The National Register. — London, England, 1818-04-05 00:00:00

AI'UTL S. OLD BAILEY. ' WSDNE'sDAY, APRIL 1. the lierakor oonseteoced thi• iidy, before Lord Chief Justice El lesion:nigh and Mr—Noire Delhi-. Seim Allillaood war indicted for feloniously stealing front the vt lorsley 3 Voir. tad a great eutiiav rot' ot'ier •veariug siva/el s ...Le property of Alajor Gtsecral Bate ,tan. Tire prosecutor is a Mier-tlerteral In the seisvier . M' the rest Lelia t".:orapanY.- , his omedetrti:ll mats ant. and iiad been 13:Mall with t'u tie bureaus And trunks belonging to uoster. Uri the tat) Nlonit last, the mo.ermor lived to the hoitse el Jam NIOT-14:V. In 11131101;t3+WIlwre. and the first intiriatton he l tad of h.• robbery was the prising.. 's s cariu,. Lib • pion:cult r'.4 linen. Set ens! ''.ltres he asked the proyoer for the key's, but lie un- no..ble to ohtisic them for a consider...le , time; the prt souerant en!), r itrossested or prevaricated at every appThiatiou which wasin:'. le- The Grotto! wad at la obliged to w.i,irife.r aeon-table, atalthe prisoner was liken into.custcriy. Upon helug searched. not le'ath.tn33tlupheatea weretfoand upon his pei..on. .ati tong them was a ditplic.tte of .t can. plcriged on 9th Mareli,a coat which had been pledged for 31. and M. h 1 been taken upon another article, which had been !slava on the .tine day. The Jury found a verdict of guilty of steinitt to eae value or 'fhe pawahroker made appheation to the Court tot hts elk IP.u4L.:. but Mr. Justice Dallas toi.t bun, that a pawnbroker who alloss • ci t.erson to pledge at his shit- so many articles from Chi.... to time, without inquirmg into the matter, would never have hi. mtpeuses given to him. The prosecutor observing that he should have a difficulty in obtain ing his property from the pawnbroker, asked the Court whether he could obtain a restitution. Lord Ellenborough Let him keep sham at his peril." John Perkins, Henry Singer, and John Elmhurst, were convicted of a highway rubbery upon the peon of deihua Colledge, a mariner, and stealing from him ha hat, and some silver, which they took from his pocket. THURSDAY. Lawrence Leary, aged 15, was indicted for picking the pocket 0. Va. George Batt, of a pocket hanakerchief.—Found Guilty, buts! commended to mercy. Samuel Crouch. aged 27, and /lames Ball, aged 24, were. Indicted far stealing. a flute, value 3L rf Charles Wheatstme,,ptivately, in his 440p..—Yerdict, Samuel Crouch, Guilty ; James Ball, Not Two ragged boys, William II dteltins and Jame: Hutaiins, were iadictcd for stealing, in the day time, a sheet,ooduc 10s. the property of William Dunason, Esq. in his ilwelling-hbuse..near the New-road, several persons being in the said house at that tine. Thcyoun,gest eifeader was seer to have effected the robbery. by goieg down - the n.a, and takioe the sheet from before the fire, where it had been wring. and to have afterwards trig : , .."erred it to the t. der. They were asthma hesitation found Guilty- -Death; aged 15 years, and James only 12. . Henry Gee, aged i 6. Ras lathe Led for stealing 211. in Bank -notes, and various other artidas of silver plate, the property of John Dean. The prosecutor, who had lately reared from the business of a pm darter, had left. hiarroperty in th e dwelling-house of his son ink'', Wistatly. 'Moore hi. returil to the house, the prisoner had AI , - 'corded, and left the house to si .; care of the prosecutor's grand astighaer, a little girl only beset n It and 13 years of age. By the asissmocc of a constable, he ,wi s discovered the same night in a . oublio-house, among thieves soil prostitute , and when deetted by his master, was found with his ar nis round a prostitute's nett. The 10!. tote and 11. note were found in his neckcloth. Several respectable trailesnien„ in whose service the prisoner had been previous to his apprenticeship, bore testimony to his regularity and honesty at the several periods at which he had been in their em ploy.—lierdiet, Death. after tie vcrdiet was returned, the prosecutor stood up, arid said h e nested his Lordship would recominend the prisoner to mercy • FRI DAY. ifl s morning the eight fMl(;‘Vi;isprisoners were brought up tett.: ()sr and arraigned imdt •r sn indictment, charging them wish having committed varipcs forgeries upon the Bank of Übe. ti : Sarah Willolll v James Butler, Richardilutford, George Downes,. W.,iry Shaw, Wills '^. Downes, Joinaownscud, and Thomas Smith. %They all pie .sited guilty to the minor offence, and of course will be semc need to 14 years transportation ; smut Joseph Davy was evil ally convicted of forging a draft or 12.11. on Ed. Siepliensuu and others. • --,.. STATE. OF 1113 MAJ9.STY'S GAEL OF NEWCAVE. Maks. -Females. "onvicts cnder !icntence ff f death . 