| From The Morning Post (London, England), Friday, January 04, 1895.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.
George Bearsby, 22, was charged with theft.
Mr. Wilson prosecuted;
prisoner was defended by Mr. Cranshaw.
Prisoner was employed at the Connaught public-house, Holburn, as a
barman. In consequence of losses Detective-sergeant Hailstone marked
some silver. When the money in the till was counted shortly afterwards,
the prisoner being in charge of a bar, a shilling and two sixpences (marked money) were missing. Prisoner said he knew nothing about it, and
volunteered to be searched. Subsequently it appeared that he had paid a
bailiff named Prouton, who was acting as man in possession of the
public-house, 5s. he had borrowed from him some time before. This man,
when spoken to, produced one marked shilling and a marked sixpence, but,
in reply to Mr. Cranshaw, he said he could not swear that they formed
part of the money given to him by the prisoner.
The prisoner's father,
who is landlord of the "Sailor," Gravesend, and a publican in the
Waterloo-road, were called to speak as to prisoner's respectability.
Sir John Bridge, thinking that no jury would convict, discharged the
prisoner. In his opinion there was sufficient evidence to justify the
prosecution, but not enough to convict the prisoner.
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