Star. — London, England, 1817-09-18 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, SERTi:MBER 17. The Sessions at the Old bailey commenczd yes tod.,y, , before the Low MAYOR, the RECORDER of Lvtid n, Mr. Justice Hottosti, Mr. Justice Bun vt:oti, and Mr. Baron GRAHAM. At ten o'clock, John Bond was put to the bar, and indicted for haein:, , , teloniously stolen in the dwelling house of William Howard, one Bank of England promissory n-te for the ply ment of 420, and another for the payment of 410, the property of William Howard, on the night of the Ist December, 1816. Mr. ARABIN opened the pleadings, and Mr. ALLEY in stating the case, and alluding to the publicity which the circumstances of it had already acquired, took occasion to lament the practice of publishing e s parte evidence, as tending much to the injury of pH- I soners. Witnesses were then called, of whom the first, Sarah Randall, deposed, that she had. lived as nisekeeper with Mr. William Howard, now de sA, for 40 years. He was a farmer, residing in .c parish of Hillingdon, a short distance from L'x 'lge. In the month of December last the family ns:sted of Mr. William Howard, witness, Thomas res, and the prisoner at the bar, who was grand ,to the deceased. She recollected that, on Sun- Ly the Ist of December last, she saw the prisoner about one o'clock, at dinner-time, but did not see afterwards. In the evening of that day she slew Aortas Ayres at about six o'clock : he went out to ilk his cows. Witness and the old man were then ft alone in the house They had both just had tea, were sitting by the Ere below stairs. ate was fitting with Her side inclined to the door, and the old mtiernan 'aced her, and sat in his own chair. He a opposite to the door. Witness lighted a candle, order that the old man might I.ght his pipe. She laced the candle on the table between them, but did know what became of it afterwards. Soon after ie heard the door of the room open ; it was eithir ished open or unlatched, and being in expectation seeing the servant boy, Thomas Ayres, to the best, her recollection she said, " Is it you, Tom tress could not be sure whether she did or did not so. No sooner had she spoken, or meant to k, than she received a terrible blow upon her . She received several blows, and lost her senses. i after she had received the blows, she heard the gentleman, who had just entered upon the 91st of his age, utter a deep groan. She heard no She had no means of knowing who inflicted blows, as she never saw any one. She could not how long she remained insensible. The prisoner to her after she had received the blow*, but could not tell what length of time ifterwards. ' always received the dividends of the old man Bank, and paid them to his grandfather very tally. The prisoner regularly went to London receive them, and on his return paid them to the man.• The money was always wrapped up and put into a private drawer in the reau, the key of which was always kept in the old a's left-hand breeches pocket. Cross.examined by Mr. Ben.tauti.-,-Witness had 40 years with Mr. Howard. The prisoner in the family partly in the capacity of a servant, the son of her master's daughter. She had rn him from his birth. Mr. Howard had been _ good to him, and the prisoner's conduct rs appeared respectful and attentive. The 1)6- managed' all the old gentleman's money.ton. She remembered Mr. Howard saying no one to tht prisoner, that he had provided for his will, and left him £'2oo, which was alter altered to • £lOO stock. The prisoner was , and never appeared to want money. The gentleman offered him his wages on Michaelmas the prisoner declined receiving them. , answer to a question from Mr. Baron GRAHAM, witness said, she heard the old gentleman utter groan, and chat he was never sensible after- Bond took a walk atter dinner, as was his ' on the day in question, and had not returned ' . the blows were inflicted by some person who entered :he house. The conversat.on respecting money bequeathed to the psieotter had taken a few days before. - Ayres, the next witness, stated, that be lived as one of the servants with the deceased. left the house on Sunday evening, December Ist, • six o'clock. The prisoner had gone out be visit a Mr. Wyman, who lived at about a ' yards' distance. Witness went out algae, every thing in safety. His master and the were sitting at the fire, in a room on tke 1. He left the clout closed upon a latch. A was fixed on the bacon rack. which any stranger • see on entering, if he booked upwards towards ing. He saw is in some man's hand when he re deeply marked with blood. He met a stranger his way near the Canal bridge, in such a situation that he must have been