The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-06 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, March 5.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge.)
The March general session commenced this morn-
ing, at the Court-house, Clerkenwell. There were
eighty-two prisoners for trial, of whom eighty were
indicted f felony., and two for misdemeanour.

The Learned JUDGE briefly addreed the grand
jury upon the nature of the duties they haul to
perform.

TLIE CHRISTCHURCH SAVINGS BANK-DODSWORTII

AND ANOTHER. V. HINDE.

In this case, which wasa petition by two of the
trustees against the actuary of the Christchurch
Savings'
Bank, Regent's-park, to compel him to de-
liver up certain moneys and effects, pursuant to an
order made upon him to that effect,
Tce Learned JUDGE, at the sitting of the Court,
made the following order, by consent of the parties!
—" That the sum of 238/., paid into court by the
sail IT Pdly Uncle, the respondent, be forth‘lith
paid over to the pttitioners, Wallow podsworth And

William Fox, trustees of the said savings' bank, and
that the ten books deposited in court be delivered to
the said petitioners, the said petitioners g'.ving proper
receipts for the same ; that the said Henry Pay
Hinde be allowed ten days from the date of this order
to send in a list of the allowances claimed by him out
of the sum so paid over; that the trustees do take the
same into consideration, and make such allowances
therein as shall be just; that their decision thereupon
shall be final and binding upon all parties concerned ;
that the said Henry Pelly Hinde and sureties shall
be discharged from all liabilities whatsoever in respect
of the said savings bank ; that no proceedings:what-
ever shall be taken upon the bond now in the custody
of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt ; that proper application shall be made
for the same pursuant to the statute ; and that the
same, when delivered, shall be forthwith cancelled."
The Learned JUDGE said this termination had been
come to in a very kindly manner by the parties, and
would, he had no doubt, prove quite satisfactory.
William Pike was indicted for having stolen a
watch, value 31., the property of Lewis Jackson
Randall, from his person.
Mr. O'Brien appeared for the prisoner.
The prosecutor stated that he was an appraiser, re-
siding at 18ie Cambridge-road. On the 27th of
February he was in Ling- alley, where a great num-
ber of persons were assembled, and he was assisting
an officer to take a woman to the station-house, when
he observed the prisoner lift up the tail of his coat,
and on his turning round to see whet he was after, he
received from a companion of the prisoner's a violent
blow on the mouth, and at the same moment the
prisoner broke his watch from off the guard-chain,
and he had not seen it since. _ _

In cross-examination it was elicited that the prisoner
lived at No. 7, King's-head-court, Long-alley, and
on the day in question the prosecutor had executed a
distress warrant in his house, in the course of which
proceeding the prisoner hai threatened him with legal
proceedings. The woman who was being taken to
the station house was a relative of the prisonertf, and
had been given into custody by the prosecutor for an
assault.
The prosecutor was here seized with a violent fit,
and he fell heavily backward?. He was caught by
one of the officers, and was carried out of the court in
a state of insensibility.
The Learned JUDGE said he felt some reluctance
in saying what view he took of this cage. It was
very remarkable that when before the magistrate, the
prosecutor, according to the depositions, kept back
what now appeared to be the real facts cif the case.
He said simply that the prisoner robbed him of his
watch, as he was assisting a policeman to take a wo-
man to the station-house. He said nothing about
having himself given her into custody, or about having
been threatened with an action by the prisoner about
the levying of the distress—he said nothing of the
woman being related to the prisoner—and it was
really s'range that the prosecutor was silent upon all
these points.. He recommended the jury to acquit
the prisoner. '
The jury returned a verdict of Not guilty.
Thomas Jones, 15, was convicted of stealing 22
printed books.
The LEARNED JUDGE said the case was one of the
illustrations of the evils arising from the system of
summary convictions. Since February, 1i49, this
lad had been convicted summarily no less than six
times, and on three of these occasions he had been
whipped. It was lamentable that these things re-
sulted from a system which it was supposed would
put an end to juvenile delinquency, but the real
effect of which was to give every boy who
came under their operation a thorough prison edu-
cation.

The prisoner was sentenced to six months' hard
labour.

THE ARGYLE ROOMS.

In the course of the dly, a writ of certiorari was
served upon the Deputy Clerk of the Peace, Mr. A.
G. Maude, for the removal of the proceedings against
the proprietors of the Argyle R )onas from this court
to the Old Bailey.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTEI?.

