rostrick, who is a druggist. I dropped the
letter directed to Mrs. Somerville into the box. The other
took into the shop, and put it down on the counter, with a
penny. This was taken by a man named Hughes, Mr. Ros-
trick's assistant. This was about half-past six, and the post-
bag should leave Portsea at a quarter past seven, and be
taken to Portsmouth, whore the letters are always sorted.
After posting the letters I went to the house of one Monk, a
letter-carrier, and gave him certain directions. He is the
person who takes the letter-bag from Portsea to Portsmouth.
He brought the bags to me. I was waiting at his house.
The bag was tied and sealed. I opened it. Neither of the
letters I had posted were in it. The next day I got a search
warrant, and the prisoner was taken into custcdy. He took
a pocket-book from his pocket, which the officer took away
from him. In it was some gold coin. Amongst it I found
the sovereign which I had marked, and put in the letter
directed to Miss Donalson. I then directed Hughes, who is
the assistant in the shop, to look for the half-sovereign. I
saw him find a packet of money wrapped up in a piece of
paper. Amongst the money was a half-sovereign, which
bore the mark 1 had put on the one I had put in the letter
directed to Mrs. Somerville. The mark was partly erased.
Joseph Linnington Rostrick was then called. He stated
that he was a druggist, living at Southsea, but also had a
shop at Portsea, which was managed as to the drug depart-
ment by Hughes. The shop was also a receiving-house for
letters, which his brother attended to for him.
The case for the prosecution being closed,
Mr. IllissaNci addressed the jury for the prisoner at some
length.
Mr. Baron PLATT having minutely summed up the evi-
dence,
The jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner
Guilty, and he was thereupon sentenced to be transported
for seven years
William. Godly was then placed at the bar, charged with
having feloniously stolen a post-letter, containing one half-
sovereign, the property of the Postmaster-General.
Mr. Rogers, Q.C., and Mr. Pouldon, appeared for the
prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. C.
Saunders.
Mr. Rooarts stated the facts of the can to the jury, and
from the statement of the Learned Gentleman and the wit-
nesses it appeared that the prisoner, William Godly, had
formerly been in the employ of the Post-office at Southamp-
ton, but had been discharged on account of his drunken
habits. His brother, however, John Godly, obtained his
situation, and, as he was a new hand, he used to get his
brother, the prisoner, to assist him in the morning before he
went his rounds, in "setting up" his letters, that is,
arranging them in parcels for the different streets. On
the 24th of March a Mr. Cave posted, at Winchester,
a letter to his wife at Southampton, and placed
in it a half-sovereign. This in due course should
have been delivered at the place where it was
directed, 13, Grove-street, Southampton, on.the morning of
Air.
tiin Re'd m
a se
search3' warrant went down
the 25th by the prisoner's brother, as it came within his de-
livery. This was not done, and it so happened that the in
tsoPee Southampton
t°rofthems
to search the prisoner's house on another matter. On going
it.hsain tgd-alyet, ter
and offihcaed,
o
to the prisoner's house on the morning of the 25th he was
found at home, and taken into custody and searched, when
the letter directed to Mrs. Cave was found in his pocket. On
being charged with the robbery, he stated that the letter had
been given him by his brother. with several others, to de-
liver, as he was late in his delivery. He also salt! that he
supposed he must have forgotten to deliver it. The seal was
unbroken, and the money still in the letter.
The brother stated, that he never gave any letter to the
prisoner on the morning of the 25th to deliver for him • but,
on being subjected to a severe cross-examination by the pri-
soner's counsel, admitted that he sometimes did so.
The case for the prosecution having been closed,
Mr. C. SAUNDERS addressed the jury for the defence, and
contended that it was clear that the account given by the
prisoner was a true one, and that it was absurd to suppose
that if the prisoner had meant to steal the letter he would
have kept it in his possession for the whole day with the seal
unbroken. He also called several witnesses, who gave the
prisoner an excellent character.
