The National Register. — London, England, 1822-12-16 00:00:00

UL I) BAILEY SESSIONS. MONDAY, DEC. 9.—G:urge Cripps, aged 49, was convicted of etnbe•zzling the . of SI. 4s. 4id., the monies of his master, Richard Hawes. UTTERING Couxrz+tt•ur COlN.—Frederick Mid , dhow:, aged 30. was indicted for uttering several pieces of forged and counterfeit cum, made to rescuable the silver coifs of the realm. Mr. Lit" stated the case for the prosecution. Eyles, a misfit' out of employment. deposed. that the prisoner offered to sell him, on various occasions. • Lad money; this he come ttttt heated to Armstrong, the officer, who, with Hatfield, gave I • venom direction►. and marked money to ram to the prisoner; lie accor& ingly did purchase sevefa. pieces, which lie II:111ded Ol'er 11/ the (officers. Artiosimmt, the officer, deposed. that in consequence of a commun►cation, he gave in fiirmation to the Mint, and received certain directions. Witnevi banished Eyles with money to pureitase bail silver of the prisoner, and Files went to St. J ihn's Coffee-house, Cow-cross, and -it trehased smite load shillings, iti the presence of a Coln panatn named Vali. Oil their quitting the house, wit ness detained the prisoner. and on searching him found .hs. good, which was not the money witness had marked. Ales - ward(' he fim..(l two of the marked shillings which • he had given to Eyles. W. Ilatfield corroborated the evidence already detailed, . and produced the bad money The Jury, after a short consultation, pronounced the rri.ititer Recorder —The judgment of the Court is, that you be imprisoned one year its the House of Correctiou, and there kept to hard lobular. Mit GANG of BURGLAR3.—Mark Herd, aged • 2f, William Watts, aged vb, James Brown, aced 33, and Thomas Fuller, aged if, were c indicted fur burAlariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house •of James Alexander de Wither, in the parish of St. 'Pancras, and stealing therein 14 spoons, value 101., a penknife, a gold mounted snuff-box, a wine funnel, and other articles, his property; and Charlotte Winfield was indicted tur being an accessary alter the fact, and hay bmiring and receiving them, well knowing them to have co 1111 l noted the said burglary. Mr. Reinier deposed, that he resides at No. l e, Easton place. New-road, and oil the I Ith df November his house was broken open. He was informed by Iris cook early in the morning that the house had been robbed, and he found that the bJek-kitchen winuow hail been forced open. There was a hole in the shutter. There were itt.trks of two men having got down by the back wall, which was ten feet high. The kitchen door had • one of its pannels cut completely out. The witness, after relating some more minute particulars as to the breaking, described the property stolen, and identified it as produced by the police officers. Charlotte Raye, cook to the last witness, deposed to finding the house broken open in the morning, as de scribed by her master. She heard no noise iii the night. She identified an umbrella found in the house where the prisoners were apprehended, as belonging to her fellow strea tit. Pace, the officer, of iineen.square, produced the tun nel of the kitchen door, and a set of burglarious imple ments. He stated that he went, with Cooper and H alley, officers, to a house in Castle-strret, Seven Dials, about six o'clock on the morning of the I f tit ult. Witness listened at the door of the garret, and heard the voices of two or three persons, and immediately burst open the door, and saw a quantity of plate spread out on a table round which the priconers Watts, Brown, and Fuller were sitting. Knowing Watts, wittiest rushed tip to him, drew bit cu lass, placed it at hits breast, and told him if he stirred he would run him through the body. Handley meanwhile went to the side of the bed, where Herd and the woman prisoner were lying together, and presenting a pistol at his head, desired him to keels still. -Cooper seised the property, and seem. d it. Witness handcuffed Fuller and Brown, and while doing so he Saw the gold mounted snuff box, identified by Mr. Rei-1 slier, fal from one of thetn, but could not tell wnich. Handley 'Handcuffed Watts, and Herd was made to get 111/ arid dress himself. His coat was lying on the oppo; site side of the room, and he saw the petikuite produced fall from his coat, as he was putting it on. Bonifield also got up, and dressed. Drop, r asked the prisoners to which of them the piste belonged, but neither of them would own it. Concealed under the floor they found several picklock and skeleton keys, a chissel, a stock for centre-bits, a crow-bar, and a dark latatero. Cooper produced the plate, &c. which were identified by Mr. Bernier, and he corroborated the statement of "filet', as did Handley, in its main facts. ['he Recorder summed tip the evidence, and the Jury, after cartooning fora few unnutes,found all the prisoners Guilty —Death. Nlr. Renner stepped into the witnesses' box, and tames ly begged fo recommend the prisoners to mercy. The Recortler.