Star. — London, England, 1822-09-13 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Yesterday, John Benjamin Brooked was - indicted for forging and uttering a. true, a certain receipt for the sum ~ f ' I:15. 10s. pnrporting to be the receipt of , William Clarke, %, ell knowing the same to be forged and co,interfeited. After the indictment had been read, the prisoner requested that his trial might be postponed, in order that he might procure a witness which was essential to his case. The RECORDER informed hint, that if he had any motion to wake, he must do it after the whole of the indictments had been read. When the Clerk of Arraigns was swearing the Jury, the prisoner stepped forward and-said, he wished to challenge some of the Jury. He understood some of them came from Hammersmith : this, hoviever, was not the fact. He then stated that he believed that many of them knew a person at Hammersmith. As the Jury were separately sw orn, ' he asked them whe ther they knew Robert Gregson of Hammersmith ? Most of the Gentlemen answered that they did know him ; but all disclaimed intimate acquaintance. This appeared to satisfy the prisoner, and he retired from the bar. Robert Grew, aged 21, was indicted for stealing a watch and appendages, the property of Thomas Richardson.—The prosecutor stated, that on the day named in the indictment, he was standing on the Tower %shall witnessing a boat race, ,when the pri soner, who was near him, unbuttoned his waistcoat, and - snatched the watch from his fob. He accused therprisoner with the theft, but he denied it, and struck witness. Several witnesses who were present on the occasion confirmed this statement ; and one of them deposed. that he saw the watch fall from the prisoner, who immediately decamped, but was soon overtaken. The prisoner called no witnesses to character: The It Ecoapen stated, that the prisoner was charged with a growing and most mischievous offence, the progress of which must be stopped by the full execu tion of the law ; this case, however, did not amount to a capital offence. The Jury instantly returned a verdict of Guilty. The RECORDER, in passing the sentenceofdie Cuart, informed the prisoner that he had been at that bar beftire ; in order to save him from a shameful death, the sentence of the Court was, that he be transported for the tel m of his natural life. Stephen Tool, aged sixteen, was indicted for steal • ing in the dwelling-house of John Scott, certain silk handkerchiefs, value £2 10s. his property. John Scott deposed, that he lived' tu St. Martin's, Westminster, and was a linen-draper. On the 29th of July, about ten o'clock, the witness heard one of his shop windows crack. He in consequence put on his hat, and went into the street by the private door. He observed the prisoner at the shop-window, and at, about the distance of four yards he saw two other men, whom he suspected to be confederates of the prisoner. The witness crossed over the way, and con tinued to watch the prisoner for about three-quarters of an hour. The prisoner departed from and re turned to the window several times during this pe. rital. At last the witness perceived the prisoner in troduce his hand into the window, and dtaw some thing out: upon this the witness went up to the pri soner and knocked him down. Some handkerchiefs fell from his hand, which the prosecutor picked up, and then took him into the shop, and sent for a con • stable. Upon examination, he found that a pane of glass was broken, which he was sure was whole about an hour b efore. 'The witness missed eleven black silk handkerchiefs, and six ladies' handkerchiefs, from that part of the shop near to the broken window. IVllliam Duff, a constable, deposed, that on the 29th of July he was sent for by Mr. Scott, and took the prisoner into custody. He searched him, and found nothing on him but a knifa.—The Jury re.; turned a verdict of—Guilty. , Robert Ramey, aged 19, and Samuel Greenwood, aged 25, were indicted for assaulting Richard Ives, on the King's highway, and stealing five gold seals, his property, on the 11th of August. The following is a summary 01 the evidence: The prosecutor, about a quarter before ten o'clock on the night of the 11th of August, was passing through Church-street, Bethnal-green. The prisoner Ramsey came towards him. The prisoner Greenwood, who was following behind the prosecutor, coughed, upon which Ramsey made a snatch at the seals, which were attached to the watch-chain of the prosecutor., Ramsey made two pulls at the seals before they broke from the chain. During the struggle, Ramsey struck the prosecutor in the side. 'There was a gas-light near the spot, which enabled the prosecutor to see the faces of the prisoners, both of whom ran_ down a court after the robbery. He obtained the assistance of some police•ofEcers, and apprehended the prisoners at a public-house in the neighbourhood. The prose cutor spoke positively to the persons of the prisoners, bui he admitted that he had not so favourable an op portunity of observing the person of Greenwood as that of Ramsey.