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London, England, 1858-11-02 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Nov. 1.

The November General Sessions of the Peace for
the county of Middlesex commenced this morning
at the Court-house on Clerkenwell-green before Mr.
Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge ; Mr. Creasy, de-
puty ; Mr. Pownall, chairman of the county magis-
tracy, and the following justices :—Mr. Faulconer,
Dr. Bateman, Mr. H. Warner, Mr. Bashford, Mr.
J. Tanner, Mr. Franco, and Capt. Morley..
There were 42 cases for trial, 38 felonies, and 4
misdemeanours.
The Assistant-Judge briefly charged the grand

ju.
Joseph Holmes, 68, and William Darney, 34,
paupers, were indicted for having stolen three pairs
of trousers and other articles, the property of the
guardians of the poor of the parish of St. Maryle-
bone. They were convicted. It appeared that
the prisoners were inmates of the Marylebone
Workhouse, and on Oct. 17 they were leaving for
the purpose of attending a place of worship, when,
from suspicion arising from something which had
occurred before, they were searched, and several
pairs of trousers, a quantity of soap, and other
articles, the property of the parish, were found con-
cealed about them.
Holmes was sentenced to two and Darney to four
months' hard labour.
James Skyen, alias Nicholson, alias Taylor, &c.,
aged 19, was indicted for stealing a gold watch and
chain and three brooches, value £25, the property
of Robert Adams, in his dwelling house.
The prisoner was seen by the wife of the prose-
cutor, who is a law stationer in Cook's-court, Carey-
street, Lincoln's-inn, coming out of her bedroom,
en the first floor, with her watch and chain in his
hand. She demanded his business, when he violently
rushed past her and got out into the street, but he
was pursued into Portugal-street, where he was
captured, and he threw the watch and chain and
three brooches, which he had also taken from the
bedroom, down an area. He boldly asserted that he
was not the person who did it, but Mrs Adams never
lost sight of him, and he was distinctly seen to
throw the property down the area.
The jury found him guilty, and a long series of
former convictions were proved against him by
Foalskam, an officer of the Westminster House of
Correction. He had served four years' penal servi-
tude. The Court now sentenced him to eight years'
penal servitude.
Henry Greengrass, 34, farrier, pleaded guilty of
having feloniously embezzled several small sums of
money which he had received on account of A. J.
Rogers, his master. He was sentenced to eight
montlis hard labour.
Richard Fry, 24, draper, was indicted for having
feloniously embezzled the sum of £3 10s. 10d., re-
ceived by him for and on account of Messrs. Shool-
bred and Co., his masters. He was sentenced to
nine months' hard labour.
James Lindsay, 30; was brought up to be dealt
with by the Court as an incorrigible rogue and va-
gabond, under the Vagrant Act. He was founon din
Davie's-street, Berkeley-square, in poss
e
skeleton keys, made to open Bramah street-door
ssi of
locks. One of the keys (produced) was tried by
Sergeant Crocker, C division, who, with another
officer, took the prisoner, and he found that it would
open the doors of Nos. 55 and 56 in that street.
The prisoner had an accomplice who escaped. It
was proved that the prisoner had served a sentence
of four years' penal servitude, besides which there
were eight other convictions against him-
The Court deemed the offence proved and com-
mitted the prisoner to hard labour for 12 months.
Henry Tannock, 32, pianoforte maker, was in-
dicted for feloniously receiving 31b. of piano pins,
the property of Messrs. Collard, knowing the same
to have been stolen.
He pleaded guilty.
Mr. Salter, for the prosecution, said the prisoner
had been in Messrs. Collard's employment, but some
months back ceased to be so. He had since induced
a boy, 14 years of age, in the same service, to steal
packets of pins for him, for which he gave him 6d.
each.
Mr. Lawrence addressed the Court on behalf of
the prisoner, who, he said, had been led into the
transaction.
The Assistant-Judge passed a sentence of nine
months' hard labour.
(Before Mr. Cveasy.)
Wm. Robinson, 52, a gentlemanly-looking man,
wearing three military decorations, was indicted for
having stolen a glazier's diamond, value £2 10s., the
property of Robt. Winter Thompson and another.
Lois Baker deposed that she was housekeeper to
the prosecutors, photographic artists, at 312, Ox-
f.rd-street, and on the afternoon of the 18th Oct.,
about three o'clock, the prisoner called and offered
for sale some prepared paper used in photography.
