The Express. — 1868-01-22 (London, England)

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.  (Before Mr. s. W. Om) Louis le Rai, 34, described as a printer, wee charged with stealing four sheet., 12 handchkfs. 12 pillowcaste, and other snicks, belonging to Mr. William • Worley. Mr. Bosley prusecuted. On the night of the 10th December the primmer engaged • bed at the prioecutor's ecitleenhop, 21, Deanstreet, Soho. He left in the middle of the night, and the :telt morning the articles mentioned were missing from the kitchen, where they bad been taken to be washed. He came again about ten nights afterwards, and being recto'. mined was watched. In the middle of the night he crept stealthily downstairs, but was met by Mr. Worley. To the questionof what be was doing, he said he wished to go into the backyard. Mr. Worley said it was !tramp be should want to go out without any boots. Oh," he said, "I do not wish to disturb any one." At six o'clock he was locked into a cafes-room and a policeman was meat for, but the inspector advised Mr. Worley not to press the charge. A portion of the linen was recovered, but owing to • necessary witness not being bound over, the prisoner could not be connected with it, and the jury found a ver diet of Not Guilty. The prisoner was then tried on another Indictment, for stealing a shirt, three sheets, three handkerchiefs, one towel, and other articles, belonging to Mr. Danoocks. Mr. Bosley prosecuted. From the evidence it appeared that on the night of the 15th of December the prisoner took a bed at the rowan. tor's coffee-shop, 29, King David-lane, Shadwell. He was asked whether he would be called, and he said " No." Mr. Daneocks pseud the night on a sofa in the parlour, and was awoke at 5.30 by the prisoner entering with a lighted candle. He said it was path six, and he wanted to go. Mr. Hancock' told him the correct time, and be left. The property was missed immediately, and after the second visit of the prisoner to Mr. Worley, the prosecutor in the last came, a duplicate was found there which related to • shirt, part of the stolen property. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and sentence was postponed to allow inquiries to be made. In the course of this case Mr. Cot remarked on the careless manner in which the evidence was prepared at the metropolitan police courts in small cases, and the embrevity of the depositions. Where no counsel e had literally to fish out of the witnesses what facts were. In this prosecution it was clearly necesvary to call the pawnbroker to produce the tickets found at Mr. Worley's; but the case was sent here without that witness, and the jury very properly acquitted. It was also manifestly important to have the conversation about the prisoner going out without boota, but not a word appeared in the depoeitiona. _ .  (Before Mr. Payne, Deputy Assistant Judge.) Thomas Atherton, 40, described as a dog dealer, and John Barrett, shoemaker, were indicted " for corruptly receiving N. from John Airs Tucker, upon exeunt of aiding him to recover • Coley dog, the property of James Marquis of Graham, which bad been before then stolen." The jury.found both the prisoners Guilty. Butcher, the officer, said that Barrett bad suffered imprisonment for three years for dog stealing, and M. Lookyer, sessions ocer, said he bad known Lim ever since 1840' ffi as being • dog stealer. Atherton had only recently come into it. The judge sentenced Barrett to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 18 month, and Atherton for 12 mouths. I A man whose name we purposely omit, clerk, was indicted for stealing • gold watch, • chain, and two lockets, weans IW. Mr. Beaky prosecuted; the prisoner was undefended. The prosecutrix was the mother of the prisoner, end for some years it appears be has been forbidden her hoses in consequence of his bad conduct. In the month of Jere last, however, he managed to force his way into his mother's house, and stole a gold watch and chain, to which two lockets were attached. In cross-examination of his mother the prisoner by implication accused her of being an habitual drunkard, of getting money under false pretences, and amongst other offences of causing his father to commit suicide, to all of which charges she gave an indignant denial. The pri-1 soner's grandfather also proved that the watch and chain were safe just before the time when the prisoner entered, and that he met him dose by, and bad • conversation' with him. Notwithstanding repeated warnings from the bench, the prisoner persisted in accusing his mother of great immorality, and said she only accused him of this charge tol screen herself in the eyes of her relatives, as she had squandered the money away in drunkenness. The prisoner would persist in calling his sister into the box for the purpose of ocafirming his charges against their mother,l but she had only answered a few questions when she pre • shriek, fainted away, and was obliged to be carried oat of court, amidst the commiseration of all except the prisoner who witnessed it. Be smiled at it with the ulesest complacency. The jury found the prisoner Gaily. Mr. Begley aid it was right the court should know some. thing of the prisoner, and be could inform his lordship that he was formerly in the service of • company in London, whom he robbed of 201., for which be was tried at the Old Bailey and sentenced to • term of imprisonment. He afterwards got employment at the Electric and Internatlooel Telegraph Who*, in Dublin, and absconded with ltif. belonging to them. He was employed by the Great Northern Railway Compan and from that be was dismimed with disgrace, and ha had deserted his wife and children. The grandfather of the prisoner said that the prisemw and his wife were in the country, and on the eve of the wife's confinement flannel and other articles were seat by Ms mother to make her comfortable, but the prisoner got hold of them and pawned them, and when the infant was born the poor wife was without the most ordinary newsseries for her situation. There was not • member of the family but what be bad robbed, and more than cues had threatened to cut his mother's throat. Mr. Payne said it was no use addressing observations to such • person, whose conduct had been so bees to his mother, and the sentence upon him was that he be kept la penal servitude for 10 Tsars.