The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-03 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and
a Bench of Magistrates, at the Guildhall, West-
minster.)
THE ROBBERIES IN NEWCASTLE• COURT.

James Wise, aged 29, WAS indicted for having
stolen from Isaac Friedlander a pair of scissors and
one ear-ring drop, his property, in Newcastle-court.
Mr. Horry defended the prisoner.
It will be in the recollection of our readers that
on the Bth ult., at Clerken well, a woman of the town
was convicted of having committed this robbery in
conjunction with a man who upon that occasion made
his escape from the officer and the prosecutor. Upon
the Learned Judge asking how it had happened that
the man had not been indicted with the female priso-
ner, the officer assigned as the reason the escape of
the man. Another officer then informed the Judge
that the man was at that moment in the court, sit-
ting behind the dock, whereupon his Lordship di-
rected that he should be taken into custody. This
having been done the man now appeared at the bar
to take his trial.

The facts of the case are simply these :—The pro-
secutor, who is a Jew hawker, was passing through
Newcastle-court, in the Strand, in the early part of
the last month, when he was called into one of the
houses by the prisoner and the woman. The hawker
went in, and the two prisoners took the articles in
question from his box, and on his finding that they did
not mean to make any purchase, he required that the
goods should be returned. The male prisoner thereupon
told him that if he did not at once quit the house be
would kick him out. The hawker consequently
walked out, to avoid the alternative visitation, and
communicated to the first policeman with whom he
met the treatment he had received. The policeman
went to the court with him, and there they saw the
woman get out of the window and go towards an
other, where she was in the act of handing the
stolen property to another woman, when the officer
took both of them into custody. The male prisoner,
seeing what was going on, ran away, and thus it was
that he had not been apprehended at the time. The
case was now clearly proved against him.
Mr. Horcur having addressed the jury on behalf of
the prisoner,
The Learned JUDGE left the matter to
'The Jury, who at once returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE said the prisoner was one of
the most notorious thieves in London, and had upon
more than one occasion been convicted. He had re-
ceived a sentence at the Central Criminal Court of
six months' imprisonment, and from himself he had
received a sentence of twelve months' imprisonment
with hard labour. (This conviction was upon the
present occasion proved by the production of the cer-
tificate of the fact, and the identification of the pri-
soner by the policeman who had been in attendance
upon the case). It was quite clear that such a man
was totally unfit for a longer residence in this country.
The sentence upon him therefore was, that he be
transported beyond the seas for ten years.
The Prisoner—Can't you give me something more ?
My brother has been transported, can't you punish
me for that also ? I want to know. Hadn't you better
try me for that also ?
The Learned JUDGE--You are sentenced for ten
years. Take him away.
Thomas Baker, aged 35, was convicted of having
unlawfully and indecently assaulted Mary Ann Baker,
a little girl about ten years old, his step-daughter,
with intent.

The prisoner offered a most disgusting defence, and
accused his wife of the most abandoned conduct, and
also asserted that she had instructed her daughter to
trump up the present charge against him out of a
feeling of revenge towards him.
The Learned JUDGE) in passing sentence upon th