The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-17 00:00:00

MIDDLE SEX SESSIONS, Aug. 16.

(Before Mr. Creasy, at Westminster.)
The case of Richard Wilson, during the trial of
which on Monday a juror was taken ill, was taken
first this morning. The charge against him was
that he had embezzled money received by him on
account of Mr. Tite, a coal dealer, Bridge-wharf,
Cambridge-heath, to whom he was collector and
clerk, and who seemed to carry on the business of
a coal merchant on the tally system.
After the evidence had been gone into at con-
siderable length,
Mr. Orridge addressed the jury, contending that
the complicated manner in which the accounts be-
tween the prisoner and his master had been kept
made it highly probable that the errors which had
'been pointed out were accidontal and not felonious.
The jury came to the conclusion that the pri-
soner was guilty, and convicted him.
The prosecutor then stated that the deficiency in
the prisoner's accounts of money he had received
amounted to more than £lBO.
Mr. Creasy sentenced him to twelve months'
hard labour.
Noah Caulet, 22, was convicted on his own con-
fession of an indecent assault upon a girl 11 years
of age, named Ellen Ball, the daughter of parents
in whose house he lived, 1, Charlotte-terrace, Old
Ford.
Mr. Creasy sentenced the prisoner to be kept to

hard labour for a-year, and then cane/ 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 then 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 acconir
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, and 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.

Th:, prisoner was sentenced to four years' penal
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 depositions
that the prisoner was servant to the prosecutor, a
surveyor at Poplar, and stole a 45 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 net commit the robbery. She seemed
very penitent. Mr. Creasy sentenced her to three
months' 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
Nessley.
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 Geiter, 19, convicted on Monday of rob-
bing his inictress, Pauline Nathan, of 46, Leinster-
square, Paddington, of £2OO worth of property, was
l‘rought 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, wero clearly identified as the
prosecutor's property.
The prisoner Iv? s 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
feloay, to escape from such custody. The pri-
soner, it appeared, was in custody at the Cle rken-
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, arid 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 was 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., and 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.

POLICE INTELE IGENCE -Aug. 16.

ANSION-lIOUSE.—EIiza, Phillips, a girl 12
Years of age, who a few days ago was charged at
i his court with several shop robberies committed by
her within the space of about two hours, was
brought up for further examination.
The Lord 'Mayor inquired whether she had yet
given her correct address, and whether any dis-
covery had been made as to her connexions.
A respectable-looking woman stood forward, and
said the prisoner was her daughter, and had for
slme time past been so perverse and disorderly that
she could do nothing with her, On Monday week

sho sent her to a place which she had obtained for
her, but had since discovered that, although the
prisoner stayed away from home all night, she
never went near the place to which she was sent.
Lord Mayor--I don't like to send such a child to
prison, although I understand she has been there
before. But what can be done with her ? Here she
is charged with five different robberies committed on
the same morning, and it is clear to me that she
must have bad companions. Has she said anything
to you as to who those companions were ?
Mother—No; and I don't think she had any
companions.

Police-constable 667—My lord, she has told me
the names of three different girls who, she said,
were her companions ; but, from the inquiries I
have made, I find her statement is entirely false.
Tomkins, police-constable 587—1 had her in
charge on the 25th October last, when she was
sentenced at this court to two months' imprison-
ment for two different shop robberies which she
committed in Aldgate. At that time she gave the
name of Anne Thompson, but her proper name is
Louisa Hayes.
Lord Mayor—Well, she must be remanded till
Monday, and. meanwhile I will consider whether
anything can be done to save her from destruction.
William Forge, a Billingsgate fish salesman, was
summoned, upon the complaint of William Deering,
for having offered for sale fish unfit for human food.
Mr. Lenning appeared for the defendant.
Mr. Deering said—l am clerk of the market
under the Corporation, and inspector of fish under
the Commissioners of Sewers. On Saturday morn-
ing last I received a message from Mr. Tapley- to
go and inspect four pads of mackerel at his stand.
I did so, and condemned the mackerel. I was then
told there were four other pads of a similar descrip-
tion in the possession of defendant ; upon which I
inspected them, and told the defendant I condemned
them also. H esaid I knew nothing about it. As
he disputed my decision I exhibited the fish to
several salesmen, whose opinion was the same as
my own, and I seized the fish. Before I went to
defendant I had received an application to inspect
the mackerel from a man who had bought them,
and to whom Mr. Forge had refused to return the
money. I have since received a summons from the
Sheriff's Court for the value of the mackerel which
I seized.

Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—l had the fish
placed in a lock-up, but some of them had been im-
properly removed before I did so, and after I con-
demned them.

William Popple, a costermonger, deposed that he
saw four pads of mackerel at the store of defendant
one of which was open, end seemed pretty good.
He bought the four pads at ss. 6d. per pad, and re-
moved them to his barrow, but a policeman, who
came up at the time, said they smelt very badly and
refused to allow him to carry them away, upon
which witness took them back to defendant, and
demanded the return of his money.
James Bateman, for 45 years a fish dealer in Bil-
lingsgate, said he examined a mackerel, which was
taken to him by Mr. Deering on Saturday morning
and found it quite unfit for human food. It was
literally rotten, and stunk most fearfully.
Cross-examined--It was not fair to judge of a
whole pad by one mackerel ; but a bad mackerel
was not likely to be found in a pad by itself.
J. Sunshine, another fish dealer in Billingsgate,
deposed that two pads of mackerel were shown to
him by Mr. Deering, and that they were, in his
opinion, quite unfit for human food.

