The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-09 00:00:00

NOV. 9 it his side pocket, co►►taining 1701. and in the morning it was gone. Suspicion alighting mum the prisoner, officers were sent after her. and she are at length apprehended at Liver. pont. S lof the notes were found in her possession. Being interrogated, she said the prosecutor had given them to her. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. It appeared tubse• fluently tl►at 361. out of the 1701. bad only been recovered, and about 61. worth of clothe.. WEDNESDAY. D. Longherst was iryglicted for stealing two doves and SS live pigeons, the properrty of Mrs. Valentine Snow. The prosecutrie resides at Snnbtiry ; on the night of the 10th of October, the Dove house was broken into, and robbed as above stated, and on the following morning the prisoner s offered a number of pigeons fir sale at • woman's in Hemp stead-road, but she would not purchase them ; and it being afterwards understood that they wese stolen, the prisoner vas pursued and taken in the New Road, and he then said they were all sold. It was afterwards discovered that the prisoner had left 19 of them at the house of one Stevenson, stear Battle Bridge. Three of them were produced and sworn to, one of them being a carrier, end a fourth was pro duced, which died on Tuesday night.—Guilty. Mr. Alley stated, that now the verdict had been returned, he could wills propriety inform the Jnry, that the prisoner bad *twice heel, admitted as an evidence in this Court. He also stated, that Mrs. Stevenson had bought 30 of the pigeons for 50n. and had denied that the pigeons were in he: possession. This was denied by Mrs. Stevenson ; but the officer, being called np, positively said, that, on his going (to Ler house, , she denied that she had any of the pigeons. Mr. Alley observed, that if he had known this before, she should have been indicted as an accessary.—Mrs. Stevenson .said,-she had given no amount for them. Mr. Alley loformed her, that it was not necessary, to sus tain an indictment for receiving stolen goods, that the person so receiving them shonld have paid for them. W. Bingley was indicted for stealing, on the 11th of Au gust. three Bank notes for the payment of 51. each, and other monies, to the amount of tiil, the property of ---- tDidand. Ys The proseentor is an 'lrish jobber, and on the day before mentioned he sold six heifers to a Mr. Lawrence, at Ronsford Market, fur 651. .The prisoner assisted the prosecutor to drive the cattle, and on their return they laid down together, and the prosecutor tell asleep, and on awaking, the prisoner was gone and also his pocket book. The prisoner was apprehended a few days after. and three notes for 31. -tomb, which were paid to the prosecutor by Mr. Lawrence, were found concealed in his breeches—Guilty. M. Levy was indicted for• receiving, on the 4th of October, a silver coffee-pot, valise 201.; a tankard, value 101. ; 30 sit. ver spoons, value 71.; and a variety of articles of plate, knowing them to have been stolen, the property of W. CM. low The circumstances of this case have been fully developed in the trial of S. Morris and J. Dennis, who were convicted of having•stnlen the articles. J. Braid. the accomplice, who had been three years in Mr. eltilow's service, went over his former evidence, and stated, that he and Morris took the plate to the prisoner Levy, in Petticoat•lane ; and that on the same day, Levy met them at Morri,.'s lodgings, and gave Morris a handful of notes, six of which Morris gave to the witness who spent two, and buried four. The accomplice was corroborated iu a few of the Junior facts. Six or seven, apparently respectable people, gave the pri soner a good character, one of whom had known him for 36 years.—The Jury retired, and on their return found the pi i. sonar Not Guilty. THURSDAY. James Ward was Indictell; ; a 401. note, the pro perty of A. Hiscock. A leer days ajp, Thomas Morris was convicted of stealing this very note from the present prosecutor, who is coachman to a Mr. Granter. By the evidence on that trial, it appeared that the bristlier of the prisoner alorris (James Morris) had been sent to get the note changed at a ',draper's shop in the Strand ; that the shopman haJ been sent to the Bank with the note, and that he, instead of bringing it back. absconded with it. The prisoner Ward, uow at the bar, is that very shopmau who ran off. Mrs. Phoebe Simmons, the wife of Mr. Si►nmons, a draper in the Strand. and James Morris, were again examined, and repeated their limner statetnents. Smithers, the officer who apprehended Ward, said that the prisoner had informed him that he had lost anti spent all the 401 in travellinz, and hail only a portmanteau, a sill hand kerchief, and two mud boxes left. The °sheer then flitted, that the Bank.cletk, William Hoole, who had attended on the foriner trial, new refused to be pre sent, or to produce the bank note, unless he received a gni. nea ore simplex:l. The proeeentor•lmd been on:Olen) give Hie guinea, and the eunserpteisce was the .abseuce of the piiacipal witness. The Recorder.