The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-15 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—IIay 14.

(Before the Assistant-Judge )
Robert Green, 30, was convicted of the misde-
meanor of being found in the house of Mr. James
Barber, the Rose and Crown, Isleworth, with the
intent of committing a felony, at night, and was
sentenced to 12 months' hard labour.

Mr. Besley prosecuted, Mr. Cooper defended.
The prisoner was found by Mrs. Barber on the
staircase, without shoes, and on being detected he
ran down and escaped, and threw away a number
of keys. There were two others with him ; they
stood at the bar drinking pale ale and gin-and-
water while the prisoner stole up stairs to commit
the robbery.
William Langdon, 18, was found guilty of rob-
bing a lady of her purse while she was attending
as a witness in the Divorce and Probate Court. He
was detected by Police constable Michael Giffard,
92 A, who pursued and took him in St. Margaret's
Churchyard.
The prisoner, it was proved, was one of a gang
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on that occasion. He had been sentenced to 12
months' hard labour, and had, it was stated, picked
pockets in Westminster Abbey. One of his com-
panions had been sentenced to five years' penal ser-
vitude, and his lordship said he could see no reason
to make any distinction in their punishment, and
sentenced the prisoner to the like term.
Mr. Platt prosecuted, Mr. Cooper defended.
John Kersus, 28, and Alfred Hamberger, 24,
were indicted for stealing a gold watch, value £2O,
the property of a lady named Emma Cox, from her
person.
Mr. C. Smith prosecuted. The prisoner Kersus
pleaded guilty. Hamberger was not defended 3
The prisoners, who were returned convicts, each
having had four years' penal servitude, stopped the
prosecutrix in Marylebone-road, and while asking
the way to Charing-cross, robbed her of her watch,
Hamberger desperately assaulted police-constable
Pippen, 371 A, and on a previous occasion he very
much illused the constable who took him.

The jury found Hamberger guilty, and Sergeant
Potter, 2 D, and Lockyer, of the Nouse of Correc-
tion, proved former convictions against them.
His Lordship sentenced Hamberger ,to seven,
and Kersus to five years' penal servitude.
Charles Ward, 26, Mary Ann Clarke, 18, and
Elizabeth Davis, 18, were indicted for stealing a
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and also for stealing 26 yards of print, the pro-
perty of Edward Frederick Crowe.
They pleaded guilty.
It appears that the prisoners were watched for
some time in the Edgware-road, by Sergeant Boden,
11 D, and he caught them in the act of stealing a
parcel from a linendraper's shop door. The officer
took them, and at the station the female searcher
found underneath a crinoline worn by Clarke, a roll
o' print, stolen from Mr. Crowe's, Oxford-street;
they were taken by the constable for stealing from
Mr. Beale's. Clarke was known.

The Court senter;ed her to twelve months' hard
labour, and Ward and Davis each to six months.
Thomas Williams, 48, and Jane Williams, 35,
were indicted for stealing a bed and blanket from
furnished lodgings, 18,1 Oxford street, IV hitechapel.
The woman was acquitted, the man found guilty.
Sergeant Copping, 3 IC, stated to the Court that
the prisoner had been in the habit of swindling the
public by getting sham advertisements inserted in
provincial papers for lending money in the name of
" John Smith and Son," of 5, Baker-street, Oxford-
street. It was announced that money could be ad-
vanced in amounts from £5O to £5,000, but, as a
preliminary condition, postage stamps were to be
remitted, and in many instances parties sent them,
the victims being 'Ls:Lilt not only in all parts of
England, but even in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.,
As the letters arrived at the address in Baker-street,
in which the stamps were enclosed, they were re-
directed to 181- Oxford-street, Whitechapel, where
the prisoner committed the robbery he was now
convicted of.
He denied the truth of Copping's statement, but
the officer produced the letters and papers, and said
he had been convicted of keeping an illicit still, and
sentenced to three months in September last.
The Court sentenced him to six months' hard
labour.

Frances Harvey, 50, and Sarah Slade, were in-
dicted for stealing Ili, e shirts and other articles
value £lB, the property of Henry Maconshie
mistress of the
L usigna, in his dwelling-house; and also for steal-
ing some spoons, the property of Maria Foster, the
The primers were mother and daughter, the
younger prisoner.