—On what ground can you recommend these men to mercy 1 111 r. Reitsier.—Ors the ground, my Lord, that no t in. lence was offered to any 'idiot' in the house; and it would be a great relief to my Ittihad if I could be assured they would riot stiffer. The Recopler.—The recommendation made upon the gronsid you have mentioned Ol,' most undoubtedly be i.foryrarded ; but your individual feelings catinot be cots- Ighed. if public justice demand an example. Piivsick, a pretty gni about twenty years of age, •was indicted 9ar robbing Mr. Baker, tallow chandler, of Foley•creet ; and Sophia Stephenson was charged with having received the stolen property, knowing it to have been illegally come by. Toe prisoner Pitysick, it appeared, was a house ser vant to the prosecutor, awl, after a service of three days, she decamped with his cash-box, containing certain writings and papers, two 61. notes, eight sovereigns, and a guinea. The evidettetagatinst bet was conclusive; she . was apprehended at Chatham on the Yd ult. (rive days alter the rubbery), ittactrofeesed the lact. St”phensou, 140! ak I ; , • THE REGISTE R who was a woman about 40, kept a house of ill fame in Westminster. It was proved that site haJ received the property from Paysick immediately after the robbery ; that sue had changed one of the 61. notes under circum stances of concealment, and that site had given false ac , counts as to the manlier of her becoming povsessed of it. Poysick admitted her guilt, but said that Stephenson was innocent: she had not known the property to be stolen. Stephenson said that she understood the property to have been a bequest from Physick's grandfather. The Recorder charged the Jury, that the offence of the first prisoner was capital. The Jury, against both, found a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Baker (the prosecutor) then stood tip, and begged to recommend Eliaabeth Pnysick. He had great reason to belies e that the whole had hero done at the hieliga tion of the prisoner Stephenson, and that the bulk of the money had fallen into her hands. When he (Mr. B.) had apprehended Physick at Chatham, he had found her without a shilling; and he heard she had been sent away front Stepitenson's house two days after the robbery with only As. in her pocket. The Recorder said that Mr. Baker's recommendation should be attended to, and would dimuhdess have its weight. For the prisoner Stephenson, he should at once inflict upon her the severest punishment time law would allow ; and she mittlit prepare her,elf, therefore, to be ransported for a term 0114 years. James Montgomery was indicted by Mr. Toplis, of St. Paul's Churchyard, for obtaining motley from hint under false pretences. The defendant was employed by Mr. Toplis as a fore man in the painting business. Mr. Toplis was a house agent and upholsterer ; and having occasion to employ carpenters, painters, and other workmen to fit up houses, his custom was to engage one man as a foreman, who hired others under hint and paid their wages, charging the amount to Mr. Toplis. The defendant :Montgomery, having been retained as one of these foremen, had hired workmen at one rate, and charged them to Mr.Toplis af another; and its this way (overcharging the wages of four turn in one week) he had robbed the prosecutor of 135.6 d. The four men (as to whom the overcharge was im puted) were called for the prosecution; but they all distinctly stated, on cross examination, that they were hired by Montgomery as a master, paid I►y hint, and dis missed by him; and, its fact, that they knew tan other employer. Mr. Adolphus, after addressing theJttry on the part of Montgomery, called a number of witnesses. Two of these were men charged for to Toplis on the sense ac count as to which the overcharge was imputed; and is appeared that, if the four first witnesses had received lest than :Montgomery charged for them, these two men re ceived more. Several tradesmen of wealth and respecta bility were called, who had known the defendant many years, and employed hint as a master painter; and all gave him a high character for fair dealing and skill in his lxisietess. It appeared further, that there was a suit pending between the prosecutor and :Montgomery, for money which the latter claimed, and the former refused to pay. 