Kentish Express 11 October 1862.

Quarter Sessions, Tuesday week; before J.J. Lonsdale Esq.

Anson Polaski, alias Thomas Joy, 28, and Kames Burns, 25, engine driver, were charged with stealing a gold pin, four clocks, £3 7s. 6d. in money, and other articles, the property of William Hall Robinson, in his dwelling house, at Folkestone, on the 2nd September, 1862. Mr. Minter appeared for the prosecution.

The prosecutor deposed that he was the landlord of the "Swan Inn," and that on the night of the 1st September he went to bed about one o'clock. In consequence of what had been told him he came downstairs about a quarter to seven the next morning and found the pane of glass close to the sash fastening of the back parlour window broken, and the window a little way up. The writing desk had been broken open, and a pin, four clocks, and some children's wearing apparel were missing. The clocks were in a box. From the bar he missed £3 0s. 6d. in silver, and about seven or eight shillings in copper. He also missed three coats, a concertina, a letter, and a Magistrates' certificate from the bar. He saw the prisoner on the previous evening in his house. He came in for some refreshment. On Tuesday morning he gave information to the police, and went with them to Dover and Canterbury. He got to the "Wellington Inn," at Canterbury, with P.C. Smith, about half past twelve. The prisoner Joy was there, and they found a concertina and three coats there in his possession. Joy said the concertina and the coats were his property, and he had bought them. He was then taken to the station and searched, and a letter, a Magistrates' certificate, and five cigars were found on him. The concertina and coats produced were his property. He saw police sergeant Newman searching Joy at the station-house and find the letter and Magistrates' certificate produced, which were safe in his house on the Monday night.

Evidence corroborative of the above was given, and also tracing some of the stolen articles to the possession of Burns.

There was a further indictment against Joy for stealing five shillings, a watch, and a walking stick from the premises of the "Duke of York," Sandgate, but this broke down from the want of identity.

A previous conviction having been proved against Joy, the Recorder, on the first charge, sentenced him to fifteen years' penal servitude, remarking that he was evidently one of those persons who, if interfered with in carrying out his nefarious purposes, would not hesitate to use violence; Burns, five years penal servitude.