The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—June 20.

The June adjourned Sessions commenced this
morning, at the Guildhall, Westminster, before Mr.
Bodkin, Assistant-Judge, Mr. Creasy, and Mr.
Payne, deputies, and the following bench of magis-
trates :—Mr. Pownall (chairman), Mr. N. Gould,
Mr. H. H. Harwood, Mr. T. Cotterell, Mr. Wool-
sey, Col. Wood, Baron de Bliss, Sir James Tyler,
Mr. H. White, Mr. Bashford, Mr. Hogarth, Mr.
Arthur Ballantine, and Mr. Lewis.
The calendar contains the names of 70 prisoners
for trial.

The Assistant-Judge delivered a short charge to
the grand jury.
William Stewers, 22, was indicted for stealing a
gold watch and other articles, value £lOO, the pro-
perty of Frances Susannah Parks, widow, his mis-
tress, in her dwelling-house.

He pleaded guilty.
Mr. T. Bell appeared for the prosecution.
The Assistant-Judge, having read the depositions
said it was a very bad case, one which, for the sake
of example, could not be lightly passed over. The
prisoner, it appeared, had been about 12 months in
the employment of a widow lady as a coachman, at
good wages ; and one day, having driven his mis-
tress to a party, he cunningly disarmed the watch-
fulness of a fellow-servant, and plundered the
house of this large amount of valuable property
and absconded. The prosecutrix stated that the
prisoner entered her service as a single man, and
got married clandestinely a short time before he
robbed the house. The watch was pawned in Dub-
lin, and the pawnbroker, who had acted very well
in the matter, would be reimbursed by her volun-
tarily for the amount he had advanced upon it.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced the prisoner to
three years' penal servitude.
Charles Brown, 22, was convicted of feloniously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of David
Brackenridge, and stealing therein a waistcoat, his
property.
The prisoner was a well-known offender, and
was sentenced to three years' penal servitude.
James White, 22, was convicted of stealing, with
violence, a watch, value £3, from the person of
George Nathaniel Shaylor.
Sentenced to four years penal servitude.
Charles Jackson, 21, was indicted for having
stolen half a hundred weight of rags, the property
of Joseph Gashion, rag merchant, of Brick•lane,
St. Luke's.

The jury. found him guilty.
The Assistant-Judge deferred the sentence.
Mr. F. H. Lewis was for the prosecution, Mr.
Ribton for the prisoner.
George Read and John Smith, two athletic young
fellows, belonging to the 2d battalion of Grenadier
Guards, were indicted for assaulting several police.
constables in the execution of their duty.
No counsel was instructed in the case, but the
Assistant-Judge said it was one which ought to be
prosecuted by the Crown, and directed that it
should be conducted by Mr. Lawrence.
It appeared that on the 15th inst. the prisoners
were, with two comrades, at the Laurel Tree
Public-house, in Bayham-street, Camden Town,
when in consequence of being refused a further
supply of drink, as they were then the worse for
what they had had, Smith deliberately smashed a
square of glass, for which he was given in charge.
As he was being taken to the station the other pri-
soner ran up and attempted a rescue, and a aeries
of assaults of a brutal—almost murderous descrip-
tion—were committed by them upon the constable
who had Smith in custody, and upon others who
went to his assistance. They took off their belts,
of which they no doubt would have made fearful
use, had not one of the constables fortunately got
hold of them and held them until sufficient aid
came to wrest them from the prisoners' possession.
The prisoners then fought like madmen, struck out
right and left at all that came near; and they
boasted, that as they could only have 14 days for
it, they would have it out. When at the station
Read struck the acting-sergeant a blow which
nearly broke his jaw, and the police stated that the
prisoners were the most desperate peace-breakers
they had ever had to deal with.
The sergeant of the battalion they belonged to
said they had been in the regiment about five
years, and they bore very good characters.
The prisoners, in their defence, merely: said they
were not guilty of the extreme violence imputed to
them.

