The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Mores Barnett, the Jew who was yesterday con-
victed of receiving goods knowing them to be stolen,
was brought up for sentence.
On being asked what he had to say why sentence
should not be passed on him ?
The prisoner said that he had been falsely sworn
to, and at some length complained of the way in
which the charge had been got up against him, de-
nying that he received the indigo for his own use,
but merely to take care of it for the lad.

The Ricoansse, in passing sentence, said that the
prisoner bad been very properly convicted by a con-
siderate and merciful jury of receiving the indigo
knowing it to have been stolen, and the circumstances
were of a peculiar and most atrocious character, and
the jury had come to a conclusion which he (the
Learned Recorder) had no doubt whatever in his
mind was a correct one. Several witnesses had been
called yesterday to give him a good character, some
of whom did not know much of the pri-
soner, and some knew him more intimately ;
but that merely proved that he bore a
good character as far as they knew of him.
Still there was no doubt of his (prigoner's) guilt,
for his conviction did not rest upon the evidence of
the lad, whose character was most auspicious, hut
upon the clear testimony of the respectable clerk and
officers. In consequence of the character given to
the prisoner, sentence had been postponed with this
day, in order that fki (the Learned Recorder) might
have time to reflect upon the character of the offence;
he had done so, and had also made inquiry of the ma-
gistrates and others, and from what had been learned
he felt it due to the interests of society that a severe
sentence should be passed. His Lordship then ad-
verted to the peculiar circumstances of the case, and
added that there could be no doubt but that the pri-
soner's plan had been to hang about, get into the
company
of young lads, and, finding them discon-
tented with their situations and the wages they were
receiving,
instigate them to increase their gains by
dishonesty; subsequent inquities loved that the case

upon which he bad been found guilty was not the only
one of which he had been guilty, hut his plan had been
not only himself to participate in plunder, but to corrupt
others. It therefore was necessary that a severe
example should be made. The Act gave him the
power to transport him for fourteen ) ears, but he
thought the ends of justice would be sati,fied by the
sentence he had made up his mind to pass on him,
which was, that he be transported for the term of
ten years.
The prisoner, who frequently kept asserting his in-
nocence, no sooner heard his sentence than ha said
he had been falsely sworn against, and as be was
leaving the dock suddenly stopped, and, clasping his
hands as if in prayer, said, with much apparent
sanctity, " I am innocent," then, turning hiy eyes
upwards, he added, "I hope the Aimighty God— ,"
he then seemed unable or unwilling to finish the
sentence.

The RECORDER—You had better say no more.
He then moved slowly and mechanically out of
the dock.

The few cases disposed of during the day were
totally devoid of interest.

MIDDLESEX 'SESSIONS, Jun. 8.

(Before-
Chairman, end n Bench of
_ .

Alegistratek.)
William Daslanan, :iged 17, was indicted for having
stolei, from the person ot Louisa Millard a purse con-
taining two half-crowns and other moneys, the pro-
perty ot Thomas Millard.
E !ward Totmun, A 393, stated that on the evening
of the 231 ult., about seven o'clock, he was on duty
in private clothes on the platform of the Great
Western Railway Company, at Paddington, when
just as a train was coming in he observed the pri,
soner, with five or six other boys and lads, upon the
platform. As soon as the train had stopped and the
passengers had commenced to alight he saw the pri-
soner walk up to a woman and put his hand into one
of her pockets. From that woman the prisoner
walked off to another, whom he treated in precisely
the same manner. After this he went up to a third
woman, who proved to be the wife of the present
prosecutor, and put his band into her pocket. The
lady moved onwards and the prisoner kept walking
by her side. Presently she stopped, and then he saw
the prisoner in the act of drawing the purse from her
pocket. The prisoner had nearly got char of the
lady's dress when she turned round and stood face to
face with the prisoner,who thereupon let go of the purse
which fell back into her pocket. He then took hold
of the prisoner, an 3 inquired or him what he wanted
with the lady's puree ? to which question be replied
that he had not got it. He then took the prisoner to
the end of the platform, where he searched him, and
found among other things a memorzndum book in
which were entries carefully made of the hours of the
arrival of the different trains on the Great Western
line, and the times at which certain trains arrived on
some of the other lines.

