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London, England, 1810-07-20 00:00:00

OLD 11411.E1, JVLY 19.

James ifirrifie war capitally indicted for violently
assaulting Alfred Baxter, ou the Kiug's highway,
lowing him in bodily fear, anal tithing from his
person, against his consent, three B ink dollars and
one shilling, ins property, on the night of the llth
at
Bait:* r, the Prosecutor, stated, that on the
ti.re Aid in the indictment, he dined with a friend
ir. • neighbourhood of Chalk Farm :on his re-
tor , town, between nine and ten o'clock at night,
he...:.'upped near the workhouse of the parish
ps„cris. br the PrMoiler ; wltu, clapping a
pistol to In-ear, with au milli deniansitd his moury.
Prom eur.,r refused to comply ; when the Prisoner
wihdrew the pistol. and he distinctly heard it
socked. Prisoner again presented it, and demand-
ed his money : he then delivered to him three dol-
lars and a shilling: the Prisoner asked for more,
but being informed that was all Prosecutor had
about him, he made off across the fields. Prose-
clime then went to the Britannia public-house at
Camden-Town, and give information of the rub-
be, v. lie &l out see the Prisoner until the Monday
following, when he was in custody : he recoguieed
his pet suit, as the moon shone at the tuna the rob-
bery was committed : he also recollected a shilling,
• portirolaily marked, which was shewn to him by
the Police Officer, es hiving been found on the
Prisoner.
Smith. a Pulire (Miner, stated. that. on the
night of the I di of Jii,te lie was patrolling the
mod,. in the neighbourhood where the robbery
took place, in . mummy with Preston. a brother
officer ; be had been apprised of the rubbery ; and,
observing a Mall in at dela on the left-hand side of
the mord, shout 11 o'clock, he desired Preston to
go lied see what lie was about. Preston went ever
end apprehended the Prisoner ; they took him to
Mother Black Cap's fa public-house at Camden-
Towel. and searched hum : its hits poi kit they timid
a loaded pi,tol, three dollars, a shilling. and it far-
thing. The sh:ll,ng was the seine winch had been
identified by the Proiwcutor.
Preston. the other officer, corroborated this tam.
*Loony.
The P.isotier, in his defence, stated, that he had
come fru% Bath, for the purpose of claiming name
prise-moue;. He had, on the 11th of June. gain
to a friend at Hampstead : feeling himself tired
on his return, in the evro inn, lie had I till &Iwo in a
held tra sleep, in which field he had found the pis-
tol, and was ultrinately •ppreheurfeJ.
Mr. Justice Ls. BLANC summed op the evidence.
and the Jury brought in a verdict of—Gnifty.
The i'risoner is a squislid-lookrug 48
years of axe.
George Garrett was indicted for feloniously steal-
ing three ten-pound notes. four one-pound notes,
four eruwo-pieces, and two lialfecrovro-pieces, the
Waverly of Samuel S:ppell, in the dwelling-house
of Walter Cotton ; „end with having borglarionsly
broken oat of the said dwelling-house, with the

property.
Anti Morrell, the wife of the Prosecutor, leposed,
that, on the night if the !nth of .lone, she slept at
the Ella Bells public-house at Kensington :
three were two beds in the room where she slept ;
nee was (recopied by herself. her husband, and two
children ; the other by the Prirmer u: the bar. sod
a labouring man. They all went to bed at the manse
hear; she pat her poLkets under her pillow ; but,
on awaking about five o'clock in the soorumg,
she fouled that the string which connoted them
as. cut. and that the pocket contouring the pros
petty described in the indictment was taken array.
On looking towards the bed in which lbe Prisoner
hod slept, she observed that he was net in it. but
his brindle renteined to tit...roma. On imfoiring for
the Prisoner below stairs, she found that he we,
not in the Anne. The rnopetty 1.14,1ert she had le'
centred from her had:trod on the morning lathe
toth ; it was prise-ntoney, and they had branched
from Wiles for the purpose of el dosing at. Tits
Pnsoner was totally unknown to witness nr her hues
bend. till the preceding s'irtmlay, alien they were
lodged at the same puhlic-Inewis. tlw
at Uxbridge. The iaron.y bail liven !diesel for
rmrity in the hands of the landlads of the rt•• hi kr
put.4l,--ft,nee at liersaingtou. • odPrlvealtr was pip -
mat when het husband received it front the ;Med-
ially. 51111 delivered it to witness. N line's never law
km after the robbery UI Friday t'surritht, when
she observed him standing at the door of a hoore to
the Rormigh. *Lee /us led*: he immediately
*hut the Joe*. jumped swot a wall in the pod. cis
treed anothee home. mid bid hinmelf wider the
at liras A Conetable. however.got ham out. Winn
witness dent °tided how he could twee the hart to
din Op di an neuron. he urerwered. » Mby don't you
take it a keep epriettr:' Prisoner tray-11141 tie
01'n. road with her and her husbered front l'ebridge,
but not in mentality! he came to the Eight Bells
at Kossnoirten the etrenurg before them.
Swan-1 ?tappet!. the host-Ind of :tee termer wits
aro. contirnsed Caere part of her termites: with
with he was ronisectrel. lie farther tie,ineea. that:

h. teen °he Goa of the hand. of ibe !awl.
lady J. the %Mot ;wt.. i I couompente et the Pti.
ut5..11.4.1111011% and 10111,..r. Share
eetklor bed 'treed t.. 'toe
stm t. sea ter 111 %rue.; heel. en the IqUi
of Jon.. • clesh tor 47t. 4-. dd. an f)It• tor,
oorolko,. , wt th.. ollfire et Cooke awl Co.
Na.) At.;• the ASelphi. k firs pawl of

