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London, England, 1824-09-28 00:00:00

LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS, GuitamALL.
MONDAY, lellill 11.

This morning these Sessions were held, pennant to edjouninsent,
before the Recorder and a bench of Aldermen.
Susannnh fitopper, alias Terrier, was indicted for assaulting
Mr. R. Wilson, on the 2:34 of August last.
Mr. C. FnrLLirs stated the case to the Jury. The Learned
Counsel stated, that in IMO his client became acquainted with the
derendant is a casual manner, by meeting her in the street ; Pike
that time he had seen occasion to abandon her company, in mime-
quence of which she had been continually annoying him, and had
extorted near 21101. from him at various times, under the premise
that she would no longer annoy him, notwithstanding which she
had threatened his life.
The prosecutor stated, that he lives at Me. Lower Thames.
street ; knows the prisoner, and saw her on the day named in the
indictment, when she went into the counting-house, used very op.
mobeiows epithets, and struck him several blows about the head and
free.
Mr. Merton—Lives near the prosecutor ; he went over and saw
the prisoner; she used very violent language; he observed that Mr.
Wilson's face was much discoloured, and she said she wished she
had given him more.
The prisoner put in a written defence, stating, that she had been
induced to live with Mr. Wilson as him wife, and had one child by
him. She stated several acts of aggression, and forfeiture of his
word on several occasions, and further, that the prosecutor gave the
first assault.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mn. PHILLIP/ said his silent did not wish to press for judg-
ment, but merely to protect himself from assault.
The COURT ordered bee to enter into her own recognisance of
40/. to keep the peace.
Thomes Mug was indicted for assaulting Edmund Bird, on the
oth instant.
E. Bird, the prosecutor, said he keeps the George, in West.
street, Smithfield ; the prisoner came to his house about two o'clock
on the last morning of Bartholomew fair ; lie demanded liquor,
which witness refused, whereupon the prisoner tore his waistcoat
and closed his eye, the sight of which he had not yet recovered.
The prisoner (a respectably dressed man) admitted that he was
intoxicated, hut he would not have struck had he not been forced
to do it in self defence, as the prosecutor almost throttkd him.
Lattimore. a watchman, and several others, proved the
assault, and added, that the prisoner kicked him (witness) with
such violence on the body, that he had ever since been obliged to
wear a trues.
For the defence, a witness named Myers was called, who swore
that the prosecutor used very aggravating language in reference to
the country from whence the prisoner came (Ireland), and that
Bird commenced the attack.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The RECORDER reprobated the system of beeping public-
houses open at such unseasonable hours, and informed the prose-
cutor that if he permitted hi. house to be thus open he would stand
a great chance of losing his license. The prisoner was ordered to
be farther imprisoned one week.
CHILI) DROPPING.
Awn Jessam, a young woman of respectable appearance, was
dieted for deserting her female child, at the parish of St. Bride,
Fleet-street, on the Ilith of Jolly last.
Ann Cossar—Lived at 29, Water-lane, Fleet-street. On the
16th of July last, at ten at night. she crossed the foot-path in
Fleet-street, to go to Falcon-court, when she kicked against a bun.
Me, which she took up, and found it to be a child concealed in a
cloak. Witness fell over it, or she must have trod upon it. Wit-
ness took it to Mr. Calton, at the Cheshire-Cheese, who sent it to
the master of the workhouse.
R. Evans, master of St. Bride's workhouse, received the child at
the time, and under the circumstances stated by last witness, he took
it to the workhouse, where it had remained ever since at the expense
of the parish. In consequence of information he received, he as-
certained that the child was born in the parish of St. George, Han-
over-square.
Summerfield is nurse at the lying-in ward, at St. George's
workhouse, of the above parish ; remembered the prisoner being
an inmate there, but could not tell the day she left. Witness acted
42 her nurse during the month. She obtained liberty to go and be
churched, on condition that she should appear before the board the
next day to swear the child. The child now produced is that of
which the prisoner was delivered.
Al. Morris apprehended the prisoner in illnlyneuxatreet, Mary.
la.bonne. where she said she resided. He afterwards went to the
house of Mrs. ()Allmon. la, Great Trinity-lane, where the prisoner
had formerly lived, and found several articles of child's clothing,
which were furnished by St. George's parish, and sworn to by last
witness.
Ann Gallimore proved the cloak in which the child was
found, to be the property, of the prisoner, who called on wit.
nee the day she left the workhouse. She then had the child with
her. She called next day and said she had put it out to nurse.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Law said, that there did not appear to have been a e-
sire to endanger the life of the child, and he was instructed to
say. that the parish did not wish for vindictive punishment. /'
The prisoner, who, at the outset, wished to plead guilty,
made no defence, but threw herself on the humanity of the Court.
The Recoanza summed up the evidence, and the Jury re-
turned a verdict of—Grilly.
The COURT said, that the circumstance of her taking care to
shield the child from the inclemency of the .weather, and the
Probability that the prisoner had watched over the fate of it,
should be taken into consideration ; but eases of this sou must
not be allowed to pass over without punishment, as it would be
holding out a temptation to unfortunate young women to act in a
similar manner.
The prisoner was then ordered to be confined two calendar
months In Giltspnr.street Cornpter, and to be kept apart from the
other prisoners.
ATTEMPT TO RESCUE.
ffesrsetie Reeser was put on his trial for an assault committed
with intent to rescue a person named lit-aeon, then in custods, of a
watchman, Blow, on charge of robbery, and since convicted foe the
same at the Old Bailey.
The Cossnow-Senneasyr stated the case fur the prosecutioo,
An assault on an officer discharging his duty was a very aggravated
offense.
Mr. Chamberlayn deposed to the robbery committed on him,
and the assault made by the prisoner for the purpose of rescuing
the prisoner Beacon; this occurred in Leadeohall-street at eleven
at night.
The watchman confirmad the allegations relative to the ;smile.
The prisoner stated that he was intoxicated.
The Itecoanra summed up. Verdict—Gaffey.
The RECORDER, after a few minutes' consultation with the
sitting Aldevman, stated to the prisoner that he might consider
himself fortunate in not having been arrested, on the night in
question, at an earlier time than lie actually was, as it was pro-
bable he would have been found nearer to the person who com-
mitted the robbery than might be consistent with his immunity
from a heavier punishment then the present Court could indict.
The judgment of the Court was, •• That the prisoner be impri-
soned in the House of Correction, and kept to hard labour for
eighteen months."
Christopher Downie stood indicted for an assault on a neigh.
hour's wife.
It having appeared, from the evidence of the proeautele. that
the affair originated from petty quarrels of their ich and was
atterded with mutual interchanges of offence and irritation,
The RecoaDra told the parties that it was altogether a very
silly business, and advised them to shake hands and be good neigh.
hours in future.
The parties expressed their wish fur reconciliation and shaking of
hands.
The RECORDER—Then the sooner you do it the better. Shake
hands this moment, where you are.—(A laugh.)
The prosecutrix and prisoner shook hands most cordially.
The RECORDER—That's right, now ; and to avoid any chance
of irritation proceeding from your visit to Guildhall, we will give
neither of you a triumph. Let a Juror be withdrawn.
A Juror 12411 accordingly withdrawn, and the parties retired
apparently contented with the result of their litigation.

