The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-06 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—May 5.

(Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge.)
James Edward Bell, 20, medical student, con-
victed upon his own confession, on the preceding
day, of stealing cases of surgical instruments, the
property of -various persons, was brought up and
sentenced to six months' hard labour.
Mr. Sleigh was for the prosecution, Mr. Flowers
for the prisoner.
Samuel Hulbert, a man of very respectable ap-
pearance, surrenderdd to take his trial upon an in-
dictment charging him with having, by a false pre-
tence, obtained 3s. Gd. from the Great Western
Railway Company, with intent to defraud.
Mr. Digby appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. J.
P. Doyle defended the prisoner.
This case lasted a very considerable time, and was
very complicated in its details. The prisoner was
collecting clerk to Ford and Co., carriers, and the
case for the prosecution was that he had fraudu-
lently obtained from the Great Western Railway
Company 3s. Gd., in respect of a parcel of books,
weighing over 3 cwt., forwarded from Stationers'
Hall to the Bodleian Library, at Oxford. It had been
represented that the parcel came up from Southamp-
ton, and a charge was made accordingly, instead of
as fora town collection of goods to be sent by railway.
The prisoner's employer was examined on his
behalf, and said what the prisoner had charged was
the usual rate, and was paid in by him in the usual
way. The prisoner was a man of high character,
and, if acquitted, would instantly return to his em-
ployment, which he had followed for years without
reproach.
Mr. Doyle made a long and very able address to
the jury for the
gprisonery,
suit was found uilt who, however, in the re-
The Court sentenced him to four months' hard labour.

John
Wilson,(Bself,odreescArlirb.eCdreaas y.)
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an "agent" and
Eliza Edwards, 42, a half-blind woman, were ndic ted
for stealing a copper boiler, value Bs., the property of
Richard King. They were found guilty.
Sergeant Plarvey,9 G, stated that he had known
Wilson for many years as one of a gang of thieves
and swindlers. They used to take houses and extort
money to give up possession, get loans from loan
societies upon false security, concoct frauds upon
tradesmen, and, in fact, nothing in the shape of
villany crime amiss to them. Some of the members
of the gang had been caught in transactions which
had brought them within the law, and were now
undergoing sentences of 12 or 18 months, or from
that to two years hard labour.

Mr. Creasy sentenced Edwards to four months'
hard labour, and Wilson to 12, remarking that it
was quite clear that, great rogue as the prisoner
(Wilson), upon the statement of the officer, was, he
had been. mean and cowardly enough to make use

of a poor woman, not too much gifted in intellect
to commit a theft, of which he was to have the
benefit, and she all the risk.

Mary Ann Cullum, 22, Mary Ann Mahoney, 20,
and Richard Willis, 50, were indicted for stealing
the sum of £l4 10s., a dagger, a gold watch, a gold
ring, &c., from Nicholas Correavich.
Mr. C. Smith prosecuted. Mr. Metcalfe was for
the prisoners.

TLe prosecutor was an Austrian subject, and had
been at the gold diggings in Australia. He cam°
to London in December last. It appeared that on
the 13th of April he accompanied a girl to a house
in the notorious locality called Bluegate-fields, and
while there he was robbed by the prisoners (acting
one with each other) of his watch, money, and a
large ring, made of pure Australian gold. Willie
was the keeper of the house.
The jury found all the prisoners guilty.
Mr. Creasy—This is a robbery upon a sailor in a
house of ill-fame. Upon Cullum and Mahoney, Of
whom I find nothing in the prison returns, I shall
pass the ordinary sentence of six months' hard
labour, and hope they will not come here on- any
future occasion. With respect to you, Willis, the
case is very different. You are the keeper of the
house where this foreigner was robbed ; it is such
vile wretches as you who afford the means and the
opportunity—nay, even the inducement, to these
women to rob those whom they may entice into
such dens as you have lived by and got a profit by
keeping; it is through you and such as you that
these poor. creatures, often more deserving of Byrn'
pathy and pity than reproach, are brought to the
criminal bar • and I therefere sentence you to 13e
kept in penal servitude during the term of three
years.
Wm. Talbot was indicted for stealing marked
money, the property of his master, a leather seller,
240, Whitechapel-road.
The jury found him not guilty.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Metcalfe was for
the dgence.

Mary Sullivan, 48, charwoman, was convicted of
stealing a petticoat and other articles, the proper*"
of Clara Bryant.
There was no doubt upon the evidence that the,
prisoner had been guilty of a great many thefts 81'
houses where she had been employed, and.
The learned Judge said he was satisfied that sh°,
was a systematic plunderer, as a great number 03
duplicates, relating to linen and articles of clothing'
such as a charwomanwould have an opportunitY°'
stealing, the greater part of which had been identl;
fled, were found in. her possession. He sentenced
her to six months' hard labour.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted; Mr. Cooper defended
the prisoner.
(Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C.)
Antonio Bombardini and Edward Murray vt,ere
indicted for an assault upon Mr. James Askew
Bentley, an officer to the sheriff of this county, ill
the execution of his duty.
Mr. Metcalfe was for the prosecution. 3f..1.*
Orridge defended Bombardini ; Mr. Sleigh v"'
counsel for the other defendant.
This case occupied the Court nearly all yesterdstY,'
The prosecutor went to arrest one D. Somarinl'
at the Union Hotel Cranbourn-street, Leicester:
square, at the suit of Louis Castrigue, for a debt 01
£3B 9s. 7d., accompanied by a friend, a Crime! _!!
officer, and the defendants were now prosecuted for
assaulting Bentley, and rescuing Somarini from
lawful custody.
Evidence was given on both sides.
The jury found the defendants guilty of inflicting,
actual bodily harm.
Sentence was deferred till the adjourned session,'