The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-21 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Oct. 20.

(Before Mr. Bliss, Q. C.)

Wm. Cavanagh, 42, jeweller, was indicted for
having stolen a gold ring, the property of Thomas
Wm. Eady and another, his masters. He pleaded
Guilty.
Mr. Payne prosecuted ; Mr. F. H. Lewis ap-
peared for the prisoner.
The prosecutors are manufacturing jewellers in
Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, and the prisoner was
in their service. The case against him was that he
stole a ring from a drawer in which a fellow-work-
man kept his work, and sold it at a refiner's shop
is j erusalem-passage for Bs. 6d. The prisoner was
apprehended near his own house, 36, Augustus-
street, Cumberland-market, by Tyler, detective
officer of the G division. He was intoxicated when
taken into custody, and said he knew nothing of
the ring.

Mr. Bliss said it was a very bad case, and sen-
tenced him to six months' hard labour.
Eliza Holden, 20, pleaded Guilty of stealing in
the dwelling-house of Eliza Harding, her mistress,
two 51, notes, two sovereigns, a pencil case, &c.,
her property and money._

Mr. Bliss sentenced her to nine months' hard
labour.

Several similar cases came before the Court.
Caroline Deane was indicted for stealing a watch
from the person of James Crisp.
The prosecutor, who lives at No. 8, Wareham-
street, Hoxton, was in the company of the prisoner,
a girl of the town, at a coffee-shop in Wenlock-road,
and from something which the landlady told him
he missed his watch, which was found in the pri-
soner's possession. She alleged that he had given
it to her instead of money, and that was the defence
now set up.

The jury acluitted her.
John Williams, 24, was indicted for obtaining
goods by false pretences. There were three charges
against him.
Mr. Platt prosecuted ; Mr. Poland appeared for
the prisoner.
Tue mode of plunder adopted by the prisoner
was this :—He would go to a tradesman's shop and
order goods to be sent to the residence of some
person who he had ascertained was a customer,
then intercept the errandboy who was sent
with the articles, and obtain possession of
them by saying he was going back to fetch them,
as there had been delay in the delivery, the goods
being wanted for immediate use.
The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced
to nine mouths' hard labour.

Wm. Grant and Mary Grant, husband and wife,
were indic'ed for stealing a cash-box and 261. in
gold and silver, the property and money of E. C.
Battey, proprietor of the Duke of Cambridge beer-
shop at Hounslow. . _

flir. Atkinson prosecuted, and Mr. Payne ap-
peared for the prisoners.
The male prisoner belonged to the South Middle-
sex Militia, and one night he and his wife slept at
the prosecutor's house. A cash-box was stolen
from a bedroom, and there was suspicion that the
prisoners, or one of them, had something to do with
it, but the evidence did not amount to sufficient
proof, and they were acquitted.
Mr. Payne remarked that as the male prisoner
wore a Crimean medal it was the more unlikely that
he would commit such a theft, and as be Wa3
a volunteer for India it would be much better that
he should be acquitted and sent to use his muscle
and sinew against the miscreant Sepoys than shut
up for no good at all in a prison.
(Before Mr. Creasy.)
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Robert Baker, 44, was indicted for unlawfully
and indecently assaulting Eliza Winterfiood, with
intent, Stc.

Mr. Sleigh appeared for the prosecution.
This case was prosecuted by Mr. Vann, vestry
clerk of Shoreditch, under the direction of the
authorities of that parish, the offence with which
the prisoner was charged having been committed in
their workhouse. The prisoner was a pauper in-
mate, and was occasionally employed as a watch-
man. It appeared that the prosecutrix, a girl
about 12 years of age, whose parents live in Char-
lotte-row,
Angel-alley, Bishopsgate, committed a
petty theft and ran away, and, being too frightened
to go home, she wandered about the streets until
she was taken by a policeman to Shoreditch Work-
house for the night. The prisoner opened the ghte
and the policeman left her in his charge ;
he took her to a dark place and committed
the offence imputed to him, after which he
conducted her to a ward and left her with a nurse.
She did not then complain of what had occurred, '
because she said. the prisoner had threatened to flog
her if she did, but ou being taken home next morn-
ing, she immediately told her mother, and on being
taken back to the workhouse she singled the pri-
soner out from seven other men.
The jury found him guilty, and
_ _ _

Mr. 'Creasy sentenced him-- to ten months' bard
labour. It was a very proper case for the parish
to prosecute.
Frederick Knock, 23, sailor, was indicted for un-
lawfully and maliciously assaulting and wounding
Charles Smith.

