The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-06 00:00:00

TAE ROBBERY AT THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY,

A respectably-dressed man, named Dales, was indicted
for stealing a parcel, containing 74 half-sovereigns and
some silver, the property of the Eastr_Tn Counties Rail-

way Company.
Mr, Sleigh appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
T. Atkinson deleaded the prisoner.
Mr. J. Scott, employed in the engineers' department,
said, I made up a value parcel, containing 74 sovereigns
and some silver. It was directed'to Sommerleytown in
Suffolk. I gave it to a bay, named Keeble, to carry to
the parcel-office of the prisoner, who was a parcel
porter at Stratford station. The prisoner keeps a book
in which it is his duty to enter all parcels he receives.
Sydney Keeble, a boy in the employ of the Eastern
Counties Railway Company, said, on the 11th of June
last, I received a parcel from Mr. Scott, and, according
to his direction, I wont to the parcel's office with it. I
did not see the prisoner• but I gave it to his boy, Manser,
who signed the parcels book. The parcel was a value
parcel.

Cross-examined by Mr. Atkinson.—l am in the em-
ploy of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. They
pay me 61. shillings a week. My hours are from 6 to 9.
Ad the value parcels are carried to the parcels office 1.37
blys. They know the parcels contain money by the
words written on them.

Charles Manser—l am subject to the authority of the
prisoner. I receive parcels in his absence, and on his
arriving at the office, I give them to him. When he
(prisoner)' received, value parcels he put them in his
desk, of which he kept the key. On the 11th of June,
I recollect receiving a parcel with the words "value
parcel" written on it from Keeble. I gave it to the
prisoner on his return, and he then put it into his' desk,
and said it was all right. It was between four and five
when I received the parcel. I signed the book brought
by Keeble. On the 11th of June, there was no entry
in his book as having received a value parcel. A short
time after I heard that the parcel had been los'.
The prisoner was present when certain inquiries
were made respecting the lost value parcel, and he said
I might have given him the parcel, but he did not recol-
lee'.

Cross-examined—The room in which Dale's desk is
fixed is visited by other persons. Any of the company's
servants can go in. I had received directions from
Dales always when I received a value parcel to enter it
in his book. I find no entry on the 11th of June. I
had the value parcel about an hour in my possession. I
kept it in my pocket. I walked about with it. lam
certain I gave Dales the parcel. When both of us are
away from the parcel-office the key is hung up in the
ticket office, which is fiequented by other persons. I
have hung the key up in the office sometitnes,,but Dales
generally does so.
Itc-examined---The key of the desk in Dale's office
was never hung up. The entry book is sometimes
locked up. If I had seen the book when I received
the parcel I should have-made the entry.
Mr. Francorshon—l nut station-keeper at Sommerley-
town. I ought in the usual course to nave received a
parcel on the 12th of June, containing the money to pay
the men's wages. The parcel ought to have arrived in

the morning.
Cross•examined—l am auised by a psr3on named
Lacy. He and myself are the only persons at the
station. In my absence Lacy Would receive any parcel,
but ho would give a signature. Lacy was present at the
station on the 12th of Juno. I don't think I was
absent at all on the morning of the 12th.

Wells, the night inspector of the Stratford station,
said on the night of the 11th of June no person
entered Dale's office after he left.

Charles Copping—l was the guard of the train that
ought to have taken the parcel to Soininerleyt.,wn. I
did not receive a value parcel from the prisoner en
the 11th of June. I did not see Dales at the time.
Whenever the prisoner gave me a value parcel he
always took my signature. There is no signature of
mine in Dales's book on the 11th of Juno as having re-
ceived a value parcel.
Thomas Morgan—l we; guard of the train that fol.
lowed Copping's on the 11th of June. I did not receive
a value parcel from bins. If I had my signature would
appear in his book.

Mr. Kemp, the police superintendent of the line, gave
evidence as to an inquiry which was instituted in conse-
quence of the lost parcel. lie said he told the prisoner
the parcel had been already traced to him, and he re-
marked he could not say the parcel was not given to
him, but if he had received any such he must have seat
it on to its destination.

Mr. Atkinson having addressed the jury for the pri-
soner, who bore an excellent character,
The jury returned a verdict of ❑ot guilty.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
UTTERING COUNTERFEIT COIN.

James Davis, was indicted for uttering a counterfeit
fiDliO, with intent to defraud Richard Merles.
RichErd Modes, a vendor of pies, said that on the 13th
of June he was at Graenford-green, when the prisoner
came up to him and bought a pie, and paid for it with a
florin, which Modes afterwards took to a beer•shop and
there it was declared to be a bad one. Oa searching the
prisoner two other bad shilLuga were discovered. He
had also 183. in silver and some copper money on his

person.
The prisoner said he became possessed of the bad
money in getting change for a sovereign ; he received a
good character.
The Common Sergeant, in summing up, remarked
that the suspicious circumstance against the prisoner
was that he paid for the penny pie with a florin, which
happened to be bad, while he had a quantity of copper
money in his possession.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner
was sentenc. d to four months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

Jane Wiiliaros, a girl about 17 years of age, was ;n-
-dieted for uttering a counterfeit crown-piece with intent
to defraud the Postmaster-General.

From the evidence, it appeared that about a moi,th
ago a girl came to the office at Charing cross and asked
for 6s. worth of postage stamps. On that occasion
two half-crowns were placed upon the counter with a
genuine shilling on the to of them, and owing to this
circumstance the fraud succeeded. In a few days after-
wards the prisoner entered the office and asked for a
similar number of postage stamps, and in payment she
placed a crown-piece on the counter and covered it with
a good chilling. The crown-piece turned out to be a
bad one, and the voice of the girl being recognised as the
person who had passed the bad halt-crowns, she was
given into custody.

The jury found the prisoner guilty ; and a former con-
viction having been proved, she was sentenced to four
months' imprisonment and hard labour.

NEW CALEDONIA.—A new Government bill provides
until the end of the year 1862, f ,r the government of
New Caledouia. The h unci,trie-s of the colqny are de-
fined, and will inc ule Qut-en Charlw.te's kfanci, and all
ether islands adjacent (with certain exceptions).. The
Q leen is authorised to appoint an effic,.q. to administer
the government of the colony and to establish a local
Legislature. Vancouver's Is and is especially excluded
from tt: e *colony of Ne vt Caledonia.