The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1860.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, April 9.

The April Quarter Sessions commenced this morn-
ing at the Guildhall, Westminster, before Mr. Bod-
kin, Assistant-Judge, Mr. Payne, deputy, and the
following full bench of magistrates :—Mr. H. H.
Harwood, the Baron de Bliss, Mr. Stilwell, Mr. D.
Fletcher, Sir C. D. Crossley, Mr. Parbury, Mr.
Marshall, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Rankine, Mr. Beet-
ham, Mr. Baylis, Mr, Bashford, Mr. Hogarth, Mr.
Burslem, Mr. Healey, and Mr. Fanleoner.

The calendar contains the names of no fewer thiin
114 prisoners, of whom 99 aro committed for felony,
and 15 for misdemeanour.

The Assistant-Judge delivered the charge to the
grand jury.
George King, 16, and Samuel Barnes, 15, were
convicted of stealing a card of rings, the property
of Jas. Peacock, from a case in which they were ex-
posed for sale in front of a shop in New Oxford-
street.

Foulsham, the officer of the Westminster prison,
said these boys, though so young, had been repeat-
edly convicted. There were six convictions against
King and four against Barnes.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced each of the pri-
soners to two years' hard labour, and said they
would be recommended to Parkhurst.

Edward Farrell,lB, and Dennis Kennedy,l4, were
convicted of stealing a handkerchief from a gentle-
man at Temple-bar.
Foulsham stated that there were 13 previous
convictions against Farrell, who, without exception,
was the worst boy they ever had to deal with in
Westminster prison, and one against Kennedy.
The mother of the latter said she had five sons,
and none of them had ever been in prison at all.
Foulslnixi said that was a very false assertion, as
the boy Kennedy and a brother were in prison at the
same time for attempting to pick pockets.

The Assistant-Judge sentenced Farrell to sit
years' penal servitude, and Kennedy to three years
at the reformatory for this county at Feltham.
William Taylor, 22, was indicted for stealing a
coat in the dwelling house of William Dawsey
Belby.
The door of the house being left open for a mo-
mant after the prosecutor got home the prisoner
walked itto the im,sEage and put on a coat which
Mr. Baby had jaA Lktu eit and hung up. lie
ob:rvcd Audi au upp,cr v,iltdo),7 to leave the
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company with another who was a known thief, while
they were being watched going about from house to
house in an outlying district trying parlour
windows. _ .

The prisoner was found guilty, and a conviction
for highway robbery was put in against him.
The Court sentenced him to three years' penal
servitude.

Charles Hansford, 18, and Frederick Barnes, 23,
were indicted—Hansford for staling, and the other
for feloniously receiving a quantity a beef, the pro-
perty of Messrs. Cover, butchers, of St. James's-
street, the employers of the first-named prisoner.
Mo. Cooper appeared for the prosecution ; Mr.
Sleigh defended Hansford.
The meat was taker. by Hansford and concealed
in a cart-house, and Barnes, who had been mixed
up in the transaction, was charged with receiving
it with a guilty knowledge, but the jury acquitted
him;
Hansford was found guilty, and sentenced to
nine months'_ hard labour.
Thomas yborn, 26, was indicted for stealing a
quantity of boots and shoes, value £4O, the pro-
perty of J. Hodges, his master. He pleaded guilty.
Mr. Cooper appeared on his behalf. The prosecu-
tor carried on business as a boot and shoe manufac-
turer, & c , in Tottenham-court-road, and there was
reason,to believe that the prisoner, who had been
in his service between six and seven years, had been
plundering hith during the greater part of that
time; .£4O worth of property was found in his bed-
room by the policeman in the case, Lambert 68 E.
The Assistant-Judge said it was a very bad case,
and the Court must pass a sentence that would ope-
rate as a warning to servants that, however long
and successfully they may rob their employers, de-
tection will follow and punishment fall upon them.
The sentence upon him was 18 months' hard labour.
A watch which prisoner purchased some months
ago was given up to the prosecutor by order of the
Court.

Thomas Martin, 28, groom, was indicted for
fraudulently obtaining four brushes from Thomas
Burman, with intent to defraud.

The prisoner had been a helper in Lord Campbell's
stables at Stratheden-hose, and after he had left
that service he went and obtained these brushes,
representing that he was still employed at the Lord
Chancellor's stables, and that the brushes were for
use there.
The prisoner admitted the offence, but urged that
he had done it through trouble and distress.
The Court said, under the circumstances a ♦ery
lenient sentence would answer the ends of justice,
and sentenced the prisoner to two months' hard
labour.
Fred. Frazer, 27, was indicted for having stolen
two coats, ♦alue £3, the property of John Hodges.

