The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-21 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The October adjourned genera wakes of thermos kr the
cennty of Middlesex commeaced yesterday morning, at the
Guildhall, Westminster, before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant Judos;
Mr. Payne, deputy; and the following magisitrares were
CrMr. Portman, Mr. Foulconer, Mr. -Parbury, Mr.
Mr. B. White, Mr. Stilwell, Mr. Freer, Mr.
, Mr. Bird, Mr. Gould, and Mr. Ihinnington Fletcher. Theo
Imre* for trill-8 for misdemeanour and 63 fee
felony The learned Assistant Judge charged the grandjary.
William dads, 29, a watch escapement maker. wee indicted
fee steeling a gold watch, the property of William Harris,
two gold watches, the property of John Cregg, At. He
pleaded guilty.
Mr. Sleigh said he was instructed for the prisoner, who
wan respectably connected and had never before been guilty
of any act of dishonesty. He had unfortunately got
into difficulties, and had no doubt got possession of
wattles from tradesmen and converted them Into
mosey which he applied to his own purposes. It was
hoped that the court might be disposed to take a lenient view
of the case.
Tat Assietant-Judge said hie only doubt was whether he
ought not to sentence the prisoner to penal servitude. If in
refraining from doing to he committed an error, it would be
on the side of mercy, but It was impossible not to regard this
as • very aggravated offence, the pnaonet being a person
who used his apparently respectable position to defraud and
plunder tradesmen of valuable goods. The sentence would
be eighteen months' hard labour.
Charles llaittson, a tall, well-dressed young man, wee
indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-
horses of John Hill Corteld, is Harriogros•grove, Tolling-
ton-park, liorosey-road, and stealing therein • coat and •
watch, his property. The robbery woo committed cee Sun-
day evening while the prosecutor and his family were at
church, and the prisoner wee detected by a neighbour,
who, seeing • light being curried about the house, and
knowingu Mr. Corfield to be out, suspicted 'something, and
w.
till the prisoner came out, and caused him to be
ed with the stolen property in his potteca.ion.
llPCislgioner wore a white neckerchief, and had the ap-
parent. of a clergyman.
The jury found him Guilty, and it was then proved that
be wee • returned convict, and was well known at the
prisms.
The Assistant-Jodie said there will but one proper course
to take in such • cam, and sentence! the prisoner to 8 years'
penal servitude.
Mr. J. P. Doyle was for the prosecution ; Mr. Sleigh for
the primer.
John Barn, 27, was convicted of feloniously assaulting
Thames Price, and robbing him of a watch, at the working
of a tire engine In Mary lebone-lane.
Being a known chid, and having already bed 12 months,
the court now estateooed him to throe year.' penal ser-
vitude.

Richard Silief, 32, commercial traveller in the service of
Moan. Hardy, wholesale woollen drapers, New Bond-greet,
we. indicted for stealing • quantity clank, de., the property
of his employers. He pluided
Mr. Taßuud Won appeared for the prreecution„ and end
the prisoner had been in the receipt of 1501. a yea as town
traveller, and his honesty beng euspected, watch was kept
upon him by Cole, 317 A, which resulted in his detection in
carrying property from the premiers of Messrs. Hardy. A
good dean of property had been missed, but there wee no
ground for Imputing to the prisoner that be bad taken it all,
though much had gone since the prironer bad boon in the
situation.
Mr. Bleigh, for the prisoner, maid it was a very red and
melancholy case • the prisoner bad ruined himself, destroyed
his hitherto good character, and diaarend his family. if the
court would treat the case as leniently as was roundest with
the requirements of public justice, means would be taken to
said him abroad.
The Court sentenced him to eight months' herd labour.
(Before Mr. Payne.)

William &sateen, 18, dealer, wee indicted for steeling
• rinse-piece, value 10a., the property of Sir Hamilton
Seymour.
Mr. Rutherford prosecuted; Mr. Prendergest ddended
the prisoner,
Thome+. Carlisle said be was butler to Sir Hamilton Sey-
mour, of No. 10, Grosvenor crescent. The time-plea pro-
duced wee the property of Sir Hamilton Seymour, end it wee
oafs In the houtekreper's-room at the bottem of the area steps,
at half-pest six o'clock on the evening of the 10th is stmt.
The prisoner bad come there with • cart for the purpose of
fetching awry the dirty linen for the laundrette. Wits..
went away for a short time, and on his return the time-
piece wria gone. He had known the preemie" for • year
and aehalf by coming to the house to fetch away the dirty
linen.
Ann Elmsford, wife of Charles Bamford, Pak, she kept a
broker's Mop, at No. 3, Chelsea-market. On the 10th of
October the prisoner, whom she had known fee a long time.
came to her and offered • thoe-pesos for sale, asking
Va. for it. She questioned him aa to whether the
clock was his own, and he &exerted that it was, and that it
had been given to him by a girl in Eatomplaes. She told
him to call the following morning, and in the interval she
sent it to a pawnbroker s fur the curpore of ascertaining its
value, and obtained 6.. upon it. When the pawner came
In the morning she again asked him if he bad come by the
timepiece fairly and honourably, and, being satisfied with his
anewer, she gave him 6w. Gd. for it.
Alfred Elliott, of 22, Queen-street, Pimlico, pawnbroker.
said the limo-p Moe produced was pawned in the name of
Ann Hanstord for Bs. Id., and he valued it at 10e.
Fraud. Street, police constable lb 11, said he took the
prisoner into custody on the 11th, and having told him the
charge, he said he anew teething about it, but at the Guts
be was at the house he saw • n 11•11 with a white &Mon on
same up the arts steps with • Mast in his hand. Ha said,
be had not sold anytime-piece to Mrs. Haestord.
The prisoner, when before the magistrate, is his defence,
said he saw a man go down the /daps and come up. He then
went down the Mews and came back; that he (the prisoner)
thew wen. ...ma the Mere. and theta found tee thee-Ono
Midst! the gets, whiels he took sway and sold.
Mr. Prendergast, for the puma, repeated In sob-