The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION&

(Moto Mr. Bodkin, presiding foe the asistant-judge.)
John /*Ply, 41, • most respectable-looking man, was in-
dicted for taatlng a silver Liss-yO4, sad other ankles, of the
Talus of
rant. ;catty of May Carey, his nifittom.
Hs pleaded .
Mr. Payne, or prosecution, informed the court that the
prisoner was a eauldeatial *errant and butler in the em-
ployment of Mrs. Cary, the widow of the late bishop of St.
deeply and bun time to time he had pledged forks., appoint,
and other ankles of plate the value of which, in the uggre•
gots, was about 801. The pruner, by some ingenious
method, is/strived to obliterate the mitre from the articles
ha purloined, but an offering some forke in pledge, the mitre
on which was not entirely effaced, the pawnbroker very pro- I
pray detained them, and subsequently the prisoner was
apprehended. It append that he had rubbed his mistress to
provide himself with mossy to lay out on horse-raring. A
betting-book was bond In hie pueasiaton, and the dates of
the bets he had mods corresponded with the times delis'
pledging. He made Qua book for the last Derby, end was'
prorating another for 1668. He had been In his situation
six years, and had borne a good character up to this Maier
action. The dates in the book were from September 1866 to,
August Lat.
Mr. Bodkin 'MOW' was another unfortunate Mersa of •
servant plundering his employer for the purpose of gambling
'on horse twee. The prisoner could not have expected to go
on without detection, and he must have been well aware of
the consequences that hie detection would lead to. It was •
cam of a very aggravated nature, and for the asks of public
justice he should paw a sentence of three years' penal ser-
vitude.

SfflitA, 26,pleaded guilty to a charge of feloniously
breaking and catering the dwelling-honae of Henry Hender-
son, and stealing therein eight gold rings, value Si. 8., his
Proiferll.
The prosecutor was a edverstaith and ,jeweller, 37, Strand,
and the prisoner broke a scare of glee in the shop window,
thrust bin hand through, and ens away with some rings
which he had grasped. He woe pursued and captured by the
sbnpman, when he said be had done it through destitution.
1 be Court sentenced him to twelve months' hard Labour.
Thomas Richardson, an elderly man, was triod and con-
victed upon an indictment for an indecent assault upon
Sarah Eborn, under twelve yews of ago, in Nest-end-fields,
near Kilburn. He had been sentenced to twelve months for
a similar offence, and the court new weed a sentence of
double that period.
Mr. Shdgh prosecuted, instructed by the Associate Insti-
tute for Improving and Enforcing the Law. for the Protection
of Females.

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William Ward was indicted for stealing a purse containing
11 sovereigns end other money, from the person ad litctorine
Paul. He pleaded guilty.
On the Illth instant the prisoner went into a cigar shop
kept by the prosecutes, in Bherated•street, Soho, and bought
► cigar, which he requested he might be allowed to Lemke in
the back parlour. While there he took hold of the pressen-
tria and picked her pocket while she was dose to him, end
immediately went away. She suspected something as he seen
up the street, and having missed her purse containing 11
sovereigns and other coin, she gave an alarm and he was
stopped. He offered the puree back. Sentenced to twelve
mouths' hard labour.

(Bofors Mr. Cressy.)
Jona Waytett, a well known young thief, was con-
sided of larceny from the person, and sentenoed to four
months' imprisonment, and four years' detention in a refor-
matory inat tattoo.
Mona. I de, 40, was indicted for unlawfully breaking and
entering a room in the dwelling-houm of James Maddox,
with intent to steal goods end manta therein.
It appeared that the prisoner, who had been butler to Mr.
Justice Coleridge, 1.54 at the Sun and Sportsman public-
home in Marylebons, by the promeutor. who, in ODUNIF
quince of haring money from his back parlour, set a
policeman to watch, and the prisoner wee deteeted at four in
the morning attemptin to get through the window.
The jury found him-Or ilty.
The constable said the prisoner had been grossly dishonest
while in Mr. Amities Colerktge's serviee, and that learned
judge stated in an answer to a communication made to him
by the police, that he should not be surprised at any dis-
ouvery made respecting him.
The prisoner was sentenced to one yeeir's hard labour.