Star. — London, England, 1822-09-27 00:00:00

ry:. 1.4 , 11 , : tkr"" ,~ A*o . • oLD BAILEY SESSIONS. .1 4 1 Yesterday, Martha Fox was indicted for stealing two pair of stays, the property of Elizabeth Turner. The prosecutrix keeps a haberdasher's* shop in Marchmont-street ;has an imperfect knowledge of the prisoner; she came to the witness shop and *lrked the price of an article, when she missed the stays, on which the witness pursued her and overtook her. The stays were thrown over a fence in an ad joining street. Thomas Matthews heard a cry of" Stop thief!" it- in Joseph-Street ; saw the prisoner running away) w Vas took her into custody. Smith, the constable, produced the articles, which were identified by the prosecutrix. The prisoner declined asking the witnesses any questions, or to make a defence. In tears she said she •had no friends.—Guilty.—Aged 14. Smith, the officer, said her friends were respectable, but did not know of her trial coming en. The Cover.—l dare say she was driven to this by distress.—The prosecutrix earnestly recommended her to mercy. Charles Askew, a respectable looking young man, was indicted for stealing, on the Slst of July, 1821, twelve silver spoons, and a variety of other articles of plate, the property of Robert Garrard and others. Mr. ALLEY stated the case for the prosecution. The prisoner kept a small shop in St. James s-street ; he went to the prosecutor's to borrow the articles in question; they were sent accordingly; the prisoner Ara the servant of the prosecutor on the way, and wished to take them, but the servant properly de clined, and took them according to the direction ; the prisoner received them, and never returned them, al though several applications were made to him. He contended that according to law a person who bor., rowed a horse or any other thing for a short time, and applied it to his own use, was guilty of a felony. William Robinson is servant to the prosecut ors ; an application was made by the servant of the prisoner to the witness, °retire day in question, and the articles were sent ; does nut know, only by repute, that it was the prisoner's servant; about seven weeks back the witness saw the prisoner go into a shop in Bow-street, he followed him, when he stated that he bad seen one •orthe prosecutors, and made an arrangement to re turn the articles. A little time after he had the goods, kis shop was shut up. Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUL—He had bor. towed other spoons, does nut know whether the con versation applied to these spoor - , only supposes so because all the others were returned. Mr. ADOLPHUS objected to this mode of examina tion.—Mr. ALLEY replied. The CosiNION SEEJEANT thought there could be no . explanation necessary, because of course the conver sation between the prosecutor and the prisoner ap plied to the spoons which had not been returned. He considered the explanation complete. Therefore the objection was over-ruled. Herbert Gilbert examined.—Witness is a potter to the prosecutors; carried the spoons and forks to the prisoner's, and delivered them at his house ; on his way he met the prisoner, who asked whether he had got them ? Witness said - yes. He wished them to he delivered in the street ; witness refused, and took them accot dieg to direction, and delivered them to the pri soner's servant, in the prisoner's presence ; saw the pri soner some days afterwards, and requested the spoons and frisks; he said they were locked up, and he could nut get at them ; saw the boy afterwards, whom he supposed to be the prisoner's servant. Cross-examined—Called a day or two after the deli y at the prisoner's house by request of his employe, s, di 1 not know that the le ismer had purchased articles of elate several times of his master. Frederick Preston, a shopman to the prosecutors, deposed as to the order heieg delivered and executed; never had any other dealings with the prisoner ; he absconded, but winless afterwards saw him in Pall- Mall, when he tried to.evade witness ; he had some conversation with him about the spoons; prisoner said he was done up and ruined, and a drowning man , would catch at anything; was sorry for what he had dOne, and that distress was the cause of his improper conddet ;he said they were in pawn, and if prosecutors would take them out he would give his