— Have von serve I him with.a subpoena. Smithers.—l did not think it neceseaey. The Recorder.—You should have told me of the cirenn. Stance before the trial, or have served I ' with a subpuessa. I would have seen about the *nine:* when I got him► here. Srlithers repeated, that he dill nut imagine it had been ne ee‘s,try, as lie had atieinie.l on tl►e last trial. He told sue antc the last trial that he would not attend without a sub . poems or a guinea. Recorder then told the Jury to acquit the pri•nner on account of the absence ofthie material witness. The Ju►y re_ tnened a vet diet--Not Guilty. Rachel Mitchell was convicted of stealing a quantity of searing aniline!, the prverty of Elizabeth Wilde. Hy the evidence it a,speared, that the prisoner committed the then in order to tolatain liiiiturr but in her defence she said that her husband war u ►pear olninlearit r and that she and her children had !teem left ti..e _days at a time tvitltuot r mur , el of bread to put in their mouths. A juts% M3ll observed, that a few months azo the prisoner's hatband Ilisew her, *lend bunk, out of a tale pirirof st a.r. window. The husband was a super uran, ind had frequently winked for The Recorder.—How long ihall we ronliiie hrr, genilemen, to wake her boort A ii;soik she may be sobor in a month. Floe Recentle...—Thett we will gi“: blf two months to , bring her completely to her aeIISP•4. FRIDAY. John Hot rig wit% in.liet:tilor.:0;i:Ii111; All iron A‘l , ll'AV Anti 2 IV hil Ai r..4(11.1/rlllp, on the tall of Octuocu, the proper', of AO4Ollllllll. ' I lee 1;IVIit , or the robbery were clearly proved. The pro_ sccutor lived near Vieserot Stpliire, We:aniiiedor. 'rue (14y Ativr the prupet ty wall sitgrii, the 1011$01Wr WA{ srd p. TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. an officer selling them to a man of the name of Ogle, keeping an iron shop in Stratton Ground, Westminster. The Officer, accompanied by en assistant,immediately went into the shop, and laid holdof the prisoner. At this moment a shrill whistle was heard, and in an instant a gang of about 30 or 40 persons rushed npon the officers, knocked them down and rescued the prisoner. He was afterwards, however, apprehended on on another charge, and taken to Horsgmonger Lane prison. In his defence the prisoner said that he knew nothing &aunt the matter. Four witnesses gave hima good character for honesty. He was a shoemaker by trade, audited woAed very ha►d at his business. The jury found the prisoner guilty without bssitation. Common Sergeant—Prisoner, such a fellow as you cannot expect mercy. Yun shall go out of the country. The officer stated, that the relations of the prisoner very much wished that he should be transported. Common Sergeant—You see, gentlemen of the jury, what kind of witnesses these were who gave the prisoner so good a character ; the relations themselves desire him to be sent oat of the country. Lucy Price Was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury on the trial of Rienard Wilkes at the Old Bailey Judy Sessions. Richard Barclay stated that lie was the pros.retor against Richard Wilkes who had been tried and convicted. Witne►s stated, that on the 4th of July he was at Highbury He was then robbed of his watch, and suspecting the prisoner Wilkes, he laid hold of him, and had him put into the watch house. On the trial of Wilkes at the Old Bailey Sessions, the prisoner at the bar had declared that he (witness) was drunk at the time. He most solemnly declared that he was sober, having drank nothing butt tea all day. Catherine Barclay, wife to the last witness, remembered the prisoner being called, on the trial of Wilkes, to give hint a character, and she then swore that her husband was not able to stand, he was so drnnk. William Owen, an officer, proved that he apprehended ' Wilkes at Higlibitry, on the day mentioned. He heard the