25 OCTOBER 1957, Page 19

i§pectator

OCTOBER 27, 1832

FIVE persons were tried at the Middlesex Sessions, on Saturday last, for theft. The united value of the articles charged as stolen amounted to 5s. 71d. Most of the prisoners had been in gaol for eighty days! Two of the jurors, in acquitting two of the prisoners —a man for stealing a paving-stone, and a child under ten years of age for stealing some toys— declared that the articles, trifling as their value was, had been rated at twice as much as they were worth!