The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-11 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov. 10.

(Before Mr. Serjeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and
a Bench of Magistrates, at the Guildhall, West-
minster.)

The November General Sessions were this morning
resumed by adjournment at the Guildhall, West-
minster.

The calender contains a list of 45 prisoners for
trial, of whom 42 are indicted for the commission of
felony. _ _

lienry Martin, aged 21, was indicted for having
feloniously incited a young lad of the name of Charles
White to steal a pistol, a fork, a sovereign, and a
watch and chain, the property of Algernon Edward
West, his property.
Mr. Somerset appeared for the prosecution.
The facts of this case have recently been placed
before the reader, and therefore there is only occasion
now to present him with a brief outline of its cir-
cumstances.

It appeared that the prosecutor resides at No. 44,
Curzon-street, Mayfair, and the boy White was in
his employ as an errand-boy. The prisoner contrived
to form an acquaintance with this boy while he was
walking in the streets some weeks since, and subse-
quently he suggested to him that there were means
by which he could benefit both of them by taking
different things from his master's house. The boy
unfortunately permitted himself to be seduced from
the path of honesty by the persuasions of the prisoner,
and in due time: he stole a pistol for him. This act
having placed the boy within his power, the prisoner
then by a threat of giving him into custody for the
theft compelled him to continue a system of robbery
upon his master. The prisoner also induced him to
obtain half-a-sovereign from his mother.
The prisoner said in his defence that the boy had
accosted him one night in the street as he was return-
ing home, when he told him that he had picked the
pocket of a gentleman at the Bloomer ball which had
been given at the llanover-squre Rooms ; and then
the boy had gone on to ask him if he had done any-
thing there. A conversation sprung up between
them, and while it was proceeding another boy came
up to them and made a similar confession, whereupon
White demanded that the other boy should pay him
1/. as his share of the transactions.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up the evi.
dence,

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Tne Learned JUDGE said, it was impossible for that
Court to discharge its duty properly towards the
public were he not to exercise its power of passing
upon the prisoner such a sentence as would have the
effect of removing him from this country, and that
sentence, too, as sevcre as the law would allow. It
would be a great act of cruelty were such a person as
the prisoner to be allowed to remain here in order
that he might again have the opportunity of pursuing
his avocations; for it appeared, upon one of the oc-
casions on which he had previously been convicted,
that a boy of twelve years of age only had been de-
coyed by him from his former course of honesty and
then that he had initiated and instructed him in the
art of crime. In the case then before the Court it
had been clearly proved that he had puratted the same

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practice, with too much success, upon the boy White,
who, wie,:ont La,l !) •r: k 4,1 o
Xis unfortur tcriustintance with this man. The
seatewe oe the court was that the prLoner be
transported beyond the seas for the term of fourteen

years.
George Clark, aged 34, and George Johnson, aged
36, were indicted charged with having stolen in the
dwelling-house of Robert Rymill, 12 silver-handled
knives and forks, two watches, and various other ar-
ticles, of the value of 50/. and upwards, his property.
Mr. Parry appeared for the prosecution. Mr,
Metcalfe defended Johnson, and Mr. Prendergast
was counsel for the other prisoner, Clark.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor,
who is a collector of Queen's taxes, resides at No. 11,
Brompton-crescent, and that just after he bad sat
down to his dinner table, at a quarter-past 7 o'clock
on the evening of Thursday, the 23d ult., he received
information from one of his seru.ants to the effect
that some thieves were moving about in the upper
part of his house. He thereupon went out for a police-
man, desiring that they would remain quiet, and not
disturb the uninvited visitors upstairs. On his re-
turn, in about four minutes, he heard some person
call out—" There they go." He presently saw the
prisoner Clark in the custody of the police. The
prosecutor, upon subsequently going up to his room,
found everything in a state of great confusion ; the
jewel-cases had been broken open, and their contents
taken away ; a desk had been rifled, two watches had
also been stolen, and a case, containing a dozen silver-
handled knives and forks, had likewise been opened
and the contents removed. Other articles too were
missing. There were two attic windows to which a
communication was afforded by means of the gutter
from the other houses, and the thieves must have ob-
tained their entrance by that course, from an empty
house, No. 19. The prisoners were seen by the
policeman to come out of No. 19, shortly after the
prosecutor had given the alarm, and Clark was taken
by him as he was in the act of getting
over the garden- wall of No. 17. Whet,
the officer had got hold of him he said—" Don't
hold me ; the thieves are gone this way, and
I'll go after them and assist you in catching them,"
but the officer, not being disposed to place re-
liance in his promise, and having moreover seen him
emerge from the empty house, he deemed it the better
course to decline the proffered aid and at once to
secure him. As they were going towards the station
he observed the prisoner put his hand into one of his
pockets, and, suspecting that he might have some-
thing in the hand which he intended to throw away,
he laid hold of it, when he found he had an iron
wrench, sharp at one end like a chisel, and constructed
at the other in the most approved manner for forcing
iron bars. Johnson made his escape, but the officer
having given a description of him to another officer,
he was apprehended some days after wards at, a
skittle-ground in Westminster. The officer stated
that he had noticed the prisoners talking together in
Brompton-crescent about half-an-hour before the
robbery. He was quite sure as to both prisoners. A
e.entleman of the name of Taylor, who lives at No.
16, proved having seen Clark getting over the garden
walls. Upon searctong the premises, a large bundle,
containing the stolen property, was found in the gar-
den, left in such a manner as to show that the thieves
had been disturbed.

