The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. s. W. Om)
Louis le Rai, 34, described as a printer, wee charged
with stealing four sheet., 12 handchkfs. 12 pillow-
caste, and other snicks, belonging to Mr. William •
Worley.
Mr. Bosley prusecuted.
On the night of the 10th December the primmer en-
gaged • bed at the prioecutor's ecitleenhop, 21, Dean-
street, Soho. He left in the middle of the night, and the
:telt morning the articles mentioned were missing from
the kitchen, where they bad been taken to be washed. He
came again about ten nights afterwards, and being recto'.
mined was watched. In the middle of the night he crept
stealthily downstairs, but was met by Mr. Worley. To
the questionof what be was doing, he said he wished to
go into the backyard. Mr. Worley said it was !tramp be
should want to go out without any boots. Oh," he
said, "I do not wish to disturb any one." At six o'clock
he was locked into a cafes-room and a policeman was meat
for, but the inspector advised Mr. Worley not to press the
charge. A portion of the linen was recovered, but owing
to • necessary witness not being bound over, the prisoner
could not be connected with it, and the jury found a ver-

diet of Not Guilty.
The prisoner was then tried on another Indictment, for
stealing a shirt, three sheets, three handkerchiefs, one
towel, and other articles, belonging to Mr. Danoocks.
Mr. Bosley prosecuted.
From the evidence it appeared that on the night of the
15th of December the prisoner took a bed at the rowan.
tor's coffee-shop, 29, King David-lane, Shadwell. He was
asked whether he would be called, and he said " No."
Mr. Daneocks pseud the night on a sofa in the parlour,
and was awoke at 5.30 by the prisoner entering with a
lighted candle. He said it was path six, and he wanted
to go. Mr. Hancock' told him the correct time, and be
left. The property was missed immediately, and after
the second visit of the prisoner to Mr. Worley, the pro-
secutor in the last came, a duplicate was found there which
related to • shirt, part of the stolen property.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and sentence was
postponed to allow inquiries to be made.
In the course of this case Mr. Cot remarked on the care-
less manner in which the evidence was prepared at the
metropolitan police courts in small cases, and the em-
brevity of the depositions. Where no counsel
e had literally to fish out of the witnesses what
facts were. In this prosecution it was clearly neces-
vary to call the pawnbroker to produce the tickets found at
Mr. Worley's; but the case was sent here without that wit-
ness, and the jury very properly acquitted. It was also
manifestly important to have the conversation about the
prisoner going out without boota, but not a word appeared
in the depoeitiona. _ .

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(Before Mr. Payne, Deputy Assistant Judge.)
Thomas Atherton, 40, described as a dog dealer, and
John Barrett, shoemaker, were indicted " for corruptly re-
ceiving N. from John Airs Tucker, upon exeunt of aiding
him to recover • Coley dog, the property of James Marquis
of Graham, which bad been before then stolen."
The jury.found both the prisoners Guilty.
Butcher, the officer, said that Barrett bad suffered im-
prisonment for three years for dog stealing, and M.
Lookyer, sessions ocer, said he bad known Lim ever
since 1840' ffi
as being • dog stealer. Atherton had only
recently come into it.
The judge sentenced Barrett to be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for 18 month, and Atherton for 12 mouths. I
A man whose name we purposely omit, clerk, was in-
dicted for stealing • gold watch, • chain, and two lockets,
weans IW.
Mr. Beaky prosecuted; the prisoner was undefended.
The prosecutrix was the mother of the prisoner, end
for some years it appears be has been forbidden her hoses
in consequence of his bad conduct. In the month of Jere
last, however, he managed to force his way into his
mother's house, and stole a gold watch and chain, to which
two lockets were attached.
In cross-examination of his mother the prisoner by
implication accused her of being an habitual drunkard, of
getting money under false pretences, and amongst other
offences of causing his father to commit suicide, to all of
which charges she gave an indignant denial. The pri-1
soner's grandfather also proved that the watch and chain
were safe just before the time when the prisoner entered,
and that he met him dose by, and bad • conversation'
with him.
Notwithstanding repeated warnings from the bench, the
prisoner persisted in accusing his mother of great im-
morality, and said she only accused him of this charge tol
screen herself in the eyes of her relatives, as she had
squandered the money away in drunkenness. The prisoner
would persist in calling his sister into the box for the
purpose of ocafirming his charges against their mother,l
but she had only answered a few questions when she pre
• shriek, fainted away, and was obliged to be carried oat
of court, amidst the commiseration of all except the
prisoner who witnessed it. Be smiled at it with the ulesest
complacency.
The jury found the prisoner Gaily.
Mr. Begley aid it was right the court should know some.
thing of the prisoner, and be could inform his lordship
that he was formerly in the service of • company in
London, whom he robbed of 201., for which be was tried
at the Old Bailey and sentenced to • term of imprisonment.
He afterwards got employment at the Electric and Inter-
natlooel Telegraph Who*, in Dublin, and absconded with
ltif. belonging to them. He was employed by the Great
Northern Railway Compan and from that be was dis-
mimed with disgrace, and ha had deserted his wife and
children.
The grandfather of the prisoner said that the prisemw
and his wife were in the country, and on the eve of the
wife's confinement flannel and other articles were seat by
Ms mother to make her comfortable, but the prisoner got
hold of them and pawned them, and when the infant was
born the poor wife was without the most ordinary news-
series for her situation. There was not • member of the
family but what be bad robbed, and more than cues had
threatened to cut his mother's throat.
Mr. Payne said it was no use addressing
observations to
such • person, whose conduct had been so bees to his
mother, and the sentence upon him was that he be kept la
penal servitude for 10 Tsars.