bill for the di&rence; he stated where the spoons were deposited on pledge ; the value of them was la. or 201. Cross-examined—They were lent to him, not for sale, but for him to lend to another person for use • prosecutors got back the duplicates. Slr, Arcbbutt, the pawnbroker, produced the forks end spoons, on which IW. ss. was lent by him ; they were pledged in the name of Church. The articles produced were identified by the pro secutors' servant. Mr. Anoeenus—Witness knew the spoons by the crest; did not know whose crest it was, or whose pro perty they originally were; there might h ave been 1000 spoons with such a trest, for aught he knew. The prisoner,who seemed deeply affected at the situ ation in which he stood, called witnesses,who gave him a..good character. - The C 91111401 4, SERJZANT, in summing up, said the question for the consideration of the Jury was, whe ther he had a guilty intention at the time of borrow ing? if he had , - he was guilty of felony. There wns doo doubt but that the young man had a good cha tacter up to a certain time ; if any doubt existed on the minds of the Gentlemen, as to the identity of the articles, the prisoner was entitled to it. The Jury returned a verdict of °Witty. DOMCS Shepherd was charged with feloniously re ceiving a quantity of 'let al pipe, the property of the London Gas Company, knowing the same to have been stolen. The prisoner, it appears, keeps an old iron shop Field-lane,ties Holborn, and purchased the pipe in erections which was sworn above the value of four shillings, for sixpence-halfpenny, from a workman' in the employment of the Gas Company, who was nfterwards convicted of having stolen it, and who bad on his working dress when he sold it.—ThieJury found the prisotter—Guitt.y. The Recoanza said, that a shop of the description of the prisoner's was a most dangerous thing, unless honestly conducted ; and, therefore, to bold out an example to others engaged in that kind of busineek, the sentence of the Court was, that he be publicly whipped, and kept to hard labotur in the House of Correction for six calendar months. Me briars war pet to the bar for stealing from ..,; ~:; g 17?! raw-. . - the stables at sli. Robert Nrignan trop eaaelmentia, boa coats, the property of the Worthy Baronet. John Ireland, a witness, stated that he had known the prisoner upwards of twenty yews. Early on the morning named in the indictment, he met him on Stratford road, with a long bundle under his arm, and was asked by him to give him a ride to town. Witness agreed, on condition thit theprisoner Would give hilts some in ; but on hi's . saying he had no money in his poiet, witness a •,, treat the pri soner. On the road the latter *,, ad bought the coats, and was going to sell th a Mr. Levy, a Jew, residing near Mile-end Old Town; where, at his request, the witness set him down. Witness said to him, " John, d—n me ifl don't think you prigged them there coats; but the prisoner protested that he had not; that he came by theme honestly, and paid for them 21.125. The prisoner, on being secured, had told the officer that he had sold the coats at a house in the netorioui Field-lane, at the bottom of Holborn-hill, for 21.165. On being charged with the theft he cried very much, acknowledging that he had sold the property, and regretted that he had acted so ill towards Sir Robert. from whom it appears that, besides other kindnesses, he received an allowance of seven shillings per week, being past his labour. The Jury "found the prisoner Guilty, but recom mended him to mercy. The Common SELMAN!' said he should attend to -their recommendation; but the offence was certainly aggravated by the sort of return which the prisoner had made for Sir Robert Wigram's good offices to. wards him. Mary Bates wayindicted fcir stealing seven sove reigns trom the person of Beecher. The prosecutor, a seafaring man, stated, that he lodged at the prisoner's house, and about sit o'clock on the evening of the 7th of July, he returned home quite sober. He went up stairs, and observed that a board was out of the partition of the room in which he slept. It was only occupied by himself, and he had locked it on that morning on going out. He had eight sovereigns in his pocket, and went down, when the prisoner, who keeps a public-house, was stand- i ing at her bar, and asked