prisoner examined, and she swore that Barclay was so drunk at Highbury that lie could not stand. Henry Buckler, the short hand writer to the Courtorras next examined, and read his shot t hand notes. By them it ap peared, that the prisoner swore that the prosecutor appeared to be very much in liquor. The jury after a short consideration returned a verdict— Not Guilty. POLICE. GUILDHALL. John Prince, porter, in th e service of Mr. Lloyd, wine mer chant, 163, Fleet street, underwent an ation on * charge of robbing his master's warelionse of a quantity of wine, and other articles. The prisoner was stow in Long. lane, Smithfield, In one of the city officers, about y o'clock on Friday morning, with a bag on his shoulders, in which was secreted a large stone bottle, containing some gallons of port wine. whirls it appeared he had stolen from his master's eel. Ise, and was conveying it to his own lodgings in the neighbour hood of Bethnal Green. Bring unable to give a satisfactory account of himself, he was lodged in the Compter. The Ai. cer proceeded to firehouse he said he lived in ; and on search. ing his apartments, another stone bottle was found full of red port wine, besides two or three single bottles, Sze. Mr. Lloyd not being in attendance, the prisoner was remanded. BO IV STREET. Tuesday Wm. Gann was charged with defrauding James Bennet, of the White Horse and Plough public house, of 51. by means of a forged certificate. The prisoner came to Mr. Bennett, in April last, autl produced a paper purporting to be the certificate of Win. Keinpthorne, Captain of his Ma gjesty's stip Queen Charlotte, and stilling that the prisoner had served on board that ship, as au armourer, and was entitled to prise money, in consequence of his being cusiceriaed at t he attack on Algiers. The prosecutor, in consequence, gave him St. ; but soon discovered that the certificate, and also an order signed.with a prize master's name, were both forgeries —Committed. Discloy Wells was bronght to the office by two of the Deal constables, charged with being concerned with several smug glers in murdering four of the Fox Revenue cutter's crew, About three years ago, in resisting their seizing a vessel laden with smuggled goods ; and two of the smuggling party hail been executed fur the murders. The prisoner was identified as the man who steeds indicted for the murders, and WAS cow. MARLBOROUGH STREET. Sir Joseph Banks was fined in the mitigated penalty of 101. for his scream removing his own Ashes from his kwise an Soho square. The servant of the contractor seized the cart laden with ashes at Sir Joseph's door, and took it to the Green yard. Tha Magistrate ohs d, that this was an Act of Par. ailment which many of the 'Noblemen and Gentlemen who passed it were unacquainted with mire than its preamble. He was hound to convict upon it ; but Sir Joseph had an opportunity of appealing against the conviction to a superior Court. An appeal was accordingly entered. -- Brown, a Life Onardsinan, was charged with wounding, It. Hadley, a watchman, on Monday night. The prisoner was acting disorderly with a woman in Portmam►treet, at one o'clock itt the morning, and as the watchman could not pre• vail on them to depart, he sprung his rattle ; when the pri soner drew a short bludgeon from wider his jacket, and knocked him down by a violent blow upon the bead. He blest copiously and the call of warder brought another , vatelnuan to his assistance, and he WAS sectored —The prisoner was committed. He said he was to have been discharged in the morning, intim reilociion of the troops. Magistrate, "No doubt the worst .men in every regiment will be sent off in the reduction." We are authorised sby gir Stewart Bruce. But. to state, that the person whopresur.hal to call herself Lady Bruee before the Magistratot at Bow-street, has no right whatever to a.,ssicie that name. At the lute Stafford Sessions it was directed by the Court, " That the order in commoin cases of bastardy be in futuro made fur the nayrnent of twodtitlings weekly by the reputed father, and one &Ul la.; by the mother, in case she shall not herself nurse the child, to long as it shall be chargeable to the parish." The Hverend Giles Powell, of Acrice, was lately convicted before William Leeds. Esq. in the penalty of 201. for snaring a hare on a S inlay.