The National Register. — London, England, 1823-02-24 00:00:00

. THE NATIONAL REGISTER • BAILEY SESSIONS. WEDWRSDAT F as. 19.—These sessions commenced at Jusiicc Hall, in the Old Balky, before the Right Hon. the. Lord Mayor, Mr. Baron Granam,,Nllr. Justice Park, the Recorder, Alderman Cox, Sheriffs, &c.—The ca lendar contains nu less than 201. prisoners for trial. John Strong, remanded from last sessions, was placed at the bar. charged with stealing in the dwellisig.ttouse of William Donovan, divers Wills of money and bank notes, value .5001. and upwards, his property. The prosecutor, who is a fishmonger lit Oxford -street, stated, that on the evening of Sunday, the Myth of Dec. he went to chapel, leaving a servant lad named Kennelly in care of the house. After divine service was over, he went to visit a brother, and had been hut a few minutes with him, when a person came to tell hint that It:s pre sence was required at hone directly. He went oft im mediately, and on his arriving tin house, discovered b.. , daughter in tears, and exclaiming, " Father I father! we are robbed." He• went• iota a back parlour where t , lie had left the whale of his property safe, previous to his going out, and fouud the ilia .vers broken open and money taken from their to the amount of 801. or 901. — An iron chest in the same room had also been opened by means of a picklock key, and cleared of its contents, vie. 100 sovereigns, IDOL bank note, a bank post bill for fol. front I to. Boo crownireces, and two checks for 481. Suspicims fell on the lad Kennelly, but he denied all knowledge of the robbery, and said it must have taken place during..the time he had been to Mr. Latouche's, who had sent for some oysters. He however was taken into custody,. and-after having undergone several exa minations before the magistrates at Marlborough -street, lie'confessed that the robbery had been committed by the primmer. He had met the prisoner, he said, at the Lamb and Flag publi-house, us Oxford-street, where, after some further conversation, he agreed to let him into the house, after his master tad gone to chapel. The accomplice Kennelly, was then called, and stated the circumstances of the meeting, and the plan eoucert ed or effecting the robbery. The daughter of the prosecutor, who but been out the whole of the day, stated the situation in which the premises.were on her return. Tshe landlady of the Limb and Flag had seen the prisoner Kennelly in oonversation at her house, on the evening of Friday preerditig the robbery. Mr. Justice Peek then st 111111 l ed up the case, and the Jury, after a short deliberation, reiurned.a verdict of not godly. Mary Bayley was indicted for stealing a large quantity of wearing appareLand linen, the propeytr of J. Jarvis.. Verdict guilty. Edward Cocks and Isaac Davis were capitally indict ed fur Mouton.-!y assaulting Edw. Hone, on. she King's highway, on the Bth of February, in the parish of St. Mary, Wititechapel, and taking trout his person a watch and chain, value 81. Mr. Hone is a gun-maker, and on the evening of the day stated, he was passing along Whitechapel High. street, on his way home. when at the corner of Gould street, he saw a wiudow brokete, and a crowd collected round thadoor of the house. He stopped to learn what was the mauler, when he was surrounded by four or five inets,antoog whom were the prisoners. They seised. and pinioned-his arms. and drove hint back against the He called nut to them not to posh hint through the window. Cocks at this time had hold of his arms, and Danis was very busy about his person.— When he called out as described. they let him go. The prisoners were moving off, .when a man who had ob served them, said " There they go' Witness followed. and seised Davis by the collar. and said, "Young man, where is my watch " and-Davie ' without replying— struck him .00. the mouth, and knocked hint down. —Witness called out for help,, and saw Cocks advance towards him, and at the saute moment be received a blow on the side of the head. which had again brought him to the ground, but he kept hold of Davis, and contrived to wise bold of Cocks. They all fell together. He continued to call out for assistance, and two of the Bow-street disinotnited patrols came up sod secured the prisoners. They were searched, but the watch was not hou.d. Richard Seywood, a baker's apprentice, swore that lie was 'sassing at the time, and saw Cocks have hold of the prosecutor by the arias. Bush atud Hall, the two patrols, deposed to appro. blending the