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with death, and it was a crime which now was al-
ways severely punished. Ho should, however, take
into consideration the recommendation of the pro-
secutor. The sentence would be four years' penal
servitude.

SURREY SESSIONS, March 21.

OLD COURT.

(Before T. Tilson, Esq., Deputy Chairman.)
Robert Davis, alias Drayton, 39, was indicted for
stealing a number of silver spoons, forks and other
articles, the property of his master, Porter Smith,
Esq., of Mortlake, near Richmond.
It appeared from the evidence that, in November
last, the prosecutor, who is an invalid, was in want
of a butler, and among the applicants was the pri-
soner, who gave a reference to a party apparently
respectable, and believing it to be genuine, he was
engaged. A few days afterwards he came to his
duty, and the plate and other property was de-
livered up to him. About two months after he had
been in his situation his true character began to ooze
out, and his drunken habits called forth the censure
of his master. He however promised to amend, and
was forgiven. On the 15th ultimo he was so in-
toxicated that the prosecutor discharged him, and
directed him to bring up all the plate. Instead of
that he absconded, and then the whole of the plate
was missed. Information was given to the police,
and Mr. Smith, one of the Scotland-yard detective
officers, was employed in the matter, and a few days
afterwards he succeeded in apprehending the pri-
soner, and tracing all the plate to three different
pawnbrokers. The crest had been erased, and the
prisoner got a man named Hoath to pledge it for
him.
Evidence was given to that effect, and the jury
found the prisoner guilty.
Smith, the detective, informed the Court that the
prisoner obtained the situation by means of a false
character.
Mr. Tilson sentenced him to 18 months' hard
labour.
William Haley, 22, was indicted for stealing a
silver watch from Sohn Annandale.
The prosecutor went to the bar of the Ship-
wrights' Arms, Bermondsey-street, at 12 o'clock
on the night of the Bth ultimo, to partake of a glass
of beer. The prisoner and a number of other young
men and some women were there, and while he was
drinking some one snatched his watch, broke it
from the ribbon, and ran away with it. Mrs. Conne-
way, the landlady, saw the prisoner go in front of
the prosecutor, and she ordered him a way. A few
minutes afterwards she observed that he had lost
his watch. The prisoner and his companions had
then ran out of the house. She gave information
to the police, and he was secured some time after-
wards.
The prisoner made a very rambling defence, but
the jury found him guilty.
Sentence, 12 months' hard labour.
William Fisher, 20, pleaded guilty to embezzling
various sums of money belonging to his master,
Hugh Evans.
The prosecutor is a milkman in the Kent-road,
and employed the prisoner to carry out milk and
receive money from the customers, which it was
his duty to pay over each day on receiving it. He
was a defaulter to some extent when discovered.
The Court sentenced him to three months' hard
labour.
Charles Spurrett, 19, was indicted for stealing
three night-dresses and other articles, the property
of William Turpin. It appeared that the prosecutor
resided in Cooper's-read, Old Kent-road, and on
Thursday last his daughter hung out a quantity of
wet linen to dry. Between four and five in the
afternoon Mr. Weatherby, the manager of the
Windsor Castle Tavern, saw the prisoner run past
him with a bundle, and when he was pursued he
threw the bundle over some railings. He was then
taken into custody. The bundle was found to con-
tain the prosecutor's wet linen.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the
Court sentenced him to 18 months' hard labour.
Henry Albert Hook, 36, a carpenter at Kings-
ton,• surrendered to take his trial for stealing 23
glazed sash frames, the property of Thos. Foulkes,
at Thames Ditton.
Mr. Lilley prosecuted, and Mr. Laxton defended.
It appeared that a short time ago the prosecutor
purchased the Ember Court Estate, near Kingston,
from Sir Charles Sullivan, for £13,000, and among
the tenants was a gardener named Robertson, who
soon became in arrears for rent. Mr. Foulkes for-
gave him his rent on his giving up the premises.
At the time he was removing, Mr Foulkes saw the
prisoner carrying away in a truck the sash frames
whicL had belonged to a greenhouse erected on the
premises, and believing that they were his property
he gave Mr. Hook into custody, although the latter
said he had purchased them of Robertson, and
offered to yiroduce the bill and receipt.
After cons;derable argument as to points of law,
and the production of the receipt and examination
of Robertson, -w,vLo contended that the sash frames
were his property,
The jury returnee.a verdict of ac uittal.
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POLICE INTELL.LTGENCE.—March 21,

