The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1851.

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MIDI)LESEX SESSIONS.—YrsvinDAT.
harass Ma. s. RO ANT At.afn. A.I.TAIST JUDOS.
I %Vilnal. I'LLINTM.
Joha Thomas Car, 46, was indicted for unlawfully pub-
lishing and having for sale a number of obscene and jade-
cent print% and publications.
Mr. Clarkson appeared fur the prosecution (which was
instituted by the Society for the Suppression of Vice), and
Mr. Payne for the prisoner.
The evidence in support of the prosecution was shortly
this :—lnspector Lewis, of the Thames Police, who was also
an officer under the Board of Customs, and Police Sergeant
Chadwick, went to a shop kept by
.the prisoner, No. 4,
Holywell-street, and there, in the prisoner's presence and
without any opposition on his part, took possession of a
large quantity of window tickets and an immense number
of prints (chiefly French) and books, which were now pro•
duns& and which were of a most disgusting character.
Mr. Payne, on behalf of the prisoner, said he had ao de-
fence whatever to offer with reference to the morality or
immorality. of the prisoner's conduct ; but he contended
that, in point of law, the evidence did not render the pri-
soner liable to conviction, inasmuch as it was not shown
that he had the prints and books in his possession openly
! and expressly for the purpose of selling them, as the in.
dictment charged, to her Majesty's subjects; or that he had
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tetee. law. The
The
session, with the intent to sell and publish, and th:lt,lP°h6-e
submitted, was not sufficient.
The learned judge, in summing up, told the jury that
in his opinion, if they were satisfied that the prisoner had
the horrible mints and books produced in bet possession
with the intention of publishing and selling them, they
would be perfectly justified in finding him guilty—inti-
mating at the same time that if the prisoner's counsel
thought proper to take the point he had raised to the Court
of Criminal Appeal, there would be no objection to his

doing u. - -
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Clarkson said that in 1107 a similar scienre had been
made upon the prisoner's premises, when an immense num-
ber of prints, &c., were destroyed ; but the society did not
prosecute him on account of his family, and he sent a letter,
which he (Mr. Clarkson) would now hand to the court, to
the solicitors of the society. (The letter was then banded

to the bench.)
_ The learned Judge then read the letter. It was as

" 10, Ilolywell-street, Strand,Piov.lo, 1817.
"Gentlemen,-1 am desirous, through your medium, to
express to the committee of the Society for the Suppression
of Vice, the very gra-eful feelings they have excited by
sparing myself and family fmm the disgrace and ruin
which must inevitably have fallen upon them and myself
had the prosecution which impended over me been per-
mitted to proceed. Much of the time that has elapsed since
the committee had the goodness to pardon my fault has
been spent in serious reflection on the nature and conse-
quences of the offence I committed, which I view with so
much detestation and abhorrence as to make it impossible
that any temptation of profit, or any
.degree of security
that could be offered against detection or punishment,
amounting even to a certainty of escape, could shake
for one moment my fixed determination to abandon
for over all traffic in these infamous and dangerous produc-
tions. It is, indeed, greatly to be deplored that any such
publications ever should have existed, or that writers can be
found so thoughtless of the consequences to society, and so
lost to shame as to prostitute their talents to the compilation
of works an pm-eminently calculated to undermine the
virtue of youth and to spread contagion and immorality in
every rank • and I entreat the committee to believe, that
not only shall I never again suffer any such pollution to
reach my possession, but that to the utmost of my power I
shall discountenance and denounce every attempt to give
them circulation by others, when any such shall come
within my observation or knowledge. Such, gentle-
men, are the sincere and contrite sentiments of my heart,
in the expression of which I find great relief and plea-
sure, and which I have to beg you will do me the
favour of laying before the committee at the first conveni-
ent opportunity, and taking leave to repeat my very grate-
ful thanks for the lenity they have shown me, of which I
am firmly resolved to prove myself worthy, I remain, gen-
tlemen, with great respect, your most obedt. servant,
JOHN I•HUMAN COI.

foliowe :

" Messrs. Pritchard and Co. Lincan's-ion Fields."
The Learned Judge then proceeded to say that the court
required no other grounds for passing a severe sentence
than those stated by the prisoner himself in his letter. The
sentence of the court WAS (and he was sincerely sorry he
had not the power to award hard labour), that he be impri-
soned in the House of Correction for two years ; that ke
afteraards should enter into his own recognisances of 401,,
with two sureties of 251. each, to be of good behaviour for
ono year, and to be imprisoned until such recogninace and
sureties were entered into.
MISTAKEN iTIENTITT.