proceeding to or coming his master's house ; he addressed him, conceiv that he had missed his way, but the stranger on without any reply. Witness then went to public•house, where he remained till the prisoner anduclainied, 44 For GOD'S sake come, tor' has almost killed the old man and Sarah." went immediately to the house accompanied by and several other persons. The old were found sitting in their chairs, unable fb ', and both very bloody. A great deal et blood on the floor. The prisoner get some brandy and ' the old gentleman's forehead, when the Muer. to revive, and said, 44 Don't, John, it is ab " The prisoner desisted accordingly, the went to bed, and witness never beard hie!' ..fr intelligibly afterward,. Cross-examined by 'Mr. BoLLASD.—The straw be had met on his way to the public howl roast have been going to or coming from his Millk tee , ihouse. There was a' splashway in the last, through which he advanced, and the stranger passed through it, instead of pink over the hedge, which vonld have brought him close to the witness. The' pri.oner sat up all night with the old gentleman, and seemed much concerned and very attentive to him Bond was always active in the pursuit of per sons suspected of having committed the robbery. William Mercer confirmed several pans of the last ihiess's testimi.oay. With regard to the appearance the old man on lys entrance, after hearing of t had happened, his eyes were greatly swelled, head muc:. bruised and very bloody. On his xamination he stated, that the old people sat in %!ials lacing each other, And the deceased Looking. towards the door, 16 that he must have sees who entered the room and struck the housekeeper. John Curtis, a surgeon, deposed, that when he saw the deceased there were not the slightest hopes of his recovery. He declared this as soon as he examined him, in the hearing of the whole company. Some of the wounds appeared to have been inflicted by a flail, and others by a window-bar. He was called in about seven o'cluk in the evening. Joseph Allen said he was a Churchwarden of the parish of Hillingdon, and went to search the house of the deceased on the day in question. The prisoner asked him to look at the bureau. He examined it accordingly, it had been broken open, and the pad lock and key were found intermixed with the papers in it. He searched the well, and found nothing in it ; but there was a secret drawer which he did not observe, nor had any subsequent opportunity of dis covering, till the month of August last, after the bu. mu had been sold. Here Mr. Baron GRAHAM, after communicating with his brother Judges, addressed the Jury, and re marked, that the present was a most serious charge against the prisoner, because a much heavier impu te tion than that laid in the indictment, hung ever him; and he was not pi ivileged to state, how far the esti. denee went to 6x on him the suspicion of murder.— Under the circumstances of the case, they had no right to send the prisoner away from the bar with any such imputation hanging over him. It was, in deed, impossible to convict him of the larceny, with out making an impression on the minds of every body that he must have been concerned in the murder of his near relation and benefactor. It was impossible for the Jury to say that le was guilty of the murder, because there was no evidence that could prove any such thing ; and that being the case, the Jury must be convinced that the prisoner had possessed himself of the rroperty he was chirgeJ with stealing, in the life time of Mr. Howard. There was no intervening time between vie outrage offered *to Mr. Howard and his death, in which the money could have been stolen, except on the night of the lit December, and there was no evidence to shew he took the money on that night. The evidence only proved, that every part of the bureau, except the secret drawer, had been broken; but this private drawer was not opened at the time. It was possible then that the property might have remtined there for some time ; and before the Jury could- convict the prisoner of the theft, they must be satisfied that every part of the bureau had been completely es..mined. Now it the prisoner was innocent, it was unfortunate foe-him that a thorough search had not taken plasm It did not appear, theta fore, that the money had been in the possession of the prisoner before the desk was broke open ; and it was possible he might afterwards have taken it out of the secret drawer, and kept the property concealed from the residuary legatees. The evidence being therefore defective, it would be unnecessary to take up the time of the Jury any longer in proceeding in the cue, which was not one that ought to go to a Jury. He owed it to iustice to say. that there was no evidence which could affect the prisoner. The Jury then, under his Lordship's direction, found the prisoner—Not Guilty. The prisoner appeared to be *tout 40; tall, and very stout, with A dark complexion, but of an open rustic touutenance; he was dressed in a smock-frock, with a rough great coat over it. His manner was perfectly composed, per was there any change of look or gesture when be heard his acquittal. He took up his bat, and walked away from the bar with the Air of a man who is about his usual business. Jana Tlsonquoa, a bay of 14 years of age, wjs convicted of stealing 71bs. of cheese, the property of WilliamWright.