The National Register. — London, England, 1822-12-15 00:00:00

et, . bII ILIILf:Y SESSIONS. MONDAY, Dec. 9...-Geflrge Cripps, aged 49, was en iv kited of embezzling the stain of 81. 43. the m 'nits of his in aster, Richard 11 .twes. Urn:KING COUNTeItFEIT Cum—Frederick :Hid dl lex, aged 30, was indicted for uitermg several pieces of forged and counterfeit coin, made to resemble the silver coin of the realm. Law slated the case for the prosecution. Lyles, 3 pcl5OllOllllS lrf employment, dep that the prisoner offered to sell lino, on various occasions, bad money; this lie coinmititicatedl to Armstrong, the officer, who, with Hatfield, gave him certain direcdions, and marked ...... ley to entrap the prisoner; lie accord ingly dia., purchase severa pieces, which he handled over to the officers. Arinstrotig, the officer, deposed, that in conseqiience of a communication, lie gave infdirmation to the allot, and received certain directions. Wines: fornished kyles with money to purchase bail silver of the prisoner, and kyles went to St. J.dlin's Collee-lionse, Cow-cross, and purchased some bail shillt dugs, in the presence of a coin 'unn° named Vali. Du their twitting the house, wit 'less detained the prisoner, and on searching hint mond bs. good, which was not the money wittiest had marked. Afier.sardls he found two of the marked ahilliugs which he had given to Lyles. W. I iatfield corroborated the evidence already detailed, and produced the bad money. The Jnry, alter a short consultation, pronounced the prisoner Guilty. It:corder —l'he judgment of the Court is, that you be imprisoned one year in the House of Cortectiou, and there kept 10 hard labour. DARING GANG UP BURGLARS.—Mark Herd, aged 22, William %Vitus, aged '25, 111111 CS Brown, aged 33, and Thomas Fuller, aged were capitally indicted for borglariously breaking and entering the dwelloikhodise of James Alexander de Reinter, in the parish of St. Pancras, and stealing therein 14 spoons, value 101., a petakitile, a gold untainted small-box, a wine funnel, and other articles, his property; and Charlotte Banifield was indicted fur being an accessary :niter the fact, and liar booting and receiving them, well knowing theist to have committed the said urglary Mr. Reinter deposed, that lie resides at No. 12, Etiston place, New-road, and oti the 1 Ilth of November his house was broken open. Ile was informed by his cook early in the morniug that the house had been robbed, and he (timid that the back-kitchen window had I seta forced open. There was a hole in the shutter. There I were in irks of two men having got down by the back wall, Yi hich was ten feet high. The k door had one of its pannels cut completely out. The witness, after relating some more militate particulars as to the breaking, described the property shako, and identified it as produced by the police officers. Charlotte Kaye, rook to the last witness, deposed to finding the house broken open to the morning, as de scribed by her master. She heard no noise in the night. She identified an uaiiirella found in the house where the priaotters were apprehended, as belonging to her fellow servant. Pace, the officer, of Queen-square, produced the pan ne) of the kitchen door, and a set of burglarious imple ments. He stated that he went, wilts Clasper and Ii indley, officers, to a house in Castle-strret, Seven Dials, about six o'clock on the mortaing of the 11th ult. Witness listened at the door of the garret, and heard the o ices 0 . two or three persons, and borst open the door, and Saw a quantity of lilac spread out on a table round which the prisoners IVatts, Brown, and Fuller were sitting. Knowing Watts, witness rushed up to him, drew his cu lass, placed it at his breast, and told him if he stirred he would ruts hits 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 keep still. Cooper seized the property, and secured it. Witness hatidcufled Fuller and Mown, and while doing so he saw the gold mounted snuff box, identified by Mr. Rei nter, fa!l from one of them, but could not tell winch. _Handley haudctiffed Watts, and Herd was made to get up and dress himself. His coat was lying on the oppo site side of the room, and he saw the petakiii;e produced fall from his coat, as he was potting it on. Bairleld also got up, and dressed. Cooper asked the prisoners to which of them the plate belonged, but neither of Mein would own it. Concealed under the floor they fantod several picklock and skeleton keys, a chissel, a stock Ito centre-hits, a crow-bar, and a dark lantern. Cooper produced the idate, &c. which were identified by Mr. ltanier, and he corroborated the stateutcut ail Pace, as did Handley, in its main facts. Ilse Recorder summed tip the evidence, and die Jury, after consultiug lora few n 11811.103, found all the prasoliers Guilty—Death. Mr. Renner stepped into the witnesses' box, and tartars ly begged to recommend] the prisoners to mercy. The Recurder.