The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-08 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

A NEST OF THIEVES.— Samuel Haslem, aged 21, waiter,
James Fernley, aged 24, painter, if idiom Henry Fernley,
aged 14, labourer, George Fernley, aged 59, porter, Eliza-
beth Ann Fernley, aged 23, spinster, and Abigail de Soiza,
aged 23, spinster, were indicted, and the indictment charged
Samuel Haslem, James Fernley, and W. H. Fernley, with
breaking John Oliver, lihviesr,and
property,stealinga
od
George and Elizabeth Ann Fernley and Abigail de Soiza with
ockoinatg, into
two theboo dwelling-house
of
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feloniously receiving the same, well knowing them to have
been stolen. Another indictment charged the prisoners with
stealing and receiving one hat, two boots, three rings, one
pencil-case, and a great variety of other articles, the property
of Joseph Rawlings. The prisoners were also detained upon
two other charges of burglary, and no less than eighteen
charges of larceny.
The charge of burglary in the dwelling-house of John Oliver
was taken first, and from the evidence adduced, it appeared that
on the 29th of January the wife of the prosecutor heard a noise
up stairs, and on proceeding to the parlour she found the win-
dew open and a ladder placed against the outside of the house.
She immediately looked round the house and missed the arti-
cles named in the indictment. The prisoner resided in the
neighbourhood of Whitechapel, and subsequently to the robbery
it was discovered that the property had been pledged in that
neighbourhood. From information received from the pawn-
brokers, the prisoners were taken into custody. A quantity of
the property was found in the house of the elder prisoner.
A small house had been taken by the prisoner Haslem, and the
prisoner, Elizabeth Ann Fernley, cohabited with him. A
great number of articles were brought to the cottage by the
prisoner Haslem. The pawnbrokers with whom the articles
were pledged were put into the witness-box, but they cou.cl
not swear to the prisoner Elizabeth Ann Fernley. The articles
were pledged in the name of Bennet. The prisoner De Soiza
lived as companion to the prisoner Elizabeth Ann Fernley.
The prisoners were all taken in the same house, and the boots
named in the indictment were found on the feet of the younger
prisoner.
Several witnesses were called who gave the elder prisoner
an excellent character.
The REcoanze having summed up the evidence, the Jury
returned a verdict of Guilty against the prisoners Haslem, Eli-
zabeth Ann Fernley, and William Henry Fernley, and acquitted
the other prisoners on the ground that there was not sufficient
evidence against them.

The other charges were then gone into against the prisoners,
and the same verdicts taken.
The prisoner Haslem was then sentenced to be transported for
life, and the prisoner Elizabeth Fernley to be transported for
the term of fourteen years. The sentence on the other prisoner
was deferred.

James Gissing and Jamei Laidler were indicted for break-
ing into a warehouse, and stealing therefrom a quantity of
sacks, the property of Messrs. Richardson, hop merchants, in
the borough. On the 24th of February last the warehouse of
the prosecutors was left secure at five o'clock in the afternoon.
At about nine o'clock one of the men had occasion to go back
to the warehouse, and he then found the warehouse broken
open, and the prisoners with the sacks in their possession.
The prisoners were found guilty.
Mr. CLARKSON, who appeared for the prosecution, said
that the prisoner Gissing had twice been summarily convicted,
and, singular to relate, only a month previous to the present
transaction the prosecutor discovered the prisoner Gissing in
the act of picking his pocket.
The prisoners were then sentenced to be transported for the
term of ten years. •
Frederick Jones, a young man, who was:said to be miss re-
spectably connected pleaded Guilty to an indictment charging
him with the manslaughter of Richard Simmons a fishmonger
in Cnapel-street, Pentonville.
Mr. CLARKSON, on belief of the prisoner, said the unfortu-
nate occurrence which gave rise to the present inquiry, hap-
pened some months since, in a struggle which took place be-
tween the prisoner and the deceased, during which the latter,
not supposing at the time that
who was a very heavy man, was thrown down and several of his
ribs were broken. He was at that time in a delicate state of
health, and there could be no doubt that the accident accele-
rated his death. The prisoner's friends had given the deceased
The RECORDER, upon looking ever the depositions, said it
251. after
oldaftdertethrme
iancactiedeinnt
was a case which could not be passed over without some pu-
nishment,the property of William Salmon,
as great viOhial"e:cdueer:atephlared to have been used by the
was, that he be imprisoned,
House f
but without hard labour, in the g. Correction, for three
months, and pay a fine of 251. The Learned Judge, at the
same time, said he would give a certificate recommending the
fine to be given to the deceased's family.
John Oliviere Martin, a genteel. youth, 17
prisoner. The sentence, therefore,
years of age, was
the evidence that the '
It appeared from
for prisoner had been
' to the prosecutor about three and an apprentice years, on
1 h ult. he absconded the morning of the 10th . with another ap-
prenticehinisditactaesdtefro! stealing 3001.,
shopprosecutors had been broken open,
and the sum of iOOl. carried
at away:
two
days afterwar.is the
apprehended Portsmouth, with a prisoner was great portion
'on.
Jones and
of the moneyi phis ma°,
the
In his cross-examination prosecutor admitted that he
of the name of J
and that the
kept a " tally-shoe,". prisoner was in the habit
of collecting money, for which
occa-
sion to go to brothels, the keepers of such places being very
good customers of his : the prisoner had been in the habit
of collecting from them before he was fifteen years of age :
it was net a general practice to send the prisoner to such
houses. "
The Jury found the prisoner .
Guilty," but strongly recom-
mended him to mercy on aecount of the very improper employ-
ment assigned to him by the prosecutor..
for •
The prisoner was again indicted stealing a quantity of
linen of the value of 401., the property of
the same prosecutor,
and the Jury a second time returned a verdict of " Guilty,"
but still adhered to their former recommendation and obser-
vations.
The Recorder deferred passing sentence.