The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-24 00:00:00

JAN. 7.4 OLD BAILEY. MONIIAY. J %N. 18. T. Watson, a lad only IS years of age ' wascapitally iu dirted fir uttering as trite, knowing it to befalgell, a It. Cot,. ssith intent to defraud the Ulm:mut and Company of thi /1006 01 Etlajttild. )Ir. 4rrit'Allt BUS:111(illOt observed, that lie was happy hi wo w, it rn iris p..wer to state, that eat ry thing which euniii b e " gz e.,ted for the prevention of forged hot wits now in the rooise of operation. A Committee formed of the moat scientific men that this or any other coontry was Capable. of p ro:lite,noc,wvre prosecuting their labours, Mali theoreticill , and piactirally ; and 411010110 it was not for hint lu aatiri losle to what ratent their success would he complete, yet the public would shortly receive the fullest information limns the subject, by tile pit tilication of their report t lie hoped the result would be favourable, and Ito duabt cotlld be ei.• tertained that as the House of Commun. had now assembled some icing devisive and satisfactory wonl.l be curried into e x ecution, to prevent eon 1111 l 40.11011 of ts offence The i is the luel who wie so often renompletl su mer, it appeared, by the Lord Mayor, under a hope that he would aToril senteinforniatiou likely to ieall to the detection of those by ultra' he had been employed. Its this, however, unfortu nately, hi. Lordship was disappointed, and it was considered expedient to put him uu the icsne of his trial fur life. Tha prisoner went into a .dr. Petioles. a Rioter, and purchased a quantity often, in payment fur which he gave a 11. note, % aid' was afterwards discovered ha he a forgery. Sum , ti or afierwaida he tend ..red another, and gave several fictitious UA111(44 and addresses, and inquiries having here made at oh tile places to whirl) he gave reference, and none of them provide to he correct, lie finally said he had found the omit. These facts were proved circumitantially by the respective witnesses. Mr. Lees proved ghat the notes produced were forged. A Jatryabso wiaked to know if the aotes were of the - sane date. . Mr. Lees said they were not. A Juryman welt 14160114 to know how the dates were tnaiP!, when both the noses came from the same plate. Mr. Lees replied, that was eat of his province ; but he should suppose that a slip plate might be put in with the date atter the rest of the-note had hren made. Toe Foremast liere handed in a note witliont a signature, and wi,slied to know it Air. Lees had seen many of that de scription.go eat of the bank. Mr. Lees said, be lerstuod that several of that kind kad.goure ant by accident. 'f Le Foreman asked if it was a genuine one. Mt. Le e s said, lie had no doubt of it ; for lie had seen several of that kind which bad gone oat by accident. Mr. Watford, counsel far the prisoner, wished to know if Mr. Lees itad, in the course of ins service in the Bank, seen notes so well executed as to deceive even the Luvec tut v. . . Mr. Lets said, noilonbtettly Ire had . Mr. Reynolds ;irked Mr. Lees in what state those notes Caine in. Mr. Lees observed, that he had not seen all that had come in; lent lie dad seen seine quite new, and some quite wuru, yr iwi. had escaped the observation of the• inspeettts s. Mr. Reyttelde asked if tie had any idea of the number of such notes ? Mr. Lees replied, that he ha I seen .an average account of the Number of notes which had ,been received for three years by the "tank, awl amongst then were tiO or 70 which the Inspectors had passed as genuine. Here the comer- Istioa ended, and the prisoner being called on for his de fence, said he received the notes front Showell, who was an evidence against Deem on Saturday. Mr. Jii.tice Holroyil summed up, and the 3ely, after re fit In; for nearly an 'tour, pronounced the Death, hilt recoimuended bins to mercy on account of hi► youth, and betieitug bias to be the dupe a some designing villain. _ _ . The prisoner's real name is T. Dennison. Mouth) N . was indicted for uttering three 11. forged notes, with 'meat to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. It appeared by the evidence, that, on the 94th of De cenilier, the prisoner went to the shop of Mr. Sluleock, in JohnStreet,aud purchased some bread, butter, and cheerio, which came to 3s. in payment of which she tendered a note. which immed out to he forged. Site gave her name and ad. dress " Mrs. Jones, No. 1, (heat Saffron Hill." She also vi eat to Mr. Brown, a publican in Golden Lane, and changed manlier forged note, and gave her name and address '• Mrs. Juauson, 72, (.lolden Lane'," and finally, she passed another to a grocer, in Lamb Street, Spitaltields, and gave her name Mrs. S tewai t." The prisoner in her defence said, she was not themoutan she was taken to.be. Mr. Justice Barron!' suutrued np, and the .Jury found the prisoner—Guilty—Death, aged 20. D. 0'1141 . 