—On what ground can you reco 11111 l end these men to mercy ? Mr. Reinter.—Oil the ground, my Lord, that no vio lence was uff.:red to any protein in the house; and it wool(' be a great relief to nay mind if I could be assured they would not suffer. The itecorda.—The recommendation made upon the ground you have mentioned shall niost widiiiibtedly be tor waraed ; but your individual feelings comm. be con sulted, if public justice demand an exaduple. Et za Pitysick, a pretty git I about twenty years of age, was indicted for robbing Mr, Baker, tallow chandler, 01 Foley -street; and Sophia Stephenson was charged with having rec;:ired the stolen property, knowing it to have be n illegally come lay. The prisoner Playsick, it appeared, was a house ser vai.t to the prosecutor, and, alter a service of three days, she decamped with his cash-Lox, containing certain writings and papers, two 51. notes, eight sovereigns, and a guitie4. 'lnc evidence avitist her was conclusive; she WAS irorehentled at Cilatil.llll on the gsl ult. (fire days after the robbery), and confessed the fact. Stephenson, THE NATIONA' REGISTER who was a woman about 40, kept a house of ill fame in Westminster. Ii was proved that she had received the prverty from Pitysick immediately after the robbery; 11131 sue hail changed one of the hi. notes nuttier circum stances of coneealment, and that she had gi.em false lie counts as 10 the m3titter of het becoming puh.sessed of it. Physiek admitted her guilt, hut said that Stephenson was . 1111111Cellt: She kid not known the property to be stolen. Stephenson said that she ondersiontl 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 .1 try, against both, found a verdict of Guilty. St.:. Baker (the prosecutor) then stood up, and begged to recommend Eliaaheth Physick. lie had great reason to believe dill the whole had been done at the instiga lino of the prisoner StepllCll,oll, and that the bulk of the money had fallen into her hands. When he (Mr. 11.) had apprehended Physick at Chatham, lie had found her without a shilling; and he heard she had been sent away from Stephenson's house two days after the robbery with only Ss. in her pocket. The Recorder said that Mr. Baker's recommendation should be attended to, and would doubtless have its weight. For the prisoner Stephenson, he should at once upon her the severest punishment tile law would allow; and she might prepare herself, therefore, to be ransporied fur a term of 14 years. James Montgomery was indicted by M r. Toplis, of St. Paul's Churchyard, fur obtaining money from oim under false pretences. Tile defendant was employed by Mr.Toplis as a fore. mall in the painting business. Mr. Toplia was a house :went and upholsterer; and having occasion to employ cat venters, pa biters, and other workmen to tit tip houses, his custom was to engige one man as a foreman, who hired others under him and paid their wages, charging the autumn to Mr.Toplis. The defendant Montgomery, having been retained as one of these firemen, had hired workmen at one rate, and charged them to Mr.Toplis as another; and in this way (overcharging the wages of limr men in one week) he hail robbed the prosecutor of 15s.(itl. The four men (as to whom the overcharge was ills puled) were called fur the prosecution ; but they all distinctly stated, on cross examination, that they were hired by Montgomery as a master, paid uy him, and dis iniased by him; and, in fact, that they knew no other employer. Mr.A.lulphus, after addressing the Jury on the part of Montgomery, called a number of witnesses. Two of these were men charged fir to Toplis on the same ac count as to which the overcharge was imputed ; and is appeared that, if the four first witnesses had received lest titan ',Montgomery charged for then', these two men re- ceived more. Several tradesmen of wealth and respecta bility were called, who had known the defendant many years, and employed him as a master painter ; and all gave him a high character for fait dealing and skill in his business. It appeared further, that there wag a suit pending 'e tweet' the prosecutor and 'Montgomery, for money winch the latter claimed, and the former refused to pay. The Jury declared themselves satisfied that no fraud could have been intended. Verdict—Not Guilty. uLBDAY. DEC. 10.