The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—June 11.

(Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.)
John Lamont, 24, and John Edwards aliasßyan,
24, were indicted for unlawfully attempting to steal
a gold watch and guard chain, value £2l, the pro-
perty of Thomas Senior, from his person. Edwards
was further indicted for unlawfully assaulting Al-
fred Steers, a constable of the Metropolitan police
force, in the execution of his duty.
Mr. Taylor was counsel for the prosecution ; Mr.
J. E, Palmer defended Lamont; and Mr. Giffard
appeared for Edwards.
The prosecutor, Mr. Senior, was the landlord of
the King's Arms public-house, in Long-Acre, and
he deposed that on the morning of the 23d of May,
at three o'clock, he went over to a public-house op-
posite, the Blue Boat's Head, and was drinking
brandy and soda water in front of the bar with
some friends. The prisoner Lamont got in front of
him and began talking, and directly he felt his
watch drawn from his pocket. He saw the watch
i guard n his hand, and immediately charged him
with attempting to steal it, and gave him in charge.
_"'Alfred Stears, 88 F, said he took the prisoner
Lamont into custody by direction of Mr. Senior,
and immediately he laid hold of him Edwards
struck him, and with several other men forced him
out of the house and rescued Lamont from his cus-
tody. 36 F came up and took Edwards. Witness
pursued Lamont and captured him. Edwards
struck the officer 36 F a violent blow on the chest
and tried to get away, but was soon mastered and
taken to the station.
The jury found both prisoners guilty.
Holmes, of the F division, said he knew Edwards,
who had gone by the name of Doggy Ryan. He
had been conNicted and sentenced to six and also to

ten years' penal servitude.
Lockyer, the prison officer, said he knew Edwards
to be ti thief-trainer, and that he was now on ticket
of leave.
FonMann, tha sessions officer of the House of
Correction, Westminster, proved eight convictions
against Lamont; on the first, in 1850, he WAS sen-
tenced to three days, and on the last, in 1860, he
was sentenced to six years' penal servitude.
Kis lordship sentenced Lamont to two years for
Lae attempt, and Edwards to two years for the at-
and one year for the assault, the latter sen-
mn-
t Pty t
Had t';', mence at th exi of the .
"e7co succeeded in e actuapllyration separatingfirst the watch, "a
all pro
:completed the attempted felony, in
the rest of thYeirtlay would have been sent away for
that such person's'vea, for it was utterly impossible
11(tout.1d be permitted to be at large;
and fhe Court
ae felony been proved, would
have felt bound to
could. Pass" the severest sentence it

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George Lee, 29, described
a an ironmonger, was
indicted on Monday for Ste,
a basket of carpen-
ter's tools, the property ant
pleaded guilty, and it was htiairge Smith. He
that he had been previously convictedthe indictment
Lve:ieseoF3ntershire
Castle. at Leicester
Thomas Miles, an officer of the
Constabulary, No. 42, proved that the
was a native of Loughborough, was convictedho
1856, and sentenced to four years' penal servitudelv
having been three times convicted. He
Was well
known about Loughborough.
The prisoner said, sullenly, he was guilty enough
of this, and he owned not that only, but that he
had been Convicted, and had been a bad character.
But notwithstanding his endeavours to live honestly
he,cauld get no work ; ho had travelled all over the
country in search of it without success. In Lough-
borough they wanted to hunt him down, and the
police would let him have no rest, in fact they
would send him to -- if they could.
The Assistant-Judge asked him if he could name
any place where he bad applied for work..
The prisoner mentioned several, amongst them
ono at Birmingham, where his name would appear
in the book of entries for work as George Lee ; but
they found out he had been convicted, and he was
not put on.
The Assistant-Judge said if the prisoner liked he
would have inquiries made as to the truth of this,
or he might prefer to receive his sentence now. He
must abide the result of any investigation which
might be made.
The prisoner said he would prefer the inquiry,
and Wishing the police at a certain place, he was
removed.
Judgment next session.l:4larwthaNanitchwoelrs, 32, servant, and Sarah Bain,
spoons, two milk indicted for stealing six silver
the property of viis, and other articles, value £4,
Martha Nichols. za Montague, the mistress of I.