witness to treat her. Hsi made her no answer. An old man who was there, then asked him to treat him. Witness said he had no small change, but gave him a sovereign, and di rected him to get change for it at the bar, and keep a shilling himself. The old man ran off with the so vereign, and when witness was about to pursue him,' the prisoner caught him by the arm, pulled him back, and shut the bar door. She put her hand into his pocket, and took out his seven sovereigns. He laid hold of her arm, and asked her to return them. She said she should not, and told him to go to hell. The witness did not know what to do. He is a Ile noverian, and has been eleven years in the East India Company's surveying service. He did not call out; he was a stranger; several soldiers were in the tap room. Witness went up stairs to consider what to do, and expected that his money would be returned to him next morning. He went to bed quite sober, and on the next day, at eight o'clock, lie went down and asked the prisoner for his money. She replied, " Go to hull, you old fool: what I got, you gave me tospend." Witness said he would go to a friend, who would enable him to see into it. She said, "Go to hell, old fool, out of this." Witness called on a ship mate of his, and went with him tO the Thames Police Office. The transaction took place on a Monday; he called',ll his fiend on Wednesday, and went to the Office on Thursday. He slept in the prisoner's house on Tuesday night, and with his shipmate on Wed nesday night. She would not allow him to takA away hi. box and bedding. When he called for it, she told him to go to hell. lie is now in prison at the hus band's suit, for a false debt. Cross-examined by NI:. Asoaswa.—They arrested him for £l9, about three weeks ago. He had re ceivtd twentrone sovereigns, four of which he had parted with before lie went to Bates's house, and paid five to Mrs. Bates for lodgings. The rest of his cro.,s examination went to skew how he had spent his money; and the possibility of his having lost it, by going to a house where there was a dance. James Jones saw the prosecutor receive L'..10 odd, in the ship agent's office. He was the friend to whom the prosecutor went on the Wednesday. A warrant vas taken out, in consequence of which the prisoner attended there ;.but whether voluntarily or not, be did 'trot know. This was the case for the prosecution. Elizabeth Hinkley, the wife of an Excise Officer, swore that she went out with Mrs. Bates on the tit!' of July (Monday), and parted from her in Ratcliffe high way, at about half-past four o'clock. She then went directly to Mrs. Bates's house, and stayed there until nine o'clock, at which time Mrs. Bates had not returned, nor was the prosecutor there. Witness at tended at the Police Office, whete she gave the same account which she has given here; and told the pro secutor before the Magistrates that what he said was' untrue, as Mrs. Bates was not in the house at the time he stated the transaction to have taken place. Eleanor Holt, wife of a labourer in the East India . Company's service, swore that the prisoner came to skink tea with her on the day in question, at about four o'clock, and they went out together at five to shops. Witness and prisoner went to the house of the latter at about half-past eight o'clock, at which timel, Beecher was not there. Witness then went home. On the nest Wednesday she was at the prisoner's house, when she saw the prosecutor come these in a coach with two women of the town. He said, "Mo ther, get some dinner for me and these twe women." She replied, that " she would get him some, but none' for the women: he owed her enough , alieasly." Anne Tabbing also swots t 6 an alibi. The prosecutor was then se-estuniised by the Its. cotton' as to whether he owed the prisoner any money upon a former account for board and lodging, about three years and a half ag o said he owed her nothing, for her bus went to Doctors' CaßignOint drew his money, and paid himself. The prisoner received algOod character, and thy Jury, without waiting for the itaannwen to en Nip the evidence, returned a verdict of ileepiiirel.. The Court refused the proseiutor his septum . - The follsiwing wereatee convicted of els"— Moses Wasenosa. owl Jap t isi sisal•B • waleaamst; TWIN phgrdy iipd newt KO* mole; Nis is, kw stealing W ; Hwy 3 oath Nod 11. atiodlos a •caatitaapsaa I Tclba MoWsop, . flo• pro. as min;; Job* Mawr, iitil Ali, .aces.itivka 4100 Hoary aerbsdopt If, Sae "Mai a laer i aoaoo; David aged 15, tat males a M.