The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-03 00:00:00

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Mr Bosley, who was counsel for the prisoner, said he
was instructed to state that the man had lost money while
keeping a publichouse in Dublin, and had only been in

London four or five weeks. He had a wife and two chil-
dren dependent upon him. He had gone into the shop to
puvchaso a. key for his watch, and, having been drinking,
was unable to resist a sudden temptation.

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The January Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the
county of Middlesex were commenced to-day, :at the Sa-
slow-house, Clerkenwell.
The bail cases were tried on Friday. •
The calendar contains tha names of 81 prisonen, of
which number 2 only are marked as well educated, while
26 can neither read nor write, 9 can read, and 44 have re-
ceived an imperfect education.

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Mr. Rowden, who appeared for the prosecution, said
the prisoner entered the shop when a lady and
were looking at some chains and lockets, and after they
hadleft the property was missed. On being accused the
prisoner was seen to l'P pl aee one chain on the glass easy
forming the counter, and a locket was taken from his hand.
The other two lockets were found on the floor.

nanners he did not seem to belong to the class of ordinary
,hieves, and, as nothing was known against his character,
ie must be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three

John Cox, 23, describes as a sweep, was charged with
stealing two pairs of boots, two other boots, and the leg
of a boot, value £4 108„. the pro pe r ty of Richard Parker.
On the morning- of the 23d of December the prisoner
swept the kitchen chimney of prosecutor's house in South-
ampton-street, Strand, and having placed his machine in
the passage left. The toots were stolen from the shop.
There were marks of soot near the spot from which the
goods were removed, and there was a door leading from
the passage to the shop. •
The jury, after some deliberation, found the prisoner
not guilty.

The Assistant4udge cautioned the prisoner to be care-
ul of his future conduct.

John Cumbers,36, was charged with stealing a goose,
the property of the Great Eastern Railway Company.
Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr. Ashley, solicitor to the
company, appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Ribton was
counsel for the prisoner.

About 3 o'clock on the morning of the 21st of December,
an eye-witness saw Cumbers take a goose out of a box, the
end of which was unnailed, as it was standing on the
goods platform of the Brick-lane station. He was also
seen to put it under his coat and pass it through the gates
of the company's premises, where it was afterwards found.
His duty as night watchman ended at 4 o'clock in the
morning, and he left without taking the goose with him
Subsequently, when apprehended, he said he knew
nothing about it.

The defence was that the eye-witness might have inis-
aken. the prisoner for another man.

The jury, after being locked up for some time, found a
verdict of not guilty.
Frederick Langston, 21, and John Nicholls, 18, were
charged with stealing a desk, containing a gold watch and
other articles, value £3O, the property of James Bird.
The prosecutor, Mr. Bird, is foreman to Messrs. Watling,
publicans' confectioner, and lives at 26, Denbigh-street,
Pimlico. Ile left his house in charge of his maid servant,
Sarah Tayett, on the afternoon of the Ist of December, and
when he returned at a quarter to five he found her absent ;
but presently she returned with the desk unopened under
her arm. It seemed that the girl, who was only 16 years
of age, had gone out to buy a reel of cotton, leaving the
front door open, and on her return iu five or six minutes
she met Langston leaving the house with the desk under
his arm. Nicholls was waiting three doors off. They spoke
together and then ran away. She pursued them and caught
Langston by the collar. He struck her a violent blow on
the nose which drew blood, but she retained her hold, and
he then gave up the desk in order to get free. Both pri-
soners eluded the police until the 28th of December, when
they were seen in company in Rochester-row, and at once
apprehended. There was some doubt as to the identity of
Nicholls, and he was acquitted.
The jury found Langston guilty, and
The Assistant-Judge remarked on the cowardly blow
which he had given to the witness, and sentenced him to
12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
Mr Bird was called forward.

The Assistant-Judge—Are you going to keep that little
girl ?

Mr. Bird—Yes, my Lord, a little longer ; but she is
about to be married.

The Assistant-Judge—Her conduct in this case makes
no difference in your estimation of her ?
Mr. Bird—Rather the contrary. I think it in her favour.
The Assistant-Judge—We think so, too, and we intend
to give her 10s. We should have given her more if she
had not left the door open. (Laughter.)
(Before Mr. Payne.)

