Star. — London, England, 1823-10-23 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, OCTOBER 22. ."'.......-- Several prisoners were arraigned, and pleaded Not Guilty of the offences with which they were charged ; boVone, William Kitson, who was arraigned on a charge of feloniously breaking and entering a dwelling-hoose, refused to plead Unless some money, which had been taken from him by the police-officers when he was an ..., ehended, was restored to him. The RECORDER in- Harmed the poisoner, that if he persisted in refusing to mtpleed, a conviction would be recorded against him, and . .-Idieected him to be put back until the arrival of the 4eages,,Fhen he hoped that he would alter his resolu ; Mon. On the entrance of the Judges (Mr. Justice PARK end Mr. Baron - GA avow} Kitson was again placed at the bar, and being asked by Mr. Justice PARK whether he was.guilty or not guilty ? said,. as before, that he would not plead until he had got his money. Mr. Jus tice PARK explained to the prisoner, that sentence of death would be passed upon him if he obstinately re fused to plead. The prisoner then begged that he sight be allowed half an hour to deliberate upon the coarse he would adopt. Mr. Justice PARK refused the request; on the ground that he had already been advised of his error by the RECORDER. The prisoner, - it• length, pleaded Not Guilty. • '":Mn Scott, and Mary, his wife, were indicted for as saulting Joseph Gardiner on the highway, and stealing from his person a pocket, and four shillings and ten pence, his property. It appeared from the evidence, that on the evening of . the 3d of October the prosecutor met the prisoners in a pololic-house in Chelsea, and they undertook to see him horne t as he was nearly blind. Instead, however, of .t•Amg . bilis home, the prisoners took him into the Five, Eseldi, which- was out of thesdirect road. The prose , cans\ say that the prisoners were taking him a wrong rosin, and refused to go any further. The prisoners hereupon knocked him down, and the male prisoner tore off his pocket, in which was his money. The prose cutor gave an alarm, and the prisoners wete appre hended by a watchman. The pocket of the prosecu . ter, containing the money mentioned in the indictment, was found on the person of the male , prisoner. The Jury found the man Guilty of stealing from the person without violence, and Acquitted the woman. William Kitson was then put to the bar on. a charge of feloniously breaking and entering the awelling•hou se of Richard Pitt, and stealing therein two silver•watches, ten sovereigns, 365. sis half-crowns, and other property to ilarge amount. From the evidence of the prosecutor and other wit nesses, it appeared that, oq the 17th of September, the prosecutor was going up stairs in his own house, in .Thownlow-street, Drury-lane, and met the p r i soner • . coming down. The prosecutor supposed that he might have been up stairs on business to a lodger, and allowed him to pass; but when he himself got up stairs, he dis. 4 covered that his cash-chest had been broken open, and ibipioperty mentioned in the indictment stolen. He hastened down stairs, and saw the prisoner running. away : he pursued and apprehended hint. Whilst the prosecutor was conveying the prisoner to Bow -street,. Use latter threw some money away, and also a watch,'" • which the prosecutor picked up, and identified. Consias, an officer, deposed; that when the prisonerl was searched at Bow -street, ten sovereigns, a watch,, and some silver were found in his pockets, logethei with a chisel, and some skeleton keys. Upon examining Mr. Pitts cash-chest, he observed to a brother-officer, that it had been opened by a person who was skilful in his profession. Mr. Baron Gaaaow.—What do you dignify by the titled a profession ?-4 mean a thief : that is the way officer. speak among themselves. )Jr. Barna Gaintow.