—Countrg pvcr. It is in eiimemplation to form a new bac of road from Bristol to London, throw •h Acton Torville, by which a cansidei able distance would he save d , hills avoided, and the arrival of the Mails between the two Cities accelerated at least an how. I Wallin the lAA firm gut, 4,000 bas!teli 4(oniont, from Portugal. Francl, and Holland, hare 1).:::n imported into Hull. l'be price hss in consequence been very greatly reduced. A girl, a: . ;.al to. now exlitbitiii,„: at Brussels, is said to weigh Shu is six feet high, aad her eircumf,:reare is elnal to ber CORONER'S INQUEST'S. Wednesday an, inquest was held at the King's Arms. Newrte- Market. on the body of W. Elliott, who put a period to his exigence by cutting Ms throat at his lodgings, 36, Piternoster-row. It will perhaps be recollected by our readers that this person took an active part in the late We!Rtininster Election in the interest of Mr. Hunt but in consequence of the " Orator's" genie behaviour, he disclaimed all further connexion with him. The declassed lodged with Mrs. Thompson, and according to the evidence of several witnesses. he had been a Commission Agent for two houses in the wine and spirit trade, but hail been for sonic trine depressed in mind, in con :equence of not being able to get into business. Ills wife had died about eight or nine months ago, which seemed always to have preyed upon his mind, and when speaking of her to Mr. Want, of the Salutation Tavern. Newgate Street (one of the witnesses), he shed tears. He also told Mr. \Vont tharhe wa. very uneasy about the non-payment, of some hand bills which Mr llnnt had ordered him to get punt •d. and which not having been paid, application had been made to hint fur the money. On Sunday a medical gentleman was called to the deceased, whom he found in a high fever. Wednesday he saw hint again, when he complained of something pushing him to jump out of the window. On Mond a y night th e deceased sent to Want, who came to him ; and he s:.id to Mr. W. " I hive got cheeks for thou sands, my boy, and I want you to do something for me in the Ci tomorrow. They are things, you know, whi c h oug h t not to besuf fered to lie by."—Verdict—lnsanity. On Wednesday evening an inquest was held at the Crown and ' Cushion. Little Russell-street, Covent Gardap, Wire M. Lewis. Coroner, on the body of Mr. Charles M•Carthy, formerly an of& r in the service of the Emperor of Austria. who fell down dead in the Pit of Drury Lane Theatre on Monday night last, and expired jest at the moment Mr. Keats was representing the dying scene in Richard the Third. Mr. James Cole. intrgeon, corner of York Street. Covent Garden' being sworn. said as follows:—" I was sent for to attend a gendcmats who was said to be dying or dead, in the Pit passage of Drury Lane Theatre, about halt past ten o'clock on Monday night last ; I at tended immediately. and found the deceased supported on a stool , n e ar the money takers office ; life appeared to be extinct ; nevertheless. I thought proper to open a vein in the arm. and al-o the temporal ar tery, but could not prodisee•blual ; and I found it useless to attempt any thing further. My opinion is that the deceased died in a fit of apoplexy ; and since I have viewed the body at the request of thi jury, that opinion i. confirmed." Henry Edward Church, 29, Devonshire Street. Surgeonjattended the deceased with Mr. Coles, and A:mak:nal in ,every respect his evidence. James Davies, constable of St. Faurs, Covent Garden, sworn, said. " I was on duty at Drury Lane Theatre on Monday night. and waa standing in the pit lobby at about 20 minutes past ten o clock, as the curtain fell at the conclusion of the tragedy, and was informed that gentleman had fallen down in the pit, and appeared to be dying. I went to him immediately, and found the deceased in the arms of seve ral persons who were supporting him 4 I assisted in carrying him into the passage of the pit. and • female, who a pp eared to feel in terested for the deceased, and who. I thought. b elo nged to him. ran forsome water. The surgeoas arrived shortly after, and after attempt ! ingto blee.l him, ordered him to be removed to this house. and there they tried further means, but to no effect. I examined the deceased's pockets. and found the envelope of a letter, on which was written— ' Ches. M'Carthy, Esq. Bull Inn. Biehopsgate Street.' Upon ap plying there, I found that was the place of his residence. Th. sealed pa cket cow produced is all the property I found upon the .ds ceased:. _ Maj,rr Albert D'Alton of the army, residing in Conduit Street. stated, •• The deceased is distantly related to me, he had been lately