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160W-STIREET.
Tnz Mix? w. Tnt AGISTIIB2ESi—A prow woman, named
Margaret Barry, was brnip•ht before T. 11• LES and W. HECK•
ETT, Emits. on Saturdayla,st. on a !barge of uttering connterleit
half-crowns and the offence being made out, she wee fully cum-
nutted for trial.
Mr. SxwEr.x, clerk to the Solicitor of the Mint. attended fur the
prosecution; and, as usual un these occasions, be produced the
depositions of the witnesnst, previously drawn up by himself.
These depositions he read over to dtp witnesses himself, who having
subscribed to them, he was about torsisikrn then, to his own pocket,
when the Magistrate told hint he should not allow them to be taken
out of the office.
31r. tire's:Lt.—Dear me. Sir ! It Is our invariable practice In all
these prosecutions to take the depositions to our own office.
Mr. HALLS—Then your invariable practice is extremely impro-
per; and had I been aware of it, I should not have allowed it. 1
can never allow depositions, sworn to and subscribed berme tne, to
be taken away by any person. They are the only warrant I have
for committing the prisoner ; and a M agistrwe ought to be very
careful not to give up such documents, especially at this particular
time.
!dr. SEWF.t.r.—But, Sir, these arc our own documents, drawn up
by myself. Your clerk may take down what he likes in your books,
but these depositions have been drawn up by myself, which 1 must
have for the purpose of drawing up the indictment.
Mr. Ilat.t.s—You may have a copy for that purpose ; but, Pi I
said before, I shall not suffer time to go out of this office until they
are returned in Cann.
Mr. SEW ELL (with much warmth)—Very wen, Sir • I think it
very strange, for no such objection has been made for the last thirty
years to my knowledge; anti 1 shall certainly inform Mr. Powell,
the Solicitor of the Mint.
Mr. HALLS—I care no more for thelAsincitnr of the Mint than I
do foe you ; and I repeat, that you may have a copy, but the ori-
ginals shall certainly remain here.
Mr. SEWELL then left the office in a huff; and in about an hour
after he returned, and again applied for his depositions.
Mr. Ilat.xs—sir, you shall not have theni. A copy will serve
your purpose equally well, and nnthirg lint a copy shall you hare.
Mr. SnwE Ex—Then, Sir, I can only say we shall nut proceed to
prosecute the prisoner.
Mr. Ilat.r.s—The witnesses are bound over to prosecute, and
you, Sir, may act just as you plcisse.
Mr. Szwt: xx—lf site witnesses prosecute without us, they must
do it at their own ripegise.
•• That will be seen hereafter," said the Magistrate; and Mr.
Sewell angrily withdrew.
P.1.110R017011-STREET.
Mravrators rast..-1 ln Saturday last a very beautiful and
elegantly dressed female, idiom 20 years of age, who was attended
Icy a servant girl of very neat and modest appearance, appeared be-
fore Sir linnany: Faun ass., to answer the complaint of Jacob
Woolf, aJew hawker, who alleged that they had stolen a silk dress,
his property. The young lady gave her card to Sir George, upon
which was inscribed " Miss Hants, 21, Euston-square," and the
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girl called herself Mary.
Jinn!' ‘Coolf, who is a foreigner, stated, that on Friday morn.
ing, about eleven o'clock, he called at the house of a Mrs. Black-
burn, No. 21, Etintonaquart, and knocked at the door, which
WOW ()tithed by the scram Mary. Ile asked bee if the ladies
wanted a silk shawl, or dresses? Mary replied, she would take
up some of the goods and spew them to the ladies. He gave her •
shawl, for which he asked four guineas, and also eleven dresses
of different prices. After a short period l:ad elapsed, the girl
came down stairs. and said, " the ladies do not want any to-day,"
arid returned him his goods. At that moment the young lady,
Miss Harris, came out of an apartment, and he exhibited the
goods to her, and on counting over the dresses lie found there were
only tea. The girl was called in. and she protested that she had
returned all the goods he hail given to her, and he as warmly as.
sated that she had stolen one of the dresses, and finding that he
could not obtain his property, he applied to this office for assist_
slice.
Scholefield stated, that he called at the house of Mrs. Blackburn
by order of the Magistrate, and interrogated Miss Ilarris, Mrs.
Blackburn, and the servant girl upon the subject. Mrs. Black.
burn said she was front home at the time the transaction occurred,
and that only Miss Harris, a young gentleman, and Mary, were
in the house.
Mary here admitted, that she did not 'hew them to any one;
.lie took them up stairs, rind to gratify her own curiosity site exaal
muted them, and then returned them to Woolf, saying, " the'
!tahi.. don't want any."
The gentleman on the part of Woolf said, that her admission
attached great suspicion to her, and he thought that Hiss Benis
did not seem to be very anxious about clearing her reputation from
so scrimps a charge.
Miss Harris—Why, my dear Sir. I made Mrs. Blackburn search
my apartment, and examine everything to see if she could find the
dress ; and when Ito if showed nu the dresses, I merely turned
them over, and said to him, "I du not want any." 1 searched
es ay where. and could not find the dress.
