The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Now. 27.

(Before Mr. Bliss, Q.C.)
Edward Loveman, aged 53, and William Webb,
aged 40, were indicted for having stolen two Si.
notes, the property of Mary Paulina Hurry.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted ; and Mr. F. H. Lewis
for the prisoners.
The name of Mary Pauline Hurry was placed in
the first. count of the indictment, nominally, as the
prosecutrix, but the real promoters of the prosecu-
tion were the trustees of au institution called the
London Diocesan Penitentiary, of whom Sir W.
P. Wood, the Vice-Chancellor' was one. The Peni-
tentiary was at Park-house, Highgate, and Miss
Hurry was the superintendent. It appeared that
on Sept. 25 Mr. Logsdon, clerk to the institution,
received some money in notes from Twining's, and
in the course of the society's business two of them
came into the possession of Miss Hurry, who placed
them in a purse attached to a bag, which she carried
on her arm. One day she was in a conservatory ad-
joining Park-house, examining some flowers, when
she laid the bag on a stand, forgetting to take it up.
Shortly after she had left the conservatory she
missed the bag, and on going to where she left it
she found it was gone. No one could have had ac-
cess to the place but the prisoner Webb, who was
under gardener. The notes were subsequently found
in the Bank of England, and were traced from hand
to hand to the prisoner Loveman, a jobbing shoe-
maker at Highgate, who was proved to have passed
them in the presence of Webb. A great number of
witnesses were examined to complete this chain of
evidence. The notes were produded by Mr. Bailey,
of the Bank of England.
In the course of the case some remarks were made
upon the notes being cancelled or cut at the Bank,
so that the names of the persons endorsed at the back
as having paid or received them were taken out.
Mr. Bailey said if this were a fault it was that of
the public, and not of the Bank. There was a
reason for cancelling the denomination or figures
of amount, so that if persons wrote their names
at the back of the figures they were necessarily
cut out. The names should always be written on
the upper part of the back or front of the note,
and it that rule was observed the names would
never be interfered with in the cancelling.
Mr. Lewis rested the defence upon a statement
made by Loveman when he was taken into custody,
to the effect that he found the notes in Dutton's-
lane, and after keeping them some days, and being
unable to find an owner, he changed them, not at
places where he was unknown, but with persons
who were well acquainted with him. As to Webb,
he denied ever having had the notes in his posses-
sion.

Mr. Bliss summed up, and.
The jury found both prisoners guilty—Loveman
of receiving.
Mr. Bliss said there was this circumstance in
Webb's favour, that by an unfortunate accident
the notes were thrown in his way, and he gave way
to temptation ; and with respect to Loveman, then e
Was nothing to show that he had ever been engaged
in anything of the kind before, and he had known
him for more than 20 years. Ho should therefore
pass upon each of them the comparatively light
sentence of six months' hard labour.
James Hemmingway, 30, Samuel Robinson, 21,
and George Bannister, 23, were indicted for unlaw-
fully assaulting and beating Charles Taylor, a
police-constable, in the execution of his duty.
Mr. Metcalfe was instructed to prosecute by the
Solicitor to the Treasury ; Mr. Sleigh and Mr.
Lawrence were for the defendants.
The prosecutor, 349 S division, was on duty near
King's-cross on the night of the 19th, and at a late
hour the prisoners and a number of other persons
left a public-house and created some noise. The
prisoners went to the end of York-road, where they
had a quarrel about one having paid less fur beer
than the others, and on the constable interposing
to induce them to go home quietly they assaulted
him. Bannister struck him to the ground, and the
others kicked him most severely about the head
while he was down. He was picked up in a state of
insensibility and was removed to a surgeon's. He
bled profusely from a wound over the eye, and had
not been able to resume his duty.
The jury found the prisoners guilty of a common
assault, and
Mr. Bliss sentenced each of them to a month's
hard labour.

(Before Mr. Crea,sy.)
John Cole, 23, shoemaker, was indicted for un-
lawfully and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily
harm upon Charles Venn, a police-constable.
On the night of the 12th inst. the prisoner was
at the Red Lion public-house; Hare-street, Beth-
nal-green, and the landlord, seeing him go upstairs
towards the bedrooms, went after him and asked
him to go down. The prisoner said if .ihe in-
terfered with him he would cut his head open with
a stick which he was flourishing, but by a little
coaxing the landlord got him down, and then de-
sired him to leave the house. He then threatened
to gouge out his eye, and on a person standing by
endeavouring to get him out he pulled out a knife
and was within two inches of plunging it into his
stomach. After some time he was given into the
custody of a policeman, the prosecutor of this in-
dictment, but on the way to the station he was
rescued. The prosecutor chased him until he was
captured by 428 A, and on the prosecutor taking
hold of him he struck at him with a shoemaker's
knife, and cut his hand severely, disabling him
from duty. The prisoner made a desperate resist-
ance, but was ultimately got to the lock-up.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and
Mr. Creasy, after indignantly deprecating the
use of the knife, segtenced him to 18 months' bard
larbour in the House of Correction.

Eugene Riordan, convicted on Thursday of Weal-
ingsome gold, was brought up and sentenced to four
months' hard labour.

William Frost, convicted of stealing the sum of
561. in the dwelling-home of Edward Cox, his
uncle, was brought up and sentenced to 12 months'
hard labour.

John Rush, 17, was tried and found guilty of
stealing a watch from the person of George Spald-
ing, Petticoat-lane. Seven or eight summary con-
victions were proved against him, and the Court
passed a sentence of 12 months' hard labour.

- Willia►n Smith, 33, was indicted for stealing a
watch, the property of George Ware.
The *prisoner lodged in the prosecutor's house, 21,
Albert-street, Bromley, and stole a watch from the
kitchen mantel-shelf, and decamped. Re was sub-
sequently given into custody by the prosecutor's
son.

The jury found him guilty, and Mr. Creasy sen-
tenced him to eight months' hard labour.
William Johnson and Ann Lyons were indicted
for stealing the sum of 41. 10s., the moneys of
Alexander Lyons.

The prosecutor was a clothier in Old-street, St.
Lulte's. On the evening of the 10th inst. the pri-
soners went into his shop, and Johnson asked for
an Oxonian coat. The prosecutor had been serving
another customer, and bad to go to his desk for
change. While he was seeing the customer out he
heard the flap of the desk shut, and ou looking into
it he missed some gold. He immediately called his
man, and charged the prisoner with the theft ; and,
after some parleying the woman gave up 4/. lOs.
The man said to her, " It's a pity!you cannot leave
off those trick.; when you are with me." But di-
rectly afterwards he said she was an entire stranger
to him.

They were found guilty, and sentanc©d to six
months' hard labour.

Honora Neal was indicted for stealing four chairs,
the property of the Rev. F. Layton.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted ; Mr. Brooke appeared
for the prisoner.

The Prosecutor, a Catholic minister, resided in
Duncan-terrace, and the prisoner had teen in his
service. She left, and some time afterwards some
chairs were missed. Chairs resembling them were
found at her lodgings, and she was given into
custody. It was contended that the chairs were
prisoner's own property, and she was acquitted.