The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-26 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

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The Court sat by adjournment at the Guildhall, Broad
Sanctuary, for the disposal of the bail cases remaining
over from Thursday. The sessions were fixed, pro
formit, for the trial of offences committed within the
liberty of Westminster, but there was only one prisoner
for trial upon the jury being sworn.
Frederick Gazeley, Richard Jones, and Christopher
Jones, were indicted for assaulting William Douglas and
William Cooper, constables, of the F division of police,
while in the execution of their duty.
It appeared that two females, with one of whom
Gazeley cohabited, were given into custody for robbery,
when Gazeley collared Douglas, tripped him up, and at-
tempted to strangle him. The prisoner Richard Jones
then came up, and struck the constable several times
upon the head, and when Cooper came to render assist-
ance, he was also knocked down and beaten.
The jury acquitted Chistopher Jones and found
Gazeley and Richard Jones guilty, recommending the
latter to mercy.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE sentenced Gazeley to three
months' imprisonment with hard labour, and Jones to
seven days' imprisonment.
Charles Chundey was indicted for stealing a quantity
of strawberries, the property of John Vale, in Covent-
garden.
The facts of the case were of ordinary character and
the prisoner was found Guilty, when,
The Learned ASSISTANT•JUDGE sentenced the pri-
soner to three months imprisonment, and, turning to the
jury said, " Gentlemen, now you see the large amount of
business for which, even if we have no remnant from
Clerkenwell, thirty-six of you and a panel of seventy-
two grand jurors were summoned here. This is the
first and last case for which we are obliged to sit here in
Westminster. All I can say is, that I wonder why
common sense allows such a farce when the cases could
be as well tried at Clerkenwell, and as far as we can see
could be disposed of in five or ten minutes."
Edmund Brooks and Philip Brooks, his son, were in-
dicted for assaulting John Ambrey, a sheriff's officer, in
the execution of his duty.
The prosecutor went to execute a warrant of eject-
ment at the prisoner's house, 24, Bayhatn-street, Cam-
den-town, accompanied by four other persons, when the
prisoner, who was afflicted with paralysis of one side,
and his son, who appeared to be about 15 years of age,
committed the assault complained of in resisting them.
In their cross-examination the witnesses admitted that
the ejectment had been brought for a quarter's rent,
and that the two prisoners had been kept in prison for
eleven days in default of bail.
The jury found them Guilty, one of the jurors stating
at the same time that it was harsh and unusual to exe-
cute an ejectment for only a quarter's rent.
The Learned ASSISTANT• JUDGE said, whatever the
circumstances between the prisoner and the landlord
might be, the officers of the sheriff must be protected in
the execution of their duty. However, he should deal
mildly with them, and only sentence the father to pay a
fine of 405., and the son Is. to the Queen.
Mr. O'BRIEN said he feared, under the circumstances
of the defendant, this amounted to a sentence of impri-
sonment, so far as the father was concerned.