The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

.7eAs Jetty, 26, servant, wee indicted for strllng a ?e-
-volver pistol bad other srtielesof the vales of 61. and upwards,
W properly of Captor Frederick Barr, is a dwelling-hones
or our 'Sovereign the Quer (Bt. darre's Palace), and also
Is, stealing five coats sad ether series, value 51. sad
npwsrdu, the property of Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, is
the said dwelling of her Majesty. Ms pleaded
Mr. Sleigh rod be was irritated on behalf of the prose-
cution, sad it we. Lis dry to whisk to the court, that the
°Senn, the prisoner had acknowledged hinsesM guilty of was
or of en aggravated arum The primmer was servant to
Ceptaia Sayer, DerstrAmierat Sernseese-Cieneral,
who had aportmeato is St. James Mace, described in the
indictment r oes of the dwelliags ol the Queen, as also had
Sir C. B. Phipps, the other rosereor, Cretin Sayer's
fa tw. The prisoner hod been ho by both of
these gen•lemen with great Madness, bat doing the whole
of the time he had lam ia Captain Sayer's service be bad
stolen and made away with article. biking* to hie master
and Sir C. Phipps, and Inspector Whicher, the detective
officer in:whose bands the case was placed by Sit Charles,
when the prisoner woe detected, had traced duplicates of
article. pledged for about 201., which may were worth over
801., all the property of Sir Charles Phipps sad Captor
Sayer. In addi'ion to this, the prism": hod es
guilty of conduct of the most diagracefel ?slender to
his muter, whose kindness he had so id requited.
Captain Sayer had a stock of very splendid sherry of elmor
fabultesvare; this, or the pastas part of it, the prisoner had

appropriated to bit, own use, or bad made away with in some
way, and bad relived it with bottles procured at a small
price from public•hottem. Altogether a worse can of larceny
by a servant could not weal be conceiveL
Captain Slyer wee then called Into the witsees.box, and
in answer to his lordship said the prisoner bad 401. a year
with board and lodging, and 61. for beer money. He bad
bean in hie service about six months, end the pawning of
articles belonging to hirer& and Sir C. Phipps., a iumenced,
as far as could be arcertained from the duplicates found by
Whicher, about a month after the situation had been given
to him. Really ha heel scarcely any duty to perform, but he
wee kept en out of consideration, sad from what hod been
discovered it apparel that he bad committed these doper
bikes to find the mesas of frequenting dancing sidearm.
Mr. Sleigh said the pr:soner had written a letter desiring
that a gold chain might be given to a certain young lady
whom be would not name for obvious reasons, end from that
ea
inleresce might be drawn as to how tome of the proceeds
bad been di/potted of.
The Assistant-Judge said this wee a very bad case indeed.
It wee a double case of larceny in a dwelling house to the
amount of over 61., and by a servant, under very aggravating
circumstances. Ile bad an easy situation, 401. a year, and
51. for beer, as well se board and lodging, and in nix months
he had plundered to the amount of close upon 1001. for the
eake of frivolity sad amusement. The se ntsnce upon Wm
was, that he be kept be penal servitude for four years, pert al
which term, however, might be remitted in the care of good
conduct.

Booirtion, 44, clerk, was indicted fur feloolowly ma-
bezzling the several mane of 311. 6.. 7d., 171. 16e.,, and
141. 10e., received by him for and on account of George
Stanley Hinchliff and other., his melees. He pleaded
. . _ .

The persecutors are paper-haneng mattufseturers, 15,
Piccadilly, and the prisoner bad been in their service about
five years.
Ths prieoner was sentenced to tow years'pensl servitude.
Wiiiienss Llewellyn, 23, carpenter, was indicted for baring
stoles a cert. value 6/., and s quantity of wood, the property
of Charles Ednr nds.

--thete.c7n7;l7asSentenced to three months' bard labour.
Ws/ ' Butler end Bonn, Abbott, labourers, were in-
dicted foe sealing 165 pounds of lead, the property of the
visiting jUIItIOIS of the Lanado Asylum at Haswell, as re-
presenting the inhabitants of the county. The prisoners
were in the employment of the contractor of the works, and
the lead was stolen from the verendah of one of the fatale
Whig courts.
The jury found both Gnllty, and the court sentenced therm
to twelve months' bud labour.