—The Jury found • Ramsey Guilty, and acquitted Greenwood. . William Lester, a black, was indicted for stealing twelve sovereigns, and nine guineas, the property of Dedrick Sedenberg. Dedrick Sedenberg, the prosecutor, deposed that he lodged at the house of his brother, the Red Lion public-house, in Nightingale-lane. The prisoner lodged there also. In the room , of the witness was a chest, containing twelve sovereigns and nine guineas. The chest was locked, and the witness kept the key in his pocket. When he went to bed at night he placed his pocket under the 'pillow. The money was safe on the 26th of July. The witness missed the. money on the 31st of July. The chest had not been i broken open, but unlocked. Sedenberg, the brother of the last witness, de posed that he was the landlord of the Red Lion pub lic-house. The prisoner had returned from a voyage about a week before the robbery was committed.— The day after the 3l st of July the prisoner was drunk, and the witness saw that he had plenty of silver and two sovereigns. The prisoner said his Captain had given him the money. Before his brother lost his money the prisoner had - no cash, except what the wit ness furnished him with. The constable who,took the prisoner into custody stated, that he received six 'guineas from a woman named Eleanor Jacobs, which be produced in. Court: , Eleanor Jacobs said, that on the 30th ofjuly the prisoner came to her house, and stating that a bad been paid by his Captain, gave her six guineas to • take care of for him. At this time hi had more gold in his pocket. The constable being recalled, depoid that the Captain of the prisoner denied, in the presence of the prisoner, that he haa paid him any wages. *The Cap ' tain at present is on a vorage. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he received the six guineas which he left with Mrs. Jacibs from a shipmate, for the purpose of keeping them in safety. The Jury returned a verdict of—Not Gstilty. John Benjamin Brookes, the prisoner who was ar raigned in the morning, was placed at the bar. Mr. PLATT, his Counsel, then made an application to the Court for the postponement of the prisoner's trial until next Sessions, on the gr9und that he had not been able to obtain the attendance of a witness, whose evidence would be material to his defence. An affidavit was put in in support of the fact. Mr. ALLEY, who was for the prosecution, said he would not oppose the application, if the Court thought fit to listen to it. After some deliberation o the Court directed the trial to stand over till next Sessions ; but ordered the prisoner to remain in custody. Hannah Stanton, aged 18, and Hester Cummings, aged 25, were capitally indicted for assaulting Henry Woodcock on the King's highway, and taking [rum his person 35 sovereigns. Woodcock, the prosecutor, who is apparently about 70 years of age, stated that he lived in the country. 'He was in London on the 15th of August last. On the evening of that day he was walking through Whitechapel, a good deal intoxicated. Two women came up, one of whom took hold of his arm, and the other pushed him up Nelson-court. Hes had a great coat on his arm, which one of the prisoners seized hold of t and at the same time the other thrust her hand into his small-clothes pocket and took out a purse containing the 35 sovereigns : after which, they both ran off very quickly. He now believed that both the prisoners were the women who robbed him. In his cross-examination'by 111 r. LAW, he said he' did not exactly know at firstithe place where the rob bery was committed ; but after some time searching, in company w;th an officer, he found it. He was not certain whether he had not said to the Magistrate that he was not sure of the identity of the prisoners. ' The constable who apprehended the prisoners de ;posed, that the prosecutor told him he could not -swear to the parties who had robbed him, as he was much in liquor at the time. - Witness went in search of the prisoners, and fotind Cummings in a !reuse in Nelson-court. lie searched it, and in a yard belong ing to it he found the prosecutor's great coat. Cum ming: said that some person must have thrown it there unknown tci 'lei. She afterwards declared to wit ness that the-Other prisoner, Stanton, threw it there. Plunkett, an officer, went to search Stanton's house. On hii arrival she made her escape, but he followed and found her in another house. She protested en tire ignorance of the robbery, and accounted for her having gone away on the appearance of the officer, by saying that she had had a quarrel with another female, and she thought the officer had a warrant against her in consequence. On searching her no thing was found to excite suspicion. Both prisoners in their defence declared their per fect innocence of the transaction. _ - Mr. Baron GRAHAM slimmed np the evidence, and the Jury acquitted Stanton, but found Cum • wings—Grtiliy_ of stealing from the