The prisoner now denied the attempt to pick the
pocket of Mrs. Millard of any intention to commit a
robbery.
The CHAIRMAN having summed up the evidence,
The jury at once returned a verdict of Guilty.
The officer of the House of Correction requested
that the prisoner might be remanded until the next
sessions for judgment, as he expected by that time he
should be in a condition to prove several previous con-
victions against him.
The CHAIRMAN accordingly postponed the sentence
to the next sessions.

Mary Flynn, aged 25, was indicted for stealing a
box and other articles, the property of the Bristol
and Exeter Railway Company.
Mr. Sirr conducted the case for the prosecution,
and Mr. Horry appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 13th ult. two young ladies,
one of the name of Davis, arrived at the terminus of
the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, at Bristol,
about ten o'clock in the morning, and, having to pro-
ceed to Bridgewater, they placed four boxes in the
charge of a railway potter tamed Smith, by whom
they were deposited in one of the waiting-rooms. The
boxes consisted of three large and one small one.
About ten minutes after this had been done the pri-
soner came into the office and asked for a third-class
ticket, but as upwards of halt an hour was still want-
ing to the time when a third-class train would start,
she was told she was too early. She thereupon went
into the waiting-room, where Miss Davie boxes had
been deposited. As the porter was proceeding along
the platform, just before the starting of the Parlia-
mentary train, he was passed by the prisoner, who
then not only was carrying the bundle she had
brought with her, but a small box which she had
placed under her arm. After the train had started,
the prisoner having taken her seat in one of the car-
riages, the porter went into the waiting room,
and then discovered that Miss Davis' small box
was missing. It instantly occurred to his mind
that the prisoner must have taken it; for he
then remembered that although he bad noticed a box
under her arm as she was going to take her seat in
the train, she had only brought a bundle with her
when she first made her application for the ticket.
He instantly communicated to the superintendent of
the station the fact of the loss, and his suspicion that
the prisoner was the thief. He accordingly obtained
a pass by the express train, and reached the Padding-
ton station about an hour and a half before the ar-
rival of the Parliamentary train. When this latter
train came in he accompanied the collector of the
tickets to the third-class carriages for the purpose of
finding out the prisoner, but could nut see her. He
nevertheless kept a close watch upon all the women
as they alighted, and presently observed the prisoner
walk across the platform. He instantly pointed her
out to Lindon, one of the detective officers, by whom
she was accosted, and asked if she had come from
Bristol. She replied in the affirmative, and in answer
to another question stated that she had some luggage.
Upon this being examined the Bristol porter re-
cognised the lost box, which bore the address,
" Miss Davis, passenger, Bridgewater (Vicar-
age, Cannington), Somersetshire." The pri-
soner when questioned upon the subject as to
how this box had come into her possession, said that
it had been given to her by another woman, as she had
herself lost a black trunk at Bristol. She was then
taken into custody. The porter in the course of his
examination stated that the reason he had not recog-
nized the prisoner when be looked into the carriage
was, that when at the Bristol station she had worn a
straw bowlet, but that on her arrival at Paddington
she had gat on a pink silk one, the exchange having
been made during the journey.
Evidence was given which supported the above out-
line of facts. _

Mr. Hoaar addressed the jury on behalf of the
prisoner.
The CIIAIRMIiN recapitulated the evidence, and
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Siva, then said that he was instructed to pro-
secute the prisoner upon a second indictment, for
having stolen a victorine, the property of one of the
female officers of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany ; but as she had been convicted upon the first
indictment he did not now propose to offer any evi-
dence in the second case. There was, too, a third
indictment, where the prisoner was charged with
having stolen property from a Captain Lewis,
amounting to 601. He merely mentioned this last
case for the purpose of obtaining the order of the
Court for the delivery up of the goods by the pawn-
broker.

Cu'lard, the superintendent at the Paddington
station, stated that he had received an excellent cha-
racter of the prisoner from Messrs. Fox and Hender-
son, the contractors, with whom she lived as servant
for twelve months; and that with respect to the in-
dictment fur the theft at Captain Lewis's, it was but
an act of justice he should state that it had been
ascertained that the robbery had been committed by
her sister.
The prisoner then withdrew her pleas of " Not
guilty" to the second and third indictments, and
pleaded " Guilty."
The CHAIRMAN then sentenced her to six months'
imprisonment on each indictment, each imprisonment
to commence at the same time.

