The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-11 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(Before the Assistant Judge.)
The grand jury having terminated their labours this morn-
ing (Wednesday), assembled in a body, before the Assistant
Judge, for the purpose of being discharged in the usual manner.
The Foreman, in strong terms, expressed for nimself and
brother jurors, their disapprobation of being compelled to at-
tend this Court, to inquire into the very trifling charges pre-
ferred against the several prisoners committed for trial, and
presented the followinglesolution confirmatory of that opinion
" The Grand Jury are of opinion that they are quite unne-
sessary in the examination of the cases that are tried before
this Court.
(Signed) " HENRY THORPE, Foreman."
A list of sixteen others followed.
The Learned ASSISTANT JUDGE expressed his concurrence
in their view of the case, and said that the subject was at pre-
sent under. the consideration of the authorities.
Mary Ann Bland, aged 20, was indicted, charged with
stealing a purse and the sum of 55., the property of Mary
Barnes, on the 27th of August.
On:the day in question the prisoner was observed by a po-
liceman to make several attempts tog pick the pockets of diffe-
rent ladies, whilst looking in throuh the windows of various
shops in the vicinity of Leicester .square. He eventually de-
tected her picking the pocket of the due alley,
who was
standing at the window of a shop in Sydney-alley, and found
the purse in her hand.
Mr. HORET defended the prisoner, and urged upon the jury
the improbability there was in the stateprisonerment
was of the poilieeman, a
when, as he would show,
.that the movng in
respectable sphere of life, and the wife of a respectable man,
who, together with the prisoner, was engaged in the theatrical
profession. The facts were, the prisoner on the day in ques-
tion was sent by her mother on business to the neighbourhood
the policeman had seen her, and had been, as well as other
ladies, looking through the shop-windows, and not out, as
stated, by the policeman, with the intention of picking pockets,
as her circumstances were such as left her far beyond a neces-
sity to resort to such means of obtaining a living. And the
very day she was taken she and her husband were to have
been on their way . to Dublin, to fulfil an engagement which
they had entered into at a theatre in that city; and had re-
cently concluded an engagement at one of the provincial
theatres, where they had been performing with considerable
MOMS.
Mks. Hall, the prisoner's mother, was then called to prove
the counsel's statement ; she deposed that her daughter had
been for some time engaged with her husband, Mr. Henry
Bland, in theatricals. Witness had sent her out on the day in
question on some business. Witness herself was a dress-
maker,ssiding in Windmill-street, Haymarket.
The jury found her Guilty.
The prisoner burst into a flood of tears, and earnestly be-
sought his Lordship not to transport her.
The JUDGE having read her a severe lecture, cautioned her
as to her future conduct ; for if she appeared in that dock
again he would certainly send her out of the country. The
sentence of the Court was, that she be imprisoned for six
months, and be kept to hard labour.
Mr. Bland, the prisoner's husband, then entered the wit-
ness box, and requested his Lordship's permission to have an
interview with his wife as he was about to proceed to Birming-
barn in the morning.
The Learned Assistant-Judge granted the application.
r Dennis Denny, 23, pleaded Guilty to an indictment, charg-
ing him with assaulting Charles Nicholas and others.
The prisoner had been a very disorderly character, and fre-
quently convicted for similar offences. 'f he present charge, it
will be remembered by our readers, occurred a short time since
in Gray's Inn-lane; it was a most ferocious assault, and the
prisoner had offered considerable resistance before he could be
secured.
The COURT sentenced him to twelve months' impi isonment
and hard labour.
Margaret Collins, 41, was indicted for stealing GO yards of
slisper, value 405., the property of Wm. Early and otters.
Mr. O'Brien defended the prisoner.
A witness was called to prove the charge, but in cross-exami.
station by the Learned Counsel, he failed in proving the exi.t•
ewe of a third partner, the goods having been laid in the indict.
spent as the property of Early and others.
Mr. O'BniEN then submitted to the Court that the pri
goner must be discharged upon the not.-formality in the in.
diettnent.—The prisoner was consequently discharged.

SURR' Y SESSIONS.