—You should not exalt the occupation of a , thief into a profession. Call things by their right names. Baron Gaithow directed the Jury to acquit the pri soner of the charge of breaking into the house, because it was possible that the door might have been left open by the lodger who lived in the house. The Jury con victed the prisoner of stealing to the amount of above 40s. in a dwelling-house. Mr. Baron GARRow, addressing the Jury, said— " You now, Gentlemen, see the wisdom of the course which the Court pursued this morning, in refusing to allow the money which had been found span the priso ner when apprehended, and which he, with a deg ree of effrontery that never was surpassed, d ema nd e d - to be given up to him. No man in this Court can doubt di at the money belongs to the prosecutor, to whom it must be delivered." Elizabeth Thompson was indicted for stealing, on the 27th of September last, a watch, value 101. in the dwell ing-house of W. Weaver. The prisoner was servant in the house. Mrs. Weaver stated, that on the 25th of September sbe saw her husband lock up his watch in the kitchen drawer. The prisoner remained in her service till the next day; but she did not miss the watch till Wednes day following. On the subsequent Sunday the pri soner called at the prosecutor's house, and she was then taken into custody. It was proved by a pawnbroker's shopmar. that the prisoner pawned the watch in question at his master's shop. The watch was identified by the prosecutor. The prisoner in her defence put in a written letter: it appeared to be addressed to Mrs. Weaver, her late mis tress, and the prosecutris admitted that she had re ceived a copy of such a letter. The prisoner complained of the harsh conduct of her mistress, and accused her lodgers of committing the robbery in question. In ano ther defence put in by the prisoner, she strongly repro bated the conduct of the Magistrates by whom she had been committed. It was a very singular production, and caused much surprise in the Court. The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty. Some other letters, written also by the prisoner, were handed up to the Bench for inspection. Mr. Justice PARK told the prisoner th the letters, and he was. bound to 54: productions of the most infamous desck the trial he had refrained from mentioni of these letters, being desirous not minds of the Jury, but he felt it t 6 be state his opinion of them. He advised be In future more guarded how she Ma THE XING V. LAWSON AND OT! Before the.trial of the Lopdon prisual Mr. Dunn, who last 4essietaide op this case, appeared in Court near tlms , He held'a paper in his band, at},., v r application t 6 Make to the The itacosost...-In Whet Cast hirolDunn said be -had a n " The Xing s. Lawson and kitties" .26.717 The liscoanss...-Th.st pm is spot, so ilk Atm cannot attend to it. Mr. Doun...—iiigt, itt# . .%t The RECORDZIL—The Court will-nots at tide suggestion of soMT body, take cases out of their regular tun. • ' A barrister near Mr. Minn told him he had no tight, to move the Court. Mr. Dunn, however, pertisted that he had.a right to move in his own. person. The lleconnes.—When the ease is on the list, I will heir your not till then. Mr. Dunn.—My Lord, every man has a right to appear in his own peison, and to move the Court. 'fbe•lincostiee.-1 will not hear you now. Yon are not in your proper situation in the Court: retire, Sir, into the body of the Court. Mr. Dunn soon after left the Court. John Williams, a respectable-looking young man, was indicted for stealing forty-two pairs of stoctings, value 5/. the property of W. Bark. The prosecutor was at the house of a Mr. Gardner, in Paternoster-row, and the property in question was in the house. The goods were discovered to have been taken out of the house, and a porter belonging to the house, on g oing into the street, saw the bundle containing the goods in the prisoner's possession. There was another man with the prisoner at the time, who went another way. The prisoner was taken into custody. The prisoner in his defence said, he picked up the parcel ; and a repectable young man in appearance, of the name of Singleton, came forward and swore that he saw the prisoner pick up the parcel. The young mar. had his sister with him, and was afraid of leaving her unprotected, or he would have made further inquiries. The vrizness underwent a long and severe examisaaion by the Court. He 'swore that he knew nothing of the prisoner till this transaction. He lives at Balra-pond, and is a wholesale jeweller. The witnesses who took the prisoner into custody, swore they saw no Gentleman and Lady there at the time.—The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The RECORDER ordered the witness Singleton to be taken to prison. and to be indicted for perjury. The witness was taken from the Court into the Gaol. POLICE ° INTELLIGENCE, MANSION-HOUSE. . - - UNWROLIS . O3II Sosmos.