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OLD BAILEY SESSIC INS, Sztr. 14.

These
Sessionserszmen4cedOLDoCilOmornUßll,
were
the Right dem
the Lord Mayor,
Reco,..er, Alderman , IIP Charles Flower, aid
Sir Peter Laurie. The Justin In steel ante tat AIL judo,
Littledale and Mr. Justice Gaselee.
tioTn The number noummsbetatremorepnr,ltsoonwers,faorgrtreiaaterl hansuimabrere. 111.41 since the publics.
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for nearly twenty years.
Before Mr. Justice LITTLZDAI
James Cole, aged 18, Mack, aged IS, and , won Meat.
aged 17, were indicted for assaulting Daniel Aldn `logi on flit high.
way, and stealing from his person 91. 6d.
The evidence against the prisoners being slight, t VA a godd the.
ractcr having been given to two of than, the Jury • 'Owned a Ter.
dict Of Not Guilty.
NEW COURT.
Before Mr. COMMON SENGEANT and a Middles r* Jury.
Rubel Dogley was indicted for embezzling eightire,l Sovereigns
and sixteen sbillibgs, on the 15th of October last, the tsOperty of
Charles Stone.
Wm. Llorriscn, clerk to Alessi'. Redd( n and Co., Boss.
..church-
yard, woollen-inanufacturers, said that in October last he had paid
to the prisoner 181. If.. for his master, Mr. C. Stone, on aoecrtmt of
,
Messrs.
Hedtinn and Co.

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Mr. Stone, the prosecutor, said, that at the time this trandection
took place the prisoner au his servant, authorized to receive Money.
On the morning before the prisoner was apprehended, hi wee
questioned by witness as to this money due from Messrs. Heiden
and Co., to which ho replied that Mr. Ileddon was out of
town, but wculd pay the money on his return. Prisoner had been
in the service of prosecutor for near twenty years, but had not been
employed to collect till within the last three or four years, and tilt
this embezzlement was di'scovered hod borne a good Character. The
money was received by him on the 15th of October, but there eat
Do entry to that effect in the bobk.
The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of
Guilty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy on account of hie
roomer good character.
Mr. A ni.xy rose, and observed, that there were five other indict-
ment, on charges of embezzlement, to the amount of 2001.; and
the Judge observed that this was one of the very worst cases of
a crime which was now, unfortunately, but too common.
George Bolton was indicted for stealing nineteen pounds of beef.
the property of General Ashe, on the 14th of August last; several
witnesses were called who proved the charge very distinctly, and
the Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty.
Elizabeth Brown was charged with stealing, on the 24th of July,
two pewter pots, the property of Leonard Wapshott.
Leonard Wapahott, on the 24th July, was told that the prisoner
was apprehended with some pots, ar.d, on their being brought to
bins, he found that they were his property.
The Jury found her Guilty, and the constable then stated, in
reply to a question from the Court, that she was an old pot stealer,
sod had been in the House of Correction for the offence.
Wen. Baker was charged with stealing half-a-crown and two
shillings from the tin of Daniel Wadhatn, baker, Newington, on
the 6th of this month.
Daniel IVadhem, jun., said that he observed the prisoner corny
Into the aimp, walk behind the counter and open the till, turn the
money out, and walk off. On examining the till he found there
was no money in it. though there had been two shillings and half.
a•trown thni about five minutes before. The prisoner was Imme.
diately appiehended, and no money was found on him; but Thos.
Garrett. a grocer, living near the prosecutor, saw the prisoner were
out of the shop, end apparently hand something to another boy.
who went off immediately. The boy was not apprehended.
Veld let-0 uilty.
Martin Carty and Thomas Sprnban were Indicted for stealing a
hamper and thirty-two empty bottles, the property of Meters. Hil.
ton and Power' wine-merchants, Regent-street.
Mr. Hilton, Hill, a person in his employ, and the officer, were
examined, but their testimony was very inconclusive, and the pri.
sorters were acquitted.
Ellen Dow was indicted fin stealing, on the 19th of August, two
glasses, of the value of one shilling and twopence, the property of
John bounds.
John Monday, the servant of the prosecutor, proved the charge,
and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, but she was discharged
on paying a fine of one shilling, the Court thinking, as she had
been in prison three or four weeks, that site had already suffered
punishment enough.
Nary Edwrrlr was indicted for stealing a petticoat, two shifts,
a quantity of lace, and other articles, the property of Mary Bright.
Mary Bright, the prosecutriz, and the officer who apprehended
the prisoner, proved the charge very distinctly.
The prisoner, a very decent-looking woman, alleged in her de.
fenes that she was driven to the crime by extreme distress. Shs
appeared in great agony during her trial, and her character was
well spoken to by a person who had known her for a considerable
•
George Ilarrison was indicted for stealing a looking-glass, value
15a. the property of George Millar.
George 31illar, the prosecutor, a broker in Cludt‘"!-Trivei, So.
mere-town, had placed the looking-glass of :tie front of his shop on
the 10th August last, hetwetn ten and eleven o'clock in the morn-
ing. Witness was absent during the morning, and daring this
'absence the glut was taken away.