Emma TAonsna, a respectably droned young woman, w
indicted for stealing from the person of Wilhelmina Wag-
ner, a purse, and the sum of :11. ss. lid.
Mr. Addison appeared for the primmer.
Mr. Kinloch, a trade man in Jermyn-street, stat-d that
on the ith instant he was in on omnibus going hum the
liaymarket to the City, and the proreeutrix was also a pas-
in the same vehicle. In the Haymarket the prisoner
=Two other females entered the omnibus. The prisoner
at neat to him, and the other women took seats on the op-
posite side neat to the prosecutrit. One of them bad
basket, and he saw her fumbling about the prosecutrix's
dress. Directly afterwards she gave a siguilicaut nod
to the prisoner, who thereupon desired a passenger who
sat nearest the door to request the conductor to stop
which he did, and the prisoner and the two women with
whom she entered the omnibus got out. Witness noticed
in the hand of the woman who had the basket the end of a
scarlet purse, whereupon he spoke to the prosecutris, and
having ascertained that she had been rubbed, he gut out of
the omnibus ; and, accompanied by the prosccutrix, fol-
lowed the women. The one that had the basket gut away.
When the women got out, the omnibus was at the Gulden I
Cross, Charing-eross, and he followed the prisoner and one
of her ccmpanions round into Trafalgar-square. They
crossed over towards Spring-gardens, whin, perceiving
they were followed, they ran towards a court. They
parted at the end of Spring-garden-mews. He followed
the prisoner, captured her, and had her taken to Scotland-
yard in custody. The other got away.
The prosecutrix, a German lady, proved that, when she
entered the omnibus, her purse, which was a scarlet one,
and which contained a 51. now and ;M. 6d. in silver, was
sate in her pocket, anti that when Mr. Kinludi spoke to her
it was gone.
l'oliee-constable Budd, 59 D, produced a parse which he
found torn in two in Spring-gardens-mews, near the spot
passed by the woman who got away.
The prosecutris identified the purse as hem,
Mr. Addison, in his address to the jury, sail the prisoner
was a respectable woman, the wife of a Carve! and gilder,
And the mother of a family. Her answer to tie charge was
that on the day in question she was proem:dug from her
loon,. to the V 1 estminster hospital in refereum to the case
of one of her children who was deformed, and that it was
:surely by accident that she got into the omninis with the
two other women spoken of. rhe reason she tot out when
they did was, that when the omnibus stopped to let them
out, she found that she was going in the wing directien,
and therefore took that opportunity to leave die vehicle. It
Was entirely by accident that she was mixed up in this
transaction, the woman she walked towards Spring-gardens
with having at her r• ;asst undertaken to &ow her the
nearest way to Westminster Hospital, which she said was
through Spring-gardens, and thence through Storey's-gate.
Mrs. Gordon, a woman of respectable ajpearance, said
the prisoner was a married woman and the mother of a
family. She was a person of unquestionsble character.
One of her children was deformed. She lived in the Old
Kent-road.
The learned judge summed up the cam with great
minuteness, and remarked that it was unesjlained how it
was that whilst the primmer lived in the Old Kent-road,
she took an omnibus to the Haymarket to co to WUWlnnt-
Iner Hospital.
The jury returned a verdict of Not
The prisoner, who had cried bitterly taroughout the
trial of the came, on hearing the verdict, eiclaimed, 0 Oh,
thank God!" and she left the court with a number of
persons who appeared to be anxiously awaitiag the result.

THE POLICE COURTS.
CLERK SEWELL.
Bak, sorter of St. Posen I.:sino. sur-

o'elisk en Saturday, and, observing he was rather bulky,
irked what he had about him ? To which the prisoner re-
plied.° We all right. I'm a Custom-house officer." Shep-
pard. amMillg the wine and cigars on him, said he must take
bin la the head constable; hut the prisoner prayed ear-
s* be taken before the superior officer at the baggage
tune, where he had been engaged that day. There
was wine of the same kind and cigars of the stmt quality at
the warehouse at which the prisoner was employed.
The young man, in his defence, said that he picked
tip the bottle in the warehouse, and, not being a wine
bottle, he concluded it was ale or stout, and took it
with hiss to drink it not beiug unusual for persons to take
stray bottles of malt found lying about. On his way to the
entrawse, the cork becoming louse in his pocket, he dia-
-1 ewriwrd it was wine, and would then have taken it back but
the warehouse was closed. Rather than be seen spilling it
be waived to take it away with him. The cigars he had
Iskas in in the morning and was bringing them away again.
=said that he was so terrified by the prisoner's
tat he forgot to state on the former occasion that
=el. accounted for the possession of the eLars, by
that half of them had been given him by a landing
waiter, and he had helped himself to the other half. He
(Sheppard) was instructed to say that if the magistrate
*ought fit to send the ease for trial, the dock authorities
would .prosecute although the customs would not.
Mr. Ingham did not think it was a ease to go to trial,
and contented himself with imposing a penalty of 51. or two
smonths' imprisonment.
At the earnest entreaty of the prisoner's mother, a very
ladylike woman, who was deeply affected, and who said she
was mainly dependent on her son (who she believed was
led away by others) for support, the penalty was reduced
to W.
HAMMERSMITH.
Mr. Daere Tennant, a young man wearing the undress of
a naval officer, was charged with setting a ferocious dog on
lialgham.
t, a respectably-dressed young woman, stated
thmaCiarirsided at Oakhampton Cottage, Suspension-
beldie-road, Hammersmith. On the morning of the 9th
teat., she was walking along the Bridge-road, on the Surrey
side of the water, when she saw the defendant approaching
towards her from the Castlenau Villas, having with him a
large dog. On the defendant perceiving complainant
coating towards him, he immediately pointed her out to
the dog, which instantly ran to her, and sprang up at her
to her shoulder. The attack was made by the dog in a
most ferocious manner. The defendant saw it, but instead
of calling the dog hack to him, he laughed at her alarm,
and the dog at length drove her into the carriage-road.
She had since been ill, and under medical treatment,
through the fright. A man who was passing in a cart
swore at defendant, but was afraid to get down. In conse-
quence of what the man said, defendant took the dog back
to the villa.
The dog, a large pointer, was produced in court.
The debudant asserted its docile character, and denied
that he had set it on the lady.
Mr. Poynter said he had not the slightest doubt of the
complainant's statement, and he considered the defendant's
conduct had been most unwarrantable and uninanly. The
defendant must pay a penalty of 40s. and the costs.