The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-05 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Jan 4.

The Court passed a sentence of 12 months' hard
labour.

POLICE lATELLIGEACE—Tait. 4.

atrILDHALL.--James O'Neale was brought up
h3fore Alderman Rose, charged with cutting and
woundinga man named Richardson, with intent to
do him some grievous bodily harm.
It appeared from the evidence of the wife of the
wounded man, that he and the prisoner had some
dispute as to the payment for some rum, during
which the prisoner accused Richardson of having
an snimosicy against him, which so offended him
(Richardson)that he took off his coat and challenged
the prisoner to fight, and when the latter left him
for the purpose of avoiding a conflict Richardson
followed him up to his own room, and was S3Oll
aftervrards heard to exclaim that the prisoner had
a poker, and he (Richardson) ran down stairs bleed-
ing from the head. He was very angry and excited,
and, was t ►ken to the hospital, where he remains in
a precarious condition, suffering from a fractured
skulL
The prisoner was remanded.

THAMES.—Patrick Murphy, aged 23, George
Sims, 22, and Catherine Crawley, 19, who gave the
name of Sullivan when she was taken into custody,
were charged with being concerned with John Hen-
nessey, remanded on Saturday, Jeremiah Kallaher,
sentenced to two months' imprisonment on the 28th
ult., Catherine Halloran, sentenced to 10 days' im-
prisonment on the same dty, and others, in the
wilful murder of Henry Morgan, a police constable
of the K division, who was savagely beaten byKal-
laher and others on Boxing.day, and died of the
injuries he received on Saturday.
The particulars of the occurrence appeared in
The Sun of yesterday.
After several witnesses hal been examined,
Mr. &lie said he should remand the prisoners
till Monday next, but he had no objection to take
bad for Sims, if he could procure it.
Sims was remanded with the other prisoners.
An application is to be made to the Secretary of
State for .Kallaher to be brought up at the next ex-
amination.

SOUTHWARK.—A short time ago two rather
good-looking coloured girls, who gave the names of
Minnie and RO3O Avers, appeared before Mr. Bar-
cham, being charged with begging in the s'reets.
They were dressed as American slaves,. and sta'ed
that they had escaped from Mr. Robertson's plan-
tation in Kentucky. Their case in the first instance
excited much commiseration among the charitable, .
owing to the artful manner in which they told tht.ir
story, 'and the distress through which they wen
supposed to have passed from Kentucky to Phila
d
Iphia. The result VI 9.4 that his worship had let-
ters from several of the nobility offering them
o
com-
fortable homes, and several sumsofmoney were
forwarded for their present neceAsites ißur-
cham, however, was not perfectly s:tieueiedt. as to
letter he
the correctness of their story,
owing to a u received, consequently the matter was p
hands of Mr. Branford, the superintendentnotthhee
M diviiion, who directed Sergeant Baker t 1 make
inquiries about them. The result was that after
considerable difficulty he suTected the younger
girl was the daughter of an Irishman residing in
Wentworth-street, where they lodged, and an old
black woman in Chelsea Hospital. They were cou-
fronted' before Mr. Burcham, when they ail reso-
lutely denied all knowledge of each other. His
worship, however, was of opinion that the tale was
&Ivo, consequently he refu ed to have anything
more to do with them, and they were cautioned not
t,.) beg again. A doubt still existed that they might
be what they gated, e4pecially as there was no di-
rect prof to the contrary. However, it is now set
at rest, Mr. Burcham having received the folio wieg
letter ftein one or the guardians of Chelsea Hor..-
pital

"Sir,—lt may be satiNfactory to you to know that
you art iyed at a proper c lusion in this case, as proved
by the following :—The father of the girli (who was an
inmate of Chelsea workhouse) was taken ill and died
yesterday, and to_•lay the mother, accompanied by one
of the girls, called to see the corpse, and when again
confronted with the porters at once acknowledged that
the It 11010 was a deceit, which they were prompted by
others to practise on the benevolent.—l am, Sir, your
obedient servant,

"J. U. WALKER,
"One of the Guardians of the Poor of Chelsea.
" Wellington square, Dec. 31."

LAMBETH. —Sarah Bennett, a middle-aged
woman of dissipated appearance, was charged with
causing such injuries to be inflicted on her daugh
ter Mary, a girl of 16 years of age, that she is a

The January Quarter Sessions of the Peace for
the county of Middlesex commenced this morning
at Clerkenwell, before Mr. Pashley, Q.C.,
Assistant-
Judge, Mr. Pownall, Chairman, and a bench of
magistrates. The calendar contains the names of
46 prisoners.

