The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-09 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Jan. 8.

John and Daniel Buckley, brothers, were indicted for as-
saulting James Blake.
Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted. Mr. Warton appeared for
the prisoner,

This was one of the most scandalous outrages that, per-
haps, ever came before the court. From the evidence it ap-
peared that the prosecutor was the landlord of the Railway
Arms beer shop, at Kensington, and that on the 11th of
December, the prisoners, who were masons, were there
drinking in the tap. He had occasion to go to Hammer-
smith, at mid-day, and on his return home he found the
prisoners and two men wrangling and making a noise, they
being drunk at the time. A chair and the table was knocked
over the oven door, which were picked up by one of the pri-
soners. They asked the prosecutor to drink with them,and
he did so, A man, who had been lying on the seat, made a
grumble about it. The prisoner John got up from his seat,
and leant over the table to hit the man, prosecutor tried to
prevent him, and told them not to make such a piece of
work in his house. The four men set upon him, got him
down, and kicked him unmercifully. He then went into the
bar, and, whilst standing there, the prisoner John struck
him a fearful blow on the head with a chisel, inflicting a
wound 2 inches and a half long and a quarter of an inch
deep. He was knocked down and kicked and beaten about
the head and face, and John again used the chisel. The land-
lady went to her husband's assistance, when they assaulted
and dragged her to the stairs,where they struck at her with the
chisel. A person who was there went for assistance, which
having procured, he pointed the prisoners out, but the two
others had got away. He received two very severe black
eyes, besides other injuries, and was laid up. When
eharged each of the prisoners said it was the other.
Mr. Walton submitted that the evidence opened the way
to a doubt, of which, if they entertained one, the jury would
give the prisoners the benefit.
The Assistant Judge summed up.
The jury found both prisoners guilty.
The Assistant Judge then sentenced them to six months'
hard labour, observing that a more scandalous case he had
never heard, and the public must be protected from such
outrages.
Thomas Fann, a general dealer in Spitalfields, was in-
dicted for feloniously receiving, well knowing them to have
been stolen, 100 pairs of gloves, the property of the Great
Western Railway Company
Mr. Giffard prosecuted for the company; Mr. F. H. Lewis
defended the prisoner Fenn.
Fann surrendered in court and pleaded guilty.
Charles Timothy was also indicted with him as a party
concerned in the robbery. Ho pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Lewis, on behalf of his client, urged that be had 12
children to support, and under the circumstances, as he had
pled guilty to the indictment, and the company had so far
gained their object in instituting this prosecution, he hoped
they would not press the case too harshly.
Mr. Giffard said so far as the company were concerned
they had no desire to press the case, and he should there-
fore offer no evidence against Timothy.
The latter was accordingly acquitted; Fann was sen-
tenced to six months' hard labour.
Thomas Jordan, a respectably dressed young man, was
indicted, first for feloniously embezzling the sum of 14s 6d,
received by him for and on account °Messrs. Margetson
and Heywood, of the Banat., Islington, and also for steal-
ing a piece of flannel, value 2s Bd, and other articles, the
property of the same.
Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted ; Mr. Cooper defended.
Upon the evidence, the learned Judge said there was no
case against him, and he was acquitted. On the other he
was tried.
It appeared that the prisoner was an assistant to the pro-
secutors, and when he was in custody on the other charge
some small articles were found in his possession, which were
identified as belonging to the prosecutors.
After hearing Mr. Cooper,
The jury found the prisoner not guilty.
(Before Mr. Payne.)
Christian Reiter, 25, sugar baker, John Myer, 22, and
Henry Mues, 26, three Germans, were indicted for assault-
ing George Olett, a constable of the metropolitan force, in
the execution of his duty, and a common assault.
Mr. Cooper appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Metcalfe,
instructed by Mr. Young, appeared for the prisoner. /d,
Albert acted as interpreter.
From the evidence, it appeared that while George 011ett,
police-cons table, 415 A, was on duty at a quarter to 12 on
Christmas-eve, a woman came and made a statement from
which he went to No. 4, George-street, Whitechapel, a
sugar-house, and he saw part of a man's coat hanging on a
gate, and a man looking over the wall. He went to the
front and gave information, and then proceeded to look over
the premises. Upon going up stairs he found a door open,
and the prisoner Reiter in the room. Rieter said something
to him in German, which he did not understand, and struck
him on the forehead with his fiat. Several other Germans
then came in, and caught hold of 011ett and threw him
down stairs, and from the violence of the fall, he became
insensible and was much injured.
Police-sergeant Blackwell, 4 H, said he heard of the dis-
turbance, and went and found 011ett at the bottom of the
stairs insensible and without his hat. The prisoner Mues
rushed on him (Blackwell) with an open knife in his hand.
He said something in German, and was much excited. He
raised his arm with the knife as if to strike, and he struck at
Blackwell with it; but Blackwell, who had his staff drawn,
warded off the blow, and hit him on the forehead with his
staff. The other prisoner Myer also had an open knife
in his hand, which he struck at Blackwell, but did not
injure him. The two prisoners, Myer and Mues, wore not
quite dressed. There was a general disturbance, both inside
and outside the house. There wore about 80 sugar bakers
and a mob of 600 or 700 people. The Germans rushed at
the constable like lions, some with pokers, others with tongs,
fenders, and all sorts of things. The reason why 011ett went
into the house was, that a woman came and told him she
thought there were thieves in the house.
Benjamin Prior, another sergeant of police, corroborated
the greater part of this evidence. When the prisoners Myer
and Mues were struck by Sergeant Blackwell they went down
into the yard, and laid down as if insensible. They could
not take them to the station the front way, and were obliged
to take a cab and take them out the back way. There were
about 25 sugar-bakers living in that house.
Police-constable Queenby, 220 H, said he went to the
house at a quarter to 12 on Christmas-eve, and saw Reiter
with others at the foot of the stairs. Reiter had the poker
(produced), and struck him with it on the left shoulder and
then on the hat, which he knocked off his head. Mues re-
ceived a severe blow on the head; layer also had a slight

