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The others then went into the lion, c, and a ent up
stairs, when they got olio a MOO, where they found
two men-servants sleeping : they asked them where
was their master's bed-room, mill where lie kept
his money. The weir were very much frightened,
and replied, their master blew at the other pint of
the house, awl that they did not know where lie
kept his motley. A guard was kept 111.011 there,
and they proceeded to the oilier sitair•cose ; but
herr they found a strong door, which was fastened ;
they went mit and gnu two plough-cutters, with
which they immediately shivered the door, and
burst into Mr. Chapinines bed-room ; he and Mrs.
Chapman were in lied ; they demanded his money
and his keys, which he gave them, and told them
his money was in a bureau below ; they went down
stairs mid broke open the bureau ; they also broke
open an iron chest, forced all the closets, and com-
pletely ransacked the house, taking away consi-
derably above 100/. in money, plate, and three
watches ; and they regaled themselves with wine
and spirits, and took away the best part of a ham.
The manner and citettinicances of the robbery were
also confirmed by the servants, and Mr. and Mrs.
Chat/111411.
In confirmation of the testimony of the accom-
plice, it was proved by the landlord at Hoddesil )))))
that lie and Litchfield had slept at his house the
night before the rubbery, and one watch was fortiori
in the prowession of Jeffery, and another in the
thatch of Wolf's house. _

The Jury found them all guilty.
Litt Wield WAS also convicted of another burgla►y
in the house of Nash Kemp, at Christi.ll, a little
shopkeeper. Hr was found the next day with all
the good., having stripped the shop.
Chessuni, Wolfe, and Jeffery, were convicted of
a third burglary.
The Learned Judge immediately passed sentence
of death, and told %Wolfe, Litchfield, Jeffery, and
Cliessum. that they would certainly be executed.
This gang has for souse time been the dread of
the surrounding neighbourhood. Wolfe acted as
leader always ; came to his work on horseback, and
the usual rendezvous was at his house at Stort-
find, where they adjusted their accounts, and set.
tled the division of the plunder.
Charles Britten, otherwise Charles Burton, was
indicted for feloniously assaultiii., John Potter, on
the King's highway, in the 'Hirai of Fyfield, put-
ting him in fear, ■nd taking from his person and
against his will, a 51. Rumford bank note, a check
for 20/. on the same bank, and two U. Bank of
England notes, his property.
Mr. Potter stated, that he was a surgeon by pro.
Polon, and resided at Chipping Ongur. In the
evening of the gth of May last, he had occasion to
go professionally to Fyfield, and on the road thither
lie saw two men before him, and be heard one of
them say to the other, " Now for it." Ile pulled
up his horse, and the Prisoner advanced towards
him, apparently with his band to his hat, and
seized hold of the bridle of his horse, and
desired him to stop. The other man, who was
short iii stature, pulled out a large horse pistol,
and presenting it to witsiess's head, said, " Give
11, your money, or I'll shoot you." The Pri-
soner said, " Let us dismount him." The Prose-
cutor got off his horse, and whilst the shorter man
alternately held Ins pistol to the head and breast of
the Prosecutor, the Prisoner proceeded to rifle his
pockets, and, after having taken from him the pro-
perty in question, said, " Now for your pocket-
book—we have wonted bread, and we have wanted
work for some time, and money we will have some
how or oilier." 'Flue Prosecutor had no pocket-book ;
and he was then asked if he had a watch, and an-
martial; that lie had not, the Prisoner thrust his fin-
gers into his fob, and firidi'a nothing, both rob-
bers went off. At this time it was perfectly light,
and the Prosecutor had an opportunity of distinctly
observing the I'risanet's features. He gave informs-
tier of the robbery at Bow-street, and had the
offenders advertised in the Hue and Cry, but he
heard nothing of them until the month of October
last, five months afterwards, when he was informed
that a SlBlll answering the Prisoner's description
was confined in the Giltspur-street Crimple'', in
London, on a charge of stealing bullocks. He
went to towu, and upon seeing the Prisoner, he
immediately recognized him as one of the melt by
whom he had been robbed ; and the Prisoner
having been detained in Newgate subsequently on
the present charge, he was removed to the gaol of
his county, to take his trial at the present Assize.
The Prosecutor swore positively to the Prisoner's
identity.
The Prisoner declared his innucerice of the
crime alleged against him.
Me. Justice BAYLEY summed up the ease to the
Jury, and put it to them, whether it was possible
for the Prosecutor to have been mistaken in the
Prisoner's identity, alter a lapse of five months. If
they were satisfied that there was any reasonable
doubt upon this point, they writiki give the Pri-
soner the benefit of it, but otherwise they would
find him Goitre.
The Jury, alter deliberating for about a quarter
of an hour, found the Prisoner Nat Guilty,6t.toing,
as the reason for their verdict, that the Prosecutor
might be mistaken in the Prisoner's person.