Oa the application of Mr. PRENDERGAST,
The CHAIRMAN made an order for the immediate
discharge of James Gordon, against whom a bill of
indictment had been preferred, but ignored by the
grand jury, for an indecent exposure in the park;
the Learned Counsel stated that his client was a gen-
tleman of wealth and station, and a scion of a noble
family.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
A girl, aged fifteen, was brought up a few days
ago before the Lord M iyor, charged with having
beaten her mother, a widow, who had evidently seen
much better days.
The complainant, upon that occasion, said her
daughter had been at service for three or four years,
and had always acted with filial affection until very
lately ; she had, about ten days ago, gone out for the
purpose of inquiring after a place, and upon her re-
turn saying she had succeded, suddenly, departed
from home, and stopped away nearly a week; upon
her second return she proceeded to pack up her clothes
in a box, and said she was going to another situation ;
and upon being exposiulated with, and requests-d to
give some explanation of such extraordinary conduct,
she not only used the most revolting langmige in reply
to the anxious request of her parent, but was depraved
enough to use blows.
The LORD MAYOR asked the complainant (who
appeared to be in deep affliction), whether she had
been able to ascertain at what place her daughter
had spent the days of her absence from home ?
The policeman into whoes custody it had been
found necessary to place the girl said she told him
she had been passing along Old-street, and was look-
ing at an advertisement in a window for a servant,
when a woman walked up to her, and asked her
whether she wanted a situation, and was immediately

joined by a gentleman, who hired her as nurse to his
daughter, a child about aix years old ; but, as he pro..
posed to her the performance of services of a very
different kind, she had quitted him ; that she was
about to go to another place when her mother inter-
fered ; and that, in her passion, she h:d acted with
the unnatural violerce descrit•ed.

In answer to questions put by the Lord MAYOR,
The policeman said he had reason to believe that
there were frequently to be seen prowling about the
immediate neighbeurhoods in which offices for the re-
gistration of servants were kept persons of loose
morals, whose practice it was to hire such girls as
pleased the eye, and appeared to be in want of situa-
tions, and who, after convincing the poor creatures of
their nihtalte, turned them adrift, upon being able to
procure fresh substitutes by similar means. He had
no doubt that the girl before his Lordship had been
imposed upon by a man of this description.
The LORD MATOR—WeII, defendant, what have
you to say to this very bad account of you? The
girl said it was true the man by whom she had been
hired under the circumstances ststsd by the police-
man had male vile proposals to her, but it was as
true that she had rej, cted them, and left his service
on that account. She had no idea that the father of
a fenrale child, whom she vvas engaged to take care cf,
could entertain any bad design against her, although
it wac the fact, as she af, erwards learned, that he had
been in the habit of getting young nurses for the
little girl and turning them away after very short
trials indeed.

The LORD MAYOR said, he apprehended the case
was one of frequent occurrence, and directed Scott,
the Mansion-hou•e officer, to make inquiry into the
alleged practices of the person, and to report the par-
ticulars of his investigation.
Yesterday Scott said he had ascertained that the
girl had been hired by a man who resided in Chart
street to attend to his daughter, and that the child
was thus made en unconscious pander to her father.
Of the unsurpassable baseness of the fellow there
could be no doubt, but it was to be feared that, in the
present case, it would be impossible to get together
evidence, especially as the girl denied that his plans
against her had succeeded.
Tne LORD MAYOR—How has the girl con-
ducted herself to her mother since she was first
brought before me ?
The complainant said the reproof and advice which
his Lordship had given to the defendant on the occa-
sion of the language and assault complained of pro-
duced a great change for the better ; indeed, so great
that she was likely to become a comfort to her family.
The poor woman was most grateful to his Lordship
for the resolute kindness he had di.,played, ano ascribed
to that charitable interference the actual saving of her
child from destruction.

The LORD MAYOR—I shall take care to have the
conduct of the person who has been pursuing these
vile practices more closely inquired into. We have
now an Act of Parliament which will enable the ma-
gistrates to protect young women from the fraudulent
practices so frequently resorted to for procuring their
defilement, and there is no function of mine which I
should feel more pleasure in performing than that by
which I am empowered to inflict a heavy castigation
upon such atrocious malefactors.
The girl then retired with her mother, after re-
assuring the Lord Mayor that his Lordship's kind-
ness affected her almost as much as her mother's for-
giveness.