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London, England, 1859-08-17 00:00:00

hard labour for a year, and then called up one of
the witnesses, a man named Hastings. He said—
This prisoner has been sentenced to a year's hard
labour for an indecent assault upon this child, and
from the depositions it appears that you witnessed
his infamous conduct on more occasions than one,
yet did not tell her parents, or give the prisoner
in charge. Your conduct has been equally infa-
mous, and I shall not allow you your expenses. Go
away, you nasty beast, you are a disgrace. The
man thei left the court without saying a word
The prosecution was by the Associate Institute for
the Protection of Females.

Ann Gillingham, 27, and Mary Ann Birkett, 27,
prostitutes, were indicted for feloniously robbing
Christopher Schreckenberg of money and bank-
notes to the amount of £lB3. Mr. Metcalfe and
Mr. Dunbar were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr.
Dickie defended Gillingham, Mr. Barry was for
the other prisoner.
The prosecutor was a retired publican, and on
the 28th of July, he was on his way to a branch
of the London and Westminster Bank to pay
some money in, when he met a woman of the
streets who had formerly been a customer at the
house he had kept, and he was induced to accom-
pany her to a public house to treat her. Her name
was Kate Sullivan, and she had with her another
female of her class. They went to another public-
house, and were joined by the prisoners, and the
prosecutor was pressed very much to go home with
them to take tea. He refused, but they managed
to get him down a court of an infamous descrip-
tion, where they pushed him about, and a handker-
chief was passed over his mouth and nostrils,imme-
diately after which he became insensible. The
suggestion was that this effect was produced by
chloroform. When he recovered consciousness he
found that he had been robbed of his money, and a
book showing an account between him and Whit-
bread, the brewer. The money consisted of
notes to the amount of £145, and about
40 sovereigns. The prisoner Birkett had boasted
that she had received £7 10s. as her share of the
gold, that she would tell all about it unless she
stood in on the notes. There was no doubt the
prisoners were two of the women in whose com-
pany the prosecutor was when he was robbed, the
others had got out of the way. The prisoners were
found guilty.
The officers of the Westminster prison asked for
a remand for sentence. The prisoners were well
known there, but as they had been so recently com-
mitted as Saturday, there had been no time to trace
out their convictions.

They were remanded accordingly.
Michael Prendergast, a well-known young thief,
was convicted upon the evidence of a lad, a shoe-
black, stationed at the Eagle, in the City-road, of
picking the pocket of a lady near the cab rank there..
Mr. Taylor prosecuted; Mr. Barry was for the
prisoner.

The shoeblack was complimented by the learned
judge for his very proper conduct, and was ordered
a reward of ss.

'flit prisoner was sentenced to four years' pena
servitude.

Rebecca Rist, 27, a woman very respectably
attired in mourning, was indicted for having stolen
a £5 note, the property of. Thomas Gifford, her
master.

She pleaded guilty.
Mr. Creasy said it appeared from the depoitions
that the prisoner was servant to the prosecutor, a
surveyor at Poplar, and stole a £5 note from his
drawer. Whether from remorse or from some other
motive he could not say, but she did take poison to
destroy herself, but without effect, and she said she
hoped to be transported, to be rid of a man named
Chapman she had lived with while in Mr. Gifford's
service, and who had told her he would do for her
if she did not commit the robbery. She seemed
very penitent. Mr. Creasy sentenced her to three
mouths' hard labour—one week solitary.
Thomas Lewis, 22, and Frances Hammond, 28,
were indicted for stealing a portemonnaie and 35
Australian sovereigns, the property of Robert Muir,
from his person, in the dwelling house of George
Nessl ey.

