The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS-April 4,

The April Quarter sessions of the Peace for the
county of Middlesex commenced this morning at the
Sessions House, Clerken well-green, before Mr. Bod-
kin, Assistant-Judge, Mr. Payne, and a bench of
magistrates. . .

The calendar contains the names of 130 prisoners
committed for trial, of whom 103 were indicted for
felony, and 27 for misdemeanor.
The Assistant-Judge, on the Grand Jury being
sworn, briefly addressed them, and explained to
them the nature of their duties, and they retired to
their room.

Charles Pottinger, who has been remanded for
several sessions, having been convicted of a serious
assault upon Henry Hunglesin, an omnibus con-
ductor, w ,s brought up for judgment.
Sentence had been deferred in this case to ascer-
tain if the prisoner's friends would make the prose-
cutor any pecuniary compensation for the injuries
he had sustained, but they refused to contribute
anything.

The prisoner said months ago the prosecutor had
been, offered £3 down and an 1 0 U for £2, but he
refused the offer.

The Assistant-Judge zenteneed him to be impri-
soned and kept to hard labour for three months, he
having been in prison since the beginning of Jan.
Alfred Stevens, 29, clerk, was indicted for steal-
ing the sum of £5, the moneys of William Honour,
in the dwellinghouse of James Pownceby.
The wife of the prosecutor in this case, on the
evening of March 17, went to the Duke of Clarence
publichouse, in the neighbourhood of Stanhope-
street, Hampsteau road, in company with her son,
to fetch some beer for supper. She had in her purse
a sovereign, a £5 note, and a sailor's ticket of leave.
She took the sovereign out of her purse to pay for
the beer, and in doing so she dropped the other con-
tents of her purse. After she had been gone some
time the prisoner entered the publichouse, and was
seen to pick up something from the front of the
counter, which he handed to the barman, telling
him that it was a sailor's ticket of leave. A wit-
ness named James John Ridler was in the house at
the time, and saw him pick up a Bank of England
note, and when the prisoner left the house he fol-
lowed hitz and told him that he had got a £lO
note. The prisoner said it was only a £5 note;
and on being advised to go and give it up to the
barman, as the note belonged to two sailor boys, he
said he should not do so, as it was just what he
wanted, and that it would enable him to get some
clothes to go into the City to look for a situation.
He was subsequently taken into custody by George
Madgett, police-constable 74 S, on the charge of
stealing the note, when he said it was all gone but
is 6d, as a butcher had robbed him of Xd.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to be impri-
soned and kept to hard labour for two months.
George Carey, 22, barman, was indicted for steal-
ing the sum of 25., the property of James Drake, his
master.

Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. F. H. Lewis ap
peared for the prisoner.

The prisoner pleaded guilty to the indictment.
From the statement of Mr. Drake, the prosecutor,
it appeared that he is landlord of the Pigott Arma
Tavern, East India-road, Limehouse, and the pri-
Bonet wag it iris aervice for a fortnight as barman,
he having obtained the situation by representing
that he bad lived for twelve months in the employ-
ment of Mr. Blyth, of the Herculus Tavern, but this
was a false representation. From the time the
prisoner entered the prosecutor's service his ordi-
nary takings were reduced by about 255. a day.
Between 113 and £l4 was found in the prisoner's
possession, and Mr. Cooper applied that that sum
should be given up to the prosecutor. The prisoner
was engaged at a salary of £25 a year, with board
and lodging, and he was promised an advance to
£3O a year if he suited.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to be impri-
soned and kept to hard labour for twelve months.
At the last sessions Ann Murray was indicted for
maliciously committing damage to the amount of
£5 to a pane of plate glass, the property of George
Horner. At the trial it was stated that the sister
of the prisoner had been to the London Plate Glass
Insurance Company, in Ludgate hill, and paid /I,
on condition that they would not prosecute for this
offence; but, notwithstanding, a prosecution was
commenced against her, and ahe was acquitted by
the jury. The Assistant-Judge made some strong
remarks on such a proceeding at the time, and
thought that the matter ought to be inquired into,
as it looked like compounding a misdemeanour.

To-day a professional gentleman attended the
court and said he had waited upon the secretary of
the company and informed him of his lordship's ob-
servations, and suggested to him that he ought to
return the 3he received from the prisoner's sister
for the damage done, but for which she was after-
wards prosecuted. The secretary, upon this appli-
cation, replied that if the Assistant-Judge should
send for him he might then return the money, but
not wit hcnt,
The Assistant-Judge again strongly commented
upon the case, and after communication with the
magistrates on the bench, said he had not the power
to send for Mr, Williams, the secretary, but if he
had any regard for himself or the credit of the com-
pany he would attend without being sent for, and
explain why he received the money and why he
would not return it.
The matter then dropped, and:so stands for the
' present,