Joseph Crouch, a private in the 21 battalion of
Grenadier Guards, but who wore the dress of a livery
servant, and was suited to he coachman to Captain
%Vest, one of the officers of the regiment, was charged
with feloniously assaulting John Jacob Walbrook,
in Sloane-Street, Chelsea, and robbing him.
The main features of the case are briefly these.
The prosecutor, a whipmaker, living at Knights-
bridge, who was intoxicated at the time of the rob-
bery, but declared that he had a perfect recollection
of all the circumstances attending it, and whose evi-
dence was confirmed in the most material parts by a
police-constable, was making the best of his way up
Sloane-street, at about a quarter-past twelve on the
previous night, when the prisoner came up to him,
and, thrusting his hands in hispockets,took from them
some money, in large silver—a crown, as well as he
could reckon. Prosecutor struggled, when prisoner
struck him a violent blow on the face, which severely
blackened his eye, and felled him to the ground, and
then ran off. Hargrave, 62 B, who had from the
other side of the street observed the prosecutor and
prisoner standing together, and saw the prisoner
either push or hit the prosecutor, and the latter fill,
followed the accused, who was known to him, and
asked him what he had been at, to which the prisoner
replied, " It's all right." The constable said he did
not know that, and requested the prisoner to stop, but
he excused himself by saying that he could not, as
he was in haste to get the carriage ready. The officer,
knowing the prisoner was the servant of Captain West,
allowed him to go on, but immediately returned him-
self to the prosecutor, who was then bleeding profusely
from the nose, and endeavouring to get up from
the ground, and ih consequence of his stating
that he had been robbed, the constable immediately
went to the Captain's stable in quest of the prisoner.
After knocking there fur some time, the accused in-
quired from within what he wanted, adding that he
should not open the door, unless he told him. The
constable then said that the man he (prisoner) had
knocked down in Sloane-street, accused him cf
having robbed him of five shillings; when prisoner
replied, " It's only one, take it, and make it all right
with him, fir I'm getting the carriage ready, as I
am ordered at half-past one." Prisoner then opened
the stable door only just wide enough to pass his arm
out, with the shilling in his hand, but the constable
placed his foot in the opening, and after some diffi-
culty succeeded in dragging the prisoner out, when he
used every persuasion to induce the officer to let him
go,
which he of course refused to do. Two half-
crowns were found upon the prisoner, who said he
had been drinking with the prosecutor, which the
latter, however, most positively denied, declaring
that be never saw him until he attacked him in the
street and robbed him.

The prisoner, upon being asked if he wished to
say anything, replied : I didn't rob the man. He
asked me if I was going to Pimlico, and said he'd give
me a shilling to see him there. He said I'd robbed
him. I said I hadn't. Tnen he pushed me, and I
pushed him, and he fell.
Mr. BRODERIP committed the prisoner for trial at
the Central Criminal Court.
LAM!)! TH.

Mr. Douglas Biggar, a manufacturing chemist, re.
siding in Aldersgate. street, appeared before Mr.
Norton, on a summons, charging him with having
refused to deliver up to the proper officer a ticket re-
ceived by him, at the termination of his journey on
the South-Westera R tilvvay, and for which offence
he bad, by the bye-lows of the company, rendered
himself liable to a penalty of 40s.
Mr. Young, the superintendent of the traffic de-
partment, and Mr. F. Godson, the superintendent of the
Waterloo station, attended to support the complaint,
and in reply to the charge, the defendant admitted
having refused to deliver up the ticket ; but said he
did so on principle, and to give him an opportunity
of making a complaint, which he should presently
urge.
John Smythe, a ticket collector in the employment
of the South-Western Railway Company, at the
Waterloo station, deposed, that on the evening of
Sunday week, at twenty minutes to eight o'clock, a
Windsor train arrived at the platform. The de-
fendant was a passenger by that train, and in a
first-class carriage, and be (witness) asked
him in the usual way for his ticket. He
refused to give up the ticket, saying he had
paid for first-class accommodation, and that the
servants of the company had put in persons of the
second-class, who could not afford to pay the first-
class fare. He (witness) believed that four second-
class passengers had been put into a first-class car-
riage, in which the defendant was, at Wandsworth
station ; but this was done from a want of room in
the second-class carriages. The parties were per-
fectly respectable. They were two ladies and two
gentlemen.

Mr. NORTON —The travelling by a first or second
class is no test o
shld think respectability.
Certainlyonuot, sir.
N not. I understand,
indeed I know it, that many of the attendants at court
travel to and from Windsor by second-class carriages.
iVitness, in continuation, said that on the defendant
peremptorily refusing to deliver up the ticket, he told
him he must accompany him before Mr. Godson, his
superintendent, and the defendant did so. When be-
fore Mr. Godson, the defendant said that lie had been
greatly annoyed by the company, and that he should
annoy them, and again refused to give up the ticke.
Mr. W. Prederi,le Godson, superintendent at the
Waterloo station o the South-Western Ittilway, ex-
plained to the mac strate that it was only on a Sunday
evening, when it vs •as difficult to calculate upon the
number of passengers returning by any one train,
that a want of sufficient room could occur, that
second-class pass, angers were put into the first.
the present instano.l it was done by the station-master
Wandsworth; 4.4 ther than keep parties Waiting,