The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-27 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Nov. 26.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Baron
Watson.)
James Bagley, 23, and John Embleton, 43, were
charged with forging a Post-office order for 21.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prose-
cution ; Mr. Rfbton defended Bagley ; Embleton
was undefended.

Mr. Ribton made a very ingenious address to
the jury on behalf of the prisoner Bagley, and he
urged that there was nothing to show that the story
he told was not the truth, and that some person
who had either found or stolen the letter contain-
ing the money-order bad employed him to get it
cashed. He at the dame time observed that a
postman was a very likely person who would be
employed for such a purpose.
The other prisoner said that he had merely pre-
sented the order at the Post-office, and that he was
not aware of there being anything wrong in the
transaction.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against
both prisoners, and Bagley was sentenced to four
years' penal servitude, and Embloton to be impri-
soned and kept to hard labour for 18 months.
Mark Nicholas Powles, 20, was charged with
felony, under a statute passed in the reign of his
late Majesty William IV., in having unlawfully
entered into a recognizance of bail in the name of
another party, without the authority of that party.
The jury, after a short deliberation, found the
prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to be kept
to hard labour for fifteen months.

John Grace Leveridge, 26, was charged with
stealing an order for 311. 2s. 2d., the property of
William Oldham.

Mr. Ribton conducted the prosecution; the pri-
soner was defended by Mr. Sleigh.
This case occupied the Court for a considerable
time, owing to the line of defence that was adopted,
but the facts were in a very small compass. The
prosecutor is a wine merchant, carrying on busi-
ness in London-street, Fenchurch-street, and the
p.mner had been in his service for nine years, and
was +employed in a very confidential manner. Ac-
cording to the evidence of the prosecutor, about the
4th of November he gave the prisoner a cheque for
311. 2s. 2d. to pay the duty on a butt of wine that
he had sold to the Earl of Leicester, and about the
same time he alsogave the prisoner a blank cheque,
which he was to have filled up for the sum of 31.
for a week's petty cash, but it appeared, that
instead of doing so, be inserted the sum of
961. 2s. 2d. on the cheque, and obtained that
amount from the bankers ; and he also cashed
the cheque for 311. 2s. 2d., and afterwards obtained
gold for the notes at the Bank of England, and it
did not appear to be denied that the prisoner had
appropriated the residue of this money to his own
us..

The jury retired, and after being absent about
half-an-hour gave a verdict of not guilty.
There was another charge against the prisoner of
forging the cheque for 961. 2s. 2d., which Mr. Rib-
ton intimated his intention to proceed with.

NEW COURT.
[Before the Recorder.]
John White, gunalcer, was indicted for stealing
51. the moneys of Thomas Frost.
ifr. Platt prosecuted, and Mr. Langford defended.

The prosecutor, an °Hedy countriman, carrying
on business as a miller at Halsted, in Essex, said,
that upon the 16th of November he was in Wel.
lington-street, near London-brido, when he asked
some one whom he met if he could tell him where a
boiler maker was to be found ; the man said ho
would take him to his brother, who followed that
trade. The man first asked him if he would have
some beer, and the prosecutor assenting, they all
went to a publ,c-house, vrhere the prisoner and
another man joined them ; one of the party then
said that be had some money left him, and was up
in town to receive it. A lock was then produced,
and the man who first spoke to prosecutor offered
to bet that it could not be picked. Another one
pressed the prosecutor to bet, but he refused. He
was then taunted about not having any money,
upon which he was incautious enough to produce
the sem named, which the prisoner took up and
went away wi,h, but was soon after taken into
custody.
Mr. Langford, in a speech of some length, con-
tended that the money had been lost fairly in a bet
made by the prosecutor.
The jury, however, entertaining a diff,rent
opinion of the transaction, found the prisoner
guilty, and he was sentenced to 12 months' im-
prisonment.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
William Moody, 29, soldier, was indicted for
robbery with violence upon Joseph Fleck, and
stealing from him a watch and chain.
Mr. Gout prosecuted.
The prosecutor, a German, living in Pembroke-
place, Vauxhall, was upon the night of the 30th
of October proceeding along Victoria-street, West-
minster, when ho was stopped by the prisoner and
another man. He was almost immediately knocked
down with great violence, and the prisoner fell
upon him. Hs raised an outcry, and prisoner then
got up, and tearing the watch and guard from pro.
secutor's neck, both men ran off.
. _

The police said that hearing the prosecutor they
went in that direction, and saw the prisoner run-
Ding away from the spot. They followed him into
Blue Anchor-yard, and took him into custody.
Upon being taken into custody he said he had
run up that place to escape the observation of a
picket which had just turned out. There being
nothing found upon him at the station the con-
stables wont back to the spot where they had ap-
prehended him, and there among some rubbish
found the prosecutor's watch and chain.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
An officer of the Guards, to whose regiment the
prisoner belonged, said he had been specially sent
to inform the Court that the prisoner bore a very
bad character in the regiment. fie had been tried
several times when in the Crimea, but never con-
victed.

The Court sentenced him to four years' penal
servitude.
Thomas Eastley, 31, soldier, was indicted for
stealing a canvas tent, waggon cover, and three
blankets, the property of our Lady the Queen.
Mr. Bodkin prosecuted, and Mr. Brooke, de-
fended.

It appeared that a police-constable met the pri-
soner upon the night of the 30th of October coming
from the barracks at Woolwich with a sack upoa
his shoulder. He (the officer) stopped him, and,
opening the sack, found the articles in question,
which were quite new, and apparently had been
just taken from the stores, and had the Govern-
ment mark upon them.
Mr. Brooke, for the prisoner, urged in mitiga-
tion the very high character which he bad borne,
and the fact that his pension would be lost.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Mr. Bodkin requested that sentence might be
deferred to afford the prisoner an opportunity of
giving information to the authorities, as it was
evident a system of plunder was now going on.
Sentence postponed.
Francis Allen, 35, tailor, and James Coward,
22, labourer, were indicted for gelling 620 copies
of the London Journal, the property of William
Mark Clark.

Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Poland prosecuted . and
Mr. W. Cooper, Mr. J. P. Doylo, and Mr. Ribton
defended.

The facts have been very recently reporter]. The
prosecutor is the publisher in Warwick-lane, and
upon the 24th of Oc+ober both prisoners bad been
to his offi.3e. As soon as they left, a quantity of
copies of the aboTe work were mimed, and almost