—The wife of the prosecutor recom mended him toihe'mercy of the Court, saying that the boy had neither lather bur mother, and'had stolen the cheeseirom actual want, being in estate of starvation. Richard /Gash was next indicted ter having stolen. several Bank of England notes of the value 01 £4O and upwards, besides two watches, and a ring of the value of £l5, the property of William Jones, in the dwelling-house of James Green. The principal witness was a little girl, daughter of Mr. Jones, with whom the prisoner lived as servant, who deposed, that ene evening when her father and mother had gone to the Opera, and she had retired to bed, the prisoner entered her room and threatened to kill her if she did not tell him where her mamma kept her money. He had a chisel and a hammer in his hand, mud the beard him break open her father's bureau, and an ether belonging to the landlord in a separate apartment. He absconded the same evening. The primes received a very good character from respectable persons, but was found—Guilty. Janet Donohoe, char g ed with burglariously entering the dwelling-house of James Bloe; and stealing two geese, was convicted of the stealing, but not during the night. Edward Pluniett was convicted of stealing twenty. two locks, valise 15s. the'property of James Collins. the prisoner who had been in the employ of the pro. mentor, an ironmonger, in Barbican, as a porter, on being apprehended confessed that be had been at it for the last tea rive the, in a small wer The prosecutor had taken him into his service merely out of charity. JAN Teed was convicted of stealing Ilbe 7os. of black tea, value Si. 6d. the portray of the East India Company. The witnesses proved that the prisoner had been in the employ of the Company for nearly twenty years, and that on the 28d of lily last. he was discovered with The tea in his possession. One of the elders said to bins “ I have a suspicion tbat you have some tea in your posseuion." is Have you,' said the prisoner, " if that is the case, I may as well give it to you at mace, as it will save trouble." William Hill was also convicted of stealing 21b. of peen tea l value sa. the property of the East India Company. The circumstances of the case were nearly the same as those proved is the preceding trial. Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning, the house of Mr. James Bassett, Shepherd -street, Christ church, f4iddleses, was entered by thieves, who cut #hole in the kitchen shutters, by which they were enabled to undo the bolts, And raise up the sash. They rummaged aU the kitchen drawers, and stoli. Ism= meat limn the sale. They picked the locks ut some of the bed-rooms, And stole the best articles of wearing apparel, some Weer table and tea-spoon,, and 450 in limit of England. notes, with which they got clear MIDDLEsP± 5i140A1.41 T4mbER Nutt, one of the Oak* ()Meets belOngifig to Hatton-garden Office, was indicted for assaolting Dunnett and Sarah Dunnett his wife. There were tfto indictments against the defendant. ft appeared from the testimony of the Dunned*, that they had lodging in their house a son of the female (the pro secutris) by a former husband. Some difference arose between them and the young man, whose name was Bennett, about removing his furniture, which for some reason they prevented him from doing. He called in the assistance of the defendant, who, with out any warrant or authority, aized hold of the pro secutor, under pretence of being a deserter from the navy; but it did not appear that he followed tip the charge. This constituted the assault upon the male; that agairst the female defendant, was in struggle to open the door, which she had closed, in fader to remove the furniture. Three witnesses were called on thd part cf the de fendant, to contradict the testimony of the prosecu tors as to the assault, and tht Jury believing them, acquitted the defendant. T. Spearing was indicted for assaulting Ja Smith, one of the Headboroughs of Whitech..pel. On the 27th of May an immense