The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-11 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Uarch 10.

The Mar3h general sessions of the peace for the
county of Middlesex commenced yesterday morn-
ing, at the Court-house, on Clerkenwell-green,
before Mr. Bodkin, assistant-judge ; Mr. Payne,
deputy; Mr. Pownall, chairman, and bench of
magistrates.
The first edition of the calendar contains the
names of 119 prisoners for trial, of whom 21 are
charged with misdemeanour, the rest with felony.
The Assistant-Judge delivered the usual charge
to the grand jury, and remarked that the heavy
state of the calendar was attributable to the cir-
cumstance of a longer period than usual having
intervened since the last session.
George Dixey, alias Simmons, 21, and John
West, alias Leary, 19, were indicted for stealing
two gas burners, value 10s., the property of John
Collins, from a building. They pleaded guilty.
Sergeants White and Boden, detectives, proved
that the prisoners were well known as convicted
thieves, and the associates of equally bad characters.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced them each to
three years' penal servitude.
Leary was a trainer of young thieves, Dixey was
a discharged soldier, and had only been convicted
once. The offence they committed was cutting
down the gas fittings of a public-house in Oxford.
mews, Paddington.
Edward Henry, 59, was indicted for stealing, by
means of a false key, a box, two ear-rings, and
other articles, the property of Lewis Pugh. He
pleaded guilty, and was recognised by Locker, the
prison officer, and by others in court, as an old
thief, his last sentence, to which a heavy term was
attached, being for wrenching bell-handles and bell-
wires from gentlemen's residences. He was sen-
tenced to penal servitude for three years.
William Samuel Mays, 63, clerk, was indicted
for feloniously embezzling three several sums of
money received by him on account of Thomas Cox,
his master. He pleaded guilty.
Mr. Ribton, for the prisoner, addressed the court
in mitigation of punishment on account of the pri-
soner's long service with the prosecutor—sixteen
years and upwards—and though he had felt it to
be his duty to prosecute, there was every desire that
the prisoner should be recommended to mercy.
Mr. F. H. Lewis, for the prosecution, said he con-
curred in what his learned friend had said, and
joined in the recommendation to mercy on account of
the prisoner's age; but still it was his duty to in-
form the court that although the sums named in
the indictment were comparatively small, the total
defalcation was near upon £6OO. The prosecutor
was the church furniture manufacturer, whose busi-
ness was carried on in Southampton-street, Covent-
garden, and the prisoner during a long period had
been receiving money, not accounting for it, and
falsifying the books. It was stated that the pri-
soner had spent the money in a very disreputable
manner.

His lordship, after a few remarks upon the serious
nature of the offence, sentenced the prisoner to two
years' hard labour.
John Durant, 21, shoemaker, was indicted for
stealing a watch, the property of Alfred Bennett,
from his person.
Mr. Platt prosecuted ; Mr. Warton defended.
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'Phis was an ordinary case of robbery in the street.
The prisoner went up to the prosecutor and snapped
his watch from the guard chain, and got away for
the time, but the prosecutor knew him personally,
and he was taken on a description given of him.
The prosecutor said he could pick him out of 500
others.

Mr. Warton said he could not contend against
the evidence of the prosecutor, and the prisoner was
found guilty, and former convictions were proved.
He was sentenced to penal servitude for six years.
William Knibbs, 23, was indicted for stealing two
pewter pots, the property of Charles Wright, land-
lord of the Horse and Groom; Curtain-road, Shore-
ditch.

He pleaded guilty.
The prosecutor said he had lost five dozen pots in
a short period, and police-constable Deeble stated
that the prisoner had been convicted before, and
belonged to a gang of makers of counterfeit money,
for whose purposes these pots were stolen.
His lordship said this was an offence of a most
mischievous character in every respect, and sen-
tenced the prisoner to three years' penal servitude.

THE MURDER IN RATCLIFF.—RESPITE OF THE
CULPRIT.—The 'public are aware that a wretched sailor
lad, named Patrick Devereux, was convicted on Wednes-
day last, at the Central Criminal Court, of the murder of a
crimp in Ratcliff-highway, under very painful circum-
stances. He had been robbed of all he possessed and
turned into the street, and, in a moment of uncontrollable
excitement at the treatment he had received, ho inflicted
the fatal injury for which ho was sentenced to die. The
case excited the greatest sympathy in all who heard it, and
the jury strongly recommended the unhappy lad to mercy;
and Mr. Baron Marlin, vtlio tried him, said that he
should at once forward the recommendation to the proper
quarter, and. :ntnnated that he should also give it his sup-
port. It is satisfactory to state that the wretched lad
has been relieved from the capital punishment, and that
yesterday a communication was received by the Sheriffs
directing that he should be respited during her Majesty's
pleasure.

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