The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

THE SIT-N, LOND-ON,..TU'ESDAY

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Nov. 14.

The November general session of the peace for the
county of of Middlesex commenced this morning at
Clerkenwell. There were eighty-nine prisoners for trial,
eighty-four being charged with felony and five with
misdemeanour.
Robeit Porter, who was convicted at the last session
for having stolen a watch, was brought up for judgment.
The Assistant-Judge inquired if anything had been
ascertained of his previous character.

Locker, an officer, said that the prisoner was the
same man as Robert Harding, against whom a bill had
beeti gnored by the grand jury onithe 19th of Septem-
ber for stealing a watch.

The Prisoner—(indigantly)--D• not say "stealing"
It, You mean accused of stealing it.
Lockyor—He is well known in Coldbath-fields Prison,
my lord, and I have found out a policeman who has had
him repeatedly in custody.
Police-constable 379 K then stated that the prisoner
had ;been sentenced at 'Worship-street police-office to
three months' imprisonment for stealing a watch, and
to one month at Marlborough-street for being concerned
with another in robbing a woman.
Prisoner—lt was all on suspicion. There was nothing
against me at all.
The Assistant-Judge—l think that in the case where
the bill was thrown out the prosecutor did not appear.
Prisoner—lt is all suspicion.
The Assistant-Judge—Well, notwithstanding its being
all suspicion, you have this time been tried for stealing
a watch, and the jury have thought you guilty of it.
You are a regular pickpocket, and the sentence of the
court is, that you be kept in penal servitude for four
four years.
Prisoner—Four years on suspicion ! 'Well, that is a
pretty go.
He was then removed.

William Wright, 33, was indicted for having stolen
half a ton of coals, the property of the directors of the
Great Northern Railway Company. The property, in
another count, was also laid as that of Charles Cave
Williams.
Mr. W. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. O'Brien appeared
for the prisoner.
The prisoner was a carman in the employ of Mr. Wil-
liams, of the City Basin, who is contractor to the Great
Northern Railway Company for the delivery of coals to
their customers. On the 18th of October an order was
received from a Mr. Johnson, of Artillery-place, for four
tons of coals, and on that day a ticket order was given
to the prisoner so that he might go and obtain that quan-
tity, to be loaded in a waggon of which he was the driver.
The coals were accordingly weighed and placed in a wag-
gon, which was driven away by the prisoner, who had
with him a man named Todd, who acted as his assistant
or "trouncer." When he left the railway station he
had several empty sacks in the waggon. The coals
reached the house of Mr. Johnson at about seven o'clock,
consisting of 40 sacks. After a quantity of coals had
been shot into the cellar, Mr. Johnson being informed
that the four tons had been delivered, went to the wag-
gon and seeing five sacks of coals still there, inquired
how it happened that they should be there, as he had
understood that four tons of coals were a load. To this
the driver replied that it was all right, and that he had
brought half a ton of coals too much. He paid the bill
for four tons of coals, but still having his suspicions he
communicated with the Great Northern Railway Com-
pany, who sent an officer to the prisoner, and on his
being questioned as to the quantity of coals he had taken
to Mr. Johnson's, he said it was four tons. On being
asked if that was all he took, he replied that he had
half a ton too much, and that as he did not know what
to do with them, he had taken them to his own house.
An examination had since taken place of the prisoner's
house, where a quantity of coals were found correspond-
ing exactly in quality with those delivered on the pre-
mises of 111 r. Johnson.
These facts having been proved in evidence,
James Todd was called, who said that he reconected
To( lay, the 18th of October, when he was in the ser-
vice of Mr. Charles C. Williams, of the City Basig. On
that day he went out with William Wright as
"trouncer," to help to unload a waggon load of coals
taken from the Great Northern Railway at King's Cross.
There were forty sacks in the waggon. As they were
going along they stopped for about ten minutes at a
public-house, where they had a pot of beer. They then
went to Artillery-place, where he helped to shoot the
coals. They shot 35 sacks, 5 sacks being left in the
wagon. After they left Mr. Johnson's they went to
some place he did not know, about half a mile distant,
where they stopped at a house. A woman came to the
door, when Wright said that he had brought her half a
ton of coals. Wright took the coals into the house,
leaving the sacks there also. They took more than 40
sacks back, as they had 8 or 9 empty sacks in the wag-
gon when they left the railway station.
Mr. O'Brien addressed the jury for the prisoner, con-
tending that neither the company nor Mr. Johnson had
been proved to have sustained any loss, nor was the
identity of the coals made out, as it was absurd to sup-
pose that the identical coal could be spoken to, when
perhaps a similar description of coal could be found in
every part of London.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to hard labour for
8 months.

