The National Register. — London, England, 1817-01-20 00:00:00

JANUARY SO.- then saw Downes fix his forefingers and thumb upon the de ceased's neck, and remain in that attitatle set erol minutes, euring which time the other prisoner appeared to be en roged in searching his pockets, and in giving something to each of those who stood around. Stanton remained in in the chair nearly half an hour, when it snidentv broke un der him, upon the noise of which, the landlord, Itaatall, en tered, &sired them Olio depart. The deeeased was led out by the prisoners. Mary Le..s was, like the last WitIICASS, an unfortunate woman, and was•at the eotree-shop in question in the night alluded to. She confirtned generally the former testimony. Henry !largess ' a sargeon, deposed, that he was sent for to see the deceased about four o'clock in the morning. The general symptoms were suck as wou'd attend death caused by strangulation, or a violent squeezing of the throat. The prisoners, in their defence ' denied all the circumstan ces related by the woman who lead described the scene a t the coffee shop, and atfirtiv,l, that the deceased frit down and died a moment or two :titer leowiag a cookshop, where they bad sapped together about 12 o'clock at night. John Adams, who keeps the cookshop, proved that 'Downes. anti Stanton did sup at his house about the time mentioned, and appeared sociable together. Elizatteth Cum, being again called, stated, that the de. ceased was coining, when he fell, in a direction from Adam's hom _ _ Mary Newton and Emma Barron' were then called, and centrailicicil all the in - aerial points in the evidence of the other girls liTtim.'at forstad in support of the prosecution. The latter admitted, on her cross-examination, that she had visited the prisoner Walton several times since his commit ment to Newgate. Mr. Justice Park slimmed up the evidence at considerable leiteth, and repiobritted the eNistance of such a place as Bab talrs cotree•shop, as a disgrace to the police. The Jury, after a short deliberation, pronounced both the prisoners—Not Guilty. SATURDAY, JANUARY IS. John Stafford was indicted for burglarionslv breaking and entering the dwelling house of John Field, and stealing tiles ein a foather bed and pier glass, his property. The prosecutor lives at Norton ' , Agate. On The even ing of the 27th of December he left his house about four o'clock, and on returning at seven, he discovered that his &ma, which he left locked, was opened. He called to a neighbour to come and assist him, as he be lieved there were robbers in his house. - While thus calling, the prisoner Ensiled out of the door against hi" saying, " Don't offer to make a noise, or call for assistance, ur it may be worse for von—my mum is John Stafford ; von know me very well." Witness then, with the assistance of a neighbour, secured him. On going in, he missed his pier looking glass, which he had left in Ida house at going out ; 6e also found that his bed, and several other articles, hail been removed from the place in which he had left them, though not taken out of the premises. Joimson, the person with wham the pier glass was discovered, stated that it was sold to him by the pri soner. The prisoner pat in a written defence, in which he stated, that he • was frequetffly defective in his intellect, and had often attempted his own life. On his previous cross•exami nation of the witnesses, he endeavoured to spew that the gla‘s was 110 the property of the prosecutor. but of a woman with whom he cohabited. Proseentor admitted that the articles were not his, but that he had the care of them, which the Court jutiffed sufficient in point of law to support the indictment. Verdict—Guilty, Death. Abraham Allen NI as put to the bar, charged with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of William Meadows, and stealing therein twelve pair of shoes, his property.--Ac quitted. Daniel Leary and Jeremiah Sullivan were indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Joseph Oates, and stealing therein some glaa cruets, the property of Henry Piet vepoint. The prosecutor, a glass cutter in Drury-lane, went from his house about nine o'clock on t..e 10th Decem ber. On returning. he saw am an (the prisoner Leavy) with his hand extended into his shop, the door being then open. watched him for a short time, and saw some eructs in his hand, with which hr made off. lie AT.LS pursued and taken with the property in his possession. Levy, in his defence, said, that the cruets had been put into his hands by a stranger. It not appearing satisfactorily that the door had been fastened on the evening of the robbery, the charge of bur glary was given up, and the Jury found both prisoners guilty of stealing under the value of .10s. Thomas and Isaac Greenslade were indicted for a bur glary and robbery in the 'tame of Francis John Gates. On the 4th ;January the prosecutor and his family went on a visit to a friend in Paddington ' and on his return the following morning s -he found that his house had been robbed o f sever ,' articles of wea log apparel, so sac hooks, and pictures. The door of the prosecntor's house had been forced open, and the staple removed. When the prisoner Thomas was arrested, an instrument was forma upon him which corresponded in size with the incisions mode. in the door oldie prosecntoos