Yesterday George Paul Fill was indicted for defrauding
a
Isac Thomas P"of amouting to 2/.
'er various pretences,earman he at thesums same time 12
acting as attorney

to that Ferson.
From the evidence of the prosecutor and his wife it appeared
that their son had been in the county gaol for some weeks pre-
vious to the last Surrey assizes, on a fel•nious charge, and that
wishing to have professional assi,tance on his be halt, they em-
ployed the defendant to act, and supplied him with money to
retain Mr. Charnoek, the barrister. This occurred a few
week' previous to the assizes. On a subscqw at occasion he
proceed d to the yrosecutor's residence at Thames Ditton, and
informed him that the charge against his son had assumed a
rnore serious aspect than had been at first anticipated, and that,
in consequence, Mr. Charneek hail desired him to say that he
would require another Counsel to assist in conducting the de-
fence, as he could net possibly talk and write against three,
who had been retained for the proseewinn. The latter words
tins dereridant psrticularle aseiibed to the Learned Counsel
mentioned. Owing to such representation the defendant
received the sum of two guinees, though at the time the
pr )secutor and his wife were suff ring from great distress.
On another occasion the defendant said that he would require
OW sum of 104. 6d. for drawing up a petition to a society
lie said was established for the purpose of assisting poor
whip
arid which he was onfident would award the sum of
10/. on reeeritation of the said petition by Mr. Charr.ock. lie
m 10s. 61, under such pretence, and on
obtained ti's
seeing
the poefecast or. and his wife a few days afterwards in-
formed them tine` the application was successful, and that he
would receive the i 9/. at the termination of the trial. The
prosecutor, however, Soon found that there had been no truth
whatever in any of the defendant's statements.
Mr. eharnock, who sat in the bsrristers' box, was sworn,
and stated that he received a brief on the occasion of the last
:Surrey sessions on behalf of the prweeutor's son, with the
suet of one guinea marked on it. He tumid that the bid sent
before the grand jury was ignored, awl the matter ended so.
The brief passed through his clerk. He had no recollection of
ever seeing the defendant then at the bar at all on the subject ;
Ile c
ertainly never told him that three counsel were engreed for
the rosecution, and that he would require another gen'ileman
to assist him ; and he (Mr. Charnock ) did not believe that any
such society existed in the county as the one referred to.
The defendant addressed a few remarks to the jury, and as-
sured them that he had acted properly throughout the trans-
action.
Some witnesses vr,:!re examined, who gave him a good cha-
racter fur honesty, &c.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty, and
The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, observed that, after
receiving the proper sum for conducting the defence of the
proscutor'e son, the defendant thought proper, by gross misre-
preeentations, to exact other amounts, which he was inormed
-were actually the proceeds of the sale of the poor man's very
led. In justice to the class to which the prosecutor belonged,
as well as to the public in general, he would pass the commen-
surate sentence of twelve months' imprisonment in Brixton
douse of Correction, with hard labour.
James Douglas Gordon and Robert Owen Walton were in-
dieted for obtaining two half-sovereigns from a Mrs. Jane Cal-
vert, of Ockley, Surrey, by means of false pretences.
The case came on for hearing the previous day, when a ver-
alict of Not Guilty was returned on the indictment preferred,
dewing to some legal omission.
A second bill was sent before the grand jury, and a new in-
die tment preferred; but on the case coming on for hearing this
mot ning,
Mr. Crietteeoeie, on the part of the prisoners, submitted
that thei indictment was similsr to the one preferred on the
previous day, and, consequently, that no further proceedings
could be legally adopted against the prisoners.
Mr. WALLINGER was heard on the part of the prosecution,
and a discussion,
which last d several hours, ensued.
The COURT, however, overruled the objection.
It appeared that in August last, the prisoner Walton went
to the house of Mrs. Calvert, and being then dressed in livery,
represented ,himself to be the servant of the Hon. and Rev.
J. E. Boscawon, and produced a letter, directed to Mrs.
Calvert, which recommended a supposed object of charity to
her consideration, and which was written as if coming from
Airs. Boscawon. By means of this letter the prisoner Walton
obtained two half-sovereigns. On being taken into custody,
the livery was found in Gordon's possession, and he had also
been seen in Walton's company.
