The National Register. — London, England, 1822-09-15 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. .... WEDNESDAY, SEPT. I I.—These sessions commenced this morning before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Mr. Baron Graham, Mr. Justice Best, and Mr. Justice Richardson. After the jury were sworn several prisoners were ar raigned and pleaded Not Guilty. Thomas Leathwick Robinson, a decent looking man, was capitally indicted for forging and counterfeiting the the Goldsmiths'-hall mark to four silver bottle labels. Mr Holland staled to the jury the offence with which the prisoner stood charged. There was am:titer indict. anent for a minor offence, to which the prisoner had pleaded guilty, and which would subject nun to traits- ! portation for 14 years. In consequence of the prisoner having given some information to the Stamp Office, he should therefore, with the permission of the Court, not ' call any evidence on the charge. No evidence being called, the prisoner was acquitted, bin his plea of Guilty to the minor offence was recorded, and under that he was detained. Mary Watts was indicted for rotating R. Fenton. From the evidence of the prosecutor it appeared, that he was hustled by some girls of the town in Bow -street, who 6 .• hint down and took his toottey . OM of his pocket; but as he admitted that he hail been drinking very freely at the time, and his evidence against the prisoner not being very clear, the jury mid r the recommendation of Mr. Justice Best; acquitted her. OASIS STEALING.—SamueI Wilson was capitally indicted for stealing a gelding, value forty pounds. the property of John Gibbert, a fanner, at Sulam), in War wickshire. From the evidence of Limbrick, the officer, it appeared that, on the 19th of August last, he observed the prisoner near the Peacock, at Islington, on the horse in question, without saddle or bridle, which from, its jaded appsar• atice, and the prisoner enquiring for a stable-yard, he suspected had been stolen. Prisoner was directed to the yard of a Jlr. Brown, to - which Limbrick followed him, and asked if the horse was to be sold. Prisoner replied iu the affirmative, and said the price would be 48 guineas. Limbrick then, tinder the pretence of bargaining with hint, took hint to the public.house called the Blue Coat Boy, gave him in a charge to a man named Mills, and thett told him his suspicions. Limbrick left the house for a few minutes, and shortly after saw the prisoner run ning and pursued by several persons calling" stop thief." After a long chace he was secured in Leather-lane, when he confessed that he had stolen the horse from the fields of Mr. Gibbert, in Warwickshire. Mr. Gibber' moved the horse to be his property, and the jury immediately found him Guilty. The prisoner was a good looking young mart, only twenty one years of age, and had formerly been in Mr. Giblaert's employ. Isaac Knight was indicted for stealing a bay horse, the property of Thomas Lewis. Mr. Lewis was a livery-stable keeper in Whitechapel, and on the 22t1 of August last the prisoner came to his yard with a break and a pair of horses, and said lie wanted to look at two or three horses for Mr: Fage, the coach proprietor, in Hatboro. Mr. Lewis said he had but one, which he might take, if he chose, to shew to Mr. Fagg. The prisoner took the horse away, but as it was afterwards discovered, he never took it to Mr. Fagg, nor did he return it to Mr. Lewis. On the 6th of Sep tember the prosecutor heard that the prisoner was at a stable.yard at the West-end of the town. He went to see him, and he immediately confessed hasitig sold the horse to Messrs. Dean and Dance of Hampstead, in whose possession the animal was. lie then gave the prisoner into custody. Mr. Robert Fagg, proved that the prisoner was not commissioned by hum to go to Lewis for horses. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty—Death. Thomas Hayes, a smartly dressed young man, but of notorious character in the police annals, was capitally indicted for stealing. in the dwelling-house of John Mortimer- 17 dimity bed curtains, value 5Us. his property. The Jury found hint Guilty—Death. Aged 22. John Cocker, aged 14, was indicted for stealing a watch, the property of a Mr. Woodward, in whose service he was. The Jury found him guilty, and the prosecutor recoms mended hint to mercy, on account of his youth. Mr. Justice Best said it was a very proper recommen dation, and should be attended ; but he wished Mr. Woodward would cot:carom to get him :admission to the refuge for the destitute, and inform hint ().Ir. Justice Best) of the result of his