Star. — London, England, 1802-09-20 00:00:00

OLD BALLET. On Satorday fizteen prifoners were tried, four of whom were capitally conviEted, via : Milian Totter, for being found at lam?, he having been found guilty of felony in Auguft floc), at the affixes for the county of Cambridge, and fentenced to (even years tranfpnrtation. The record of the prifoner's convidion_was put in and read.--John Ray, Police Officer, apprehended the prifoner for no other offence but being at large. Mr. Parker, a Furnithing Ironmonger in St. George's in the Lill, gave the prifoner a mot excellent chandler. He had entrufted him at va rious times to collet money, and in general placed the moil implicit confidence in his integrity. —The Jury found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy, on account of his gaud behaviour ince he has been at large. Demi: Burl, for atlanhing Edward Wan on the zd of Auguß laft, and robbing him of four half guineas and two (even (billing pieces. The profecntor lodged in a houfe in Welimin fler, and on the zd of Augutt he went out between five and fix o'clock in the morning ti his work— lie returned foon after, being very unwell, atten ded by the prifoner. He went up flair: in order to lie down, on his bed, and the prifoner accom panied him. When in the profecutor's room, the prifoner atked him to lend him a (even piece, which the profecutor refufed to do. The prifoner then Paid he would either have the money or his life, and immediately knocked the profe cutor down, rifled his pockets, and made his efcape with the fun charged in the indiament.— The prifoner was fecured the fame day. and the eonftable who took him produced in Quirt a part of the money found upon him; and alto a bag, in which it had been wrapped up. The pro. fecutor (wore pofitively to the hag, and the Jury, withnut hefitation, found the prifoner Guilty-- Death. Ye/maw Brady, for privately (haling from the perfon of Wm. Fletcher nine :I. Bank of Eng, land Notes, hi% property. It appeared that the profecutor lived in Chancery-lane, and having come borne one evening after the family were gone bed, white be was Rending at the door, he was' accofted by the prifoner who Aced him to go with her,,_and the would provide him with a lodging a' alluring him at the Came time that the was cham bermaid at the French Horn Tavern in Holborn. The profecutor liftened to her, and went to the above*Hotel, where he Dept with her all night. When he awoke in the morning, he found his amicable bedfellow had decamped with his pro. Len". He inunediarely made enquiry of the dlady, a purfuit was entered on, and the psi- Caner taken, with part of the property in her pof *Mon.—Guilty—Death. iFalter &sad, for a highway robbery, committed on the oh of Auguft lath. The profeeutor, the Rev. John Wight Wickes, Domeftic Chaplain to His Royal Highnefs the Barite of Clarence, related, upon oath, the follow lag circumftinees of the prifnner's crime :—On the 9th of Auguft late, Mt. Wickes • dined at the bode of a friend, in Somerfet.ftrect, Portman. Amin. He walked in the evening, towards No. so, Atkins's row, Bayfwatcr, where he has his ordinary refidence ; in company with Mifs Rofa Lennard, a young lady, who was of the party in which he dined. At a place. where the road makes air angular turn, near the font of Craven-hill, two men feddenly ruched out upon him; and while one of them puthed him with violence from the footpath upon the road, 'the Other fnatched at his watch. A link in the watch chain broke ; and the robber, a tall man, efeaped over the hedge with the watch• key, a part of the chain, and two teals, which were appended to it. The other, who was thou in *attire, pulled out a pillol, and prefented it. His tonspanion, in his efcape, called; " D—n him, !hoot bimr' He who held the piftol, cried out, I'll do - for him !" —Mr. Wickes exclaimed, Thieves, the thief !"—That inftant, two Gen tlemen, whom Mr. Wickes and Mifs Leonard had but three or four minutes before met, returning, feized the perfon who had prefented the piliol, the &oiler of the two robbers. !sir. Wickes related to them rho(' particulars of the attack and mbbe ey, which the Gentlemen bad not themfelves feen. The piftol was not then in die prifoner's hands; nor could it be found by any fearch which it was at that time convenient to make. While Mr.Wickes conduaed Mifs Lennard, who was greatly ter rified, to her place of refidence, the two gentlemen above-mentioned, with Tome other perfons who had come up, carried the man whom they had seised, and who was the prifoner at the bar, to the Black Lion Public-bode near. There Mt. Wickes foon after joined them. Though the pißol had not been found, and though no other perfon but Mr. Wickes had feen it in the prifoner's !lands, he, how ever, remained confident that he had not, in this cafe, miftaken any other appearance for that of a piRoL He defcribed it as being an old-falltioned pillol, with a dark brown Rock, and a barrel much refembling the nozzle of a common pair of bel lows. The prifoner was (earthed in Mr. Wickes's ?Terence, and a knife, a ball, and a letter, were found in his pockets. Hp was then committed to the charge