The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Feb. 9.

(Before Mr. Pashley, Assistant-Judge, and
Mr. Hanbury, MY., at Clerkenwell.)
Charles Goerke surrendered to take his trial
upon an indictment in which he was charged with
having stolen a quantity of parasol sticks, the pro-
' perty of Simon Solomon.
The prisoner worked for the prosecutor in Wood-
street, Spitalfields, his business being that of a
parasol-stick maker, and he sold a quantity of
sticks to Mr. Pope, of Willow-walk. They were
identified as the prosecutor's property, and Mr.
Pope was in the first instance charged with the
offence, but he at once accounted for his possession,
and the prisoner was apprehended. The defence
was that the sticks were the prisoner's own, but the
jury was satisfied, upon the evidence of the prose-
cutor and the witnesses, as to the identity, and
found the prisoner guilty. He was sentenced to
• eight months' hard labour.
Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr. Beard, prose-
cuted ; Mr. Tindal Atkinson, instructed by Mr.
Wakeling, defended.
' Three women, named Julia Barry, Honora Barry,
' and Susan Hitchcock, were indicted for unlawfully
assaulting and beating William Mackey, a green-
grocer. The prosecutor was with his horse and
cart in White Hart-place, Poplar, and accidentally,
broke a clothes line, when the three prisoners at-
tacked him like furies, and beat him with bricks,
although he had previously offered to make good
the damage. They were found guilty and sentenced
to six months hard labour each.
Mr. Gent prosecuted. Mr. Metcalfe and Mr.
Barry were for the prisoners.
Ellen Beltz, 23, cook at the Cadogan Hotel,
Sloane-street, was convicted of assaulting William
Meadows, the under-waiter, at the same establish-
ment, and wounding him in the left arm with a
' knife, during a quarrel about a door being kept shut,
The prosecutor, a youth of 16, said he wished her
to be pardoned, as he knew she did not mean to
hurt him in her heart.
She was sentenced by the Court to six weeks
hard labour.
Mr. Langford prosecuted, and Mr. Barry de-
fended the prisoner.
(Before Mr. Payne.)
Elizabeth Trewby, described in the calendar as
Trenbv, 20, was indicted for receiving a gold chain,
value £3 10s., the property of Amelia Bartrup.
The prisoner incited a little girl to rob her grand-
mother of the chain, which she received, to raise
the means, as she alleged, of burying her sister.
The grandmother lived at No. 5, Culford-road, De
Beauvoir-town. The prisoner was found guilty,
and the court sentenced him to six months' hard
labour. Mr. Cooper prosecuted.
George Wilson, 30, was found guilty of stealing
a cab, the property of Alfred Budd. The defence
was that the prisoner was authorised to sell the
cab, but unfortunately lost the money. A question
arose as to the power of the court to order summary
restitution of the cab to the owner, the cab not
being in custody of the police but in the possession
of the person who bought it. Mr. Payne, after con-
sulting the Assistant-Judge, made the order for
restitution. The prisoner, who was a known offender
was sentenced to two years' hard labour. Mr. Or-
ridge prosecuted.
Jeremiah Donovan was indicted for stealing a
cash-box containing £92 in gold, £l6 in silver,
0 U's representing £5O, seven foreign coins, &c.,
the property and money of William Ricketts. He
was also charged with receiving.
The prisoner, it will be remembered, was tried
last session, at Westminster, when the jury was
discharged without a verdict, they being unable to
agree. The prosecutor was a tea-dealer in Road-
side, Whitechapel, and a lad named Weeks, who
was in his service, stole the cash-box, and he was
admitted as Queen's evidence. The testimony of a
good many witnesses went to establish prisoner's
complicity in the transaction, and the lad swore he
gave the box to him. Additional corroborative
evidence was now adduced.
Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner on the former
trial, Mr. F. H. Lewis was his counsel on the pre-
sent occasion ; Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted.
The lad Weeks was sentenced to six months' hard
labour on the previous day. The prisoner Donovan
was now found guilty, and Mr. Payne, having ob-
served that the prisoner, in his opinion, not being
more guilty than Weeks, ought not to have more
punishment, though had he incited him to commit
the offence, of which there was no evidence, he would
have been sentenced to penal servitude, directed
that he sliuum. unaci lAckrd labour.