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two blows, but held the prisoner until his handkerchief came n 1 .•
his. hand.. •Pritioher wasiat,thie time in the tap.rovno. The
was then handed to wificesis by vome person. He was quite sure
that the prisoner was the penion alto took she watch from him.
In leis cross-examitianosvihe mines% admitted that at the tin: t
of the transaction in question he wes somewhat
Henry Lenny eorrolmrated the statement of the nvoseentoe, re.
lattve to the occurr.tricesio the tap-roam-of the public-bowie. •
For the defence. a witness was examined, who deposed that ha
saw the prosecutor in the tip-roum of the public-house, crying lot
his watch, which was in his hand all the white. The prosecutor
was at the time much intoxicated.
111 r. aktice Etta summed up the evidence, and inlitenel • ht
Juryethat, es it did not appear. that any violence bad been usek
towards the prosecutor, they could not find the prisoner guilty. -f
the capital part of the charge.
Verdict—" Guilty of atealing from the person."
The Judges then left the Court, and the Reacted,: proceeded t 6
try cases of larceny.
NEW .COURT.
(Before the Coetwow -SEctoteßirT
Sarah Jeffrier, a respectable-looking young woman, shoot fif,,
was indicted for stealing a battle of gin, the property of Char::!
Chapple, a distiller, in Shorediteit.
It appeared that the prisoner was cook in the service of the pro.
secuttw, who having missed a quantity of spirits, suspected her, •
and had her box searched ; and the bottle Of gin in question was •
there found. The prosecutor knew by the flavour that it was his -
gin. Ile had never given the prisoner any, nor did he believe thst
any had been given to the servants on washing days. It must have
coins out of hi. vat, as he kept none in bottle.
Vann, the officer, who searched the prisoret's bones, stated thee
when lie had searched one box, the prisoner told him, that if ho
looked into the next, he would find the gin he wanted. Re made
no promise of letting her of on her making the admissioo that she
and her fellow.serrant stole it from the vat, she bolding the bottle
whilst her fellow-servaot turned the cock. .He also found thirty.
two sovereigns and some silver in her box. Re detained them, be.'
cause the prosecutor said lie had lost ten sovereigns. •
The COMMON-SE RO EAN T was of opittnin that no officer bad a
right to take money or property from a prisoner, milers it appeared
she had stole it.
The officer thought that all property taken from a primmer
was to be produced at the trial. The Money was given to the
prisoner.

* Set era' witnesses gave the prisons ■ pond character. Her two
tut employers raid they hart lately paid her wages, which accounted
fa her postessicm of the money.
The COMMON SNAGEANT MUTIZMId Ara, sad the Jury found •
verdict of Not Guilty.
J. Catlin and R. "ell were convicted of stealing a leaden
valve, the property of Thomas Brooks, be privately whipped
sod discharged. _ _

[Before Mr. Sergeant Auxtru.)
SWINDLING.
Charles lioldrsorth wns charged in no lers than eight indictments
with having, under false pretences, obtained goods from vaiiott*
tradesmen.

The first iodictment charged him with stealing a pair of boots
and a pair of shoes, the property of James Smitzer.
The prosecutor stated that he resided in Fore•strcet. On 'Wel.
needier, the 16th November last, the prisoner came to his shop,
and ordered a pair of boots. They were made by the following
Saturday. He had seen him a month before, when he bought a
pair of shoes.. The boots were worth 2bs. The prisoner came on
the Saturday and tried the boots on. They fitted him, and he
asked witnesawhether he had any light shoes that would fit him.
On being answered ip the affirmative, he bought a pair that cost
Os. Witness asked if he should send them home? The prisoner
directed him to send them to No. EP, Myrtle-street, Hoxton, ■d:
dressed to Mr. Smith. The prisimer sato the witness write the
name of Smith on one of the shoes. The prisoner directed a biil
and receipt to be sent wttli them, and said that he shout; he at
home till half.past four. Witness took the articles to
Dlprtlo-
street, N 0.30. The prisoner opened the door, and asked him into
the parlour. Witness produced the articles, and put the bill aced
receipt into the prisoner's hand. The prisoner asked what discount
he allowed ? Witness answered, that they were at cash price. The
prisoner then took up the articles, and went into is back parlour
with them. The witness waited about five miontes expecting the
prisoner. The landlord and landlady came and asked hint his
business? hut when he stated it, and they looked for the prisoner,
they could not find him. He would not bare parted with the goods
unless he had expected to be paid. He thohght the prisoner went
into the beck room to try on the abaft and get the money. Wit-
ness immediately gave information at Worship-street. On Tues-
day night lie apprehended the prisoner et the Engle Tavern Gar-
dens t whilst there, the prisoner raid he would pay for them. He
accordingly pulled out some silver, amounting to about 17s. and a
watch ; but witness would not take it. Witness took him to the
office, and there told him that lie could get the shoes at his lodg.
ings at the Poulterers' Arms. Witness :mulct not take the watch,
as he thought it ;would defraud the other sufferers, and that it did
not belong to the pritrinr.
Elizabeth Newman, the landlady of the house in Myrtle-street,
stated that the prisoner came to her house on the 16:h November,
at • quarter before twelve, and hired the ground floor. lie told
witness that he came from the country, and that I:ia name was
Smith. Prisoner was to have taken possession on the Monday.
Witness was out of the house on Saturday. When he took the
lodgings, he looked to see if there was a back door. He never sent
any luggage.
Miss Maria Newman, the daughter of the last witness, was next
called. She was at home on Saturday the 19th. The prisoner
came about ten minutes past four. Witness immediately after los
in Mr. Smitztm, who went into the parlour, the door of which was
shut by Mr. Smith. She never saw him after that till be was ap-
prehended.
Vann, the officer, stated, that on Tuesday evening, the 22d, he
went with Mr. Satitzer to the Poulterers' Arms, and there found
the shoes. - •