person'. After the removal of Cummings, who appeared in a very weak state, and was scarcely able to walk without assistance, Mr. Baron Graham left the Court• for a short time. During his absence an officer of the Court informed the Bench, that the prisoner Cum mings was in such a state of health on 'the night of the robbery, as to have made it impossible that -she qOulsl have been one of the parties concerned in it ; she having sonic time before lost the use of her lower limbs, and from that time to the,present she was un able to walk without assistance. He added, that en the day following the robbery, when arrested, •she was scarcely able to stir, when carried before the Magistrate. Mr. Justice Berr—es Good Con, Sir, why did you not mention this at the time of the trial? However, I shall mention the circumstance sto my brother Graham, on his return to Court ; in the meantime, let all the parries remain in Court, and let the sur geon who attended her be sent for." Mr. Baron GRAHAM, at the conclusion olahe next trial, ordered the prisoner Cummings to be again placed at the bar. Plunkett,' the officer, was recalled, and he stated, that when he arrested her, she was scarcely able to walk. The Surgeon was next examined, and he stated that he attended her, arid had to-day examined her most minutely. She ryas labouring under the effects of ; a violent cold caught in her lying-in some time before. She could not now run, and he believed that at the time of the robbery she must have been less able than at present. He believed it impossible that she could have committed the robbery, and then run away as described by the prosecutor. Mr. Baron GRAHAM, after consulting with the other Judges, ordered the prisoner to enter into her l own recognizance in the sum of 20/. to appear for judgment when called for, and to be then discharged. On questioning her for this purpose, it appeared that she was a married woman, and that her husband was living. His Lordship on learning this ordered her to pay a fine of 6d. and . to be discharged ; but upon. some observations made to him by Mr. Justice Best, his Lordship altered this, and ordered her to be dis charged forthwith. . The poor woman was then removed from the bar,, evidently much affected by this sudden and' un- . looked-for 'change in her situation. • William Manse was indicted for stealing a cast iron pipe, value ss. the property of the London Gas and Coke Company. • The prisoner was a labourer in the employment of one of the City paviors. It was proved by two wit nesses that the prisoner took the pipe, which was lying,•along with several others of the same kind, in the street, broke it into three pieces, and sold it for sixpence. The'prisoner in his .defence said he found it in its broken state, and thinking it was of no use, sold it. His employer gave him •an excellent character for the four years he had' worked for hiru::—Verdict, Guilty, but recommended to mercy. ' Charles Robinson, a genteel-looking . and well dressed boy, about 16 years old, was indicid for stealing a bag containing 48 sovereigns,And other property, belonging to Mr. Laurie, of blpet-street. Mr. Anot.rues stated the case to the Jury. Mr. Laurie, deposed,' that he lives at '53, Fleet street. The prisoner lived with him in July as an errand-boy. On the morning Of the 27th he was awoke and informed that .he had been robbed. On examination he found the iron closet or chest which was in the counting-house. open, and the drawer which had contained sovereigns and notes empty. He immediately searched the house along with the watch man and the prisoner, whom he had called up. They found no person. lie, prisoner when in the kitchen got on'the top of a copper, and looked down the flue. Witness said, s , VVhat,do you want there? surely not person can be hid there." Prisoner made no' reply. l He sent for Harrison theMatshalmannext day, who, on examining the premises. gave it as his opinion that the robbery was effected by some person% the hitise, l ana said he should search the prisoner. He did so, but found nothing that could excite suspicion. The only persons that slept in the house besides Mr. and l Mrs, Laurie, were the servant-maid and the shoptnan. Four days after this, witness . took prisoner before a Magistrate, but nothing was elicited which could cri minate him. The servant-maid was afterwards dis charged in consequence of something the prisoner said of her, but not relating to the robbery. The pri soner was himself discharged on the 3d of August.' The maid servant remained some days longer. Saw nothing of him for a few days, until he called for his clothes. Witness had previously given orders that he should not be admitted to any part of the house, except the shop. He attempted to go down to the kitchen, but was prevented. On Tuests:ty, the 13th of August, two chimney-sweepers came early in the morning, and rang at the bell. They said they were ' ordered to come and sweep the chimnies. They were told that they could not then, but that