The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-30 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman MuscrtovE.)
George Hor.yord, 19, a dyer, pleaded guilty to an in-
dictment charging him with stealing fifteen skeins of
silk, value 305., the property of Henry Le Livier, his
master.

The prosecutor stated that he had no doubt other per-
sons had induced the prisoner to commit the theft, and
it was upon his own confession of the robbery he was
taken into custody.

Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character.
The RECORDER sentenced him to three months' impri-
sonment and hard labour.

Thomas Adams, 21, a respectable young man in ap-
pearance, and described in the callendar as a Tali t, was
indicted with stealing seven coats, value 141., the pro-
perty of Rawson Reid, lisq , his master.

It-appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was in
the service of Mr. Reid, who carried on the business of
a wine merchant, and that while in that service he pur-
loined the property stated in the indictment, some of
which he subsequently pledged. The prisoner on being
talcen into custody stated that he was guilty, and de-
served punishment.
Mr. Doane appeared for the prisoner.
The jury found him Guilty.
The RECORDER sentenced him to twelve months' im-
prisonment and hard labour.
Theresa Lewis, a widow, was indicted with stealing a
pocket containing seven sovereigns and a bbl of exchange
for 301., the property of Thomas, Fenton, her master,
in his dwelling-house.
The charge was clearly proved against the prisoner,
who, on being taken into custody, stated to the police-
man that she found the pocket in the bed ; that she
spent a half-sovereign and got drunk, and lost all the
rest. She admitted that there were some papers in the
pocket, but she did not know what they were.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and
The RECORDER sentenced her to twelve months' im-
prisonment, it appearing that she had been taken into the
house of the prosecutor out of charity.
A HARD-HEARTED CASE.—George Biggs, aged 25, a
broker, was indicted charged with stealing various ar-
ticles of household furniture, of the value of 301., the
property of Joseph Lyne.
From the statement of Mr. RYLAND, who was counsel
for the prosecution, and the evidence adduced, it ap-
peared that the prosecutor and his wife and seven chil-
dren resided in a house, in Burton-street, Burton-cres-
cent, and that at Midsummer last an execution was put
into the premises for rent. The prisoner was put in pos-
session as broker, and remained there about fourteen or
fifteen days,' when, an arrangement being made with the
landlord, he quitted the premises. He called at the
house several times subsequently, and appeared to take
great interest in the affairs of the prosecutor and his
wife. • On the 17th of September last the prisoner again
called, and inquired of the wife of the prosecutor how
they were going on. She said very badly, and that they
had had executions in the house for poor and other rates,
and that she expected to have one shortly put in for
taxes ; to which the prisoner replied, " Yes, and you
may shortly expect one for rent, as I have been sent for
by the broker, and expect to be put in possession again,"
adding that he thought they ought to take care of
themselves, and remove the whole of their property;
that he had plenty of wa7ehouses and cellere, and would
take care of it for them. The prosecutor's wife then
sail, but would that be honourable, to which the pri-
soner replied, " Oh, d—n honour, will that keep your
children from starving." Ultimately it was agreed that
the prisoner should remove the things ; he helped to
pack them, and while doing so, he observed that it
would, perhaps, be better that it should appear as if he
had bought the goods, as that would put an end to all
suspicion. Three receipt stamps were procured by the
prosecutor, who gave receipts upon them as if he had
received money from the prisoner. The goods were
then removed by the priioner to premises of his, in the
neighbourhood of Soho. The prisoner after this
lent the wife several small sums of money, and upon her
going to his premises in Soho, she found them closed
and the prisoner gone. Ultimately she discovered bins
in a shop in the Waterloo-road, and upon doing so she
applied to him to return her gcods, to which he replied,
" That he had nothing of hers; that all the goods he had
were bought and paid for, and he meant to keep them,
and told his mother to shut the door in her face."

Mr. ltomNsoN addressed the Jury for the defence, and
contended that the prisoner had no felonious intention
in taking away the goods.
After the LEARNED RECORDER had summed up the
evidence at great length, the Jury returned a verdict of
Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be transported
for the term of seven years.