The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-03-20 00:00:00

BOBBERY AT LORD ASHBROOK'S.

READING.

Henry Leonard, aged 23, labourer, and Thomas
Smith, 33, carpenter, stood charged with breuking
into the mansion of his Lordship, iu the parish of
Old Windsor, and stealing thereout a variety of
urtii Its.

Mr. SHEPHERD detailed the case to the Jury,
and then called the following witnesses :
Viscount Aslibrouk deposed as follows :—" I
bye at Beaumont Lodge. Ou the night of Friday,
the 28th of September, 1 was the last person up in
my family ; I left the drawing-room a little after
twelve ; about half-past ten the dining-room
wiudowa were all fast, which was the room broken
open ; the next morning, about half-past six o'clock,
I was celled by my housemaid, who told me the
house had been robbed. I wrist down, and found
the shutter broken—(his Lord-hip here exhibited a
piece of it]—•rid the window forced open. In
looking through the apartments I missed three
or-mulu clocks ; the glasses which had covered them
were put down upon the rugs ; there were also two
large Flushing coats, a blue and a brown one,
taken. The women cloth on the drawing-room
table had • great number of wax ►pots, dropped
from a taper, as I suppose, which had been the
night before left in the small library, but which I
then found in the drawing-room, from which 1 coil-
elude that the robbery most have been committed
in the night time, fur the spots were Lot wt the
table the night before. A parasol was also taken,
the one which I now hold in my hat d, which I
received from. Mr. Banister. From ap. ma named
Barney I received a small pair of aciesats, • pendu-
lum, and some clock ornaments, which I now pro-
duce, ■Rd believe them to be my property, stolen
the evening in question. On the Tuesday morning
I was called up, about two o'clock, by Banister
sod others, who had brought the Prisoners in cus-
tody. When they were brought its, Banister said,
sheering the ornaments already produced. ' See,
my Lord, I took these from his person' (pointing to
one of them) ; to which Prisoner replied, No,
you did not, for I gave them to you ; I might
have thrown them away, my Lord, bet I did not
like to injure your property.' It was then remark-
ed, that one of them had been seen with my coat
on, upon which Leonard, the man who had spoken
before, said, Yes, my Lord, I am the very men
that had your blue coat on'."
Ann Wilson, the housemaid, corroborated the
testimony of his Lordship,.
Charles Bell—l am toll-keeper at Egham gate.
I saw tl►e two prisoners pass 011 the Saturday morn-
ing after the night of the rubbery, between nine and
eleven o'clock. at ■ short distance from my house.
They were dressed apparently very much as they are
now : one seemed to be all blue. I saw them come
back in about half an hour ; one had a bundle on
his arm, ■nd the other a large blue coat on, which
change of dress made me notice them. On seeing
me they got down the bank below the towing-path,
on the side of the Thames. I was ou the river
then. The way they went was not the straight way.
I can't be quite sure, bat I believe the prisoners at
the bar to be the same men. The geld to which
they weut is live or six hundred yards above my
house.

William Augustus Barney-1 live at Egboas.
On Sunday alter the robbery, I was walking near
the lock at Eghuni, •bout a hundred yards from
last witness's house, when I picked up ■ pair of
highly.poloshed scissors, a pendulum, and some or..
tuttneuts.—[These things were produced, and idea-

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