13 1 ' rider iiln t ence o 1 iransporo.ation fee life 3l _ 93 , Or fourteen yea rs for seven years . 49 .33 Revited during qileasurt ..... It 0 haprisouctl fur snisderne noun ........ 34 21 Ite-pited Judgment ....• ...... It 9 ''or trial 174-330 42-138 AMONG THE PRISONERS FOR TRIAL ARE Burglary.....„ .3llStealing on the • 3 Horse stealing ... poi gery Stealing in a d polling house 1 lit For larcenies 141 EICAPE woATE..-Weduesday morning. Richiusl ruiner, who a as committed from Hatton-garden Police Office, on 'a diarge of passing bad money, for which he was tried and eonvicvl 'Last sessions, and sentenced to six terumths' imprisonment, effected Ms escape.. He v xis employed in assisting to get in some coals. and availedhiniselfrf the opportunity to rim away. About two Fr:v.:tins since the noted " resurrection man." Israel :baptism, reetivil sentence of death at the Old Bailey, Mr a high say rubbery. .He received, however, a commutaticn of his sentence I . . ) tnialportati in for life, and is now on board a ship.la:und for New South NV ales. l'hapinan having a charge made apsr.a him of being , vticeraed in disturbing the, ashes of Mile of his own nation (the Jews), at Milt -end, in the presence of the High Priest (Dr. Hers chel') made time disclosures. He admitted that Le had once, but Only mice, bEin engaged in removing the body of a deceased Jew, but then he stowed lie had not aggravated h's crime by laying hands upon it. H t was was free howevesitc siconfee, that he had during the period hit c; ?veined hisails,minable calling, raised. on an average, from their El. vas, from 20 t' 311 bodies, week ; sometimes stealing as asai.y uv ft.rty. :NA sometimes eien 50 ! 'lite ave•a4e rice he received was from three tc four guineas each body, and he wa ably so suited in his nocturnal depredatiams upon the dead by a 111111043114 party. There kat prent. he declared. exisistitig a gang din least ;;‘), who continue the pta'-tiee , but cannot art without the aseistaFct of certain sautcris, watchnien. ke. He zeiattd in wh r eras •A had beau made of apaclict lir depth sad shape, .a order tcolaulitate the removal of bodies by night. in.i.r:t ems c a Wednesday held at Guy's llospital, on tlieltOsly of Itiilha.ta , son of Mr. CAnton, of Horsclyduwn, aged three years.— Mr. Frees of Oak-lane stated. that the deceased was in a small chaise. hewn bp? Notafonmiland dog, in the Kent-road, when a coal-waggon . Paasetl_by I on which thatiog dame(' forward.end bi , oneritheher.s.s. , hieh viotendy. and sine (kits heelsgonting in COTltiort with the •Sild'aktead. fracaweißs. alma so violently as Uteause its death ; and P• 1 1. Q. ir. attempting to cave his ,on, was run. over, and, west !minus ): hen Verdict., Ancidant , vl Death ; and a sluadatal a U.K. on the impteat volt r.iso held at the scrag s a.s, - n th . : body of 1.. iinicar‘s v.ason , who was repairing a house in Tower-street ; >hen Silartp stone fell on him, and crashed him so xhockingly, as to 4.46oaladrail• Vcrilict—AccideLtul TAKE NATIAN AT, REGISTTR. COUNTY ASSIZES. SURREY.—KINGSTON, APRIL I. Foneettir.—Georee Wood, a lad aged 17, was indicted for forging a promissory note for 501. purporting to be drawn by John Pi itrltiti d, in favour of Mr. Bassett, and uttering the same, Linen big it to be titreed, on the 28th of Nov. to Messrs. Sawyer. and Co., eoalsmerekants, with intent to &fraud the said Messrs. Sawyer and Co. Mr. Sa I Sawyer stated, that Mr. Bassett, of Nelson square, Black friars•road, WA• in the habit of ciralLng with the house fur coals. On the guilt of November last, the prisoner Caine to cert.-rutting himself to be Mr. Bassett's son-in-law, and desired to has c a copy of his father's account for coals. The account was pi winced, which amounted to about 321. upon which the prisoner produced a promissory note for the payment of 661. made by a Mr. John Pritchard, in v o.lll* of Mr. Basset ;and stated, that his father would be onnrin ob:iged to Messrs. Sawyer. if they would take the 4 , 110 , 11 it of his account eat of the note, and give him the dif. frietier. Witness concluding that all was right, took the toot., and gave a cheepie npon his bankers for the difference between Mr. Bassett's coal-account and the promissory note. 