Daniel Brookman, 50, was charged with stealing 481 b. of

hair, value £3 165., the property of Messrs. W. and J.
-11i.illatttl and Sons, Ttpholsterers; in-Monnt-street, Hanover-
sq uare.

Mr. Bosley, instructed by Mr. Edward Lewis, appeared
'or the prosecution; the prisoner was not defended by

This was a rather curious case. The prisoner, it was
proved, has been for six years an inmate of the workhouse
of St. George's, Hanover-square, with the exception of
about a fortnight in each year, when he has regularly at-
tended the training of a militia regiment to which he
belongs. He was employed by the authorities in the work-
house to collect hair from different shops to be picked
by the inmates and afterwards returned to the owners.
He had occasionally been to Messrs. Hollands, and
knew that their rule was to deliver out three
dozen pounds' weight at a time. On the 21st of De-
cember, between 3 and 4 o'clock, he was seen at the prose-
cutor's, but no one saw him leave or heard him ask for hair.
When he left, instead of taking a large bundle which he
carried direct to the workhouse, a few yards distant, he was
seen to walk, by a circuitous route, to the shop of a marine
store-dealer in Gilbert-street, a distance of nearly half a
mile. A police constable, who was in plain clothes, and who
had watched the prisoner, saw him walk through the shop
into a back parlour, and there unfasten the bundle. He
entered, and, although the shopkeeper at first said the man
had brought nothing with him, Brookman admitted that he
had brought the bundle from Messrs. Hollands, and he said
ho was going to take it to the workhouse. It contained
four dozen pounds, in four parcels, and on examination of
two bags capable of containing five dozen pounds, it was
discovered that three dozen were missing from one and
one dozen from the other. The suggestion was that the
prisoner intended to take the three dozen pounds to the
workhouse, and to sell the one dozen pounds to the
marine storedealer. Although he received no wages, and
was supposed to be destitute of money, 355. 1034. were
found upon him. _ .

The jury found hint guilty, and expressed a strong
opinion that the marine storedealer ought to have been
prosecuted.
It was stated that he had been in custody, but bad been
discharged.
Messrs. Hollands' assistant informed the Court that the

quantity of hair which they had lost exceeded 8001 b.
Mr. Payne said he was afraid the prisoner had been in
the habit of stealing hair. He must be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for 12 calendar.
Robert Gill, 19, was charged with stealing four .£5 Bank
of England notes, the property of Edward Soles.
Mr. Pater prosecuted ; Mr. Horry defended.
The prosecutor, a sailor, had been paid off and lost his
money, but could not tell where or under what circum-
stances. The prisoner was found dealing with the notes,
and his only explanation was that he had found them.
The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to 18
months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

The California State Telegraph Company have
completed their line to Seattle, W.T. ; the line will be
pushed forward to New Westminister, British Columbia,
and is expected to reach there by the new year.—British
Columbian paper.
SEVERE
weatherO INwShCicOh characterisedTLANto.—T he
tlie dry
three
and
comparatively
last days of the week changed on Saturday evening to in-
tense cold followed by a heavy fall of snow, which conti-
nued till an early hour on Sunday morning. The snow
began to fall about 7 o'clock, at first gently, but after the
first half-hour it became suddenly so thick as soon to cover
the ground to a considerable depth, and at 1 o'clock, when
the fall ceased, there would be four or five inches of snow
on the ground in the city, while in the country around it
was, of course, much deeper. Owing to the sudden fall of
snow the cab traffic was immediately and entirely sus-
pended. At night the wind set in from the west, and con-
tinuing to blow fresh a thaw commenced, which continued
yesterday morning, and was beginning to clear away the
snow, with the unfortunate effect, however, of rendering
the roads rather more dirty and disagreeable than is desir-
able, particularly at a holiday time like the present. The
cold during the storm was very intense, and on Saturday
the lochs in the neighbourhood of the city were covered
with ice to the thickness of upwards of an inch. The ther-
mometer stood at 1 o'clock this (Monday) morning at 36
deg.—Scotsman.

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