—Mr. Wright, the yeoman of Billings.. gate-market, attended before the Loan Maws, and produced about one hundred weight of salmon, which was stale and in spawn.— Since the public proceedings which had taken place before his Lordship on the subject, it had been ascertained that upwards of two tons of salmon in spawn and out of season had been sunk od the way to the market, the owners not choosing to venture its ex posure, and nineteen hundred weight of the unwholesome deserip; Lion h ad been voluntarily' surrendered by the consignees on itf ar rival, and would be destroyed. These facts proved the iniquitoua extent to which the practice of catching salmon in spawn was - car' 1 ried on.—The Loan MAYO& condemned the whole of the salmon ' produced, and Ordered it to be destroyed. UNION HALL Tux CAVE or Loose Liotom—Yesterday, the untie of Louisa Lemont, the little girl for the ungenerous treatment of whom Mkt Kemp, of the seminary called " Somerset.louse Estabrishment," at Clapham-rise, kis been so celebrated, attended at the Office, and Mated to Mr. Canons, that in consequent* of an account which appeared in the N , he waited upon him in order too state e chi sh that the case of thould be prosecuted. by her own family, and that of course the kind interference of the parish, so far as pe-! cuniary cheumstancn were concerned, was no longer necessary.— The Gentian= mentioned to Mr. Canness that the parents of, Louisa Lemont were extremely • temeptoblet bet were non on the' Continent, and wholly unconscion of the sufferings of the poor' child, and that her other relations and friends were equally strangers to the odious system of cruelty by which she bad been persecuted, until they saw the ankle under the bead' Union Hall. Me then! requested that Mr. CSAMBZIS would give him AM order .on the, of Clapham, who had acted wish such prompt hu- Cult; g itt w anging the case before the •Maeistrates, to Oliver up Olin to her grandmother, a %resident of Sussex, Whose anxiety to have the child und e r her ca r e was as grea t as a ieelvo could en tertain. The applicant added, that upon reading the account, he ordered his carriage, and drove to town front a considerable dis tame, and upon inquiring at the school, kited that eke chat was' under the care of the parish-affects . . Mr. CIAMIXILII immediately complied with the request, but ob served that it was necessary the Gentleman should enter into re for the appearance of his niece to prosecute the defend- O w nt ilia L aw Lydia Scattergood Kemp, at the next Quarter Sessions, to which that Lady had traversed the ease.—This was accordingly done, and the little girl was given up to her owls • - • • ~ • MARY-LA-BONNE. • -- '' "' G. Mama charged with brutally beating his wife, far adeasked in pregnancy. The defendant said, he inot merely chaeffsid hn with a switch, but he would not do so again, if .the did not again' aggravate him. The Magistrate was about to commit Wrti, when his Wife, bitterly, said she wished not to halt hint. If, said the you will my you need' no proceeded •fmm me, I :fin discharge Mm. This she could not do. sad Os Ivakaccord ingly atnunitted. _. . Love an JlLlZeetr ; 014 'Tapia Waft Ansa • Ditaamoos.-- Yesterday a gentlemanly looking Man, mho mid, be was an officer in the army, was brought before th e Sitting Magistrate, charged with assaulting his wife, and gide, Mr a trennisubsiss blac k eye. • The Lady stated to the Magistrate - .,be Egadiusen".Ople mashed three weeks to the prisoner; previosly she was a et, and had no acquaintance with him until she Wet Mm it Cis where she coi l went to see some *film Commissioneti *llse Bond. poi b business. He was very kind to her the int week, but the . -week his behrti nur manned a dialling ..nainCts andel. int l did not Wok. Mate to strike her, which practice he afterwa r d s tinned, until at 'last he beat her most violently, kodelied Mk dowu usmoncifully, and probably would have murdered her, Int lintimslitimmeer of the house wherein she lodged. The prisoner, in defence, iiiid,. Me duty amylest at nlghse, Atensionaffy, and he was informed a man vieltht her nfitafa4 absence, which he thought imkkepen • ' Me-Wiet hiabeetk, i 3 to admit himself in the wrong for striking her. " Bat," said he, bolding out his hand tether, , Iwilltain,herhonse; I love her ; and 1 I promise, upon my honour, never again to strike you, mEdetir•'! The Wife turned towards the Mite, - and said, "nen I can not trust to the honour of a man "once guilty • of such base-cruilty, hod I trust you will call upon. bids te•find bail, or smooths: sear, pity for hi. good - conduct, as I carton trust my life witis i . ) s The Magistrate said, he doubted pot bat that a Wan Apgar knit respectability could readily And' safeties. for keeping th peace. Ordered to End bail accordingly. - ' ' . QUEEN-SQUARE. i J. Hosting, an attoeuey's clerk, and Mary, his wife, were charged With robbing Elizabeth Mortimer, a Cyprian, of as nt* sod netn ews pawn2relters' duplicates. •He had accompanied thressielals met home, and after his departure she Mend Mr trunk . .beljeatak I=4 and dre Properly aanitn• Sonic of the doplicaenwere on theletnale panne when ' she was stoppedin 'Pledging& Oast of Mentrines,• and on ' the male prisoner was found the WM. Igeheinee;pish" The • knee was comandued, • bare she wits 'Was i L A MBEVII-STREEt. ' . ▪ ~ . .T. 'thin:4w and -- - 11011. WendCw " Pr. Pods tom, In. • tford, wets Sued WM for le elf lirikhich alley lit l• indi es tita tO th e gel ' 3 / 4 1. the 'r eel*. West par inktinatorte - —in - - - - - ":!r - • • v.. PUNISHMEAT'OP ft;VPRIED PER . . The following proceedta gs have latelytakee the above subject, in thvr-.North Tuesday, the 15thAPtteber, at the $ Northallerton, Mr. Stapilton:hairing the prey in the private room, Wed, in his . endeavours an immediate discussion on the subject of r to put untried prisoners, to ; the treadmill, de ot.en Court the following ,Oresentment. It was be read, but was depositerCssitirthe Cletk of t To the Magistrates of the North Riding of sembled in their Sessions at. Northallerron, Oçt 1, Alartin Stapylton, one of hi! Majesty's Jul! Peace, for the said !tiding, having discovered an abuse ii of Correction, namely, that prisoners committed far pelled to work on the Tread-mill, and that such pan been inflicted on untried jatisoaers during the la,t week, or misapprehension of the Act of Parliament for. ri Prisons, the 4th of Geo. 4. cap. 64, which was to take Ist day of September last, and'which ereFessly orders ment of such untried prisoner ! i' with their own -c ons hereby report this compuliory employment and punish gal, and according to the s-2venti. 2 esith section of the afar demand that this abuse betalien Otto immediate consido rectified. . t..th Ala IN STAY " October 14, 1 . 823." .• - Mr. Stapylton informed the prisoners in tlu Correction, with due caution, that no untried could be legally put to the Tread-mill. AI subsequent discussions with his Brothel Magi , pressed his determination to move the Court Bench for a criminal information. FATAL PUGILIS3L CORONER'S IKQUEST.—Y'e'sterday evening, o'clock, a respectable Jury assembled before LING, the Coroner, at the Prince of Brunswic White Ccinduit-fields, to inquire into the cal death of Mr. Sidney Seidler, a printer, who s tunately killed in a pugilistic ; contest on Moi Mr. James Simmons, a compositor of an newspaper (not the STAR), stated that the ui deceased was also a compositor of the same n and upon many occasions was' inclined to b some, and caused frequent disputes in the offii singled out the Thursday in last s.erk . for and offered some insult to some other comF ,the office, finally "calling John Watts " a t used other opprobrious terma, and challetigii fight on Monday. Watts received the chalk accepted it. Th e -d ecease d, f rom that time u day, made a joke of the business, which led ness to suppose he did not 'intend to apps ever, on Monday, the deceased said to Witt in custody, that he should meet him in Conduit-fields, at four o'clock. Watts,. witi his friends, and 'the ‘ witness, ~`aCCOrdingly at the White C o ndui t House, and after Nail time the deceased and his friends came np; proceeded to the field, and stripped to 'fight. second is named P#Sou—tie,de&ea . sed's se a stranger to. the witness . They .fo ught abou rounds in faionr of ' the .dceased. The .wi not particularly obseryF each round, but ilea! ceased's brother,. wb4 elieves was hii se his brother should not he S fight•any more. Watt on his clothes, and_went• up to the deceased, lying on the ground apparently insensible, a him by the hand, saying,. ii I hope we will nom friends than ever." . The last round lasted tow The witness left the ground with Watts, will hear of the deceased's death until nest day. thought he was dead.* . .. By the Jury.