The prosecutrix Was
residing at 16, York-
street, Marylebone, and: llatuy
auppeared the prisoners
went to a pawnbroker's to
the account
twice• Suspicion being ePzeitotesdornfe plate in pledge
thei gave of their possession of it they
by the assistant, who being satisfiedytl747,hhwadatccohmede
by it dishonestly, gave them in charge,
brokces to wh:ch they went Was e Mr.pawn-

liams's, at Notting-hill, and through the assistant
the property was restored.

The Prisoners were found guilty, and
The learned Judge sentenced Nichols to 12, and
Kain to eight months' hard labour.
Hannah King, 23, was indicted for stealing a coat
and a hat brnah, the property of Jameb Howard, and
two umbrellas, value 255, the property of William
Squire.
The prisoner it appeared had carried on a very
artful and somewhat extensive scheme of plunder in
ttis way. She went to gentlemen's houses and said
she had been sent for respecting a situation. Throw-
ing the servant off her guard by asking her to take
a message upstairs, she took the opportunity of pack-
ing under her shawl anything portable she could
lay hands upon. She would then say there was
some mistake about it and go away.
The Jury found her guilty.
The police constable in the case said there were
many others, and she had been identified at the sta-
tion by five persons, besides which the police had
received a good deal of information about her.
The learned Judge said she was evidently a dan-
gercus character. This was not an isolated case of
an offence committed through want or anything of
that sort—it was a regular and methodical plan of
robbery. The sentence upon her was 18 months
hard labour.

Ihe learned Judge, addressing the jury, said he
had pleasure in informing them that the magistrates
had rescinded the regulation by which some restric-
tion had been put in the way of prisoners in the
House of Detention being supplied with pens, ink,
and paper. They would remember that on Tuesday
a complaint had been made by a prisoner upon the
matter, and as the role had been altered, he was
sure that they (the jury who tried the case) would
be glad to hear of it, as he was himself.
A Juryman said they were.
The bail cases will be taken on Friday.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 11.

NSION-HOUSE.—William Samuel Speller,
a harness-maker and knackerman, carrying on busi-
ness at Wodford, appeared before the Lord Mayor,
in answer to a summons taken out by the Commis-
sioners of Sewers, charging him with having sent
to a public market in the city of London unwhole-
some meat for use for human food.
Mr. Stuchbury, from the offica of the City Choi_
tors, appeared to prnsecnte on the part of the Com-
znisaiuuers of Sewers. The defendant had no soli-
citor.
Mr. Stuchbury said the case was a very bad one,
and he should be able to prove beyond doubt that
the defendant dressed the meat for market, and at
the same time knew it to be unwholesome.
William Wylde, one of the inspectors of meat and
slaughter-houses, under the Commissioners of
Sewers, said that on April 16 he was in White-
chapel-market, at about seven o'clock in the morn-
ing, when he saw four quarters of beef taken from
a cart and hung up in the ,front of the shop of Mr.
Scales, a butcher, in the market. He inspected the
meat, and found it to be a carcass of a cow that had
died from disease. He tested the flesh, and it smelt
very strong of physic. The meat was very red, and
the fat of the kidney was green, from having lain
some time before it was dressed. The meat was
dressed in the usual way fo'r market, and was, in
his opinion, totally unfit for human food. He saw
the defendant:standing in Mr. Scales's shop at the
time: He showed the meat to two other inspectors,
and it was afterwards condemned by his lordship.
William Newman and William Davidson, also
inspectors of meat, under the Sewers Commission,
likewise stated that they examined the meat, and
were both of opinion that it was totally unfit for
human food.
John Gosh, gardener to Lady Morrison, at Snares-
brook, stated that her ladyship had a cow which
had calved on the Saturday preceding the 14th of
April, on which day it was taken very ill, and a
veterinary surgeon was sent for, who gave her some
physic. The cow lingered until the next day, when
it died, and the defendant, who was in the habit of
taking away the animals that died under such cir-
cumstances, was sent for to take her away, and he
went for it in the evening, but did not say that he
was going to the London market. He should say
that the meat from the animal was unfit for human
food. The cow was ill two days, and had three
doses of physic given to her.
Thomas Eastern, a veterinary surgeon at Wood-
ford, stated that he was called on April 14 to see a
cow of Lady Morrison's. The animal was suffering
from parturitive apoplexy, and he gave her some
medicine; but she died the next day. He had
known the defendant as a knackerman and harness-
maker for some years. He was the only man round
about who could be got to take away any animals
that died.

M.A

The witness, on being asked whether he thought
the meat of the cow was fit for human food, with
some hesitation, said he was of opinion that it was
not. ..