application. Mr. Woodward said he would do so. ( afiffe the Itecortkr and a London Jury.) John Chard, a young man, was indicted for stealing fifteen ounces of tea, the property of Ttiomas and John Crossley. The 'Messrs. Crossly are wholesale tea dealers in Nicholas-lane, Lombarchatreet, and the prisoner was Was an occasional porter in the warehouse. Ott the 24th of July the exciseman, in taking his survey found a con siderable deficiency in their stock. Suspicion rested upon the prisoner 31 the cause of that deficiency, but no op portunity of discovering his guilt occurred until the 15th of August, when Mr. Thomas Cross.y, early in the morning, concealed himself on the stairs of the ware house, and saw hint put a parcel of about three-quarters of a pound in his pocket. lie was then given into the custody of Drinkwater, of the police, who found several more parcels of tea at his lodgings. Ile also found ten sovereigns in his box, and snore money in his pockets. The j'iry found I guilty. He pleaded for mercy, and said he had a wife and two children, and that dis tress alone MU Induceti him to rob his masters. The Recorder said, :his could not be, as a considerable sum was found in his pos se,;Mit. He ought to be sent out of the country, but :he court would consider of it. THURSDAY, Sere. 12.—jcliti Bro.; unin Brookes was arraigned for forging and uttering s lowa certain receipt for the sum of 151. 109. purporting to the receipt of William Clarke, well knowing the saute to tailuffSed• Ater the indictment had bt.en read, the:prittow: THE NATIONAL REGISTER dressed the Recorder, and requested his trial might be ttomponed, in consequence of the absence of a material winless. The Recorder replied, that no motion for the postponement of trial could me mode until the whole of the indictment had been read. When the clerk of the trraigns was reading over the names of the Jury, the prisoner said lie wished to challenge some of them, as he understood they came from Hammersmith, and be lieved that a person named Gregson was intimately ac qoainted with them. Several of the Jury observed, as their names were called, in reply to questions from the prisoner, that they certainly knew the person he had named, but had no acquaintance with him of the nature spoken of. This appeared satisfactory to the prisoner, and she Jury were sworn. lie was then removed from the bit.. Robert Crowe, a young man of genteel appearance, was indicted for stealing a si:ver watch, the property of T. Richards, from his person, on the I Ith of August. The Jury found. him guilty. He was then called up for judgment, and sentenced to be transported fur life. Stephen Tool, aged lb, was capitally convicted on an indictment charging him with burgiarionsly breaking the shop window of Mr. John Scott, linen-draper, of Parliament -street, and stealing thereout 18 silk hand kerchiefs, his property. R. Railway, aged 19, and S. Greenwood, aged 25, were capitally indicted for assaulting Richard Ives, on the king's highway, and taking front his verso'', five gold seals, his property. It appeared that the prosecutor, who resides on Beth nal-green, was passing through Church-street on the 11th of Auguat, and when near the Flower Pot public house, observed the prisoner, Ramsay, coining towards hint. At that moment he heard some one behind him cough out. At that instant Ramsay snatched at his seals, but the prosecutor having taken the precaution to secure his watch, a second snatch, accompaniAd by a violent blow in his side, was made before the seals were detach ed from the chain. Ramsay then ran up a court, fol lowed by Greenwood, who exclaimed, " I)—it him, 111 have him , but they both escap.al. The prosecutor then, in company with two officers, went to several flash-houses, and ultimately found the prisoners in com pany at the George, in George-yard, W hitecitapel.— Ramsay, immediately on seeing the officers enter, en deavoured to get away, but was secured and identified by the prosecutor. Mr. Justice Best summed up at great length, when the Jury returned a verdict of guilty against Ramsay, and acquitted Greenwood. The prisoner, on hearing the verdict, said he hoped the prosecutor would recommend him to mercy. Mr. Ives replied, that he should be doing an act of injustice to his country if he ditl. Tug CASE or BROOLES.