prisoners. The Jury found them both guilty death. Touesoae, Fes. gOi---Benjamin Moore, a young man of genteel apraratice,was placed at &be bar, charged nit au indictment with assaulting General Kerr, on the King's highway, with intent to take mndcarry away his goods and money. Several respectable witnesses were called; who gave him au excellent character. Mr. Baron Graham summed up •atgreas length, and after a short deliberation, one of the Jury asked the learned Judge whether it was oonspetent for them to acquit the prisoner of the felonious intent, and fitid him guilty of the assault only. Mr. Baron Graham replying in the negative, the Jury almost immediately acqui.ted uint- John Walker, James Aldridge. and Thomas Gibson, alias Blackett, were capitally toweled for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Andrew James Simpson, and stealing a glass jug, a silver watch, a-curet, two blankets, and a quantity of wearing apparel. There were five indictments against the prisoners, all for the offence of burglary. The prisoners made made no defence, and called no witnesses. ' Aldridge and Walker were found guilty... Death— . not guilty. The three prisoners were again indicted for a burglary in the dwelling-house of James Armstrong. Mr. Armstrong resides at No. 4, Prince's-square, St. George's its the East, and on the night of the 7th ultimo his house was broken open, and plundered, ansong other things, of a tea-pot and hat. The tea-pot was fouud. at . _.._ :- • '. _ the prisoners* lodgings, and the hat upon Gibson 's beet . never heard the deceased express any apprehen siert o '1 he "insaner were all found guilty—Death. - death. Mr. Justice Park, addressing the prisoners, said, there Mr. Lewis Evans, another pupil, stated, that (roes were three other indictments against them ; but hr the 30th of January to the 4th of .Behruary, he attended thought it unnecessary,.afteralie satisfactory verdicts that the dccaased ; after his death lie opened the head and' had been.given,.to proceed with them. The prisoners found a contused wound, which might hare been in were evideetly a desperate gang of burglars. who had finned by a blow or a fall ; the vessels its the region of it. the. business of their lives to plunder all that the brain were full, but no blood ; the symptoms were they could. Hi would,. therefore, strongly and most simply of an infiammatoty nature; he had no doubt. 'earnestly recommend them mums theirserious attention. but the wound occasioned the deaths of the deceased. to the awful situation in which they stimuli The prisoner made no defence. TRIAL Of THE NOTORIO us -BILL SoAmite.—Williain. Mr.l3aronGraharn addressed the Jury, and observed,. (alias Bill) Soatites was indicted for stealing a silk hand. that the case la far shout of wilful murder. It was. .kerchief Irons the person of Edward S.tek. therefore, the question for them to consider, whether Between the hours of six and seven o'clock on the the prisoner•had, by feloniously striking,. been guilty of• evening of the Ist instant. John Woodward, servant to manslaughter. Sir John Lubbock, was passing through Newgate-street, Verdict—Guilty of manslaughter. when lie S3W the prisoner, in company with a well. Sarah Stubbing., aged IT, a girl of very interesting h'dressed woman, watching the pockets of several pawn- appearance, was placed at the bar, charged with the gets. Ile kept his rye upon them, and at length sin wilful murder of her male infant child, its the parish of eSuanies put his baud into Mr. Sink's pocket and take St. Pancras. ..out a handkerchief, lie seized Si e unes, who hail The Jury returned a verdict of not guilty. the hauilkerctuel in his hand, and endeavoured to His Lordship humanely reeommenclerl the aunt tire' get it nom hint, but the latter put himself in ass attitude take the unhappy girl under. leer protection. ''to strike him, and the womauat the same t i [[[ e came up Eliza Saunders was indicted fur the wilful murder of' and said, " what do you want with the man 1" and her female basin child, by tying and fastening• certain snatched thw handkerchief from Soatnes . She got away, piece of s ilk about its neck. whereby strangulation wee bee the prisoner was secured. produced. The prisoner, in his defence, said he was totally hum- A gentleman, with whom the prisoner had Eyed as. cent, and adverted to she circumstance of his having for- servant, gave her a good 'character for humanity, anti' wetly been "•unforiunate," which, however, he hoped said she was remarkably affectionate to children. would not prejudice him with the hooouraule and en. Mr. Baron iiivaham shortly charged the Jury, and =- lightened gentlemen before whota he was now. tried. pressed an opinion, that the evidence was instrilkient The Jury Mural Non guilty. to fix upon the plisoner so heavy a crime as that ni The Recorder ordered him to be called up for judg- murder anent„ and said nu one could doubt of the propriety of The Jury found the prisoner not guilty, and she w the verdict which the Jury had given. The prisoner had discharged. run a long course of crime, but Justice, as was generally Bo RIMARY.