The Assistant Judge shortly charged the grand
jury.

fV a new arrangement made for holding the
sessions there will, in effect, be a general gaol
delivery for the county every fortaigLt, which will
be a great convenience to the public, and the average
period of priseueiN being kept in castody before
trial will not exceed eight days.
James Mitchell, 33, was convicted of feloniously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of
Margaret Allen, and stealing therein a feather-bed
her property. The prisoner got through a window
In the prosecutrix's house, and had packed up her
bed ready for carrying off, when he was detected.
He was sentenced to hard labour fur one year.
Alfred Johnson, 17, and John Macdonald, 22,
were indicted for breaking and entering thed g-
house of Edward Smith, and stealing therein two
rings, value 101., his property. There was another
charge against Johnson, in which Macdonald was
included as au accessory after the fact. Johnson
pleaded guilty. This offence was committed on the
14th Dec. by Johnson breaking a pawnbroker's
window and taking out the property men'ioned.
The case against Macdonald was that he aided and
abetted, but the evidence was not conclusive, and
he was acquitted. Johnson was sentenced to three
years' penal servitude.

- Joseph Preston, a broker, was indicted forai for-
cible entry upon premises, belonging to and n the
possession of Edward Smith. He pleaded guilty,
and was ordered to enter into a recognisance to
come up for judgment when called upon.
Alfred Moran, 30, one of the most expert pick-
pockets of the day, was convicted of stealing a sum
of money from the person of one Ww. Henry Allen,
in Oxford-street. He was detected by Gre3n, a
city officer. Five convictions were proved against
him ; two of them were under the Summary Act,
and when before the magistrate on this charge he
pleaded hard not to be sent to trial, but the magis-
trate committed him, as be was known to be an old
offender. The Court passed upon him a sentence
of five years' penal servitude.
Richard Birch, 29, pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment charging him with assaulting and wounding
Alex. John Grimmer, the gate porter at Maryle-
bone workhouse.

The prisoner is a low disorderly fellow, and lived
with a woman named Macdonald, whose character
is as bad as his own. They had been for some time
in receipt of relief, and the prisoner had been an
inmate of the house at times, and on the evening of
the 30th Dec. they made their appearance at the
gate and demanded relief. • The prosecutor told him
he could not ralieve them, and said the prisoner
could have a ticket for the stoneyard, where he could
earn is. a-day. The prisoner said that was no use
to him, and on the prosecutor turning his he'd for
a moment he struck him a blow near the eye, which
brought-tfinftct the ground in a state of insensibility.
The prism-ter, as well as the woman he lived with,
bad been in prison for assaults and misconduct, and
he had refused work when it was offered him in his
trade of a shoemaker.

Mr. Tubbs, the relieving officer, proved tirtt the
prisoner and the woman had received ample assist-
ance from the 'mist), and that he was an associate
of thieves.

The AssiAant-Judge sentenced hitn to six months'
hard labour.

Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the prosecution, in-
structed by Mr. Randall, the parish solicitor.
(Before Mr. Creasy.)
George Timlock, labourer, was indicted for steal-
ing 16 bushels of oats, the property of Mes.rs.
Curtis, Harvey, and Co., gunpowder manufacturerA,
of Islewortb, his masters ; and James Wright was
indicted for feloniously reeving the same.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted ; Mr. Mills appeared
for the defence.

The jury acquitted both prisoners.
Thomas Rickards was brought up from the House
of Correction to be dealt with as an incorrigible
roue and vagabond, under the Vagrant Act. The
prisoner is a notorious beggar, and was taken into
cu,ltody by a constable of the Mendicity Society for
stopping passers-by in Tavistock-square and be-
seeching them "to give a few coppers to a poor
hardworking-roan with a large family to supvrt,
to help him on the r0a,:1." The prisoner has lived
by begging for 30 years, and a list of no leis than
25 convictions was put in against him, that being
leis than the actual number.
Mr. Creafy sentenced him to be kept to bard
labour for one year.
Geo. Savill, 19, was found guilty of attempting
to pick pockets in Whitechapel, and desperAtely
kicking the constable (181 H) who took him into
custody.

Mr. Le Breton pros .!euted, Mr. Platt was for the
isoner.