—John Benjamin Brookes, was again brought to the bar about one o'clock, and put in an affidavit, swearing that he had not been able to pro cure the attendance of a witness material for his defence. Upon thisaffidavit Mr. Platt, counsel for the prisoner, moved the court fur the postponement of the trial until next sessions. Mr. Alley said he should offer no opposition, if the court thought sufficient had been offered to induce it to consent to a postponement. As a man (laying his hand upon his heart) he wished most heartily the prisoner should have every possible facility afforded him to enable him, if lie could, to wipe off the stain which was at present affixed to his character. The affidavit was then handed to the prisoner, who signed it, anti the trial was ordered to 'woo over until the next sessions. The prisoner, meanwhile, will re main in custody pursuant to an order of the court. W. Lester, a black seaman, was indicted for stealing twelve sovereigns and Mile guineas, the property of Ded rick Sedenburg. The Jury found him not guilty. J. Banjo-, aged 20, was capitally indicted for break ing and entering the dwelling-house of Thos. Langford, and stealing therein eight knots of silk, his property. The prosecutor lives at Bethnal-green, and is a silk weaver. On the Bth of August, his house was broken open, and plundered of a quantity ol• silk, and other property, which was traced to the possession of the pri toller. He was f d guilty death. Edmund Nlustoe, a young man 20 yerrs of age, in the dress of a seaman, was indicted eapit ally, for steal ing a gold brooch, value 31. a gold watch value 201. a snuffbox value 31. and other property to a considerable anioutit, in the dwelling•house of F. Boyce. Mr. B is a gentleman of fortune residing in Hayes place, St. blary•lo-botte. He had at the back of his 11131151011 a stable, over which there was att apartment fitted up as a sleeping-room, in which Mr. Boyce himself occasionally slept. lu the latter end of June he wen' out of town lor a fortnight, leaving in a bureau in the sleeping-room the property in question. Ott his return to London, be Mond his bureau locked as he had left it, but on opening it the whole of his property was mis sing. Mr. Boyce made immediate inquity about the matter, and ascertained that the prisoner, who was ne phew to Mr. B's. housekeeper, bad, during the absence of Mr. Boyce, slept several nights in the room, and sus picion naturally fell moot him, and Mr. Boyce on the evening of the sth of July found him in Broad-street, Golden-square, and pee him in charge to a watchman. On time way to the watcli.house, the prisoner said to Mr. Boyce, " My God, Sir, don't take me to the watch house. I shall return all your property to-morrow."— M r. Boyce told hull not to say any thing to coos ict hint. IViien the prisoner was searched, Three duplicates were 'num! upon I , one of wind' was for a pearl brooch, belorigitig to Mr. Boyce, which hail been pledged at the shop td Mr. Dry, a pawnbroker. in St. Martin's-lane, by a boy a sew (lays before. lit the course of the night the prisoner confessed to the constable that he had stolen the articles in question, and said lie had pawned tae watch at Mr. Dry's, and sold the Duplicate to a Mr. Turner. )'his was lotind upon inquiry to be the fact ; and it was found also, that Tur ner had given 31. to the prisoner for the duplicate, and had redeemed the watch, which was pledged for 141. Mr. Boyce in his examination said, the watch was worth 40 guineas. The key of the part of the bureau in which the property in question was deposited, was in the top of the bureau, which could only be removed by a seaman or a calrmet.waker• It was in fact a sea Chest. S:veral very respectable witnesses gave the prisoner a good character, and stated hire to be reputably comirecred. The jury round the prisoner guilty; but recommended him to mercy, on account of his previous good character. Mr.. Boyce begged to state the grounds upon which he wished to join in the reco 11111 l eridarron. When he discovered the robbery, the friends of the prisoner ex vetoed their earliest anxiety mat lie should be brought to justice, and gave all the assistance in their power to procure his arrest. He (NIL Boyce) had dilcovered also that the prisoner was truly penitent before lie found Min, and that he would have given himself op tile next morn ing, haJ he not been arrested on the night mentioned. Mr. Justice Richardson said, the recommendation of the jury and prosecutor, should most certainly be at tended to. ROBBERY or MR. LAURIE'S House —Charles lin bioson, a genteel-looking and well-dressed boy, about 16 years old, was indicted for skaling a bag containing 411 sovereiuns, and other property, belonging to Nlr. Laurie, of Fleet-street. Mr. Adolphus stated the case to the Jury.