4 was indicted fur having a forged note in his possession, kilo% ing it to he so. The prisctier had gone to a public house, io Drury Lane, and (Jarred a forged 11. mite, in paymeut tit some liquor; but he had given hot real name and address. 111 his defence the pi isNier admitted that he had offered the note in ,question, but said that he hod got that sod smother front a 111411, who said he had found them in the buret, kll.l nobody having advertised them, lie felt himself entitled to sell them. Tue Jury found him Not Guilty. He was arraigned upon the capital charge, but the cosine set foe the Bank did not offer auy evidence agaivat him ; he was consequently acquitted. Wesley end Howe, the two miscreants who were sentenced to 12 mouths imprisonment, at the Mi,ielles ea Sessions, for an offence of a de:cstahle 'intuit, were placed at the bar, and arraigned capitally for the lull perpetiatttm of that hor rible crime. Mr..Adulphas, as counsel for the prosecution. stated to the f.',eart and Jury, that iu consequence of what ()emitted some few days shore at the Middlesex Sessions, the perish of Mary -14-hanne. whom he led the honour of representing, bad considered it necessary to prefer a bill for the myttal mleme against the two prisoners at the bar; since that, how ever, he had mint carefully perused all thu evidence *Am: could be brought against the pier/arra, and the result of that induced him tolielteve that it would uc insufficient to convict them vapitakly. He had thought, tilt:TH * las . , that it would be better to spare the eerie the Court and Jery the pain of listening to a detail so otlious.and revolims to Mimeo nature. 1-1,• ehohlti, under these eta mintstAnces, decline utfecing any evi dence. The Verdict of Not Guilty VAS iimuediately recorded. Mr.Juittes turieugli uuseryed, that ;11111 •led resit Ail the efflpointious .against Use prim:mere, and; he agreed :t:irk the TILE NA'rICINAT. ItEGISTER.' Learned that thr eapit•l Charge eoillti out be nu• lie had !beryline, in Ilia upiuino, done right in far• herring to go into a detail so repugnant to every Inman _ . The prisoners %acre token from the Imr, and it %eat witii great difficulty th. officers could impure 4 the feelings of indignation towards these wretches by au ex, :ninety clouded clout DECLARATION OP TfiE LONDAN .111111% Jost before the Ignites) Jary left the Count, the Foreman. Mr. P. Jacob, addr , -sett their Lordships. Before, he said, the Jury quitted the hos, the:, weir anxious that a paper which he .and his brother Jo') moot hail signed, should be read and handed up to their Lordships, all it contained nothing of un offensive description. The Learned Judge how e , l assent, and Mr. Jacob read the following declaration in au inapressi%e manner %Ve, the Loudon Jury. being oat the eve of teriainatine our most painful duties, most respectfully wiah to represent 1.• your Lordships, that the verdicts which we have 4i vett an the evidence whirls 1144 been submitted to Its, will, \A lien reported to his Majedy'sPrivy Conned, only he considered as the decision 'Atonable linen. That we are convinced that all sanguinary punishments have not only. hail a tendency to destroy those principles of hnmatrity whirl, it is our ditty to ! cultivate. but that, to their frequent occurrence, they render the heart callous. One in strusee of which has brim hnought refure es, of a youth having picked a gentleman's poriset while the dreadful sentence of the law was carrying into effect nn three unfortionat r! persons. We disclaim all %%rum ary ideas and principles—' We live to improve, or we live in vain.' With these feelings and sentiments, we most earnestly request, that when Corse cases :are reported, you will erge this divine inktuction—• I will have mercy and no'. sacri fice.' .---• " Signed by the Foreman and his brother Jurymen." TUESDAY. There were two capital convictions this day; one for stealing in • dwelling twine to the amount of 40s. and up. wards ; the other for burglary. The tither cases were nosof importance. NVEDNESDAY. William Carr, whc. a isWriaYsa.:o - , was tried capitally for shooting at William ftidingsley intent to kill him, and who was found gnilty of levelling Mei:rect. was now again put to the bar. charged with basing stolen a verlety of ear penters' tools, from a workshop in the nursery pounds of Messrs. Colville and Co. in the King's-road. Robert Perrot was the first witness called. He proved that on Saturday, the dill of the present month, he left a bag of carpenters' touts at Messrs. Colville's nursery .grounds, lu the work shop. William Billingsley was next called, and stated, that he was appointed to, guard ,Messes. groiteds, and for that purpose slept in the worn. adjoining Cie wink shop. On 111 , Haw ring of Monday, the lath, lie heard a sue in the shop between !wo and 'lime o'clock. He got tip and sass the prisoner in the shop. Witness immediately levelled a blunderbuss loaded with slugs at him. The prisoner, how ' ever, sei zed Billingsley by the throat with one Intel, and pushed the muzzle of the piece aside with the other. A scuffle ensued, and the prisoner succeeded in getting pea. session of the blunderbuss. He then delibr ratsly levelled the piece at witness, am! pulled the trigger, but it fortu nately missed fire. 