The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-18 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-Agq. 17.

(Before Mr. Bodkin and a Bench of Magistrates at the
Guildhall, Westminster.)
FyillianL Faulkner, jeweller, carrying on busine,s in
Lisson-grove, and Crawford-street, convicted on Thurs-
day of feloniously receiving stolen 'watches and other
property, was placed at the bar to receive judgment.
Mr. Bodkin sentenced him to two years' hard labour,
and hoped that the prisoner's fate would operate as a
warning to others.
Henry Walker, 24, was indicted for stealing a purse
and the sum of 21. from the person of Lucy Bishop.
The case was clearly proved, and the jury found the
prisoner guilty.
The prisoner was one of the most notorious thieves of
the metropolis. He had been convicted of various
offences 10 times, and in 1845 he was sentenced at this
court to be transported for 10 years. He was then sent
to Parkhurst, and liberated after about two years' con-
finement.

Mr. Bodkin sentenced him to be kept in penal ser-
vitude for four years.
Robert Collins, 20, Edward Free, 29, and John Green,
tio, were indicted for stealing an inkstead and time-
piece,a,i
the property of Henriquso Calyacanti )'Albu-
querque, b
u
querque, from his residence, South Bank, Regent's-park.
Collins pleaded guilty.
After the evidence had been given, the jury found the
prisoner guilty, and previous convictions were proved
against bFree and Green. They had only een out of
prison a few days when this robbery was committed.
Mr. Parry said he was instructed, on the part of
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Collins, who had, pleaded
guilty, and
aud
ther prisoners, to without wishing to
aggravate the case of the-- t -
that they had led Collins .into matter, and that say
he
had been their victim. Nothing was known detrimental
to his character.
The prisoner Green—There, my lord ; that's just what
I thought. I
expected they make it out that he had
been led into it ; but he want's no leading, I can tell
you. at
re_e can go very well of his own accord. (Laughter.)
He wants no more leading than I do; but I knew
they'd make it out that he was led into it.
Mr. Bodkin sentenced Collins to six months' hard
labour, and Free and Green each to four years' penal ser-
vitude.
Green, with a good deal of earnestness, begged that
his sentence might be transportation for 15 or 10 years!
He said he should be as great a thief as ever when he had
sewed the four years. He would be set loose among his
old oompar/ions, all thieves, with no means of living but
thieving. He should be. known and marked, and in
prison again almost as soon as he was let out. If his
lordship would send him for 15 years he should be sent
out of the country altogether, and he hoped he would
pass that sentence on him, for so long as he was in Eng-
land he should be nothing but a thief.
Mr. Bodkin said he had not the power to comply with
such a request, and if he had he should hesitate to exer-
cise it at the request of a prisoner ; but he felt so fully
the force of some part of what the prisoner had urged,
that if he had the power, he certainly should have taken
into consideration the propriety of passing such a sen-
tence upon him.
The prisoners were then removed, and on the way to
thweell Free knocked his fellow-prisoner Collins down
for having pleaded t uilty.
Dennis Daley; 18, was indicted for having unlawfully
assaulted and attempted to stab Francis Leverett, a
pelice-constable, in the execution of his duty.
On the night of Saturday, the 11th inst., the prisoner
wise detected in the act of picking the pocket of a female
in .Hampstead-road, and the prosecutor took him in
charge. He proceeded quietly a short distance toward
the station, but at the corner of Henry-street he made a
stop, declared his innocence, and refused to go any
further. A struggle took place, and a large mob col-
leeted, whose sympathies were all on the side of the pri-
soner. The policeman called on a pork butcher, named
Somers, to assist him, and both he and the policeman
were knocked down and kicked. At length the prisoner
was got into Somers's shop, when he seized a knife, and
the prosecutor, in endeavouring to wrest it from him, sus-
tained a cut in the hand. Mrs. Somers then interfered,
and succeeded in getting the knife from him. He then
took up another knife and made a plunge at his breast
with it, the point actually penetrating his coat, and had
not Mrs. Homers at that moment laid hold of his arm,
there could be little doubt that the knife would have
been plunged into
,his chest. The prosecutor then got
the prisoner outside, and was attacked by the mob ; but
other constables came up and the prisoner was carried
off without any further interference on the part of the
mob, who, however, threatened to pall the front of the
butcher's shop out, and they actually did pull the meat
down, broke the dishes, and carried some of the meat
a way.
Mr. Bodkin told the jury that he thought the case
failed as to the principal count of the indictment, but
clearly it was a case of aggravated assault upon the
officer in the discharge of his duty. It certainly was to
he regretted that a mob of people could be found to aid
and assist in such an attack upon an officer, and to
threaten to demolish the shop front of a tradesman who
interfered to protect him ; and it was a pity some of
them were not indicted.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of an aggravated
assault.
Mr. Bodkin sentenced him to one year's hard labour,
and ordered 51, to be paid out of the county or Treasury
to Mrs. Somers for her meritorious conduct in disarming
the, prisoner of the knives, and in consideration of the
loss her husband sustained.
Edward Broadfoot, barman, who pleaded guilty on
Thursday of robbing his master, was brought up and sen-
tenced to three months' hard labour.
James Nash, 34, George Willing's, 30, and G';orge
Wilson, 26, were indicted for stealing two chests and
five boxes of tea, value 551., the property of Henry
Statham and another, the masters of Willings.
Wilson pleaded guilty,
The prisoner Willings was carman to the prosecutors,
who are carriers, and he had assisted the other prisoners
to steal goods from his van, which bad been entrusted to
him for delivery.
The prisoner Wilson was called as a witness against
the other two.
The jury found Willings and Nash guilty.
Mr. Bodkin sentenced Willings to two years', and
Wilson and Nash each to eighteen months' hard labour.
(Before Mr. Witham.)
Stephen Allen was indicted for stealing a gravy spoon
and other articles, value 101. and upwards, the property
of George Dickens, in his dwelling-house.
The prosecutor resided at 11, Adelaide-road, St. Pan-
erae and on the 17th July the prisoner was detected by
the housemaid in making off with the plate basket from
the kitchen. He managed to get away, but he was pur-
cued by an engineer at the Zoological Gardens named
Chadwick, at whom he struck with a life preserver. He
was captured by one of the park-keepers.
The jury found him guilty, and former convictions
were put in against him.
A. retired policeman, named Cutting,-said the prisoner
was, above all, the most daring and impudent thief he
had ever met with during au experience of seventeen
years in the police force.
Mr.Withatu sentenced him to d years' penal servitude