The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-21 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Oct. 20.

The October adjourned quarter sessions of
the peace for the county of Middlesex com-
menced this morning at the Sessions-house,
Clerkenwell-green, before Mr. Bodkin, assistant-
judge, and a bench of magistrates. The calendar
contained the names of 93 prisoners committed for
trial.

The Assistant-Judge briefly addressed the grand
J ury.
Edward M'Grath, 18, was indicted for stealing a
reticule containing the sum of £5 45., a silver pen-
cil case, and other articles, the property and moneys
of Jas. Gordon, from the person of Kate Gordon.
The prosecutrix said that she was the wife of
James Gordon, a clerk, and on the afternoon of the
10th of
.October, at about half-past three o'clock,
she was passing through Long acre, carrying a
reticule, with a double chain, on her arm. As
she was walking along she saw the prisoner stand-
ing by the side of the pavement, and on coming up
to him he struck her a violent blow on the right-
hand side, and at the same moment snatched the
reticule from her arm and ran away with it. She
chased him through several courts and alleys into
Drury-lane, but at length she lost sight of him.
She then went to the station-house in Bow-street,
and described the prisoner, which was entered in a
book. She afterwards saw the prisoner amongst se-
veral other persons in the station yard, and at once
identified him as the person who had robbed her.
Wm. Ackrell, 48 F, said that from the descrip-
tion given to the inspector by the prosecutrix, he
went in search of the prisoner, and on the 14th inst
he met with him in Clement's-lane. As soon as the
priscner caught si ht of him be took to his heels,
and after a long and intricate case he at last came
up with him, and captured him in Shire-lane. He
told him the charge, when he said he would go with
him. He took him to the station, and next morning
he placed him in the station-house yard with eight
other persons, and the prosecutrix being introduced
she immediately picked out the prisoner as the per-
son who had robbed her.

The prisoner strongly protested his innocence, and
said that when Ackrell made his appearance several
other persons ran away, and seeing them do so, he
ran also. This statement Ackrell positively denied,
and said the prisoner was the only person who had
done so.

The Assistant-Judge summed up, and the jury
immediately found the prisoner guilty.
Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said he had had the prisoner
in custody for picking pockets at a fire in Rupert-
street, Haymarket, and had since then seen him fre-
quently in the company of thieves. It was true he
had been at work at a greengrocer's shop in the
day, but he went out thieving at night. He was
charged before Mr. Knox, at Marlborough-street,
for stealing a bag from a carriage in Pall-mall, and
sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for three months.
Gordon,. police-constable 28 C, said he had known
the prisoner for about three years, as having been
about Leicester-square with young prostitutes and
thieves. He knew he had been previously convicted.
About three weeks ago he met him in St. Martin's
lane.
The prisoner denied the statement of Gordon, as-