'Die Jury declared themselves satisfied that no fraud could have been intended. Verdict—Not Guilty. '1 UEIDAY, DUC. Its.—CURIOUS Casa.—Charles House and James Bull stool indicted lur feloniously stealing &al. in Bank of England notes, the property of Mr. W. Honeycomb, from his person. The prosecutor stated, that one day last month he met the prisoners in a gig in the Ed t ;eware•road, amid know ing House, accepted of their oiler to ride with them to London. lie had opened some bank notes to the amount oh 601. which he had in his possession, in the presence of the prisoners, and afterwards put them in his pocket. On arriving in town, he was stepping out of the gig, when he missed his notes, amid exclaimed, " 1 have lost them--you must have got them." The prisoners an swered, "That can't be;" amid one of them, he was not sure which, said, "There is a note on the ground."— Witness picked it up, and found it to be a 401. note; he then called out there were 401. more, and the risoners drove off at full speed. He ran after them, calling "Stop thief:" and they were stopped by a watchman. '('he 'motes were afterwards found on the ground, in the road between the place where he got out of the gig, amid the place where the prisoners were stopped. The watchman, and Buckridge, a police officer, proved the taking of the prisoners into custody; their denial of having taken the notes, and finding of the 401. on the road. The Recorder charged the Jury, who instantly acquit ted the prisollerS• ATTEMPT TO EXTORT M 0 NEY.—W 111. Baker Wall indicted l ur fel 1111 l otisly attempting to extort, I Henry Goldsinid, Esq. a sum of money, by threatening to accuse Ititn Of Ali tiiimiturrl crime. The prisoner, who appeared to have a grievous impe (11111031. 01 he91161111/11 of speech, :limbed tin the postpone inetit of his trial for a few hour+, that he might hnish writing out his deience. The Recorder refused the application. Mr. Alley then stated to the Jury the particulars of the case, as afterwards proved in evidence. The prosecutor being sworn, stated that he resided on an estate lie had in South Wales. On the 9th November he came to London, and put up at the H umminns. He was acquainted with a fainily in Norfolk -street, and, on the IBM of Noveinuer, had been walking out with two ladies, with whims he returned to Norfolk -street; he nad scarcely sat down, when a person knocked at the door, and inquired fur witness--he went to the door, and saw a man wl he should know again, who told him a mail was vaulting in Howard street, who wished to speak with 1 CX.peCtlllg a person from the country, ac companied him thither, and there Mond the pi iSlitier, who said. " You are tne man that Wiei in a coach with 111 C u'i Saitircay week ;'—wittiess said, " 1 in a coach wit. jou! I was 160 miles limn London." The prisoner then said, " ((you don't give inc 101., I will charge you with 311 111111611ural you e. 11 1 .1 get OH, fur I 561 W you go taw ale llumiu..uu on Wednesday night." lie added, " You had better give me theasioney, or you will have plenty of our sort. Witness then attempted to seise him, but he ran away down Surrey -stmt.—witness purl stied, calling to the people to stop him, hut no person interfered tutul witness called nut that he hail threatened to charge him with an unttaitiral crime ; several persons then joined in the pursuit, and he was at length taken by a watersnais in the mud by the water side, at the bolton t of Surrey-street ; he was then brought, and witness said, You threatened io charge me with an unnatural offence, and L shall take you to Bow-sweet." The prisoner then said, " l ha% e no charge to make against you, but when 1 met you in the street the other day, you told me you were a pawnbroker's clerk, and promised to get me a Situation ;`'—witness denied it, not being the fact, and the prkutier was taken to Bow-street. George Hill, a waterman, was standing at the stairs at the bottom of Surrey.street, when he saw the prison e r rim down, pursued by Mr. GOldSillid. Ile ran towards Strand•lane, but witness intercepted him, and he thel turned into the mud, and witness followed and secured him. He asked the prienner what lie ran away lor, and he said he had done nothing—he was no thief. Witness led hint up the stain into Surrey-si feet to M r. Goldsinid, and heard the dialogue between them, as given in