they must come on Friday morning. This was on the Tuesday.. Witness hearing this, gave directions that no persons should be allowed to sweep his chimnies but Mr. Blown, or some one in his employ. Mr. Brown was sent for next day, and one of his boys came on 'Thurs day. He went up, and thrusting his hand into the flue of the copper found what he at first took to be a bag of nails, but on examination it proved to be the bag containing forty-eight sovereigns which had been stolen from his drawer on the 27th of July. Harrison was again sent for, and he advised that if ele two sweeps who had called on the Tuesday should return on- the Friday, they should be admitted. They did return on the Friday at seven o'clock, and Harrison being on the spot, they were taken into custody. On being 'asked who had employed them, they said the prisoner, who was outside. Harrison went out, and returned with the prisoner. The sweeps then pointed him out as the person who had told them to come and sweep the chimnies. On his cross-examination by Mr. BRODERICK, Mr. Laurie said, that the prisoner had access to all parts of'the house for four days before he gave the order not to have hi m admitted,to the kitchen. William Gillespie, the watchthan, in whose beat Mr. Laurie's house is situated, saw it on the night in question; passed it every half hour; did not see it open till between three and four. At that time two men passing told him Mr. Laurie's house was open. He examined and found it was open, and that Mr.' Laurie had been robbed. Cross-examined.--I did not stop the two men who gave me the information. I go round every half hour. A person during my absence would have time to open the door. I saw nothing to excite my suspicion that night. Lundy. another watchman, corroborated the evi denced' the lait witness. - Anthony Harrison, the City Officer.—l first went to Mr. Laurie's house at about half-past nine on the morning after the robbery. There was no appear ance of force from without, and I am certain the door must bare been opened from within. There was a chain and bar on the street-door, but they had no appearance of having been forced. Somebody must havoopened the door from within. The only ap pearance of force was on the iron chest. I examined the prisoner, and told him that I thought somebody had.broke out, and not broke in. I searched him and the other servants, but nothing was found. On the morning that I arrested the prisoner I was watching opposite Mr. Laurie's house from - five o'clock. At seven 1 saw two chimney-sweeps come. They were let in, and 1 followed. I examined them for about a quarter of an hour. In consequence of something said by the servant girl, I- ran out, and saw the pri soner at the end of Crane-court, leaning against the wall, and singing. I took him into custody, and said, " Mr. Charles, this is found out." He made no reply; I took him over into the presence of Mr. Laurie and his family, and the twochimney-sweeps. The biggest sweep said, " that's the man (to the prisoner) who hired me to sweep the chintnies, mato take the gold out, and I was to have two sovereigns ;" and he aided; I did not mean to take them out of the house, Sir, but to give them to you" (to Mr. Laurie) ; and turning to the prisoner; -he said, and what a pretty mess you have got me into." Prisoner said nothing to this. —The other chitmley-sweep, the little boy, was so frightened, he said nothing. I Wok them all before the Alderman—the prisoner was committed; the sweeps were discharged. This witness was cross-examined, but nothing mate- rial was elicited. Stanley Hogden—l am,one of the sweeping-boys in the service of Mr. Brown. I went to sweep Mr. Laurie's chininey on the Thursday. I found a bag in a flue in the kitchen. The flue was a steam-flue. I gave the bag to the servant girl. I did not know what the contents of it were. 1 thought it was money from the jingle; but I could not see. On searchinig about the flue I found a single sovereign, which I also gave her. Cross-examined—Nobody told me to look for the bag. I was feeling for the copper flue. lam quill certain that - the girl did not tell me to put my hand' into the other flue. Re-examined—lt was by accident that I pot my hand into the steam-flue. Sarah Hebden—l was servant to Mr. lia'nrie at the* time of the robbery. -I remember the ;Oirthe Mr. Brown's boy came to sweep the chirpier' I 1 4 4 4 1101 manner directed the boy to work into theother glue. The'boy found a bag; which I gave to my master. - I saw it contained sovereigns. Afterwards he-found o single sovereign. I was up early on the morning die other sweeps were expected. I was in a (rout root • et in the second pair. Thilititkri * Ifras saw the prisoner, about a quarter of an hoar beforetheswesps came. He was going by, riding . at the back of a ftailveamebri bolding the straps. h told. this Us Hsu-, then afterwards. Witness then corroboiated the tow *many of Harrison as to the statentents of the sweep, in . the prisoner'S presence. Crosvietansined-1 was servant of an-wort in Mr. Laurie's family. I was discharged in consequence ot what the prisoner said.. I was-sicst angry with Lila for what he said of me, for some of whathe said was true, and I don't deny it: Iliad not seen any swe et .; heart that night, or any one but die family..lhad let no person in or out of the house. Thomas Seekens.