The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS,-YESTERDAY.

The sittings of the court, for the October adjourned
Quarter Session, were resumed this morning at the Guild-
hall, Westminster, by adjournment from Clerkenwell, be-
fore Mr. Serjeunt Adams, Assistant Judge ; Mr. Possumll,
Captain Hansler, and Mr. Turin r. There were forty•nine
CAM, of felony and seven • f misdemeanour for trial.
The learned Judge addressed the grand jury upon the
nature of their duty.
Charles Moss, 32, was indicted for having stolen two
leather bells and other articles, value Kt., the property of
the Great Western Railway Company.
It appeared that a Mrs. Francis arrived at the Padding-
ton terminus of the Great Western Railway by the half-
Inuit ti train on the evening of the kith of September, and
the prisoner's wife and children arrived also by the same
train. The prisoner was in attendance with a horse and
curt to convey hie family home, and having placed in the
cart some luggage they had brought with them, he went to
the barrier where the passenger's luggage was placed and
took therefrom a large bundle containing a quantity of
bedding as set forth in the indictment, and went away with
it. In consequence of information received, an officer in
the company's service went to 25, Tenter-street, Finsbury,
where he found the prisoner, and on making a search at his
lodgings, No. 8, Wilson-street, he found the bedding, which
was identified as that taken from the barrier and be-
longing to Mrs. Francis. Tho prisoner said he took the
bundle in mistake for one his wile had brought with her ;
but the evidence of too of the railway. porters showed that
no similar articles were left at the ideation; and the various

statements made by the prisoner relative to it were not true.
The defence was that the prisoner took the property
without any felonions intent, but purely in mistake, be-
lieving that it had been brought by his wife.
The learned Judge prefaced his summing up with some
observations on the management of the Paddington Station
of the Great Western Railway in so far as the delivery of
luggage to passengers 1411.4 concerned. lie said it would be
a rather difficult matter to point out a plan more calculated
to cause confusion, trouble, and disorder, or to lead to ouc
person's property being handed over to the wrung parties,
than that pursued at the Paddington Station. The com-
pany would not allow passengers to take care of their own
lugggage; they pretended to take care of it for them ; but
they did not provide a sufficient number of officers to en-
sure its safety. Passengers were of all others the persons
moat likely to tako care of their luggage, but if the company
was determined that they should not, they might at least
take the best means of taking care of it themselves. The
railway companies on the continent were amongst those who
did not think that passengers ought to be entrusted with
their own fproperty, but it was well taken care of ; and so
certain was luggage on those railways of reaching
its destination, that he thought the next time lie
travellet on the continent he should have himself made up
into a parcel and directed to the place he wished to reach,
because it would then, with their arrangements, be next
to impossible fur him to get anywhere but to the right
place. (A laugh.) The it 'ft estern's arrangements for
passengers' luggage were s ry ineffective, and required
alteration and amendment. Ile then recapitulated the evi-
dence, and left the jury to say whether the evidence satisfied
them that the prisoner took the articles in mistake or that at
the time he took the bundle be had a felonious intent.

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The foreman of the jury paid they had great doubt in the
matter, and gave the prisoner the benefit of it.
Gni/ta.
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George Morris, 19, was indicted fur stealing a quantity of
wearing apparel from the Army and Navy Club-house,
where he had been employed as waiter. He was found
Guilty, and sentenced to his months' hard labour.
William Burgess, 25, who was stated to be the son of a
coach-builder, pleaded guilty to an indictment in which he
was charged with fraudulently obtaining by lake pretences
from William Deuce a quantity of timber, value 521., with
intent to cheat him thereof.

Mr. Serpent C. Jones appcarcvl for the prosecution. Ile
said the prisoner hod got into bad company, and the prose-
cutor did not press for any severe punishment.
The court sentenced hint to three months' hard labour.

