The National Register. — London, England, 1823-01-20 00:00:00

r 11.1 A 0 :1 . . "SATURDAY, JAL 11.....(iroritt Sundt. a middleasted . Fitrin of respectable appearanee, was tried upon an its charaingr liiiwseith having derrant:eti Hobart' and Co. of Chandos-street, of a piece of silk, value Yid. by falsely pretending 14i be the set yam ot Messrs. Harding and Co. silk mercers of Pall Alall. Mr. %Valloril rioted, for the prosecutors, that the psi. • toner s on the the 9311 of I)ecember, walked into die shop of Messrs. Hobart,* ar Co. awl addressed the shop. matt, and said, with the air of a loan of business, mat he wanted to borrow a piece of silk fur his employers • It was the practice of silk mercers to borrow quantities of silk front each other, when they hid any ostler it, execute in a harry, and the prisoner applied under these t . irettmerataces ro the prosecutors. The shopman hush toed; bolt the inks .votis nIT-hand address of the pri ranter soorrprevailed over his caution, and the silk was pyres. never to lie paid for, returned, nor in an any ways mole amends for. WilliesSeS having proved the ewe as stated, The Cheirman requested the Jury to ex amine the evidence with their usual caution, as the ; shment that must await upon a conviction iii eases 01 this nature was extremely severe ; the Act having directed that out of the coustotry the Cott riot 1111 l SI ,so. The Jury wit hunt beSillitilm Annul the prisoner guilty —!e was sentenced to stx 1111 l lutes imprint' 11111111 l 111 the I :Stine of Correction, and to !Astor in tie 'freed-mill. MONDAY, JAN. 13 —John Cane was indicted for robbing his employer, Mr. H phties a bricklayer, of a qtr only Of lead. • In his defence the - prisoner said he merely was remov ing the lead from one place to another, and dud not in tit steal it. The prisoner was coilvicied, and sentenced to impri entoliter. or six months, and hard labaur at the A rows! man, named Hewers, porter to Nlews. Barnet and Co. of the Old White 'louse Picca dilly was indicted for having squints a Montle of tickets, •whrich were nut filled up by the clerk. Tile value 01 lilt tickets were lard at Iwo•ponee. The public will lw able 1.1 Mire ill this prrSreolioll • the cause of the nuinerons impoUtions practised every • day, and istsjosdy ..114.1osied so chose wily are in reflux - able uutatinui at the various islos Of the metropolis. It was the first case of Ille•kiod that ever.was brought into it Court of Justice. II was stated, the lwoprierors of the ‘Vhi.e Horse Cellit had with- h care kepi the printed tickets nut of the reach of the porters of the house. A number of the tickets were, however, missed Smile little ago, aid intittuieralle complaints were made al the Cs liar that the porters demanded touch more than the Act of Parliament allowed them to receive. In one day there were no less than Steel, or the proprietors sent for a police-officer to assist itt clear ing op the matter. The (officer went to the prisonet's lodgings, and found there a bundle of the Inn Tickets, which were noc filled up. He also (hood some tickets tfiat had Levu reodafly filled op by the clerk, and were 1.4..d0rdi1, sub stunned he others, its which the porter exercised his pen manship for his own benefit. The proprietors, deter toitied lo make a public example, prosecuted hum for the-robbery, the venally fur which is transpor• Latino for seven years.---"l'he prioller was found Guilty. • Tor Chaittitati, in passing sentence, said that cite pcidic were lunch indebted to the prove l s for pro ecei:iiig against a person. tello Wall dootitlesS 111 the halal or illipOilog Upoll Illeni terry day—the sentence of the C was, that he should tie imprisoned iu the I loUse of Correction fur three outwits, and kept at hard la- Icor at the tread mil!. PN - S. NIDDLNSta SESSIONS. owns - T, JAM. 13 —This mottling the General Qnarier S..bsions of the Peace for the County of Mittil:e sex commenced at Hicks's Hall, Clerkeowell, before ?lr. Const, Chairman, and a te:y full Bench of Ala glfir4lCll. 01111 Peddar was indicted for assaulting John Spencer, in the parish of Isleworth.—Tne Jury acquitted the deremlant.__ Cnaries Vides, a Frenchman, was indicted fur at. saiditna Mary Reason. TI c defelltlatit was found giiiliy, and sentenced to 14 day s' imprisminmet in the Home of Correction, and to enter imo hilOWlll reCOSIIIZJIice to ktep the peace. T. Quigley, the lather ul Thom 4is Quigley, the son, and Joint Hunt, were indicted fur ..s..mhing Ituger Chin ley—and the saute Itn t rr Chidley, John Skate, and SllllOll ‘Vella, nem indicted for . assaulting . 