She told him that none was required, but he re-
mained in the room, where there were three ladies,
customers, and during his stay she missed a glazier's
diamond, which shortly before she had seen safe,
from the table. 'Witness said that either he or one
of the ladies had it, and she should detain them
all until the attendance of a policeman couldeat be
procured. The prisoner then sat down, gy
agitated, when one of the ladies said" He's dropped
it." The prisoner stooped down and picked it up,
saying, " Yes, here it is,' Witness said, " But you
dropped it." " No," he replied, "I did not. I never
touched it." A policeman came, and she gave him
in charge. He said it must have been one of the
ladies.
Alice Fowles deposed that she lived in Lyham-
road, Brixton-hill, and was a single woman. She
was at Mr. Thompson's on the day in question,
with two other ladies, and heard the last witness
say she had missed a cutting diamond. The pri-
soner sat down on a chair, and she (witness) saw
him throw the diamond on the floor. She did not
see him take it from his pocket, but she did see it
fall from his hand, and heard it fall. She told the
last witness, and the prisoner picked the diamond
up and threw it on the table.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he knew no-
thing of the diamond. He stayed in the room
because, as a photographist himself, he knew how
to place the ladies in the most suitable position to
have their portraits taken. He declared he never
took the diamond from the table, and on hearing
the lady say he had thrown it down he looked on
the floor, and, seeing it there, he picked it up and
threw it on the table.
terN,lor; Creasy--Have
or egai7e— any Ha: you any witnesses to charac-
ter of you ?
Prisoner—l could call plenty, but were Ito do so,
sir, I should only blast my reputation, and bring
myself to ruin. lam following the business of a
tracing papermaker, and deal with photographers,
and I know nothing of this.
Mr. Creasy told the jury that in law the offence
was made out, if they were satisfied from the evi-
dence that the prisoner took the diamond from the
table with the intention of stealing it. If they had
any reasonable doubt upon the matter, of course
they would give the benefit of it to the prisoner
and acquit him.
The jury, after some deliberation, found the pri-
soner guilty.
Mr. Creasy said he would defer sentence until
Wednesday morning, to afford an opportunity to
the prisoner, if he chose to avail himself of it, of
calling witnesses to his character.
The prisoner said he had friends, but he should
&dile falling them, as it would damn him for
ever. It must remain as it was.
Mr. Creasy afterwards sentenced him to six
months' hard labour.
Patrick Collins, 19, labourer, was indicted for
unlawfully assaulting Samuel Geary, a police-con-
stable, while.* the..execution of his duty.
George Argyle, poliC,e-constable 194 B; said,-about
half-past 1 o'clock m the afternoon of the Bth Oct.,
two men—the prisoner and another—were drunk in
the Commersial-road, Pimlico. The man who was
with the prisoner fell down, and on witness going
to his assistance, and while endeavouring to raise
him, the prisoner assaulted him. He then took
him into custody.
Samuel Geary, police-constable 133 B, said he
saw the prisoner assault the last witness, and on
going to his assistance he received three or four
kicks in the chest, and was compelled to draw his
truncheon in his own defence. After getting to the
station he vomited half a pint of blood. He had
besn under the care of the doctor ever since, and he
now felt the effects of the injury he had sustained.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he knew nothing
about it, as he was drunk at the time.
The jury found him Guilty. It was then proved
that the prisoner had been sentenced in 51arch,
1856, to nine months' imprisonment and ordered to
enter into recognisancos for his good behaviour for
two years for an assault on the police.
Sentence deferred until Wednesday.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Nov.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. Edward Benjamin,
and Frank Edwards, the former a fish salesman in
journeyman
in and the latter a
in the service of another salesraml, attended before
the Lord Mayor, charged with being inillegal pos-
session of a quantity of salmon.
Mr. Robinson, from the office of Mr. Buchanan,
appeared for the defendants.
Mr. Alex. Mitchell, superintendent . of water
bailiffs of the river Tweed, said that from informa-
tion which reached him at Berwick he came to Lon-
don and proceeded to Billingsgate about 1 o'clock
on Saturday afternoon. He traced from Berwick
two barrels of salmon, invoiced as herrings, and ad_
dressed "•Mr. George, New Warehouses,iove-lane,
Billingsgate-market, London." He 'saw 'a large
number of salmon, weighing scwt., on the stall of
Mr. Benjamin, in the same barrels that he had

traced from Berwick, one of them being opened.
