The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-23 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Bodkin, Anistant4udge.)

John Ki so ed y, V, was indicted for maliciously wound-
ing Robert Ahern, a police-constable, with a knife.
The prisoner , rough-looking fellow, had been beating
his mother at Kensington-buildings, and the prosecutor
(police-constable 341 TI was violently attacked by him on
interfering, and stabbed with a knife.

Several witnesses established these facts, and the jury
found him Guilty.
The Assistant Judge ordered him to be imprisoned and
kept to bard labour for nine months.
Henry Snivel4l9, William. Freeman, 19, William Fran.
mart, 17, John Cola, 18, and Jelin Ilr;ebrood. 20, were
indicted for stealing three purer, containing 10/., and one
silver watch and gold chain, the property of Elizabeth
Grove. There was a second indictment against them fa
stealing a pair of trousers and other articles, value 135.,
the property of Joseph Guildford.
Elizabeth Grove said she lived at No. 70, Edward.
street, Stepney, at a beer-shop kept by John Warden, and
on Tuesday, the Bth of January, at half-put five in the
evening, she mimed from her bedroom a box containing
the property in question. The box, forced open and pil-
laged, was subsequently found in the bagatelle-room
where the prisoners had been playing dining the day.
The prisoners were arrested b 7 the police, when Brick-
wood made a atatement tending to show that the police
had got bold of the right parties.
No evidence was offered against Brickwood, and all the
other prisoners were found Gatiqy.

The.Azaistant Judge sentenced Snazell to be impri-
soned and kept to hen' labour for nine months, Freeman
for twelve months, Francourt for eighteen months, and
Cain for six months.

J,o,se Faulkner, 24, clerk, was indicted for obtaining, by
false pretences, a large quantity of gold chains and other
valuable articles from Charles Frederick Hancock and
others, Harry Emanuel, and a number of other jewellers
at the West•end of the town, to a very largo amount. Ho
was also indicted for obtaining, by false pretenoes, a bag
from John Hill, withintentto defraud him of the same..

Mr. Healey prosecuted ; Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the
prisoner, who pleaded guilty to all the indictments.
The prisoner appeared to have pursued a very daring and
barefaced system of plunder. selecting some of the most
wealthy tradesmen at the West-end for the purpose. His
mode of proceeding was to drivenp to the shop of the peril-
miler tradesman in a brougham or clarence. drawn either by
one or two hones,and representinghimeelf to be be respec-
tively Sir Thomas Miller, Sir Thomas Hutchinson, or Cap-
tain Hamilton, and requesting to be shown some of the
most costly articles in their stock, as he was desirous of
making purchases. These articles, with the announcement
of his position, and perhaps sonic knowledge of members
of the different families of which he represented himself
to be connected, were of course readily shown to him,and in
each case he selected a number to a large amount; but with
regard to a few of the choicest of them, he stated that he
wished to show them to a lady, who was either staying at
the Clarendon, Grosvenor, or Charing-cross Hotels. To
have naked to be allowed to take these articles away with
him without payment would, of course, atones have been met
with a refuse!, but he ungenerously resorted to the artifice
of asking that one of the assistants from the shops should
accompany him in his brougham, taking with him the
articles, end when they got to the hotels to submit them
for the " lady's"approbation. In every case this request was
complied with ; but on the way the mode of operation was
not always uniform. In one ease he said, " that her
ladyship was ill, and he thought perhaps they would
not be able to see her ;• in another that the
lady was confined to her room, and in a third
case that the lady was from home, and had gone to visit
a friend in Belgrave.square. These representations were
put forward as an inducement to the shopkeeper's
assistants to entrust him unattended with the articles they
had brought with them, they being unable to present them
to the " lady" for the reasons he had stated. In two cases,
namely, at the Grosvenor and another hotel, the prisoner
was entrusted with the articles on pretence of showing
them to the lady ; but it is almost needless to say that he
never returned, and made his way with them out at a
back door. In the third case he went to Mr. Douglas
Cave's shop, 127, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and
there selected chains, and one of them, he mid, 12e wanted
to show to Lady Hutchinson, who was staying at the
Clarendon Hotel, and accordingly Mr. Cave accompanied
him in his brougham. When they got to the Clarendon
Hotel the prisoner ran; the bell and spoke to the proprie-
tor, Mr. Grillion, and then returned to Mr. Cave in the
brougham, and said her ladyship had not yet come. This
excited the suspicions of Mr. Cave, who expressed his
opinion pretty freely to the prisoner, and said that he
would not leave him until he had given him his name and
address. The prisoner then said that they bad better go