The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-24 00:00:00

'the jury, after a very short deliberation, returned
a verdict of guilty.
Judgment was respited, and the Court made an
order that the defendant might be at large pending
the decree of the Court of Appeal, upon his enter-
ing into a personal recognisance in £3OO, and find-
ing sureties in £l5O each, to appear and receive
judgment if ho should be required to do so.
An application was made to the Court to'reduce
the amount of the bail, but it was refused.
This case concluded the business of the session,
and the Court adjourned to Monday, Oct. 25.

21IIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Sept. 23.

(Before Mr. Creasy.)

The bail cases were taken to-day.
Henry Waller was indicted for having assaulted
Ellen Bradbury, the wife of James Bradbury, 5,
New Peter-street, Westminster. The parties lived
in the house, and there was contradictorvevidence.
There had been a quarrel between the prisoner's
wife and the prosecutrix.

The jury found the prisoner not guilty.
Mr. Hawthorne was for th© prosecution ; Mr.
Ribton defended.

Robert Downs, convicted of feloniously receiving
articles stolen by female shoplifters, his associates,
and disposing of them, was brought up, and son-
tenced to three years' penal servitude.
Frederick Leach, journeyman baker, convicted of
embezzlement, after a previous conviction, was
brought up for judgment.
The learned Judge said the ordinary rule in such
a case as this would be to pass a sentence of penal
servitude ; but, in consequence of representations
which had been made respecting the prisoner, the
attention of the medical officers of the prison had
been called to him, and, acting upon information
received from them, he should desist from passing
a sentence of that sort. At the same time, he had
to observe that he had received letters and docu-
ments respecting this case from persons, what or
whoever they might be, who clearly little under-
stood the position of ono filling a judicial
situation; and such a course as they had
adopted was an error against propriety and good
sense. He had an anxious and serious duty to per-
form in discriminating the sentences to be passed
upon persons convicted of crime, and utterly disre-
garding the communications he had received, but
acting upon the information he had received from
the medical officer of the gaol, and careful consi-
deration of the circumstances of the case, he should
sentence the prisoner to 12 months' hard labour.
It was not only indecorous, but highly improper
for persons to address communications to a judge
upon a matter of which he had to form an opinion
upon the circumstances, publicly and openly inves-
tigated before him, and for the sake of decency he
hoped it would not be repeated.
Elijah Cattlin, 19, a footman, who was convicted
On his own confession of stealing three bottles of
wine, was brought up for judgment.
The learned Judge said it appeared the prisoner
had been in the habit of robbing his master, a gen-
tleman living at Highgate, by making use of false
keys. It was a very bad case indeed, bat the prose-
cutor had kindly and most eatnestly recommended
him to mercy, on account of which he should pass
upon him a sentence of eight months' hard labour.
An application was Made to the Court for an
order of restitution of some wood which had been
stolen by a man named Box, convicted last session.
The assistant-judge ordered at the time that it was
to be restored, but two persons to whom portions
had been sold now attended, and said they bought
the wood for what it was worth, and had it worked
up in trade, and could not therefore give it back.
The learned Judge said they had been directed to
give up the property and had not done so. They
could have given the value of it to the poor man
who had been robbed of it, but instead they chose
to set their own opinions and notions against the
lawof the land. They would find thrt too strong
for them. He should not make an impera-
tive and immediate order, as the matter was
originally before Mr. Bodkin, the Assistant-Judge,
who would be here next sessions, but he should ad-
vii.e them to give to the prosecutor the value of
the property of which he had been robbed, and they
had received, before next session, or they might find
that the Court was not. only not to be set at defiance,
but that it had ample power to enforce its order, and
further to direct a prosecution for retarding the due
administration of justice.
(Before Mr. Payne.)
Patrick Farrell, late a policeman of the S
No. 366, surrendered to take his trial upon an in-
dictment for an assault upon Susannah, the wife of
Henry Jenkins, a lamplighter, living at 17, John-
strest, Portland-town.
Mr. Lowrance was counsel for the prisoner, and
said the circumstances of this' case were of a some-
what extraordinary character. The prisoner was on
the beat where the prosecutrix lived, and had been
in the habit of calling her husband up at early hours
of the morning, as he had to put lamps out for the
Imperial Gas Company ; for that he was paid 9d.
a-week. One morning he called him up at about
half-past three, and he went on his rounds. Mrs.
Jenkins remained in bed after her husband had gone
out, and dropped off to sleep. To her astonishment
she was awoke by the head of a strange man being
placed on her breast and the word " Iolloa!" being
said to her in a very soft and whispering manner.
She looked, and, finding it was not her husband,
screamed out, and the prisoner (for he it was) ran
out of the room. He had his uniform clothes on,
and the bed clothes were not disturbed; he was
lying on the outside. He got away for the moment,
but an alarm was given, and he was brought back,
singularly enough, by the husband, who had been
informed of the circumstance by a lodger in the
Who had gone in pursuit.
Mr. Rihtos, who appeared as counsel for the pri-
soner, said he could not resist a verdict of common
' assaul., and to that charge the prisoner, by his ad-
vice, would plead guilty. At the same time he had
to say that there was not the slightest imputation
upon Mrs. Jenkins, \vim, there was no doubt, was
a highly respectable moral woman, and the prisoner
offered his humble apologies to her for an insult he
had undoubtedly. though unintentionally, put upon
her. The real circumstances were these :—The
prisoner, while on the beat, had formed an ac-
quaintance with a woman who lived in this house,
and used to visit her on terms of intimacy. She