* mossta; #,, ..~ ~~ :~; ferarattlf Wry' Jahis Balfeele, aged 711, is a Massa* Of email Barrisead, called Dovetot6hall. Some time. things went against him; but to secure himself flintily kom utter ruin, he got the name of daughters inserted in the tack. All went smoothly, till Miss Balfour got married to Adam who eared less aboat the woman than he did tack; and was alivays spurring his wife to farm from her fathers Another cause of was die old man not giving up a cow acd rich they insisted he had promised them, but which he declared he never did, as it was the only mode of subsisting himself and his wife. On Wed desday afternoon die parties had some little spirits ; they then adjourned homewards, but had scarcely entered the threshold of the door, when the young man began to use the most dreadful imprecations to. wards his father-in-law, who in a serious manner reproved him, telling him not to blaspheme the name of the GOD of mercy, to whom alone they ought td look for their present support and everlasting happi: ness; but all return for this advice was a must furious-. attack by his son-in-law, who afterwards dragged him to his own house, which is adjacent, and them seizing a poker, he struck at the old man, who, still being of a powerful muscular make, made every effort to save himself from the deadly weapon, but he was ultimately overcome, and felled to the floor. While in this defenceless state, his antagonist, with sa. rage ferocity, struck him in a manner shocking to humanity, inflicting twenty-six wounds, besides con tusions, on the face, arms, and legs. There are four. teen wounds on the left arm, four' wounds on the. face, the temporal bones on each side of his head being fractured, four wounds on the left leg, five wounds on the right leg, one of the bones being frac tured. The neighbours immediately sent fibr Dr. COLQVUOUN, who came and found the old man stretched on the floor in a state of insensibility, and unable to speak. His. wounds were then dressed, and his leg set, and he has since continued, by the unre mitting attention and skill of the able surgeon, and the strength of his own excellent constitution, in a very favouraule state, and is expected to recover.--. When the Doctor questioned Wallace as to the cause of the affray ? he said he called the old man a Highland -, and the old man had replied by calling him a beast. The Procurator kais. ley immediate:y . took a precognition of the case.._ Wallace and wife have been lodged Us Paisley jail.—Glasgow Chronicle. • Edward 131b1, .tt*, due dallies ttire. beishrs.,• Wee Tat. ' aim, vied set. and ipearli Bent, uk fer.stiAleg a :oho aged If, 'for stadia§ a tote, Ate. 'eke glinart, oiled U r . ja r 4s, ter steeling two coats; Rebecca flitch, aPe01.92, for dealing farm at B - a b eam ' Bas. Doughty, aged 19, and Jolla time, aged U. for stealing five mats ; and Samuel Maths, aged 1111, foe' steal- lyro thing fog 2a. Id. &c. and his fs The following were acquitted, v one of his Joseph Day, aged 22; Joseph Murrell, ie. aged 24 *Mtn on - smoot h Bonner, aged 29 ; Samuel Midland, aged 64.;. George Man, Wallace.ged 2;; Patrick Maguire, aged 59 ; Dike Homey, aged 501 W Thomas Waiter, aged 34; Davkl Hickey, aged 51 ; Michael about the Homey, aged 14 ; Gilbert Kean, aged 30 ; Richard 11111, aged 14 take the Wm. MiDonald, aged 17 ; James Hawkins, aged 44; Elisabeth quarrel w Gibbs, aged 22 - ; David Aaron Philips, aged 22 ; George Cock- ai r , whic rant, aged 14 ; and Wm. Wade, aged 23 . which he MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. ' YesterdayJameaSimpsonlifaddocks,a young French man, was indicted for defrauding Henry Bailey, of 9s. under false pretences, on the 23d September. Mr. Henry Bailey stated that he lived with Dr. Young, in Welbeck-street. The prisoner came to Dr. Young's on Monday last, and brought with him tss . bottles of Eau de Cologne, which he said the Doctor had ordered from Mr. Johnstoris, the perfumer, in Oxford-street, and that he, the prisoner, was to be paid 9s. for them. The witness paid him the money, and he gave him a receipt for it. In the course of Monday the witness called at Mr/Johoston's, and found the bottles had not been sent by him, and that he had several applications of a similar nature. On Tuesday morning he saw the prisoner in Queen Anne street ; he tapped him on the shoulder, and told him that Dr. Young had not ordered the Roth de Cologne, On which the prisoner said it was a axistake, and re turned him the 9s. He then took the prisoner to Welbeck-street, and from thence to Mr. 