The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-14 00:00:00

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, March 12.

CRO WN_ COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
Alexander Preston and William Marshall were churged
with having, at Bradford, on the 4th of January last,
feloniously assaultPd and robbed one William Mawson.
Mr. Campbell Foster appeared for the prosecution;
Mr. Dearsley defended the prisoner Preston; the other
prisoner was undefended.
On Saturday night, the 4th of February, the prosecu-
tor, who is the son of a blacksmith near Bradford,
having heard that his uncle, who lived at Bradford-moor,
was very ill, was proceeding to his uncle's house about
eleven o'clock; when he got near the moor he passed
three men, one of whom spoke to him, and asked him if

they were going the right way to Leeds. And no sooner
had he spoken than he received a violent blow on the
face, and was filled to the ground; and they rifled his
pockets of his watch and some silver. Two of the men
then wont away, loosing the third standing over him,
who said if he did not lie still while he went away, he
would give him something that would make him. The
prosecutor identified the prisoner Preston as the man
who stood over him, for, though the night was dark,
there was a greet glare from the Bowling Iron Work's
furnace, which enabled him to see him distinctly. He
then went on to sea his uncle, and on his return to
Bradford gave information to the police, with a descrip-
tion of the robbers. One of the Bradford police had seen
the two prisoners on the road about eleven o'clock. Tho
prosecutor picked out the prisoner Preston from amongst
a number of others in the gaol. He could not identify
the prisoner Marshall, but a witness named Raistrick
saw him the day after the robbery take a watch out of
his pocket, and go and hide it in a hole in the wall of
the Spink-well Tuunel, and subsequently Raistrick went
there with another man, and found the watch hidden,
which was the identical watch of which the prosecutor
had been robbed.

Mr. DEAREILEY addressed the jury for:the prisoner
Preston.

His LORDSHIP baring summed up.

The jury returned a Verdict of
11, previous conviction having been proved, his LORD-
emr sentenced them to be severally transported for ten
years.
John Easterly Swales was indicted for embezzling
divers sums of money, amounting to 1401., the property
of his masters, the Yorkshire Banking Company, in
whose service he was in the capacity of a clerk.
Mr. Blanchard and Mr. Halo prosecuted; Mr. Joseph
Pollock defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner was a clerk in the York-
shire Banking Company, at their branch at Thirsk, and
that at certain times, when notes which were worn too

much for use were returned to the bank, they were not
re-issued, but when a sufficient quantity was collected
they wore done up in bundles, for the purpose of being
sent to the main office to be cancelled; and the manner
in which they charged the prisoner with having cm
bezzled the money was, that when ho received money
over the counter, he abstracted some of such money
from time to time for his own purposes, and then, in
order to make his cash balance, he wont to the bundle

of notes which had been placed on ono side to be sent
for cancellation, and took enough for that purpose, and,
altering the label, which described how many notes the
bundle contained, then he re-issued the notes. The
strongest point against the prisoner was, that his salary
was only 41. a mouth, and he had paid away moncy in
notes of the company.
At the close of the opening of the Learned Counsel
for the prosecution, Mr. Jost:en PoLLocx submitted
that there was no case for the jury.
his LORDSHIP said they had la,:tter hear the evidence.
At the close of which his LOR.OSHIP intimated that it
was not sufficiently clear to bring the case home to.tho
prisoner, and that the whole difference might have arisen
through a mistake in adding up the notes which had
been placed in the bundle and lab6lled. The jury, there-
fore, Acquitted the prisoner.
GENERAL DE NOZA.—The Danish General de
Nona, by whom the battle of Idstead was decided, is an
Israelite, a native of Copenhagen.—,Jewish Chronicle.