The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-08 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, April 17.

(Before Mr. Pash C., Assistant Judge.)
Thomas Jones, 23, was inlicted for haviog stolen
a gold watch, value 101., the property of James
Slie, from his person. fie wai also chlrged with
having assaulted two police-constables in the exe-
tiun of their duty. To the latter he pleaded guilty.
Mr. lorry prosecuted. Tao prisoner was not
defended.

The prosecutor deposed—l am a clerk in her Ma-
jesty's Customs, and reside at No. 2, Queen's ter-
race, St.-John's-wood. On Thursday, the 17th of
last September, I was a passenger by the 8 o'clock
train from Fenchurch-Qtreet to Chalk farm. I was
in a secohtl-clas:, carriage. There were several per-
sons in the same compartment with me. A man,
whom I now have no doubt whatever was the pri-
soner, sat opposite to me. He asked a girl who was
in the carriage to change seats with him, and that
brought him just opposite to me. The train, after
stopping at Bow, proceeded as usual. The prisoner
seemed res less, and kicked my feet several times.
From his strange aLd peculiar manner I thought
he was intoxicated. He sat with his arm leaning
over the carriage-door. The train was going at full
speed, When we got to wl*at is called Sir George
Duckett's Cana'-Midge, 11;* snatched my watch,
which I was wearing in my waistcoat pocket. He
tore it away from the chain; part of which was lett,
struck me a blow, and irr'a moment he opened the
door and sprung out of the carriage. It was the
-work of but an instant. I saw him fall. I said,
" Good God, the man has stolen my watch and
jumped out." I made my loss known at the Hack-
ney Station, as I could not call out and stop the
train before. At first, when I saw the prisoner
after be was taken, I was not sure he was the
man, bat his whiskers have grown again
—they had been shaved off—and now I am
sure. Still, I thought he resembled the man.
He had the same exit on then, and I remarked red
lining in the sheve3.

The pri =over, in his defence, said he was not the
man who did this. There was a mistake as to his
identity.

The Jury immediately found him guilty.
The Assistant-Judge, after commenting on the
audacity of the offence, the prisoner's reckless
daring, and his course of crime, sentenced him to
bo kept in penal servitude for five years.
On leaving the dock the prisoner smashed his hat,
and told the officers that, as he had got his sentence,
he did not mind them knowing that ho was a
ticket-of-leave man.

The assault with which he was charged wa3 corn-
mitt d upon the police officers in the case, at the
police court.
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Rco er; Oxford, 21, was found guilty of stealing
a watch, value 4i., the property of Frederick Gni.
neaman, from his person. He was a wcll-knoven
thief. The Court sentenced him to four years' penal
servitude.

Finney R rmain, 24, was also found guilty of a
watch robbery, af,er several previous convictions,
and was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecutor ; Mr. Gent ap-
peared for the pr,sf)ner.

(Bef, Mr. Creasy.)
Eliza Hell, 37, and Eliza Turner, 37, were in-
dicted for stealing a watch and gulrd-chain, value
Si., the property of George Stanley, from his; person.
Mr. D ley pro,ezuted ; the prisoners were de-
fended by Mr. F. H. Lewis.
The proecutor, an ink manufacturer, accompa-
nied a womln to a house of ill-fame, in Chair court,
Strand, andashe was leaving his watch was snatched
by Turner. It was given by Hall, who went by
the name of Orgill, to. a girl, who bid it in her
stocking. She returned it to Hall, who promised
her 10s.

B,)th prisoners were found Guilty, and sentenced
to six months' hard labour.

James Chapman and William Chandler, police-
constables, of the H division, were indicted for un-
lawfully assaulting Poilip Fry.
Mr. Horry prost:cattd ; Mr. Metcalf defended
the prisoners, instructed by Mr. C. Young.
It appeared from the evideno3 of the prosecutor,
a clothier, living at No. 2, Clown-street, Soho,
that-on the 4th of March, between five and six
o'clock in the evening, he was passing alongFashion-
street, Spitalfidds, with a parcel of clothes under
his arai, when he was accosted by both the defen-
dants, one going before him and the other walking
behind. They asked him what he had got ; and
be said be had got some things which he was taking
to his laundress to be washed. Chandler then
said "he was only telling lies, for he had stolen
them ftom a cart in Whitechapel." He told him
to be cautious what he said about him, or he
would report him. He was seized by the necker-
chief and very roughly handled, He told them