W. %Westbrook, the landlord of the Poulterers' Arms, examined.
The prisoner had lodged with him tor riz weeks previous to his
apprehension. He went by the name of Holdsworth. Witness
showed the critters the room *there the prisoner sket, and *titre
the shoes were foattd.

This was the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner, in his defence. stated that be bought the hoots,.
and intended to pay for them ; and that the prosecutor, when he
gave him the monty at the Eagle Tavern Hardens, accepted it as
part payment.
Mr. Sargent Alfairw, In summing up, observed, that if they
thought that Mr Smitzer never intended to part with his property
without immediate payment, and that it was a_premeditated scheme
on the part of the prisoner, they must Mid him guilty.
The Jury immediately foundhim Guilty.
Mr. Sergeant ARAfIIN said, that he wis afraid that to reprove
him trout(' be waste of time.. Had this been n solitary case, the
Court might have been inclined to view it with commiseration ; but
when they found no lees than seven similar cases on the records of
the Court, he should fail in his public duty if he suffertd him to
zemiin in this country. The sentence of the Court was that he
should be transported for life.
A pawnbroker, with whom the prisoner had pawned a Eute for
21. Ins., which he had got tinder similar circumstances with the
boots, from Clemens, file IW., wished to know if he was to give
it up without any remuneration ?
Mr. Sergeant ARABlx—Certainly ; it is stolen property.
The pawnbroket said, kin ease wi particularly hard, for the
prisoner had shown him the hill and receipt for the flute. He had
but just err up In business, and had always been • tro-t anxious to
detect and atop persons who had improperly obtained any goods
they might offer for pawn.. Ile had already yielded up four a:.
ticks in cases that came before Mr. Rawlinson.
Mr. Sergeant Musts said,. that certainly the pawnbrokers
sometimes lay under great headships, but the public must be pro-
tected.

The flute and a number of other article?, were then given up to
their mpectire owners.

liTtlam Thomas was convicted of stealing Three pounds of bo.
con. the property of Henry Harlin, of St. Giles's.
He was sentenced to be privately whipped and discharged.
This utehin was ten years of age, but was a chubby little boy.
not in appearance more than four years old. His bead barely came
above tile bar.
JYliflam 'Val.:cc was indicted for stealing a set of fire-irons, a
teapot, candlesticks, snuffers, knives, a lamp, a toasting fork, and
venous other articles, the property of G. B. Thompson.
The defendant was a servant of the 'prosecutor, a furnishing
ironmonger, and, it appeared, had purloined the articles at dif e.
rent times, pawning some and secreting others in his born,where
they were found.
The Jury found him Gniktr, and
The COURT ifitittialUti, that as this was an offence which
tradesmen could not guard against, he should scud hint out of the
many.
W. R. ilidvard was indicted fa stealing fifty.six pair of hoots,
awl a hundred anti four pairs of shoes, value..W. on the 11th No-
vember, the property of Samuel Byland.
The prosecutor stated that he was a shoemaker in Hanway•street.
The prisoner had been in his service three years. Ile discharged
him in November last for quarrelling with another servant ; Lut
having reason to suspect him he went with en officer to his father's
boner, where he found the prisoner, who denied, when accused.
that he had committed a robbery.
Avis, the officer, searched lain, and found on his person eight du.
plicates, which he confessed were for witness's property. He their
confessed that he had other duplicates and he agoodarlf,,poo
&teed 98 dnplicates, which he confessed were for witness', pmperty.
Nearly a dozen pawnbrokers produced she pniperty dim had
been pledged by the prisoner. Some produced bags full of boots
and shoes which had been pledged by him. This was only a small
portion of the duplicates, they being considered nulficient for. rho
CH!.

Mr. PHILLIPS. for the prisoner. crose.examined them. None
of them had made any inquiry at the addressees given by the pri-
soner when he pledged the goods. They had ill inquired his place
of residence and whether they were his own. AU the articles were
new.
Mr. Pnit.r.ire asked the last vritnen why he had not inquired
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at the place of residence given in ?
Tne pawnbrokers said they were busy.
Mr. PHILLIPS Said, that were pawnbrokers to be mere cautious.,
so many robberies would not he committed.
The mind ro'rere—Rut what are we to do 1
Mr. Punt-IPS—It is not my business to give you advice; late
I dare say the Court will give you some that will be i• iglityan.
cructire. Fee my part, if I was a tendon tradesmen,(shouts
not think it wry bones: in a pawnbroker to mire in new goods
repeatedly wittiont uniting aoquines. Some remedy ought to be
apnlitd to this evil; no one is seta,
The P :rent:Ater—l think the gentltmen that Leve beer ea-