Transcribed by Emily Smith. Geo. Carlisle Patriot Friday, April 9th, 1880 CARLISLE QUARTER SESSIONS. THE ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES AT THE RED LION HOTEL. DANIEL BURNS, out on bail, was charged with receiving from James GREY four 50l Bank of England notes, the property of one Peter Grime, well knowing the same to have been stolen, at Carlisle, between the 16the December, 1879, and the 19 January, 1880.—Mr. MATTINSON appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. COTTINGHAM for the defence.—Mr. MATTINSON said that owing to the person absconding who was charged with stealing the notes, it would be impossible to go into a considerable portion of the evidence, or to prove that they were acting in concert. The only thing they could prove now was that the prisoner had been in possession of some of the notes about a month after they had been stolen.—In answer to the Deputy Recorder, Mr. MATTINSON added that he felt it would be impossible to prove a conviction against the prisoner.—The jury were then sworn, and the prisoner put upon his trial, when Mr. MATTINSON said: I shall call no evidence.—The DEPUTY RECORDER: There has been no evidence called, gentlemen, and it will be your duty to find the prisoner not guilty.—Verdict accordingly.—Mr. COTTINGHAM was about to speak to the prisoner's good character, when the RECORDER said: You will provoke me to say something. It is a very suspicious case.—The prisoner was then discharged. THEFT OF A COAT. PATRICK MURPHY, 41, labourer, imperfectly instructed, was charged with feloniously stealing one tweed coat, of the value of seven shillings, the property of Robert SMITH, of Carlisle, on the 11th February, 1880.—Mr. MATTINSON prosecuted, and the prisoner was undefended.—The learned councel briefly stated the case to the jury, which was of the simplest character. The coat was seen hanging in the house of the prosecutor, who lives in Bridge Street, Caldewgate, on the morning of the 11th February, and on the afternoon of the same day the prisoner sold the coat for 2s 6d to a clothes dealer named BARRETT, in East Tower Street.—Evidence having been called, and the coat produced, the jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. A SERIOUS CHARGE. PETER SIMPSON, chemist's assistant, out on bail, was charged with unlawfully administering a certain noxious drug, for an unlawful purpose, to one Jane ATKINSON, at Carlisle, on the 6th January, 1880.—Mr. MATTINSON prosecuted, and Mr. HENRY appeared for the prisoner.—From the evidence called, it appears that on the above day, the prosecutrix, Jane ATKINSON, who at that time was living as a domestic servant with Mrs. REED, in Portland Place, went to the chemist's shop of Mr. TAYLOR, with whom the prisoner was an assistant, and made a statement to the prisoner, who supplied her with some powders and other things, which a few days afterwards were seen by her mistress, and handed over to the Chief Constable.—The girl, in evidence, said that since January she had been a inmate of St. Mary's Home for Penitents.—Mrs. REED, the girl's former mistress, said the girl ATKINSON was neither truthful nor honest.—Mr. MATTINSON subsequently addressed the jury on the evidence, and was followed by Mr. HENRY, who, in a forcible speech, referred to the characters held by the prosecutrix, whom her termed "a lying prostitute," and the prisoner, and argued that the medicine was not a noxious drug, and that the prisoner did not supply it to produce that with which he was charged.—The DEPUTY RECORDER, in summing up, thought the girl's story a very unlikely one and uncorroborated.—The jury immediately found the prisoner not guilty, the verdict being received with applause. The Court rose shortly before one o'clock. -- Emily Smith