The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-06-23 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, JUNE 22.

The Old Bailey Sessions commenced this morning before the
Lour. MAYOR, 3lr. Justice 110LROYD, Mr. Justice lluaaouou,
and Mr. COMMON-SERJEANT.

[By a lliddleaea Jury.l
Several eases were tried of no public interest.
Juni:than Crutch, aged 44. stood indicted fur stealing, on the
13th day of May, a gelding, value 10/ the property of Wm. Lau-
The.

The provecutor said he lived at Isleworth, in the county of Mid-
dlesex. Ile fart saw the horse on the 13th of May, at /A o'clock
in the afternoon, an It was being Wan to the fields. It was missed
on the Sunday morning, between six and seven o'clock, and the
prosecutor came up to town, in consequence of information he re-
ceived, and found the horse at the Green Man and Still stables,
Oxfurd-road.

Joseph Middleton, a cnachman. saw a person riding the prose.
tutors horse in Oxford street on Monday morning, at about half-
past seven, and having heard that it had been stolen, took posses.
sion of it, and locked it up. Witness went down to Nesmith,
and told the prosecutor, who came to town, and recognized the horse
in witness's presence.
Edward Reeves. servant of the prosecutor, proved that he took
the horse in question into laurences field, which is nine miles on
the Twickenham-toad.

Charles Like, a very smartly.dnrssed chimney.aweep, residing
in John-street. Tottenham-court-road, said he knew the prisoner,
and had known him a long while. Remembered seeing the priso-
ner at his father's house, on the 14th of May. lle had the horse
with him, and off red it for sale to his father. lie said he would
leave it two days for trial, and asked eight pounds for it, saying be
had given six pounds. Witness's father agreed to give this price,
if he a proved of the animal. Witness took the horse out of the
stable the next morning to try him, when the last witness stopped
him in Oxford-street.

Cross.examined by Mr. Phillips—Be knew where the prisoner
lived ;so that he could find hint at any time. Witness did sub-
sequently find him at his work. Witness had known the prisoner
as • jobber in horses, and as a dogs-meat man. The prisoner did
not object to the horse being tried in any part of the town or coun-
try. Notth,g-hill and Ilammersrnith were mentioned by witness's
rather, as ;daces to which they would take the horse for the purpose
of trying it. and the prisoner made no objection. Witness did not
know that Ilanuncratnith is four or five miles on the road to Isle-
worth.

Robert Charles Lake, fattier of the last witness, corroborated
the testimony of his son. He had known the prisoner 13 or 14
years. He bore an honest character. He had often received money
from witness for the purchase of horses.
The prisoner said he met a man at the Black Horse, Isling-
ton, who offered hint the horse for sale. The prisoner asked
whether it was a horse to kill or a horse to work, and was answered
it was too good to kill. He knew the man from seeing hint
at the market. The address he gave was, " Wm. Harris, St.
Alban's." The prisoner gave six pounds for the horse. He had
nut an opportunity of seeing the man afterwards, having been
ever since locked up.
James Brown said a person brought the horse to his stables in
the City-road on the 14th of May. The prisoner was not the roan
who tent the horse to hint. The same person who test the horse
took it away. at about two o'clock on the same day (Sanday.)
Jame,' Hall, saw a man take the horse from the -stables. There
was a%V on Ins near hip. The prisoner was not the man.
The prosecutor was recalled. and said there was a W and L
on the horse. A man might have seen one without the other.
Thomas White, a alhughterer, had known the prisoner for fifteen
years. lie Doreen excellent character.

Several respectable witnesses, who hnd known the prisoner from
fourteen to twenty years, gave him an unexceptionable character.
Mr. Greys said he saw the prisoner in ;wit on the Sunday morn.
ing, at l'ale.past six o'clock. He saw hint again at ten, at twelve,
and at four.
Mr. Justice Ifot.norn summed up, and the Jury found the
prisoner—Not Guilty.

Chnrles Butcher, aged 27, was indicted for stealing two si:.,cep
and three lambs, the property of Richard 'Woodhani.
The prisoner, addressing the Court, said he 0bje.:475 to one of
the jurymen. Another juror was therefore swor.,.
Robert Wootlham, son of the rimeecuur, said he saw the sheep
on Friday. at ten o'clock, and missed them the next morning at
five o'cl,ck. On Tuesday he ssw the hcaals of the sheep at the
Pulice-nffice, Mar7,!ebone. I.le knew th:m by a mark of red
ochre on the right eye. He recognized three out of the five, two of
the heads having had the skin taken off. Tit,: skins were found on
Friday in the Paddington Canal.
W. Webster, an officer, went oP 'Coe 12th instant to Mr. Satin.
dere, the landlord of the priscw:cr, at Kensall-green, on the
tow-road, and then to afo•-',age which the prisoner had taken. It
was fastened UP ; W.', on the back door there was the bloody mark
of a hand. IV ~•.„,„ got into the house through a window, in con-
sequenctan offensive smell, which issued from it, and found
'lv:J....ads of three lambs and two sheep, with some far, in a closet,
•
"am which the smell proceeded. There was blood on the flow,
where the sheep. had been slaughtered. There was no furniture in
the house. noels obtained a warrant, and the prisoner was ap-
prehended the next day.
The prisoner said, in his defence, that be bought the heads. &c.
at a butdicr's shop near St. John-street, and gave ten shillings
for them. Ile was a dealer in poultry, and sometimes bought
meat.

The butcher was called, who said he had frequently sold the
prisoner heads and plucks. He recollected having sold him some
nn Monday or Tuesday. far tell shillings. Witness was a dealer in
heads and plucks. Ile did not believe tt to be at all uncommon for
sheep to be marked on the eye.
Mr. Justice Bu alloy Gil summed up, and the Jury found the
prisoner Guilty.
[Before the RECORDER and a London Jury.]
Robert Adamson, aged 19, was indicted for stealing a pocket.
book and a ten.pound note, the property of John Roger Rush,
his master.
Mrs. Rush, the wife of the prosecutor, said ahe lived in the
Kent-road; abs received a LW. note from her husband 00 the WI