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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

Thomas Smith, a baker, was indicted for a rape upon Sarah
Bevan, a young girl thirteen years of age, on the Ist of
January last.
Mr. CLARKSON stated the ease for the prosecution, the
facts of which are wholly unfit for publication. It appeared in
the course of the evidence that the prosecutrix offered no re-
sistance to the commission of the offence, and the Jury there-
fore, under the direction of the Learned Judge acquitted the
prisoner.
Mr. Justice VAUGHAN, as the prisoner was leaving the dock,
observed, if he had any feeling, the conduct he had pursued
towards the prosecutrix would cause him to feel a sting during
the remainder of his life.
Robert Kirby, aged nineteen, was indicted with burglari-
ously entering the dwelling-house of John Norwood, at
Hoxton, and stealing articles of dress, his property.
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, that on
the 13th of January last, lie and his wife left his house on bu-
siness about half-past four o'clock in the day, safely locked up,
and on returning about twelve o'clock at night, they
found the house had been broken into, and several articles of
wearing apparel had been taken away.
The case was clearly proved against the prisoner, who said
nothing in his defence.
Several persons gave the prisoner a good character. One,
upon being asked where he resided, replied—" No. 20, in the
Land of Promise." This reply caused considerable laughter
in Court.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty.
Ann Flynn and Mary Ann Hamlet were indicted for having
in their possession moulds for the purpose of coining.
William Tripp, a policeman, stated that on the 20th or
January last, from information he received, he proceeded to
the house where the prisoner resided, in Plough-court,
Church-street, St. Giles's. After forcing open the door, he
discovered the prisoners standing near the fire-place. A dog
that came from under the bed attacked him, but other police-
men coming in, they were. enabled to take the prisoners into
custody. Flynn inquired what they wanted with them, to
which witness answered that she knew as well as he did. To
this she replied, " You can't hang us for doing nothing." Found
a mould in the ashes quite hot, with a counterfeit shilling in
it. On further searching, witness picked up four bad shillings
among the ashes, two iron spoons, and some bits of metal,
which appeared to have been recently melted. Found on
the shelf a bag of plaster of Paris. Took the prisoners
to Bow-street, leaving his fellow-officer in charge of the room.
On returning and searching again a file was found, and a
shilling between two pieces of unburnt coke.
Matthews, a policeman, corroborated the evidence of the
former witness.
Mr. Field, the inspector at the Mint, proved the coins found
to be counterfeits, and that they mere cast in the mould that
had been discovered.
The prisoner Flynn put in a written defence, denying the
charge.
Hainlet said she was truly innocent.
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN summed up, and
The Jury found the prisoners Guilty.
Mr. SCARLETT and Mr. &us conducted the case on behalf
of the Mint.
The husband of Flynn, who was well known some years
ago as a member of the prize ring, under the name of the St.
Giles's Chicken, was convicted about five years ago for man-
slaughter and transported for life. After he was sent to New
South Wales be found means to escape, joining a party of
Bush Rangers. In an excursion with them he, together with
the greater part of his comrades, were taken and shot.
Daniel O'Donnell, aged 25 years, was indicted for stealing,
on the 20th of December last, several articles of plate, and
other property, belonging to his mistress, Mrs. Mary Ann
Moore.

The prisoner, upon being arraigned, requested that his trial
might be postponed on the ground of the policeman, who took
him into custody having taken the whole of his money from
him, thereby rendering it impossible for him to prepare his
defence, or employ counsel.
Mr. Justice PATTISON said that was no reason for the post-
ponement of the trial, and it must therefore proceed.
Mr. CRESSWELL stated the case for the prosecution, and
called—

. Mary Ann Moore, who stated that she was a widow, re-
siding at 77, Guildford-street, Russell-square. The pri-
soner at the bar came into her service on the 24th of No-
vember last. At that period she was possessed of
the plate mentioned in the indictment. She was
in the habit of having the plate brought up to her bed-room
every night, which was taken down the next morning. Some
of the plate was used at breakfast and luncheon, on the
morning of the 20th of December. The witness had a son
residing in Doctors' Commons, who, when he had large par-
ties, required the use of her plate. For the purpose of send-
ing the plate backwards and forwards witness had a box made.
When witness went to dine with her son it was the prisoner's
duty to attend her to wait at table. On the 20th witness went
to dine with her son, but the removal of any plate was not
necessary. After taking luncheon on the 20th, witness went
to walk with her daughter, and returned about four o'clock.
Observed a man standing in the p,,,zsage who was a glazier,
and had come to repair a pane of glass tii had been broken.
The cook went with him into the drawing-roco, the house-
maid attended witness to dress for dinner, and prisonei was left
to the entire controul of the lower part of the house. Qn
coming down stairs, the prisoner was not to be found, but
witness thought he had gone to her son's. Upon arriving at
Doctors' Commons, witness was not there ; and upon return-
ing home at eleven o'clock, and not finding him there, witness
began to suspect that all was not right ; and upon searching,
the plate box, that had been taken up stairs by the house-
maid, she discovered the property mentioned in the indictment
was missing.
The house-maid corroborated the evidence of Mrs. Moore.
Charles Philip Moore, a proctor in Doctors' Commons, was
the son of the prosecutrix. He caused hand-bills to be printed
of the robbery. From information he received, he went to a
house in North Audley-street, where he saw the prisoner,
whom he immediately seized, and asked him if he was not
ashamed of robbing his mother of her plate ; to which the
prisoner replied, " Yes, I am." Witness then gave him into
custody.
Two police constables of the name of Rooke and Thomp-
son, of the D division, took the ?risoner into custody, and
corroborated the evidence of Mr. Moore as to the prisoner's
saying he was ashamed of having robbed Mrs. Moore of her
plate.
H. W. Morrison, the gaoler at the Marylebone Police-
office—On conveying the prisoner to prison a second time, he
nsked witness if he knew whether a man named Griffiths was
taken into custody ? Witness said he did not know, but he
thought not. The prisoner said he was sorry for it, as he was
the man who had brought him into trouble, and that he was
the man who had advised him to do what he had done. On
another occasion he expressed a wish for the var to go a diffe-
rent way to that in which it usually went from the lock-up
house to the office. On witness asking him why he wanted
that, the prisoner said because he wanted to point out where
the plate had been taken to, in order that the villain Grif-
fiths might be taken into custody. Witness took him the way
he required, and he pointed out to witness a house in Broad-
street, where he said the plate had been taken to, but it was
not sold there, but taken away by a boy to a house which the
prisoner showed witness, and there sold. On his third
examination, the prisoner expressed a desire to know whether
Griffiths had been taken. The witness told him he believed
he was not. On returning from the office the prisoner showed
the witness where the box containing the plate had been
thrown. In consequence of this information, witness went to
a Mr. Langthorp's, in Huntley-street, Tottenham-court-road,
where he discovered the box.

Langthorpe stated that he was a bricklayer, and found the
box ad some premises he worked at in Long Acre.
Mrs Moore identified the box as her property.
The prisoner said nothing in defence.
Mr. Justice PATTISON summed up, and
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.