house it further appeared that the persons lodged in the same house with the prosecutor, and that one of them (Thomas) when taken, confessed that he hail sold some of the articles to a woman, at whose shop th'v were afterwards found. Mr. Justice Park summed up the evidence, and observed. thatihere was not sufficiently strong evidence to skew that the robbery was not comntittyl in the night time. The Jury acquitted Isaac of all the chards, and found Thomas not guilty of the burglary, but guilty of stealing to t c value of 395. _ The prisoners were brothers and both very young. David Pickard was indicted for asiatilting Mary Clark on the highway, witting her in fear and tvking from her per• son two shirts, and some other articles of wearing apparel, his property—Not guilty. Charles linglies and Robert Penman were indicted for •saolting Joint Briggs on the highway, and forcibly taking from him a watch and seals, his property. The prosecutor was going through Lon:T-111es., in Shore. ditch, on the Ist instant, wise!) he wa • met by lso;11 prisoners. They pressed him against the wall, esidyntly with &sign. It was then ahmit halt' past 3 o'clock in the afti ruohu. When they. had stone from him, he missed his watch, and imme diately followed, crying '• Stop thief." In a short time offer he saw his watch in the hands of a constable, who had the prisoner Hughes in custody. Both proslaced several witnesses. w'io gave them a good character. Mr. Jnotee Park summed np, and the Jury brought n ver dict of Not Guilty as to PCISILIA:I j Was convicted— Death. TIE POLICE. -410- MANSION HOUSE. DISTRMED SEAMEN.—A number of those perishing ob jects who have been lying übout the streets since the Board of Admiralty took them under their protection, applied to the Lord Mayor to give them relief. They all said they were without food or lodging. " I wish," said his Lirdship," that Lord Melville's sympa thies were properly awake upon this occasion; perhaps, if his Lordship were to take my place for five or six days, he would approve of the plan is Melt I recommended, and partly acted upon. He would have !Well that the diatress was not imaginary, and would dread, as 1 do, the consequences likely to ensue * front the rejection." One of the applicants said he feel a claim upon those by whom lie had been refused relief; that a considerable sum of prize-money was due to him, notwithstanding which he was compelled to starve or to rob. The Lord ,Mayor said, that such was the situation of num bers of the poor sailors who paid hint their melancholy visits every morobig. Some of them had lost their papers, and were therefore refused their does. others were put off with the excusos always at baud, and sent back to the streets to starve. Numbers were thus cruellyadded to the plunderers of the metropolis. In so terrible an extremity he was wholly at a loss what to do, iaterdict•d as he was by an authority which, however he might eon:team in this instance, he could not oppose. Butt the Admiralty, in their wisdom, perhaps with a view to economical reform, had taken upon themselves the responsibility. It was, indeed, cheaper to throw the sailors upon the humanity of individnals than to provide them wit► the comforts to which th,•ir past conduct esititled them; but to avoid the honors of intestine commotions, Govern ment should resort to something not wholly adverse to freeing or principle. The Helder had left her station opposite the Tower; the Consuls of the different nations were languish ing in their exertions to send home the natives of the coun tries they represented, the streets were crowded with half. naked seamen, whose appearance proved their condition; and the Admiralty saw all this; they no doubt, spoke in terms of compassion, except when pressed very hard, and dismissed them with advice. Many of those who applied to his Lord ship within the last week were born at sea; and one of the unfortnuate creatures said, that probably the Admiralty wished them at the very bottom of their irtrishes. Ttiey re tired from the Mansion-house into the street, his Lordship having desired them to go down io a hotly to the _Admiralty, and wait there until they were relieved. At Guildhall, a seaman, apparently of great strength and aetivic;, said he was willing to work hard, although hi, feet were frost bitten, for a meal. The Magistrate having men tioned that he 'could not do any thing liar his petitioner, the seaman left the office, saying, in the hearing of some of the police officers, that lie was sorry to he obliged to rob. One of the officers told him the coosequence. He persisted in what he declared, and desired his adviser to take care of his pockets. see what 1 can do toatight" said he. The Portuguese Consul applied to the Lord Mayor upon the subject of the distressed Portuguese seamen. The Lord Mayor said, that a period bad been put to his authority in every case of this description. The Admiralty had monopolized the power of doiog good upon the subject, but the inclination was not so ormifest in the exercise of that authority which they were so unwilling to delegate. In the couNe of time lay the Lord Mayor took an opportu nity to state, that a plan had been suggested, by Mr. Martin, of Westminster, which promised considerable advantage to several of the seamen, to whom pay and prize-money are doe—namely, the