Mr. Baron PLATT summed np the case with great care,
and the jury immediately Acquitted the prisoner.
The trial of Lieutenant Hawkey is fixed (on the applica-
tion of Mr. Cnckburn, Q.C.) far Thursday next.
NISI PRILTS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.)
The court has been occupied nearly the whole day in the
trial of a case, the only question in which was, whether a
certain alleged sal. of a boat was bond fide or fraudulent. It
is now engaged in trying the first of the special juries; and
here, also, nothing of public interest is involved, as the only
question is the right to a certain ditch.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Northampton, July 14.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY xxAn WEEDosr.--David Hides was
charged with assaulting Robert Bramstone, and robbing
him of a watch and six sovereigns.
Mr. Adams conducted the prosecution ;
the prisoner was
undefended.
Robert Brimstone said he lives at Staverton. On the 26th
of June, 1845, he came to Northampton to sell his pony.
Sold him for 41.105. After he sold him he went on to
iroughton-green, and afterwards returned to 2.4)ttinghntn,
intending to go home to 8 taverton by a
th for co
Upton n 101 sat ecarrier. Being
too late fogy a daffier; he walk
il on towards Weedon. Near
Hastened to
mpany. twe, doldiefs and a tiVillAd.
the two soldiers remained h Idill The prosecutor' and
the thiri nip *Auk 6n td .tvi'e axon; aria went into the
4, doell' head,a little beyond
the barracks. Stated thereabout
nvF, minutes and left a hula afigf tight o'dlock. It was
another) f,:t.t, /
conversation. Pritoper soo
Tutel'gh!, At th toll_ ate ' t out of Weedon, the gate-
kCePer said, " blaster Bra
heard thes you have sold your
Walked with theni to Floore, where
et, jus I
et,
pony." Prosecutor midllB:7'es, t ..t,ith I ltd Bought
Pc:lsener
aia scarcely able toT walk bOTe4".
,Tni t,‘? go
.a !snorter *ay tti.:eilut the field to raverki.
ETesecuteV t;tiected on acc-onnt of the approaching darkriess.
T.lley then proceeded on the higli,orky t 6 Litiventrp., A sbcirt
4fitetwaro,,?fanted
distance further on pritteatt loosed his stick from his bundle,
ai!d suddealy.comibg i
oa front e tke nrosectitor, held, up his
stick, and said, a New, old ,9,1414-ti•aii, gife nit till 31-'
lit.'ll"*' °l' ''''ill are a dead gae -4 '
ghten me, I'm an old ma Tin',(,nto Daventry and
have another half pint." nr,. et
salsego ,
d "Ito, I'll haVe it"
Prosecutor shouted 4 Mutt/ ' d one instantly struck
Prisoner
him, and he fell sensel er,' an pr
When he came to
W 3,5 he missed •
ess to the ground.
his watch and his money, and the prisoner
was gone. #4,1 liever seen th,. prisoner since, until his ap-
rehenston In Lender, 1
--, out had no doubt he was the man.
Prosecutor was sober.
John Gabriel, a gunner in the Royal Artillery, and MS
comrade, identified the prisoner as being' the person who was
wiphethem on the evening in question
b t jury found the prisoner G
e ransported for fifteen lt an. dhe was sentented tO
tu y,
Years.

ROBBING THE MlNT.—Frederick Weise, Mary Ann Weise,
and Eliza Burke, her daughter by a former marriage, were
charged, the male prisoner with stealing and the two females
with receiving ° Quantity of silver and some gold from the
Rdyal Mint, on Tower.:::!!.!!!.
It dOpOars that the male prisoner, who is a German, about
t the Mint.
lahoijrer; at 308. per week, in the melting-house !I
from a
fifty years of age, Vas employed for the !a
On Tuescia?, id eOnsequente of information received t
person named Francois LeVelle, the Male prisoner was se.