of one of the Bow -greet officers. Mifs Rofa Leonard identified the prifoner, and confirmed the above evidence. Mr. Joreph Latham, walking in company with his friend, Mr. Sherwin, en the evening of the 9th of Antal laft, from Mr. Latham's tefidence near Bayfivater, towards London, met, at a turn of the road near Craven-hill, with two men, who ran up firaight againft them, as if with a purple to attack them. Mr. Latham, tieing their ap proach, could not but fnfpeEt that they meditated robbery, and therefore railed a ftaff which he had in his hand, and which he now exhibited at the bar, in an attitude of defence. The two men, the objets of this fufpicion, were the prifoners at the bar, and another man considerably taller. They palled Mr. Latham and his friend without accuti mg, dr offering to injure them. They had not paled twenty paces farther, when they beard the cape bitond the hedge, heard the prifoner cry out' 16 Here he goes!" " and. you ftiall go ton!" cried ' Mr. Lath2m,.feizing him. Mr. Latham, being confiderably ftronger, grafped him hard,and lhook him two or three times with f u me violence. The robber intreated to be Tpared ; and raid, that he would go, without a ftruggle, wherever Mr. La tham pleated. Mr. L. and his friend, at Mr. Wickes 's defire, concluded the prifoner to the Black Lion. Search had been made for the piftol, which, on account of the darknefs of the evening, was not to be found. In regard to what palled frern the arrival At the Black Lion, till the deli- verance of the prifoner into the hands of the Bow. ftreet nfieer, the evidence of Mr. Latham coin. Bided entirely with that of Mr. Wickes. Mr. Sherwin gave evidence of the fame Irani. culars which were related by Mr. Latham. James Mitchell lives on Craven-hill : hearing the cry of a perfon attacked by robbers, he battened to the (pot, and found the prifoner in the cuflody of the two laft witneffes. He and John Goddard fought for the piftol feveral minutes, but without (=eels. It was then dark. He accompanied•the prifoner, with the two hat witneffes, to the Black Lion public houfe. He there heard Mr. Wickes particularly defcribe the piftol which had been prefented to his breaft. He promifed to rife next morning with the light, and renew the (earth.— With John Goddard he found the pato' in the ditch by the road fide, at a few yards from the (pot where it had been prefented againft Mr. Wickes. John Goddard confirmed this evidence. Cridland, a Police-officer, fearched the pri foner's pockets; and now produced the ball, knife, &c. which he had found an them. In the prefence of the Coust, be applied the ball to the pillol, after unfcrewing the barrel, and it was found to fit: The prifoner could offer nothing in hie defence. The Jury, without hefitation, found him Guilty. • The Rev. Mr. Wickes took occation to obferve to the Judge, that his life had been for a moment in the prifoner's hands, and had been Ipared by him; and that he, therefore, anzioufly witted that whatever mercy the nature of the cafe would al low, might be extended to the prifoner. He is a (mall (warthy man, 28 years of age. Nine were convited of felony, viz. 7. Cafp• for healing's ehaife harnefs, the property of M. Lundy ; Margaret Dough:, for healing fix pair of men's filk gloves, the property of T. Davis; 7. Emil, for haling a linen gown, the property of R. liarrifon ; 7. Burrows, for healing a waift coat; the property of T. Standard, was fined is. and difcharged ; E. Steven:, for healing +lbs. of cotton, the property of T. Bolt. Edward Foley, for robbing John Sole of his watch on the highway. The profecutor, on the t of Anglia, had been working for his matter in Wapping, and coming from his employment met two young men whom he knew, and they ad journed to a public-houfe, where they drank till three in the morning. He left them in the houfe, and in coming through Bluecoat-fields, he received a blow on the neck from the prifoner ; a fcuffie enfued, and he took him to the watch-houfe : no thing was found on she prifoner, who was then fet at liberty. The profecutor miffe d his watch, and on the following Monday he gave the number and defcription of it to feveral pawnbrokers in the neighbourhood. The prifoner offered the watch for pawn, and afited a guinea and a half upon it,' upon which he was fecurel There was a contra draion in the tehimony of the profecutor to that which be gave before the Magiftrates. On the ririt occation, he Paid that he had received a blow from the prifoner, and that be was huftled by two others at the fame time. In Court he raid he had been frock by the prifoner alone, and that there I were no other perfons prefent. This difcrepancy had weight with the Jury, who found the prifoner guilty of healing only, which did away the capi tal part of the charge. Yob: Rolf" for haling a box out of the Wandf worth Errand cart, on the 4th of Anal, while the cart was flopping at a public honk called the Flower Pot, in Threadneedle.ftreet. The box contained feveral articles of wearing apparel. The owner of the cart raid, he took op the box at an eating houfe in Neweaftle-hreet, Strand, and when he got to Threadneedle-ftreet, he left the cart for a thort time ir, the care of a boy. This boy Caw the prifoner take away the box • he followed and held him by the coat, upon wh ich the prifo ner threw away the box, and knocked the boy down into the kennel, and ran away, but was hopped by two Gentlemen at the end of Brozd- Ilreet, and taken. The boy never loft fight of him.