%foolf—Vutt search, Mahn ! dat no good to toe. If you find
situ no say so. It site search me find, and elat good. (bond
laughter.)
Sir DLORGE F 'T said, that he felt every inclination to
assist the poor fellow in the recitation of his property ; and if
any further evidence should arise, upon a future application he
should be ready to act in any way that would derelope the truth of
this, at present obscure, affair.
The parties were then discharged.
HATrCIN.O A 11 DEN.
On Saturday C. E..ans, 1 respectable-looking young van, was
charged by numerous tradesmen with felony. Mr. Byword', a
ttatchmaker, in Itridge-street, lambed', stated, that twelve months
ago he employed the prisoner, and gave him a pearl brooch and a
valuable gold ring to repair. Ile neither saw nor heard feat him
Fla mime time after, when he received • letter enclosing the dupli-
cate of the breach, and some apology from the prisoner, but he had
never ta en the ring since.
Mr. I.evi, watchmaker and jeweller, 4:111, Strand, stated, that the
prisoner came ta hint about the same time, and offered saute pearl
pins fur sale, representing himself as a lapidary. In consequence
of his panting several respectable tradespeople, for whom lie bad
worked, he gave him a piece of valuable coral to cut, which lie
never returned.
Another jeweller said lie had given him six silver snuff-boxes' to
finish for Into, but the prisoner pledged them, and sent the ticket
to I •
Three other jewellers proved having given him gold chains,
rings, seals, &c. to repair, which he had never returned.
The Magistrate said he was afraid the offeice amounted only to
illegal pawning.—The prisoner was renianded.
WOIISIIIP-ST It 1: ET.
Tits: SD-a Taatif —saturday last, IVillians Learoirti, of
!tooth-street, a journeyman silk-weaver, was brought before Mr.
lit:x N tair and Mr. Torrent 11, upon the following charge :
Mr. Barrett lfatton, a silk tuanutiecturer, stated, that he had
carried on that part of the silk manufacture in Dublin denominated
the tabinet branch ; that from his long experience he had made
inch considerable improvements as to induce a respectable house
in the silk trade in London to encourage him to come and settle
here ; that he employed the defendant to weave 120 yards of tabi-
net ; and after furnishing him with the best materials, sod giving
him the necessary instructions, he also gave him a reasonable sum
of money in advance; that he had the work seven weeks and three
days, ant! there were still 10 yards untittialtedt. Ile therefore re-
quested the Magistrates interference, adding, that he wished for
no punishment, but merely to have the property returned in a pro-
per time, and in a workmanlike manner.
The 111 AGIST RAVI 1:s inquired from Kennedy, the officer (who
had bee.' previously engaged in the silk trade), what time it would
legatee to finial' tine work ?
Kennedy replied, that a week would be sufficient.
The 111atit AT It ar Es then gave the defendant the choice of re-
turning the work contpletely executed in ten days', or to go to the
Ilona of Correction.
A TOLL NAN Cons. wry:D.—Saturday the overseers and col-
lectors of the City-road turnpike appeared before Mr. BE JeN ET T
and Mr. TwTronn, in answer to • summons for an overcharge of
one penny upon a one-horse cart, the property of the proprietor of
the Bull and Mouth Hotel.
lienry llall stated, that he was driving his master's cart, for the
yarrow of delivering parcels to their respective owners, and that
going through the gate he paid the toll, and 111 a little time after
they again charged him on his return.
The defence set up was upon the City-road Act, which was
passed 17th May last, ani! which enacts, that all " stage wug,gona,
vans, caravans, or tither stage carriages. carrying passengers or goods
for payment or hire, or rewind, and fur which t011...1 lel be paid,
and shall return the sante day, shall pay such toll each time so
passing." They then maintained that as carriage was to be paid
on those parcels so to be delivered, that it brought the cart within
1 the mea gof the Act.
Mr. lion aI:TT was decidedly of* contrary opinion, under the
impression that the cart not being a taxed one, did not came under
the operation of the Act, which says. t• Stage carriages, he.," and
the words „Stage carriage?' signified carriages conveying pie.
sewers or goods front one pattieular place to another. which was
not the cast then before them ; and he therefore thought the cart
i exempt from toll on its return.
The I ;veneer said he was ready to try the right.
Mr. TW T rot D said that he perfectly coil:tided in the opinion
of his bother Magistrate ; and in order to suited them an opportu-
nity of trying the effect of an appeal, he would line them in forty-
one shillings.
• Caere:tar To Danertt9.—SiVllrday, Fronr;s Soften, thedtiver
of one of Mr. Hook's waggons, N'. 139,n16, was line,' ten shillings
and cow. before Mr. Twwronn, fur negligence and wilful misbe-
haviacr, in obstructing the tree pasaage for a gir,in Stewanlatrect,
Spital -Oldie, and in which wete Philip \layer, Esq and his wife,
win', h appewel. owed their prearrat ion more to the gentleness of
their parse then to the care or hautanity of the waggoner.