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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
THE RN CIRCUIT.—York, July 13.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN. )
KING V. GREIG.
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 plaintiff,
and Mr. Martin for the defendant.
The plaintiff, Mr. Edward King, is a sharebroker, of Leeds,
and the defendant, Mr. William Greig, 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 for 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 value, 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 1981. 7s. 6d., stated admissions of
the debt made to them by the defendant, and to one of these
he had allowed that he owed Mr. King somewhere about
2001. In 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.
Mr. 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 evitlence,
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 verify that part of his
dealings with the shares.
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, remarked that a hardship
to the defendant 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 sold, 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 had no itterest 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 full amount claimed.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Winchester, July 14.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLarr.)
George Thomas Rostrick was indicted for having feloniously
stolen two post letters containing one sovereign and 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 ; the 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 I
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, where 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
persoa who takes the letter-bag from Portsea to Portsmouth.
fie 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 custody. 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 I 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. MISSING addressed the jury for the prisoner at some
length.
denMcre., Baron PLATT having psinutely summed up the evi-
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. ROGEES stated the facts of the case 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
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•
spector of the missing-letter office, Mr. Romsey, went down
to Southampton that day, and had obtained a search warrant
to search the prisoner's house on another matter. On going
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 said 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 PLarr summed up 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. Cockburn, Q.C.) fer Thursday next.
NISI PRIUS 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 sale of a boat was bona 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.