He opened one of the barrels in the train on its
passage to London. Benjamin, when told by the
witness that he would be given in charge for hav-
ing possession of the R almon , denied all knowledge
of them, and said they had just been brought to
his stall. The fish were bull trout and had been
netted. The season closed for netted fish after the
Ist October, and from his experience he should say
that the fish (one of which he produced) had been
alive within a week.
The witness, in cross-examination, said he had
been induced to trace the salmon to London on ac-
count of many casks of that kind of fish having
recently been sent to Billingsgate for sale. Mr.
Benjamin was standing by the side of the stall on
which the casks were placed.
E. Mill, driver to the Great Northern Railway
Company, said he took the casks to the address stated
by the last witness. He asked for Mr. George, and
the defendant Edwards said he would take them
in for him, and added, " I will sell them, as Mr.
George has gone." Edwards signed the delivery
book as " Mr. Frink," and he complained of his not
having brought the casks sooner.
A. M. Mungo, police-constable 564, said, I saw
the fish taken from a cart and carried to a form on
which Mr. Benjamin was standing. Mr. Benjamin
had a lot of fish arrive at the same time as these,
and he said, referring to these two casks, " A fresharrival, my lads, what will you give for them ?"
A customer replied, " I'll give you a shilling each ;
I'll give 6s. for half a-dozen." Benjamin said" Give
me your money." I then said, " Mr. Benjamin I
will not allow these fish to go." Previously to that
I had sent for Mr. Deering. Mr. Benjamin said,
" It's no business of yours ; trouble your head with
your own business. You go away.' I told him I
would not go away. At that moment my brother
officer and Mr. Mitchell came up.
The Lord Mayor—Are the fish fit to eat now ?
Mr. Mitchell—Some of them are not unwhole-
some ; some are orse than others.
Mr. Deering—l saw the fish in question in the
market. I saw Benjamin standing upon the form
immediately adjoining his own stand. The fish
were on the stall of Mr. Rackstraw, who leaves the
market early in the morning—generally about six
o'clock. Benjamin took up the fish and showed me
the gills of three or four of them, all of which ap-
peared perfectly fresh. I saw that they were out-of-
season salmon, but nothing near so bad as I have
seen sold in the market out of season.
Mr. Robinson asked for an adjournment of the
case, in order that Mr. Benjamin might have an
opportunity of proving that he never had anything
o do with the fish.
After some further conversation,
The Lord Mayor ordered the defendants to enter
.nto recognisances to attend on Wednesday next.

MARYLEBONE.—John Culpeck, aged 20, re-
siding at 46, Salisbury-street, Portman-market, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton charged
with having attempted to murder his wife, and also
to terminate his own existence.
The prisoner, who seemed very weak, was seated
during the inquiry; his throat was bandaged up,
and articulation was evidently painful to him.
Hill, 72 S, deposed that at 11 that morning, while
in North-street, Lisson-grove, he heard loud cries
of " Police," which proceeded from No. 46, in that
street, and a number of persons congregated at the
spot exclaimed, " For God's sake come in." He
(witness) went into the backyard, and there found
the prisoner bleedingj profusely from a wound in
his throat.
Mr. Broughton—Did he say anything ?
Witness—Yes; he said, " I
.have not done it to
rights." I sent for a doctor, and prisoner was taken
to St. Mary's Hospital. His wife, whom he had
stabbed, was brought there soon after by another
officer.
Policeman 185 D, said that he heard loud screams
and found the prisoner's wife in Clifton-road. She
had been stabbed in the neck, and witness took her
to the hospital. She was still there suffering from
a severe wound, and unable to quit the institution
at present to give evidence.
Some other evidence was gone into, and it was
shown from what transpired, that the prisoner hall
been married only two months, and that jealousy
was the cause of what had occurred, the wife having,
as alleged, left hist to live with another man, who
was the father of a family by a woman with whom
he had for years cohabited.
After some further proceedings, the prisoner was
remanded till to-morrow week.

WORSHIP-STREET. John Townshend, a
surly-lookin,g man, 36, was charged before Mr.'
