The National Register. — London, England, 1823-04-14 00:00:00

- = "7 11 ; EAIEEr SESSIONS. WIDNYPTSY., Atm o.—This morn;ng the sessions • , ; commenced. before tit- Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the J,tecurdsr. Alderman Cox, and the. Sheriffs of London and !Si tibllisex The Juries having been swore, Lord Chief Joiner Abbott, the presiding Judge, entered the 'Court at ten o'clock. kimes•Rogers, a yuseitg man of respectable appeamnces by harytwas a Wolter, stood indicted fur steatitic 961155. of cos ssitai lbw property of Charle• Kershaw and others. rtits.4l;iStr...r (who is extremely deaf) listened to the • evidence through the toed um of a sounding trumpet. Rershaw, die prosecutor, deposed, that h. aria pander intim house of Stewart, Marsh, and Co. Prisoner • eanie to him and said, that he heard that the cable, &c. of the sltiii Mellish. lying at Blackwall, was for sale, and • simile awniter Its purchase it. Prisoner paid gol. in cash sods bill ,for 601. which was duly lionaureil when slue, and wittlem gave him an order to go on hoard the vessel, from WIICIICe the Cllibr4 was salient. A witimits, who stated histrtelfto be a signer on beard the Mellish, deposed that the copper in question was ...towed in the hold of the vessel, part of which he after , wards minty!: but never saw the prisoner rot hoard. Harvey, ihe foreman of the labourers employed to um. I)itail the haw, taw the prisoner there, hut never between •ithe decks of the Mellish ; he told the witness he came to ,purchase a cable. The prisoner made no defense. Verdict . ..snot guilty. THURSDAY. APXII. 10.—John Faulkner, aged ItO, -was indicted for stealing a glass carboy, value gas. the -property of Mr. J. White. • John White, the pros. color, deposed that he lived in 'Ayr Street, Manchester Square, where 1w practices as ro apothecsry. The carboy , (a large mnne bottle) stood in the window, from which it was taken by the prisoher, who was obsesvesl, pursued, and 'overtaken, when he threw the bottle clown, and broke it. Witness had no doubt of the iirisoners identity. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty. accompanied by a reensnmenth.tiou to mercy. Discharged on paying . a fine of is. J. Moutovellwat indicted for a burglary it; the house of Thomas Ilawe, and stealing therein a silver mug, and - .sh . , containing SO gold pins. _ an 'r . • "111 M IN 0. ~} 1 . } ~'~. ~~ , ~ • ~~ r, I~ 1 • 'J * ';.l a emit. Mr. Dive is a j:welter in Regent Street, Oxford Street, and on the evening of the tgth ultimo, he was standing Iwhind the counter. when he heard the crash of a pane of glass in the window. He hastened nut, and saw the prisoner toning away. lie pursued him as far as the corner of Castle Street. where he lost tight of him for a 111111 l ent, and continued the pursuit, calling • Stop ;bi t ( I "—until he was roppeil at the cornet-Of Margaret• Street, and taken to Mr. Dawe's shop, and the property was handed to Mr. 1). by a M r. Lloyd. Nir. Lloyd stated, that he saw the prisoner throW the property upon the ground. The Lord Chief Justice summed up the eviderice, and !the Jury round the prisoner guilty—death. . Daniel Dencers, a young Ushman, was indicted for - -assaultine Anne !stills on the is•ghway, ant Leaking front tier person a silk scarf salve Yl. Titere was a second in diet inentsigainst the prisoner for an assault, with truant to en/limit a rape. The prowctitvix deposed; that she lived servant in a f tinily al' Knsionton, and aismt eight o'clock •iti the es:ening Of the tyli telt. she woe walking along the road, tnwards _her. master s 4muse, when the prisoner caught held of-her, but She got away. He again came up with her, took htdd.ul her, and threw her down. doserving, f* If you say a- w0rd,,•.1 will murder you." lie then . endeatrpttred to violate her person; she sereamed loudly, anti was heard by sonic children, who ran to the house of a Mt. Santlibinds, whd came to her assistunce. The prisoner mon seeing him approachejumped up, and • fan awarewith her scarf. Witness had seen the prisoner isefore,-and was quite sure he was the man. Cross ritamined.—Could not swear' that the prisoner took the scarf from her neck; bat was certain she had not taken it 011 and lad it down herself. R. Sandilands stated, that on at* evening in question , two young girls cause to hi* house, and told him, that a rlll5ll was murdering a woman below. He went, and ..found the prisoner in the situati 111 l described by the pro seed rig. On going neat, hr heard Mills laintly scream. and, say. "Oh I my father!" Witness attempted to striae the prisoner, last be jumped up and ran away, aid he was prevented from pursuing him, by the rosecuirix throwing herself into Ins arms and fainting. She was • insensible for a considerable time, ond only now and then faintly articulate, "Oh toy father!" Joseph Nlitchens deposed to apprehending the prisoner ...and saw him drop the scat!. The prisoner, in his defence. denied the robbery I pleaded 111114iiCa11011, and said, he only tripped tip the proseceirix out of a lark. The Chief Justice ciiarged the Jury; and the prisoner was found guilty death. AttneNorris, and Sophia Ftayer, were indicted for a robbery, upon the person of George Rocket. The prisoners were inhabitants of that den of vise end iiiiamy, George Yard, Whitechapel ; and the pro secutor, a simple countryman, was inveigled by than to their apartments, and there ossaulted and rubbed of three half-crowns. FAIDAY. APRIL 11.