1. Quigley, senior. This being a erns indictments, sll tile parties. de fendants as well 43 prosecutors, and all their witnesses, were examined, Wore the Jury decided Ott the Cilott of either defendants. The evidetter was very c•mtradictore, and The C 11341111111 iihordy charged the Jury, that they must make the best way they could throui,ll the utass ol es ideree they had heard. Ttie Jury, after souse consultation, returned a verdict of guilty ag.titlSl (2 , 1161ey the lather, and acquitted all she nthe•r defemlumat. The tiiiirt sentroced Qoigle9 in pay a flue or 404. l'UtitDAY,JAuvAtty 14 —ll•'ilha,n iludsuif, Edward nit is. awl milers (wit tvt.re 111(111CItstl for riotous!? assembling, and roioniiiting Jil aSsJIIII. &C. Ntr. IVJgord ilie caw for the i irosvelition, Whiell hr ,;and seJs instiliced by Ihr viritb of n,th l ial GrCrll, in cons (relive of t he r. pealed and darn% utn rsurs that had lately taken iilJee. Ti m l en ~d assault in question took place nil tlies:l. of Oerinllt•r last, at Clatii‘Vjilla' Aflllll, art),e of an 411teillpt Of the 011 . 1112efs 10 dit , lPtqlo: a disordrrly col -1.141(111 of 111111V11114113 in that liffthe. The Gita;rrnari (F. (:uust. ) in particularising be vi ilia c-, d,wlt 3: bottle levvi. of the ;,,.: !. THE N A NAf... REGIS' . _ (mirage, and the aernua ertsse-4.:-::_Ls that a:Lht have ensued, I the bad example of I 1116011 striking Aker. Aphis: Datil he did not think the evidence conclusive, and lie was entitled to an acquittal. T!::: Jury acquit.,4 Daris, and pronounced Hudson gstdiy. Tile Chairman, in passing judgment, said the prose onion had heel, directed for the public good; lon the defendant nut living one of 1114 depraved class who had su often linticen the Kin,:s peeve, and as it did imt ap ',ear Ow l ie seas in th e house for the plumose of rioting, the Court merely sentenced bias to pay a fine of 40s. and to tiller into set:taroks to keen the price. - SORREY 8 I.: SSIONII. FA:DAY. JAN. 17.—Groner Cain and Elward Poole were indicted litr Yelonionsly s ealine 3 silver watch, the pommy of James Fledlaml, a watchman. The Jury found both prisoners guilty, and the Court sex rncetl them to transpitriation for life CJIII, who has been a most 'monism' thief on the town for a lets tit of time, on hearing the judgment of the C. looked towards the Chairman, and exclaimed— .. Well, 1 I you will he stiff one' by tomtorrove." Gibson aniffirown, two men well known to the isnlice, were indicted for stealing a watch, the 'Horny of William Norman. The proseemot had just arrived in town from Sheffield, and in tits rambles tit ttttt eh the Boronah met the prisoner Brown its the Loudon-road, who came up to him, and and claimed him as a towustnan 01 his, and wanted 1140 In go In a public-house and hate some refreshment,— Norman accepted the insitation, and they retired to a public house in Gardettelane, Newington, where gam's. hug was going forward, and a quantity of paper motley' floating between the gamesters. At length Bto,vl, whoa aopeared to be sit utter stranAer to the company, cont.. menced play ; and, alter he had lost what money he had about hint, lie requested the loan of Norman's wa tch, and st a ked it on a Irt of 51. with Gthson, who won it, mid got the watch into his pos:ession.—Brown desired the proseetthir to accompany Mtn to a friend's house in the and he would botro v the monev, and redeem the watch ; tiow:ser, the moment they got ism the street Brown took to his beef+. The 'Fur prolleVitor Mentioned Ile ClreiimblaliCe w liallohe officer, Who a pprrhrudetl the prisoners the following day. 'rite watch was found in Brown's coat pocket, who, it appeared, had changed coats with his COlOll3lOOO ..... The inn , found the prisoners Ruilty, and the Court sentenced them to hg transposed for srveat years each. OLD I!AILE7 SESSIONS. 41•••••••••• WEDNUDAY, JAN. 15.