THE POLICE COURTS.
GUILDUALL

Rebecca and Anne livtieZ/4T triage and trimming sellers
of Fore.street, were summoned before Alderman Hooper
fur unlawfully detaining eleven cards of fringe, value about
5/., the property of John Smith, a fringe manufacturer of
Bethnal-green, and alleged to bo a portion of some pro-
perty ;bout , that had been stolen from his
(Mr. Smith's) premises in 1840.
Mr. Buchannan appeared for complainant, and Mr. Nor-
ton fur defendanta,.
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John Smith said—l am a fringe manufacturer ; I have
been in business about five years. In May ISiO a very ex-
tensive robbery was committed in my premises, and pro-
perty consisting of 8011 cards of fringe, nngs, watches, and
other articles of jewellery, in all value about 1,4001., was
taken away. Nearly all the fringe was my own manufac-
ture, a greater part of which I could identify by &mistake
in the warp that I had made in the weaving of it. Shortly
after I happened to see some of this fringe in a Mr. Milli-
gan's Shop window in Spiral-square, and accordingly com-
municated with Sergeant Tickel, of the S division of metro-
politan police, and we visited Mr. Milligan's a few days
after in company. From what Milligan told me I
gave two men of the names of Hurst and Pal-
mer into custody, and the fringe (46 pieces) was con-
signed to the care of Sergeant Tickel. The two men were
taken before Mr. Arnold, the magistrate at Worship-street
Police-court, when they were admitted to bail, and the
case was remanded. Hurst forfeited his bail, and his re-
cognisance, were forthwith estrcated. Palmer was ulti-
mately discharged, and the 46 pieces of fringe were ordered
,to be given up to Mr. Milligan. The eleven cards I now
seek to recover formed a portion of the 800 that were
stolen ; but no part, I believe, of the 46 pieces found at
Milligan's.
Cross-examined by Mr. Norton—l know several persons
of the name of Coventry Smith. I was born at Coventry,
but am not known by that name. I know Coventry Gaol,
and was in it as an apprentice. I have been in there longer
than three months. I have been in rather better than
twelve months at a time. I was sent from the gaol court
there, but it was not far bad behaviour ; it was only for
buying a gun. I don't remember being there for anything
else, except as an apprentice. I know Sergeant Parker,
of the Coventry police. I have been in his company hun-
ureds of times, but was never in custody far anything con-
nected with is parcel. When I saw the 11 cards of fringe
in defendants' window I communicated with the police at
Moor lane station, and Packman, the officer, took posses-
glen of the goods. Defendants showed me a bill and re-
ceipt for the 11 cards of fringe, sad said they bought them

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THIS DAY, Noox.
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FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE ON PAUL'S Cuy-
cosixoN.—Last evening Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at
St. Thomas's Hospital on the body of William Henderson,
age.l:lB years, who lost 111,4 life under the following circum-
stances :—The deceased was a waggoner, and on Tuesday
night last was in charge of his team passing across Paul's
Cray common, Kent, on his way home, when a dog-cart,
containing two gentlemen, came at a rapid speed in the
opposite direction towards London. The night being very
dark and the roadway, narrow the near wheels of the cart
came in contact with the waggon, when the deceased in
trying to climb up the bank slipped and the wheels of his
own carriage passed over his right thigh which sustained a
compound fracture and severe lacerations. lie was car-
ried to the Bull Inn, where he was seen by a surgeon,
who advised his removal to the Hospital, where it
was found necessary to amputate the limb. e went on
favourably at first, but died on Friday from the effects of
the injuries and shock to the system. The two persons in
the cart were thrown out, and received most extensive in-
jury. and are not expected to survive. The accident was
solely attributable to the narrowness of the roadway. The
coroner laid that formerly the sheriff of every county used
to hold a court to bear complaints respecting any nui-
sances, but at the present time there was no tribunal to
apply to. In the borough of Southwark a jury met several
times yearly at the Town-hall for the purpose referred to,
but, he was sorry to say, the system in many places had
got into disuse. A witness said that the road was being
widened through the interference of Lord Sydney. The
jury, after some discussion, returned a verdict of " Acciden-
tal death."
SUPERSTITIONS RESPECTING BEES.—With regard
to the custom of informing the bees of a death is the
family, and the penalty of omitting to do so, I can add to
the proof of it. I find among some memoranda I made more
than five-and-twenty. years ago, the following note :—" In
Buckinghamshire it is common, on the death of any one of
the family, for the nurse to go to all the bee-hives in the
garden, and tap gently three times, each time repeating
three times these words, 'Little brownie, little brownie,
your master's dead; when the bees, beginning to hum,
show their consent to remain. Tho omission of this cere-
mony, it is believed would occasion the loss of the bees by
flight, or otherwise."—From Naos and Queries.

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