—CU It lOUS CASE.--Charles House and James Bull stool indicted for frionioudy MI. in Bank of Eitglanil tunes, the property to Mr. W. Honeycottelt, from his person. The prosecutor stated, that one day last month he met the prisoners in a gi4 in the lidaeware-road, and know ing House, accepted of their oiler to ride with them to London. Be had I yetied some batik notes to the amount of 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, and exclaimed, " 1 have lost them-you must have got them." The prisoners an swered, "That can't be;" and one of them, be was not sure which, said, " Tnere is a note on the i „round.“-- Witness picked it up, and found it to be a 201. note; he then called out there were 401. more, amid the prisoners diove MI at 101 l speed. lie ran after them, calling "Stop thief:" and they were stopped by a W.O chman. The notes were afterwards found on the groom!, its the mid between the place where he Cot out of the gig, and the place where die prisoners were stoppei'. The W.llChllll.ll, With Buck huge, a police flicer, proved the taking of the prisoners Olio custody; them denial (.1 having taken the notes, and finding of the 4ul. on the road. The Recorder charged the Jury, who instantly acquit ted the prisoners. ATTEMPT 'EO EXTORT MONEY.--Wm. Baker was indicted lor feloniously attemptun4 to extort, front Henry G01(1..1111(1, Esq. a s cut antintey, by threatening LO accuse huu of an unnatural crime. The prisoner, wi, appeared to have a griet ous impe diment, or hesitation fit - speech, applied for the postpone ment or his trial fur a few hour., that he might hntsh writitig out his defence. The Recorder refused the amine:llkm. Mr. Alley then stated to the Jury tile particulars of the case, as afterwards proved in evidence. The prosecutor being sworn, stated that he resided on an estate be had in South Wales. On the yth November he c ame to London, and pot up at the 11 uttimitins. lie was acquainted with a family tit Norfolk -street, and, on the Ititn of November, had - been walking out with two ladies, with w hunt he returned to Norfolk -street; he had scarcely sat down, when a person knocked at the door, and inquired fur witness--he went to the door, and saw a man whom he sioottld know again, who told hint a man was waiting in Howard -street, who wished to speak wnh lion : eXIICCtIIIg a person from the country, he ac companied lion thither, and there Mond the iii isoner, who said, " You are the titan that was in a coach with me on Saitircay week;'—witness said, " 1 in a coach with ;au I I was 100 miles hoot London." The prisoner then said, " II you don't give me 101., 1 will charge you %%Antall nonatural crime; you c.iii't g.et off, for 1 saw go into the llumutonis Ott Wednesday night." lie added, " You had better give me the money, or you will have plenty of our sort. Witness then attempted to seis e him, but he ran away down Surrey -street—.witn ess pur. sited, calling to the people to stop him, but no perso n interfered until witness called nut that he had th reatene d to clvirge him with an itimaittral crime; sorra! person,: then joined in the pursuit, and he was at length taken II a waterman in the intid by the water side, at the bolo it of Surrey-street he was then brought, and witness said, You t hrea tenet! 10 charge use with all u nnatural oiktice, and I shall take you to Bow-creet." The prisorier then said, " I base no charge to make against you, but when I 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 ptisoner was taken to Bow-street. George Hill, a waterman, was standing at the stairs at the bottom of Surrey -street, when he saw the prisoner run down, 'unwed by Mr. Goldsmith Ile ran towards Strand• lane, but winless intercepted him, and he then turned into the mud, and witness followed and secured him. Ile asked the prisoner what lie rail away for, and he said he had done nothing—he was no thief. Witness led him up the stairs into Surrey-s. reel to Mr. Goldsmith and heard the dialogue between them, as given in that gentleman's evidence. J. Ilovgin, of Howard-street, hearing