'Johnston's, in Oxford-street. The prisoner hal a great number of bottles with him, when he met him on the Tries-, day morning. In answer to a question put by. theDuatastAtu, he said he had not returned the two bottles to the prisoner. The CnAta►uAW.—" So-the prisoner has lost his Eau de Cologne, and you have indicted him for a aud, although you got your money back ?' The witness. said lie did it at the request of Mr. Johnstqn. A' person in the employ of kr. Johnston stated, that chere were several similar charges against the prisoner, as that of Dr. Young's, but it was thought that one indictment would be sufficient. The CHAIRMAN.—" Then you have taken the worst case to ground your indictment on, for the pro-' secutor has lost nothing." He dip observed to the Jury, that he had no doubt but the prisoner was a bad fellow, but at present there was no indictment against him which could be supported, it was there fore their duty. to acquit him. The Jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoner was discharged. John Gee, a coal -meter, a decent-looking man, up wards of sixty years of age, was indicted for having committed an indecent assault on Elizabeth Becket, a beautiful little girl only eight years of age, at Clap ton, on the Bth of August last. Ht. was convicted on the evidence of the child and that of the mother, the nature of which is too indelicate to report. Isaac Jones, of Princes-street, Red Lion-square, was indicted for a violent assault committed upon Jane his wife, on the 22d inst. Flom the evidence of Mrs. Jones, it appeared that the prisoner came home on last Sunda}* evening, and because she would not supply him with more money to return to the ale-house, he attacked her in a brutal way with a fire shovel, and cut her head in a dread ful manner. _ The COURT interrogated the prosecutrir and pri soner, from which it appeared that they were most heartily tired of one another; and the only question upon which they seemed to agree, was a strong desire to separate for ever. Jones was found Guilty, and he was bound in his owu recognizance to keep the peace to his wife. KING'S BEYCII.—The Adjourned Sittings for Mid dlesex will commence on the 15th of October ; the Court m ill be occupied with common Jury trials till the 19th inclusive, when the special Jury cases will commence and last till the 26th. The Sittings will be in the Court of Common Pleas. On Monday, the 28th of October, the London Adjourned Sittings - commence with common Jury cases, and on the 91st special Jury cases will be heard, till the list of re am:sets is exhausted, for it is understood that the Loan CHIB3 JUSTICX will not try any of the new special- Jury causes. Tilt LATE AFFRAY AT CHIPPINHAM.—Mr. MOM is in a fair way of getting about again, though, it is feared, with the total loss of one eye. Messrs. Guy and Michell, the respectable solicitors ofChippeuhans, are engaged to prosecute,_ at the joint expense of the parish and the relatives of the deceased. Cnict.—Letters from Chili have been received to a late date. One of them contains an important tact, and that is,that the existing Government has been in some measure compelled to yield to the force of pub lic opinion, and agree to adopt a Representative sys tem. The present Government established in Cbili is, with some very trifling modifications, the same that was formed immediately after the liberation of the country from the Spaniards, when Gen. O'Higgins, supported by the Buenos Ayres Government, and the liberating army, was made Supreme Director ; but without the &treaties ngessary either to give con sistency or legality to the acts of a free Government. —This establishment was then considered temporary. although it has continued ever since.. It was fortu nate that the supreme command fell into the hands DI a man like O'Higgins. whose mild and disin terested character served ep coolants parties, yet tba progress of time has shewa thee the 'Executive was too weak. the administration of jestice defective. and at length even the people of Chili, the most Oleg.' made of the *tube= Continent, feel that they =ln the most essential requisite of free men, and require a natio - AI rtpraeastatsors, and a Code of defined and fated laws.