graze.
Mr. Metcalfe made an able address on behalf of the
prisoners.
Mr. Payee summed up the evidence.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty against all the pri-
soners.
Mr. Fayne said the prisoners Myer and Mlles had been
partially punished by the blows from Sergeant Blackwell's
staff, and perhaps it was fortunate for them that they had
received those blows, or they might have had to answer for
a more serious offence than they were now charged with.
He should take that into consideration, and pass a more
lenient sentence than he should upon the other prisoner,
Reiter. The sentence of the Court upon Reiter was that he
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for four calendar
months, and upon Myer and Muss that they be imprisoned
for two calendar months, and that the whole should enter
into their own reeognisances in the sum of £4O to keep the
peace towards all her Majesty's subjects for the next 12
months.
Maria Jones, 30, described in the calendar as a servant,
was placed at the bar upon an indictment charging her
with stealing a purse, a ring, an ear-ring, and the sum of
£1 16s 6d, the property of Rebecca Maybury, from her
person,
The Jury found her Guilty.
Mr. Payne sentenced her to six calendar months' impri-
sonment.
John Goff, 28, mason, and Henry Campbell, 28, tailor,
were indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of Thos.
Spooner, and stealing a tablecover and other articles, his
property; also two dresses and other articles, and the sum
of £5, the property of Louisa Hogger.
Mr. Grantham prosecuted; Mr. Montagu Williams de-
fended Campbell; and Goff pleaded Guilty.
It appeared from the evidence of Abraham Ballard,
police-constable 324 S, that at ten minutes to 7 o'clock on
Christmas night he was on duty in Hamilton-street, Camden
Town, and from suspicions he entertained he stopped the
prisoners, who were each carrying bundles under their arms
wrapped up in black silk. He asked Campbell what he had
got there, and he said they had got two parcels, and that
they were in a hurry to catch a train. The other prisoner
also said that they were going with an excursion train to
Birmingham. Campbell said the policeman need not suspect
them, as they wei ein a hurry to catch the train, but he
would show him what they had got. Upon which each of the
prisoners suddenly drew a parcel from under his arm, threw
them at him, and ran away. They ran down Bayham-street,
pursued by the constable as far as York-street, where he
caught Goff. He did not know Campbell before, but he
looked at him well while he was speaking to him. When
Goff was caught he was brought back to where the bundles
had been thrown down,which were picked up by two gentle-
men cud, with the prisoner, taken to the station house. At
the station house Golf was searched, and on him were found
2G skeleton keys and a jemmy. The bundles contained a
number of articles which had been abstracted from a house
in Hamilton-street. The policeman afterwards went to No.
6 in that street, and on examination found thatthe door had
been broken open, and comparing the marks on it he found
the jemmy taken from Goff entirely corresponded with them,
and had evidently been the instrument used in effecting the
burglary ; and there was a piece of candle left behind the
,door which the burglars had used. The prosecutrix and her
sister were the only persons who occupied the house, and on
the morning of Christmas-day they left the house for the
purpose of visiting some friends. From appearances of a
suspicious nature at 9 o'clock the same night the sister of
the prosecutrix was sent for, when she found that a writing
desk and three workboxes, which had been locked in the
morning, had been'Abroken open. The table-cover was on
the table when she left, and all the of her articles produced
were there then, including a jacket and two dresses belong •
ing to her sister, besides £5 in gold and silver, a gold watch
and chain, and jewellery belonging to herhelf, The prisoner