—Guilty. jobs Allot, and John Crew/an, the former for healing a quantity of !hoes, and the latter for re ceiving them, knowing them to be !Wien. They were tried on three feparate iudidlments. Alfop had been an apprentice to Mr. White, who keeps a lhoe-warehoufe in Bilhopfgate-ftreet : and Who having miffed (hoes feveral times„furpeaed the prifoner of robbing him, and at lall detected him in the fad. The prifoner confeired his crime, and Paid he ufed to fell the !hoes at an inferior price to the prifoner Crowfon, who lived in Gub-ftreet.— In confequence of that confeffion Crowfon was taken np. Alfop was acquitted on the two firit indiaments, which charged him with healing quantities of 'hoes at two different times previous to the time he was deteded ; and con(equently Crowfon could not be convicted as a receiver of them. The third indictment was for healing, when he was caught with the (hoes in his poffeffion. Upon this he was found Guilty : and as Crowfon had not received thofe (hoes, although they might have been intended for him, he was acquitted upon the third, as well as the two former indift ments. Peter Povey for healing, on the t ft of July laft, two notes of the Bank of England, one for al. and another for il. and one Chilling and fixpence in money, the property of J. Coleman. Mr. KNAPP opened. the pleadings, and Mr. KNOW.LYS opcn:d the cafe on the part of the pro fecution. He laid, the prifoner wart indicted for a grand larceny only, and could not, therefore, reach his life, but it wail one.of the mod agrees?! the prifoner baa carried on, of phihder of the wives and other relatives of thofe whnm we ought, for our own fakes, to prate& and cherish, thofe to whom we were indebted for the prekrvation of what we polrefs, thole who had (scared us from danger, who fubdued our foes, and fprod our na tion's glory over the face of the globe. He meant our brave feamen. By Ae of Parliament, provi fion made, by with thofe brave fellows could leave behind them powers to relatives to receive a , given portion of their pay—and which they did receive upon the produaion. at the proper office, in Somerfet Houfe, of the proper document for that purpofe. The prilimer engaged himfelf in a fcheme, the purpofe of which v►as to render intl. feeual thole good provilions of the LegillAture.- -His courfe was this, to make himfelf acquainted with the perfons, chiefly women, who received mo ney in this manner, and then to get it from them by praailing tricks upon them. Among the reit, the wife of a man of the name of Coleman, who was a tailor on board his Majefty's fhip the Excellent.— She had her power to receive part of the money due to her hufband, at the office, at Somerfet- Houfe. She went there, and received of the pro per officer, Mr. Davis, the fum of 31. Is. 6d. with which the went away. When the had got to Ex eter 'Change, the prifoner came up to her, and laid to her, yout name is Coleman—You have been receiving 31. Is. 6d. at the office. Yes, that is very true, Sir, laid the. Yes, laid he, but you have 41. more due to you for prize money. I know you can neither write nor read, but you make your mark, and, therefore, you muff go to the City, or you will lofe that fum. The agent's office is in Chancery Lane, and I will go and thew it you. They went together, and when they had come to the New Church, in the Strand, he laid he had no change, but he thould be glad of a glafs of fomething to drink. They went into a houfe together, and this poor woman treated him with a glafs of : rum : , Here he gave her a great deal of excellent advice, (eying, now, when you do get all your money, don't ipend it in gin, but cloath yourfelf and your children tidily, Sm.— which the promifed to do, and thanked him for his friendthip. They then proceeded to the Baptift Head Coffee Houfe, when he Lid to her, the agent who paid you the money to day, is a very pod and excellent / man, but he is very apt to pay away bad notes : let me look at your notes, for I know he is in the habit of paying away bad notes. That was very odd, the Paid :I do not think fo. The prifoner Paid to her, ie the public houfe oppofite to you (pointing to the Bunch of Grapes over the way) is the place where you are to receive--your prize money ; look at it, and mark i:, that you may know it again ;" upon which the filly wo man turned round to - look at the houfe, but when the looked betide her for her friend and kind af fiftant, he had difappeared, upon which the made ufe of an oath and laid " the was done." Shortly afterwards the prifoner was recognized by another woman of the name of Manning, of whom he had Bolen money in much the fame manner as this.