—l am a chimney-sweeper, of One Tun -court, in the Strand. • I am a climbin i t journeyman to Mrs. Watson. I never was eniploye4 by Mr. Brown. The prisoner at the bar met me id the Strand on the Monday. He said'he had left his place, acid he told me to go and call about weeping the chimney. He told me to inquire for the young girl, or the young lad, and to say that the chinutey had not been swept for three months. He then said that in the copper flue I should find a bag of money ] and that if I brought it to bias he would give me two sovereigns. The money would not chink, he said, for he had tied it up safe. He also told me to say that I came from Mr. Brown. 'I went on the Tues day, and was told to call on the Friday. I told this to the prisoper on the Tuesday, and he said it was all right. The little boy who went with me on the Fri day did not know anything about the money. liar rison took us into custody. Cross• examined.—l am employed by Mrs. Watson. When I went to Mr. Laurie's on the Tuesday, I did not see anybody but the little boy of the shop. I did not see the girl till the Friday. I told the prisoner that I would give the money to Mr. Laurie, and he said I ought to be ashamed of myself. Brown, a chimney-sweeper, who had bee.i ern. ployed for Mr. Laurie for twenty years, said he h not'sent any persons to sweep his chimnies (.1 the Tuesday. Mr. Laurie produced the bag, which he identified as.his_property. Here the case closed for the prosecution. The prisoner, when called on for his defence, sa;d, in a clear and firm tone, that he would leave it all to his Counsel. Mr. John Gill, a chemist and apothecary, slated that the prisoner lived two years and a half wit dining which time he conducted himself with the ut most propriety. Witness reposed the greatest confi dence in him, and always found him extre • ely cor rect in his morals. Mr. Holdgate, a silk-dyer, had knofn the prisoner from his infancy: he always bore a good character. The ItEconneit summed up the evidence, and the Jury, after consulting together for about six minutes, returned a verdict of - Guilty—Death. The Foreman said— , e We very strongly recom mend him to mercy, on account of his previous ex cellent character and his youth." The *RECORDER 3:11 J, the recommendation should certainly be conveyed to his Maje s ty. The trial occupied from sir till nine o'clock, and the Court was crowded in every part during its pro gress.—The prisoner, throughout, appeared perfectly composed. A few evenings ago, while the family were busily engaged serving customers, a thief contrived to get up stairs into the bed-room of Mr. TrroNt AS, landlord of the Green Man, Stratford, and plundered a de,k of 400 sovereigns, a £2O note, and three valuable watches, with which he got clear off. Saturday, John Costello, who was capitally con victed, with others, at the late Cork Assizes, for the abduction of Miss GOOLD, suffered the sentence of the law in the city of Cork, in presence of an im mense crowd of specta - ors. THE LATE MRS. DONATTY.—NO heir being found to claim the property.of the late Mrs. DONATTY, Mr. MAWLE, the King's Proctor, has taken possession of her late house, in Robert-street, with the furniture, &c. An inventory has been printed of the property, among which are several original paintings and drawings of the late GEORGE N/ORLAND. Monday, as Mr:Blackburn 4 km. a butcher, at B3W, was driving his gig near Bow-bridge, a heap of stones overturned the vehicle, and Mr. Blackburn was so much hurt as to leave but faint hopes of his recovery. BIRTH. --- Friday, at Belle Vue, St. Leonard, in Colchester, the Lady of Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. W. H. Gardner, of a son. MARRIED. At Berwick, Lieut. John Procter Sanderson% R.N. to Eleanora, youngest daughter of Mr.G.Nicholson, Surveyor of the Customs. Thursday se'nnight, at Dublin, Richard Warren, M.D. to Margaret, second daughter of Wiliam Pennefather, Esq. Col lector of Excise fof the city of Cork. At Kirkby-Stephen, Mr. dill, Surgeon, to Ann, daughter of Matthew Robinson, Esq. of Skellside, near Kirkby-Stephen. August 31, at Lancaster, David Hannay, Esq. of Lochbank, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Affieck, Esq. of Lancaster. Tuesday, John Leycester Adolphus F.aq. Barrister at Law , to Clara, eldest daughter of the late R owland Richardson, Esq. of Streatham. DI ED., • Sept. 10, at Dalham, near Newmarket, John Murray, Esq. formerly Captain and Adjutant in the Cambridge Volunteeri. August 30. Mr. Thomas Whitten, for many years Recorder of Enniskillen. Sept. 4, Lieut. Peter Truppo, It. N. aged 38. 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