that gentleman's evidence. J. Huggiii,ol Howard -street, hearing the hue and cry, joined in the pursuit. This witness confirmed Hill's testimony. _ Tnis was the ease for the prosecutions The prisoner its his defence, through the medium of Mr. Wormier, went into a story of has ing met a genile man some time since, who o ff ered to procure hint a situ ation, and who described himself as Mr. Goldswid. Oit the day its qoestion he spoke to the prosecutor, who said he did not know hint ; and hr (the prisoner) was walk ing quietly away, when he heard a great cry of " Stop thiel I" and in the pursuit was taken Into custody. The Recorder, in particularising the evidence, dwelt on the enormity of the offence, and said it was too true, as the prisoner had said, that there were many of the sante sort in the metropolis. It was a fortunate chew's stance for the ends of justice that Mr. Goldstnid knew the person who knocked at the dour, as he might yet be bronglit to the bar. The Jury, without hesitation, pronounced the prisoner Guilty. The Recorder.—Prisoner; if you have any remains of morality or justice about you, you will wake proper atonement for what you have misted. If the prose cutor had been a person of weak nerve, and yielded to the threats, and given money to you, you would not have had many days to live its this world. The sentence of the Court is, that you be transported for seven years. The canted Judge then addressed Hill, the waterman, and said, the Court not only allowed him his expellees, but at the same tune returned their public thanks to hint for haring secured so desperate an offender. WEDNESDAY, Dec. t I.—lu consequence of the fog the Court was lighted up the whole of the .nottsing tit the same manner as at night. Twenty prisoners. against whom no bills had been found were separately brought up and severally dis charged. William Thompson and W. Rutland were fined Is. each and discharged. Willis, the ;tenon charged with robbing several hotels in which he had lodged, from time to time, was capitally convicted of stealing a silver tea-pot from a tavern at Limehouse. There were several other indictments against the pri soner, which were not proceeded in. Several pawnbrokers applied to the Court for direction as to to the disposal of property in their possession, which had been pledged with theist by the pristine'. The Recorder ordered the whole of the property to be given sip to the several persons claiming it, who had beets bound over to prosecute. James Shee, aged 9. and George James, aged 12 years, were indicted for stealing three knivrs, value 2s. 61 the property of R. Gould. The evidence to the above effect having been gone through, and the prisoners making no defence, and call iiipt tsu witnesses, the Jury instantly fantail theist both guilty. . _ Mire, it appeared, had been tried before, and James was an orphan without any friends. The Recorder directed inquiry to be made, whether they could be received into the refuge for the destitute, anti in the mean time their judgment was respitel Henry case was indicted tor stealing 10 yards of print ed cumin from the shop of William Shephard Davis, and R. Davis, linen drapers, in St. John'a.street, Smith field. Thompson a city police officer, swat the prisoner take the goods from the shop in the evening. and run He, of course, 'unused him, and the prisoner dropped J piece of printed cotton handkerchiefs, which Thomp son picked up, and the prisoner was at the same time stopped and secured by a person passing. The R.corder immediately sentenced him to be trans portk d for seven years. IVillians Dowcett, a man of very respectable appear ance, was indicted for embezzling 21. the property of J. Buttress, his employer. Mr. Ally, for the prosecution, stated to the Jury, that Mr. Mimes' was a very extensive silk manufacturer, nt Spiialfielils, and the prisoner tip to the 25th October last, when hr WAS dismisaed, was a confidential servant in his einployment. Mr. Buttress had in his employ ment upwards of 400 men, and it was part of the pri soner's business to pay them every Sattirday, for which purpose money was handed over to hint by another clerk. The charge in the present indictment was, that he entered in the book the that amount to a workman, named Rawlins, but who never recited it, and that the prisoner therefore applied it to it s own use. Mr. Buttress was called to prove that the prisoner was employed by him, and was empowered to pay and re ceive monies on his account. lie received tool. a year salar, and was allowed to take apprentices, ■nd had