The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-06 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The sittings of the court for the Adjourned Qaarter
Sessions were resumed yesterday morning at the Guild-
hall, in the Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, before the
Assistant-Judge and a bench of magistrates. The
calendar contained the names of 76 prisoners for trial, of
whom 70 were charged with felony, and 6 with misde-
meanour. .

James Henry Pattock, 32, described as a clerk, was
indicted for having feloniously embezzled several sums of
money, amounting together to about 500/., which he bad
received on account of, and in the capacity of servant to,
Stephen Garrard and another, his employers. He
pleaded guilty.
The prosecutors are solicitors, and the prisoner was
in their service as cashier, and in that capacity he re-
ceived rents of estates, of which it appeared he had ap-
propriated to his own use near upon 5001.
Mr. Ribton appeared for the prisoner, and said that
the course his client had taken in pleading guilty was
perfectly voluntary ; but he wished to say a word or two
on his behalf. Hitherto he had been a highly respect-
able man ; he was son of a solicitor, and had been nine
years in the service of Messrs. Garrard. He had to re-
ceive rentstof property of which Messrs. Garrard had
the management, and he (the learned counsel) believed
that be was empowered to retain the money in his hands
some time before he paid it over ; and if that were so, it
would seem that unfortunately the temptation was too
great for him, and when charged he at once admitted
that he had used the money for hie own purposes. For
the offence he had committed he expressed the utmost
contrition, and, having confessed himself guilty, threw
himself upon the mercy of the court.
Mr. Bodkin, for the prosecution, said it was not cor-
rect to say that the prisoner had any authority to retain
the money for any time in his own hands, it being his
duty to pay it ever as soon as he received it. It was
true that when charged the prisoner admitted that he
had embezzled money to the large amount of 5001. His
salary was 1501. a year.
The Assistant Judge, after reading the depositions,
sentenced the prisoner to be kept in penal servitude for
fouryears.

Thomas Deverell, 19, described as a soldier, was in-
dicted for frauduleatly obtaining by false pretences from
Waiter Yonge, a gold watch and three gold chains of
the value of 261. his property, with intent to defraud him
of the same; and also for obtaining by false pretences,
with like intent, three sets of gold studs, Scc., from
Edward Whistler. He pleaded guilty.
The prisoner was in the service of Mr. Glenny, of 152,
Strand, outfitter, as shopman, and on the 19th of Jan.
he was sent out on business, but did not return. He
procured the property mentioned in the indictin ent by
representing that he had been sent for it by Mr. Glenny,
which was untrue. The prisoner was apprehended at
a recruiting depot in Duke-street, Westminster, on the
26th, by Pocock, a detective sergeant of the F division.
Mr. Hardingo Giffard, for the prisoner, having men-'
tioned the circumstances, urged that it was not a case for
full punishment. The prisoner gate one of the chains
to a young woman, in whose possession it was found,
and since, he bad enlisted iu the 17th Lancers, and was
anxious to join his regiment. The prosecution was dis-
posed to recommend him to mercy, and if the court
would sentence him to a short imprisonment, he would,
after that, be more efficiently employed in the service of
his country in the Crimea than by undergoing a punish-
ment in prison here.
The Assistant Judge said the court regarded the case
as ono in which some lenity could be shown ; but still
there was a rule from which it would not do to depart.
The sentence was that the prisoner be kept to hard labour
for six calendar months.