ROEDER'S OT THE BANKER'S PARCEL FROM THE
&Yea iNOI4 AM COA CH.—( Further Particulars.)—The rob-
bery was not discovered till the arrival of the coach in
London. On the coachman opening the box beneath his
seat, in which the parcel had been deposited at Bucking-
ham, it was found that the back of the box, consisting of
oak board an inch thick, had been cut open by means of a
centre-bit, or other instrument, so as to admit a man's
hand ; and, from appearances, it was suspected that this
board had been cut and taken out the preceding night, in
the inn-yard, and that the only substance the robbers cut
in their way to town, to get at the parcel, was that of the
leather around the sides and back of the coach-box. The
coachman's coat hung over the hack of the box, and was
cut evidently by the same instrument that cut through the
leather. Three men, who took places at Banbury, occu-
pied the front seat on the top of the coach, and escaped be-
fore the robbery was discovered. It is remarkalde that
Messrs. Bartlett, Nelson, and Co. received intimation
about six months ago, that there was an intention t, rob
this coach of their parcel on a ce►tain day; but that, on the
(lay stated, measures having been taken to entrap the ex-
pected robbers, no attempt was made. The actual robbery
has been skilfully concerted.—Becks Chronicle.
On Sunday evening, after the London mail had crossed
Bothwell Bridge, it encountered a party of fat bullocks on
their way to Glasgow market. One of them had been
lying on the road, and the driver pulled up the reins to
avoid it. The animal offered to rise, but when it saw the
horses were likely to pass without touching it, it lay down
again, and one of the coach wheels ran over its body.
The coach swung fbr some time on the balance before it
overturned, which enabled the outside passengers to leap
off; but when it fell, a lady in the laside had her hand
lacerated by the glass of the upper panne', which was
shivered to pieces and struck her hand. The coachman
nimbly leaped off and kept bold of the reins, by which the
horses were completely stopped b the time the coach fell.
The mail was got up, and pru without much delay.—
Glasgow raper.