The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

CRIMINA

This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
ROBBING A PUBLICAN.
Thomes Jones was indicted for stealing £2105., the pro-
perty of Mr. John Sadler.
The prosecutor kept the Burridge Arms publichouse,
Plumstead, and on the day of the robbery the prisoner
entered the bar and called for some refreshment. While
the back of the person who served him was turned, he
reached over the bar and abstracted two sovereigns by
means of a stick he had in his hand, at.the end of which
there NV /1.4 a quantity of bird-lime. The money was after-
wards found in the prisoner's mouth.
The jury found him guilty, and the Recorder sentenced
him to two years' imprisonment with hard labour.

'NEW COURT.
FORGERY BY A CLERK.

Henry Alfred Parker, who pleaded guilty last session to
a charge of forgery and uttering two cheques for £650,
was this morning brought up for sentence.
The prisoner was a c]erk to Messrs. Black and Co., of
Covent-garden, and in that capacity ho was regarded as a
person of the utmost integrity. It appeared that he had
become mixed up with betting men, and it is supposed he
became involved, and that to relieve himself of
his liability he stole a cheque book belonging to
his employers, and filled up two of the
cheques for
.a sum amounting to £650. He presented
the cheques at tho London and Westminster Bank, and
the forgery being a close imitation of the signature of the
firm, he obtained the money, and then absconded to Aus-
trilia. The prisoner being well known at the bank, it was
soon discovered who had presented the forged cheques,
and an application was made to the Home-office, which re-
suited in Sergeant Nicholson being sent to Australia, where
he captured the prisoner and brought him back to Lou-
don. Sentence was postponed last session in order to give
the prisoner an opportunity of giving information as to
the manner in which he had disposed of the money, but
beyond stating that he had paid .£l5O to a betting man,
which that person denied receiving, no information had
been given. When the prisoner was captured in Australia
he had in his possession al)out £55 in money and a quantity
of clothes worth about £7O, and this was all that had been
recovered, there being a sum of over £2OO still out in
bank notes, two of which were for £5O and five for £2O.

The Common Sergeant, on sentencing the prisoner, said
he had pleaded guilty to an offence which was of a very
serious nature, viz., forghig And uttering cheques to a con-
siderable amount in order to gratify his taste for betting
of. horse-racing. It was not on account of insufficiency
os salary that the fraud had been committed, but solely it
was supposed to gratify a taste for gambling. There was
no palliation at all for such an offence, and under all the
circumstances of the case he felt it his duty to sentence
him to five years penal servitude.

ROBBERY By A BUTLER.
James Andrews was indicted for feloniously forging and
uttering eight receipts for the payment of money with in-
tent to defraud, and also for stealing a quantity of plate,
the property of his mistress, an aged lady named Black-
burn.

The prisoner had been for a number of years in the ser-
vice of Mrs. Blackburn, and was looked, upon as a confi-
dential servant. He had charge of the plate, and in con-
sequence of certain irregularities ho was called upon to
produce the whole of the silver, when he was unable to do
so, and ultimately admitted he had pawned a quantity of
it, and produced the tickets.
The learned counsel who defended the prisoner submit-
ted that the prisoner was bailee of the plate, and therefore
there had been no stealing, as it had been recovered.
The Common Sergeant overruled the point ; it might as
well be urged that a chambermaid was baillee of the sheets.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Mr.Me tcalf said there wore other cases against the prisoner,
but it was not intended to press them. A large quantity
of wine had been abstracted from the bottles in the cellar,
which had been replaced by water. The prisoner had £4O
besides perquisites, and had been well taken care of by his
aged mistress in her will, all benefit of which he would
now lose.

The Common Sergeant said it was a very bad case, and
taking into consideration the disgraceful position he had
placed himself in, and the loss he Would sustain by the
altered'arrangements of his late mistress, he should pass
upon him a comparatively light sentence. He wished to
know whether he was a =riled man.

The counsel for the prisoner said he was, but that his
wife had been an invalid for many years, and this had
occasioned his becoming involved.

Sergeant Cole, of the Metropolitan police, said he had
known the prisoner for a long time, and instead of his
treating her in a proper manner he allowed her only ss. a
week for herself and children. The prisoner was a
thorough drunkard.

The Common Sergeant sentenced him to 18 months'
imprisonment with hard labour.

Representation of the People Bi'l.

The following amendments and clauses are to be
proposed in committee:-
21n. WENTWORTH BEAUMONT.

In clause 3, line 29, to insert " < returning
officer' shall include the sheriff of any county, and
shall apply to every person having the execution of,
any writ for the election of a member or members
to serve in Parliament for any county or borough."
To move the following clauses :
Clauses A.—lt shall not be lawful at any elec-
tion for any candidate, or any one on his behalf,
to pay any money on account of the conveyance of
any voter to the poll, either to vote for himself or
to any other person, or for any person to re-
ceive from any candidate, or any one on his
behalf, any money on account of such
conveyance ; and any person paying or re-
ceiving money contrary to this provision shall be
guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall also be liable
to forfeit any sum not exceeding pounds
for every such offence to any person who shall sue
for the same, with full costs of suit; and any can-
didate who shall be declared by the select committee
appointed for the trial of any petition concerning
the election for any county or borough to have
committed any such offence at that election, shall
be incapable of sitting in Parliament for such county
or borough during the Parliament in which such
committee shall have been appointed.

Clause B.—Provided always that nothing in this
act shall prevent any candidate in any, election from
providing, at his own expense, a pass or ticket for
the conveyance by railway of any voter, in order to
his voting at such election.

Class C.—The justices of the peace in quarter
sessions assembled shall, immediately after the pass-
ing of this act, appoint convenient polling places in
every county, and may from time to time alter
such polling-places, so that there may be a polling-
place in every parish or township in which there
shall be not less than 200 resident electors, and a
polling-place for every two or more parishes or
townships in any of which separately there shall
be less than 200 resident electors, at some con-
venient point at which, as nearly as possible, 200
voters from such small parishes or townships may
most conveniently attend to record their votes.
Cladse D.—ln every borough, wheneyer an
election shall take place, the returning officer 'shall
provide sufficient polling booths, sc.) that as nearly
as possible there shall be at least one pollit booth
in every area of one square mile in which there
shall be resident not less than 200 electors.
Clause E.—On every election the fees and ex-
penses of the returning officer shall be wholly paid
and defrayed as follows, and not otherwise (that is
to say), in the case of a county out of the county
, rate of that county, and in the case of a borough
out of the money to be collected Nr the relief of
the poor in the several parishes and townships
within that borough, and the provisions contained
in the statute of the sixth year of her Majesty
Queen Victoria, chapter 18, sections 54 and 55,
with respect to the expenses therein referred to,
shall be applicable to the fees and expenses by this
section provided for, and such foes and expenses
shall include the reasonable fees and travelling ex-
penses of the under sheriff, deputy sheriffs, and
returning
officers, and all sums reasonably
e erection of hustings and the deputy
expended
in
h
pro-
viding of polling booths and rooms, and of poll
clerks and other requisite officers, and of profes-
sional assistance, and all other reasonable disburse-
ments by the returning officer in relation to such
election.

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