Messrs. Down, and Co.'s. M. three notes of 101.
each, of 51. 7of 11. and es. 6d. in silver: at the
time of receiving the on as, lie h.id regulaily enter-
ed the iluinhtra on a slip of paper.
John But, the person who slept with the Prison-
er at the time the robbery was committed, deposed
that he awoke before four o'clock in the mortang,
but the Pfll.oller was gone.
Joseph Shepherd, the Clerk of Downe, Thorn-
ton and Co., stated, that he had paid the Prosecu-
tor 471. as. ou the 19th WIN about
to read the numbers of the notes, as extracted Irvin
thi! tote' Mg book, but was directed by Mr. Justice
Lx BLANC to produce the original,
, Joh,. Gough, a tiolict uthcer, who took the Pri-
soner to deposed, that on 'watching
Prisoner, he found • new silver watch ; in his bodg-
ing.' he found a truok, contain•lig it piece of Irish
Coen, a number of shawls, and a vane., of other
articles. ‘Vhiu conveying the Prisoner to gaol,
the latter asked hint, "if bud got the note ?“
Witness' inquired what note 1' Pri.ourr Mien to-
formed hon. that, iu • canvass ha,: 011 the mantle-
piece of the room which he had searched, he would
find • 101. nate ; he accordingly searched, and found
IL
Elisabeth Cotton, &lighter faille landlin (1 of thus
Eight Bells at Kenai ilepoori, that when she
rose at fire o'clock in the morning of the of
June, she found the street-door secured only by the
spring-lock : she had herself bolted it the preceding
night, stud no person except the Prisoner.had 1' ft
the house.
John Tenant, linen-draper, of 196. Tooley.st reef,
Borough, rreolleeted Priwiiirr coming to lull%
and purchasing a piece of Irish linen, and
shawls, smonnitog to 31. 104. 6.1. Prism. r iii
pay uncut tenarrt-il a 101. note, which he did ii grd ;
he observed the note particularly, as it had a ic,y
remarkable endorsement.
John Parke, from the Batik of Engtroll. pro-
duced • note paid 011 the 30t rt of Jour, which, bee
ing presented to the la.t witness, he immediately
recognised as that which the Prisoner had paid to
him.

.......
Mr. Shepherd, from the h isking-house of [low ne
and Co., having now returned with the entering-
bauk. stated the numb rs of three 101. notes timid
by him to the Prosecutor, to be 444. 345, 241 i, ell
issued the 10.11 of June, 1410: the note then found
in the Prisoner's lodgings, and that which he had
passed to Mr. Tensot, were then examined.
Pound to be Noe. 24.5 and 241 i.
?moiler, w his defence, said, that he had found
the notes, in going f,odi the Artichoke public..
house to hi. He had in the motoing
put in an affidavit, for the purpose of posipotiiitg
his trial, on account of the absence of a witness,
whose name lie did not know, hut in search Of whom
the sidavit stated lie hail employed two friends,
who were well acquainted with the a itness's person.)
He reiterated the story of his want of witnesses, and
three himself on the mercy of the Court, as a
fitendleas stranger, who bed served in the navy fur
U years.
Mr. Justice Ls BLeec summed up with great
precisson. He did uot think the evidence soffit-trot
to eonsict the Prisoner of the burglary ; to con-
stitute that crime. it was necessary that the break-
ing should he In the dark ; tiongh in common
parlance, the hour at which the crime wad com-
mitted was considered night, net in the eye of the
it wasoinit es contemplated, as from the time
of the year. tt oas„,in ill pnthability. broad Jar-
light. If, however. the Jury found blur guilty of
stringy in the dwellirig-house to the amount lard
in the indictment, the con-equences would be very
nearly the same.
The Jury c.iiisidered for a few minutes, and then
delivered their verdict, 'hiding the Prisoner gentry
of stealing to the dst3lliiiiktiouse, but acquitting
Into of tbn burglery.
Lve Foley, indicted for stealing four one-pound
'tote. trout the person of Stephins Leeson. was oC-
gainferi.
trarAarhse Petty. indicted for grand larceny. in
stealmg a dollar and a tobacco-box from the person
of Heury Jervis, was aryrified.
Rabert Latium. was eompiete4 of stealing a tea-
rashly. value six shillings, the property of Sophia
111•Kerizie. •
Cle•les .11ettmt„ indicter' fir stealing a quantity
of wearing apparel. and ether articles, of the value
of 31. the property sif Timms Newberry, was ae•
quitted.

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