--Odor letters by the same conveyance, mention. that she Chiloe Islands had surrendered to the faces sent by the Government of Chili. The bonding system had also been established at Valpa raiso. by which means considerable losses will be for if, after such extensive shipments as eve been made to the Pacifie, merchants had been obliged to sell their cargoes where they were pi► sibly compelled to •laird tbsai order to seed their Tinsels bat*, sad &as avoid ;kg iipePsed WV* ~ BRUTAL OUTRAGE AND METRDER. Tuesday, an Inquest was taken at the Bull public• house, at Burling, before J. N. DUDLOW, Esq. Co.. roner, on view of the body of Ellen Nl‘earthy, a poor old woman, aged 65, who was most cruelly and in humanly beat an I abused by a set of young men, on, the evening of the Sunday preceding, and Iron, which barbarous treatment she survived but a few honi From the evidence adduced on the Inquest, it ap peared that - the deceased and her husband had been drinking at the Bull public-house on Sunday after noon, and on their return to Mr. Addison's (u here they were hopping, and had been so employed 1:r the last twenty years), a shod distance from the pub -Ik-horse, they observed fifteen or sixteen young men standing by the stream. They had also been drink• ing at the public-house, and had declared that they would have a row Frith the deceased and her hus band, who, when they approached them, were seized by these fellows; the former was knocked down in the hedge and struck on her temples, they then kicked her and hit her with their fists. Whit.: this was going on, some of them took the old man up bodily, and carried him and threw him into a ditch some distance off, saying---- ,, We have done [or the old —, and we will now do as we like with the old —." They' continued to abuse the poor old woman, and proceeded to acts too horrible and dis gusting.to name. At this juncture a man, named Flint, who also worked for ,Nlr. Addison, came slang, and the fellows made off. He took the old man out of the ditch ; the deceased he found lying in the road quite senseless and speechless. The old man took her up, and endeavoured to carry her home, but his strength failed him ; he laid her in a hedge in a field adjoining, where she expired a few hours after wards. He knew one of the men who was ringleader in the affair, his name he said was Adds, but hone of the rest he could recognize. The deceased, it ap peared, at the commencement of the transaction, was somewhat in liquor, but able to proceed from the public-house homeward without any assistance. Air. George Perfect, surgeon, who examined the body of the deceased, deposed, that she had several bruises about the body and head. He opened the head, and found that the scalp was detached from the bone in several places, particularly on each temple, and over the left eye, from the effects of external violence. On removing part of the skull, he found nearly half a pound of coagulated blood upon the brain, from a rupture of the principal blood vessel, which was the cause of the deceased's death. She died from apo plexy, but whether the rupture of the blood vessel was occasioned frornintoxication, or from any vio lence or bruises which die received, he could not po sitively say. He thought the external violence which caused the bruises was sufficient to rupture the ves sel. After the evidence had been gone through, the Coroner proceeded to address the Jury, who, after some deliberation, prono unced a verdict of *Aid Murder against Thomas Adds, and other persons un known. Adds has since been taken, and committed to the county jail, under the Coroner's warrant ; the others have, for the present, eluded the haud-uf jus. dm—Maidstone journal. Tuesday night, a room in the Prince of Sara Co burg public-house, in the Kent-road, was feloniously entered, and_ a quantity of money, plate, and other valuable property, stolen therefrom. ♦RR. OVIR 0 0 1 0 1 0 a, 0 • o 0 0 9- 1110D01 TO 1 .% • es azimatse *v. 11. MALL& mut. ou I. 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