The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-04 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before the Assistant,-Jodie.)
Benjamin Dickenson, 32, pleaded guilty on Monday to a
charge of stealing a clock and other 'niche the property
of Thomas Hobson, and a brooch and other articles the pro-
peety of Mary CracknelL
From the statements of the officer of Coldbetlp fields
Prison, Leaky'', and Sergeants Cole and Holmes, of the
detective police, it appeared that the prisoner win well
known under the oboe of" The Loug Snub," and bad been
four times convicted ; he was an enoourrgerof young thieves,
an associate of convicted thieves, sod a receiver of stolen
property.
Cole said the prisoner's plan was robbing public-houses
by sneaking epstein.
In this case the prosecutor was the landlord of the
Crown, Green-street, Leicesteroquare, and having had
some information given him, he went up the
staircase and met the prisoner coming down. He
collared him, and the pnsoner said, " For God's sake don't
hurt me, for the sake d my wife and family" (throe children),
and at the same time he gave up a timepiece. The pro.
eseutkr said, " You vagabond, you've got more than that,
and assistance was called, and the prisoner wee held while
the prosecutor went up to his bedroom. There he missed a
diamond ring and a key ; the other articles belonged to the
prosecutor's servant, and had been stolen from her bedroom.
11risoner bad in his possaseion a large strong knife and
loader matches. _ _ _

The Amistant-Judge said the prisoner was one of the class
of persons from whom it was the imperative duty of the
court to protect the public.
The primmer begged for mercy on account of his family,
and said he would never commit crime again.
His lordship said he should have thought of his family
before ; it was too late now, and the sentence upon him was
four years' penal aervitude.
Prank Martin, convicted last session of a garotte robbery
in Fountain-court, Strand, at 2 in the morning, and of
assaulting a police-constable, whose leg was broken in twu
places, and by whose side the prisoner was found bing, •
severe struggle having taken place, was brought up for
judgment, but further inquiry as to his antenta being
necessary, he was again remanded.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted ; Mr. Dickie appeared for the
prisoner.
SHOOND COURT.
(Before Mr. Payee, Deputy-Amistaat Judge.)
John Colnea, H), was indicted for stealing a purse con-
taining BS., the property and money of George Hollington,
from the person of Harriet Hollingion.
Mr. Lloyd prosecuted.
This was an ordinary street robbery, but the prisoner was
a most daring thief. The wife of the prosecutor, a licensed
victualler at Barking, was is Wheeler-street, Spitaltielda,
onjthe evening of the 20th of November, when the prisoner
stopped her, threw up the flounce of her dross and picked
her pocket. She had • brother-in-law near by, who ran
after the prisoner and caught him, and gave him in charge.
The jury found him Chatty, and • number of coevictions
was proved agniust him, about seven, on ono of which De
was sentenced to seven years' transportation.
The learned Judge sentenced him to ten years' penal
servitude, and said these daring street robberies were so
frequent now that the court wee bound, in the discharge of
its duty, to punish those who committed them with severity
by way of example.

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Matthew Miller, a lad of about seventeen years of age,
was brought before the Lord Mayor yeeterday, charged with
embezeling IW., the money of his employer, Mr. James
Loader, 149, Cheapside, haberdasher.
It appeared that the prisoner was in the employment of
Mr. Loader, and was in the habit of taking out parcels,
for which he was authorised to receive the gamey, for
which it was his duty to account the seat day. lu the be-
ginning of October last, Mr. Bailey, one of the prosecutor's
customers, received three receipts for the following
amounts, vie., sf. 18s. bd., 21, us. Bid., and 61.:1., which!
sums he had paid the prisoner himself, and he had given
the receipts. The two latter sums, however, he
had never accounted for, and out of the 51. 18a. Le
had paid over to his master 41. 2s. The pri-
wiser was detected iu rather a peculiar manner.
It appeared that a gentleman waited upon the prosecutor
a few days since and produced a small pocket-book, which
he said lie had picked up, and finding one of that gentle-
made bill-heads in it, having his address upon it, he
called to see if he knew anything of it. The book was the
prisoner's, and this led to his detectiou, for a cumber of in-
voices were found in it, also an account of hie pecula-
tion'. Besides embezzling the amount above-mentioned
the prosecutor stated that there were a great many other
eases eatoudiog over a period of eighteen months. The
invoices produced by the witness Bailey were not the same
that We prosecutor bad himself made out, but
were in the prisoner's handwriting, and upon them
were a number of items which were not in the books,
and if the goods to which these sums related had been sup-
plied to Mr. Bailey, they were stoles from the warehouse
by the prisoner; from which it would seem that the pri-
weer had supplied Mr. Bailey with goods unknown to his
master i and upon the prosecutor's making out the invoice
sod giving it to him to collect the account be had made out
another, adding the items which he himself had supplied,
and after reoeiviug the mousy for the whole deducted the
amount of the original invoice, which he paid to his master,
and kept the difference himself.
The prosecutor, however, was quite content to let the case
rest upon the three amounts gone into, and the prisoner was
committed for trial.