'The prisoner then ordered three elialdrons of coals to be sent to Mr. Bassett's, desiring that they might not be delivered till the week following. On the 2tith of November, the pri soner came again, and presentiug.r.aother promissory note for 501, purporting to be made L•y the same party, in favour of ,Jr. Basset, said he was desired by his father to deliver his compliments, and request the prosecutors to take the amount of the three chahirons of coals out of.tbut note, and give him the difference. Witness suspectiue there was something dis honest in the prisoner's conduct, detained hint, and sent to the sepposed (hewer, to know if he had made the note, and receiving an answer in the siegative, the prisoner was taken before a Mise;istrate and committed for trial. The last mentioned note, upon which the indictment was Pout: wl,being produced in evidence, was compared with the note set out in the indictment: and it appearing that the name of the payee was written Hassell, instead of Bassett, as in the note itself, eMr. Platt, for the prisoner, submitted that this was a fatal variance. Mr. Bayou Wood acquiesced in the objection v and, the pri. soner was fonnil—Not guilty. Joseph Charrington was capitally ir.dicted for feloniously stealing on the Bth of March a gold watch, and gold chain and seals, in the dwelling-house of Ann Gardner Smith. Mr. Nolan conducted the prosecution, and Mr, Heath ap peared for the prisoner. It appeared in evidence, that the prisonerhail been a young man of good prospects, and at i he age of 21 becanic possessed of considerable property, which, however, was absolved in the liquidation of large debts, contracted during minority.— The proseenfrix, who upon her own examiisation, admitted that she had lived in a very equivocal situation with a gentle man, named Sinith,.but describes! herself as a spinster, hail some acquaintanceship ;Oh the mother of the prisoner ; and on the day mentioned in the indictment, the latter came to her house, with his mother's compliments, to know how she (the prosecutrix) seas in health. 4A,situal civilities passed on the occasion. The prosecutrix had a gold watch, chain and seals, hanging over her chimney-piece, and after the prisoner went away, the property was Suspicion fell Olson the prisoner; be was apprehended, and taxed with the theft; and he confessed that he bad taken the watch, an?. its up. pendages, and ;:arced with Ihmo to an acquaintance for less titan their real valise. _ _ The case went to the...fury under all tLe circumstances, and the prisoner was found Guilty—Death. James Richardsoo, eonvicted of, having had forgedmotes to the extent of 351,in Isis pot.tession, knowing them.to be forged, was sentenced to transportation for It year:. John Johnson pleaded guilty to the charge of has ing utter ed a 51. forged note„,keowing it to he forger!, and was sew tented to transportation for I 1 years. SINGULAR CHARGE OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY. John Pearson Fotoutayne was charged with having, on the Bth of November, feloniously assaulted Aun Mai ia fall, at Vauxhall, an, with having take front bar Jour is. tokens, the property of Win. Fall, her husliai.d. kin Maria Fall, Mrs. Cooper, her anothilr, nod Mr. Rice I Ives, were the,,ottly witnesses called for the prosecution. Ws. Fall stated, that the. prisoner met her locteeen II and 12 o'clock in the morning, 4•11 the Bth of November, alleged a claim of debt, and deinaoded, payment. Site denied all ktiewledge of any 11 , :bt, aosd said she had no money to give him. Ile followed her from near Westminster-bridge to Vauxhall, where he teTified her to give him four 3s. tokens. They had. met crowd of persons, but she called ter no aid. A letter ' written by the prisoner, and asserting the gros.est abuses of ;Mrs. Cooper and her nwther, was react. The prisocer spoke at great is tm tli iu his own defence.— He had been introduced to Mrs. Cooper's fatuity by a lady of the town. He lent live 201., which she never.r..paltl. He was anxious to ham n here she hi d, iu order to apply for pastutu t, when be 5,-64m:talky ,fell in with Mrs. lie followed her gil%E.l:'.lll three half-crowns as an admis sion of ti: debt, for he h..d got her guarantee of the debt cause iii.. 10 , 1tht . r did not live with her husband. fie lind given his addres , at the New I:tyrk Crtfee-house, and made no attempt to aseid any inquiry or scrutiny., A letter from Mr. Hamilton, the prusectotrix's attorney, to the pri soner, was read. It threatened the most decisive measurer e • it he repeated the gross and .unmanly interrnptien he had given to Mrs. Fall. 