—The w i tness only imagined i sensible from the effects of the round. John Walker, of Vittoria -street, carpenti sworn, stated that he was present at the fii• fought nearly half an beur ; the deceased hat vantage, until within the lastlwa rounds; it round he came up in a kind of stupor, and rev blows, one on the throat, very carelessly delive deceased then fell,. and - Watts stook - hands I then, and quitted the Eeld. ' . ' - By the ..furv4-,Wittig'f' Were, did nett 0 he had injurecl'illal thi . n i and thionglinet . fought in aitnialY Way', seemingly,` havlaj.r towards theyleitaied: • Mr. Bent ibillionbeler ;Rolls, of 54, Penton•sti gepty stated' bevies called uk'on on Monday ..set five Cedlbek' s teiatiend upon the tkeased placed in a 'chair hi Me Oubtie-hotiselpite di opened a vein la pith . arm, !incl . then Ake teen eery. Oil opening 'die bOdy, le fo'utid the ni blow (net a ~*ille)toti‘theleftiide.; ;,o4' tt openbig he found thaVeittdbfithe sertitcel the brain' tured, and "1 ',Orin elfusioi 'it blobd,.. Which 1 dered •produled ilpoplet y''' ''' l''' , " - ' ( ' ' '' ' • ' ' Corortee.Did titat *tare' proceed Prom a likgit Witness.—. 4 is ialaieebis to say-.k aright have peed e l hipsy; twylesioaeosite bate Produid She mot Ott I .furor —Would the bloymPlyhe jill!PsOluce #9O ? 1 ' WitnersNo eenly • ; ,the y wai la i vlry hs OA they having ' fought on' , 1 taw factined'to &Jul )waslairsed by apopkity..J.!:. 4.1 , 4 • • . 1 1/14*, John Christopher Light, of Finsbury-p v as, •„Oon, examioetthebody with Mr. Rolls, and *ante:opinion, fair to %he cease of the yoling Ma ,Thii - baiag tbeiwhole of:the essidenee, the tatl fortenate.,•deteased *idled ir to . be underst the Rght w,aystbt Tor incthey: 2 • TheJury.abeasetired to view the :hody, • some cli4Cleltikeli - irtUrneti •the following vi The deceased died from - apoplexy, caused Wan of mind in fighting." - ' • ••••"..!. 1 A few:days since, a• person called at a . hoe • Oeigitbourhood of Cockermouth, and found los ihrpe of whom we're knitting; and the Other . wai arholdi'arfitea' ages were 910 yeari. , 78afsifclaY afternoon, 'the r i v e r ' Tay rose to gitfish It had torte for these many yeirs, oierikiiikii,_ s t vihiphig arweelrything within iti,/tuch. - 'LalPral I' • .44qpiklehtetbspersigeep E Inc krge t i 4h the bridpAit Penh. ;L BUITH.!•''' • he had read w m a' : 4 y t l i :V n i FlV e e r i n. . 1 11 U - sariaPt4 o w =t u y c ia r ig tn w e l s t e h l iri n tijkl el :h l :f Cl : Ver Lal7.7.l that he had read bTebitslp4llrilibi smcu lbe iguu. 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'glut!? :Iv ts. 3: - . • . ... !'lace, It nylriiiiir • - - yeseiii-leisrr WIT,CIicfRAPT ANA ROBBERY. • At the late Staffordshire' Sessions, James liorbarough, itnrigerae,,shii-wife, were indicted for stealing £25, the .' pi_trty.ig a respectable tradesman of Hanley.. , rEARSON rose'to address the Jury. He said this was one of the most extraordinary cases that ever was brought before a Court of Justice. It could hardly be thought possible, that in this age a fortune-teller should ever have an opportunity of committing any species of fraud on the eulightened inhabitants of this country ; but there was no limit to the credulity of mankind, which made it the more necessary that the ra'iv should interfere and protect the Public from the attempts of the designing. After giving a brief statement of the case, Mr. Pearson-called the following evidence : A. 11. deposed, the! , she was the wife'of the prosecu tor, living at Hanley. She first saw the prisoner, Sarah Roxborough on the 15th of August last, when she told witness that she could " rule the planets, recover sto len goods, and get bad debts in." On the 18th, witness again had an interview with her, and she stated she would get bad debts in for a shilling in the pound. Witness saw her again on the 22d, and made an agree ment with her to come to her husband's house on the 26th. According to the agreement, pi isoner came about ten o'clock in the morning of that day, and desired wit ness to have a fire made in a small room above stalls, as the one below would not be private enough : she also re quested witness to procure twenty-f ye one-pbund notes, or five five-pound notes, and place them in her bosom immediately, where they were to 1 - main until nine o'clock at night. Witness applied to her husband lot the notes, which he allowed her to have; they were twenty-five Kinnersley's notes, and she prepared a fire in the magic chamber. Mrs. Roxborough