The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before Kr. Pane.)

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outrag &was and Mikan: amen were indicted for a
et e.
Mr. Wiliam Ranger, of 127, St. Inousird's-rowd.
Bromley. said—On the 18th November, he way attending
the dtolamina of the polling at &spiny-green.
There was a great orowd, and the prisoners
stood in front of hire, sad while be was
shifting hie pocket handkerchief from one pocket
to the other the prisms,' made an attest open
him, one seined his arum while the other deliberately stole
hie-watch hom his pocket and passed it to some one else,
who ran away with It.
Mr. Pepe* sentenced Bryan to 18 months' inspriesnment
with hard labour, and Snooks, wile had been several times
prevional_y °cackled. to num peace penal servlbade.
John M aks wos convicted et robbing Mr. Jam Drew,
• wholesale statieseer. as be was walking Men Melbera.
The promenter hit a hand in Ws lnaziliaise.beened
round and heal the primmer dealing
Warder Kim pined conviellene amid kis.
and the court antenna blurwren mot puma servi-
tude.

SURREY SISSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

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Cershiose Career, 31, wad indicted foe sleeting a silver
watch from the wean of dew Want
It tree the willow of She pimaseater that on
Se night, the Nth ahem, he wee eismeiag solids
the Plough and Harrow Tavern. Newington 1141 e, wheel
the primmer and another female came out el timpaWlie-
house and ran against him. He padied tie pri-
mmer off, when she =daftly ran of . aad ea leek-
ing down he missed his watch from his milkiest
pocket, it Maio, boos broken from the chola la the meal
way. Meeting Te Revell, 175 L, they
told him what had accursed, and they
weal in search of the Soner, wham they they overtook,
when the was seen to something on the pavement.
On looking down it pro to be the prosecutor's watch.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and it haring been
proved that she had been previously convicted of sunder
robberies, she was sentenced to eight years' penal
servitude.

POLICE COURTS.-(THIS DAY.)

WORSIIIP-STREET.
81NOULLII CRAWS OF =arr.

Groror Walt, re, '2O. described as a collar maker. living
in the tity.read, was charged with having stolen a feather
bed. value 4!., the property of Timothy Bennett.
The prosecutor was called but did not answer.
tiergeiuit George Delos, 17 (1, said he hoped that
although the prosecutor was not in attendance hi. worship
would grant a repined to compel the prosecutor's
attendance. The sergeant further said, that very re-
cently one of the reserve men of the division died of
typhus fever in its most malignant form, and the uniform
he bad worn bad been ordered to be burnt. The bed upon
which he had lain during Lis illness (the wife acting under
advice) was also ordered to be destroyed, and 3s.
was paid foe this purple to the undertaker who had
the 'burial of the body. That undertaker was
the prosecutor, Bennett, and from a statement
made to him (the sergeant) by the prisoner, when at the
station, it would appear that Demuth instead of destroy.
lug the bed, which was in a most dangerously infectious
state. bad retained it, and that was the boil which the
prisoner was charged with having stolen, and which it
appeared be and another man bad sold under the railway
arch in New Inn-yard. Shoreditch, for a few shillings.
The magietrate said the primary object was to regain
possession of the bed and have it destroyed, so as to pre-
vent further infection, which would probably otherwise
result. He therefore remanded the prisoner for a week,
liberating him on bail, so as to give him the opportunity
of aiding the police in their efforts to trace the Led.