His lordship noticed this, and put some questions
to the witness, in answer to which he said that, if
the animal had been killed at first, he thought the
Ilea' would have been wholesome, because it had
merely died from a kind of congestion of the blood
on the brain, and he thought that if an animal suf-
fering from that were killed before the blood had
time to disperse over the body, the flesh would not
be affected, and therefore the meat, he thought,
would be fit for food ; but as the animal had died
the blood had remained in the body and the flesh
was unwholesome.

Dr. Letheby, the medical officer for the City,
said he saw the meat in question, and was of opi-
nion that it had died from an inflammatory
and congested state of the body, and an ani-
mal under such circumstances would be in a
state which would render the meat wholly unfit for
human food, and in his opinion whether the animal
had been killed or not the flesh would have been
equally unwholesome. Even the milk of an animal
under such circumstances would be highly dan-
gerous to human life.

Joseph Davidscn, servant to the defendant, said
that he went with him to Lady Morrison's on
Tuesday, the 15th April, and took away the cow in
a knacker's cart. The defendant took it to a
slaughter-house in Walthamstow, where he skinned
it, and dressed it in the usual way for market. He
left it there all night, and at five o'clock on the
morning of the 16th April he went with the defen-
dant, who took the carcass of the cow from the
slaughter-house, and brought it to London to the
Scales, where it was seized by the
isnhsoppecotforMr.
.
The defendant said he did not now that it was
unwholesome. lie took it to Mr. Scales to do as
heEthought fit with, and left it entirely to him.
The Lord Mayor said it was his duty to commit
the prisoner for trial, but he was milling to accept

The- defendant was accordingly admitted to bail,
himself in £4O, and two sureties in £2O each.

BOW STREET..—GAROTTE ROBBERY.—Mark
Barnett and Henry Svveetlove were brought before
Mr. Henry, on remand, charged with assaulting
and robbing Mr. J. Wilson, in Seven-dials; and a
third prisoner, James Hoare (a lad of about 16),
was now placed at the bar on the same charge,
having been apprehended since the last examination.
It will be remembered that Mr. Wilson, a
licensed 'victualler in Drury-lane, was walking
through Seven dials towards Tottenham-court-
road, at seven or eight in the evening, when he was
suddenly pounced upon by a mob of persons, tripped
up, and thrown heavily to the ground, Although
it was broad daylight, no one but an old woman
came to his assistance, and she was unable to pre-
vent one of the assailants escaping with a pair of
gold spectacles which were taken from his waist-
coat pocket, and which had been attached to a
chain for safety.
Mr. Henry—lt would seem almost incredible
that in such a crowded district, and in the full
a
light of day, no one thought proper to interfere to
Prevent such a robbery.
R M
EttlarY Fat l
rrey, a widow woman, living in Great
sanitc ,de—str
posed that she saw the prosecutor as-
th
to let eild knocked down, and told the prisoners
Diggi7,!leman alone. She heard one of them
sa,
glasses or s
ed), Nyb
and then saw him hand thegold eye-
apprehend PectaoleB to the prisoner Hoare (the last
time a policeman°JET away with them. By this
intorrieved, and eventually took two
,unsetoridslyb,iebfurot:etvheeraal
attack
keorsf
of the youths
escaped. She had se on.e of them since. The
prosecutor was made ins
Witness
to a doctor's,
upon him, and witness assisted .
itness knew all the
The prose-
w ther na
pe ipgr he --
when he partly recovered.
prisoners by sight, from seeing theme ii:
bourhood ; and the three at the IA
hended from her description of theinl'
cutor on recovering said, " I have been garotted,"
but he could not tell by whom,
Wm. Ackrill, the police-constable, described ch
apprehension of the prisoners from the description
given by the female witness. They wereassociaas-
of thieves.
Committed for trial.

WESTMINSTER.—DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT
MURDER IN THE MILLBANK PRISON.—John Smith,
a tall, powerful fellow, of forbidden appearance,
was brought from the Millbank Penitentiary, upon
a writ of habeas corpus, and placed before Mr.
Arnold, charged with feloniously assaulting and
wounding James dyers, an officer in the gaol, with
intent to murder him, to which
was further added
the charge of assaulting and wounding John Min-
chin, another officer.
Prisoner, who is 27 years of age, was at the time
of the commission of the offence under sentence of
seven years' transportation for housebreaking and