'the pi ironer then ran away, and :vas pursued by witness. On coming to some• railings, he threw the piece over them. After another desperate struggla the pi isouer was ultimately secured. The blunder buss ssas found by a watchman on Monday mut ning. Maybank, a watch-house keeper, searched the pri• sorter, and found upon him a crow bar, which upon examines Oen, exactly fitt:d the place where the workshop tloor was broken open. The Jury Mond the prisoner—Guilty. The Common Sergeant told the prisoner that he was much too had a character to remain in this country. The prisoner having been tried capitally on a former day for sheeting with intent to kill, and a point having been re served for the opiuion of the Judges, the judgment on the present conviction will be of course postponed until the de eisioa of the Judges is known. -- Wiggins was l'ollViell'd of stealing 42531 b. of po..atoes, the property of William White, Esq. of Ease* farm, near Ed snontue. POLICE. GULDIIALL. Ilachael Jackson, a; utTortiTiiiite restate, was examined for uttering a crowd 11. note in payment for • wedeV nig ring, at the shop of Mr. Smith, jeweller, 27, Barbican, vi here, cm being asked her address, site gave a fictitious account both as to place and name. Lu her.defence, she stated her unfor• tanate situation, and said she had received it Pions a gentle man, whose name and address she was ignorant of. As she was not known as a common titterer, and no °Oki. notes were found on her, she Of AS ilimitarget:. It is worthy of er , mark, that this is the third instance at this office, within a few days, in which women of the prisoner% description have made precisely the same detunce, when under examination for a similar criuet. HOW-STREET. Tuesday morning, %Valliant Jetatings was brought to tile Office upon a most extraordicary charge--Mary Conden stated, that she lireJ StewarVaseents, Drury Lane, and got her living by attending in the Piazza. in Civent Garden, tosell ulna!), &e. •She had known the prisoner about a fortnight, and en Wednesday last lie called upon tier at her iesid ace, and directly idler he was gone, she inissed a water•cock and a quantity of leaden pipe. .In the evening she saw him dartbi. when Fill' I !target' him with having 'telt n the c •ek .anl.plp?, which lie denied. On the follurring morning Ws called upon her at her salmi') ettutil, w hen lie had with hint% basket ;he told her he lire got some pi:tent coals fur her, which would burn without making any snit II or smoke, and they would make a tine tire for her when she got Iwnse; site looked at them, and they did not appear like coal•, hut pieces or lumps of bkick to utt. She tack them home with her. In her pat lour were her suit 'fltoitias,l4 yearsolege, Mary, her daughter, It years of age, nod Maly Ann Corinick, a Chilli two year: and a Wield, u 1 %%hum he had the care. Sean after her return home, she put a piece of the black stuff upon her6re to try how it wonl4l omit it it was only the size of a small egg ; it instantly caught lieelikeg+mma del , and ft% plottet!,. hod cututatootcat ad to 411 e remalnilet at the tilackctntf,whn•h Alt Ita•t inifurtuttately {dared vrilltifi *Mont hall a yard of the fire a most dreadful taitturiuit took plare, whirl' tided the room with tire and smoke,. gad site and all titti-eilltdren experienced considerable Injury. . Her f i a nov e pdgo , was taken to the .workkoue for assistance, wtue alts coutimu4s inAt vcypeattarrJusstatc, Meta:dive. "11 The infant was iu a shocking inangle.l mate, that it was inken in a he.pital for assi•tance, %%herr bile langlitslied of, the he had I eteive.l iiliSator,lly morning, when Ate rh. .1111. pri,uuer na , committrdfur trial.—(hi 1%. rhiestlay 411 11111/1101111/11 V 1 ,44 taken on the body of the dere:v....l iniaist, when 1111 ,11.1 y, after an hones consultation, eturued a verdict oI 4Vurndatighter. HATTON GARDEN. Tit e nut/Peep Citii.n.