appointment of a Register-office, at which, the above mentioned creditors are to give a &scrip lien of their claims, amid where they are to be assisted with all the facilities of obtaining satisfactory answers to their applications. BOW-STREE On Saturday two brotherq, named Joseph and William Follett, the former apdarently about eighteen, latter thirteen years of age, nirderwent an examination. before Mr. Hicks, the 'Magistrate, upon hie several charges brought against them of uttering comiterliA flank of Eligkinil notes, know ing theni to be forged. They were committed for trial. SWINULING--George Downey was brought to the aline, and underwent a second exami.lation, before Mr. Hicks. the Sitting Magistrate, being charged with several acts of felony. in addition to the former witnesses, Elizabeth Malcolm, of Artillery-street, Hishopsgate-street, attended and stared, that has ing seen in the public papers an account of the prisoners being in custody, she suspected him to be the man who had rubbed her house, and on seeing him at the bar she had no doubt of his person. He came to her loose about four or live months ago, and looked at sonic apartmeuts she had to let. He approved of them. but said he hail appointed a gentleman to meet him there, and reqnested permission to wait a little for him. He said he was faint, and requested to have some perter; she told him she had no sersaut in the lion ,, e to fetch it, awl if he had it he must go and fetch it himself, which he did and as he said lie was w ell acquainted with her late husband, and was well known to the Solicitors of the Bank of England, and he was in the law himself, she gave him some cold roast mutton, also a book to read. After he hail left the house, the IliSO/STR'd that Ii had taken a silver spoon from a closet, and her spectacles. Mr. Westwood, the solicitor to the Hank, was present, and said he knew awhile. of :hr. prisoner, but knew the proseen trix extremely welt ; her late husband hod been a clerk in his office. Another charge ttailast the prisoner was fur stealing a great coat from a prisoner in the King's Bench prison, where lie hail gained admittance by a false representation. A number of other persons attended to make charges against the prisone r far obtiiniug p row rty he similar means. He was again remanded. REGISTER. QUEEN-SQUARE. Mr. Joseph Lee, a respectable coaeltmaster, resitting in Prince's-place, Westminster, came to trot Oboe in order to ask the Magistrate's advice how he should act under the following circumstances: lie stated, that the evening before, the driver of one of his coaches, No. b9l, had hems called, with las couch, from die stand in Chaeles.strect, CAweatiardyn. to take up a tire at dirlinsoifs a-la-mode beef s!top, tbe rumor of Clare-inleket mud iliackntore-street; lie there took up • lady very gen. - teely dressed, accompanied by a tzentle lia, and several boxes were also handial into the roach, a lira he was ordered to drive to Cie Voinitain, in torherine.street, where he act then down. In about :rail .11i hour thy gentleman came out, and desired Win to w.sit, sa;.•in; he should be back in less than an boor; but he never returned all. After waiting snout two hours, the lady came oar, and got jilt° the e.,aeli, with Civec or four of her boxes Laving }eft the rr, t in the. reap of the toaster of 11111 tit LLII2. Lie walkoi . titshl.to &Ore 913 to thford-street, where he set her down at a public vaults, and slit , drank several glasses of brandy. She then ordered him from one place to another till she became so id toxieated that .he could not articulate, awl it being at leirtli past one o'clock iii the morning, and supposirig she had a goo deal of property about her, he took her to NI. Mary-le-bone watch-house, but they would not receive her on account of her boxes. After trying one or two more watch-houses, to no better effect, he at last drove her home to his master's yard, and put her upon some clean straw in the statute. Dur ing the time he was rubbing down his horses, she fel , asleep, and he left her with her boxes. In the morning, about eight o'clock, Mr, Lee, as was customary with him, went into the stable, where he saw the lady; awl hi , hostler informed him Cott on his et, J iig there at five o'clock, she complained of being cold, said she had no money, but gave him a handsome silver knife, in a red morocco ease, to get her a glass of wain , brandy and water, which he did, and afterwards a glass or brandy itod milk. Mr. L. immediately invited her into his house to eat some breakfast, and ordered her boxes to be taken thither. When arrived theist., she took fit:co one of her buses a pearl necklace of considerable value, and de sired him to keep it as a security for his coach-hire, a, well a; any other expeuse she might hereafter cause him. She silo said she would put a gold chain into his hair 6, on feeling for on her neck, she perceived she had lust, and on searching the coach, it was bunt at the bottom. Mr. Fielding said, he thotight, from the weight, it must be worth from nine to ten putouts. Mr. L. said further, she had several other trinkets. which appeared valuable, and in one box there were several parch. mews. She told him the gentleman she had met with at Johnson's had obtained from her a ring to-pledge ' which was worth SU or 6 guiueas, lint had