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London, England, 1851-09-18 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Sept. 17.
(Before Mr. WITHAM and a Bench of Magistrates, at
the Sessions House, Clerkenwell.)
John Start, aged 35, was indicted charged with
having unlawfully and violently assaulted Mary Ann
Morehouse, with intent to ravish bar.

The prisoner, when called upon for his defence,
said that the boy behaved very badly and continually
robbed him, and he had punished him for his mis-
conduct, but he denied having burnt him.
Mr. Baron lIIARTIN, in summing up, told the jury
that the only question they had to decide was the in-
tent of the prisoner, for he had no hesitation in stat-
ing that, however bad the conduct of the boy might
have been, the use of such an instrument as a rednot
poker was illegal and unjustifiable. If they were
satisfied by the evidence that the prisoner really in-
tended to maim or disable his son, in that case they
would find him guilty of the whole charge, but if
they had any doubt upon the point the prisoner was
clearly liable to be convicted of an assault.
The jury, after deliberating a short time, found the
prisoner Guilty of an assault, and Acquitted him of
the felony.

Mr. Coclila defended the prisoner.
The case has been very recently before the police
magistrate, and the prosecutrix was submitted to a
rigid cross-examination by Mr. Cockle, but she came
out of the trial with her evidence in chief totally un-
shaken.

Other evidence of a confirmatory nature• having been
given, Mr. Cockle addressed the jury on behalf of the
pri.toner, the Chairman summed up, and the jury
returned a verdict of Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced the prisoner to imprison-
meat with hard labour for 12 months.

The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, said that
the prisoner had been very properly convicted of
sbout as inhuman an act as he believed bad ever been
brought to the notice of a court of justice. It was
possible that the boy was a bad boy, and he would
admit that this was probable; but it was almost in-
credible that a father should have resorted to such an
instrument as a redhot poker as a mode of punish-
ment. The boy had actually shown good feeling, for
he had gone away from the court, no doubt, in the
hope that by the want of his evidence his father would
escape punishment. Fortunately for the ends of jus-
tice this was not the case, and the prisoner now
stood convicted of this most shocking offence. The
Court was in some difficulty with regard to the
punishment, because they felt that the prisoner's fa-
mily must suffer by bis being imprisoned for a long
period ; but, at the same time, they had a duty to
perform, and they were bound to pass such a sen-
tence as would be likely to operate as an ex maple, to
protect children from being subjected to violence of
such a description, and that people should be taught
that if children did misbehave themselves they were
not to be treated in this brutal manner. He then sen-
tenced the prisoner to be kept to hard labour for 15
calendar months.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Robert Gazely, 48, horse dealer, was indicted for
stealing a mare, valued at 41., the property of Benja-
min Stafford.
The facts were briefly these :—The prosecutor was
a horse dealer, and the prisoner was in the habit of
obtaining customers for him, and in the present in-
stance had taken the mare and sold it, never paying
the prosecutor.
The jury found him Guilty.
It was then proved that the prisoner had been twice
before convicted of felony, the last time for horse-
stealing, when he was transported for ten years,
three years of which had been commuted, and he re-
turned home to this country last year.
He was again transported for 20 years.
In the case of Wm. Bridger, who had been com-
mitted, with a woman named Saunders, from the
Marlborough-street Police-court, the statement of
Bridger, who alone was placed on his trial, was re-
turned with the depositions. Upon being placed in
the hands of the Clerk of the Arraigns, it appeared
that they had not been taken in accordance with the
provisions of one of the statutes known as Jervis's
Acts, which requires that a copy of the caution given
to the prisoners should be appended to the depositions
and precede the statement. This had not been done.
The RECORDER said an omission of this character
might cause the most serious consequences, and per-
haps tend to frustrate the ends of justice, as it became
necessary, on account of the provisions of the Act,
that proof of the caution having been given must be
established before this Court. Upon this occasion
the policeman was able to supply the deficency, by
giving evidence of the fact; but the Court might
upon another occasionlbe without such evidence, and he
trusted that in future no omission of this sort migh
occur.

