The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-22 00:00:00

FIRES.

Yesterday evening, between nix and seven o'clock, a fire broke
uto,in she house of Ur. Fenner, printer, IVarwirk-aquate, New"
etc market, which for tonic OTC d:rem,ced destruction ro 41. e
7lt Tinge cf limas; but by the speedy s:r.rcl of the Insurance
t ees' er eines, reed a griid supply of vrder, theft tillell were got
L. te:ef, though : ot before the premises had" melted consiAerable,
dmr.age. and a portion of the houseloll furniture destroyed. The
tire ozigai .ted in the flitches, owing to a pot, curainlug suite COM-
-14111(tible matter. belling over.
Anothrr lire broke out early yesterday rnerolnp, at the house of
!sr. Parker, japanner, Cohen.pLce, Mile-end. and destroyed ihe
.tole of the premise.. Serious •rperliensiore acre • cratricined
'.,( the safety of an elderly lady, who wasollth tWitarltri teamed
..1 *he watchman from the names. The cue of the accident la not
ye ascertained.

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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, SEPT. 21

• OLD COURT.
Perim Mr. Sereeennt A a sans and a Middlesex Jitry.l
• HIOBWAY ROBBERY.
Burah enzer. aged :trt, a m cried woman, wasindicted for as.
slushing Sarah Donning, on the King's highway, on the I lth of
April, und stealing from her person nineteen aovereigns and other
ninnies.
Sarah Bunning, who appeared in very ill health, deposed that
she was et single amnion, and an etuboiitlerer of black silk vets. bite
was in the Edgevate.ruad on the I of April last. alma right
o'clock in the evening, on her MUM home to No. 111. Bukeiereet,
Lisson•grove. Prisoner came up to her then, and witness asked
her the way to Dettonshire.snott. Prisoner said she would show
her. •1 hey walked together for about ten yards. Prisoner IWO she
hail a bad husband. Nothing else passed till she took witness's
shawl off. Prisoner tisik her by the shoulders, unpinned the shawl,
and took it. .Witness said, "0, give me my shawl." Witless
saw her have it, hut she denied it. ]..wt nineteen sovereigns at the
*erne time: was in lodgings, and did not think her money would
have been safe were ; was tied tip in a linen bag, at the corner or
the shawl ; prisoner was rot appahended for three or four mouths
afterwards; the reason was, that witness seldom went out ; dll not
mention it to any watchman or friend. When prisoner was tal to
up, 3lrs. Petah pointed her out to witness near Lesson-arove, and
said she had seen the prisoner sail, her; had never seen the pri.
toner Ire fore.
Charlotte Pettit lives near the Edgeware-road; saw the prose.
Mite and •ar, Weiner walking together on the night in question ; was
near enough do hear what passed ; heard prisoner sac. ••• lilary, you
are inunticates4. 'ion had better go borne with me." Pio teutrix
win tipsy. I aani to prisoner, do you know that wotran ? bte said
she dal ; she lived in a bad house: that she (prisoner) had a bad
husband, living with another woman, though she had a family,
dcs:red Mary Iprosecutrix) to go borne with her. Imme-
diately afterwards saw prisoner unpin proseentria'a shawl, take It.
and run oil: Witness is the wife of a constable, but slid not give
any alarm of what she had seen ; did not know that there was
money in ill: shawl.
A Pawnbroker proved that prisoner pawned the shawl pro luced
by hint.
llenry Pettit, a constable, and husband of 3lrs. Pettit, one or
the witnesses, took the prisoner into custody; his sae mentioned
to him, at the distance of three or four months, what had taken
place, and it was then that he took prisoner into custody.
Prose:utrix idenntied the shawl.
An aver wastrel:is-examined by Mr. C. PHILLIPS. Wh3atated,
that he had loog known the prisoner, Dud that he hod seen her
every day after the II th of April until she was taktn up, callir•g
out " water.creases" as usual.
The piosecutria atl,nitted that she had had the money in her
pocket when she left haute, but when the got to St. tiika'a she pie:
it in•o her shawl.
Air. Sergeant A lIABIN thought the story of the prosecutrix very
extraordinary, and the statements of the witnesses .0 contradictory,
that he considered tine .Jury ought not to find the prisoner guilty.
The shawl had been but barely brought home to the prisoner, and
there might be other shawls like the one produced.
The Jury acquitted the prisoner, and the Judge ordered the shawl
to be i Aimed to the proseentria.
['BeAire Mr. Justice LITTLEDALIL and a Middlesex Jury.]

NIANSLAUBIITER.
Wm. Freeman, alias Battier, stood indicted for the manslaugh-
ter of Wm. Britt, on the 34th of June.
It B. Robinson examined by the Court? —Wait a siirgeon of
the London B.spit:ll; knew the deceased, who was brought there
on the 30th of June, having a fracture on the lower jaw, and a
bruise no the fart; deceased died on the Ist of July of a disease in
the lungs, Cacti was of an old standing ; no other part of the body
was diseased.
After thi. evidence. the Court suggested the propriety of acquit.
Ong the prisoner, and the Jury accordingly returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.