The National Register. — London, England, 1815-01-22 00:00:00

J IN. 21: THE NATIONAL R . OLD BAILEY. Tuesday, Robert William Felton Lathorp was indicted for bigamy, 1 in nurr yi n Catherine Clark, his former Wife, Alicia, being still alive. The prisoner was an officer in the Manx Feneades, who in the vcar 1797, had married a lady at Londonderry. being a dissenter, and the reromony was pertermed by Dr. Black, a dissenting minister, i n a private room. He afterwards, in the year 1801, married a lady in Marylebone parish, according to the ceremonies of the Church of England.—Mr. Nowlan, as counsel for the prisoner, contended that the first marriage Was illegal, as not being celebrated in the face of the coogregatilin, but, as he contended, in a clandestine manner. The argument on this question occupied nearly two hours, but it was ov, ri tiled by the Recorder. and the prismier was found guilty. The first u ite was much older than the prisoner ; in his defence he said, that at the time of hi marriage he Was under twenty year* of age, anti was entrapped into the marriage by the lady's family. The prw.ention was not instituted by the friends of either wife. (hi Wedne , day, Thomas Nntt was indicted for stealing two counter panes, and a variety of other articles, the property ut John Bishop. _ _ Mary Bishop, the wife o'iolitt Bishop, steward to the Marquis of Hertford, deposed, tlsat she let the house, No. 41, Hans-place, Sloane.street, to the prisoner, at a rent of 100 guineas per annum. The house was ready furnished, and the prisoner came into it on the 17th of October last. Iu a short time after, it was suspected that the prisoner was disposing of difletent articles which had been left in the house ; at►d, on enquiry, this suspicion was well funded. \',►rims articles were discovered to have been pawned in the neigh bourhood. Thieve articles were identified as the property of John _ . The prisoner addressed the Court in a long speech from a written paper, in which he complained loudly against the scot rilities of newspapers, represented himself as a descendant of an ancient and honoorable family, and insisted that alibis transactions amount ed only to simple contract debts. When he had finished his harangue. many parts of whirl' were plausible and ingenious, the Jury, without hesitation, prononoced him Guilty. The Recorder then said—." Prisoner, the Long speech which yon bare just made only serves to convince the Court, that you are much too clever a man to be ►eilliteil to remain its this country." iVednesday, Francis Bodenham was indicted for marrying Eliza Acatch, his former wife, Amy, being alive.—H. Pearson, parish clerk ofKingstommon-Thames, produced the register of prisoner's marriage with Amy Petty. 111th of February, 1812 ; and J. Vincent. pariahs cicr k of Ilestimi. Middlesex, produced the register of prisoner's second marriage at illestoo, to Eliza Keatch, on the sth of June, lark—The prisoner in his defence staled, that Eliza licatch fully tin le, stood that he was a married man ; but she threatened to destroy beised if he did net 'miry her, and, to prevent her putting her threat in execution, he was induced to marry her. This, on her cross.examinatian, she positively denied. Guilty. Sarah Stone was indicted for stealing. on the 14th Oct. a female 4 ' l 'ild, of the age of seven weeks, the daughter of Mathew and Cathariue Cramer. The fact of stealing the child was proved, and it appeared that the prisoner had committed the offence with the view of persuading a sailor, with whom she lived, that the child was hi 4, having previously told bins that she was pregnant. She obtained the child trom the mother, who is a very pour woman, by pretending to take her to some charitable lady, who would give her half a Runlet', and she was found with the child on board an East Indianian, with the sailor whom she said Was its father. She persisted in the story of the child being her own, even in Court, but the evidence was clear, and the Jury found her Guilty. Site was immediately senteoced to seven years transportation. On Friday Richard Jones, aged 14, and Charles Tilley, a little boy only 13 years of age,were convicted of stealing four cotton hand. kerchiefs in a shop. It appeared that on the morning of the day on which the prisoners cotnmitted the offence, Johnson the officer dog. Iced the prisoners in the neighbourhood of St. Giles's from 8 until about 11 o'clock, during which time they reconnoitered several shop-, aml at length stopped near that of the prosecutrix, Mrs. Pile, where Tilley pulled off an apron (which they • had worn alternately do ie ps rambnlations) and Jones asked. for some handker chief,. th.ii %vete laying on the upper shelf; Mrs. Pile turned mond to remit tins Ifl o for him to examine their quality, when Tilley ran oni of the 'Hop in a violent hurry. and Mr*. Pile asked Jones ma e the utiles no) , run out so ; she thought he had got some thlog more than he oat:Jit is have Jones replii d, " No, he was not that kind of Is ;" imt the officer, Johnson, immediately brought the prisoner, Tilley, into the shop, whom he took at the door with four it:ton liandkerchiel:. so his possession ; which Mrs. Pile herogniscd IST and on their being produced •in Court, swore were her property. On the officer's searching the prisoners in the shop of the Prosecntrix, no money was fonnd on either of them. The Common Serjeant used every argument that conld well be urged, to persoade the prisoners to confess by whom they were imlo)ed to commit such a heinous crime, but unavailiwly, as they persisted in the most hardened manner, that they had nut been insti gated by any person whatever. Same day time Sessions ended, when sentence of death was passed on Henry Penman and John Tilsey, for burglary; Michael Seep,. broke. James Kettle, John Reeves, James Donahoe, Thomas Rey nold 4, Carl Plombaek, Robert Cowling and Joseph King, for like offences; Martha Whitaker and William Rice, for stealing iu &ad- Img•honse ; Richard and AVilliam Jones, John Treble, John Neal, James Thompson. John Egleton, Thomas Wells, Eleanor Smith, , Mary' Blake and Elizabeth Lambert, for privately stealing in a shop; I Robert Holton, for horse stealing; Richard Morley, for sheep-steal ing; anti Richard Moore, for highway soldiery ; fire were ordered to be transported for fourteen )ears. and thirty tine for seven years; nine were sentenced to be imprisoned in the house of Correction foe one year, asm4 24 for various periods ; 16 for imps isonment in New. gate for different periods; 17 to be privately, and four publicly whipped ; five judgments were respited, and 17 were discharged by proclamation.—Sessions adjourned to the 15th of February next. The judgment of Elizabeth Ringrose, who was capitally convicted 00 the 11th instant for stealing a fifty pound Bank note in a dwel linglimise, was respited, on account of the illness et the primmer until the next Session. POLICE. MANSION. HOUSE. The further investigation of the charge made against Capten Fenny of the East India ship Caroline, on suspicion of the murder of Butler John, his steward, occupied the attention of the Lord Mayor the whole of IVedncsday, this being the third examination. The Lascara persisted in the evidence which they had before given. The Lord Mayor Said, he hail, attentively examined the ship. He had gone into the cabin and upon the poop ; he had gone round the ship, and examined the streaks of paint ; and by the description of the place where the spar was fixed, with the men sitting upon it, his Lord-hip did not think it possible that these men could see into the cabin window ; hut us to the possibility of forcing a man out of the cabin window, the defendant wound do well not to let that be.any part of his defitice. Any opinion of his own, his Lordship said, (trth) not diminish the troth ; but he firmly believed these meet could not have seen through the cabin window from the position i■ which the spar was played ; nevertheless, the evidence was so positive, and so firmly persisted in by the witnesses', that it was im possible for his Lordship (consistent w►th the task he had to perform) to dismiss the case, and therefore he should desire it to stand user for another examination on Monday f,rtnight. ROW•STREET. Wednesday morning the Office was tilled with a most motley group of Tnrks, Moors, Greeks, &e. forming the-crew of the Talk ish schooner the Gelea, from Smyrna, who preferred a charge against their Captain, for violently assaulting and wounding Jultss Ciragno, one of the seamen. The Witnesses produced were sworn according to their different religions, without their shoes. It appeared that in the month of November last, the Turkish schooner Gelea was lying between Do ver and Stangate Creek, when John Ciragno was at work very bard on board ()flier; lie asked the cook to give him some bread. which being in the hearing of the caidaio, he called out to Ciri:gno, to know what businesa he had to give orders, and afterwards ghe him a violent blow with a long Turkish pipe. I.:itaigno remonstratest against the captain's striking him, and asked the captain why be used him in ill for merely asking for some bread. The captain re plied to this, that he had better hold his tongue, or he would come to him and kill him, And apreared in a great passion : he proceeded to his cabin, and returned in a short time at me,l with a sabre or a cutlass, and went to Ciragno, and aimed a v iolent blow a t Iris heads but it was warded oil by ionic of the cre% and the sabre or cutlass fell on his thigh and inflicted a v:ound. loe wound was afterwards dressed by the stucco,' of the vessel, in the hold. The wound was rot so bad as to prevent hint from working. Mr. Alley attended for the captain, and stated that this prosr7u tion was commenced against the captain in consequence of there being a dilmtc between him and some of the crew for tlo r w tg eo, or it would not have been heard of, though now sevestal actions had been brought by sever al of the crew again at the eaptaiu.