The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1868-10-03 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

CRIME AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.  At the Middlesex sessions George Robinson, aged twenty- I six, a 111A11 of gentlemanly exterior, was indicted for embezzling the sums of it lox., £5, and t 0.., received by him . far and on account of William Leighton, his master. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the whole of the charges. The facts appeared to he Os follows : The pnweentor it a draper, carrying on business in High Holborn, and the prisoner had been in his ono I ploy for about two years, at a salary of V a week, and he appeared to have been treated with the greate,t indulgence by his master. In consequence of :I 31E. Berry, a customer, owing a RUM of lt,, the prosecutor coiled upon hint in refet en. e to it, when be expressed his surprise, and . producyd the prisoners receipt for the money. The prisoner vita iss stioned about it, and he then admhted that he had received the money, but on lasing furt..er ques.i tied as to what he ho! thine with it he . was silent, end there was no entry of it in the book in , which the entry should have been made. It was also discovered that on the 13th of dna° a ballettgirl went to the shop and purchased goals to the value of 10s., for which Ate paid, and the prisoner brought her back the bill receipted. Another purchase was made at the shop by a person named Brand, and a receipt was given in a similar manner. Upon these discoveries being made, a police-constable was sett for, and he asked the prisoner if lie had received 1.5 from Mr Berry, and be said be had, but he made TIO reply as to wh he had done with it, He begged Mr. Leighton for th.n, :Like not to lock hint up, as it would be the min of him, and he would make up the money within a week ; but he was given into custody. The prosecutor, in reply to the assistant-judge, said the prisoner had been in Lis employ between two and three years, and he believed he hail commeneed robbing him on the very first day he had came to hint, and he traced defalcations to hint amounting to upwards of Mkt For this he had forgiven him, and one occasion he lent him £l2 tomake his accounts square. Ile went on again until March in the present year, when he again found hint out in defalcations amounting to £4O, and be then determined to prosecute the prisoner, but his (prosecutor's) wife and the prisoner's blends pleaded KO hard for him that he was induced to forego his intention, and again forgive him. He was paid £2 a week, and when the prisoner got married he told hint that be might take a few things of drapery from the shop, but instead of lb.ing KO he took things to the amount of VA. His father was a most respectable man, but they had got turd of these things and would have nothing to to with him. He was sorry to say that his (prosecutor's) cashier had serious defalcations in his accounts, and he firstly believed he was led into doing K. by the prisoner This man ultimately tatmmitted suicide, and he believed that was from feelings of shame at what he had done at the instigation of the prisoner. The judge said this was one of the worst cases ever brought before him, and sentenced him lobe imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years.  An application was made at the Hammersmith police-court, London, ini Tuesday, by a relieving officer, for a anniMollB against a man for neglecting to bury the body of Isis wife. The magistrate said he was not aware that any law gave him the power to interfere. It had been already laid down that a man was not compelled to bury the toady of his child, although it might have become dangerous to the health of the survivors, if he had not the means to do so.