— She collared him, and would not let him go until the had affiftance, by which means he was fecured and taken to Guildhall, and after the profecutrix and others who had been the obje&s of his depre dations, had feen and (worn to him, he was com• mitted to Newgate. He thould prove this cafe, and abominable it was, although it did not reach the prifoner's life, and then the Jury would find him Guilty. This cafe was clearly proved, exaaly as opened, by the evidence of Eleanor Coleman, wh"m the prifoner robbed, and by Mrs. Manning, who ft(ipt him on a fimilar charge, and confirmed by the teftimony of John Davis, Efq. Cathier of the Pay- Office, in Somerfet Houfe, who laid, he recollefted paying Eleanor Coleman the fum of 31. Is. 61 as the had stated. With regard to the prifoner, he (aid, he' did not know that he had ever feen him before, although from what he had frequently heaid, he had often withed for a fight of him. The prifoner admitted that he had nothing to fay in his defence, and the Jury found him Guilty. Mr. KNOWLYS Paid, there were four other india ments, for fimilar offences, againft the prifoner, and he fubmitted to the Court whether he should be tried for any more of them? The Learned judge Paid that was unneciffary, and added, that he amid take care to recommend that the prifoner thould be tranfported. The profecutrix applied for the allowance of her expellees, which the Court was about to order, when the Solicitor of the Admiralty, who had hi therto fupported the profecution, Paid he thould take care to defray the expenses. Mr. Baron Hornaie laid, that the manner in which this profecution had been taken ukand fup ported, reted great honour on the Admiralty. And three were acquitted, viz. J. Cryin g and 7.4ayellisas,who was indiaed for felonioufly afrault mg, on the King's highway, on the fecond of Sep tember, Lomita Scott, putting her in fear, and tak ing from her perfon, and againft her will, a leather purfe, containing three guineas and a half, a feven chilling piece, and Tome flyer, her property. The principal Witnefs (toted, that on the above mentioned day, while driving a cart on one of the Commons in the vicinity of the Uxbridge road, he raw a man, who afterwards proved to be the Pri loner, ride up and flop a polt-chaife, which was proceeding along the road : immediately after he law a Lady's hand out of the chaife, as if delivering fomething to the Prifoner. The chaife was immedi ately turned round, and drove towards the fpot where his cart then was, and the Prifoner rode of acrofs the Common, towards the Bath road. The Ladycommunicatedfome informat . on tohim which he was prevented from relating, as it would be in admiffible evidence, but, in confequence of which, he-purfued the Prifoner, and thortly came up with him. On feeing theWitnefs approach,he drew out a piftol, which the Witnefsobferving, inftantaneoul ly rallied upon him, put the pilot afide, and pulled him off his houfe. A perfon who had jult come up to the (pot, where they were engaged, helped him to fecure the Prifoner. On fearching him, they found an oil - thin made, a marked guinea, a halkinnea, a (even Ming piece, and four ail- curing the Panne', confirmed that part of the 1,1; Witnefs's account, and added, that after fc m l i• ing and difarming him, they pinioned and cir tied him in a chaife. to Bedfont, where he w,, i duly charged before Mr. Henderfon, a Magia rate in that vicinity. _ Mt s. Scott was then called, but did not appear, nor did a perfon of the, name of Bartholomew, who was fuppoced to know fomething of the m a i n faet, that of the robbery. _ Mr. Jurlice Le BLANC, who tried the cafe, the n inquired refpeeing the recognizances and 44 dons; but being informed that none were retuntei, Lit it incumbent on him to obferve. that there w a , a great millake, or great rnifcondua, in r o , n , quarter, with refpe& to thus affair ; it was the ( 1 .;:: 1 , of Magifirates to bind over perfons to attend dr: ( 1 to return the informations. Mr. Henbury Rated, that the Lady in gnellifiti was the wife of David Scott, Efq. of Harley-'inch. His Lordihip obferved, that he was iirmining try impute blame until he knew where it could fairly be imputed. He then informed the Jury, that ran. withflanding what they had hear 4 againft the foster, they mutt neceicarily acquit him, a s t h eft was no evielence before them of any robbery b e i ng committed ; and he had to lament, that perks, whatever may be their rank in life, Ihould net come forward and at in the adminittration cf juaice. Accordingly a verdia of Not Guilty was forth. with pronounced. Thomas Batt was alfo charged with the dam of highway robbery, in forcibly taking from t h e perfon, &c. ci Richard Handicock, a gold watch and real, value 21 guineas, his property. This appeared from the flatement of the Prole tion to be a mere pickpocket manceavre ; which was played off in a crowd which had aildnbled near Sir Francis Burdett's bottle, dining the late Middlefee EleElion, on the evening of the 26tlt f‘f July. The Profecutor undoubtedly 101 l his watzh, but fo flight was the evidence afaintt the Prifener, even on the ground or his ftealtng the watch, that the jury, under the obfervations of the Learned Judge who tried the caul; found a general vettliZt of Not Cieriky. 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