The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-10 00:00:00

SECOND COURT.

(Before Mr. Payne.)
A young woman named Smith, who was convicted
in February last, of larceny, as a servant, and sen-
tenced to six months' hard labour, applied to the
learned judge under these circumstances :—She
stated that, when she was taken into custody, she
left at her master's a box, containing all she pos-
sessed except the clothes she was wearing, and
some wages were due to her. On being discharged
she applied to her master, Mr. Adams, a publican,
in Air-street, Piccadilly, for the restitution of her

box and the payment ollier wages, but she was told
that the wages would not be paid unless she sued for
them, and the law compelled the payment; and, as
to her box, she found that her master had, on her
conviction, given it up to the police, who delivered
it to the high bailiff, in the usual way, as prisoner's
forfeited property, and sold it in a fortnight after
she was in prison under her sentence. She had,
therefore, now, nothing in the world except what
she stood up in, and what could she do ? She had
no means of getting another situation.
The learned Judge said he was afraid he could
not help her in the matter, but he thought her
master had no right to give up her box, under the
circumstances, to the police, in order that it might
be sold by the high bailiff. It was a very hard
proceeding.
ra a case of larceny in a dwelling-house, which
was committed by the prisoner while she sent a
little girl ,put to buy a pennyworth of crinoline
cane, the learned Judge remarked, on the crinoline
being produced, that he certainly had never seen
any crinoline before, but he, like everybody else,
had often experienced the inconvenience it occa-
sioned.
John Border, 68, and Charles Border, 28, drovers,
father and son, were indicted for a fraud, com-
mitted under circumstances exhibiting a great deal
of cunning and ingenuity.
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Best were counsel for the
prosecution ; the prisoners were defended by Mr.
M'Donnell.
The younger prisoner went into a public-house,
kept by the prosecutor, Mrs. W. V. Townsend, at
Hounslow, and called Agr some beer. He was
joined soon afterwards 'Toy his father, who pre-
tended not to know him, ad they got into conver-
sation about a horse, which one wanted to purchase
of the other. It was outside the house, in a cart,
which had the name of " Benjamin Yelding, God-
aiming, Surrey," upon it. The old man pretended
that he had been in great distress, and begged
that the other would buy the horse, as he had the
bailiffs in the house. It was agreed that it should
be sold for £l6, and a warranty was made
out, and Charles asked the other his
name, and asked the landlady to write it, as
he could not. Charles then put -down fourteen
somethings, which were supposed to be sovereigni,
but John said he could not trust a stranger, and
must have the other two. Charles then asked the
landlady to trust him with two pounds until the
next day, and he would leave the horse in her
stable the while. Believing it to be a genuine
transaction, she lent the £2, and the horse was
taken out of the cart. It then occurred to the old
man, that he had to take the cart somewhere, a
mile or so off, where he had sold it, and he was too
weak and feeble to drag it himself, so they borrowed
the horse to take the cart home, saying, it would
be all right, and would be returned in half an hour.
It is needless to say it was not. The prisoners
throughout pretended never to have seen each other
before, and the son addressed his father as " Sir,"
while dealing for the horse. By this artfully-con-
trived trick they cheated the landlady of £2.
The jury found both guilty, and it seemed that
they had been before engaged in horse-dealing
matters of a very questionable character.
Mr. Payne sentenced each of them to 18 months'
hard labour.