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OLD RAT' EY SESSIONS.
1.1014 DA Y. JULY IS.
Damiel Buckieu W. 14 in3ißrd t,r 140:tio •sly sow.
nst M•DolAld theeK ng's hig')
and forcibly taking from his person a purse, cantain.
Lig two 11. notei., one dollar, some shillings, and a
b.t.l sixpence, his property.
I.'xl•l)onalti deplsed, that he is a watch..
man at the Docks; an.l that, on Sam-

day week lest, July 6, the ;mistime asked him for
the loan of eighteen pence ; he, knowing the pri-
soner, who worked at the docks, lent him the inn.
nee, taking it before him out of his purse, wh eh
' - contained two 11. notes, a dollar, a few shillings.
and a bad sizpence. The same night, a few minute.,
, - before twelve. the Proseciont being at his post, the
prisoner forced into hie watch-box, knocked him
dows, got on top rf him. and. Mier heetin'e him
severely, robbed him of hi. purge, and all his mo-
ney i i it ; he was fort .in of the person of the pri-
ioner, as the moon threw a light no Iri,, face, and
be 1.4 t his hand, when he was Titbits.: his pocket,
1 weicn wanted two fingers; and he knew the prison-
.re had lost two of 'his fingers, iii ternoving ies.ne
Feeds As soon as the pi:twee went ewes!, he
give the alarm, but did not apps ehend him until
th- next day.
James Neatly was' n that night at the India-
House, about 30 yards from the place where the
Prosecutor stood ; he did not hear any noise; but.
about 12 o'clock, the Priseecutor came to him, and
tell elm he ha I been robbed; his face was then co-
rerei with blond.
Elizabeth Broderick met the Prisoner on Sunday
the 7th. at about one o'clock in the morning, at the
top of Gravel-lane : be was ninning as hard as ht
could. He stopped her, and asked her for a lodg-
ing ; she took him home is kb her, and lie staid with
her till mornin,;, and then gave her a dollar and
some sleet, amongst which was a bad sixpeace.
She saw iwo hank mites in hi> hand, which be took
out of a di ty-lookicg purse, with the money he
gave her. .
The Officer deposed, that he apprehended him in
the afternoon of Sunday. at an eating-house in the '
neighhourhousi, but did nut find the notes or purse
on him.
Mr. Justice L4WRENCI summed up the eeidoke,
which, he Said, war. positive as to the Prosx-catur,
and the duty gave their verdiel—Gudte, Dash
Gorse Dare!, was indicted for feloniously forging I
;led uttering as true a certain acceptance of- a Bill
of Exchange for '2Bl. purporting to he drawn by
Major Thornton on Met-is. Collier and Son. with
intent to defraud John Bever.
John Baster, a tailor in the Strand, deposed,
that on the King's birth-day, the Pi igniter came to
his !smite about eleven o'clock in the morning, end
asked to see some cloths ; he accordingly skewed dif-
ferent ankles to him, end the Prisoner chose out one
pail of pantaloons. a waistcoat, and a pair of braces.
Ile then took out of les pocket-I,O(Jc a note drawn
at one month by M jor 'Thornton on Collier and
Son, and accepted.
Mr. Justice LAWRENCE then desired him to pro-
duce the note. The Prosecutor said be had lost it ;
that he had it about hint last Saturday, when he
attended in Court, and when he went home he
could neither find it, nor any of the other papers
which be had in his pocket. to several questions
pot to him by the Court he said, he supposed his
pocket must have been picked ; but that he wa, not
conscious of it at the time, and did not know the
note ce papers were game until alter lie got home t ,
nor had lie any reason to think they were. lle
allowed he made no attempt to recover it by post-
ing hand-bills, or making enquiries, these means not
having occurred to him, and if they had. he did not
conceive the time would allow him, having only
lost it on Saturday last.
James Gamete, the officer, who apprehended the
Prisoner, then informed the Court, that he saw a
letter in the head of the Prosecutor relating to this
trial, and that there was money in it.
The Prosecutor said, lie had received a *setter with
rinney in it; but, on opening it, salt it could not
be intended for him, and therefore sealed it up again,
it which state it now ley.
Mr. Justice Lewn ENCk: said, he could not but sus-
pea him cf raisconsluel, as it appeared from his ex-
amination before the Magistrate, that he wrote to the
lath• rof the Prisoner, and cle,iriel him tii call at his
house. His Lordship then enquired whether there
was any person in Court who could prove the hand-
writing of Major Thornton or of Collier, and find-
ing that there was dose except Mr. Collier him-
self, observed, to the Jury, that as the bill was not
forthcoming, nor any competent witness in Court
wh saw the bill, and could prove the hand-writing,
they must acquit the Prisoner.
' Mr. Justice LAIWRENCL and Mr. Justice CUA m-
int. then consulted together for a short time, after
which, James Gilmore, the officer. was ordered to
be sworn. Ile deposed, that on Tuesday last he ap-
pointed to meet Mr. Baster, fur the purpose of
pi eferring the Bill of Indiament against the Pri-
soner.
Mr. Nicol, at the office, informed them, that
he could not proceed, unless he had the forged
bill, and desired Baster to bring it to him in the
evening. Buster then said, be did not know where
to find it; that he bad lost it sonic days before ;
however, on learning that he would forfeit his re.
coguisence if he did not prefer the indielment, be
produced the. bill. He farther stated, that there
was another bill against the Ptisotier ; but that Nlr.
Chappel, lilt° held it nut being bound over to prose-
cute. said he bad lost his bill also.
Mr. Justice LA Wil Lees. then ordered that Mr.
' Esietes's recogiasance should be estreated in the
Court of Exchequer. He might then, he seid, have
an opportunity of ehreeing cause against the estreat,
and of proving, that he did every thing in his power
the l',-- -.‘nvidir i,
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i 1., w prosecute the Prisoner to convklion.
:t. Prisoner was of course Atria:Led and ditt-
,. • charged. The P
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Dia at firstr and 7oerph Debbie were inthaed for
111 feloniously making an .4sNaliit on Ann Bayley, and
it • . taking from her persontive 7s. pieces and different
tinkles of wearing apparel.
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~ lt ye saw pearedelferoprmitothneetet avidter:hcee of the Prosecutrix,
that
Red Lion public
i house, near Afton. on the morning of the Ist of
Ju.se. and that t... y lurtuwed her out upon pretence
of wishing to have ,he ple.c.u, u of her company lot
as alient itamiy. having pfocveded with her 4
*°. S • No4J. they induced her to go
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