number of people were as sembled, drinking and enjoying themselves at the Red Lion, near the London Hospital, in the White cnapel Road. The Officer stated, that between two and SOU persons of the lower orders were in the rooms. This was during the fair at Stepney. They became noisy and riotous, and the Officers had been called to disperse them. On seeing them enter, a min named R. Brown tied an apron to a stick as a sort of flag, bidding the Officers defiance, and using very vulgar and blasphemous language. In the strughle to arrest the ringleaders, the defendant was very Active in assaulting the officers, and was takes into custody ; he however escaped, but was ultimately secured and lodged in the watch house. The Defendant put in a long written defence, which stated, that he had gone into the Red Licn with his wife, who was far advanced in her pregnancy, to re fresh themselves; that without any provocation on his part, lie was taken into custody and dragged to the watch-house, and severely beaten en the road. He called two witnesses to prove these facts, and further, that his wile had miscarried in consequence of the fright she received by the imprisonment of her husband. They admitted that he had attempted to ' make his escape, because his wife was so dangerously', ill with the fright. The Jury pronounced the De fendant—Not Guilty. G. leash, sea. and O. Nark, jun. and Mary Nash, the wife at the former, were indicted for asssultin Hannah Wilton, on the 11th of March. The prose cutrix lodged in the house of the senior defendant, who unites the trades of patten-maker and barber ire wire.—Some dispute arose about the rent, a distress WAS levied in the absence of her husband, and the senior defendant brandished a stick, and threatened " to poke out her entrails," and actually forced the stick near her mouth. There was no proof that the wife was engaged in thirassault, and she was acquit. ted. The father and sun were laund GUilty andlined each 4t.fs G. Bresy pleaded Guilty to an indictment for ob structing the street-keeps of Lincoln's lan.. It was stated by Mr. Acan.rout, that a nest of pickpockets were in the daily practice of assembling in ..that neighbuuthuod, and of numbing the Beadle ; on this occasion a vast number of boys, among whom was the defendant, rescued a suspicious character Iron his grasp, and he escaped. In order to deter others from assisting in Sad) nefarious proceedings, this prosecution was commenced, for the defendant was the son of respectable parents, and it was hoped by the salutary lesson he would receive, that it would operate to prevent his associating with characters such as had been described in future. '!'he CisaIRMAN, after reading hi►m a severe lecture on his bad conduct, ordered him to be imprisoned one month in the House of Correction. The crowd assembled round the Grand Jury-room and in the Hall was immense yesterday. Dating the time that the Sulicitors %erre waiting to be called in with their witnesses, a gentleman or the prole:stun was robbed of his gold watch. He immediately communicated the robbery to the Chairman, who directed the High Constable to be sent for : on his appearance with his list of Constables they were call ed ovir, and several of those summoned to attend on duty being absent, the Chairman ordered them to be fined each 40s. at the same time he observed, that it WAS a disgrace to the Police that they did not :mend to their duty. He warned the High Constable to be circumspect, and to watch the conduct ol his in feriors, and to take especial care that all suspicious characters should be taken into custody. The High Constable promised to attend to the 'command of the Court. Mr. Itezmotas, ar Irish notoriety, is at present of &elating at Copeibagen, as Consul-General to his Britannic Majesty. Tuesday se'nnight J. Kane was executed in front of the gaol, Lifford. pursuant to his sentence at the last Assizes, for robbing the hosse of Martha Sherlin.— The fate of this unfortunate man, who was nearly 60 years of age, with a family of seven children, is an awful record of the interposition of DIVINg PROVI• DZSCS. On the first day of the Assizes he came to Lifford in the disguise of a beggar (two of his stns and J. Laun, being then in gaol for the same robbery). as is supposed, to ascertain their fate. He was accidentally met in the street by the person whom he had sobbed, and Immediately taken into custody. Next day but one he was tried and found guilty, ite were his sons and son.in.law, and severally sentenced to be hanged. On the morning of the me. cution, the Sheriff received a pardon for the youngest son in confinement, a lad about 15 years of age, and his son•in•law,. who were discharged. These, with the remainder of his family, witnessed bis melancholy and disgraceful end. The News York Gamete of August 11, contains the following paragraph t Convitammou.