The jury found them guilty, and
The Assistant-Judge, after remarking upon such
disgraceful conduct, particularly by men wearing
the Queen's uniform, sentenced Read to six and
Smith to nine mouths' hard labour.
Charles Cole, 28, was_ epnvicted of having stolen

a scarf, the property of Henry Sampson. The officer
proved a list of eight convictions against the pri-
soner. lie had been transported for seven years,
and had served several long terms of imprisonment.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to four years'
penal servitude.
(Before Mr. Payne.)
Henry Baldwin, 31, a plumber, employed at the
County Lunatic Asylum, Colney-hatch, was indicted
for having stolen 181bs. of lead, the property of his
employers;the committee of visitors of that institu-
tion.

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lio was found Guilty, and sentenced to three
months' hard labour. _ _

Mr. Way was for the prosecution ; Mr. J. P,
Doyle defended the prisoner.

SURREY SESSIONS.—June 90.

The June adjourned Sessions for the county of
Surrey commenced this morning, at the Sessions
House, Newington-causeway, before J. E. Johnson,
Esq., chairman, T. Tilson, Esq., deputy-chairman,
and a bench of magistrates. The calendar contained
the names of 47 prisoners-38 for felony and 9 for
misdemeanor.
The grand jury having been sworn, the Chairman
addressed them as to the nature of their duties,
and observed that there were two cases in the ca-
lendar that required a few remarks from him. The
first was No. 13, Jane Bailey, a young woman 19
years of age, who is charged with attempting to
kill and murder herself at Esher. It was a very
serious offence, and a high misdemeanor, therefore
they had better find the bill, and thereby send the
case into this court for thorough investigation. The
next case he wished to allude to was No. 33 on the
calendar, John Dixon, 50, for unlawfully assaulting
Harriet Russell, a child under 10 years of age, with
intent to carnally know her. Now if anything
should come before them to show that she was a
consenting party it could not be taken in the pri-
soner's favour, as the law very properly enacts that
any child under 10 years of age cannot be taken as
a consenting party in such an offence. It is a mis-
demeanor, and if they considered that a prima facie
case was niade out they must find a bill and send
that case also into court for investigation by the
petty jury. He perceived by the calendar that
there were no less than five cases of housebreaking
and attempts, which he was sorry to say had in-
creased lately in the metropolitan districts. The
bills would be presented to them in due course, and
he should advise them before they ignored any to
send into court for the original depositions taken
before the magistrate. He then dismissed them to
their room.

Robert Taylor, 40, a very respectable-looking
man, described in the calendar as a farm-bailiff,
surrendered and pleaded guilty to embezzling
various sums of money, amounting to upwards of
£lOO, the property of his employer, Mr. Edmund
Cowell Malkeon, an extensive farmer, of Godstone.
Mr. Robinson, who was retained for the prosecu-
tion, said he was instructed to recommend the pri-
soner to mercy on several grounds—his previous
good character, and the belief that the prisoner
could not withstand the temptation, he being an
illiterate man. The prosecutor believed that pri-
soner was first led into the commission of the crime
by the loose manner in which he kept his accounts.
Mr. Lilley, who appeared for the prisoner, thanked
the prosecutor for his kindness, and urged a lenient
sentence, inasmuch as he had borne a good ckarac-
ter heretofore. He had been 13 years bailiff to a
late rev. gentleinan in Suffolk, at whose decease he
was thrown out of employment for a long time. He
at last-got into the service of the prosecutor, who
left the sole management of the farm and stock in
his charge, and being unfortunately rather illite-
rate, he trusted to his wife to keep the accounts.
Unfortunately he was led into error, and was now
heartily sorry for it.
The Chairman told the prisoner that had it not
been for the recommendation of the prosecutor, the
punishment must have been very severe ; but, as his
character had been previously without blemish, the
Court thought that they might exercise a little
leniency towards him. He must be sentenced to
four months' hard labour.