Mary Hawkins saw the prisoner take away the glass, and imme.
diately gave the alarm. She lost sight of him for a short time, but
is sure the prisoner at the bar is the man. He was apprehended
immediately.—Verdiet, Guilty.
'niacin Jones was indicted for stealing a saltcellar, the property
of Mr. Lance, Stratford-place.
Samuel Bloat, porter to Mr. Lahee, bad been put in charge or
the goods previous to the intended sale of them. Ile was told that
the prisoner had taken away a saltcellar, with winch he immetli.
ately charged him, and he acknowledged the theft, but said he had
done it through distress, and hoped that he would be let go. This
the witness could not do, but thought it his duty to give him in
charge.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
John Norton was indicted for assaulting Robert Hughes on the
King's highway, and stealing from his person a watch and other
property.
The prosecutor, a shoemaker, residing in St. John's-street, Clerk.
enweil, deposed that he took a hackney-chariot, on the 14th of •
August, in the evening, for the purpose of going from Shoreditch
to Clerkenwell.green. The prisoner gat upon the box with the
coachman. When the chariot 'topped Ilse prisoner opened the door
in Chapel-street, Pentonville, which street was not in the direct line
to Clerkenwell-green. Norton told him to come out of the chariot,
and, on his doing no, he snatched his watch oft, and knocked him
down. He was so alarmed that he was unable to resist him, but he
was under no apprehension before his watch was taken. The coach
drove off while the prisoner was robbing him, and the prisoner
ran after the coach, and got upon the box agein. He had often
seen the prisoner before, attending haelme,y-coaches at Shoreditch,
and was quite sure that he was the man.
George Johnson, the waterman of the coach-stand at Shoreditch
Church, knows the last witness, and helped him into a chariot on •
the 14th of last month. The prisoner at the bar was on the box,
wills the coachman. Has known the prisoner for many years. The
coachman's name was James Gonnan. The prosecutor had a
chain on entering the coach, but could not tell whether he had a
watch and seals.
William Halls, a police-officer, deposed that he apprehended
the prisoner on the following morning, in bed, and much in
liquor.
Hughes was here recalled ; and in reply to a question from Mr.
Justice LITTLEDALT, said, that the coachman did not apply to
him for his fare. Did not recollect the number of the coach, nor
did he try to find nut the coachman. The coach went off at a great
rate after the robbery. Ile had been drinking, but sou sober,
nevertheless. Be had drank about three pints of porter during
the day.
The prisoner said, in his defence, that the prosecutor called at
his lodgings on the morning of the 15th el August, and asked his
wife it he was at home; and on learning that lie was absent, he
said that he had lost his watch, and would give me a sovereign if
I could give him any intelligence of it. Ile also said that be was
properly in for it the preceding evening.
The prosecutor was again recalled, and asked, at the instance of
the prisoner, as to a conversation which passed bi the shop of
Brown, a farrier, in Shoreditch. He denied saying that ha_bad_ - -
lost his watch, and did not know who had got it ; or whether he
had lost it In the coach or out of the coach. Neither did he say
that he was in for it. Did not say that he did not know whether or
not he had been robbed of it by a girl of that town. Did not say
that lie wished the prisoner to make inquiry after the watch ; nor
did lie offer to leave a sovereign with Mr. Bingland, for Intelligence
about it.
James Byce deposed that he was at Brown's on the 16th of
August, and heard the prosecutor say that he did not know whether
he lost the watch while he was in the coach or before he got into
It, or after he had left it. Never heard him say that Norton had
the watch.
Daniel Hubbard corroborated the testimony of the last witness.
John Manhocd gave evidence to a similar effect.
The prisoner called no witness*, to his character.
Mr. Justice LIT TLIDALE then summed up tttlitice ; and
the Jury, after a few minutes' consultation, acquit prisoner.
John Barlow, aged 23, and Robert Roberts, aged 17, were in.
dieted for stealing a time-piece, value 101., the property of F. A.
Moore, Esq.
Verdict—Guilty of Stealing.
•_2l.___warnete
SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—CGIONER'S INQUEST.—. •
Yesterday afternoon, an Inquisition was taken at the Milbank Pe.
nitentiiiry before Mr. Gen, Coroner, on the body of John Squire•.
a convict, aged 31 years.—Gurgison White, master manufacturer
to the Institution, stated that the deceased was convicted at the
Chelmsford Quarter Sessions, and brought there on the 31st Ja.
nuary last, for receiving 14 turkeys, knowing them to he stolen,
and sentenced to 14 years' transportation, commuted under the
Act of Parliament to seven years' confinement in the Peniten-
tiary.—By a Juror—ls that the longest period of confinement ?
Witntss--No. If a convict is sentenced tor transportation ter
life he is confined here for ten years • and if sentenced for seven
years, it is commuted for five yeara.-:-James Wade, the surgeon,
stated that the deceased was seized with a typhus fever on tha •
24th of August last, became gradually worse, and expired on the
13th ultimo.—The Coroner and Jury remarked that it was
most singular fact that the convict wile stole the turkeys died '
Lott week in the Penitentiary of the swig complaint, and still
the more so, se they were taken ill nearly at the same time., al.
confined in opposite wards, when, one could not hate
cautblitthe infection from the other. N'ctdiet—Died by the visits.'
titan of God.
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