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

IAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1861.

latter was servant to the prosecutrix, and purloined
the articles which were pawned by the mother.
They were found guilty.
Mr. Cooper, who was counsel for the prosecution,
complained of the conduct of the pawnbrokers, who,
by their assistants, took in the articles, and a long
list of the pledges was read. Among them were
tickets of such a thing as a pillowcase for
and another, spoons value £4, on which £1 4s. had
been advanced.

The assistants wero called, and the Court ordered
the property to be given up to the owners, and re-
fused them their costs.

The mother was sentenced to twelve, and the
daughter to nine months' hard labour.

SECOND COURT.
(Before Mr. Payne.)
William Lister, 24, and John Edwards, 23, were
found guilty upon an indictment under Lord Camp-
bell's Act, for being found by night unlawfully in
possession of three picklock keys, eight other keys,
and a jemmy, without excuse.
The prisoners were watched on the evening of the
28th April in company of another man, from Isling-
ton to Arundel•square, where they attempted to get
into some unfinished houses. The constable who
was watching them, Stammers, 136 N, went up to
Edwards and asked him what be was loitering
about for, whereupon he fellel him to the ground
with a jemmy and severely kicked him. After a
struggle, however, he was secured: Newman, 151
N, who was also watching their movements, re-
ceived a blow also from Lister with a jemmy, which
he had concealed up the sleeve of his coat, and which
was picked up about five yards from the spot where
the prisoners were taken.

Holmes, 3 F, recognised in court the prisoner
Lister as a returned convict, and said if he was re-
manded he could give the date of his convictions.
He had known him for years.
The learned judge sentenced Lister to three years'
hard labour, and Edwards to two years.
Mr. Foot prosecuted; Mr. Cooper defended Ed-
wards, and Mr. Sleigh appeared for Lister.
Richard Marshall, 22, bootmaker, was indicted
for, and found guilty of, stealing four boots and
other articles value £lO, the property of Catherine
Griffith, in her dwelling-house, 12, Dudley-street.
The prisoner's father lodged in the prosecutrix's
house, and having committed the robbery he was
accused of, he went to Woolwich, and was taken
into custody at the Artillery Barracks, when he
voluntarily said he was guilty.
He was convicted, and had been on a former
occasion. He was sentenced to seven years' penal
servitude.

Wm. Harrington, 47, labourer, was indicted for
stealing 251bs. of lead from a building, the property
of John Winstanley.
The prisoner went to a marine store dealer's, No.
76, Wardour-street, and offered the lead for sale.
He took one piece from under his waistcoat, another
from his coat, another from his hat, and, as it had
evidently been but recently cut, the marine-store
dealer's suspicions were excited. He detained the
lead, and gave the prisoner in charge. The house
from which it had been stolen was under repair,
and though the lead, by weight, was worth only 4s.
the injury done to the cistern from which it had
been cut could not be repaired for less than £3.
The prisoner was sentenc:xl to 12 months' hard
labour.