Lowis Laroche, for 29 years a fish dealer, gave
similar testimony ; as did also
Inspector Kilby, of the City police, who added
that so many complaints had recently been made
by the inhabitants of the neighbourhood about the
bad fish sold in Billingsgate, that the police had
been ordered to report to the Commissioner on the
subject.
Oeo. Farraw, a market labourer, deposed that he
carried the four pads of fish in question from de-
fendant's stand to the lock-up, and his coat stank so
much in consequence that he had not been able to
wear it since.

George Munday, Mansion-house officer, said some
of the fish were brought to the Mansion-house on
Saturday morning, by desire of Mr. Deering for his
inspection. They were brought into the lobby, but
the smell was so offensive that he ordered them to
be immediately cleared out, and afterwards he was
compelled to burn brown paper and sprinkle the
place with vinegar to get rid of the stench.
There were other witnesses for the complaint, but
it was thought unnecessary to call them.
Mr. Lewis, on the part of the defendant, said he
was a most respectable man, who had been in busi-
ness for 40 years, and in selling the fish had no
other object than to serve the interests of the con-
signees ; and as to the state of the fish he would
call witnesses to prove not only that they were not
bad, but that a part of them had been actually
cooked and eaten. He called

Robert Day, inspector of fish at Billingsgate
under the Fishmongers' Company for 20 years, who
said he saw the whole of the fish in question, which
were, in his belief, fit for human food, and did not
stink at all.

By the Lord Mayor—There has been no quarrel
between me and Mr. Deering, but Mr. Deering on
Saturday night told me I was unfit for my situa-
tion, and I wanted to know what made him a judge
of fish.
Lord Mayor—Why, his nose in this case, I should
think. Did you find no bad smell about them ?
Witness—None at all. I ate part of one of them.
Lord Mayor—Then you have a worse nose and a
worse stomach than I gave you credit for.
Benjamin Rangecroft had been a fish salesman
for 32 years. Saw one of the makerel in dispute,
and believed it to be quite fit for human food.
These mackerel fed close to the shore, and if they
were cut open the first day their guts would stink,
but that would not affect the other parts of the fish.
Frederick Richardson, for 24 years a fish dealer,
saw one of the fish in dispute, and believed it to be
quite fit for food.

_
Charles Smithers, for 40 years a fish dealer, saw
one of the fish referred to. It was part good and
part bad.
...

Lord Mayor—Was it such a fish as you would
send me?

Witness—No; nor any other gentleman. There
can be no denying that it was unfit to be eaten by
any one.
Mr. Lewis—l have witnesses here who did eat
some of these mackerel, and I have one of the
mackerel here, which was dried on purpose that it
might be produced in evidence.
Lord Mayor—What if you have? I could find
men who would eat anything ; and a dried mackerel
is no guide as to the state of the fish when raw.
There is no imputation on the character of the de-
fendant, who believed the fish to be good, but they
were clearly unfit for food, and he has rendered
himself liable to a penalty of £5, which, however,
I shall mitigate to 205., hoping he will be more
careful in future. ,
The fine was paid.

Eliza Barey was ciarged with stealing a florin
and other articles belonging to her master, Mr. J.
Craggs, landlord of the Green Dragon public-house,
Botolph-alley.
Mrs. Sarah Craggs said she placed a florin in the
bar till, at a time when no one else was there but
the prisoner, who was clearing up, and upon going
to the till shortly after she missed the coin. She
asked the prisoner if she knew anything about it,
and she said " No," at the same time suggesting
that if witness thought she had it she had better
search her box. Witness took her at her word ;
and although she did not find any money in the
box, she found there a pair of new kid gloves,
several new neck ribbons, and other articles, to the
value of Bs. or 10s., which were her property, and
with which the prisoner had no right to meddle.
The prisoner, however, asserted that they were her
own, and a policeman was called in, and the pri-
soner was given into his custody. Nothing was seen
of the form then, but after the prisoner was given
in charge, witness found it wrapped up in a paper,
with some other money, which had probably been
taken from the till also, and hidden under the
kitchen cloak.

Police-constable 544 said he searched the pri-
soner's boxes and found the articles alluded to by previous witness, upon which the prisoner con-
fessed that they did belong to her mistress. After
taking her to the station, witness went back to
search her room, when he found an ale bottle in
one of her drawers, and between the bed and the
mattress a bottle nearly full of gin.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was remanded
in order that she might be dealt with in petty ses-
sion.

BOW-STREET.—Catherine Hazel and Caroline
Cook, both young women, were charged with steal.
ing a purse, containing about 18s., belonging to Mrs.
Jewell, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury.

It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutrix
that she was walkino. towards Charing-cross on
Monday afternoon, when she was stopped in Great
St. Andrew-street by two young women, who asked
her the way to University. Hospital. One of them
appeared to have been crying, and after witness had
pointed out the way she asked if there was any hope
of her being admitted to the accident ward. Wit-
nevi replied that
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passed on. Observing presently that they were
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runningthe awayir previous demeanour, witness cod A vith
sus-
pected she had been robbed, and on feeling in her
pocket at once missed her purse. She consequently
followed the two females some distance till they
turned up a court, and then, seeing apolice-coi-
had passed. She had a
stable' she related what