situate on the turnpike-road, where the road from Dunstan to
North Aston crosses it. Here Mr. Goodman's road lay to tLe
right, and that of the deceased straight on. Mr. Whetton, a
butcher, of Feddington, had paid the deceased 61. the day
before, and had walked with him to his house that night be-
tween twelve and one. Whetton, in returning from Dunstan,
where he had been visiting, going towards the Fox Inn,
came to a hollow, when his pony shied, and looking round
him he saw a man lying on a heap of stones, and he
also saw a grey horse without a rider on the road. At five
the next morning, Joseph Butler, a labourer, discovered the
body of the deceased on the heap of stones mentioned by
Whetton. He was quite dead. There was blood on his
hands and face. Butler not knowing who he was, went to
the Fox, called up Mr. Rogers, the landlord, and they went
together to where the body lay. A surgeon was immediaely
sent for, who examined the body. A coroner's inquest was
held on the same day, and a verdict, " Found dead," re-
turned. No suspicion of having caused the death of George
Mobbs attached to any one. indeed it seems to have been
supposed that it was accidental. Oa the 9th of March, in
the present year, a man named Jacob Skerry, a travelling
tinker, having been advertised in the Police Gazette, was ap-
prehended by George Morgan, a constable of Kingston, on a
charge of robbing a farm-yard. He said immediately on
being apprehended that he would tell the constable some-
thing about a murder. He was taken to Banbury gaol, and
while there he showed great uneasiness, and told the gaoler
he had something to say to him. The gaoler, after caution-
ing him, heard his statement, which was taken down in
writing. Skerrry was taken before the magistrates, where
be repeated the statement. He was made to repeat it on dif-
ferent occasions, and although he varied it, yet he adhered to
the main points. In consequence of what he said, the pri-
soners, who are also travelling tinkers, leading a predatory
life, were apprehended; but they denied it, and on a future
occasion they made statements inculpating themselves, and
charging Skerry as a principal party. The first statement
made by Skerry, on the 18th March, was substantially as
follows :—I came to Deddington barn that nightlto sleep and
roam the poet There was James Biddle and Sheriff with
their camps. They said, will you go with us to South
Newington and fetch some meat? I said I do not
like such meat as that. They went and I followed them. I
kept sight of them. There was a gentleman who came along
the lane from the Fox on horseback ; he said, " Oh, I see
who you are." Biddle said, "Ah I d—n you, I see who you
are." Sheriff said to Biddle, " D-- his eyes, kill the —."
The gentleman was off his horse, and I saw Biddle strike him
with something which he held in his hand. I heard the
blow and saw the gentleman fall. Before the blow Biddle
said, " ll— your eyes, you shall never dawn another day-
light." Biddle and Sheriff' both heard me coming up; they
ran away, and I followed them. When I came up to the
stile or rails, about a mile from Deddington, I found them
sitting on it ; when I came up, Biddle said, "Oh, it's vou,
you —is it? If ever you splits on me, and says anything
about me, I'll be the death of you." He then struck and
stunned me. I saw them the next day at Deddington-
barge, but I never saw either of them from that time for
nearly twelve months. 1 did not say anything about it. I
did not for a month know the man was dead. I saw Biddle
about a year afterwards, near Oxford. He said, " You re-
member that night against the Fox." I said, " Yes, I re-
member." He said, "Well, I finished him, and served him
right."
On the 27th of March Skerry was again brought before
the magistrates, and there sworn to his statement, as the
magistrates had determined to make him a witness against
the prisoners. Skerry then made very much the same state-
ment, varying, however, in those particulars about what took
place the morning after the murder.
The prisoners Biddle and Sheriff on this occasion positively
denied their guilt, and they were remanded until the 11th of
April, when Skerry made a third statement, which, however,
was principally a more detailed account of what he had pre-
viously said.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial, and as Mr.
Morgan and Mr. Walker were taking Skerry and the pri-
soners to the county gaol, a conversation occurred which bore
strongly on the case, in fact, formed the most conclusive por-
tion of the evidence against the prisoners. They, together
with the constables, were proceeding in an open carriage with
two seats; on the front seat were Skerry and Sheriff, with
Mr. Walker, and Mr. Morgan was sitting on the back seat
with Biddle., As they passed through Deddington they came
opposite the farm where the deceased lived; previous to this,
the prisoners had been talking about the copper which had
been stolen, and Biddle had been taxing Skerry with telling
lies, but when they came in sight of the house of the deceased,
Biddle said, " Now we be coming to the place where truth
should come out ; Mr. Morgan, you please tell the gentlemen,
if I should be brought before them again, this is truth. Us
are all three alike, and it was us as killed Mr. Mobbs, and no
one else, and I will show the limekiln where we were warm-
ing ourselves; when he came on to the gate we were sitting
on the kiln and warming ourselves, and he said, What are
you scamps after?' Jacob (Skerry) made use of a gross ex-
pression, whereon Mr. Mobbs flew into a passion and told us to
be off. We went into the turnpike road ; he followed us to the
Fox. Jacob said he would go no further ; they had words, but
Isaac (Sheriff) could not hear, as he went down Dunstan-
lane. When we got to the hollow Mobbs overtook us, and
said, Do you think lam afraid of such scamps as you ?'
Jacob came up and struck him on- the head; I struck him.
Mobbs said, " So help me, Lord, for I know all three of them ;"
and he cried out " murder" three times. He fought for life
with a whip which he had in his hand. He cut this hole in
my face (pointing to a mark he had in his left cheek), and
loosed one of my teeth, which I pulled out in Painter's hovel
the next day, and hid in the wall. He also hit Jacob with
his whip on the head. Us should not have killed him if he
had not followed us and been in such a passion. Isaac had
got hold of his coat on the right side. Jacob hit the horse
behind, to make him kick up, before I caught hold of the
man's collar to kill him on the ground. Jacob struck him,
and I struck him, and fell on him, I don't know 'which. I
have been many times on my knees to pray to be forgiven
since that day. Biddle then said, " This is truth, if I be
hanged for it, and I dare say I shall, and I'll tell the gentle-
men so at Oxford." Sheriff said, " I hope I shall not be
hanged, I don't mind being transported."
Mr. J. J. Witt.was addressed the jury for the prisoners.
The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the jury retired; in
about half an hour they re-entered the Court, and returned a
verdict of Guilty against both prisoners.
The prisoners entered into rambling statements, asserting
their innocence, and denying all they had said before the
magistrates, and Biddle asserting he did net know what he
was saying when he made the confession to Morgan in the
presence of the other prisoner and Skerry.
The Learned JuDGE then passed sentence of death in the
usual form.
Jacob Skerry, of whom so much mention is made, is him-
self a prisoner at Oxford, and will take his trial at the present
assizes on a charge of sheep-stealing.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, the Assistant-Judge, and a