the hue and cry, joined in the pursuit. This witness confirmed testimony. Tots was the case for the prosecution. The prisoner in his defence, through 'the medium of Mr. %Vomiter, went into a story of hat ing met a geod e . matt some time since, who °tiered to procure him a Suitt. aeon, and who described himself as Alt . . Goldsmith On the day in question he spoke to the prosecutor, who said he did not know him ; and lie (the prisoner) was walk. mg quietly away, when he heard a great cry of " Stop thiel !" and in the pursuit was taken into custody. The It-corder, in particularising the evidence, dwelt on the enormity of the offetice, and said it was too true, as the prisoner had Sabi, that there were Illany of the satne soft in the metropolis. It was a fortunate circum stance fur the ends of justice that Mr. Goldsmid knew the person who knocked at the door, as he might yet be brought to the bar. The J ury, without hesitation, pronounced the prisoner Guilty. 'rite Recorder.—Prisoner; if yon have any remains of morality or ju.tice about you, you will make proper aumenient for what you have cointnitted. if the prose. color had been a person of weak nerve, and yielded to the threats, and given money to you, you would not have haul many slays to live in this world. The sentence of the Court is, that you be transported for seven years. The leartied Judge then addressed Hill, the waterman, and said, the Court not only allowed hint his expellers, but at the same time returned their public thanks to hint for having secured so desperate an °Wender. WEDNESDAY, Disc. 11.-114 consequence of the fog the Court was lighted up the whole of the mottling in the same manner us at night. Twenty prisoners, against whom no hills had been found were separately brought up and severally dis charged. William Thompson and W. Rutland were fined Is. each and discharged. Willis, the person charged with robbing several hotels in w hich he had lodeed, from time to time, was capitally convicted of stealing a silver tea-pot Irons a tavern at Limehouse. There were several other indictments against the pri soner, which were not proceeded Several pawn srokers applied to the Court for direction as to to the disposal of property in their possession, which had been pledged with them by the prisoner. The Recorder ordered the whole 01 the property to bo given up to the sever.sl persons claiming it, who had been bound over to prosecute. James Slice, aged 9. and George Limes, aged 12 years, were indicted for stealing three knivrs, value 2s. 6d. the property of R. Gould. evidence to the above effect having been gone through, and the prisoners making no defence, and call lignu w es.:es, the Jury ►u.wntly found them both Slice, it appeared, had been tried before, and James was an orphan without any triends. The Rocorder directed inquiry to he made, whether they could he received into the refuge for the destitute, and in the mean time their judgment was respite 7. Henry ease was indicted our stealiog to yards of print. ed cotton front the shop of Witham SloThard Davis, and R. Davis, linen drapers, in St. J olties-bt Net, _ . . 1 hompson a city police officer, saw the prisoner take the goods trout the shop in the evening. and run off.— He, of course, pursued him, and the prisoner dropped a 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. Toe Recorder immediately sentenced him to be trans ported for seven years. William Dowcett, a man of very respectable appear ance, was indicted for embezzling id. the property of J. Buttress, his employer. Mr. Alley, for the prosecution, stated to the Jury, that Mr. Buttress was a eery extensive silk manufacturer, nn Spitalfields, and the prisotier up to the .sth October last, when hr was dismissed, was a confidential servant in his employment. Mr. Buttress hail in his employ ment upwards of 400 men, and it was part of the pri soner's business to pay them every Saturday, for winch purpose money was hillitird over to hint by another clerk. Toe charge in the present indictment was, that he entered in toe book the sum of 21. as having paid that amount to a workman, named Rawlins, but who never remed it, and that the prisoner therefore applied ii lilt own use. Mr. Buttress was called to prove that the prisoner was employed by him, and was empowered to pay and re ceive muffles on his acci•:ott. lie received 1001. a year salary, and was Alit/Wed to take apprentices, and had