—FOKBERY morning Chants James Kerfoot was put to the bar. charged with entering a counterfeit older for the payment of bUI. 3s. with intent to defraud James Mann, tin the gist day of February last, at Westminster. James Mann, sworn—Witness is a ritling•lnkster al Brighton ; knows the prisoner e who resided at the Sterne Hotel about eight or ten days. The primrose had hired. several horses. awl hail borrowed tel. of witness; and on the i ith of February he rent a person, who had before been in the habit of coining for a horse, whio4 was not ,retinnecl as expected. At midnight, not hearing of tile prisoner, witness set oft . for town, and arrised between six and seven iii the morning ; met the/prisoner in Hal hawern I And i I o'clock on the hutiellhot he \ • ..- HE NATIONAL RECIOTEN T 1 , had borrowed. Witness seised the hoirse e and the pri saner was taken eoSt.Oilepa'ssiratch-boust. The prisoner was taken subsequently fu.Marlhorough-street. and m a publics! se opposite the seize the prisoner produced a bill of exchatige. Furman', the officer, was prarent.-. Witness went user to the ()See, and was 111101Thell that Amite had hot disposed of the horse, he could not be do 'lord_ for a felony. Witness went back to the prisoner, who [imposed to pay-Vella was tine. He was asked what me tut he had to Co so. to which he repaell, that he had a 101 l which 1% would send to the banking-house of Messrs. Loyal, and he accordingly produced a piper.— 'rue bill .veat finind.not to he due, but the prisoner ex pressed a wish to have it presented, for the purpose of sericite whether they would honwir it. The prisoner in dorsed the bill on the back. A person was sent to Nieves. Jones and Loyd., with the bill, and the prisoner was detained. The messenger returned with au answer that Mears. Jones and Loyd knew nothio.; of it, and that the bill Nt fact was a forgery. Cross-examined by Mr. Curwoed.—When the pri.• sinter prothiced the bill he W 36 ill custody, and was aware that he would be detained until the tatettsenger returned. Furman, We officer produced the hill. on which he saw the prisoner write "Cowles James Kerthot." The bill was put in and read by Mr. Shelton. and found to correspond with the indictment. This closed the ease for-the prosecution, and the Lord Chief imam informed the Jim that the bill only charged the prisoner with an intent to defraud James Mann. Now the fact as borne out by the evidence was, that if the bill had been • accepted by Messrs. Jones and Loyd, the prisoner wouid not have paid it to Mr. Maim. but have raised money on it by other means. He had conversed with his brother Iltillock whose assistance he was happy to have on the occasion, and they both con curred in thinking that the evidence was slot sufficient to couviet the prisoner; they therefore directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner. CHARGe 07 Curries AND STABllllso.—Milliam Marshall, aged 49. was put to tile bar on an' intlictotetit„ chanting him with cutting and stabbing -Mercy Hardy, with intent to kill and minder her, or to do her mine bodily harm, on the ghat of February last. It appeared the poottecutrix had accompanied the wife of due prisoner, who had lived separate for five or six years, to the house of the 'latter, at ten o'clock at night when he came down with.a sabre, which he flourished about. They had previously met him in the street, and threatened to come house to him. It also appeared that the prisoner had allowed his wife 85. a week for her maintenance. 'Li the crosoexaminallowit was admitted by the prosecunix that she had taken tip the poker.--It WJS also stated by the watchman, that the wife had " taken a drop." Ati offer had also been wade to settle thematter for 11. iTtie.prorecutor received an excellent character, and thr4ttry found hint--Not "Burson.' itosasar.