'flit. dose was the 10th of November. The Judge summed„up decidedly against the prwweutiow. Verdict.— Not Guilty. Nlrs. Cooper and Mrs. Fall are rathe r fine looking ladies Captain Fonntayne is a short bustling gentleman, nut not par' ticulariy prepaases!ing. Thuttelay -W... Marshall and Thos. Du ilin were tried, minder Lord Ellen borough's Act, tin having violent:, assault. d .111(1 wounded John Sharp, in the chotrelkye:d of Lambeth, mitt the night cf the 31/111.of November last. Jobe Leager v sextun of the perist.of Lambeth. had employ ed the two poisoners to itssist him is, walshing the church yard for a fortnight !osier to the 33th Of NOV..IIIIIrI. Mar .hall had been so employed the previous winter. There were feur or tivallnrials on Sunday, ile. 31th of hioveinlocr. ;dose 3 feel wk. - Witness amid his sous had ropeetedlY gone round the church yard to see that all woo sale. In the eleis• tug, after having locked the churc h , he went iostat.the burial grnuied to set nom traps, unknown tel but Marshall retinae,' him end saw him set them. Het:minded the key lof Nlarshall ; but he refused it, raying he wished to look in IiW,KM IIIIII 4tilerWardS• a n d 191 o'clock, setae witse.ti,; and Wawa; came into 01CA:sew.% they saw tau wen, and heard them coavet site; about the rees,, going tits' 50 the gi ound where the pea; were buried, &mat tc the ei...).:11 I 111 for burial of children, and then to the bonehouse, and took two soovel., with which they went to the poor grave. He knew them to he the prison( rm at the bar. Marshall pulled off his coat, and set a digging in the poor grave till he came to Duttin was with him at the foot of the grave.— Witness heard the clearing of the monld from the top of the coffin ; he came forward to the head of the grave, Missal 12 paces from it, and said, " Yon scoundrels, don't you want some assistance there." Marshall struck at him with the shovel, but missed. Witness parried a second blow with it fowling piece he had in his band, null struck Marshall so as to set him a-reeling. Witness called for assistance, being unprotected ; his son Joseph Caine forward and asked, " Will you shoot your master ?" He replied, " Yes, and you too.* His son tired with a pistol over kis head, and he surrendered himself immediately. Marshall was scent cd with much strug gling and difficulty. John Sharp lives in a house in High-street, which looks over the church yard. lie went into the church yard about 11 o'clock with Mr. Leager and his two sons. They ! , ecreterl themselves behind the tombs ; they heard a noise at the bane house. He soon saw two men, and heard one of them *ay, " This is'sliallow," (that is it is a child's Crave). He saw them soon after digging into a grave. Mr. Leagcr struggled with one of them, and at that instant received a How on the forehead, over the right eye, which cut him. He then srw 4 person with his arm nplifted, attempting to sti ika a second time. Witness knocked hint down with the poker ;it was the prisoaer Dutfin ; he then but un him, and endeavoured to wrench from him a sabre which lie had in his hand. Young Leafier came and struck Dullin's hand ith his pistol, and got ate sabre from I . It was produced in Court and iden tified. On his cross examination, he said the sabre did cut into the bone. The first thing that passed at the grave WAS ',eager corning up and saying, " Desist and render." Joseph ',eager, the sexton's son, corroborated the framer evidence in other particulars. Mr. Curwood, for the prisoners, contended that eon duct did not come under the statute. The wounding was nut such as the statute prOvidi.d for, unless it world have heel' murder, if death had ensued. Death arising flow resistance to an illegal apprehension was not murder. The apprehension in this case was not legal ; for it was legal only to apprehend for felony or a breach of the peace. Their conduct was trespass, but not a felony or a breach of the peace. Mr. Baron %%ood said he would reserve the points of law for the Judges, it the Jury found the prisoners guilty. DAM, the prisoner, said, they had only been ascertaining. whether the grave had been opened, and exhibited a deep sear on the side of the head, which he said had been made by the poker. Marshall, the other prisoner, said, all three had shot at him ' at once. Two shuts hall lodged in his breast. It was not the first act of combination in which Mr. Leager had been engaged while he had been watching. lie had done this fur nothing but to, get himself a tine name. He robbed the parish by charging for 10 feet when the grave was only 3 feet. Mr. Baron Wood, in shunning up, observed, that the Act under which this indictment was !nought was highly penal.