_Enk, n White, a dissipated
.1 with being drunk
MANSION-ItOUSE.
middle-aged woman, was charg&
and wilfully destroying an earth,enware drinking-
cup, at the drinking•fountain in Bo w-churchyard.
A policeman deposed that he saw' .;2er break the
cup by dashing it againt the wall, whh.t.' drunk, as
she had been every night for a long time oast. It
was one of a number presented by Mr. Akierman
Copeland, five of which had already been stok-n or
broken in the same way, while chained to the fo
un-
tain ; while the metal ones, which were used pre-
viously, and were chained to the fountain, had more
than once been stolen, chains and all.
Sir R. Carden sentenced the prisoner to seven
days' hard labour.
Samuel Hedge, a carman, in the employ of Mr.
Golding, Christian-street, St. George's-in-the-East,
was charged, on remand, with reckless driving and
breaking the leg of Mrs. Elizabeth Essex, a lady
residing at Stanford-terrace, Church-street, Cam-
berwell. _ _

—The defendant was originally charged about seven
weeks ago, when it was deposed by a gentleman
who witnessed the occurrence that he was driving
at full swing out of Arthur-street into King
William-street, when his vehicle knocked down
Mrs. Essex, who was crossing the road at the time,
and who was at once taken to the hospital, her leg
being broken. It was now shown that she was still
unable to attend, and a second witness stated that
the defendant was driving at the rate of five miles
an hour at the time, and looking another way; but
he admitted that Mrs.
Essex herself, instead of
looking out while crossing the roadway, kept her
eyes fixed upon the ground.
The defendant said he had no idea at the time
that any one was near, and that he was looking
ahead to see how he could get into the rank. He
had been a carman for sixteen years, and had never
met with an accident or had a complaint made
against him before.
His master gave him a good character generally,
and more particularly so as a careful driver.
Mr. Essex (the injured lady's husband), said as
far as he could ascertain there had been gross care-
lessness on the part of the defendant, who besides
driving fast was not looking about as he ought to
have done. He said, too, that he should be a loser
to a considerable extent by the occurrence, as his
wife- kept a fancy shop, and had been compelled to
employ a manager since she had been disabled.
Sir R. Carden said the defendant had no doubt
been guilty of carelessness to some extent, but Mrs.
Essex herself was not free from blame, as
.while
crossing at such a dangerous spot she ought to have
kept her eyes about her instead of fixing them on
the ground. Under all circumstances he should
fine the defendant 10s., and leave Mr. Essex to his
remedy in another court, if he thought himself en-
titled to compensation.

LAMBETH.—COCKNEY SPORTSMEN.—Mr. Tur-
ner, a tradesman, attended before Mr. Elliott to an-
swer a summons charging him with maliciously shoot-
ing a pigeon of the pure dragon breed, and of the
value of £2 10s., the property of Mr. Farmer, a
gentleman of property, residing at Camberwell.
Mr. Farmer deposed that for some years he had
been in the habit of breeding pigeons of the very
choicest and most valuable description. He did so
merely from fancy and to make presents to his
friends, and though he had been offered as much as
£2O a pair for some of them he had never sold one,
as he had a dislike to part with the breed of birds
so choice as many of them were. On Monday, the
12th inst., he was from home, and on his return he
was informed that the defendant had shot a hen
dragon belonging to him, and that the bird was
lying dead on the top of his house, and there it was
found. (Mr. Farmer here produced the bird, which
he identified as his by a mark which he made on it
while young, and said its value was 505.) The wit-
ness was cross-examined at some length, and ac-
knowledged he had heard that there had been a
sparrow shooting match on the grounds of Mr.
Smith, of the Rosemary Branch, on the day in
question, but denied that there had been a pigeon
match.
Two lads deposed to having seen the defendant
shoot the pigeon, and the bird drop on the roof of
Mr. Francis's, where it was afterwards found.
The defence set up was that there was a pigeon
match at the Rosemary Branch Tavern on the day
in question, and that the bird shot by the defendant
was one that had escaped from the trap and got out
of bounds.
Mr. Elliott, however, was of a different opinion,
and ordered the defendant to pay 100. penalty, to-