The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-07 00:00:00

LLANIDLOES AND NEWTOWN.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
on Monday at Llanidloes, Mr. G. H. Whalley, M.P.,
in the chair.

Mr. T. HAYWARD, the secretary, read the report,
which explained the reasons that induced the direc-
tors to give up the proposed amalgamation with the
West Midland Company. The directors had come
to an arrangement with the Loudon and North-
Western Company, whereby the Llanidloes and
Newtown Company would be secured, by a traffic
rebate, a dividend equal to the former company. The
directors congratulated the shareholders upon the
arrangement. A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum was declared for the past half year.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, explained at some length the reasons which
had influenced the directors in coming to the traffic
arrangement with the London and North-Western
Company. He believed it would be found to be mu-
tually advantageous, for by it the London and
North-Western would be enabled to obtain a per-
manent footing in Mid-Wales. The arrangement was
to continue in force for 20 years, and would apply
to the Mid-Wales Company as well as the Welsh
Coast line when they were in operation. He cor-
tont,liEe Eix
ir. iFF market.
dially approved the scheme, and hoped that the
shareholders would likewise approve it. One effect
of
inwould be to place their shares in a good posi-
iseconded the adoption of the re-
port, which was carried.
The meeting was then made special for the pur-
pose of creating additional capital to the amount of
£25,000, either by preferential or other £lO shares,
none of them to bearer greater interest than 10 per
cent.

The CHAIRMAN explained that the proposed sum

was. the only additional capital that had been asked
for, notwithstanding the increased expenditure
upon their works.
The motion for raising the additional capital was
put and earthed, and thanks to the chairman closed
the proceedings.

lIIIDDLES.EX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Whately, Q.C.)

Henry Trumper, 21, was indicted for stealing a
silver tea-pot and other articles, value £6, the pro-
perty of Ann Smith Hyatt, in her dwelling-house.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Lloyd was for the
prisoner. . _ _

Ann Aldridge, a young woman, said she was ser-
vant to Mrs.. Hardy, of 26, Camden-road Villas, and
the prosecntrix, Mrs. Hyatt, lived next door. On
thelith of July, at a quarter to three in the after-
noon, she was sweeping the drawing-room, when
she saw a man with a basket looking up at the win-
down of the next house. He put his basket down,
went on his knees and crawled into Mrs. Hyatt's
house by the window, and when he came out he
had with him a tea-pot and milk-jug. The prisoner
was that man. She had not seen him before, but
she was certain he was the man, and on seeing him
in custody she pointed him out from a number of
other persons. She called to the next door servant
as he was going away to stop him, and she went in
pursuit, and both had a good view of him.
Ann Read, Mrs. Hardy's servant, also identified
the prisoner as the man, and a police constable said
he saw the prisoner loitering about the Camden-
road Villas, with a basket, on the day and about
the time the robbery was committed. On the girl
Aldridge giving the alarm the prisoner dropped the
property, which was found in the garden afterwards
by Mrs. Hyatt. The policeman knew him pre-
viously, and knew his father, and knew where he
lived ; and he also knew a grandson of the father's.
The prisoner was taken in Maiden-lane, at the
corner of a court. He said to the officer when
charged, "All right. I'll go with you where you
like."

The defence was an alibi. The prisoner's father,
Abraham Trumper, greengrocer, 11, Queen's-ter-
race, York-road, said the prisoner was his son. He
had a grandson very much resembling the prisoner,
and he had not seen him since this robbery. On
the day of the robbery his son was with him at
dinner at one o'clock, and he was with him at three
at a workshop, where there were three other per-
sons. Tie was with him from that time till a quar-
ter past four, when he left him with a horse and
cart in the Hampstead-road.
Other evidence was given that the prisoner could
not have been there at the time, but the jury found
him guilty, and he was sentenced to eighteen
months' hard labour.

His lordship said that he agreed with the jury,
and much regretted that the prisoner's father had
been induced to give the evidence he had.
Mr. Cooper said the girl Aldridge had behaved
extremely well in the matter, and had given her
evidence very creditably, and suggested that it was
a case in which his lordship might avail himself of
the power he had of ordering her some reward.
His lordship said he quite agreed with the learned
counsel. The girl's conduct bad been very praise-
worthy. Such servants had great trust placed in
them, and he should direct that she receive in
addition to the usual expenses.
Louis Geneste, 28, was indicted for fraudulently
obtaining from Robert Lewis the sum of £lO with
intent to cheat, &c.

