The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-20 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX RESSION,9.

(Before Mr. Pim&ley, Q.Cin., Aesistant Judge, at West-
mster.)
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Thomas loose and AAR trONSl,.brothirs, one a commercial
traveller and the other a clerk, who pleaded guilty at the lei
erasion at Clerk/swell, to a charge of meault on the polies,
in which affray one of the poomd was ruptured, were
brought ap to receive the judgment at the mart.
Mr. Le Briton made an earnest appeal on their habil,
stating that these young and had already been he pieces for
thee weeks, and that their employers were quits ready to
Mks them back into their @melee as soon as they were die-
°barged.
The Aesistant Judge, in giving judgment, said that
sowealts on police officer.could not be lightly passed over,
and sentenoed them to four months' Impruamment, reckon-
ing from the first day of last session, on the 4th inst.
Ann Meander, 38, coachman, was indicted for stealing
two 601. Bank noise, and three 101. Bank notes, the property
of Thome Albert Gladstone, his wester.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted ; tie primes. undefended.
Kr. Thomas Albert Gledstono, of the Yom. hones, Gun-
nembeiry, said the prisoner had been In his service for seven
weeks, es eon' -n, and ea Monday, the 41st at Deemeber,
he went with hire to Aldridge's emambeion stables, where
be saw a pair el horses belonging to a Mr. Flailing, On
Wednesday, the 23rd of that month, be gave the prisoner
bank-notee to the amount of 1301., and directed him to attend
a sale at the repository, sad to id for the horses, but not to
go beyond 1301. lie did not return, and he never saw him
until helm taken into custody.
John Fic.hling, livery stable-keeper, of Norfolk-yard.
Bayswater, said he had a pair of horses for sale at Aldridge's
retory, the same which had previously bees seen by Mr.
Gladstone . Witness bought the hones in at the reserved
price he had put upon them. Re saw the prisoner at the
sale, but he made no bid for the horses. After the eels the
prisoner made an offer in Mestia's-Mais of UN*
the hones but he him
declined to dice Ism than 1361. he themfor,
which the prisoner agreed to give, upon the understanding
that if his meats. did not approve of them the brtda
was to be voW. Witness then asked him for the 1
the primmer said he would give it to him at his (wilesees)
ylace at eight, as he shouM like to see thy horses go, aid
would ride behind them, but ha did not see him spin
he was to costoly.
Frederick Poole, police-constable, 300 A, odd he appre-
hended the prisoner at • public-hones fa Castle-sleet, Lei-
cesterecnare. lie told him the charge against him was for
pads:l3ol. the property of his master, to which he im-
len y replied that lie had only " stepped it " with the
money his master had given him to purchase horses. Upon
being searched, two 101. notes and two 61. notes, 194. 10s. in
gold, and 7s. in silver, were found in his pommies. He
said he had been robbed of 601. at limey's, in Cesabourne-
-I=rsend could not account far the rest, as he had got
' and knew nothing about it.
The prisoner, in his defence, said be went to Maseera,
where he got drunk and lost the missy.
The jury found him Goilly.
Mr. Paahley sentaneed the prisoner to be kept in penal
servitude for three year..