—William Pearce stood in dieleil with hat mg, (la the loth I).:cerither, feloisiously stolen 13 pieces 11t silver, value 31., the property of the ii , oneyert of his Nlajesty's Nlitit. NI r. It due and Mr. Law were for the prosecution. Henry William Atkinson, the senior moneyer of his Majesty's mint, had Irrepiently discovered considerabie ileticiericws in micoined metals anterior to November last; 1111 the loth of I)econtlier silver coin was being worked; knows prisoner; ou the alsove day he was ru t . pilled m euitinA the Wile into Wangs, 'early to he stamped; the practice in the mint is to vveigit the gold or silver when glien out for work in the g, and to weieli it at slight when it is returned. Witocss was present when the prisoner was searched ; a tin hoz fell 110111 his person cootaining a sitel key, and another key in preparation for being tirade of a stmilar description —l3 crown blanks were also loured upon the prisoner; the bus ness of the day was over, and the prisoner was on his way home; the blanks weighed full I tounces, and were %%mitt at least 31. Richard Franklin, jut'. also a ninneyer in the mint, was on disty cm the 10:h of D.ccititier ; winless weighed the silver delivered out that Intoning, which was 5391ba 10 oz.; when it was re-weighed at eight there was but 5311 lbs. 5 oz. ID dots. leaving a deficiency of 1 lb. 4 us. Johns consequencv or the discovery of a defic!eticy in the silver on the 10111 of I)ecember, witness stooped the men us they were leaving the mitn ; prisoner Was 11110 ol the 'mintier, and wither • seeing his hand Ito his great coat pocket, separated him from the rest, and on pulliog I is hand out, a tin lux drop: , ed ou the ground, whicit opened iii its fail, mid cwt skeleton keys fill nut; neither ol them were quite finished. but were in progress, being waxed tar that purlwxe. ‘‘ ' ,turss has applied the keys to tite locks of the storing bolds in Ilse 'Mot, of Which there are several, and cut whicii the bul lion is SlVllfeil, and the lucre of the keys is exactly the size of the pivots of the locks. As WlllitS4 was proceed ing to search the prisoner I urther, three or four pieces of silver fell out of his waistcoat pocket, and immediately afterwards, as his emu was tieing taken UH, a bag. also containing pieces id silver, called clown blanks, fell oil toe ground; there were altogether 13 pieces—prisoner said lie supposed somebody must have pin them in Ins pocket ; i.e gave the same account of his possession tat the tin box containing the skeleton keys. Psiker was formerly a silieramith; attended at the ttt itt t on the loth to December, with his sou in law, the preceding it/moss, whose evidence is correct. r. Powell, soliritor to the unto, was present at the ..x Imivatiau f the pissouer before Alt. Twyford, the • 't o l e rate . Prisoner said, . 1 Sam Mallow gave me the keys." Mr. Twy ford asked for what I mime ; prisons.: r. pied, 16r the purpose ol opening the strong holds." FMB was not taken down in wrung. 'I lie Lord Chief liar charged the Jury at considera ble length. au.l tors retuned a verdict lc—C:lo4. M ar y M., 1 1,1 a0 ,1 lava e Sioo,l iudiered hie having, oil the 4111 , /1 th'lo , Wr, staled IWO 511 tels aid other articles, value 1.:3•. 0.1. tit.: propr rt) 01 Itoiiers Twiner. Nlr. Alley was for I.IIC pflatreimini. The prisoner lodged it the house of the pmeecsitor s and absconded with the pri lofty in question. which pledged at several pawnbrokers *hope; brat it appearing Mat sal.: had been cumin:tad At SI auto& Gault's police. . Ashok- • office under the anri moat she had cower/newly suffered sit untwist iiiiii east of three ottonilis for illegally pledging the articles she was charged with having stolen, Mr. Justice Ilidmyd charged the Jury, that under these c.re .antes the learned counsel for the proaecu. lion could not proceed with his care. The Jury the..efore returned a verdict---?'lot John Barnes sod George Seabrook were charged with having mulcts an ass. taltie hr., the property of Jaws Deacon Hum., of Pinner's Park. Mr. Andrews stated the case to the Jury. The as► in (111014/II was turned into a meadow, on the evening of the fifth November. the gate of which was afterwards locked ; ma the followeng morning the ass was missing, the gate having been forced open ; about a fortulaht after the prisoner sold it to a samlniatt, named Ruff; tit whose itossession it W 45 found by a servant of Mr. Hume; the ass was identified by a sore on its tail, and three stripes across its off fore lap. Alr. Justice Burrough slimmed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a %mho of---Guilty. John Davis, only eleven years of sue, Joiteph groom, and George Ni eller, were indicted for having, on the gd of January, hinglariously entered the ilwt Ihua-hoa•e of Nlomagne Let soon, l2b, Pall-mall, with ititent to steal. Davis and Fr iiiiiii guilty—Taller, not guilty. George Clay and John Smith, Iwo young men, were capttally indicted for borglarionsly freaking and entering the dwelling lonise of Catherine Ball, and stealing a cop. per and other articles, her property. The evidence was conclusive, and the Jury found the prisoners Guitiy—Death. TNURSOAT, JAN. Is..