—.Geogge Hipkins, a respect able looking am m o, man, was indicted capitally, for steal one 1101. and' fifteen tel. Bank' of -Engteed news ; two Bank post bills for bbl. each, and so sovereigns the pro. perty of John Ed is, in the dwelling. house of George Alio Alban Hurlock It appeared in evidence. that Mr . ..Edmonds is a stets- Orman resisting its Gloucestershire, and in the month of D.:cember. I 821, he came to Lond on with his son, who Was about to embark fur China, and lodged darina his stay at the Dundee Arms, Wapping. On the night of the 17th of December the prisol.er; and a man named Dudes% wale to the Dundee Arans:and slept on the third floor, immediately over the room occupied by Mr. Edmunds and his son. The latter were not disturbed during the night ; but in the morning. Mr Edmunds, oh. 'hissed his pockehbook containing the property above mentioned, Irons his coat pocket. He had ()laced his coat on a chair close to tits bedside. The prisoner and his companion went away very early In the morning. The next day the prisoner met with an aoqmintance of his, named Hillier, to whom he sheered a great deal of money, and said he had " dune the trick at the Dundee Arms." and would do the same thing ,again if an oppor tunity served. He treated Hillier. and an arrangement was made for them and'Dorleyto go tom boxing match at *Nloultey, the next day. They went tbere. and con tinued together caroming until the2l, I of Janitor'', whets the prisoner absconded. His friend Hillier met him some time ago, and heaving ascertained where he chiefly spent his time, gave information to :Ur. Evan", the in spector of the Thames police, who apprehended him He said when first accosted that his mute was not Hip kins but Taylor. Mr. Dyer, a clerk in the Bank of England, produced a WI, note, which a slopaeller, named Howard Lewis, proved having received from the prisoner a day after the robbery. Mr...Eila Is swore. that this note was one of those stolen 'row hill!. The rrisoner made no defence. Me. Prendergast, his Counsel, elicited from one of the witnesses, that the second name of Mr. Hurlock was ' Abi," and lint " A Ilh," as stated in the indictment. Mr. Baron Hillock charted the Jury, and said. that (hie error was fatal to the capital part of the charge, the stealiog in the dwellnig.house hut the prisoner might he found guilty of the larceny. 'flee prisoner was found guilty of the larceny VDDLESEX SESSIONS. WaDmititDAT, ARIL it —DgserusTr. ASS/AMT.—Mork Harwood was indicted for assaulting Edward Hood, a sworn brisker, in the month ofianuary last. • The prosecutor was employed by Mr. Collins, the proprietor of several houses'sn Eagle street. Spitallields, to distrait. be rent in the house occupied by the defeodasuea husband ; is so doing, in pursuance of his instructions, he was violently at tacked with a puker by the defendant, who laid his head open, sod was titan threatened if he did not instantly leave the honse ; she would du for Wm, taking up a large knife et the instant. The Cl.airmau aututued up, and the Jury fossil the defendant Ceilty. ~. ~,.:. •;$4 Several icapeotsble persona gave eellent character. The Chairman having charged the Jury, they oonealted t%- gather for ball an ha:a, and returned a rerdiot—ant putty. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. years ►. AlPitt. S.—The Witness on the Crown Side finished to-pay about one o'i look. There was nothing of put lie interest is the oases tried. Mr. Baron G►abam assisted the Lord Chief Baton in trying causes, SOMERSETSHIRE. DIIIPLORARLR SUP/InSTITIns„-A-The Mgt riosity was excited on Friday last by the appearance or the names of t h ree females on the calendar, on a charge, onder Lot d Ellenborough's act, of maliciously cutting and sta bbi ng an o ld woman, a reputed " Witch," with intent to Murder her. Tiie Grand Jury, however. after eon• sit ing the l earne d Judge upon the singular case, threw out the bill on the capital charge of maliciously cutting nosier i rang's% let, and 'rimmed a true bill against t:e n i three Etl" ptoner‘ for an *swill. Einsitbetk Bryant, the mother, aged SO, Elisabeth Br) ant, the Younger. ag. - 1 24, and Jane Ili yant, aged Cr, dm two (laugh. ers, were charged with having maliciously as saulted Anne Burgess. The parties resided at Wireliscombe, in this county, and the peuseeistiia was a Very aged woman. The ehirr prisoner was a gnarlier' wunan, residing in the same neighbourhood. She had three daughters, who lived wilh her, two of whom fete the prisoners at tint bar. One or Circe had been a!lliettd by tits, mai the mother, with a .„_.., _ _ - - . ,lad• goo" • vosloki 01004. Th illajoille *I niiimea, else is OM weed-onitimg -1100 0 1 iggigit !, m libeler, last. The Jary hood the defendant guilt, ; emd,Abeeemegeglelog hit, to pay a doe of IL with liberty to speak to the•proisemger. CfflAllol 00 P021011.Y.