came again to her husband's house a little after two o'clock, and proceeded to the room up stairs, witness going with her. The prisoner then sent witness down stairs twice, the first time for a few pins, and the second for some oilier husband's hair. She then inquired whether the notes had been obtained? Witness first answered negatively, but afterwards said . she had them in her bosom. Pri soner then answered, ~ I must have them out; I can go on no further till I have them." Upon witness deli vering the notes to her, the woman placed alittle of Mr. rlt.'s hair between-each, and wra pp e d t h em up i n a p i ece of paper which she had bro ug ht w ith h er , an d l a id ' them on a chair. On witness attempting to replace them in her bosom, prisoner said they must remain os the chair a few minutes, and asked for some thalk of pencil, neither of which articles were at hand. She then desired witness to stand in a certain part of the room, and gave her some pins to thrown into the fire, which she was to watch till they were consumed. Wit ness divided her attention between the pins in the fire and the money on the chair, and shortly observed the prisoner snatch up the notes, laying a roll similar to them in their place. Witness instantly charged her with taking the notes, but she denied it, and pronounced witness a false lying woman, who immediately called •up her husband. Cross-examined.—Witness had heard that this woman was celebrated for foretelling events, as well as ruling the planets ; and witness, with another Lady, had her 'fortune told? The woman said that her husband and she would live very comfortably together—prisoner never .brought two pigeons, but .saicrshe would want two to get the debts in. There were three candles in the room witness never pricked them; never sang; never re peated the words In the' name of GOD to defy the Devil," after the wizard, nor any others. J. R. husband of the• last witness, gave his wife 25 pound notes of Kinnersley's bank, on the 26th August, and on that day Sarah Roxborough came to liis house; he was called up stairs in the afternoon by his wife, into a back • room, where he found the female prisoner; his wife said the woman had got the notes, and would not 4 .am/with them ; upon this he asked the prisoner what ihir.land . done with the notes? and she answered, •, I birraliiirown them' into the fire ;" and offered to be searched; witness examined her pockets, btzt could not And .the money. James•Rozborough came into wit ness's shop a short time after he had been called up stairs, but witness did not know he was husband to the , enchantress is or he should have detained him. , Cross-examined.--Had usually employed a lawyer to get his- bad debts in, and found it better than employing a_ witch—Lawyers did not require £25 to begin with. 1 Ralph Barton, a constable was sent for on the 26th o 1 I August to search Sarah Ro;borough, but found no pro- perry upon her. She said she had :thrown ahenotes fire, into. 'the and afterwards that she had thrown them through the window.. , Elisabeth Baby remembered being near Mr. R?s . house on the 26th-of August, at about two o'clOcki and: seeing the two prisoneri together, in conversation, walk . og_very slowly-. • Elizabeth •Degherty lives at Hanley;. the prisoners, lodged with her ; they left her house on the 26th of. Angust, while she was from home, having deposited the; snowy dtig-to her in the .window: .. They 'kepi :Hanley. Market, and sold hardware. , ...• .1 ' • %. i .. Mrs: Clarke, matron of the County jail, proved that eight onepound acmes of Kinversley's dank were given to , lher.by Sarah Roxbor Gogh, when she iame •to Stafford: I i .. Before• the case went. to t h e , J ur y; t h e Count rei; uarkeds , that nothing in the e4idestice irnpllcated the Male prisoner ; they had therefore to vonfine their attenJ rim to the female. . ~, ' I .: ''i 1' :., ' P/1 • •,:l : I Sarah Rosborongh was setin•nced to one year's int • prisonmenti. James Roxbi3rOtigh. acquitted.. • . '• . ==teraral t . . .-* Last week a dog of the; NewfoUtidland' species, hi‘ longing tea person in High-street;liii&i,..k• F hellied the eittaordinary number Of Vi' sihelps;all illYto. ''. ''i' j • • INTamisamscs.--On •WednelflaY:arternoon l two or atria TOvFnhe4B artisans, who had' been previouslf in• iltitg . fite in the' he whisky, terminated' . thilr. ftigiq it they'r - ' iv , - - - 1- , ; 1, 1 Ni