The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-06 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge.)
Eduard Jessop, fruiterer and confectioner, of
New-street, Covent-garden, surrendered to take
his trial on an indictment charging him with having
feloniously received a quantity of paper bags, the
property of George Burrell, well knowing the same
to have been stolen.
Mr. Orridge prosecuted; Mr. Franc's appeared
for the prisoner.
At the last session at Westminster, three boys
named Pearce, Mapleton, and Simon, were tried,
found guilty, and sentenced each to a week's soli-
tary confinement for stealing some bags, the pro-
perty of Mr. Burrell, paper-bag maker, of
Houghton-street, Clare-market, their master, and
from circumstances which then transpired as to the
manner in which the bags had b,!eri disposed of to
the prisoner, now under charge, the presiding
Judge, Mr. Creasy, directed that he should be
prosecuted for receiving, and the learned counsel
conducting the case on the present occasion was
instructed by Mr. Allen, the county solicitor. The
facts were these :—The boy Simon used to hide
bags in a dust hole Mapleton and Pearce carried
them away after the day's work was over and
Mapleton sold them to the prisoner. When the
police went to his place, and questioned him about
purchasing the bags, he at once acknowledged that
he had, and said he had four and. a-half gross on
the previous evening for a shilling. He produced
about 25 gross in all. It was urged for the prose-
cution that the prisoner bad bouht the bags at
less than a -tenth of the trade price at night, and
from a boy whom he did not know, and that he
must have known that they had been dishonestly
come by.
Mr. Francis made an able address to the jury
for the prisoner, and called witnesses, who gave
him an excellent character for honesty, and deposed
to his having purchased the bags from the boy
under the most urgent representations by him that
he had been sent by his father, who made them,
and was in great distress, and also that the price
given was not so much under the value as stated.
After the summing up the jury retired, and after
considering the case nearly tour hours and a half,
found the prisoner guilty, with a recommendation
to mercy.
The Court sentenced him to 12 months' hard
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FOLIC& INTELLIGENCE.—uay 5.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Michael Quirk, an Irish
tailor, charged with assaulting Bridget, his wife,
and stabbing her in the head with a piece of glass.
The complainant, one of whose eyes was fright-
fully bruised, and whose head exhibited a blood-
s-ained plaster, said, that on Saturday night last
the prisoner came home about 12 o'clock, and gave
her 10s. for the purpose of providing the house for
the ensuing week, and when she told him he ought
to give her more, as he had then four children
support and 83. to pay for rent, he commenced to
beat her, and finished by giving her a tremendous
blow over her left eye. To escape further violence
she was compelled to go to a neighbour's, where
she stayed until Monday morning, when he imme-
diately began to abuse and threaten her, although
ho was then quite sobsr. On Monday night he told
her he would be hanged for her yet, and on Tues-
day night, just as she was going to lie down on the
werkboird, with her head on a bundle (as she never
got any rest after he came in), he rushed into the
house, and seizing a flat-iron aimed a blow at her
head, but she stepped aside and the iron fell on her
foot. He then struck her on the head with a lump
of coke, which slipped from his grasp and flew
through the window, dashing the glass on to the
roof outside ; whereupon he swore he would have
the pane of glass out of her, and putting his arm
through the window ho drew in a long piece of
glass, which ho grasped as though it had been a
dagger, and made a stab at her face, but her little
girl stepped in between them and warded off the
blow. He, however, repeated the attempt, and
struck her on the head with the glass, inflicting a
would which bled considerably. After that he ran
off as fast as ho could, but when she went out to get
her head dressed she saw him standing in the street,
and gave him into custody.
The prisoner made a rambling statement, with
an endeavour to show that he was a pattern of a
husband, but
The Lord Mayor expressed his opinion that ho
was an unmitigated brute, and had repaid with
constant ill tre itmeut the kindnes and forbearance
of an industrious and enduring. woman. His Lord-
ship sentenced him to four months' imprisonment,
with hard labour, at the same time promising pro-
tection to the complainant if her husband should
again ill-use or annoy her upon the expiration of
the term of his imprisonment-.

BOW-ST REEL —Two young men, who gave the
names of Frederick Collins and Charles Morr s, and
were dressed in the approved style of the Casino
swell, were charged with creating, a disturbance in
the pit of the Strand Theatre, to the annoyance of
the public andthe interruption of the performauce4.
Mr. Henry Swo.nhorough, the brother of the fair
lessee, deposed that the defendants managed to get
into the pit in a state of intoxication which was not
observed by the checktaker in the crowd. During
the performance they commenced shouting and
tossing up hats, to the extreme annoyance of the
visitors to the-theatre. Tile officers in attendance
quietly remonstrated with them, but ineffectually,
and at length it was found necessary to give them
in charge. He (Mr. Swanborough) had no wish to
press the charge against these young men, He only
wanted them to understand that they could not
conduct themselves disorderly at his sister's theatre