—We have given currency to two articles which lately originated in the Eveniag Pest; one about a beautiful lady having had her nose bitten off by her husband—and the other, about this mau having taken his own life. The facts are, that the Lady had her nose Nam but not ?f. The man lives, and is at large f" POLta QuErn scioAiri—VoutstoxasehtliStris.alvdtaleN I waternian, and owner or tl.e wat t No. 4,596, wa s sumthool4 before the Sifting Mars-rare rh raged by Mr. S. Ingledew, the pail of the Vauxhall hridge iiiispany; with plying On the Hater lot fares on a Sunday, contrary to no, only a poi nib Act of Parliament, Mut to the rules and orders o th 't aterman's Company lbe Gentleman, spi behalf of the ; infirmed the MAlotAtive It was got their wish to res. fora Leavy puabls. meat; all they aimed at beiug to put a step to so thee... .t praitieel and to protect their town streams and the public ro .1 tintirle interrupt Otis of t winker lia!urc. Tire worthy la % :rate; is consequence of the lenient sentiments of the Company, Elated hint in the mitigated peuaky of Ss. and cost., which was the lowest could go. MARLAOROIIO3•ITRICET. —ALN/INlder Rataki, A youth multi 17 years of age, was charged Tit h r bhing Nis master Mr. Bass, grocer, in Shepherd-street, Shepherd's Market s of his banking book, cash, Su. to the amount ni X5ll. 7a. en ru.. d to him by virtue o' his emptorm pt. On being que.moled by he Magis trate, where the banking book was, be denied all knowledge of fr, or any part of the trawaction. Ike prisoner was reina,.ded. HATTON GANDEN.--Yr•ltT.lay Diana ..6wry and Leskit Perryj two un (anima e cyprian-, were brought up in the cia-hily of I.liiseiton and Walnerright, cLarg.•d ou suspicion or outing Itaffd in Bank note., eight guineas in gold, one 411,,r snuff b .1, tiert pair of silver spentasies, and several gild and -de. r write rs t..e perry, of Henry Hut, the keeper et an tiliamous !muse in Not. , thundierlasid court, lOUthArii ton Building , do born.—tot moor dad till nmday Veld. UNION HALL —CAVTION TO COAL PtALiNg ••• Ati iritoftnis. tier w. 4 laid wing Maur-. Fiero.. and West, coal-nieithatitil l Bear Buildings, strand, fur POI sending a pertect 1iti.11..1 suet sure with a quantity of coals wh elatbey sent to one of theft tamers en the i Itb Instant. 'the informer stated, tha. nista lof sendill a perfect ("tube' measure, an old m:•asere, w.. ch he pro. duced, with holes in it, war sen• ; the urope to wisont tit c•ralf Were sent waked to inlasure teem; but could not In consequence of the imperfect some out the measure Me-srs. F. and W. were convicted in the iwnal'y of £4, and M. rid. cuts. A gen•leman named Sxutar, from &sling►, w o stopped about the centre of Oxiord street by a gang of seven or eight rutlisns, on Tuesday night, who knocked him down and took from him his watch and silver, and made 011 in • body& Tuesday night between eleven and twelve to'clncks as Mrs. TURNMK, or Euston place, New-road, ;c is passing alonq Grosvenor-place, flans the house of her sister, at P.mlico, she was stopped by two rhea having tie appearance of soldiers, who robbed het of twelve shillings. Monday night some thieves got into the hcase of Mr. THOMAS, near the Fox and li•iunds, at Holton, hut were overheard by the servant, when the house was qp • irched ; but the marauders escaped by an; of a .adder which v. , as erected against the house, it being under repair. Sunday afternoon the family of Mr. ltaVeni Sheplierd•place. City-road, who had gone nut to take A walk in the field,, leaving the window shutters well secured, and the street-door double locked; on their' rcurn before dusk, w.re astonished to tind'the door lock picked, and, no entering. they f•und every thing thrown about in great confusion. On examining a beaufat in the pationr, £6, which h.: d beret left sherd in a pocket.book, was stolen ; but, •happily r. £2.) note, wide. had been carelessly thrown in alter din ner, was tossed amongst other things, which escaped the notice of the thieves. There were also some articles of men's and w imen's wearing apparel stolen. The man wto was •t n.l Fr Jay se i nnighti at Mystole, in Kent, the seat of Si John Fagp, B4tti w.is wins ided in the postern rs, and taken into chstody after lie was shot, and detained at Mystole until the following morning, from whence he was conveyed td Canterbury. and then told he might go about his busint ss, On Thuraday evening last, as Captain R. d.'1 4 .; on half-pay of tne 9th Foot, was walking on the Sea Wall, neat Queetiborouals, Kent, he was met by seit veral boys, who told him that another boy had fallen into the sea, and Was drowning. This Officer precis pinned himself, dressed as he was, into the Waters and alter a great exertion, succeeded in rescuing the boy from a watery grave ; the body he brought td shore, and m:dical advice was procured, and, we are happy to s iy, he was restored to his mother, Mr. CUARLES joaspo EILLLICAR. Demi of Magda.; len CLllege. Oxfafd, eldest son cf Mr. Joseen l-feLa I.ll.