The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

WHOLESALE PLUNDER OF FURNISHED LODGINGS.—At
the Middlesex Sessions, before Mr. Payne, Deputy-assistant
judge, Emma Minney, 24, was indicted for stealing a
sealskin jacket and other articles, value £4O, the property
of Dmeille Kenlock, in a dwelling-house. A second indict.
ment charged her with obtain:ng by false pretences, from
Sarah Fisher, a basket containing a gown and other ar-
ticles, value £lO, with intent to defraud. A third indict-
ment charged her with stealing a table-cover and other
articles, value £7, the property of Alice Suffert. The
prisoner pleaded guilty to all the indictments. In the
case of Kenlock, the articles were stolen from the
room of a lodger, in the house No. 11, Westmore-
land-place, Pimlico, and consisted of a sealskin jacket,
cloaks, linen, child's clothing, .and other articles, the
sealskin jacket being alone valued at twenty--six guineas.
Tlio jacket was pawned by the prisoner at Messrs. Dobree
and A vants, 43, Drury-lane, for £l. In the case of Mrs
Fisher, the prisoner went to her house in Marchmontl
street, Brunswick-square, and said she had been sent by
Mrs. Young, the laundress, for the washing, as she was
unable to come herself, and obtained articles to the value
Of £lO. as well as the latter amount for the last week's
work, which had been left unpaid. In the case of Mrs.
Saffert, the robbery was committed in the same house as
that upon Mrs. Kenlock, from which place the prisoner
took a large number of articles, and in addition to thal
tdibea.bptit a vffiting desk with a screw-driver, and took
some small articles found thei-Vin. There was no doubt
she was led to a belief that this desk contained money, but
in that she was disappointed.—William Franklin,
20 h, said he was present at the sessions of
this court in January, 1864, when the prisoner was con-
Nficted of .robbipg children in the street of their clothes,
and sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for five years.
Mrs. Howe, warder of the House of Correction, West.
Minster, also proved two other convictions against the
prisonet—one for nine months' and one for twelve months'
imprisonment and hard labour. The judge said every
kind of punishment had failed to be a sufficient warning to
the prisoner, and the sentence upon her was that she be
kept in penal servitude for ten years.

SIR WILLIAM BODKIN.—Sir Wilbath Bcdkin, the
assistant judge at the Middlesex Sessions, has been pro-
gressing very favourably. In all probability he will be
able to attend to his duties at the Middlesex Sessions-
house early in the ensuing month.

THE SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS.—At the annual
meeting Of the Society of Engineers, Mr. Latham said he
looked upon the proposal to take the telegraphic system
under the control of the Post Office al a measure of a cen-
tralising tendency, and therefore not to be accepted with-
out the most careful consideration. He repeated the
assertion made that the success of the Germans in manu-
factures arose from their superior education. Referring to
sanitary matters, he observed that a most important
improvement that had yet to be looked after was sewer
ventilation, as it was quite clear that the volume of water
poured into a sewer always displaced an equal amount of
mephitic air. This fact had been completely overlooked
by the constructors of the old sewers, and sewers must be
constructed with the fault remedied.
Warwick Lags, entered for 30 SOYA, was sold to Captain
Reeve for siigs, after winning a Selling Chase at Reading
on Wednesday.
James Grimshaw has entered into an engagement to
ride for the French stable, and Count Lagrange has now
the first claim on his services. .

A lot of Mr. Naylor's horses have arrived at E.
Weever's stables, Bourton Hill, near Moreton-in-the-
Marsh, to be trained for their engagements.
A veterinary certificate, signed by John Fryer, of Fleet_
ham, AI.R.C.V.S.L., of the age of M. A. do Montgomery's
br f La, Charautowae, 2 yrs_ old? has been lodged at the
office.