' Mark Benjamin Miller and Henry Usher, two
gentlemanly-looking young men, surrendered to take
their trial upon an indictment charging them with
having been guilty of indecent conduct in a public
highway.
Mr. Huddlestone, by the direction of the Court,
prosecuted ; Usher was defended by Mr. Ballantine
and Mr. Clarkson, and Mr. Bodkin defended Miller.
The facts of the case, which are unfit for publica-
tion, were of an extremely improbable character, and
rested solely (as far as the absolute act was concerned)
on the testimony of a man named Murphy, a park-
keeperin the Regent's park, who deposed to seeing
the two prisoners shortly before one o'clock in the
day, on a Sunday, lying together on the grass in the
Regent's-park, close to a very frequented thorough-
fare, and there commit the act imputed to them :
there being at time a gentleman and some children
at no great distance from them. The prisoners, when
taken to the station, seemed much shocked at the
charge, and protested their innocence, stating that the ,

SOUTHWARK.
Thomas Chedlow, who was remanded on Monday
or utteriog a counterfeit half-crown to the conductor
of one of the Atlas omnibuses, appeared upon his re-
cognisance,' to answer the charge.
The coin as well as the paper, found in the
prisoner's possession at the time he was taken into
custody, and having reference to the method of coat-
ing articles over with silver, were produced on this
occasion.
A clerk from the office of the Solicitor of the Mint
attended for the prosecution, and stated that although
the circumstances attending the uttering of the coun-
terfeit half-crown were pregnant with suspicion, yet,
that if it was a first offence, he had directions not to
proceed with the charge.
Policeman Hyde, 245 M, in reply to a question
from Mr. A'Beckett, said that since the former exa-
mination another charge of a similar description
against the prisoner had been discovered.
James Noble was then called, and stated that he is
conductor of one of the Favourite omnibuses, and that
on the night of Tuesday, the 9th instant, the prisoner
got on the outside of the vehicle at the Angel, at
Islington, and alighted near the Eagle Tavern, in the
City-road. He tendered half-a-crown to pay his
fare, and witness, although it was night, on examining
it, di,covered it to be counterfeit, and mentioned the
fact to the prisoner, who expressed surprise and desired
him to give it back and he would give him a good
one in return. Witness told him that he should insist
on his remaining with the omnibus until they saw a
constable, to ascertain if he had any more had money
about him, to which he assented, and stood on the
steps of the omnibus until they met a policeman, to
whom the matter was referred, and as he had no
other bad money about him, and gave his address 23,
Cullum-street, Fenchurch-street, witness declined
giving him into custody. The prisoner wanted him
to return the bad half-crown, saying that he had a
right to it, and that he intended to destroy it, but
witness refused and kept it, and the fare having been
paid the prisoner then walked away. The witness
added that he had no doubt of the prisoner's identity.
The counterfeit half-crown was here handed to the
Magistrate, who examined it, as also did the clerk of
the Solicitor of the Mint; and on comparing it with
the one uttered to the conductor of the Atlas omni-
bus on Saturday night by the prisoner, they were
pronounced to have been cast in the same mould, and
the thin coat of silver on each to be done by the same
process.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH,STREET.
Emily Young, a young girl, was charged with
having contemplated felony, under the following cir-
cumstances :
Mr. R. Laidlaw, No. 34, Howland-street, said the
prisoner was left in charge of his house yesterday.
On his return home with his wife, about nine o'clock,
the prisoner pretended to be in a great fright, stating
that a man in a blouse had broken into the house, had
knocked her down, bad gone up stairs, and, after re-
maining some time, had come down with some things
under his arm, with which he had left the house.
Witness went up stairs and found a quantity of wear-
ing apparel and other property lying about tha room.
The articles had been taken, some from the clothes
press and some from a box in one of the lower rooms.
A police-constable was sent for, and an investigation
made, but nothing was missed. From the strange
character of the prisoner's story, and from finding her
petticoat in the room where the robbery was said to
have occurred, it was suspected that the prisoner bad
trumped up the statement. The prisoner accounted
for the petticoat being in the room by saying that she
had a struggle with the thief, and that he tore her
petticoat off. Her gown also was torn open in the
struggle.
Police-constable Harris took the girl into custody,
as suspicion was strong against her. There was
another charge against her.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland, of Great Titchfield-street,
said the prisoner was in her employ a short time ago
as errand-girl. She gave the prisoner a sovereign to
get change. The prisoner absconded with the money,
and she had not heard anything of her until yes-
terday.
Mr. BINGHAM said the last case was clear enough.
He should discharge the prisoner on the first case, and
commit her for trial on the last.
WO/?S HIP-STREET.
John Hanbury, 12 years of age, was charged with
having burglariously entered the premises of Mr.
Isaac Lester, a tradesman, in Keate-street, Spital-
fields, and stolen a timepiece, watch, and numerous
other articles, and the prisoner's father, James Ban-
bury, a scaleboard maker, and Sarah Bethell, a woman
with whom he cohabited, were charged with having
feloniously received the whole of the property, well
knowing it to have been stolen.
The prosecutor stated tbat the younger prisoner
was formerly an errand-boy in his service, but was
discharged some months ago, and had since lived with
the other prisoners, who were tenants of his, and re- WANDS WORTH.
sided in one of the opposite houses. His premises Charles Wilson, aged 24 years, a cabdriver, living
were broken into by burglars as long ago as the 18 hat 1, Ship-yard, Temple-bar, was brought up before
of June last, when, after carefully closing the house, Mr. Beadon, charged with being concerned, with a
be went to bed about one o'clock in the morning, man named 'George Crooks, who stands remanded at
but was aroused about six hours after with the the Hammersmith Police-court on the charge of corn-
intimation that his door was open, and upon going mitting a burglary at the residence of Mr. Christopher
down stairs found that an entrance had been effected Murrietta, of the Queen's•road, Kensington, in bur-
from the cellars into the shop, and that the latter had glariously entering the premises of Mr. Abraham
been completely ransacked and plundered. He first Lyons Moses, of West-bill, Wandsworth, and stealing
missed a timepiece off one of the shelves, the counter therefrom a quantity of plate, coats, linen, and other
was strewn over with tobacco, the remains of a quan- articles of considerable value.
tits the thieves had carried away with them, after Sergeant Undrell, 37 V, said—On the 16th of
emptying a number of jars ; about five or six pounds July last information was received that a burglary
weight of butter had been taken from one of the tubs, had been committed upon Mr. Moses' residence in
a quantity of biscuits, and even bread had been taken West•hill, and a large quantity of property stolen.
from the windows, a silver watch had been stolen On Tuesday afternoon the prisoner was apprehended,
from a table drawer in the parlour, and a pair of on being searched at the station-house he was found
sugar-tongs and a number of silver and plated spoons to be wearing a shirt marked "D. Long,"
which was
and other articles bad been carried away from other afterwards identified as the property of Mr. Moses'
parts of the premises. It was quite manifest that the butler. The prisoner was asked how he became pos-
robbery must have been effected by some one surrep- seised of the shirt, and he said he formerly lived with
titiously obtaining admission to the cellars, and there, Crooks, and he supposed that Crooks had taken his
concealing himself until the family had retired to rests shirt and substituted that one. Crooks was employed
but, though immediate information of the robbery was as a gardener at Mr. Moses' residence about seven
forwarded to the police, no clue to the perpetrators years since, and therefore bad a perfect knowledge of
could be gained until seven and eight o'clock on the the premises.
preceding evening, when he accidentally discovered Sergeant Marquard, 21 V, said he accompanied the
four of his candlesticks, which had been also stolen, last witness and apprehe,nded the prisoner in Gray's
in the possession of a dealer in the Hackney- Inn-lane, in front of his master's yard. He said he
road, and six !pored his candlesticks in the possession knew Crooks, and had heard that he was then in
of another dealer, in George-street, Shoreditch. On trouble. The prisoner carried a coat upon his arm,
finding from the purchasers that that portion of the and said that he had received it from Crooks.
property of which his house had been plundered had Daniel Long, butler to Mr. Moses, at 'Wandsworth,
been so disposed of by the prisoners, be called in a identified the shirt and coat found upon the prisoner
constable and gave all three into custody, when the as his property. They were both taken from the ser-
female prisoner and the boy acknowledged having 'triune' hall on the night of the burglary. The thieves
sold them; the letter stating that the woman had I effected an entrance by plaoing a ladder against one

