The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS, SEPT. 9.

.-NOTHER TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF MR. THOMAS, 1.11
SURGEON.-This day these sessions commenced before 31','
Hedger and a full bench of Magistrates ; and immediatc4
upon the Court being opened it was filled in every Part
the public, in consequence of its having become known tbat
Mr. Frederick Nicholas Somers Thomas would take his trial
upon an indictment for felony.
The prisoner, who is a surgeon, our readers will rccolicet
was convicted in the month of December last of feloniously
removing from a dwelling-house a quantity of furniture be-
longing to Mr. Seeley, of Peckham. For the offence he as
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard c
a,
hour in Guildford House of Correction ; but before the
expiration of the term he was removed to Bethlem Luusstnee
Asylum, owing to a deprivation of his reason, andsub
quently a portion of his sentence was remitted by the • ,o
eretary of State, after Mr. Wak!ey, M. P., bring' of
certain circumstances under the notice of the House
Commons, and after an inquiry had been instituted by
the law officers of the Crown. The trial this c/a/
occupied the Court from the time of its assernbll
up to the rising, a few
and, notwithstanding the excessive heat and 11
minutes before seven o'cloo'c
length of time consumed, such was the extraordinary
pitch to which the public curiosity had been excited by
Mr. Thomas's previous case, that the majority of those
present did not quit the Sessions House from the C°""
mencement to the termination of the trial. not
The prisoner, upon being placed in the dock, did
appear to have altered materially since his former arraigt7d-
ment, with the exception of his hair, which had tomnh'e
from a deep black to grey. During the proceedings
as
took occasional notes, and behind him at the bar
seated one of the officers of the Bethlem Asylum.
The indictment charged the prisoner with stealing,:
locket, a watch, several spoons and articles there.
named.
The prisoner pleaded "Not Guilty" to the indictment'
After several witnesses had been examined Mr. Adolphus
addressed ...he jury for the prisoner.
Mr. Henry Thomas, a surgeon, of Vauxhall-road, the
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prisoner's brother, energeticdlly depesed that the locK!1
produced bore the likeness of h s father, and had been I_ll..
the family a number of years. ( This statement pro-
duced duced an extraordinary sensation in Court.) The spillors
were also family property, and the watch he Pia
himself when his mother obtained it. It was made Tit
Hawley, of the Strand, if it wits the same witness thong
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The CHAIRNIAN briefly summed up, and the Jury. ,
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. returned a.verdict of Guilty.
Sentence

We understand that Mr. Hodges, the barrister,
one of the passengers who was on the Falmouth mail hen
the late accident occurred, is now quite recovered. T
the
learned gentleman suffered from a simple fracture of t"
left arm, but sustained no other injury.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury.
remain at Tottenham Park, but intend to pass sacra.'
months in Paris this winter_ The Noble Marquis cones
tinues to enjoy uniform good health, Lord and Lady
Ernest Bruce are in Wilts.

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