—Henry Seaton was capitally indicted. the case, had overtaken him at last. Without further for burglatiously breaking and enteriag. the dwelling observation, for observation would be useless with such a house of Lawson Holmes, and stealing therefrom two man as the Court knew the prisoner to •tre, the sentence watches, thirteen sovereigns, a quantity of gob' coin, was, that he be transported beyond the seas- for the term and-other lunches. the property-oh Catherine Dalet of his natural life. Mrs. Dale was a lodger in the house of Mr. Bedews, The Recorderallcd up Woodward, and thanked him its St. Paul's, Shadwell. She went to. chinch on a in the name of the public for the promptitude and cost- Sunday evening in January. leaving two young men, in rage which he had displayed upon this occasion. Mr. Holmes's service, in the house. She had not beets FRIDAY, FEB. 21.—Mary AntiSluat,a young woman gone long when one of the young men going outside of most interestitig appearance, aged gy, arid Jane Par- the door, saw a light its Mrs. Dale's sitting room up. rust, aged 53, were indicted, the former for having stolen stairs. He and the other went tip stairs, and whets 3.51. in bank notes, from the dwelling house of Mr. H. they got near the door of Mrs. Dale's room they heard Kemp, her uncle, and the latter fur receiving the same an attempt made to -open the window inside. They (its the county oh' Surrey) knowing them .to he stolen. rustled into the room, and the prisoner turned about. The List !Uinta pf ISOLICI 55 as not puce on her trial, her from the window and advancing towards them, struck. offence having been committed in Surrey; she was, one of them a blow. on Ilse side of the head.. Tney, therefore., remanded until the next Kingston assiaes. however, secured him, and conveyed hint to the watch.. The prisoner Shoat remained at the bar—and her ap- house. When they got him near the street he struggled pearance, and the nature of her misfortune, eseited the to get away, and threw himself down in the snow.— commisseration of a Court unusually crowded with le- This lie repeated twice whilst going to the watchhouse„ males. and on the spot where he first fell, Dickinson and; It appeared by the evidence of Mr. Kemp, which was Avery, two 01, the patrol of Boss Street, found two givers with great reluciatice and pungent sorrow, that watches and a pair of sleeve buttons, the property of the prisoner was a branch of a must respectable family, Mrs. Dale. A hag, containing levels picklock keyr, and Isis niece; she. generally resided with hint. and until was hound where he fell the second tinte;_andiet the . this unfortunate.oecurrence her conduct was most exem- third place some snatches and . a piece of candle were • plary ; hut in an evil hour she was inveigled from the picked up. pads of rectuude and virtue by the woman with . whom . The prisoner.'s defence was, that he was never in the She stood inducted. Having succeeded by svatapern in house, and that he was collared in the street ,by trop -• enticing her unfortunate victim from that dwelling where take f or some other person. virtue and happiness were the peaceful inmates, she Several witnesses gave hint a good character, but the took an early opportunity of inducing. halo visit her Jury found hint guilty--tleath.—Aced ea. respectable connexions. and commas. depredations on _ —a their property. By the influence.of Aleuts she went to LONDON S ESSIONS. her uncle's, broke open his dab, and committed the offence with which she now.stoodcharged. An officer was despatched in quest of the unhappy fugitive, and she was found iii a house of the worst description in St. George's-fields, kept by the prisoner Parrott—the dig gnaw mutual intercourse of both sexes the officer wit nessed on this occasion we forbear to describe. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, lout earnestly im plored the weren't' interposition of thcAiourt,.. The Recorder mitred them that the strictest attention should be paid to their request. The Judges entered the Court as ten o'clock, when William Biugley was placed at the bar, charged with the willullnurder of George Durham. Elisabeth Williams deposed, that she saw the deceased at the George, George-yard, Whitechapel, on the Pith. of January, about tine u cluck 111 the day; prisoner was also there on that day; deceased used very disrespectful language respecting the prisoner (who was than a bse nt), Morning, among oilier things. that Ir.: would give lints a good hiding. Whet' plisoner came, witness informed him of what deceased had said; they. both met at the same place in the evening, when a quarrel arose, which was promoted by Durham ; ,priaoner said he would give hisn a good beating, but he knew deceased would take advantage of the law.; .deceased deelared he would not, and the fight commenced ; prisoner received the first blow, which knocked hint down ; the battle proceeded. and ended .in .the fatal catastrophe which formed the subject of the present charge. Usher witnesses who were present at the contest gave similar testimony. By their evidence, it appeared that the unfortunate deceased was the promoter of the quar rel. John Durliam,lhe father of thrtleceastel, stated that i on the night in question his son came Made with sic skull fractured, and was.-from thence conveyed the 'wet day, to the Londou.Hospital, where he shortly died; deceased observed that he had received his deem-blow before he went to the hospital. Deceased said the niglu he came home, he was sure he should die, and requested witness (his father). to go and get the prisoner apprehended ; after he went to the hospital, he wrested to come home to die. Mr. Pullen, a pupil at the London Hospital. stated, he examined the head of the deceased, whets brought to that establishment; he considered the contusion was occasioned by a volent fall; when he first saw it, he did not apprehend the natal result; the wound had even , a healthy appearance two days before he died ; witness Oa Monday these Sessions commenced before the Lord Mayor and a Bench of Aldermen. .1 Gauss ASSAULT AND PUMPING IN Tut FLIST sox —JoMph Atkins and George Atkinson, debtors,. Actnifitied in the Fleet Prison, and George Rushbury, a. • visitor to some of the debtors, were tried upon an iudiet- • mem, charging them with having most siMently as molted and pumped upon . Abraham Aarms. - .ln Attar hey's Clerk, on the 15th of Deceusber daitt. is the yard. of the prison. Mr. Andrews, for the prosecution, stased,, that the • result of the present case would, he hoped, be such as would be likely to put an end to a very absurd and in human practice which unfortunately existed for a length of time amongst persons confined for debt. Aaron, who is a man of small stature, deposed/111k he went into the Fleet Prison out the 15th of December s to get a schedule signed by a client, who was about to take the hem& of the Ac:. Upon going into the tap room. one of the delentlatits challenged him with hav ing undertaken a prisoner's defence in the insolvent Couri, and robbing him of eight guineas. Aaron de nied the truth of the charge, and they said he must stain' a five shilling treat. Re refused, and the defend- r ants and some others dragged hint forthwith to the pump with the grossest violence. and pumped upon him most • A unmercifully three or four minutes. One of the turnkeys rescued him from this condition when he was drenched and shiiering, and supplied him with clothes aid other means of avui 1111 l g the worst consequences. The prose. cow had appealed to the defendants in the moat solemn manner to spare him in consideration of his wife and children, but they continued their sport, and said to . . those collected on the spot, that they, were "only pump. imp upon the little Jew Lawyer." The case was most cleanly proved by several wit. nesse,. Mr. Arabi's, for the defence, called witnesses So revs that his clients were not parties to the severity peamised • against the prosecutor. The choral, however,to prove an Alia with respect to eachof tin: defendants proved abortive. • Pie Jug immediately found the defendants guilty; and the Recorder, in passing sentence, animadverted . meat strongly upon the barbarous conduct of those who were fools enosigh to consider themselves possessed ol the privilege of using the prison pump for so base a purpose. • because they became inmates. • Each of them was sentenced to imprisonment. for sin.• levnt hi. -7 - ~~ 414