------Original Message------ From: Julia Mosman Sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] To: [email protected] ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] West Briton, 9 January 1857, Qtr. Sessions, part 2 - Trials of prisoners Sent: Dec 26, 2012 7:55 PM WEST BRITON AND CORNWALL ADVERTISER . 9 JANUARY 1857 . QUARTER SESSIONS, PART 2 . TRIALS RESUMED . ELIZABETH CHAMPION was charged with stealing a pair of trowsers, the property of Francis BURROW, at Redruth, on the 10th of November. Prisoner went into prosecutor's tailor's shop and asked to look at some jackets; a pair of trowsers was afterwards missed and found at prisoner’s house; it did not appear that her husband had any knowledge of what she had done. Verdict, GUILTY. . There were two other indictments against the prisoner, for stealing from John COCKING, at Redruth, and from Thomas LEGGO; but these indictments were not prosecuted. ......................................... . WILLIAM BROWN was charged, for that being a servant to Joseph THOMAS, of Truro, he stole a quantity of oats his property; and in a second count the property was laid as being in the possession and power of the master. Mr. SHILSON conducted the prosecution, and Mr. STOKES the defence. . Evidence was given in this case at considerable length. It appeared that Mr. Joseph Thomas had sold a quantity of oats to Mr. Timothy SARAH, of Pentewan, in the parish of St. Austell; and on the 8th of August last, he directed prisoner, who was in his employ, to take thirty Cornish bushels to Mr. Sarah in his (Mr. Thomas's) waggon. They were sent from prosecutor's stores in twenty bags, and Thomas CLEMENTS and Christopher NANCOLLIS, in the employ of prosecutor, gave evidence of the delivery of the twenty bags to prisoner from prosecutor's stores. . It appeared that on their arrival at Pentewan, Mr. Sarah desired his son to receive the oats from prisoner; he received, however, but nineteen bags, and on looking into the waggon he saw there another bag, which he told prisoner belonged to his father; upon which prisoner said it did not, it belonged to Mr. Thomas, of Grampound. Mr. Sarah, jun., asked him why he had not left it at Mr. Thomas's, Grampound, being on his way to Pentewan; to which prisoner replied that he forgot to do so. Prisoner left Mr. Sarah's premises, and afterwards, on his way to St. Austell, met Mr. Craggs's van of Mevagissey, upon which he sold a bag of oats he had in the waggon to Mr. Edmund Craggs, the carrier, for 7s.6d. . Mr. E. CRAGGS said prisoner told him he had been to Mevagissey, and had a bushel more than the owner would take; that the oats were Mr. Thomas's and that it was his waggon; and that if he (Craggs) would leave the bag at Mr. Thomas's at Grampound, prisoner would call for it, as he was coming there with a load of oats next day. It further appeared that on Mr. Sarah finding he had only nineteen bags instead of twenty, he wrote to Mr. Joseph Thomas, at Truro, who on the 12th day of August spoke to prisoner on the subject, and accused him of stealing the bag, containing a bushel and a half. He admitted that he sold it to Craggs for 7s.6d. . The prosecutor was closely CROSS-EXAMINED by Mr. STOKES, and admitted that he did not take steps for apprehending prisoner on the 12th of August; he said he told him he should prosecute him. About a fortnight after, early one morning he again saw him, and again about a fortnight after that, when prisoner was carrying something and appeared to be going away. . >From further cross-examination, it appeared that Mr. Hichens, the agent of the Truro Shipping Company, had been to prosecutor about some teas lost from the Truro quay, and it was after that prosecutor caused prisoner to be apprehended. Prisoner had been working on the Cornwall Railway near St. Germans, and prosecutor heard from prisoner's father that he was coming home at Christmas; when he came home he had him apprehended. After Mr. Hichens had asked about the teas, prosecutor inquired where prisoner was, and Hichens refused to tell. The bushel and a half had been sent by Craggs to Sarah, by advice of prosecutor through Mr. COLLINS, of Church-lane, Truro, Craggs's father-in-law. . These were the main facts of the case; and in defence Mr. STOKES submitted that Thomas ought not to have brought this prosecu Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network