The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-07 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION&

Jrwim Lacy , 26, horrekreper, and George Cknerate, 46, de-
scribed r • cob proprietor, were indicted, Lang fur waling
sad Closets for receiving, • quantity of chaff, velar 7a.,
the property of the London General Omnibus Compaq.
They pleaded guilty, sad the court rentenced each of thew
M !It' aleathe:harl,..laboux. Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted.

Home lollop, 38, woe convicted on two indictment, is
end& Ise woe charged with stealing a quantity of horsehair
end sane tools, the property of George Homes Hooper and
another, Wm. Cairns Dolt, Richard Ileaddy, and Alfred
8e.... The wart eentenoed him to 15 months' hard labour.
Canines Grow, a good•luoking, well-dressed girl of 16, was
Indicted kr haring stolen three umbrellos, a shawl, end
other Wails, value H., the property of NValter Strangeraye.
Hr. Cooper, instructed by Mr. Ashley, on behalf of the
Resters Counties Railway Couigsny, appeared for the prow
males, end stated that the cams was rather peculiar in its
cinemstances. The primmer, though so young, was pep
mated of a considerable degree of cunning and impudent*.
It appeared that, on the evening of the 23rd of December,
the petomer was found seated in the first-clam waiting-room
of the terminus at Shoredgch, and on one of the company's
airmen asking her what business brought bar there, she
said she woe eriiting fax a gentleman who wee coming up
tram the country. She was conducted to the second-clam
waiting-room, and she them stated that some luggage
which belonged to her wee lett la the other, and it weal
brined to her, and she took poneeesion of it aa her own,
and wee going sway est& it, "
when an officer
el the company stopped har, mod ctiiser woe-
illtudiorwat wrong, questioned her 'about It, and
tech to the tioperintendent's once. It then turned oat
that the luggage was the property of Captain 6trangways,
sad she wee given into custody. The directors had thought
it their duty to prosecute, le the property of railway pawn-
gees wee necemarily exPosed to this sort of depredation, and
more particularly as there was reason to Lela,* that the
prisoner, though so young. had been engaged in other thin-
motions of a similar character, and had been • tool in the
bends of older and more expai.enced thieves.
No evidence having been given.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and It was then
proved that she had been the constant companion of thieves,
many of whom are now under sentence of penal servitude.
The mart sentenced her to twelve months hard labour de
Westminster Bridewell. _ .

Henry 2.5, wad inAleted foror.ling pair of
trovaere, the property of limy Laurence, hia master.

Mr Metcalfe. in...tem:led by Mr. IVakeling, prosecuted;
Mr. Cooper, by Mr. NVonturr, defended the prieoner.
The prosecutor is • clothier carrying on business fa
Drewer•street, Somers-town, end the {Anion.' had been ha
his service as " out-documme," or 1141114M111, in front of the
shop. The cue against him wee, that he had syetematioally
Moisn his master's goods, snd either pledged them himself or
tensed theta to be pledged. When charged, he admitted his
guilt, bagged forgiveness, and told where some of the pro-
perty had been disposed of, but at the same time told • con-
idershle number of lie,.

Mr. Cooper addressed the jury, more with the view of the
court passing a light sentence than in the hope of ma
sad called Vi,1211.11C41 to character, one of whom
sa▪
id he would gladly take him Imo his service, after this was
over, to give him • chance of regaining • respectable position.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The Assistsnt-J udge said thu court regarded this lie • @atoms
maie of • servant robbing his muter, end sentenced the pri-
soner to hard labour fur 18 calendar mouths.
Thomas Tire, 23, was indicted for wanking and beating
Henry Shepherd and Robert Atkinson Kirby. He pleaded
guilty to the latter charge.
Mr. Cooper said he !mid the brief of his friend Mr. Met-
calfe, who was instructed to prosecute this case on behalf of
the parish of Marylebone. The prisoner had been an inmate
of the workhouse of that parish, and though a cripple, having
been born with bat one arm, he really was • dangerous and
desperate character, and it hid taken several men to restrain
him, se great was his violence. The charge he had pleaded
guilty to was that cf having committed a disparate wealth
upon Mr. Kirby, the minter pro. tom. of the workhouse, end
no evidence would be offered on the other, all the facts being
Wave the court.

Tubbe,the relieving officer, elated that the prisoner
bed been convicted times almost out of number of assaults,
and other °depose, summarily, and he wee so troublesome to
the pariah, when either in or out of the workhouse, that he
(wittiest.) used to give him a shilling a-day to take a letter to
Finchley Cemetery, to wait for an answer, for which he was
detained some time purposely, and which when given wee of
no Importance—the object being to get him out of the way.
On one occasion he stepped a boy in the Wallington-road,
siltd Dial of his clothes, which he afterwards sold, and for
thawas convicted by the magistrate of highway robbery
sad asnamosd to a month's bard labour. The prisoner was
most desperate to those he assailed.
The Asaistant-Jusly sentenced the prisoner to nine
months' herd labour, and told him that that would be but a
Erslight sample of whet he would get if he ever was
jof any similar outrage. The parish had to support
, and their officers were entitled to the same protection se
the pike were in the execution of their duty, and most car-
tel* the court would inflict were panishment, especially
When the offence wee repeated.
Eiehard King, 24. Ina indicted for feloniously breaking
end entering the dwelling-house of Angelo de Brtgnola, with
intent to steal. There was a further indictment charging him
with breaking into the house of Sarah Rowell, with the same
intent.

Mr. Brignola resides at 10, Torrington-square, and on the
arming of the bth December, on he was in the kitchen clean-
ing o Omol, he beard • noise in the parlour overhead, and on
proceeding there with • candle he found the prisoner in the
me of lighting • match. He had got in through the window,
sad . himself disturbed he jumped out of it, but not
before the prosecutor had had a full and ample opportunity of
observing his featured. The prisoner was subsequently taken
Into custody for being found In the hall of Mrs. Rowell's
hen* No. 45, Guildford-street, and Mr. Brignols, on befog
takes to where be was, at ones identified him se the visitor to
his valour on the sth of December.
The jury found tho, pri•oner Ouilty, sad the court sentenced
him to 113 months' hard labour.