never estate back again. She also informed him, that Mr. Nichols, solicitor in Watford, was her trustee; and wished he would take a letter to 1010, this was on Friday sennight ; and she had then gone to bed, and he came there for advice. Mr. Fielding highly approved of the coaclunaster's conduct, and appointed a private examination in the evcoing, and the lady, being then sober, gave such an account of herself and connexions as indneed Mr. Fielding to write to Mr. Nichols, and to send Mr. Lee himself with it to Watford. Mr. Nichols answered Mr. Fiehliug's desire to see him, by appointing Thursday last, at ooe o'clock. In the mean time the lady has been driving about in one of Mr. Lee's hackney chariots; has lodged at his house, and behaved very well; only drank too freely. Mr. Nichols appeared at the office on Thursday List, at two o'clock, and informed Mr. F. that she is a married woman, separated from her husband, who is now living at Halifax, in Yorkshire. She had a good fortitue left her by her father, the late Mr. Joseph King, of ‘Vatford, maltster, ssltich she is temandering away very fast. Himself and a friend of his at Watford, are executors of her father's will, and he had paid her 12U1 oa Wednesday se'nnight, to settle bids for rin4s, trinkets, and other extravagamies. Mr. Folding advised him to get her to Watford as soon as possible; and he left the office with Mr. Lee, to pay her a visit at his house, and to follow the Magistrate's advice of getting her out of town without delay. MURDER OF LIEUTENANT JOHNSON. Pomcg OFFICE.—RaIUeS Was 00 Sit3lday IWHOght up. The trial of flatten upon the charge of felony having been e.spected at the Old Bailey, that prisoner and Giddons were not at the Office. Mr. Price produced a very import ant witness in favour of the pri,oner. This was the Mrs. Potter of whom Raines h spoken, as one who could prim that Giddon's wrist was in its present condition twelve years ago. The Magistrate desired her to reflect upon the testi mony she was about to give with peculiar care. Mrs. Potter said, that her evidence could do nobody harm, and invoked the spirit of her husband, who was draw and two days after the murder, to witness the truth of her aliegatiou. The dreadful fate of her husband, she said, gave additional force to her aleatory; she never heard of any who were sal peeted of the crime until she learned from the newspapers that an accomplice had turned King's evidence, and deciart d Raines and !Litton principals in the murder. She was sur prised at the charge. Mr. Kitinaird--" Da you know any thing of tiiildons's wrist?'" Mrs. Potter—" I heard hint say, in the year ISM„ that his wrist would be a protection to him." Mr. Ktimaird What do you mean by protection i" Mrs. Potter—" don't know auy more than I say. It was in going to work where there was danger of a press that I heard say so." Mr. Kinnuird , —" You peremptorily say, that Giddons spoke in this manner of his wrist?" Mrs. Patter—" I would uut tell a falsehood on this subject for my precious grandfather ?" Kinnaird- -" Yon need not go so high in your genera lion?" Mrs. Potter here stated that she remvnibered the circumstance which site mentioned as having occurred in 1807, in consequence of the civility of Giddou• and Hatton to her in the absence of her husband, during tic following year. She knew Raines by sight a long ti.ne, but fro further. Itaines—" Whea Ciddous worked with use II years ago, his wrist was as it is now•. We worked on hoard tin East Indianian, lying down the river, and he was brought to this office for stealing tea. I remember I was very near mischief for telling the people who brought hint here that he was a poor man with a wife and children. He went then by the name of Gardiner. The officers threatened me for taking his part. The scoutuh•cl got away, and told use that he got eft with a tine of Vs. Otte of the clerks examined the books of I V 13.7, and'S, but found no record of th. vital ge alluded to by }tames. Jacob holder, a ',mutat', with It limn Haim s lodged at thee time of the murder, c lad he did not recollect t h e a b sence et . Raines upon any one night from the beginning of January to Juni., B 09; that Raines alwa,S 4iipe„72tl a fair dealin g num. and regular in his habits. _ kaines—" The only night I ever dent nut of your bone, while I was your lodger, was the Saturday 'light before Patin smo d y,. Voter worship will remember the scoundrel said 1 was with hint Aieveriti days. I,,innaird—" 1 will most willingly listen to any thing ealculattd to SUN' yonr in.locenee. Some circumstances which have come out this day I:11 location:Ably - are favourable. to yogi." Remanded till Saturday. On - Tuesday. about 12 o'clock, a poor man Oral/. neon(' of of Loveless, a coal-heaver 111 the employ of Ale , srs. It'erraway ik Co., of Illackfriors, was inn 4r, :$llll bib leg broken, in the neighbuncheorl Cambridge•hentli, Hackney-rood. rim poor fellow, in conse.pience of the road being very bad. uas leading the harse, and slipped upon his hack, whien,.the It r e going on, the who c. I went over his lrg, near the how,. where he wis going to unload: and shucking to 'elate, he us obliged to remain in the street until his tollow-woi Limit the coals, not one ou the spot Navin4 the h ilma _ ty to take him in, when he WAS conveyed in tbe.cart to 41. hospital.