OLD BAILEY, Saturday, Jun...
VIliamn Wlualecy stood inded for secreting a letter containing a 51. Bank of Enecand note, which came into his custody on the nmorning of thepd of April last, he being at the Lime a letter-carrier at the General Ps-fle MVlr. F. Cassaine, Secretary to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, stted, that on the morning of the Ist of April last he enclesed a 51. Bank of England note, No. 15,774, in a letter,address- ed to Air. James Cox, Portman-street, Portman-square. The letter was put into a bag, an,l sent to the receiving-office. fehada list of the notes which he had ir, his possession at that time, and as he dis- posed of them he wrote on a paper to wbom he sent them. He pH . duced the paper, and by the side of No. 15,774 was written " r. Cox." He had also a note, No. 15,775, on the same day, which he transmitted to another person. Cross-cxamineL.-Was positive that he did not interchange the notes. 'fhe Governor haa akey ef the bag as well as hirself. The note produced is thc one he sent to Air. Cox, at least it is of the same number. Roger MIorris, letter-carrier to the College at Sandhurst, opened the Governor's bag on the Ist of April, and saw a letter for Silr. Cox; he put it with other letters into the college-bag, and gave it to Hammond, the carrier, whose duty it wvas to carry it to the post- office, Bagshot. Hamiimond proved delivering thebag toiUr.Smithers, thekeeper of the post-office at Bagshot. Ir. Smithers said he received the bsg fromn Hammond, and trans- mitted its contents to the post-office, Lombard-street. by the mail. James Coppice. clernt at the General Post-office, Lombard-strect, receivect the bag from Bazshot on the morningof the2d of April. Crass-examined.-lisiakes sometimes occurred in the delivery of letters, bat verv rarely. rilTalnam Womd ovurseer-anm inispectrofrthe Ierttr-emrimtni at :he General Post-office, said, that on the morning of the 2d of April he gave the letters to the prisoner, which were directed to persons re- siding in his district; Portman-square is in the prisoner's Aistrict, and all letters addressed to persons residing there must, in due course, have come into the possession of the prisoner. The prisoner was in the enaploy of the Pest-office on that day. Charles Forren, the proprietor of the Cambridge Coffee-house, Newman-street, Oxford-street, stated that the prisoner called upon him on the 3d of April, and changed a 51. Bank of England note, No. 1.5,774. He wrote upon it " lPostman," meaninz the prisoner. The noteproduced is the same. Mrs.Forrcn corroboratedbisstatement. The prisoner said he was innocent of the robbery. Mr. Baron HltOtLoc summed up the case, aud the Jury found the prisoner (itilty-Death. OLD BAI2 , .Stnrdau. June 5.