—Thomas Reswick war indicted for burgh iriOnsly breaking and emeriti& the dwelling. house of Thomas Walker, and stealing a watch, value 11. his property. The Jury rclinned a verdict °faintly, but n • inmenderl him to mercy oil account ot his youth and pres ;oils good character. The prosecutor 3160 joined in the 9CCOMOIVII.• datioti, which the Ciotti Baron said should certainly be attended to. James Thomas, a man of catkin, aged se, was indicted Gtr I ,, irt2 1.16(11151V breaking :mil enterina the dwehling huuse of George P.svutn , and stealing four pounds in copper, Pour half erowits, and oilier • his property. Dinla thy Pawson, the wife of George P.unrun , star►,►, that her husband us landlord of th.• Angel, public-horse, in Back-lane, Shadwell. On the nngl►t of the• I Ith of Drcestiber„ after baring shut np the house, she weld round, as was her 0,41131 to see that :tl/ was 910 . 19. On entering the parlour she divernered the prisoner lying on the tattle. Site asked what he was doing there. He replied." I am asleep. and very sack, don't diEurh me." She told him it was time tit en to bed, and desired he would go away After sonic hesitation he went away. She fastened rile door after hint. saw every thing secure, and went to b.d. On coming down stairs the following morning, she found the bar door open, the till forced, and its consents carried off. A pane of glass had been cut of the wash home window, and was sulllciently large to admit the entrance of a man. A pail had also heels taken away. lis the course of the day the was infioteit if of the prisnuer having been stopped by a watchman, with the property in question. The pail produced is her property. Joseph Kendall, a watchman of the parish of Sr. George tan the Easu, stopped the prisoner about five o'clock iii the morning, about one initiated yards front the prosccuan's house; he ha I a pod on Iris shoulder, which he put down on seeina witness A large-piece of flank of beef was in the pail ; whets asked where he had gut die !eel, he replied, that he had bought it that morn. log in Ratclifflit a liway, 321(1 !lid he belonged to the aJiiis lisp., theta lying in the Laudon Docks. and that he was vigi l : to has e company—witness attempted to move the pail. and found it very heasy ; upon lilting up the piece of Intl, he discovered a quantity of loose copper, amounting to Itetweeii four and five pounds. Suspecting limn his evasive answers that he had stolen it, he seised him. The Jury tumid the prisoner guilty. The wife of the prosecutor recommended the prisoner to mercy, on the ground of no violence being offered to the inmates. This the learned Judge said shuutd be attended to. Mary Ficton was indicted for stealing a 101. note and four sinereigns, the properly of $•l ward William &shots, tn the tiwelling-house of Edward Bishop, the elder. The Jury found the prisoner—guilty—death. Jane Moore was indicted for stealing several beds, a large quantity of linen and wearing-apparel, the property of Capt. Samuel &diens. prosecutor lives in Margaret-street, Cavendish square. On she 1411 i of I)eceusber the prisoner entered hit service, and ginned it without notice, on the 2641 i of the wine moutn, when the properly its Question was missed. Westcon and another apprehended her, and found duplicates for the stolen property neon her person. The Jury found her guilty. Ann Williams was indicted for stealing 41. iga. and Point' wearin g apparel. in the dwelling-house of John Harri so ti.—Giti;ty—clealli. Elizabeth Stewart was indicted for stealing VI !nre.. reigns and two pieces of flannel, the property of George Silva iiiii Underwood, in his dwelling-1r . The prosecutor insides in Bateman Plare, Stepney, and on the loth of December t he 'Manlier came him his service. She stood by the prosecutor's desk, and saw hint take the ttttt ney out of a hag to pay the miser see. want that be had discharged. In the course of that wet k he itii•sed two bilk shawls from hi s window, and %, hen they caote 110111 e f chapel they fantail the shop door ope . n. awl many things displaced. Site was asked Anna it; but driticti that aity vile had beets 'to the I se, tie that rite knew ht.'s the shop door came to h:• 111WII it, III:11,441 nit 5 . '31111611U her box, %% Inch she readily al. l o wed. and a piece of knit linen and one of flannel longing to 11111. wrrr hound 11t It. Ile admitted Utal be 10111 the pristine, it WI)11 d he better liar her to ma rs , before site was cut ttttt the uioriey was Hot found. Erter- _ % 7 "