The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-23 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

The Recorder sentenced Regan to 12 months' imprison-
Ment, and Attwood to six years' penal servitude.
Daniel Ferris, labourer, aged 21, pleaded guilty to an
indictment charging him with committing a burglary in the
dwelling house of Joseph Weatherley, and stealing there-
from two tea-pots, a coffee-pot, and several other articles.
The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprison-
ment.

Robert Green, labourer, aged 20, pleaded guilty to an
indictment charrging him with stealing a clock and glass
shade, the property of Mr. Kebble, of Gracechurch-street.
He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
THE ALLEGED WHISKY FRAUDS.
Edward Thurgood, 38, surgeon, and John Riky, 43,
agent, were indicted for unlawfully obtaining 29 gallons oi
whisky, the property of Charles Cook Christie, with intent
to cheat him thereof.

The facts of the vase have already appeared at consider..
able length in The Bu;i while the prisoners were under
examination at the Guildhall Police-court.
After a very eloquent appeal by Mr Metcalf and Mr.
Sleigh, who defended the prisoners,
The Common Sergeant summed up the evidence at great
length, explaining the law as it affected the offence with
which the prisoners stood charged.
After some deliberation, the jury found both prisoners
guilty on the first and fourth counts, and not guilty on the
second and third.
The prisoners having been called up for judgment in the
usual form,
The Common Sergeant, in passing sentence, said the
jury had found both prisoners guilty, after a very earnest
defence, on the first and fourth counts in the indictment,
which charged them with obtaining by false pretences a
quail:Up of property, and endeavouring to obtain by the
same means a still larger amount, with intent to defraud.
The jury, on the other two counts, which imputed con-
spiracy, had acquitted them, and'he entirely concurred in
the verdict which had beenreturned. It was of the utmost
importance in a commercial country that all frauds should
be severely punished, and had the jury returned a different
ho should have passed a heavier punishment. The learned
judge then sentenced both prisoners to 18 months' imprison
menf-

BURGLARY WITH VIOLENCE.
Augustin Jallde, an Italian, aged 25, pleaded guilty
to an indictment charging him with burglariously breaking
and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. C. Pritchard, residing
in the vicinity of Clapham, and stealing therefrom three
forks, one fish knife, and various other articles.
The Common Sergeant said the prisoner had done right
in pleading guilty to the indictment against him. The
crime the prisoner had committed was of itself a very
serious one, but it was frightful to contemplate what might
have been the result supposing the rev. geitleman, or any
of the domestics, had disturbed him while he was engaged
in the act of plundering the house. From the deposi-
tions, he found that he, in the most business-like man-
ner, forced a wire guard from its position, and
thus obtained an entry to the premises. That after
he had succeeded so, far in his object the prisoner ob-
tained a light and ransacked room after room, in search of
the silver plate, armed with a largo knife. Fortunately
for the inmates the police were the first to arouse them, and
when they attempted to capture the prisoner he commenced
a desperate resistance with the knife, so much so that it
was a mercy he did not commit the crime of murder, for
murder it would certainly have been had death ensued to any
person. He trembled to think of the consequences of per-
sons of the determined disposition of the prisoner being
discovered in the act of plunder in the dead of night in the
house of a clergyman, and he ought to be thankful that he
was not now standing before the Court as a murderer. The
sentence of the Court was, that he bo kept to penal servi-
tude for six years.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. Prendergast.)
The trials in this Court this morning consisted of llint
cases, mno of which possessed the slightest interest.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Information has
been brought by some whalers, recently arrived, that Cap-
tain M'Chntock was seen early in August within Pond's
Bay, into which he had succeeded in navigating the Fox,
and that he was holding ,communication with numerous
parties of Espimaux,

This Dab

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
BURGLARY.
Edward Attwood and John Regan were indicted for
burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of
a gentleman named Cooke, and stealing therefrom certain
valuable articles, his property. Regan pleaded guilty and
Attwood not guilty.
Mr. W. F. Cooke said—l live at 1, Percy-terrace, West-
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minster. I. also occupy the next house, No. 2. On Sun-
day, the -14th of November, I went to the house, No. 2, and
while there I heard a noise, which induced me to return to
No. 1. I went in by a private door from the garden, which
I found had been broken open. I went into the back par-
lour and found the place in disorder, and a quantity of pro-
perty packed up for removal I heard a man up stairs and
I challenged him to come down. He did so. Regan is the
man. He threw something at me and attempted to get
away. The back entrances to the house had all been
broken open. I only saw one man come down stairs. I
cannot say how many persons were in the house.
Bartlett, a police-constable, said, on the night in ques-
tion I saw Attwood come out of No. 1, Percy-terrace. He
cried out " There he goes," and ran away. I pursued him,
and whilst I was doing so he kept on threatening me. On.
coming up to him I took him into custody on suspicion of
being concerned in a robbery.
Another policeman produced some spoons which dropped
from the prisoner Regan when he was taken into custody,
which the prosecutor identified as his property.
James Ward, the hackney carriage attendant in the Lam-
beth-road, identified Attwood as the man he stopped running
in the Kennington-road. When Attwood was stopped he
said we had got the wrong man.
William Weale, a cabman, said he stopped the prisoner
Regan, and found in his possession the crowbar produced
which corresponded with the marks on the door and win-
dows of the house No. 1, Percy-terrace.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
A former conviction for burglary was proved agains
Attwood, when he was sentenced to four years' penal ser-
vitudo in 1854