William Wilts, 22, was indicted for feloniously break-
ing and entering the dwelling-house of William Henry
Rumsby, and stealing therein a pair of boots and other
articles, value 401., his property.
Mr. W. Cooper prosecuted, and Mr. Horry defended.
The prosecutor was a boot and shoemaker at No.
10, Ratcliffe-row, St. John's, and the prisoner lived
ver)ftiear, in Page's-yard. The prosecutor went to
bed late on the night of the 23rd ult., leaving a
number of pairs of boots in the shop window, with
leather and other property in the shop. Next morn-
ing he discovered that two holes had been bored
in the shutter of the shop-window, by which means
a man's hand had been introduced, and the bolts
drawn back ; then the window had been opened, the shop
entered and property to the extent of 401. in value stolen.
In the course of the day it was discovered that the pri-
soner had pledged a pair of boots, which were identified
as one of the pairs which had been in the prosecutor's
window, at a pawnbroker's in the New Kent-road, and
upon this he was taken into custody.
Mr. Horry, for the prisoner, contended that the rob-
bery had been committed by a man of the name of Jones,
who had escaped.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
The prosecutor said the prisoner had been living with
prostitutes, and a. companion had been tried at the Old
Bailey.

The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to nine months'
hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Joseph Mille was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having robbed his
employers.

Piniiis, the detective offieer, said, on Saturday night
I was sent for to Messrs. Bousfield and Co., of Hounds-
ditch, wholesale clothiers, and the prisoner was there
given into my charge for stealing a piece of cloth. I saw
him in the lower warehouse, and asked him what he had
about him. He pulled off his hat, and I took out of it
the piece of woollen cloth, I now produce. Upon search-
ing I found upon him seventeen shillings, which he
wished me to give up to the workmeu on the establish-
ment, as it was money he had collected as a Christmas
fund, in the character of their treasurer. 1 then took
him to the station-house.

Mr. Robert Bousfield of the firm of the prosecu-
tors, said we employed the prisoner as a cutter, and
paid him thirty shillings a week. On Saturday I
went up to the cutter s-room, while they were at
dinner, and examined the prisoner's basket and found
in it three pieces of black cloth, under his great
coat, each containing a yard and three quarters,
and corresponding with the piece of cloth he had
been cutting on his board. My suspicions about him
}ad been previously excited. I communicated with the
police. The piece produced is one of those which had
been in the basket, and its value is eleven shillings. He
had been in our employment nine years.
The Lord Mayor—This is one of the cases which I
consider it is always necessary to send to a jury, as being
too serious for a magistrate to adjudicate upon.
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they spent the day as before. Walker boasted Of an
uncle, one Dr. Gregory, who had died in America, and
left him a legacy of 5,000/. ; and the stranger, who ex-
hibited notes of great apparent value, asked witness to
take a hundred pounds over with him to Jersey, and to
dispose of it as he should direct, for he was in the habit
of visiting the island every year, and distributing that
sum in charity. This the prosecutor agreed to do, and
the stranger soon afterwards said he must leave for P.
short time. Witness remarked, "You'll be sure to come
back ?" "If you doubt my word, here is my pocket-
book," was the instant reply. When the stranger re-
turned they began talking of a receipt, and prosecutor
was going out to purchase the stamp, when the stranger
said, " You doubted me, what security have I that you
will come back ? " Witness left him his pocket-book,
in which was 171., as a gage for his return i nd
went out with the prisoner, who also left belii I him
a similar pledge. The prosecutor, howevf r, desired the
prisoner to buy the stamp, while he remained near the
public-house where he had left the stranger, to see that
he did not go away with their property. The result
was that both of the men disappeared and prosecutor
lost his money. The prisoner when apprehended resisted
violently, and attempted to swallow a diamond ring.
Mr. Corrie remanded the case.
Edward Maynard alias Edward Clarke and Charles
Hill were committed on a charge of having been con-
cernedo in a burglary in the house of Mr. Seward, Re-
ington-street, City-road, St. Luke, tailor.
Hill—Please, my
lord, send me to be tr. el at
.No git," and not at Clerkenwell sessions. '
Mr. Corrie—Why do you wish that ?
Prisoner—Because I shall have a fair trial there, but
not at the other place
They were accordingly.
committed to Newgate.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mary Ann Seeley
was brought before 31r. Bingham for final examination,
charged with having feloniously broken into the dwel-
ling house of Mr. Wells, 23, Percy-street, and stolen