*Ait, Bath, and Mr. Gamma GROU, WM?. council, Student .fßaliolCollege, youngest sun of the late Mr. S. WUITCISURCII, during the present vaca. lion were at Guernsey, and wishing to visit Frame, sailed on the afternoon of the 12th August for Chen bun. Some few hours afterwards the wind changed, and became violent, and it is believed the fury of the gale met their vessel whilst passing the Race of Ala dkrney. and that they there perished. No account of the vessel having reached any French port, and more than a month having elapsed without intelligence to any of the parties connected with the sufferers either in Gu.rnsey or England, the melancholy inference is too obvious.. • Yesterday evening a boy, seven years of age, in crossing the street at the end of Seacoaldane, was knocked - Sown by a brewert' dray ; when one of the wheels went over his head and killed Maros the spots Tuesday night a young man, about 20 years of age, passing along Krughtsbridge, and whilst the Guards were merching oil duty walking in the horse. road, a caravan driving up at a quick pace the hone knocked him down, and the wheels of the caravan passed over him. The injury he received was of such . a shocking nature, that he died almost immediately. 4. fatal accident happ.2ned last week to a man named Wilcock, of Salisbury, who was employed to make an oven. The poor fellow had got into the oven to knock off the prop made to sustain the bricks while the mortar was drying, when the whole fell on him, and crushed him instantly to death. ai a eos:-hoy,.who teas driva Thursday se'unight, ing a chaise up Cnatham.hill, was walking t o ea* his horses during their ascent, he observed some boys hanging at the back part of the chaise, and snapped his whip at them to drive them away, Tbe horses .immediately set off at fall gallop, when the shiver called to a young man coning down the hill, to stop them ; he endeavoured to do so, but failed in t h e attempt, and was knocked down by the horses, anti the wheels of the chaise passing over the lower part of his belly, produced so ateat an internal injury, that he died in two hems after the accident. Oit Monday -Mary Birks, of Latnbeth-street, Whitechapel, fell down a one , pair of starts, fractured the spine of her back, and was carried to the Lon don Hcspital in a hopeless state. Yesterday an Inquest.' was held at the Duke of Wellingti n public-house, High -street, Shad well s be fore J. W. L.TawrN, Esq. Coroner, Uri the body ; :,f Sarah Wentworth, a young wyman, 27 years of age, who died in a state ot iiitt;sicatirn. Verdict—Died from the efietta of dt'akaaa. housekeeper s ( wed, for 40 toe parish of britze. In t consisted of N Ayres, and it stn to the dec day the Ist of at atiout one afterware Thomas Ayr rilk his cows left alone in t' and were sitti ,ith in vntieinan tat sat opposite t, in order that placed tt.e cti not know whi she heard the pushed open r of seeing the of her recoil itness could y sa. No peak, than s lead. She rec Soon after she old gentlema year of his as owe. She h he blows, as ay how long poke to her he could no I: .nd always t the Bank, unctually. o receive the 'ld man.• 1 curiously, am bureau, the k man's kft-hat Cross.exami lived 40 year lived in the fat I nd was the sc noon him fri stremely goc ways appeal Doer manage erns. She re casioh to t ' him in his wil ds alterec • dui, and I gentlemar ,and the.F In answer t witness sJ a deep groan, wards. Boon °nom, on th ore the bl ad entered :I money b • lam a few ci Thomas A d lived as c e left the he d • boot six o'c l ee to visit a 1 hundred yard !• and left every f• housekeeper t r .und floor. it was fixed .ight see on the ceiling. E rued deeply is his way ne !• as that he mu from his mat isg that he passed on wit !I a public.houi !- came in, and 2 somebody ha lie went lens the prison e r it people were I 4 speak, and bl h lay on the Be I c i tabbed the of teemed to rel • cold." The ;teased went Speak interns Li Cross•exan rf thorn he ha • Must have bi e ter* house. through whit through it, P vonld have I prisoner sat and seemed h• hint. Bond sons surpecte : 99 a , Witnesb's test 1(1 of the old i la t ;:.,d ha cia 'tau his head XAMin ' %!iairs tscinf,