The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The sittings of the court for the session which
commenced on the 6th inst. at Clerkenwell were
resumed yesterday morning, at the Guildhall, West-
minster, before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge ;
Mr. Creasy, Mr. Halswell, Dr. Bateman, and Mr.
Gould. There were twenty-eight additional cases
for trial, besides the bail list.

The Assistant-Judge delivered a short charge to
the grand jury. -

SUMMONING JURORS.

On the names of the persons summoned on the
traverse jury being called 'over, several excuses
were offered, the ground urged being the frequency
with which some tradesmen were required to per-
form the duty of jurors, while many of their neigh-
bours, particularly persons of wealth and station
above a tradesman, were never summoned at all, or
very.rarely. One gentleman said he had served
for six months on the annoyance jury, and not long
since was summoned to the sessions, which he
thought a great hardship upon him, while others
whom he knew were never troubled. One juryman
asked to be excused on the ground that he was
sixty-five years of age.
The Assistant-Judge said that the method of
summoning rested not with the Court, but with the
bailiff ands officers, and they no doubt did as the
law as it at present existed required, or compelled
them to do. The Court could not alter the law, it
had merely to administer it, and the persons sum-
moned as jurors must serve, although it might be,
and no doubt it vas in many instances, a hardship
upon them. With respect to the excuse frequently
put forward on the ground of age, that, in fact, was
no excuse at all. If the name remained on the jury
list, the person, whatever might be his age, was
liable to be summoned and be compelled to
serve. The fact of a person being over sixty
years of age entitled him to have his name re-
moved from the list, and the petty sessions justices
held a sitting in the last week in September
every year for the purpose of hearing such ob-
jections, and persons entitled to exemption should
attend and sec that their names are taken off.
The summoning officer to the high bailiff said
care was taken to distribute the duty fairly. They
could not avoid a few individual cases, but that
arose from the jurors having to be taken from
Westminster alone, instead of the whole county. .
Charles Mahoney, 26, was indicted for having
stolen a trunk containing wearing apparel, value
£2O, the property of John Jarritt, from the roof of
a cab, and for assaulting a police-constable,
Abraham Everest, to prevent his lawful apprehen-
sion. He pleaded guilty, and it was proved that
he had
seven years
served out a sentence of four
years' penal servitude. The mud now sentenced
him to
Mr. Salter prosecuted ; Mr. Foot appeared for
embezzling the prisoner.
William Davis, 24, was indicted for feloniously
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small sums of money,
account of Thomas Edwards,_his master.
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This charge was preferred against the prisoner
as far back as June, 1856, since which time he had
been an inmate of Hanwell Lunatic Asylum.
Having recovered, he was brought up for trial at
the last sessions, but the case Was adjourned. From
the evidence now given, it appeared that the prose-
cutor was a milkman, and the prisoner used to take
out milk. He received ready money from the cus-
tomers, and represented that credit had been given.
The prosecutor said he had no wish to press the
charge, and that a -better or more honest servant
no one could have than the prisoner ; but he got
into bad company, upon whom he spent the money
he stole, and when he was detected he went mad.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was
sentenced to two months' imprisonment.
Patrick Conway, 18, and Patrick Welsh, 31, were
indicted for unlawfully assaulting Charles Sutton,
a metropolitan police constable, in the execution of
his duty. Conway pleaded guilty ; Welsh was
found guilty. They were each sentenced to four
months hard labour.
Henry Chenu, 18, was indicted for stealing 53
yards of cloth, value £l5, the property of William
Dunn, in his dwelling-house. He pleaded guilty,
and was sentenced to four months' labour.

Robert Steward, 39, was indicted for stealing a
silver cream-jug and other articles, value £3O, the
property of James Stuart Ringer, in his dwelling-
house. He was convicted, and a. previous convic-
tion was proved: Sentenced to twelve months' hard
labour. . _ .

The grand jury ignored a bill preferred against
Charles Francis Wroe, a porter at St. 'Martin's
Workhouse, for an indecent assault upon a girl
named Barry.
(Before Mr. Creasy.)
Edward Wilson, 26, horsedealer, was indicted,
charged with stealing a horse, value £l5, the pro-
perty of William Bacon.
Mr. Doyle prosecuted ; Mr. Langford defended
the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor,
who lived at Bagshot, in the month of May, 1857,
turned out a horse,his property, upon Staines Moor,
to graze, and on the sth of October it was missed.
On Sept. 30, 1857, between six and eight o'clock
in the evening, the prisoner was met about 100
yards from Staines Moor Gate, by police-ser-
geant Atter, 27 T, with a horse, and wished him
" Good night" as he passed on. On October 5, the
sergeant received information that a horse answer-
ing the description of that the prisoner had with
him on the night in question had been stolen from
the Moor, and having made inquiries he learnt that
a similar horse was at Newbury, in Berkshire, and
communicated with Mr. Bacon, the prosecutor.
On the Bth of October, 1857, Mr. BaCon, from in-
formation that he received, went to Newbury, and
having described his horse to Superintendent
Deane, went with him to a stable and there identi-
fied the one which had been stolen from him. On
Oct. 13, Superintendent Deane, who had previously
seen the prisoner with the horse in his possession
at the Black Bear Inn-yard, at Newbury, observed
an advertisement in the Police Gazette for a horse
answering the description of the one he had seen,
and accordingly he detained the horse. On.Oet.
19 Mr. Bacon came, identified the horse, swore to
it before the Mayor of Reading, and took it away.
About Aug. 25, 1858, from information he received,
he (Mr. Deane) went to Brill, in Buckinghamshire,
and there found the prisoner in custody. When
told what he was charged with he said he knew
nothing about it, and denied having ever been at
Newbury.

Mr. Langford, for the prisoner, said he purchased
the horse at Brockley, and also set up an alibi for
him.

The jury found the prisoner guilty of receiving
the horse.

Mr. Creasy sentenced him to imprisonment and
hard labour for one year.

Junior Scvcrcl, 33; cook, was indicted for steal-
ing three forks and other articles, value 305., the
property of Philip Delrose.
Mr. Dickie prosecuted; and Mr. F. If. Lowis
defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor is the keeper of a restaurant, 48,
Leicester-squaxe, and the prisoner entered his em-
ploy as cook. He was discharged in August, and
after he was gone some knives, forks, spoons, and
linen were missed. The articles produced were his
property. These articles were found in the posses-
sion of a man named Leon, with whom they were
left by the prisoner for sale, he stating that they
belonged to him. - He knew the articles bytheir
worn appearance, and they corresponded with those
which he had now in use.
In cross-examination by Mr. H. F. Lewis the
prosecutor admitted that he had been convicted of
keeping a brothel in this court, and for which he
was imprisoned for three months. He had kept
brothels in Morris-street and in Queen-street. The
prisoner was in his service for two months, but was
discharged because his honesty was suspected. He
did not search the prisoner's boxes, although they
we:ir.eleft behind for some days after he was dis-
charged. He had never seen Leon, nor did he
know that the prisoner was about to enter into
partnership with him.
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