Hammill on Friday with the following assault upon
his wife :
The -wife, one of whose eyes was shockingly con-
tused, said—This morning the prisoner began beat-
ing the children very severely, and on my interfer-
ing for their protection he threatened to dash my
brains out with a hammer, struck me down and re-
peatedly kicked me violently about the body. I am
very sore all over me from his cruel usage, and have
a lump upon my side as large as a man's fist. I have
before been obliged to come here about him five or
six times, and he has been punished for it, but it is
all of no use.
Geharty, 159 H—l was called to the house at
ten o'clock this morning, and found this poor
woman in the street, supported by several persons.
Before I could secure him I saw him strike her a
heavy blow in the face with his fist, and on my
way to the station he also kicked me severely.
Prisoner—l have nothing to say to this.
Mr. Hammill—l recollect that you have been
here before charged with these brutal offences, and
have had lengthened imprisonments for them. It
all appears of no avail, and I am sorry that I can
only send you again for six months' hard labour,
but this time I shall also order you to find good
bail for a period of the same duration.
The poor woman left the court in great grief, but
was yesterday brought back again by Gee, the
warrant officer, who said—This woman is in a very
bad state, your worship, and I do not know what
to do with her. She is in extreme distress : she
has five children to keep, is very near her confine-
ment with a sixth, and has no means whatever of
providing for the emergency.
Mr. Hammill—Will not some of her husband's
friends assist her a bit ?
Gee—Oh, dear no, sir ; quite the reverse.
Mr. Hammill—Why, that man has been often
charged here with furious attacks upon his wife.
I recollect him perfectly well.
Gee—He - has, sir ;he has been imprisoned for
twelve months, nine months, and many shorter
periods besides. He used to sell umbrellas about
the streets when he was out of prison, and she used
to repair them to 'enable him to do so. I have
known the family for a very long time, and can
conscientiously say that she is a very hardworking,
sober, industrious woman, and has suffered great
injury and' privation from his gross misconduct..
In every .instance, as far as I can ascertain,
he has beaten her w
in this ay without ton
least provocation. 'While he was here on
the last charge she had a summons against him
for another attack upon her, and to which sum-
mons he ought to have appeared that very day,
but committed a fresh assault upon her, was taken
into custody, and sentenced before the time for its
being heard, so that he has not been punished for
that charge at all. He is a most outrageous ruffian,
and I once myself prevented him killing one of his
children. When I served him with the summons I
have just referred to he made use of the most hor-
rible language, tore the summons up, flung the
pieces in my face, and ordered me out of the house.
One of the five children, too, is an idiot, which
makes le-nnich worse.
The wife, who was far advanced in the family-
way, and evidently very ill and debilitated, wea
questioned by themagistrate upon the facts deposei
to by the officer, and confirmed them in every par-
ticular.
Mr. Hammill---I am really very sorry for your
unfortunate position, but can do very little for you.
I have no doubt, however, that if the facts detailed
before me were only published, one of those benevo-
lent institutions—such, for instance, as the Royal
Benevolent Society—which have for their object
the investigation and relief of such distressing cases
might be induced to see after you andyour children,
for assuredly I deem this a case worthy of every
attention, and you have certainly also suffered
greatly through your marriage with such an aban-
doned scoundrel. I hope that this will be done for
you, mid in the meantime I will give you 10s. from
the poorbox, to help you as far as that will go.
The woman received the money very gratefully,
and left the court manifestly with far different
feelings from those with which she had entered it.

CLERKENWELL.—The attention of Mr. Corrie,
the sitting magistrate, was engaged this morning
for some considerable time, in consequence of the
police having; on Saturday evening, made a most
determined onslaught on the poor costermongers,
the number of charges of that description for adju-
dication being 17. In one case the defendant had
been detained in custody for 36 hours, and in ano-
ther, where the man was locked up in the evening,
he complained that when he was bailed out at 11
o'clock he went to the greenyard to get his barrow,
they refused to let him have it, and yesterday,
when he obtained it, he found that his apples had
been thrown carelessly into a sack, and spoilt ;
while in another, in which fish was exposed for
sale, it •was taken to the green-yard and spoilt.
Some of the defendants remarked, that the only
way they had of earning bread for their families
was by selling fruit in the streets, and in most of
the instances it was stated that the police never
gall) them any notice to "move on," that their bar-