The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-28 00:00:00

STREET ROBBERY.

Caroline Arnold, 34, widow, was convicted of stealing
two bank notes for 101., and monies from the person of
Samuel Sterne.
Tho case was this. Prosecutor had been stopped by
prisoner on Tower-hill, and she having robbed him, a
man came up and assaulted prosecutor, but police coming
up she was secured and the man escaped.
The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that he wished
it to bs publicly known, that if any men acting as bullies
to the class of women to which the prisoner belonged
were convicted before him, he should inflict the heaviest
penalty the law allowed. There was scarcely a worse
class of offence. Ile should not visit this prisoner with
the full power allowed him, but transport her for seven
years.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant )
Edmund Hasher, 19, tailor; Win. Churchill, 21, tailor;
and George Langley, 20, labourer, were indicted for bur-
glariously breaking into the poor-house of St. Panora),
and stealing a quantity of clothing, the property of the
directors of the poor of that parish.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, and stated the following case
to the Jury :—Early on tee morning of the Ist of Octo-
ber, some of the police on duty near the St. Pancras
Workhouse saw Langley coming along the told with a
large bundle, and he was shortly afterwards joined by
the prisoner Hacker, to whom he gave the bunale. The
first officer waited till another constable came up, and
Flasher was seized on the spot, but the other two bolted.
Langley, after a smart run, was taken on the spot, but
Churchill was not taken until the next day. Hasker,
when stized by the police, took from his pockot a large
flint, with which he inflicted a serious wound on the
officer's forehead. When searched, he was found to have

three pairs of trousers on. It was directly found that
the property belonged to the workhov ae, and that
the tailor's shop of the workhonse had bee a broken into,
and the things taken from there and the sk,orehouse. All
the prisoners had bee❑ inmates but a short time before,
and Haskar had worked in the tailor's shop.
The jury convicted Churchill and Li.ngloy, Haskar
pleading guilty.
Langley was again indicted with .tames Smith for a
burglary in the dwelling-house of Frederick Reeve.
They both pleaded guilty.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted, and said that in this esso the
prosecutor's house, 27, Pembroke Cottages, Caledonian-
road, had been entered, and a quantity of clothing
stolen ; the police, however, caught the two prisoners
before they could get away with their booty, and after
much struggling and ill-usage to the officers they were
secured, and Langley was identified as having been the
one that escaped the previous night.
Smith, Hasher, and Churchill were then sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour in the

Home of Correction, and Langley having been before
convicted, was transported for seven years.

511DDLESEX SESSIONS—Oct. 27.

(BeFore Mr. Ssrgeant Adams, Assistant-Judge, at
Clerkenwell.)
The Court sat to-day to hear bail oases.

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William Carter, William Lenny, and John Collins
core indicted, charged with having assaulted John
Reeve and Stephen Sylvester, metropolitan police con-
stables, whilst in the execution of their duty.
From the evidence, it turned out that Carter and
Lenny, with some others, were making a disturbance at a
public-house in Norton-folgate, about three o'clock on
the morning of the 19th of this month. Reeve was
called in by the landlord to clear the house, and, after
this was effected, Carter and Lenny got up a fight out-
side. Reeve interfered to separate them, but Lenny
swore he would net be conquered by the police,
and struck him on the head with a pewter pot wnich he
had in his hand, and which blow stunned him.
He struck him again, but Reeve caught hold of
Lenny, and, whilst Carter was attempting to pull him
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yioSoCyklavLret esetnrenr ywc aihnmot into retie uspsi tody, and at this time Collins
came up and knocked Sylvester down by a blow in the
face, and kicked him. Ile caught at Sylvester's hat aid
handkerchief, which were ou the ground, and ran away
into his house. lie followed and cap:ured him on the
landing, but Collins tripped him up, and they fell down
stairs together, but he afterwards got him to the station-
house. The defendants had been drinking.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The learned judge thought it but right to notice the
straitfor ward manner in the which the police had given
their evidence, without any attempt at exaggeration.
When the police acted improperly, they were censured;
and it was only justice to give duo praise when they did
right. He then sentenced Lenny to six, Collin .to four,
and Carter to one month's imprisonment, with hard
labour.
Some cases, of no public interest, were disposed of,
and the court adjourned.