Bench of Magistrates.)
The July adjourned Middlesex Sessions commenced on
Tuesday, at Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell-green. The calendar
contained the names of only thirty-nine prisoners, of whom
thirty-six were committed charged with felony.
Thomas Gaines was indicted for stealing a bayonet and
scabbard, value 7s. 6d., the property of our Sovereign Lady
the Queen.
The prisoner, who was evidently insane, upon being placed
at the bar, loooked up to the Learned Judge, and exclaimed,
with great familiarity, " How do you do, Mr. Sergeant
Adams ?"—(Laughter.)
The Learned JUDGE asked him whether he had not been
at Hanwell. The prisoner replied that he and the Learned
Judge were both there together, soon after Sir William Ellis;
and assuming an air of considerable consequence, he added,
he (the Judge) must recollect that well.
The Learned JUDGE observed, with much good humour,
that he had not forgotten it. He had been for many
years a visitiag justice of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, and
during that time many persons thought hilt as mad as the
patients themselves, because he so strenuously advocated
the introduction of a mild and humane system of treat-
ment into the asylum for the insane poor at Hanwell, in
the place of the barbarous system that had prevailed for
ages. His labours and the anxiety which he then expe-
rienced from the attacks made upon the friends of humanity,
and the incessant prognostications of failure, had nearly cost
him his health and his life; but he rejoiced to live to see the
day when their efforts were successful, and the principle was
recognised and adopted in every asylum throughout Eng-
land.
The evidence against the prisoner was that of a Chelsea
pensioner, who deposed that he had come into his place at
the hospital and asked whether he kept firearms, upon which
he took down a belt and pouch, and bayonet and scabbard,
and showed them to the prisoner, who, after looking at
them, went away. Upon searching for the bayonet he found
it was gone.
The jury, under the direction of the Court, returned a ver-
dict of Not Guilty, upon the ground of insanity.
The Court directed him to be taken care of, and that ap-
plication should be made in the proper quarter for his admis-
sion to a proper asylum.
The prisoner's history is somewhat curious. He was an
old Bow-street officer, and accompanied the late Sir Richard
Birnie, with a body of constables, upon the evening of the
23d of February, 1820, to seize the Cato-street conspirators,
who, with the notorious Arthur Thistlewood at their head,
were making preparations to assassinate the Cabinet Mi-
nisters, who were dining with Lord Harrowby, at Grosvenor-
square. The conspirators were assembled in a loft in Cato-
street, discussing the intended plan of operations, when the
premises were suddenly surrounded by the constabulary, and
upon endeavouring to mount the loft by a ladder, the lights
were extinguished, and Smithers, one of the officers, was run
through the body by Thistlewood, and poor Gains, who was
near him, received a sword's thrust through the upper part
of his skull, since which time he has had occasional attacks
of insanity, and has been more than once in custody for
assaults or other offences. In those fits he still fancies him-
self a Bow-street officer, and was, we believe, before the
Court some time ago, for striking a man a terrible blow over
the head for refusing to recognise the authority of this
pseudo Bow-street officer.
The other trials presented no features of general interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
THAMES.
ROBBING TIIE MlNT.—Frederich 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 a quantity of silver and some gold from the
Royal Mint, on Tower hill.
It appears that the male prisoner, who is a German, about
fifty years of age, was employed for the last four years as a
labourer, at 30s. per week, i❑ the melting-house at the Mint.
Yesterday, in consequence of information received from a
person named Francois Levelle, the male prisoner was sent
for by Mr. Robert Musliet, who holds the office of master's
second clerk, as well as that of assistant melter in the Mint.
When he came to the door of the gold melting-house, Fran-
cois pat his hand into the prisoner's breast, saying " Fred,
you have got some silver there," and, at the same time, drew
out the two pieces of silver produced. Mr. Mushet said lie
was sorry to see that, and the prisoner made some reply, to
the effect that he intended to put it into the mould.
Mr. John Field, inspector of her Majesty's Mint, stated that
he was sent for that day to the gold melting-house, where
he found the male prisoner in custody. Witness having in-
formed him who he was, said the business was a very unfor-
tunate one, and added, that he must ask the prisoner some
questions, which he might answer or not at his option.
lie then asked the prisoner where he resided, and the latter
gave his address, No. '2O, Princes-square, St. George's East.
Witness said he must search his place, to which the prisoner
replied that lie was welcome to do so, as he had nothing of
the kind at home, and that was the first time he had ever
committed an act of the sort. Witness then searched the

room at the Mint where the prisoner was in the habit of de-
positing his clothes, but nothing was found there. Witness
then, having taken the prisoner into custody, proceeded with
him, Mr. Mushet, and one of the messengers of the Mint,
to the house in Princes-square. On coming within a few
doors of it, witness, leaving the prisoner with Mr. Mushet
and the messenger, entered the house, where he saw the elder
female prisoner, who admitted that she was Weise's wife.
Witness took her into the front parlour, and asked her if her
husband worked in the Mint, to which she replied in the
affirmative. Witness said he wanted to make seine inquiries
of 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. He 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 daughter." 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 female had previously gone, and locked the door.
%Vanes& 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 had her hands
under her apron, he caught at them, and seized a black reti-
cule containing a quantity of Chinese silver and a few pieces
of unwrought 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 told
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. BaonEltir—What are the maleptisoner's weekly
wages? Mr. Field—Thirty shillings, sir. 't
Mr. BRODERIP—You were in his house, litheoras 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, long before I married my present husband.
Mr. BRODERIP 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, who was employed there many
years ago, most mysteriously disappeared, after having, as it
then appeared, abstracted a hundred pounds' worth of un-
stamped bullion.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday a determined-looking young man, named Thomns
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 she had been robbed, she
was encountered on the landing by the prisoner, who had 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 before mentioned, four
skeleton keys, a quantity of lucifer matches, and a powerful
"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 prose-
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.

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

On being called upon for his defence, the prisoner declined
offering any ; and
Mr. BiNarrAm 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 no 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.