—(We have already given the particulars of the robbery, and the hint ing of a bag, containing the sovereigns. by a chimney sweeper in a flue, in our Police Report—the facts proved on the trial wire precis:Ay the same.) The prisoner, when culled on for his defence, said, in a clear and firm voice, that he would leave it all to Its counsel. Mr. John Gill, a chymist and apothecary, slated, that the prisoner li.eil two years and a half with him, during which time he conducted himself with the utmost pro. priety; witness reposed the greatest coofidence in him, and always found him extremely correct in his morals. Mr. 11(.1114a te, a silk dyer, had known the prisoner since his infancy. lie always !mire an excellent cha racter. The Recorder summed up the evidence, and the Jury, after consulting together for about six minutes, returned a verdict of Guilty—Death. The Foreman said, " We very strongly recommend hint to mercy on account of his previous excellent cha racter and his youth." The Recorder said, the recommendation should cer tainly be conveyed to his Majesty. The trial lasted from s•x till nine o'clock, and the Court was crowded in every part during its progress..— The prisoner throughout appeared perfectly composed. FE IDA Y, SEPT. 13 —This morning, at the opening of the Court, John Morr►uu and Jones were ar raigned for the wilful murder of a new born child. Both pleaded not guilty. uxnett.--Thoinas Prior, who stood charged upon the verdict of a coroner's jut y with the wilful murder of Elizabeth Martin, was then placed at the lhar. The pri boiler, on advancing to the bar, waved his hands abate, and in a loud tone uttered some intim. Iligible sounds. The unfortunate 111211 is about 20 years of age, and his countenance exhibits all the appearance of idioicy. He had Irons his infancy been cousidered a person of weak intellect, and the old tvoinan whom he is charged with murderirig was employed as his keeper. Mr. Justice Best informed the Jury that the duty they were called upon to perform was not to try whether tire prisoner was guilty of the crime laid to his clrirge, but whether he was at the present moment in a souuu state of mind. Anti Shelton was then sworn, and examined by Mr. Andrews.—She deposed that she knew Elizabeth Mar tin. She lodged in the same room with her from the the '29th of May until the Bth of June, when the unfor tunate event occurred. he prisoner was usually out all day, and came home at 1 I at night. She always thought that the prisoner was not in his right seines. He frequently danced about the room before the pictures, and laughed without any Cause. From all his conduct the witness thought that he was not capable of knowin.4 right from wrong. He went out to work, and returned home again unattended. . . _ _ In answer to questunis front Judge Best, the witness detailed several instances of extravagant conduct, w high induced her to form the opinion that the prisoner IVAS DM capable of distinguishing between right and wrong. Dr. Cotton, the ordinary of Newgate, stated, that in the performance of his July he had visited the prisoner about three or lour times a week. Front what he had observed of his conduct, lie conceived him to be au Wait, and incapable of regulating his conduct. John Pocock Holmes, the surgeon of Newgate, stated that the prisoner was a complete idiot. He did not be lieve that he could answer to an indictment. Messrs. Andrews and Adolphus declared that they could produce further evidence, but they considered that that winch had already been produced was EUtikig" satisfy the Jury. Mr. Jo3iice B-st summed up the evidence Jury, who immediately found that the prisoner in sane mind. 111 r. Justice Best directed that the prisoner si main in custody untd his Majesty's pleasure him shall be known. I'he unfortunate prisoner was removed (win without uttering a sound. u RLER.—Nliclidel Coyne and Thomas Cl indicted fur the wilful murder of James Mart' 30th of July, by striking hint on the head wit of iron; another count charged theses with al assisting in the murder of the said James Mitrt It appeared, front the evidence, th .t about " on the night of the 30th J uly the deceased waf beer its a public-house, called the Coopers' West -street, Smithfield. In the same room, I company with the deceased, wese the two pris another mail, named Gaudy, who had quarrel the deceased some days before. Al tiny rose to room, when Gantley also rose and got into ti irelort hum, and its soon as NI urly came up to ttiici er e l tn aiits: nutice ,ho respecting tin the bar Cline were Y ra i t t itiy t do.i 3 n : ; I I nodoteicci clock as drinking ' Arms, ni but not in isonets anti rel Ird with vu leave the the passage huts in the