— The first questiumfor the jury was, whether the cutting in this case was with intent to murder, and did grievous personal harm. The second question was, whether the cutting was with intent to prevent their being apprehended. A juror said, that one of them was of opinion that they were not guilty. Mr. Baron Wood.—You must agree. Verdict—Guilty, in defending themselves.—lt was taken, Guilty, and the points of the law were reserved for the opi. stun untie Judges. The prisoners were then arraigned for the trespass and as sault. They pleaded not guilty; and agt col, by advice of counsel, to 111:11•e their trial put n il till nex t kiln. TRFSPASS AT CLAREMONT. 1/4.13, Ef:CI. V. SV k ES, ESQ.-'Phil was an action for trespars. —lt swami' that the plaintiff was the owner of the yark and groundi - in the °carnation of hi; Royal Highness tlie Prince of &Ist:- Cobourg, at Claremont. The detandant was a gentleman of fortune, and the lord of a ncighbourin manor. Three days after the la wonted death of the PrintaNs Charlotte of Wales, anti whilst her re mains WW2 in the bowie at Claremont, the defendant entered an en cloiure called the Oaks, fur the purpose of killing game. Prince Cobaurg's gamekeeper met !Um, and asked him by what authority he came to - shoot there. The defendant replied, that he was on les own grounds, and had a right to shoot what game he pleased. Ile said he had three pheasants, and he wanted another ; and, although the gamekeeper warned him (Mlle ground:;, he killed a hen pheasant, and carried it away. The jury, under the learned Judge's direction, found a verdict for the Alma —Damages FRIDAY. MURDER AT GellALMlNll.—ln the course of the preceeding trial, Gwrge Chennel, a farmer at Gedaltning, and William IChal craft, a labourer. committed on iuomidon of having. en 'he Vial: of N metuher last. muraFred George Chennel, the fiber of die ATor:rer. were bought Itt./. Gurney, for the rtesccution, felt himself obliged to imply to the Couit to respite the recognizance* of the prosecutore'aild wit. neeses, on account of the illness of M material witness, 'whom hit Lordship would find in the C.:demi:a under the name of Sarah Ilur t. an accomplice. lie, and his brother. Mr. Heath, had examined all the evidence of the ease, and whatever might be their opinion, they did not feel warranted to go Wore the grand jury n ithout this evidence. The alfillavioi of, the uitalicul Mall w ho attended her, and of the at - wrney kr the Prosecution (Mr. I. Wood), would prove that ,he s cculd tint be brought before the grand jury. , aeidaviti were read, and stated that she was so ill with pa rrosysms and fainting fits. that she could nut be removed. The COMIIIOII Sergeant La the prisoners, regretted tutxh the de lay. but felt himself incapable of ro , iging the motion. He regretted it the more, es he could not propose to have the prisoners bailed. Mr. baron Wool thought the evidence most materia I indeed, so far as he tudarstood the case. It was impossible to reflue the applica tion. The case must stand over till next assizes. hid Lordship Mier mediate.ly signed a warrant to that effect. • CORNWALL. , HANLE% v..3sArrtiEw uoqp..ry:. • . This important 'anise came coo 10 IN soiest at T..atmerstons Assizes, hefOr• a Mirvill jury, •111 1 . 11•1•111tyi.ISt r whe t s Mr. Justice Aboutt stated, that she %rex It:trued Judge, Mr. J °slier Ifuleu”l, hhu triad the rase.e hist year, entertained ra minute uptoisias puts Ilse iiistsusin-9i I 1 II «hick th e e j ectment h a d fircli 6rarslrt Nuo l o iiiii m 11,14181 Ike :IC ,1111.1 eNprtoetl his nio „ ma ihr f a rt. ',hind.] !lir, ellire • IPe hue iu the recr..rst, its the •b,t r e of W1.11114:1, in mdr: iltittVl..t gitestit mig ht Arst underitn the entssideratiot tina..,..,ustrt. +slid he anus ttlrk hross;lat for its final deter inhistlioulati - ,re the Howie of Lords, if either. party sloujildak tit. se ine 4! rue do . lo•nolatot, tonsil nhkh ttj t :Lpeareti,that the det:zulatit hail never lies n iso loo,, ea ri on rtobc.,%;,Zitptt7. 41f Milky, I Ilr 911.vr s.t . the 1/taillike ; 41:A4E:inky 4yd rted the ,sensations whirls he hood snide sense months ir.ture his tivails, sod declared his intention et not returning to them, woo ore mit to be found, sod Abet