The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-14 00:00:00

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 13.

(Sittings at Nisi Prins at Guildhall before Lord CAMP-
BELL and a Common Jury.)
.TOYCE V. WALKER AND INOTMER.
(Continued from The Sun of yesterday.)
The plaintiff was put upon the ordinary prison dietary,
and was only allowed to see his friends once a week.
This was the plaintiff'. case.
Mr. BovuL addressed the jury for the defence, and
called

Mr. John Hewlett, the Deputy.Prothonotory of the
Palace Court, who proved the issuing a summons 'on
the Sth June, and that the parties appeared on the Sth
June in court. Robert Morphet, and a person with him,
came forward when the case was called on. Morphet
said the defendant had consented to an order to pay by
instalments. Witness then asked Henry Joyce, the
younger, if he was the defendant in the case, who re-
plied that he was. Upon that an order was drawn up in
accordance with the terms of the consent. Henry Joyce,
the younger, afterwards, on being brought a second tirne
before the Court, said he was not the defendant, and
would not pay the money. Witness then reported the
natter to the Judge of the Palace Court, who ordered
the defendant to be committed for fourteen day►, for not
complying with his previous order. Upon that a war-
rant was made out, but retained in the office fourteen
days, to allow the defendant to pay the debt if he chose.
The warrant was then given to an oscer of the Palace
Court, to execute in the usual way.
Henry Herrick, a bailiff of the defunct Palace Court,
proved that he received instructions and a warrant from
Morphet, the present defendants' agent, to take young
Joyce into custody, which was eventually done at his
father's house, in Somers-town.

Lord CAMPBELL summed up, and
The jury found a verdict for plaintiff—Damages 201.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
James Quigley, formerly a shopman in the employ of
Mr. Lipscooube, closet-maker, of 233, Strand, was
charged with stealing a desk containing 101., a cheque,
and other property.
The prosecutor (Mr. Lipscombe) proved that the desk
was stolen from his counter, during his momentary
absence from the shop, on Tuesday, the 3d inst. It
contained a 101. note, a cheque for 61. is., some postage-
stamps, some loose silver, and a will. The prisoner was
in his employ about six months ago, and consequently
would have known where the desk was usually placed,
and that it would probably contain money. The note,
cheque, and will were produced, and identified by
Witt-J0:35.

Mr. E. Wilkins, barrister, of 10, Spring-gardens, iden-
tified the 101. note as one which he had paid to the
prosecutor on the morning of the 3d.
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A baker living in High-street, Hoxton, proved that
the note was tendered to him by the prisoner, on the
night of the 3d, in payment of an account which be
owed there. Witness had it cashed at a neighbouring
butcher s, and paid the prisoner the difference.
Sergeant Thompson went to the prisoner's lodgings on
the 4th instant, and saw fragments of the desk burning
on a fire. Having ascertained that the prisoner had
gone to Liverpool, witness had him " telegraphed." The
prisoner was apprehended there in consequence of the
description given of him, and next morning witness went
and brought him back to London. The prisoner said
that he knew nothing of the robbery, and accounted for
the 101. note, and for the cheque, stamps, &c., which
witness found in his possession, by saying that they
were given to him by two men in the Kingsland-road,
who wanted him to get cash for them.
Mr. JARDINE committed him for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Georle Pearson Power, 17; Edward Bent-
4, 15; James Richardson, 14; Edward Barrett. 13;
and John Robinson, 12 years of age, were plleed et the
bar before Mr. Hammitt, charged with the following rob-
bery upon their employers, Messrs. John Allen and Co.,
extensive paperstainers at Old Ford.
Mr. Thomas Bevis, overseer of the prosecutors' pre-
mises, stated that the firm were in the habit, in carry-
ing out their business., of swinging loose lengths of
paper from poles across the factory, and that for some
time past large quantities of this paper were found to
have been carried away by some persons in the establish-
ment, the thieves increasing the destruction their
robberies occasioned by tearing away the lower portions
of the lengths only, and leaving the upper parts behind
them, thereby destroying the whole. No clue to the
perpetrators of this wanton mischief could be discovered
till the preceding morning, when he accidently over-
heard one of the younger boys, Barrett, exclaim to
James Robinson that he would not sell any more of the
paper; and on witness accusing Robinson of being con-
cerned in the transaction, he denied that he had sold
the paper, and declared that Barrett had done so. On
questioning Barrett where he had got the paper from, he
at once told him that Bentley, Power, and Richardson
had packed the paper up, given it to Barrett and Robin-
son for sale, and that the last quantity so disposed of,
about 71b. in weight, had been sold for is. Oid., and that
the proceeds had been divided among them. It also
appeared that another youth, brother of one of the pri-
soners, and older than either, and who had been dis-
charged from the factory the week before, and had since
absconded, was also engaged in the robberies, and upon
communicating these facts to the prosecutor, Mr. John
Allen, and ascertaining from one of the prisoners where
the last paper had been sold, the police were calied in
and the whole of them given into custody.
A cheeeemonger named Davis, in Green-street, Beth-
nal-green, proved that on Tuesday last a quantity of
paper was brought to his shop for sale by Robinson and
Bentley, the latter of whom represented himself as the
son of the proprietor of a paper factory at Old Ford, I
who had sent him to sell it, and that, as the paper was
torn and apparently waste, he had purchased a portion I
of it at 2d. per pound and the remainder at lid. Upon
a constable of the K division, however, informing him it
had been stolen, be immediately produced it and deli-
vered it to the officer.

Mr. Allen said that the paper was in reality of a
much greater value previous to its being torn and de-
stroyed in the manner described, and that though he
could not ascertain precisely the extent of his loss, he
must have been robbed, from what he had as yet disco-
vered, to a considerable extent.

Mr. Vann, who appeared for the defence, addressed

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the magistrate en behalf of the prisoners, whose parents
were very honest and respectable people, and after point-
ing out sic probability that the prisoner s had been
nicrely tools in the hauls of tht other discharged su-
vant o* the prozecators, who bad aft: corded, riqueged
that b4il might be taken for their future appearance.
Mr. IlAmmx, however, refused the application, and
having discharged the two youngest boys, Robinson and
Barrett, who had displayed less criminality than the
others, ordered Power, Bentley, and Richardson to be
committed till that day week for the completion of the
evidence against them.