The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-29 00:00:00

SUPPRESSION ;V OF-7-iIE'T, DE Pl POD

SPEC."

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BOW-STREET.—THIS DAY.
To-day the managers of the "Deptford Spec,"
Alexander Leishman, the proprietor, 10, Florence-
cottages, Deptford ; Alex. Walker, 12, Florence-
cottages; Charles Clayton, stationer, Clarence-
place, Deptford; William Daniels, Pluaistead-
road ; Thomas Stephen Morris, dairyman, 25,
Central-street, St. Luke's, surrendered
to their
bail.

Mr. Poland appeared on the part of the Tregurl
to prosecute, and Mr. Sergeant Sleigh defcnded the
defendants.

The charge against them, it will be recollected,
was illegally keeping and carrying on a lottery on
horse racing.

The evidence to-day was principally confirn3aterf
of that given by Insi ector Clark, which was pub-
lished in extenso in The ..Sais when the ddcndano
were first examined at Bow-street last Friday week.
Sergeant Sunerway to-day gave his evidence. which
fully corroborated in every particular that given by
inspector Clark and Sergeant Palmer, the three
officers, being those to whose care the carrying out
of the warrant of the chief magistrate was confide'
by the authorities at Scotland-yard.
Inspector Clarke produced a list of the tickets,
&c., seized at the houses of three of the defendantit
which were as follows :

At Leishman's, Florence Cottages—National
Steeplechase, 700 tickets ; Lincolnshire Handicap/
200 ; Northamptonshire Stakes, 300 ; City and Su'
burban, 700 ; Cesarewitch, 500 ; Newmarket Han'
dicap, 4,100; Tvw Thousand Guineas, 7,800
Goodwood Stakes, 1,700 ; var;ous, 2,000 ; New
Year's distribution of money prizes, 1,500 ; Prize
tickets, 1,000; result sheets, GOO ; small drag
tickets, 2,000; four 'copies of "Ruff's Guide to the
Turf," &c.

At Clayton's, 6, Clarence-place—Chester Curs
60,000 tickets ; Derby, 76,000 ; Two Thousand
Guineas, 16,500; and small draw tickets, 185,000.
At Farrah's, " Lucky•bag Spec."—Two Thou'
sand Guineas, 1,220; One Thousand Guineas,
1,740 ; Chester Cup, 600. " Deptford Spec.'"
Two Thousand Guineas, 200 ; City and Suburban'
200 ; Chester Cup, 580. " Carshalton Spec."—Two
Thousand Guineas, 300.

Mr. Poland said that would be the case against
the defendants, and he had therefore to apply for
the committal of the whole of them for trial.
Mr. Sergeant Sleigh said he should reserve for
the trial all observations on the law and the facts
connected with the case, but he was anxious to
vindicate the defendants from any imputation that
they had acted otherwise than with scrupulous
fairness and honesty towards the subscribers•
With reference to the ticket the payment of
which had been refused, the reason was that
the ink wain had obliterated the private mark,
known only to the defendants, by whiAl they PO:
tected themselves against the substitution of forged
or fraudulent tickets. The defendants, he bad to
inforra the magistrates, were most respectable per'
eons—they had carried on these lotteries with Per"
feet honesty for seven years without the least inter-
ference on the part of the Government, and had
every reason to believe that they were being
tacitly sanctioned by the authorities, and now they
were selected fro:n hundreds of others for the pur-
pose of testing the law. Whether they bad in"
fringed the law of the land would be argued before
a higher court ; and if it was decided against them
they would at once desist and not attempt to carry
on the so-called lotteries if they were illegal.
They had already shown this disposition by
advertising a notice to their agents to re-
turn all the money received for tickets. With
regard to the power of the supreme court to impose
a punishment of two years' imprisonment, he sup-
posed Mr. Poland only mentioned it to show what
the law was, and not possibly have drean.ed of ar
plying these observations to the present case.
Sir T. Henry said he should accept a renewal of
the same bail for the appearance of the defeudaetS
at the Old Bailey.

The renewal of the bail was then fortnaly corn"
pleted, arid the defendants left the court, which+
during the proceedings, was crowded to excess.