Mr. Honey prosecuted ; Mr. Sleigh appeared for
the prisoner.

The prosecutor was a sailor, and a dispute arose
between him and the prisoner and two of the mates.
The prisoner applied a peculiar epithet to the pro•
secutor's wife, and they had a fight. While they
were preparing for a second round the prisoner ran
up to the prosecutor and stabbed him in the arm
and ran away.

The jury found him guilty, and
Mr. Crawly- sentenced him to four months' hard
lai'our.

-Wil iam Smith, 31, was indicted for unlawfully
assaulting and boating John Hewett.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted.

The prosecutor stated that he lived at 84, Drum-
mond-street, St. Pancras, and was an officer of the
Bloomsbury County Court. On the 17th inst.,
abut half-past 10 o'clock in the evening, he went
t) 21, Brill row, Somers-town, to serve the pri-
swier with a judgment summons. He Went to a
r;otu on the first floor occupied by the prisoner,
knocked, and the prisoner opened the door. He
told him.that he had to serve him with a judgment
summons at the suit of Paine, and gave him the
documen'. The prisoner sail he did not owe the
money, and that he had a good mind to throw him
down stairs. He told him not to do that, as lie
wcis only doing thit which wa3 his duty; but as he
turned to descend the staircase the prisoner pushed
him from behind and he fell down 13 stairs, injur-
ing his head and back. He bad been unable to
resume his duty in consequence, and could now
walk but at the rate of one mile an hour, whereas
before he was injured he coull walk from four
to five.

The prisoner said he did not do it wilfully.
The jury found him guilty, and
Mr. Creasy sentenced him to six months' hard
labour.

Ellen Ward, 20, was indicted for stealing four
sovereigns, the monies of Josephine Hammett, and

book and other articles, the property of Henry
and Eliza Jane Atterbury.
Mr. Sleigh (instructed by Messrs. Mullen) ap--
peared for the prosecution.
Josephine Hammett, of No. 2, Caroline-street,
Bedford-square, sta•ed that she had the care of a
house belonging to Mr. Atterbury, of No. 14, Pem-
broke-terrace, Caledonian-road, where the prisoner
was employed as a servant. A gentleman also
lolged there, but he only slept there occasionally. 1
His bedroom was on the ground floor, and no one
but the gentleman, herself, and the prisoner had
access to the rooms. On Saturday, the 12th of
September, the witness missed four sovereigns
from a drawer in her room, which had been seen
safe a short time before. On the night of the 12th
of September she west out for about two hours.
Jane Atterbury said she bad engaged the prisoner
as servant to her brother, as she represented that
she wanted to get into a place, as she had not much
money and could not afford to pay for a lodging.
She said that her mistress was out of town, or she
could have produced a good character, and, in con-
sequence, she was taken into the service without a
character.___EawardSlve-rfock of No. 3, Norfolk-place,
Lower-road, Islingt
the evening of the I°2nt.' inendraper, proved that on
h of September the prisoner
came to his shop and purchased articles to the
amount of 31.
It was farther proved that on the
prisoner being
searched at the station-house some stolen articles
were found secreted on her person.
The jury immediately found the prisoner
Mr. Sleigh said there was anotherin
indictment
ent
guilty.
against the prisoner for stealingone sovereign,
ntmL
c.
the property of Miss Atterbury, but he said he
should not proceed with it.
Mr. Creasy said the sovereigns.might have been
taken- at the same timels-the articles named in the(
first indictment, and therefore he should treat thie
as a first offence, as he found no other conviction
against her in the return before him. He theß
sentenced her to imprisonment and hard labour
for three months.
Augustus Kinlan, 30, hawker, was, indicted for
stealing two beds and other articles, value 101., the
property of Joseph Muskett Yetts and others.
It appearedirnm the evidence that the presecutoz
is a solicitor, residin
g at Homerton, and he is also
the owner of a furnished cottage adjacent to his
house, in which his
servants slept, On the night
of the 9th ins., at ~ about ten o'clock, on the
servants going to their apartments as usual fur the
night, they found that two feather beds, three 1