Mr. Aletcalfe and Mr. M. Prendergast severally
addressed the jury on behalf of their respective clients,
the defence set ❑p for Johnson being an alibi.
Witnesses having been called in support of this line
of defence, _

Mr. PARRY replied.
Mr. \VITHAM (who was sitting for the Assistant-
Judge, who had been compelled to quit the court by
iilnes9 left the ease to
The jury, who found both prisoners Guilty.
Johnson then pleaded guilty to a charge that he
had been previously convicted of falony, while evi-
dence was given that Clark had not only been noto-
riously known as a thief since the year 1844, but
that, having been many times in custody upon diffe-
rent charges, he had been convicted thrice.
Mr. WITHAM thereupon sentenced the prisoners to
transportation for 14 years.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE APPEALS.

The Learned JUDGE, before withdrawing from the
court, addressing the bar, said that in consequence of
the severe indisposition under which he had been
for the last three weeks labouring, and from which
he was still suffering so much that he could
neither sit up nor eat nor sleep, he had been advised
that it was necessary that be should keep himself
in a recumbent position for a few days, and then that
his recovery would be accomplished. His Learned
Friend Mr. Witham had kindly promised to sit for
him during the remainher of the day, to-morrow,
(this day), and Wednesday. With respect to Thurs-
day, for that day ho had upon Friday last appointed
several appeals. Now, as there were but few of them,
he would ask, in consequence of his illness, that those
appeals should go over to the 28th instant, when, with
other appeals, they would be heard at Clerkenwell,
without any additional expense to the parties, and if
those who represented the press in that court would
be so good as to make the announcement of the post-
ponement in their respective papers of to morrow,
there would not be the necessity of the parties serv-
ing notices. He should now retire for the purpose
of a few days' rest, after which be would resume his
duties.

Mr. PAYNE, as the senior of the bar, said that the
best wishes of himself and his learned friends for his
perfect recovery would accompany the Learned Judge
in his retirement.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A well-dressed fellow named William Pinkham
was charged with robbing a young woman named
Mary Anne Harvey, a poor servant girl, of 3/ ss.
Mr. John Power, a grocer i❑ Fenchurch-street,
swore to seeing the prisoner deliberately thrust his
hand into the prosecutrix's pocket, while his confede-
rates stood convenient to cover him, and that upon his
hand being withdrawn the girl's purse was in it.
The prisoner thereupon declined offering any de-
fence, and, the depositions having been taken, he was
fully committed to Newgate for trial.
C:LERKEiV WELL.
Mary Ann Langford, a respectably- dressed young
woman, was brought up on remand, charged by Mis
Mary Maxted, of Camden-square, Somers-town,
with having been concerned with others in picking her
pocket on the platform of the Great Northern Railway.
The prisoner was committed for trial, and the wit-
nesses were bound over to prosecute.
Leckerby, the detective officer of the S division,
said he had no doubt but the prisoner was the same
person who was connected with Mahon, who was
concerned in an attempted burglary some time since
at Mr. Holford's, Regent's-park.
LAMBETH.
Ellen Marion Watson, an interesting looking girl,
13 years of age, the daughter of a retired officer in '
the army, residing with her parents at No. 3, James-
street, Commercial-road, Camberwell, was brought
before Mr. Elliott, charged with obtaining property
of considerable value from Miss Ann Hatt, fancy sta-
tioner and Berlin-wool dealer, under false and frau-
dulent pretences.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Has any thing of this kind occurred
before ? I think I have some recollection of her
at this court.
The girl's mother—About two or three months ago
she acted in a similar way, but I paid for the things,
and nothing was said about it. In fact, it was a
neighbour of ours. She was not taken into custody.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Has she a father? Mrs. Watson—
Yes, sir.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Is he equally as weak as his daugh-
ter, as he ought to have corrected her, and prevented
her from committing herself again ? Mrs. Watson—
The article she then obtained was only a smelling
bottle.

gentleman
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her obtaining goods from
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shall remand the prisoner, to give the officers an op-
he matter.
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.• SOUTHWARK
Samuel Bricknell, alias French, and Thomas
Richards were charged with breaking into the house
of Mr. J. Hall, 40, Dover-road, and stealing 40 sove-
reigns, a gold chain, and other articles.
The prisoners, who warmly denied that they were
concerned in the offence, were remanded. It is sus-
pected that they belong to a gang of burglars who
have been active on this side of the water since the
long nights have set in.
John Church was charged with being intoxicated
and using language of a disgusting nature in a rail-
way carriage, whereby he incurred a penalty of 40s.
Mr. Edward Adams stated that on the previous
afternoon, while coming up from Croydon by the
train, the defendant annoyed the passengers, among
whom were some ladies, by the disgusting language
ho used. A gentleman who accompanied the ladies
requested the defendant to desist, but, instead of listen-
ing to the advice, he abused him, using the most
scurrilous language, and offering to fight him, at the
same time throwin
himself into an attitude for the
purpose. His conduCt at length became so exces-
sively bad, that when the train arrived at the Forest-
hill station he (witness) comulained of it to the
officer there, and suggested that a man who had con-
ducted himself in such a scandalous manner should
be turned out of the carriage. The officer, however,
said that if the offender was given into custody there
it would detain the train, and recommended that when
it arrived at London bridge he should be given in
charge. The train then proceeded on its way, and