The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-16 00:00:00

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The sittingof the Court for the February Gene-
ral Sessions were resumed this morning at the
Guildhall, Westminster,. by adjournment from
Clerkenwell, before Mr. Bliss, Q.C-., presiding for
the Assistant-Judge, Mr. Creasy, Dr. Bateman,
Mr. Henry Warner, Mr. Goodhart, Mr. Dimsdale,
and Mr. Phillips. There were 46 prisoners for
trial--39'for felony and 7 for misdemeanour.
John Wilkins, 42, commercial traveller, was in-
dicted for feloniously embezzling various sums of
money received by hiin on account of Edward
Gaby, his master. .He pleaded guilty.
Mr. Metcalfe, fur the pe•slcutiou, said the pH-
soner ILA been fir abate, 12 ee.ers in the servic'J of.
the prcee.mtor, 'en oil and o...fourman, carryltig en
business in High-streA, Shoreditch. and had been
in the reeeipt'of 'a salary of 2201. pe-r year, with an
allowance of 20. e a7clay for eipense-. He us:al.
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make jettrilee iii variou e parts of Englaed, an' i the'
seals he had embezzled were pafd to him.= in the
erdicary -coulee of business by the
cue:oniers.
The total amount of the ,leficeilcy. in .his eecounts
;u as near 7001., arid the enibAzzlemerits eitewled
over a period of six,yeats, a discovery heti-lg.:pre-
vented by the prisoner apploptiating surne reeetiVy
received by him to wake up former_ defici4:neies,
When detection did take place the. prisoner .ve,,a in
country, and a warrant was placed in the ii+ll.fs
of inspector Blickn-11, of the G division, he traced
him from place to place ,eveci?l hundreds, of males,and at fey 11 found him the village of Wardes'y,
near S'ieffield..
Mr. Bliss sentenced the prisoner, who, seemed
to bean a preearious state of he filth, and was lean-
ing upon crutches, to be keet to hard labourfor
/5 calendar months. . • -
John Collins was indicted for having stolen 1510
of lead the property of Hold brook, his_niasfer.
He surrendered. - •
Mr. Poland appeared for the prosecution; Mr.
Metcalfe for the prisoner. -
On the 18th of December the prisoner took the
lead in question to a marine-store shop, and sold
it. He was in the service of the prosecutor, an
iron-founder, at Chelsea, at the time, and the lead,
which he so sold, was taken from the warehouse,
marks -having been placed upon it previoUely, so
that. it might •be identified. There were such
suspicions which induced the prosecutor to adopt
that course, and the r!sult was the detection of the
prisoner, who asserted when charged that the lead
was his perquisite, and the defence now set up
was that he might have taken it under that impres-
sion, however erroneous it might have been.-
The jury found the poisoner guilty, and
The learned Judge sentenced him to 4 months'
hard labour, •
John Reynolds, a respectable-looking man cur-,
rendered to take his trial on a charge of aggravated
assault upon a woman named Jane Archer,
Mr. Le Breton prosecuted ; Mr. Metcalfe and
Mr. T.- Salter were for the defence. •
This case involved:a question :of right of way,
and, with respect to the charge of assault made
against the defendant, there was perjury either on
the part of the prosecution or the defence,- for the
witnesses contradicted each other point blank. The
prosecutrix a marl led woman, lived in Grove-lane,
Stamford-hill, had made herself disagreeable to the
neighbours, one of whom was the defendant Moes,
through whose garden she claimed a right of way to
herewn. The defendant objected to her intrusion,
and on the 7th January, on her attempting to open
the gate, he prevented her, and she went to the
next house and tried to get over a fence into) the
defendant's garden. She swore that he threw her
down over the fence, threat-ned to put her down a
well, and Attempted to (1,, eo, for he seized her by
the i fight aim and left leg, and held her up over
the wdl, when his wife iuterfeied and "prevented
him. He then threw her over the fence into 'he
next garden, and, her .head c- wing into contact
with some paliugs, s'ie rt-ceived injuries from which
she had not ye& rec wered. The language, he
used was such, r6e said, that it was impossible for a
woman to repeat it, and while holding her up he
exposed her in a most slwneful manwr, h.td a

miscarriage in coniequence, and w still under medi-
cal treatmew, but no BurL,,eo.l was called althuugi-,
she produced what purpoite I to be a medic +l c.:•r-
titled; In her account cf the transaction she Was
cor, °bort ated fully by a Mrs. Compton, a besgli-
boor, who said she also had a miicarriage in con-
s4lence (Atte defendant's disgusting and -violent
iio7dtiii.-01-i-t)ie other side witnesses -vieeVailled
who denied alt. gether the truth of the evidence,
and it was contended that the defendant hal not
u4t.d any mo e force than he waq justified in doing
to keep au intruder off his propLoty, that intruder
being a per. on who had been fined and imprisoned
for other miAeondoct, and who claimed this right
of eroFsing the defendant's gat den for the mere sake
of annoyance. _

Toe jury, after a long trial found the defendant
guilty on the counts eharg:ng au assault and occa-
sioning actual bodily halm.
Mr. Bliss said it was clear that the defendant
had acted in a moment of passion in defence of his
right to protect his garden, but he had used more
force than was justifiable. He should sentence him
to the short term of one month's imprisonment.
The defendant declared his innocence emphati-
cally, but said as the jury had found him guilty he
must suffer the consequences.
John Johnson, 22, was indicted for stealing a
number of spoons in the dwelling-house of Herbert
Barnard.

Mr. Payne prosecuted ; Mr. Ribton was for the
prisoner. •
The prosecutor resides at 69, Portland-place, and
it appeared that on the 7th inst., just as the dinner-
table was laid, the prisoner called and banded two
parcels to the footman, and asked for a receipt from
-the lady they were for. The footman went to
Well his coat, and on his returning to the- passige
ha caught the prisoner leaving the dining-room
and heard the jingling of plate. He asked him -to
st.l3 back, which he did, and he then lc.cked the
door upon him and fetched the butler. The pri-
soner had replaced the plate, but al in a heap,
not as it had been laid out. The parcels were rolls
of brown paper.
The prisoner was found guilty, and ho pleaded
guilty to a former conviction. The police gave a
very bad account of him, a detective of the F divi-
sion stated that he knew him as one of the leaders
in the Notting-hill depredations which were so noto-
rious some titut. back.

Mr. Bliss sentenced him to four years' penal
servitude.

(Before Mr. Creasy.)
Oliver Rimmage, butcher's foreman, surren-
dered, and was tried upon a charge of stealing some
marked money from hiR master's till.
The jury acquitted him.
Mr. Sieigh and Mr. Orridge prosecuted ; Mr.
Ribton was for the prisoner.