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Allen 257 G, confirmed the witnesses's testimony
as related to the identity of the prisoner, and added
that the conductor refused to give him into custody,
saying that he could not quit his omnibus to go to the
station-house. The policeman also identified the
counterfeit half-crown produced, as the one which the
conductor had shown to him on the night the trans-
action occurred.

The prisoner was committed, but he will be brought
up again on Friday, and was held to bail, himself in
801., and two sureties of 401. each, with twenty-four
hours' notice.

LAMBETH.
Last evening as Mr. Elliott was leaving the bench,
a young man, who gave the name of William Bird,
was brought up in custody on a charge of passing a
counterfeit half-crown at the pottery manufactory of
Mr. Doulton, in High-street, Lambeth.
Mr. Frederick Doulton deposed that, about an
hour before the prisoner, who represented himself as
a hawker of dell ware, called at the factory, and se-
lecting a jug of a particular pattern, the price of
which was fourpence, tendered half-a-crown in pay-
ment. Having taken a bad half-crown about a fort-
night ago under precisely similar circumstances, and
from a person who he had no doubt to be the prisoner,
he was particular in examining the coin, and found it
to be a counterfeit.
Both the half-crowns wereproduced by the witness,
and there appearance was such as to deceive even an
excellent judge. They are of the reign of George
111., and apparently a good deal worn, and their na-
tural silvery colour is so well simulated by electro-
typing as to render them most difficult of detection ;
indeed, it is only by weighing or bending them that
the counterfeit can be discovered.
The prisoner, who gave a very unsatisfactory ac-
count of himself; was remanded for the attendance of
the Mint solicitor.