The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-15 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

&kit,' ea. 11014.111Aaa a MACS Or M•OISTIATIII AT TES nIiILDWAS4
+a/swiss/li, a Pole, was indicted for *feeling
•henepieee sad ease, 'alas 71, Os property of William
Bailey, is his dwelling-house; and for shahs, a tab, a
market .:f envelopes, sad a shilling's worth of halfpence, be.
hooped to Alfred Wills. He pleaded guilty.
Tee pritoner had adopted the trilogies mode of rob-
bery —lle would gall st a knee and ask he the matter
by name, taking ears to know beforehand that he was oat.
On being told that the person was not at beeps, he re-
que.ted permorion to step in to write a note, es his business
was urgent, and he was going oat of town the ant day.
V.bcrsd into the parlour or library, to WWII a harried
&lair, end r. queered the servant to procure him a glass of
water, the compliance with which gave him a few moments
alone in Ire averment, and thee be lost no time in pocket-
ing anything he could lay hands upon. Oa the remppeu-
mice of the .ernat he gulped down the water, sad begging
that his rots an,ht be immediately attended to he dis-
appeared with as much spud ati possible. He had bees
prerinenny soatisted •
Instead of endeavourieg to mitigate his offence, the pri-
non bad prepared an elaborate narrative of all his roguery,
which wound up with an appeal to the court to sentence
him to the largest term of tiaospottation the law allowed.
It stated that he left his native country because he would
not enter the service under the detestable Nicholas., and ha
cams to Eoglaud in 1853, since which time he had become
de. ply involved in heaven sod in love (the object of the
lat!cr being a fair in Jiving in ()Ailey. street , Camden-
town) ; he had spent some months in the comity prison, and
all he hoped fur now was to be sent for the remainder of his
days to some far dimwit convict settlement. Attcurding to
his own eh... log It. was a prism of mnandrele.
Mr. Bodkin informed the prisoner, through the inter-
preter, that a puniabmeat called penal sanded' had been
substituted for transportation in a sass like his, and the
sentence was that he be subjected to the former for four
years.
Wes. Sanders, 53, was iadmted for stealing in • dwelling-
house . 101 note, two 6/. notes, a bill for 4,5001., &c., the
property of Pierre Joseph Amain.
Mr. Orvidge appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Metcalfe
for the prieoner. . .

Poth the prosecutor sea the prisoner won Frenchmen,
and had lodged together in Cos lit-street, 02(.3rd-street
They had entered into putoersbip sil isanufaetaren of
eau de Cnlcgne, and were co, the best terms until this
'barge was wed*. The case for the prosecution was that a
picket -book was taken from the prosecutor's paletat as it
was tonging behind a door. The evidence against dm pri-
soner 'se tb it he advised the proseautor not to go to the
police about it, sad that the bill for 4.600 f. was returned is
SS envelope, the direction on which it was awned WM is
the prisoner's bsedwri!ing. Some artieles bolos/hag to
the prosecutor's mother were found in the prisoner's pos-
session, bat under circ,mstances which did sot warrant the
cvoe'us,n that he stole them.

I[r. Metcalfe urged that the evidence had (Wad to sake
out the charme, sad
`lle jury Acquitted the priroser.