The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-July 21.

The July adjourned quarter sessions of the peace
for the county of Middlesex commenced this morn-
ing at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, before Mr.
Bodkin, assistant-judge, and a bench of magistrates.
A prisoner, indicted and convicted at the last ses-
sions in the name of Charles Viner, but whose real
name is Collins, of a plate robbery, was brought up
and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.
Twenty-three convictions were proved against him
by Lockyer, the prison bfficer.
A prisoner named Gunnell, convicted last session
of having embezzled money which he had received
on account of the Commissioners of the Interna-

ioual Exhibition, his employers, was also brought

up. The prisoner, it may be remembered, was em-
ployed in the catalogue department at the Exhibi-
tion, and falsified his accounts; and not only that,
but made an imputation upon his superior in the
department of a serious nature, which was proved
to be entirely unfounded. Inquiries had been in-
stituted by order of the Court. The prisoner was
sentenced to six months' hard labour.
John Lovell, 25, tailor, was indicted for stealing
a watch and chain, value £3O, from the person of

John Hampden Gladstone.
Mr. Daly prosecuted; Mr. Orridge defended the
prisoner.
The prosecutor was a gentleman living in Wel-
beck-street, Cavendish-square, and one Saturday
night he was passing by a crowd at the top of Coven-
try-street, when he detected the prisoner handling
his waistcoat pocket. Instantly his watch and chain
were gone, and he threw him on the ground, think•
ing he had the watch, as he was nearest to him. A
companion of the prisoner's ran away as fast as he
could, and was not taken. When charged the pri
soner said that even if he did do it the gentleman
had no business to serve him like that, and refused
to give any name or address. The watch was picked
up by a French gentleman, named Flotard, just
where the prisoner stood, and given up by him to
Inspector Wilson, C division. The prisoner was
found guilty, and former convictions were proved
against him. He was, it appeared, one of the most
artful and cunning of thieves, and could assume all
sorts of disguises.
The Court sentenced him to ten years, penal ser-
vitude.
John Morgan, 18, carman, was found guilty of
stealing money belonging to Samuel Pounceby, his
master, received over the counter.
He was sentenced to four months' hard labour.
Mr. Ribton proscuted ; Mr. F. Lewis' defended.

(Before Mr. Payne.)
Henry Clothier and a woman named Rogers, who
had assumed the name of Clothier, from having
lived with the first-named defendant as his wife,
were indicted for assaulting an old man named John
Green.
Mr. Ribton prosecuted ; Mr. Sleigh, Mr. Daly,
and Mr. Kemp defended.
This was a ferocious assault on the part of the
female prisoner, who lived at 2, Ann-street, White-
chapel. On the 26th April the prosecutor corn-
plained of the female prisoner sending boys to knock
down a stall which he had, and she jeered him and
spat in his face. He called her a blackguard for so
filthy an act, upon which she took up a
pint pot and
cut his head oven with it. He bled profusely, and
called out " Oh, my poor head." She then took up
a hammer and was about to strike him with ir, but
the blow was averted by a neighbour, who pulled
him aside, but he broke away and rushed at her,
and Clothier then came out and struck the old man
a blow on the chest, which knocked him down on
the pavement insensible, and ultimately he was
taken to the London Hospital. He was attended to
at first by Dr. Edmund, of Spital-square, who found
him in such danger that he advised his depositions
should be taken, which was done by Mr. Leigh, the
magistrate, at the old man's place, 5, Ann-street,
but he was now much better, though very feeble.
The defence was that prosecutor wanted to fight
the female prisoner, when the other interfered to
protect her, but the prosecutor entirely denied it.
After a long trial the Jury found them both guilty.
The learned Judge said there was a great distinc-
tion to be made between them. Even had the old
man been fighting the woman the male "prisoner had
lived with he ought not to have knocked him down,
bleeding as he gas, and he should sentence him to
four months' hard labour; and the woman, whose
conduct had been brutal and savage in the extreme,
to nine months' hard labour.
Henry Matthews, 27, alias Harris, well known
by the cognomen of the " Jew Boy," was indicted
for stealing from the person of Charles William
Noble a watch and watch-chain, of the value of £2O,
his property.
Mr. Orridge prosecuted; Mr. Dickie defended.
This was a robbery from the person, committed at
Her Majesty's Theatre as the prosecutor and his
wife were going into the pit. There was a rush,
and the prisoner suddenly separated the prosecutor
from his wife, and the next instant he missed his
watch, which was found under the prisoner's foot.
He was standing next to the prosecutor and he was
immediately seized and given into the charge of the
police. He declared he was innocent and knew
nothing of it. When asked where he lived he gave a
false address, and then would not give any other.
Mr. Dickie addressed the jury, contending that
the evidence did not sustain the charge, but the
jury found the prisoner guilty, and it was proved
that he had been in custody several times for watch
roberries, and had been convicted.
Detectives Edward Langley, of the A division,
and Joseph Deeble, H, stated that they well knew
him to be one of the most expert thieves in the
metropolis, and had been continually watched.
Mr. Payne sentenced him to six years' penal ser-
vitude, and it was stated subsequently that he had
been before sentenced to the like punishment.