where he lived, and proceeded to his brother-in-law's
house, in Fashion-court, but had not been there
five minutes before the prisoners again came with
staves in their bands and said—" Now, we have
got you to rights ;" and the prisoner Chandler took
hold of him by the breast and threw him against
the wall. His brother-in-law then came to his
assistance, when the other prisoner took hold of
him and threw him down, and tore his coat. He
was then taken to the station-house, and both the
defendants told the inspector that they had taken
him into custody because he would not tell them
where he lived, or what he had got, although he
had informed them of both. Mr. Sykes, from the
County Court, told the sergeant on duty that he
knew him to be a respectable shopkeeper, and he
then refused to take the charge. Both prisoners
then made use of a good deal of vulgar language ;
and Is hen he came to examine bis bundle he found
that one of the articles, a gown, worth 5;. was
missing. He had never seen either of the prisoners
before.

Two other witnesses were examined for the pro-
secution, but there was a great discrepancy in their
evidence, and after a very able address from Mr.
Metcalfe, the jury acquitted the prisoners.
Joseph John Word was indicted for corruptly
receiving from James Russell Williams the sum of
5/. for the restoration of a stolen dog.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted ; Mr. Lewis appeared
for the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that iu the moetlt
of February the prosecutor's daughter was going
along Long acre, and a large Newfoundland deg
belonging to her was following, Wearing a brass
collar, on which her name and add% eats were en-
graved. When she got to the cernerof Cran boui n-
street she missed the,ting. She had previously seen
a man who frequently pu his hand towards the
dog, but she did not see him touch him. As the
dog did net come home to Leicester-square, where
she resided, the next day bills were distributed
cffering a reward of 2/. fur the restoration of the
dog. The day following, her father received a corn
munication, and in consequence of that he went to
Waterloo-bridge, where he saw the prisoner, who
told him that if he would give Si he could have
the dog back. He accompanied the prisoner into
the Strand, where he said he expected to meet a
man, but he was not there, and then they went to
the G'ity, but no man was to be found. The pri-
soner then said they must go elsewhere, and a cab
was ordered, and they proceeded to some place in
the neighbourhood of Bunbill-row, which was a
narrow court, and at the bottom of it was a public-
house. Here the prisoner introduced biro to two
other men, and after a good deal of parleying be-
tween the prosecutor and the men as to how they
got.posse(sion of the dog, but to which inquiry
they gave him very abrupt answers, the dog was
produced and the 5/. was paid. When the prose-
cutor was about bringing the dog away, he wanted
to know what had become of the collar, and one of
them said that would be all right, and on tue fol-
lowing day it was returned through the London
Parcels Delivery Company. The prisoner was sub •
sequently taken into custody at a dog-show, in
Half-moon-street, 131shopsgate, hy Thomas Evans,
of the G division of police, from a description given
of him.

Mr. Lewis addressed the jury, and contended
that no corrupt payment had been made to the pri-
soner, but to the persons who bad produced the dog.
A pt r.,:on named Gleed, who said he was the was-
ter of the prisoner, gave him a good character for
honesty during the time he had been in his employ-
ment for upwards of 16 months, but in his cross-
examination by Mr. Metcalfe he admitted that
when the prisoner was at the police-office he heard
it stared that he (prisoner) had been convicted and
sentenced to a month's imprisonment for dog-
stealing.

Mr. Creasy wanted to know, with that fact be-
fore him, how he dared to come into a court of
justice and give a man a good character for
honesty ; and ordered him to be taken into custody.
He then summed up the evidence, and
The jury immediately found the prisoner guilty.
Mr. Lewis then moved in arrest of judgment,
but his application was refused.
Mr. Creasy sentenced the prisoner to imprison-
ment for six months. He then ad,fressed the man
Gleed, and said he should not commit him for trial,
as his case was not so bAd as that of a man who yes-
terday stated a series of falsehoods; and, after a
caution, ordered him to be discharged ; but re-
ma►ked that if any m re such cases occurred, he
would order such witnesses to be indicted for per-
jury, as blth judge and jury were imposed upon,
and the ends of justice defeated.