The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-24 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

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Three shags. area Ai* Ina, and LW Mask wen
lodietal for Owns" • COp sad racer vs/as 41., Me pro-
perty of Abraham Josephs; • retired; value 3!., the peo-
perty of Betwerd Charles Sparta ; sad aft seams, mho 21.,
the gregarey of
it Rresell.
J. Cooper_ promoted.
Mr. Welt ellshadail As
sad Kate ; Jo& pfeMiod _SONY-
The pious% who ben a maaarkable likes= Wards each
other, It appmed went to the estahishamatel Mr. ;caliphs,
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importer of vrorke of an, 92, New Beitil.dmi, c the
27th of September, sad alter inspoiting the gallery with
the sir of lady mono/mum —they was, fastuloaably
dressed loft without making say purchase, but
having given • good deed of trouble, by adds( about
• th.iusand aud one querlions. They had scarcely
left the premises when Mrs. Joseph mentioned to her soul
Felix something, and he immediately mimed • valuable cup
and saucer, of Eastern manufacture, from • tat& ekes to I
which the poisoners had stood, and he want after than. He
followed them to Woodstock-emcee and Ozford.staist, sad
back to Bond-street, when he got • creatable. Jolla then
loft the other two, and, seeing Mr. Josephs, said to him, tre-
mulously, " Oh, what did you say the pnos of this west"
and the next moment Ann threw the cup and saucer away
into some duet, and it was smashed. They ware them all
token into custody.
Mr. Sleigh was nose-examining the witnasa who depeasd
to dila, when the learned jsdge and the jury suggested that
the owe was one that could not be contested, the evidence
being beyond depute.
Mr. Sleigh said he certainly felt that the case was hope-
lessly against his clients, and, in fact, he had advised them to
plead
The jury then found them Guilty.
A former conviction was then proved against all three
for • @hailer offmee, for which they were each maenad by
this court to 12 monde.' hard labour.

Mr. Cooper then stated that there were two other owe,
and the prisoners seemed to have been doing • omeiderable
troth, in ibis way ; m fact there could be no doubt that they
were most accomplished lady shoplifters. When they were
taken the property mistime to the other cases wee found
upon them. Julia slipped • box with • child's alphabet in
it on to the pavement from under her dream, and a new
leathern box she bad in her bend; these were stoles on the
same day, with four other articles, from Mr. Spade's, 37,
New Liondmtreet. by the three top thee. On the 24th of
September the three of them favoured Mr. Russell, of Bar-
tington arcade, and after purchseing • pair of stockings they
walked a with two parcele of silk scc•rves, some of which
were found at when they had been lodging with • sister,
who had been doing all she could to keep
them honest by setting up • school and getting
employment honestly in various ways. When the
policeman took them they tore up duplicates, and the
fragment• bring compared, they were found to relate
to other articles which no doubt these light-fingered sad
&whim:stably deemed ladles" had pilfered from other trades-
men's chop Mr. Sleigh said Mile wee not only en unao-
countable but meet extramdlnary cue. The prisoners were
the daughters of • most highly wpec•able person, now deal,
who had given them the edneatioe of ladle., and they were
really not only educated but accomplished women. They
were under no pressure from want, they had no trrgent woes-
' Mika to contend with; Aril they had been out of prism one
had been in • situation ere • governs..., soother bad been aid-
big a fourth slaver in •echoed, and the other bed been dress-
making. But it seamed that they had the p.neheat foe
steeling which had been termed kleptomania. He could not
possibly understand the inducement by which they bad bees
lid into suck courses. All be could urge on their behalf totals
court wee, that the thefts they;bad committed were to no
very serious extent, and that they bed sot paid their Malta to
Jewellers', or other shops where much more valuable articles
' might have tempted them.
The prisoner Julia said it waiebe alone who tonic the cup
and sewer, bee sisters knew zothice about it. The others
said that wasters.. A fourth elver, living at Brompton, who
seemed deeply affected, was celled, and bore oat what Mr.
Sleigh had said. She could not scoount, she said, for her
sisters' propensity for steeling. Julia, it bad long been sus-
pected in the family, was not exactly right in her head.
The learned Assistant-Judge end the court could make no
distinction between this case and any other; If it did it
would tether It, to the disadvantage of the prisoner.. They,
by their apparent **perm' e condition of life, bad throws
tradesmen eft their guard, and had committed theft in • way
that showed they were nut new to such practices ; besides, they
had each had the serious warning of 12 months' hard labour.
As that had not deterred them • severer punishment must
be tried. In the opinion of himself and the bench, the
eurgeation of • mania fur stealing was, at least so far as this
case was concerned, not to be regarded In the slightest de-
gree. Here were three parenne, sisters, going about end
plundering aboskeepers in ell directions. The te•pectability
of the pitmen did not at all affect the opinion of the mart,
any mono than if they had been of the lowest clam of
r Seeders with whom the court had to deal. The duty of
the coat was to protect the public sod punish crime, and the
awns, upon each of the prisoners wee three year.' penal
servitude.
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The slaters then affectionately embraced **eh other and
were removed. The tiurth meter wee allowed an interview
woh them. .

108 i Hobart. 18 yon of age, was iodictad for fsloolouely
steeling three pinion in silver, two collars, and other articles,
value 201.. the property of Robert Grant, his neater. The
prisoner pleaded guilty.
lit. Sleigh appeared for the proisecutice, Intruded by
Mr. Beard, and sed the prosecutor was a draper carrying as
businen in Prospect-place, Kingstatd, and the prisoner had
been in his service some menthe as shopmen. The charge
against hint was that he bed purloined articles sod money
from his employer, and the c.v., if be might be allowed to
may so, was one marked by circuoisiancse of peculiar aggra-
vation. That be had been systematically robbing his em-
ployer then could be so doubt; nit it appeared that a watch
was Lorton the premises, and, at the suggestion of the pri-
soner, another person was gives into custody for stealing it,
but was aftervirside discharged by the magistrate. It was
the prisoner himself who stole the watch it had don turfed
oat, sad it was found in the possession of a young woman In
Prised to whom he bad bees paying hie admen. the
prinnet was the eon of a clergymen in poor airoomnsnose
in Ireland, who we. brokenhearted at his eon's coadmit ; and
so no, hew he had ',indeed the prosecutor, it was only
retessory to say that he had been in the habit of ending
both psis eel money to poor relations, although when he
neat Into 1M1N011101.6 service hewn penniless mid deetitne.
The prosecutor stated, fa answer to his lordship, that he
hod been robbed by the prisoner to the extent of at Islet
VW Re went to Ireland to recover some of his properly,
sod bind the watch (which soother pens, throw
Yearie agency, had been there'd with etselleg) la the
panesion of • youtg women the prisoner was courting, and
ne had sent It to her. The prisoner came to him at 30(.5 year,
but ea he did not snit he was di. hergiol, but he bagged to
be allowed to stay a few weeks, as bs wee cissittute. Ail this
Mae Its wee robblog him. Over 201. wort► of !articles ware