„ist four years ts a
fat 13)4 Mr, Robert Mushet, who holds the oflhc© of master's
second clerk, 99 Well as that of assistant 'miter in the
.Mint.
i
When he came to the door of the gold melting-house, Fran.
cols pet his hand into the prisoner's breast, saying " Fred.
Cut the two pieces of silver produced. Mr. Mushet said lie
the effect that he intendeu !`)
was sorry to see ttitt,o
• * `, and the prisoner made some reply, to
you have got some silver there," and, at the same time, drew
ktajesty's Mint, stated that
Mr. JAn Field, inspector of her_
idintioi;,..t.h:vimg.:ohuisold;;;ev,iiNlygh.Finre_
he was sent for that day to tlPielitgiot
he found the male prisoner in custody. Wit,. ''s
him Who he was, laid the basineas was a ve,:' uu,'"-
Unlit() one; and added, that he must ask the prison'," "`lne
4tiestiti whi.l ho might answer or slot in his optu,:th
He then asked the 04,1tlet' where he resided, and the Littrz
OXFORD
..CRO CROW
COURTa/tTaDEn.—.ms B.
40, were indicted to '
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(Before Mr. Justice MAULk.)
'heri sited t-
doge, aged 33. and Isaac •S ; jr,
e., oVe his address; No. 20, Prinees-squai4, fit, . Geo,rge's gist.
14.,.
It he Must search his place; to which the prisoner
reptied that Iy6 Wat wP!eomo to do. so' ,ash tied nothing of
toe kind at home, and that was the'flelt tit:4e he had Over
! the parish of North r the wilful murder of George .loObs, in t ommi. tea an act of the tort. I'Vttrieil ,h,ti A9Ard,lti'l rht
I This case has A, °o, on the 28th of Sept, 1842.
procine
eI.itCUIT.-.-Otfotd, Jtely 14,
i• ,fil at the Mint where the prisoner was in tne habit of de-
! from the fact of more ed a great sensation in the county,
positing his cl.ith,s, but nothing was found there. WLness
the discovery of the godly
three years having elapsedd after I then, having taken the prisoner into custody, proceeded with
the murderers .1)°1.1' of the deceased before any tidings of 1 him,
were neard Mr. Musket, and one of the messengers of the Mint,
,
Mr. Carrington and • to the house in Princes-square. On coming within a few
tion. The prisoners for the pro
Mr. Pigott appeared . semi- ,
were defended by Mr. JJ. Williams. , doors of it, witness, leaving the prisoner with Mr. Musket
The deceased • and the rn..4.:e.ie•-•r.'entPr,•,l t' ,-1100,". wh. •
lone farm housel,"csalal very respeetatile I.rnier residing at a .to - ~, 1.,, •'.. e!!1,.1.
female prison:3., wh, a,i,u,i ted that dile w.. Ne,,e'. ~..a;; i
Aston, in this county. called Dean-hill, iu the
Wednesday,
of North Witness took her into the front; parlour, and asked her if her -
28th of September, 1842, On the afternoon of the i
Pili 89 60014 er, 842, he left his Lome on horseback, and
9 APIP; 4 M 91. 084 aikh Whin 111 it`
husband worked in the Mint, to which she replied in the
fruagiYe, Wicion WO he wit4tog to wail, ewe iaquilie4 _

e her, on which. she exhibited some alarm, and asked if
any accident had occurred to her husband. Witness replied
that he was well, and close at hand. lie then asked her
how many children she had, to which she replied, "Two, a
son and a daughter." After that she became still more
fidgety; and when witness told her who and what he was,
she said, "You shall see my (laughter." She then went
as if to call her daughter from the yard, though witness
endeavoured to prevent her. She. however, rushed
rapidly by him towards the back parlour, into which the
younger temae hal previously gone, and locked the door.
