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London, England, 1822-12-14 00:00:00

ESSEX ASSIZES.

Thfure Mr. ✓ustice Bay LIM

CHELMSFORD, DECEMBER 12.
John Bishop was indicted ender die NNW. 57 Geo.lll.
e. 9, for entering • close to the parish of HaLofrad, io Ike
Wight time of the 3141 of October, armed with a bludgeon,
with intent to kill and destroy game.
Mr. WALTORD coadected aloe prosecution, and Mr. A.
DREW/ the defence.

The evidence adduced for the prosecntion proved the body
or the crime, except as to the bludgeon, which according to
appearance was no more than a coursing pole.
Mr. Justice BATLEY left it to the Jury to consider whe.
ober the instrument produced answered the description of •
bludgeon, telling Thom that sinless the instrument was pro.
perly described, they were bound to find the Defendant nut
guilty.
The Jury found the Defendant Not Ghat,.
There was no count its the indictment which described the
instrument to be an "offensive weapon" within the language
of this highly penal statute. The Prosecutors afterwards pre-
ferred another bill to yite Grand Jury against the Pristine'. (•g
the very game offence. * •
li'illhess Taylor and Agave! Bird were indicted for steal-
ing, on the bib of September, at %Vertry, a sheep, the property
of G.G. H. Mansaings.

Mr. Knox conducted the prosecution, and Mr. ANDZIEWS
the &rears.
The only Weir remarkable in this case wss that the
fast son mid daughter of Taylor were called to peeve their
father'. guilt. The unhappy children came hot. the witness
box overwhelmed with grief, but nothing could be elicited
from them to criminate their pares,. They totally denied
what they were supposed to have stated before the commit-
ting Magistrates. The rest of the rase degraded upon strong
cirrestistliares of suspicion. It appeared that the treater
part of the f a sheep was found cut up and salted
in Taylor's house; that is a dung-heap near his house the
skin of a sheep, aoswrrisg the description of that lost by
the Prosecutor, was founds together with some hones corn.
spondiug with other bones of a sheep discovered iu the Pri-
soner's habitation.

There was no proof whatever to affrct the other Primmer.
The Jury, under •II the eiremestasees, fonod both Pri-
est:ken Not Grafi,.

John Skinner was convicted of a barglaiy in the dwelling-
Maude of William Height, in the night of the 12th of Novem-
ber, at Great Waltham, sod stealing therein three sheet.,
two shirts, and some other articles of trillisg value. and re-
ceived seutenee of death. There was nothing of gametal is-
te►est in the ease.
7howsoe Wakeliny, an old offender, who was stated to
have been thirty-five times a sojourner in the county gaol, or
House of Correction, was indicted for defraudlng the parish
Aker of Great Waltham of a pair of shoes, Ay falsely pre-
tending that he could not work, as a pariah pauper, without
a pair of shoes, falsely pretending that be was Monist bare-
foot, the fact being that he had in his possessios al the same
time three pair of new shoes, and a very extessive wardrobe
of very good clothes, and was it the amine time receiving ■
shilling a day from the perish. The case was clearly
made out against the Prisoner, end he was sentenced to
eight month.' Imprisonment and hard labour is the House
of Correction.
Before Mr. Baron GRAHAM.
James Green and Benjamin Pallett were indicted for a
burglary in the dwelling. house of the Rev. Samuel Palmer,
at alined!, is the night of the 31.1 of October, and steal-
ing therein a gun, a booth of keys, sod other property.
There was no proof that the breakage was actually in the
night-time; but the eft/teem. of the larceny being clear, the
Prisoners were found Guilty of that offence only, and they
were *note need to silt months' imprisonment and hard labour
In the Rouge of Correction.

John Blake was indicted under the late Poaching Act, fur
being found iu a doer. armed wis► a hhadgeoo, with intent
to kill game. in she night of the lst of December.
Mr. Jusorr was fur the prosecution. The point is the
lase was, +brace- the implement found in the possemiion of
the Prisoner answered the description given of it in the in-
dictment.
The Jury decided, Ant it was net a bloc/grow, sod found
the Prisoner Not Guilty. This was the third ledictmeat
,asigainst as many alleged °fenders easier this statute, in whir It
Vie some result followed.
Robert Grey was addicted for stealing at Braintr►e, on the
15th of Jose, fuer 51. notes, from the person of James Dodd,
a buy of futirterii, the property of Armin I Vale. The case
was clearly made out to evidsoce; the Prisoner war found
Guilty, and sentenced to be transported fur the term of his
•atarsl life.
At the 'kin of the Court tu-day there w►re no less thou
furty.three cares in the calendar rtinsining to be tried.
WILIOHT, the pedestrian, who lately walked from she
Crown and Barley Mow, Gray's Ittn.bose, Loudon, to the
hue Lion, Haldunk, and back, a distance of 75 auks
• day, fur three days, ha■ undertaken, for a b,•t of 00 sove-
reigns, to walk 100 mites in 26 a -sive hours, beiteren the
tiv, and six mile-stoner on the Rumford road, started ow
Thursday at fuer o'clock. Best* sto 2in favour of lime ;
for, considering the length and darkens of the night, it is
thought to lie out of the power of any man of hi* age lu com-
plete it, he Dei•g iu his sh;h year.