--George Steele, a yortag Ana g r very respectable appearanev, was pat on his trial fee poriery i The defendant was shoptnon to his brother, who wee a see." peotable silversmith 400" rd-street, Mr. Philip Lucas, the prosecutor, was a respectable timber ntereb: et, who had pro. ' mires be' ind the defendant's brother's houseAthe side of whits!' there was a peasege to which both k claimed , a right of way, whioli had been the reuse of math • greemout 4E I between them. The perjury with which the mit w‘s charged was 4:entailed in articles of the pesos, , ' Isel by his brother, his brother's servant, sod himself, egged the pea waiter, his father, sod two brothers ist which the defendant amongst other things swore, " that on the night of the 11th 4 January last, he looked over the wall that separated hiv bre; ther's yard from the prosecutor's, and saw the prosecutor aid his father, and two brother's, in the yard, armed with stick*, and with a dark or shaded leathern; ad that they reetvinett Mere frem half after nine to teno'clezlt at sight, sad that ha believed they were waiting there forithe purpose of osomainiag an assault ea some of the exhibilant's family." Oa these articles of the peace the defendant and his father had been compelled to Wee it. security, as the law did not permit them to disprove the facts swore ; but it proved in evidence, that ✓ot say see of the persons who were so charged by thu deafen dant, had blunt oa the premises the eight he bad sworn 'they were there. the defendant • most es. SURREY. NEVI V. AMUR AND °TIARAS. Kt sos Tom, APRIL 7.—This was an action of replevin, for wrongfully seizing the plaintiff's goods. The defendants, M . Meus and Co, avowed the taking, as owners of the Tumble-down Dick poblic•honse in the Borough, for rent in 'Freer due from the plaintiff'. On the other hand the plaintiff denied the avowry, and alleged that be held the bottle under the title of a fatuity named Moodam, who were teniusts for life of the premises in qnestion. On this latter point the whole cause turned, and the plaintiff lied • verdict. CROWN SIDE. John 5. Hamilton was indicted for forging an aoreptiume 103 a bill of exchange for 201. drawn by himself, on the let day of October 1822, at three months' date, and purporting to he accepted by one Jobs Gosling. A second cone( charged him with uttering the ease to one Thomas Pocock, knowing it to have been forged. The bill was addressed " Mr. J. Gosling, No. 11, Baguio Court, Newgate-street." It appeared in evidence that the primmer was a shoemaker by trade, and had been in the habit of dealing for many years with the prosecutor, a leather seller at NeWington Causeway. In the month of October last the prisoner was indebted to him in a sum of 20i. for goods sold and delivered, is payment of which he gave him the hill in question, which he stated he had received of Mr. Gosling, one of the overseers of the parish of St. Faith, for work done for the parish. He stated that Mr. Gosling Seed in the same house with bins, that the parish owed him 161. for work dose, sod that Mr. Gosling had agreed to give him-his scoeptanoe for 201. to enable him to get further credit. Upon this representation th e p rosecutor took the • bill, and gave the prisoner h ferther credit, anamintiog is the whole to about 801. When the bill became doe, it ass pre sented to No. 16; Baguio Court, bat no gook ppatmwee to be found residing there, or is any Other hook us the ostort.-- Whc.o the bill wee doe the prisoaer was not ts he teuisd, sad be was ultimately traced into Northamptonshire. where ha was apprehended.' Upon thee.. facts the ease west to the Joey. and they food the prisoner guilty—death. The prosecutor and the Jury strongly mmientemoded psi. tObef to moray, and the lear n ed Judge said he ihookl eariaiao take these moontineadatione into comideratioo. Jame. Dodd was rioaviutird of stealing. at Wilworth. on the 29th of Marsh, in the dwelling-fosse of Mazy Hirsh. eleven sovereigns, and ether marries, the property at Geo. ANsopp. William Ricketts was coarrieted of stealing, on gin list of August last, is the dwellingiosso of John Hughes, a watch, three gold seals. and a shirt, the property of T. Tremor. Jane Perrot was indicted for reosiviag M laimbah. -•• the 6th of February, bank notes to the Amorist of &MAW property of Hoary Pail hemp, knowing them to have hamestOlets. It will be reoolleoted that, at the lent Old Baal iletojeltet an unfortunate young woman, named Mary As. Alerta, wasters. pitally convicted of stealing the notes is slanting from Mr. Kemp, her uncle, of Harp-lane, Tower-street. Ostakat eats' Mon strong suspicions were entertained that the prosoot pri soner, in whose house, No. 8, Hooper-street, Lambeth. the unfortunate young woman lived in a state of l' .stitetioa, bed iestigwted the robbery. It was now distinctly proved that the prisoner had received the votes in question with a knooldge of the manner in objets Mary Ann Slots had possessed herself of the money. The prisoner wit proved to be a woo* of oboe. doted character, keeping a brothel at the place above nee- Tbs Jury forted her guilty, and she was sealoorsed to 14 a traa•portatioo, ~40. ~.