The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-18 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Sept. 17.

(Before Mr. Sergeant Gaselee, Q.C.)
Charles Lee, 32, was indicted for feloniously em-
bezzling the sums of £1 Os. 10d., L 2 Os. 10d., and £1
25., the moneys of Wm. Morden Bernard, to whom
he was servant, and for whom and on whose ac-
count he had received the same. _ _ _

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Mr. Dale prosecuted ; Mr. Kemp defended the
prisoner.
The prosecutor is a china dealer, carrying on
business at 12, Hampstead-road, and the prisoner
was in his employ up to the 25th of April last,
when he absconded. He had been in his ser-

vice for 17 months, and had to receive money on
account of his master, and to account for it imme-
diately on receiving it. On the 10th of April he
received from Mr. Alfred Hewitt, of Harp-alley,
Farringdon-street, the sum of £1 Os. 10d. on
account of Mr. Bernard, and he gave a receipt
for the money; but this money he had
never handed over to his master. On the
16th April he received £2 6s. 10d. of Mr. Curtis, of
Stingo-lane, for which he also gave a receipt. This
sum was not accounted for. On 10th Jan. ho re-
ceived £1 2s. from Mr. Arthur, of 38, Little Pul-
teney-street, and gave a receipt for the money,
which he never accounted for.
Mr. Kemp made an able defence on the part of
the prisoner, but the jury found him guilty.
Mr. Bernard said the total amount of embezzle-
ment by the prisoner was upwards of £95, which
had been effected by abstracting small sums during
the whole period he had been witlr him.
Mr. Sergeant Gaselee sentenced him to be kept in
penal servitude for three years.
Rachel Harley, 24, and Emma Clark, 25, were
indicted for stealing a watch, value £6, the pro-
perty of Victor Guidice, from his person.
Mr. Dickie prosecuted ; Mr. Pater defended the
prisoners.
This was an ordinary street robbery. The prose-
cutor was accosted by the prisoners in the Hay-
market, and they asked him to treat them. While
talking to him they managed to abstract his watch,
with which they made off, but were subsequently
taken into custody.
Mr. Pater audrassed the jury for the prisoners.
The jury, without hearing the summing-up of the
learned judge, returned a verdict of guilty.
Several previous convictions were proved against
Clarke.
Mr. Sergeant Gaselee sentenced Clarke to be kept
in penal servitude for three years, and Harley to be
imprisoned for six months.
Thomas Green, 18, shoemaker, was indicted for
stealing 19 silver and gilt watches, value £2B, the
property of Geo. Attenborough, in his dwelling-
house.
Henry Hutton, in the service of Mr. Geo. Atten-
borough, said on the evening of Sept. 5, at about 8
o'clock, he was about closing the shop, when he found
the prisoner secreted in it. He asked what he was
doing there, but was told "Nothing." Not being
satisfied with this answer he went out to seek for a
policeman. When he got back he saw the prisoner
slip out of his jacket while being held by a fellow
shopman and run away. Witness followed him
calling out " Stop thief," and he was stopped and
brought back to the shop. Upon ex
whameirneatthioenprhie_
found on a ledge of the window near
soner had been standing a dish containing 19 silver
and silver-gilt watches, worth £2B, which had been
removed from the window.
John Harrison said he lived at No. 15, Bucking-
ham-street, Strand, and saw the prisoner running
without his coat in John-street, pursued by the last
witness. The prisoner told him not to stop him, as
he was running after another person, but he was de-
tained and taken to prosecutor's shop. The prisoner,
on being given into custody, said nothing in answer
to the charge.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he having
pleaded guilty to a previous conviction he was sen-
tenced to be kept in penal servitude for five years.
James Day, 19, and John Spellacy, 20, were in-
dieted for stealing 111 b. of lead, value 25., the pro-
perty of the Charing-cross Railway Company.
Mr. Dickie prosecuted ; Mr. F. H. Lewis de-
fended Spellacy; and Mr. Ribton appeared for
Day.
Spellacy was acquitted, and Day was found
guilty, and sentenced to 9 months' imprisonment.
(Before Mr. Payne).
Joseph Farard, 20, and ice-shop keeper, of Pro-
vidence-place, St. George's-in-the-East, was in-
dicted for unlawfully and indecently assaulting
Sophia Wilson.
The pi osecutrix and another little girl went into
the prisoner's shop to have a penny ice, and while
there the prisoner committed the assault upon her.
The prisoner was found guilty.
Mr. Payne, after severely censuring the conduct
of the prisoner, sentenced him to be imprisoned for
six months.
John King, 32, and Susan Clayton, 36, were in-
dicted for unlawfully attempting to pick pockets at
the International Exhibition.
Mr. Hawthorn prosecuted; Mr. Best defended
King, and Mr. Dickie appeared for Clayton.
The detective officers, Sergeants Townend and
Cole, watched the prisoners at the Exhibition, and
saw them attempt to pick the pockets of several
persons.
The case lasted a long time, and Mr. Dickie called
Mr. Goddard, a medical man, to prove that the
female could not conveniently use her left arm, as
her arm had been broken some time before, while
the prosecution called Dr. Smiles, surgeon to the
House of Detention, who flatly contradicted the
evidence of Mr. Goddard.
The jury found both prisoners guilty, and they
were sentenced—King to two years imprisonment,
and Clayton to one.
Phoebe :Elizabeth Willis, 28, and Eliz_abeth Lis-
burn, 22, were indicted for stealing 7,):1,- yards of
silk, value £l6 19s. 9d., the property of Ann Har-
vey, and others. in their dwelling-house.
Mr. Orridge (instructed by Mr. Warrand, solici-
tor to the Association for the Prosecution of Shop-
lifters, &c.) prosecuted ; Mr. Pater appeared for the
prisoners.
It appeared from the evidence that on the let of
September, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the pri-
soners went to the shop of the prosecutors, Knights-
bridge, to look at a silk dress. They had been there
many times before. As Mr. Brown, one of the shop-
men, had his suspicions of them, he watched them.
lie kept count of tho number of pieces of silk he