—Monday night, Ann Symons, the midwife, was brought up on a Bench IVarratit ; a true bid having been found against her,at the Sessions in Glee ken well, ter exposing a male bastard child iii the sheet, *1 already stmed. She w.ts required to give 21 mom+ notice of bail, l.,rself in OM. and earls of her suretie.. in 11101. each. She govt. the mimes of Mr. Lamb, a loti!tler, mid Mt. White, an aartioneer, as her intended bail ; but the Solicitor tor the prosecution objected to Mr. White. MIA. Symons was tkea conveyed to prison. UNION HALL. PARSON CHURCH 41.:1) IIonSESIONGER LANS GLOL•—fILIS elegantly dressed female, about 2U v P. 116 of age, toe daughter Of a respectable tradesman resitiiiir in liewiagion, was brought before the Magisti ales loom Horseintioger Lane thol, charged by Thomas Lawrence, the tut nkey of the 'ninon, with attempting to convey s quantity of gin into this pricoe, for winch she was subject to a fine of not less than.lol. It appear^ that every day eetint,:•rs of persons go to the gaol in Hui semoneer Lane for the purpose of taking money and food to an infamous fellow named Church, who was, it will he recollected, convicted of an abomitade assault attain 12 Entombs ago among the itima her ale single and titarrit.d ladies, who formerly attended the chapel at which he preached. The defendant, in this cage, was carrying a small hondle into the prison, and was stopped by Lawrence, who found some food and a quantity of in tit the hmelle upon it ; the officer :Liked her to .o hoot she meant to rouse:, the spit its, and site replied, that she intended it fur By: Key. Mr. Church. The 'Aingistrate addressed the defendant, who is a very pretty woman, upon the excessive folly, if not (he said gui:t of her conduct, in acting as she had dune; he felt vit . :prised that persons should be so infatuated, and have so little regard for their reputation, in going to visit inch a eltstaacier ; lie asked the defendant if she could pay the,fine ; she said that het father would, if she was couvicted ; but site assured tlie Magistrate, that she had uo knowledge that it was illegal to take spit its into the prison. The Magistrate convicted the defendant, And she sent to her father, who immediately carne to the tact!, and.pgial tge money. SCAN Al.OUs OrrENce.--Ann Canard, .a widow, r. I; alias a number ut children, all maintained and clothed by the parish of Si. 'Dimas, in the Borough, was brought before the Ma gistrate, eltargt.iel Nitle illegally pawning are apparel of the said . children, the properly of the parish. Upon the Case tieing investigated, it appeared that • great number of arti cles had been pledged by tine prisoner at different pawn hi e.kers. oversins said, that it was of importance that the prisoner shonlel be severely punished, as an example to the oilier )iattrers, to deter them from committing :imam . offences. bite was committed. Account of the Number of Prisoners Tried, and the Of , fences they were convicted of, at the Old Bailey, in 1816 Murder ..5::".,. . . Burglary . . 25 . . House lirea,king 7 . . . Highway . Robbery . . 25 t Stealing in a DwJling House . 68 I Stealing privately in a Shop . 36 Est Stealing on the River. Themes 2 Horse Stealing . 11 g . . Sheep Stealing 9 . . Cattle Stealing 1' t.l . . Cutting down Trres . 1 Returning frotu Transportation n 1 Forgery . . . . Uttering Forged Bank Notes . Haring possession of ditto without lawful muse . Sb . Receiving Stolen Goode 10 • . Manslaughter . . Embezzlement 2 . . • ! Fraud • 6 . . L Grand Larceny • 1093 • . Micterneaneurs .6 • . . Uttering Counterfeit Coin . , 13 . OF THESE THERE WERE -.-14/10 Between the age of ten and fourteen . 38 Between the age of fourteen and eighteen • 193 ' .Between the age of eighteen and twenty-one 391 - .-- Toad under twenty—one years of age 624 An Account of the number of Prisoners in Custody, in hill Majesty's Gaol of Nvergate, M the Year Isll3, and bow they have been de paved of:— In Custody on theist January, 1818 . .28 Committed from that petted to the 31st December. 1818 •23'26_ , Cf which have been executed 20 Died . . . . ;1 Removed to the Hulks at Sheernesepreparatory to T ransportati on . . • .540 - Ditto to Portsmouth . . . so Ditto to Gosport . . . 100 Ditto to Woolwich . . . 78 .Removed to the Penitentiary, Milbank .. • 33 flemoved to the Refuge for the Destitute , • 29 Removed to Bethlem Hospital . . at; . Removed by Habeas Corpus to County Gaols, for Trial at. the Assizes . . . 23 Rernm . ed to the House of Co-vertion for the City of London, for imprisonment for cettair periods I , Removed to the liou,e of Correction for the County of Middlesex, for the like purpose . . 286 Remove! u ditto. having received hie Majesty's Par don, on condition of being iiiiptivoncil therein for certain periods . • . -80 , .Removed to um Ship Maria, at Dezford, destined to carry out Female Convicts to . 'ew !outh I'?ales SG Discbargell.•havir.g had his Majesty's tree Pardon /3 Discharged, being ac.riuitted at the 01,1 Bailey f.::seiona a% Discharged by Psoclaniationt Bills of indictment nut having been found against them . 1151 Discharged for want of Prosecution . .33 ,Discharged, ;taring undergone their Sentence of lin. priaoninita . 1011 Discharged upon Bail, =driller C•0 1 ." 11 • 41$ --437 0 • Remained in Custody the Ist admixes,. 1819 • .fins . W. R. it. BROWN, Kee +a. . -• Nearly tOJO cf thaw wen Altd,tkisciattasuera.