The prisoners were found Guilty, and were each sentenced
to sia months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE
IicANSION-HOUSE.

THE EXTENSIVIL DEPREDATIONS BY PoIITERS ON TWEIR
ENIPLOYERS.—Edward Brazier and Joseph Hincks, porters,
late in the employ of Messrs. Finchamand Potts, wholesale
grocers, of Martin's-lane, Cannon-street ; and Robert Way-
wood, late in the employ of Messrs. Miller and Locock, whole-
sale grocers, of Queen-street-place; and John Williams, a
retail grocer and tea-dealer of Whitmore-road, Hoxton, all of
whom were remanded from last Saturday, were all brought up
for re-examination before the Lord Mayor.
The three first-named prisoners were charged with having
jointly robbed Messrs. Fincham and Potts of a parcel contain-
ing about 161 b. of tea, and one of about !alb. Wi was
changed with receiving the same, knowing it to be stolen.
All four prisoners were formerly in the employ of Messrs.
Fincham, axe it would appear from the partial confessions of
some of the prisoners, that extensive and systematic plunder
has long been carried on, but it is only within these three weeks
that the deficiency of an unaccountable nature in the stock of
Messrs. Fincham induced the latter gentleman to consult Mr.
Inspector Waller, of the City police force, who directed
Russell and Cumbs, two of the detective, to keep a
watch on the premises ; but it was not till Friday last that
they succeeded in discovering Williams in the act of placing
the stolen property in a cart, which, with smaller parcels not
identified, as also the horse and cart, were taken possession of,
and the four prie users captured and conveyed to the police-
station.
Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, appeared on this occasion for the
prnsecution ; Mr. Humphreys, as solicitor for Brazier, Mr.
Nobler for Hincks, and Mr. Pelham, for Williams.
The whole of the evidence was read over which was taken
on the former occasion. The chief additional evidence was
given by Mr. John Potts, of the firm of Fincham and Potts.
That gentleman stated that himself, \lr. Locock, and Mr.
Young, the solicitor, went on the previous day to Giltspur-
street Compter, where Waywood, without any inducement
being held out to him, confessed that about half-past seven
o'clock on the morning of Friday last he called upon Hincks at
3les•rs Ftneham's warehouse, and asked him ( Hincks) to
se put a little up," who accordingly weighed up the large bag
of about sixteen pounds weight, which was first put in a canvas
big, and conveyed by Waywood to his own house, and there
transferred into a large paper bag belonging to his employer::,
ellessrs. Miller and Co. (This was the parcel which the
aitli-ers•saw Williams bring enclosed in a blue bag from the
dirioier, of Waywood's house, and place into his (William's)
cart, where it was afterwards seiz.A. )
After the ease had lasted several heura, the Lord Mayor re-
manded the who'e of the prisoners till Friday.
Previous to the above eases being gone into, a man named
D'tniel Cunningham was put to the liar with the above-nanied
John Williams, the former chargeilonhis employers,suspicionof sAtieeaslsirn.g.
• iveral flasks of salad oil belonging to
Pritchard, of Smithfield, and Williams was charged
_as the tee
deeiver.
The wife of Waywood, a prisoner in the above case, having
conenunit seed that Cunt, rigliarn had brought the oil to her
hens..., from %thence Williams bad taken it away; the t iliecrs
made afurther search at Willi:UPS', 5!,(,),, arid found eight flasks
of oil corresponding in number with these &scribed, f.ir which
ago invoice coul,l be predneed.
A clerk from 3,les,ri. Pri;chard's attended to itieetify the
oil, but teeth! not do so satisfactorily.
The Loon MAYOR accordingly said, that although he felt
To moral doubt on the subject, there was rot sufficient evi-
thince to' warrant the detention of Cunningham, who was con•
eequently discharged, Williams being detained on the former
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An' old man, named William Bowes, was brought before
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4,72., _..e Mr. Alderman Kelly for re-examination, charged with stealing
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Ve 11-',:'',':('''' 'Mrs Hillier, of Water-street, Blackfriars, stated that about
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