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CLOSING PRICES.
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Do. Account, 4th June 921

CRIMINAL Col7Rt—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)

William Harman was indicted on the coroner's
inquisition of killing and slaying George Bayley.
From the evidence it appeared that the deceased

was admitted into the Lambeth Workhouse on the
4th of April as a lunatic, and was placed under
the care of the prisoner, himself a pauper, and
who acted as a kind of warder in the house. The
deceased was very violent after his admission, and
continued so during the whole of the night. On
the Sunday following the prisoner was left alone
with the deceased, who continued in a very excited
state, and it was stated that he was heard to say
that he would give him something that would

quiet him. He— was then observed to go to a
bottle and pour out a quantity of morphia and
then gave it to the deceased, telling him it was port
wine. Immediately after the liquid hal been taken
the deceased became unconscious and ultimately
died. On a post mortem examination being made
the brain of the deceased was found very much
diseased, so much so that death was likely to
have occurred at any moment. There was nothing
to show that death had been occasioned or accele-
rated by morphia. It was, however, given in
evidence that morphia was kept in the ward, and
that the prisoner could have easily obtained it had
he felt EO disposed.

The Judge told the jury it would be for them
to say whether the death of Bayley had been
occasioned by the administration of morphia, and
that it was administered by the prisoner. The pri-
soner was an ignorant person, and it was not at all
to be supposed that he was aware of the extent of
the properties of morphia, but against that it must
be considered that the brain of Bayley
was in a very diseased state, from pre-
mature softening, which would, according to the
medical evidence, be quite sufficient to account for
death arising from natural causes.
The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a
verdict of not guilty.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
Alfred Cruise, William Palmer, and Elizabeth
Cruise were indicted with feloniously stealing a
quantity of carpet, the property of Samuel Barnett.

The prosecutor it appears was removing a quan-
tity of furniture from a house he had occupied in
the neighbourhood of Bedford-square, and on leav-
ing the place he told the person in charge
not to deliver any things to any person
without a written authority from himself. The
prisoner Cruise, it was alleged, wrote out a false
order for the delivery of some of the carpets, and
the other prisoner on getting possession of the pro-
perty conveyed it away by means of a truck, which
was in waiting near the premises from which the
property was stolen. The carpet was soon
cut up and sold, but was afterwards discovered by
the police, and the prisoners taken into custody.
The jury found Cruise and Palmer guilty of steal-
ing and the female with receiving.
Lockyer, the officer, proved two former convic-
tions against the prisoner Cruise for felony and
conspiracy.

Mr. James Brennan, the officer attached to her
majesty's Mint, informed the learned judge that
the prisoner was a well-known character. He (Bren-
nan) had, in the performance of his duty convicted a
least 30 or 40 of the associates of the prisoner, andt
also six of his principal companions. They all
belonged to the Bristow gang, one of the most ex-
tensive societies of mace-men that ever infested the
metropolis. The prisoner Cruise was a most dis-
tinguished member of the " long firm" and
he bad convicted him a short tune ago
of uttering counterfeit coin. He had known
thepris
prisoner Cruise for 18 years, and he could
say for the whole of that period he had never earned
a lin by honest industry. The female was
ecrsmhiiilyaga dexterous as the man she called her
husband.

Inspector Garforth, of the C division of police,
said he had made inquiries relative to the prisoner,
and he found that for years he had been carrying
on a system of wholesale plunder. He had
taken a house in Bouverie-street, and then started
the commission business. He also had succeeded in
getting large quantities of property of all descrip-
tions from persons residing in the country, who ad-
vertise in the London papers. Nothing came amiss
to him. He had succeeded in obtaining potato seed,
lemon juice, chaff-cutting machines, and every
kind of goods by merely giving an order with the
promise of payment on delivery. When the goods
once reached the door of the house at which he was
residing some very clever mode was adopted for
getting them into the possession of " the firm."
Sergeant Gordon, of the C division of police, said
he held a warrant for the apprehension of the pri-
soner Cruise on a charge of obtaining £lOO worth
of timber from a person residing in the country, and
some time ago he made a sudden descent on the
prisoner and his friends in Tothill-street, West-
minster, when they all escaped by the back windows,
leaving him in possession of over £2OO worth of
chaff-cutting machines which had been stolen.
Cruise—My lord, all that man is saying against
me is perjury.
The Common Sergeaut—Ah, yes ; I often hear
that charge made against constables. (Laughter.)
It is quite clear, after what I have heard, that you
and your confederates have for years been preying
upon other persons. I, therefore, sentence you,
Alfred Cruise, to ten years' penal servitude; Palmer
to five years' penal servitude, and Elizabeth Cruise
t) 18 months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

COBDEN CLUB.—The annual dinner of the Cob-
den Club is fixed fur Wednesday, the 24th of June, at the
Ship Hotel, Greenwich, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers,
M.P., in the chair. The weekly meetings of the club are
held on Wednesday evenings, at No. 56, Pall-mall.

THE TRADE WITH ST. PETERSBURG.-Although

there is no definite news of the opening of the Nova, seve-
ral of the Hull steamers have left for St. Petersburg. Tho
first to sail was the Lion, belonging to Messrs. Brownlow,
Lumsden, and Co. She was followed on Monday by the
Neva, belonging to Messrs. Dunkerley, and on Tuesday
by the Cossack, belonging to Messrs. Bailey and Leatham ;
the Bride, belonging to Messrs. Brown, Atkinson, and Co.;
and the Dwina, owned by Messrs. Norwood, Hull and
London. All these vessels have gone out very deeply
laden, but the greater portion of their cargoes consists of
coal, on which there is not a yery large freightage.