The Old Bailey Sessions commenced on Thursday, with a list
of only 180 prisoners—viz. 153 for Middlesex and 27 for London. This is the lowest calendar that has been known at the January Sessions for many years.
H. Larby, a cab-driver, was found guilty of robbing W. A. Roberts of 2501. 10s. The prosecutor was clerk to Mr. Onnage, and took a cab on the 10th of December, driving about from one in the morning till four, and stopping to drink at various public-houses. The prisoner demanded more than his fare, and prosecutor gave him in custody; but on their return from the Stationhouse (where they had arranged matters), prisoner tried to trip him up, when his coat burst open, and a quantity of money fell to the ground, which the prisoner picked up, and ran off with.
M. Grady, salesman in Covent Garden Market, tried for a rape on Elizabeth Green, his servant, aged fifteen, was acquitted of the capital offence, but was ordered to be detained for the misdemeanour.
The trial of the prisoners for the murder at Enfield Chase, of which the full particulars were stated in last week's Spectator' took place yesterday. William Johnson and Samuel Fare were charged, the
former with the murder of Benjamin Danby, son of the late Mr. Denby of the Temple, and the latter with being an accessary before the fact. The boy Cooper was admitted as a witness for the prosecution. The trial occupied the whole of the day, during which the Court was much crowded. As there was no evidence to im- plicate Fare in the charge of murder, he was acquitted of that charge, and taken from the bar. The Jury, after two hours' deliberation, found Johnson guilty ; and the Recorder passed sentence of death upon him, ordering him to be executed on Monday.
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