The prosecutor was a tobacconist in St. James's-
street, and the prisoner had been an occasional cus-
tomer. He paid for a pound of cigars with a cheque
drawn upon Mr. J. W. Cunningham, of King's
College, his father's executor. He said that he was
authorised to draw upon him. The cheque was for
£lO, and the prosecutor believing, of course, that it
was genuine, gave him the difference. Mr. Cun-
ningham had known the prisoner from birth, but
never authorised him to draw upon him. He was
an executor under thefather's will, and the prisoner
had a life interest in a small sum ; and the cheque
now in question, which was not the first of the kind,
he refused to honour, as he had others. The prisoner
wrote to him asking him to honour it ; he replied
that he had not a farthing of his in his possession.
The prisoner's life interest was about £250.
The prisoner was acquitted.
Thomas Wallis, 21, was indicted for unlawfully
attempting to obtain by false pretences the sum of
305., the money of her Majesty the Queen, with in-
tent to defraud. '

Mr. Best prosecuted; the prisoner was defended
by Mr. Dickie.
Mr. Best stated that the prisoner had falsely
represented himself to be one Arthur Cane. The
latter was entitled to some bounty money, as one of
the Royal Elthorne Middlesex Militia, which was
payable in Gerrard-street, Soho. He presented
himself there, and answered to the name of Arthur
Cane, on the 24th of July, to receive the bounty, 30s.
in amount, and said he wa4 that person, in answer
to a question put to him by the sergeant, who sus-
pected that an attempt at fraud was intended. The
sergeant asked him other questions, the replies to
which satisfied him that he was not Arthur Cane,
and he communicated with Captain A.D. Bell, and
the result was that the prisoner was given in
charge.
The defence suggested was that the prisoner had
been sent by Arthur Cane for the money; but the
jury found him guilty, with a recommendation to
mercy.
His Lordship said he believed the prisoner had
been advised by some scoundrel or other to do what
he had done, and he should sentence him to three
months' imprisonment.
A great number of cases of larceny from the per-
son and petty larceny, in which the prisoners
pleaded guilty, were disposed of.

SECOND COURT.
(Before Mr. Payne.)

GROSS OUTRAGE IN COURT BY A PRISONER.

Richard Lomax, 20, was indicted for feloniously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of James
Clothier, and stealing therein a diamond brooch
value £lOO, his property.
The prosecutor was a jeweller, carrying on busi-
ness at 121, Pall-mall. About seven o'clock on the
evening of the 25th of July, as he was sitting in his
shop, there was a crash at the window, and he ran
to the door, when he saw the prisoner making off
as fast as he could. The prosecutor followed in
pursuit, and the prisoner was stopped in Waterloo-
place by another person, and a fourth person picked
up two pieces of a diamond brooch, which had been
taken from the shop window, and which was of the
value of £lOO. A piece of wood forming part of a
bracket from which the brooch was stolen was also
picked up. The prisoner had passed the spot where
the property was found; and when asked if he had
taken anything else, he said he had not. To the
police-constable the prisoner said he had tried to get
an honest living, but could not, and therefore he
meant to lead a dishonest one ; that he had been
starving, and was refused admission to a workhouse,
but that was untrue. When before tEe magistrate
he coolly said, "All I've to say is, that I meant to
have it—that's all."

The prisoner was found guilty. He had been in
prison, but no former conviction was charged against
him.

The learned Judge sentenced him to be kept to
penal servitude for the period of three years.
While the prosecutor was giving his evidence the
prisoner pulled out of his pocket a piece of flint
about the size of an egg, and threw it with all his
might at the prosecutor, having evidently aimed
it at his head. Fortunately it missed him, and
struck the wall, just above the head of one of the
jurors in waiting. It was handed to the judge, who
directed it to be kept in the custody of Mr. Hoig-
kinson, the clerk, and said he would cause it to be
inquired into by the visiting justices of the House
of Detention how it was that the prisoner was in
possession of the stone when sent to the court for
trial.,

The prisoners sent to the House of Detention are
strictly searched on entering and on leaving, but
the vigilance of the officers is sometimes baffled by
the cunning and ingenuity of the prisoners. How
this prisoner had the stone about him without its
being detected is a matter of surprise. A full in-
vestigation will take place. The prisoner is a one
arm man.

Thmr as Falthrick, 31, was indicted for stealing
four ounces of tobacco, the property of Emmanuel
Jonas and others, his masters, cigar and tobacco
merchants. of High Holborn.
Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted.

It appeared that the prisoner was one of a large
number of workmen employed by the prosecutors,
and was found leaving the premises with a quarter
of a pound of tobacco concealed in his boots.
He was found guilty, and sentenced to six months'
hard labour, the learned Judge remarking that in
any future case that term would be doubled.

George Grant, 35, a gardener, was indicted for
and convicted of indecent conduct in the gallery of
the Marylebone Theatre. He was sentenced to
hard labour for one year.
It was stated that he had been previously com-
mitted for a similar offence.

Mr. Gent prosecuted, 8:Q Mr. Cooper defended.
Wm. Pulley, 24, porter, was indicted for stealing
two os. packets of copper coin, the money of George
Clamtree, his master. The prosecutor was an
eatinghouse keeper in Church-street, Shoreditch,
and the prisoner stole the two packets of copper,
and concealed one in a closet and the other under a
water-butt. He was found guilty, and sentenced
to nine months' hard labour.
Mr. Pater prosecuted.
Thomas Ryan, 21, was indicted for Pteßlin a

coat, &c., the property of David Barnett., A robbery
was committed on the premises of the prosecutor, in
Middlesex-street, and a coat, part of the stolen
property, was, it was said, pawned by the prisoner,
but there was some doubt about that, and the jury
acquitted bim.
Mr. J. E. Palmer prosecuted ; Mr. Pater defended.