Witne,s then called to those who had charge of
the male prisoner, and after several threats the young
girl, Burke, opened the back parlour and came out. She at-
tempted to make her way down stairs, but witness seized
and brought her back. Perceiving that she hal her hands
under her apron, he caught at them, and seized a black refl•
cule containing a quantify of Chinese silver and a few pieces
of unwro'aght gold. He had not weighed the bullion, and
therefore he coulp not swear to the quantity, but he had no
doubt it had been taken from the Mint, and it corresponded
with that found in the prisoner's possession.
The male prisoner made no defence. The elder female said
that her husband had brought her the pieces of ore, and teld
her he found them amongst the cinders, about four or five
days previously, and when she left the parlour she was going
to tell the child to bring them. The girl Burke, who is only
twelve years of age, had nothing to say.
Mr. BRODERIP—What are tee mole prisoner's weekly
waetee? Mr. Field—Thirty shillings, sir.
Mr. Linc,DEntr—You were in his house, how was it fur-
nished? Mr. Field—Quite as well as that of any respectable
London tradesman. It had handsome pictures and other ap-
purtenanceS much above the prisoner's position in life.
Mrs. Weise (quickly)—l had that furniture, and all those
things, I Ong before I married my present husband.
Mr. BRODERIF remanded the case for a week to afford an
opportunity of perfecting the evidence.
The case excited intense interest, being the first from the
Mint since another labourer, whe was employed there many
years ago, moat mysteriously disapp'ared, after having, as it
then appeared, abstracted a hundred pounds' worth of un-
stamped bullion.

WORSIIIP-STREET.
Tuesday a determined-looking young man, named nomns
Smith, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged
with having forcibly entered the premises of Mr. Nichols, the
landlord of the Bricklayers' Arms, in Charles-street, Hackney-
road, for the purpose of committing felony.
Mrs. Mary Nichols, the wife of the prosecutor, stated that ,
at a late hour on the preceding night, her husband being out
of town, she caused the premises to be closed, and was about
to retire to rest, . when she was surprised to find that an
inner door, communicating with the upper part of the
house, and which was constantly kept locked, was wide open,
it having evidently been opened-with a picklock key. On pro-
ceeding up stairs to ascertain if slv had been robbed, she
was encountered on the landing by the prisoner, who bad a
heavy life preserver in his hand, and had just emerged from
one of the bed-rooms. He advanced towards her in a
threatening attitude, but she raised a great outcry, and re-
treated precipitately down the stairs, sharply followed by
the prisoner, who made a rush towards the street-door and
attempted to escape; she, however, resolutely seized him
by the neck, and notwithstanding his violent efforts to dis-
engage himself, succeeded in holding him until some of the
servants, who had been alarmed by her cries, came to her as-
sistance, and handed him over to the police. The prisoner
had been drinking during the evening in the tap-room, and
must have taken an opportunity to secrete himself while the
customers were leaving.

Policeman Mulcahy, 436 N, stated that on conveying the
accused to the station and searching him, he found in his
pockets, besides the life-preserver Wore mentioned, four
ekeleton keys, a quantity of lucifer matchei, and a powerful
g, jemmy." or crowbar, to one end of which a heavy hammer-
head had been attached. The prisoner said nothing in refu-
tation of the charge, and on witness going back to the pro:se-
cutor's, and trying the skeleton keys that had been taken
from him, they were found to be capable of opening every
door in Mr. Nichols's house. ,

Kemp, another policeman, identified the accused as a noto.
tious offender, and the constant associate of the worst charac•
tern in the district.

On being called upon for his defence, the prisoner declined
offering any; and
Mr. Disciiiam told him it was a fortunate circumstance
for him that he had been detected in sufficient time to pre-
vent his taking any portion of the prosecutor's property, in
which event he had in hesitation in saying that he would
have been transported; as it was, there could be no doubt
he had entered the prosecutor's house with a felonious inten-
tion, and he should therefore protect the public against him
for the next three months, by sentencing him to that term of
confinement in the House of Correction, with hard labour, as
a rogue and vagabond.
The prisoner. who appeared to have anticipated an ac-
quittal, was removed to the cells.