at Paris, and was on his way to his family at Dublin ; but remained in 1.0 idon fur a few days for the purpose of seeing a few friends. I received a letter from him a few days ago, informing me that he bad a tit of the gout. Deceased was not a married man ;he was a gentleman of a highly respectable family, and formerly was so officer in the Austrian service." Verdict—Died by the vigilante-. of God. Thor:Jay evening an incest was held at the Golden Lion. Deass Street, Soho, Li..fure Ilugu Lewis, Esq. Coroner, on the body of John %Villain% Nicholls, 23, Gerrard Street, Umbrella makei,The ceased was between 50 and the years of age, and was in the habit of coming to my house the last 11 years ; he held a situation is the Barrack Department, lender General Delauncy, and retired on hail pay ; he held some freehold in his native country (Cheshire), to which he retired ; Monday last, about 12 o'clock, lie came to my house and sat in the front parlour in the chair. He said he was going to Paddington. He sometimes dined with me. In about vu . minutes after he clone, I heard a noise as if he was rapping with his stick. I sent up the servant maid, who soon returned, and I went to him, and found him lying upon the floor. I sent for Mr. Dickson. a surgeon, who came directly. The deceased only uttered a few wards, " Oh dear ! Oh dear ! what is the matter ?" He was dead before the surgeon arrived. Mr. Edward Dickson, surgeon, 66, Wardour Street, Sohr, stated. that he was, called upon to attend Cie deceased, and found hi"; at the house of last witness, lying upon the floor, quite senseless ; he con ceived him to be in a fit, and he got him on a sofa in the room ; he made an effort to get his arm out of his coat, but it was deemed proper to cut it, and then he opened a vein in the arm, and got about four ounces of blood ; bled him behind the neck, NJ could not get any more blood ; applied leeches, they took hold, but got no . blood pulsation then =vied, and respiration was very short ; he died in five minutes afterwards ; conceives that he died in a bt of apoplexy. Tile Coroner and Jury expressed themselves satisfied with the evi dence produced, and they returned their verdict—Died in a fit of apoplexy. A Jury was also summoned at the Crooked Billets, Rateliff High way, to hold an inquisition before .1. W. Unwin, Esq. Coroner, 9U the remains of the unfortunate suffemrs, Mr. John Bonner. nod his son, Jehr. Bonner ; the termer aged 27, and the latter aged 4 years, who were Lurnt to death on Monday morning last. There seemed to be no grounds fur supposing that the premises were set lire to in , any other manner than by pure accident, and accord ingly the ver dict was—Accidentally burnt to death. The Surrey Adjourned Sessions at Newington closed on Monday. . In the numerous calendar of olfzialers was a man named Charles Brown, 59 years of age, who had ben brought up to the sea ; he was found guilty of an assault with ir.tent to commit a rape on Louisa Murehey, a child seven years old. the infant slaughter of a labour- . ig man li%ing at Rotherhithe. The child, from its intelligent is . plies, appearei aware of the consequences of an oath, and was there 'bre sworn : her avide,needirdowal such a scene of brutal conduct on the part of the prisoner. that the whole Court was moved with hall,th nation against hint ; and the worthy Chairman intimated, that Mut he been capitally indicted, he would justly have had to pay the forfeit of his life. lie WAS sentareed to two year. imprisonment. Among other eases of peculiar depravity, developed at these Ft:scions, was. that of Mary Poole, who.was tried and acquitted on a charge 9f stea li ng a 31, note; it appears that although she is not twenty veers of age, yet she has been upwards of jI/' flouts y in custody I—'keen prisoners, convicted of picking pocket,. and other felomas, in Cam berwell, Lambeth, and the Borough, were sentenced to seven years' transportation. A rev p 1 ,hts since, the house of Mr. J. Chapman. of Ilolyfi e kl • Ilan, in the parish of Waltham Holy Cross, in the county of haws. was broken open by a very numerous spd daring gang of robbers, amounting to ten or twelve men, turned and disguised. Thee plun dered the house and premises Of property to a very large amount; among it were Bank notes to the amount of 741. four ante •• variety of seals, chains, &o.: ona i nt . the watches wan ?.,ah „olri nor. The ga'rg made their rhcape wi ' the p t npr tit,anti rono.i4 still unt:ih.o.. ri • P 59