The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-11 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Oct. 10.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge.)
James Holyjield, 22, was indicted for stealing a
Dutch clock, value 205., the property of the guar-
dians of the poor of the parish of St. Mary, White-
chapel. In a second count of the indictment it was
described as the property of the Right Rev. the
Bishop of London, and in a third it was laid as the
property of some person unknown.
Mr. O'Bnizts appeared for the prosecution. From
the statement of the Learned Counsel in opening the
ease, and the evidence subsequently given, it seemed
that the circumstances out of which the case arose
were of a singular nature. A poor man named Chas.
Lawrence and his wife were removed from their
dwelling, 11, King's Arms•court, to Whitechapel
workhouse, suffering from cholera. After they
had been there some .ti►ne the case became urgent,
and they wt re removed to the London Hospital,
where they both died shortly after admission,
and their children, three in number, were taker)
into the workhouse. By a recent Act of Paha
meat the guardians of the poor of any parish are
empowered to take possession of the property of any
pauper to whom they had been giving relief, after
that pauper's death, to reimburse themselves,
as far as the value of the property goes,
for the relief given ; and availing themselves
of this power, the guardians of St. Mary,
Whitechapel, took possession of the furniture in
Lawrence's lodgings, and by their direction it was
removed to a shed adjoining the workhouse. The
prisoner was at that time an in-door pauper, and he
was seen by some of the officers of the establishment
leaving the place where the furniture was deposited
with a Dutch clock, which had belonged to Lawrence,
under his arm. To get to the shed from the male
side of the establishment, which he had no right to
leave, he must have got over a gate ten feet high.
In order to prevent any question as to the ownership
of the property, it was laid in the indictment, firsts
as belonging to the guardians, then as th,e property of
the Bishop of London, to whom, as ordinary, all the
property of intestate persons belongs until adminis-
tered to ; and thirdly, as the property of some person
unknown.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that be should
not have taken the clock, or even thought of going to
the shed at all, had he not seen the task-master go and
ransack some boxes and take some trinkets, which he
afterwards gave to one of the female paupers, to take
improper liberties with her. There were plenty of
persons in the house who could prove that what he
said was true.

The Learned JUDGB then called the task-Master,
who was one of the witnesses for the prosecution, and
asked him pointedly whether there was any truth in
the prisoner's statement ?--Ile positively swore that
it was false.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was
sentenced to three months' hard labour.

Frederick William Molloy, aged 61, a bald-headed
man, with an impudent expression of countenance,
was indicted for fraudulently obtaining by false pre •
tc•nces from Henry Manning certain meat, drink, and
lodging, to the value of 63., with intent to cheat and
defraud him of the same.

The prisoner appeared to be excessively deaf, and
when called upon to plead he pretended not to hear
the question, though it was repeated loudly, close to
his ears„ at least half-a-dozen times by one of the
officers. At length the indictment itself was handed