The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-24 00:00:00

SURREY ADJOURNED SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

(Before R. HEDGER, Esq. Chairman.)

On the prisoners being arraigned this morning, Mr.
Chambers applied, on behalf of one of them, that the
Court would order the police officer who took the prisoner,
to give up all or part of a sum of 1/. 19s. 6d., a silver
watch, chain and seals, &c., which had been taken from
him, so that he might have the means of making his defence
by legal assistance.
The CHAIRMAN said he had not the power of doing so—
the Commissioners of Police gave these orders, and the
Court declined to interfere.

Mr. CHAMBERS insisted upon the reasonablaness of the
application, and said he had seen such an application made
to one of the Judges, who, on being satisfied that the
money taken from the prisoner was not Suspected of being
the produce of a robbery, ordered, or recommended, that
so much of it should be given up as would enable him to
make a defence. He also had heard of other cases. He
demanded it as a right, for if it was refused, one of the
first principles of the English law would be violated---the
prisoner would be condemned before trial.
The BENCH said, as it was demanded as a right, they
would resist it, for they did not see that they had any
power. Let the right be enforced.
Mr. CHAMBERS said that of course was out of the power
of a prisoner ; but as that was laid down as the law, he
trusted it would be made as public as possible, for if the
dictum was good it was high time the Legislature should
interfere. It was a piece of gross injustice, and a denial of
justice.
The Inspector of Police in attendance was called, and
said none of their officers could give up any part of the
property taken from a prisoner without an order from the
Bench ; a recommendation would not do.
No order was made.

Samuel Clark was indicted for stealing, on the 26th of
March last, a grey horse, the property of George Collins,
a farmer at Jedenhambury, Hertfordshire.
D. Spriugham was servant with the prosecutor. On the
26th March be put the horse in a straw-yard at the farm,
about six o'clock. Next morning at four o'clock he missed
it. He saw the prisoner on the 26th, near his master's
stable, with a saddle and bridle on his back. He asked
him the way to Hollingbury, and went away towards that
village.

Moses Frost also met the prisoner, of whose identity he
had not the least doubt, near Mr. Collins's premises on the
day named. He also asked him about the names of the
neighbouring villages.

William Henry Ball, a livery-stable keeper at Kenning-
ton-cross, purchased a grey horse from the prisoner, whom
he knew, on the morning of the. 27th March. That same
horse was claimed by Mr. Collins, in the month of August.
Mr. Collins said, from information he had received he
went to Mr. Ball's stables and found the horse, which he
knew well, it being an old one, and having been in his fa-
ther's possession before his.

Verdict—Guilty ; and sentence—Transportation for life.
There were two other indictments of the same kind, but
as the horses had been given up, they were not gone into.
George Foster was arraigned upon three indictments,
which charged him with stealing 17 cwt. of coal dust, the
property of William Obrey, his master.
It appeared the prosecutor had been in the service of
Maudsleys, engineers, but having been afflicted with blind-
ness, they set him up in the coal trade, and took from him
all the coal dust used in their trade. The prisoner was
employed to grind the coal, and it was his duty to carry it
to the works and get a pass-book signed ; he had taken
away large quantities, and brought back the pass-book,
purporting to be signed by some of Maudsley's clerks. It
was proved that such deliveries had not been made, and
the entries were not genuine.
Sentenced to seven years' transportation.
Laurence Stanley, a young boy of 16 years, was sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation, for stealing a pair
of trowsers, a shirt, a vest, and several books from his
master, Mr. Burls, a pawnbroker at Walworth. The
prisoner had acknowledged the robbery to the policeman
who took him into custody.
James Short was found guilty of an attempt to steal
half a dozen pairs of stockings from the door of a draper in
Lambeth. The jury also found that he had been formerly
convicted and sentenced to imprisonment. The Court now
sentenced him to be transported for 14 years.