Mr. M'Donnell was counsel for the proiecution ;
Mr. Sleigh defended the prisoner. -
There were some very curious circumstances in
tit's case. There was no doubt that on the 26th of
November last two coats were stolen from 1, How-
ley-villas, Paddington, and that the two coats now
produced were the same. On the Bth of March
the prisoner was taken into custody with another
man on a different charge, and in his possession the
officer, Sergeant Boden, 11 D, who took him, found
these two coats, which he had that very day
redeemed, and which he pawned the very day they
were stolen at Mr. Dobree's in Gilbert-street, Ox-
ford-street. He was therefore charged with having
stolen them, and the defence was that on the day
of the robbery the prisoner was out with his bro-
ther, who is an actor, distributing bills for a benefit
for the latter, when they called at a wardrobe shop
in Devonshire-street, Lisson-grove, kept by a Mrs.
Jones, for the purpose of leaving a bill for exhibi-
tion in each of her windows, when a man came in,
and offered to sell her the coats, asking 255. for
them. Mrs. Jones did not purchase them, as she
could not then spare the money, and the prisoner,
thinking he could catch a bargain, offered to buy
them, and ultimately the stranger agreed to take
21s. for them, and being short of money himself,
the prisoner went • and pawned •them, and thus by
an extraordinary coincidente he redeemed them
on the very night he was taken, and pawned them
en the very day they were stolen.
Mrs. Jones and the prisoner's brother were exa-
mined, and they deposed to these facts in the main,
but they differed materially in their description of
the stranger, and by way of fixing the date Mrs.
Jones said she had brought the playbills which
were left at her shop by the brothers on that par-
ticular day, but she had unfortunately lost them
while sha had been in attendance at the court; but
the brother said he was sure of the date, as his
benefit was on the 29th, and this occurred on the
preceding Saturday.

The jury, after some deliberation, found the pri•
soner Guilty.
The police-sergeant then stated, in answer to
the Court, that he and another officer, White, 310,
were induced "to watch the prisoner and another
man, from observing them loitering suspiciously
about houses in Upper Berkeley-street and Port-
man-square, and in Seymour-place the prisoner
was seen to unlace his boots and go stealthily
down an area, the other man keeping watch.
In a few minutes the prisoner rushed up the
steps, he taking one side of the street and his
companion the other, the officers in pursuit. On
the prisoner being taken he said he had only been
to see a girl who lived there, Emily Dorman, and
the sergeant said, " Well, you can easily prove that,
if it be true." The prisoner said, " Well, take me
back." " No," said the officer, " you take me back ;
show me the house;" and the prisoner, having mis-
taken the right one, went to three before he came
to that where he had paid his visit. The prisoner
said to the butler, "Now,- didn't I come here and
ask for
Miss Emily Dorman ? ' " Yes," answered
the bltler, "you did, but you had no business here,
and no such person lives here and never did." On
the kitchen door h had key,
butler, toblelias
the floor they found with which it seemed
asked about
foundN the prisoner in the
been opened, and when the
for loitering, and it was
sur
kitchen,
penal servitude
Miss Emily Dorman and
prisoner had been twice in custody
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four years'
him then could not be found.
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The prisoner, a tall,
he could not deny that his' char
but latterly he had got an hen:setter
with a brother and others to artist:vs by sitting
dogged him because they knew he had been in
trouble, and because he had lived with a young
n
woman whom he took away from one of them, not
now in the force, who left his own wife to live with
her, and it was he and others that had put these
officers on to him out of spite and to get him out of
the way.
The officer said the woman was a notorious thief.
The Assistant Judge said if the prisoner's state-
ments were true, which it was impossible to believe,
it could not have been in consequence of any spite
of the police that the prisoner and his brother went
to an old clothes shop and bought the coats, nor could
it have been for the same reason that he went down
the area. Ile concurred in the verdict, but should
direct inquiries to be made, and, if the result of
these were such as he anticipated, it would be the
utmost punishment the law allowed that would be
inflicted. As to the defence, ho should consider

whether the witnesses should not be prosecuted for
perjury.
The prisoner said there was no perjury in the
case, and he was as innocent as any one in court.—
Judgment deferred until next sessions.

TIIE PUBLICIIOUSE APPEAL. •
The appeals against the refusals of justices to
grant or renew publichouse licenses will be taken
on Friday next. There are 28 entered for hearing.
The ordinary appeals will be taken on Thursday,
and the bail cases will be postponed until next ses-
sions, as at present arranged.

immediately, leaving the mounting, which witness
refused to give him.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

SOUTIIWARK.—Frederick Lawley, a well-
dressed young man, was charged with stealing
about 10s. in silver from James Figg, a conductor
of one of the Kingsland omnibuses, at the door of
his vehicle, and he was also charged with being
concerned with others in stealinga watch from Mr.
Frederick Smith, at the same place.
Mr. Burcham committed him for trial.
Christina Wallace, a middle-aged woman, was
brought up for final examination charged with
stabbing her husband, James David Wallace, with
a table knife, with intent to murder him.
Mr. Burcham committed her for trial.

LAMBETII.--James Edwards, a young fellow
about 20 years of age, was finally examined on a
charged of attempting to pick the pocket of Mrs.
Elizabeth Fairbin, a widow lady residing in Cam-
berwell.

The prosecutrix: said that on Tuesday last she
was walking along the Camberwell-road when the
prisoner and another young fellow came up to her
and asked their way to the railway station, and
she told them she did not know. They
then asked their way to the Elephant and Castle,
and while pointing it out to them the prisoner, who
had a coat thrown over his left arm, pushed close to
her on the right side and put his hand into her
pocket, but her money was fortunately in another
pocket, in her under dress.
Mr. Norton observed that robberies of this de-
scription were becoming so frequent that ladies, the
persons on whom they were generally practised,
should be very careful in answering strangers in the
streets, or, when they did answer, to keep .t a re-
spectful distance from the persons asking them.
lie had no doubt whatever that theprisoner was an
expert thief, as stated by the constable, and should
therefore commit him to three months' hard labour
'1 at Wandsworth House of Correction.

John Smith, a respectably dressed young man,
was finally examined on a charge of attempting to
break into and enter the house of Mr. Richard C.
l)ougal with intent to carry away the property.
The prisoner, who declined saying anything in
defcnez, was committed for trial.