The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-19 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Creoury.)

William Taylor, 34, surrendered to take his trial on a
charge of haring stolen a Newfoundland dog, value 101., the
PrZlof Alexander C Pierre.
Crew Pierre.
Atkinson prosecuted, Mr. F. H. Lewis was for the
dames.

Ti bring the case formally beforo the court it was necessary
to prove in the first instance that the prisoner had been
before convicted of a like offence, the case against another
person, who was concerned in the matter with the prisoner,
being abandoned In consequence of there being no former
conviction against him.
Inspector Langdon, of the N division, stated that he had
the prisoner in custody in 1851, and produced a certificate of
his conviction dated May in that year,
The prosecutor it appeared lived at No. 15, Peerles.s-row,
City-road, and on the 11th of February the dog in question
was missed from • yard attached to his premises.
The dog was seen at the corner of Bath-etreet,
and the prisoner and the other person attended
to entice it away by throwing pieces of liver which it caught
and devoured. A person who saw this told one of the prose-
cutor's men about it, and the primmer and the other man
were followed to Nile-street, City-road, where they were
found still enticing the dog by throwing it liver, and the
other man was at once taken into custody, and the prisoner
shortly afterwards, on being pointed out to a constable.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of attempting to steal
the dog.
Mr. Cressy sentenced him to three months' Imprisonment.
Hannah Moorsom was indicted, with Thomas Marshall
(who surrendered), for stealing the skirt of • silk dress, and •
veLlkom the person of • young women.
defame. . Homy prosecuted ; Mr. Sleigh apyeared for the

This case, which was tried late In the afternoon on Wed-
nesday, was rather singular. The prosecutriz went with a
Mend to see a gentleman living in Cambridge-heath-road,
and after her friend had left her, she and the gentleman
took a little too much to drink. They went to a public house
and had more drink, and the " gentleman," who was then
quite tipsy, said he would go and get a cab to send pro-
seentrix, who was in the same condition, home ; he went
away, and did not return. The piorezutris had more drink,
porter and gin, with, as she aid, the female prisoner, who
was in the public-house, with a man, but she could not say
it was Marshall, and on her going outside: she was in such a
shate of drunkenness, that a mob of boys got round, and
=deuce! of her. ccording to her evidence, the woman
interfered to protect her from the boys, and she and the man
took her to some place, where she could nlt tell, when the
man knocked her down by a blow on the mouth, and while
she was down, the woman tore off the skirt of her drum, and
took the veil off her bonnet, and went away. A policeman
found the proeecutriz complaining to a man that
she had been robbed, and he went after the prisoners, whom
he had previously seen with the woman, and he found them
under a lamp looking at the skirt of a dress. Moorsom
made several statements to account for her possession of it,
and at last arid the proucutrix had given it her, for pmtect-
fag her from the boys, end as it was nearly torn off, and had
been " draggled" through the mud. The prosecutrix her-
self was taken to the station-house for beirg drunk, and
acknowledged that she became nearly insensible after par-
taking of the last drink ordered at the public-house ; but
she denied that the female prisoner pinned up her drum be-
MUSS it was so torn that it trailed on the ground, or that it
having been torn off ahe gave it to the woman as worthless.
She said she was respectable and resided with her parents at
Pimlioo and was not in the habit of drinking—this would
be a serious lesson to her. The gentleman in whose com-
pany she bad been was now in the country ; he was unmar-
ried, and she called to see him at his mother's house. Bhe
could not tell why he did not return with the cab he said
ha would fetch.

'Thejury after bearing an able addtess from /Ir. Sleigh,
who commented with severity upon the prosecutrit's oon-
duet, end the summing up of the learned judge, found the
prisoners Net Guilty.
Ni. Grow than called the preercutrix into the witness-
hoz, aid rid kindly, he hoped this would be a warning to
her for the met of her life, to avoid visiting single gentlemen,
who made her drank, at along distance from her own home,
sad than MR bar to her fate; if she did not, so surely
would @bedewing step by step to the level of those poor
abandoned and miserable creatures, whom wretched appear-
ance as they stood in that dock was so deplorable and dis-
tressing. From vice they got to crime, and crime brought
them to that bar. It was evident that she was= the brink,
if she had not yet fallen, and he would implore her to
she hemp another victim of vice, wickednesZtraaln
He trusted she would not disregard by
The prapaddi said abs would not.