The prosecutor, a sailor, on being discharged from
his ship in the West India Docks, after a voyage to
the gold diggings, got drinking, and fell in com-
pany with the female prisoner, who, when he had
been sufficiently plied with drink, took him to a
coffee-house, and said he was her husband, just re-
' turned from sea, and hired a bed. Directly the pro-
secutor got into the room he fell down insensibly
drunk, and soon after the female wanted to leave,
saying she was going to fetch one of his mates, but
the master of the coffeehouse, which is called the
Indian Queen, and his manager, were•by this put
upon their guard. Seeing the male prisoner in the
street, she said he was the mate of her husband
that she wanted to send for, and they ultimately
went away. When the' prosecutor came to, he
found he had been robbed of 35 sovereigns. The
police were put upon the track of the prisoners,
who cohabited together, and in their possession
was found the portemonnaie and 22 of the sove-
reigns, others had been changed by Lewis.
The prosecutor said he knew nothing of the pri-
soners, further than being in the woman's company.
The jury found them both guilty, and the court
sentenced each to eight months' hard labour.
Charles Geitar, 19, convicted on Monday of rob-
bing his mi.-tress, Pauline Nathan, of 46, Leinster-
square, Paddington, of £2OO worth of property, was
brought up and sentenced to hard labour for 12
months.

(Before Mr. Payne.)
Patrick O'Brien, 18, was indicted for assaulting
two police-constables, Gregory, 294 D, and Young,
111 D, in the execution of their duty.
Mr. Brooke prosecuted ; Mr. Horry appeared for
the defendant.
The prosecutor Gregory was called upon to inter.
fere in a quarrel between the defendant and his
father, whom he was beating, in York-court, Mary-
lebone, when he set upon the officer and went into
a room and armed himself with an axe. He struck
at him with it, when fortunately the head came
off, and then he beat him about the head with the
handle. Next he got hold of a poker, and was
about using that when the policeman knocked him
down, and after a severe struggle he was taken to
the station-house. The other prosecutor, Young,
was also very severely assaulted on his going to
the assistance of his brother officer.
The jury found the defendant guilty, and Mr.
Payne sentenced him to 18 months' hard labour.
Caroline Rosenberg, 25, cook, was indicted for
stealing six handkerchiefs and other articles, the
property of William Meyer, her master. The pro-
secutor was gentleman rider to the Royal Family,
and resided in the Royal-mews, Arabella-row,
Pimlico, and the prisoner had been in his service
about sixteen months. On the 31st of July her
box was found packed, ready for removal, and on
being searched it was found to contain articles suffi-
cient to stock a small shop—spices, wines, German
sausages, champagne, and tea, besides a goodly
quantity of linen.
The prisoner said the greater part belonged to a
man she was going to Australia with, and who had
kept a grocery shop, the other she had had from a
family she had lived with before.
The articles, of which a large hamperfull were
produced in court, were clearly identified as the
prosecutor's property.
The prisoner wns found guilty, and
Mr. Payne having characterised the offence as a
very bad one, sentenced her to 18 months' hard
labour.

Mary Brian, a showily dressed young woman,
was indicted for unlawfully. aiding and assisting
one Mary Ann West, while in the legal custody of
Alexander Turner, a constable, on a charge of
felony, to escape from such custody. The pri-
soner, it appeared, was in custody at the • Clerken-
well Police-court, where Alexander Turner is the
gaoler, on a charge of drunkenness, and was
ordered by the magistrate to be detained until
five o'clock, and then discharged. One Mary
Ann West was in custody.in the same cell for
felony, and she and the prisoner changed clothes.
The prisoner answered to the name of West, and
was sent on remand on the charge of felony to the
House of Detention. West answered to the pri-
soner's name, and vas of course discharged at five
o'clock, and had not since been taken. When this
fraud was discovered the prisoner frankly avowed
that she did:change clothes with West to aid her to
escape, but said she did not know she Was charged
with felony.
Mr. Payne told the jury that upon the evidence,
which was not disputed, the prisoner was guilty of
an offence under the Gaol Act of 4 Geo. IV.,
a if
they were satisfied with the evidence they would
find her guilty, and he would, to ensure the con-
viction being a correct one, consult the Assistant-
Judge upon the facts and the construction of the
clause of the statute.

The jury found the prisoner guilty of providing
a disguise to enable a person charged with felony
to escape from lawful custody. Sentence was de-
ferred.