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TiARD DAY.

Thomas Caporms was indicted for wiasultine.
seph Butter, putting him hi fear, Kan violLiitly
Liking frous bis person, and against his (pie
sul. hole, and half-a-gutucu, has property, on the
King's li.;:iway.
:its:. Butter. the Prosecutor, gave the fonor.ing
aviileiler :—Lle Sr in the employ of Mr. IVorksuati,
jeweller, .in St. Jmues's-street, and he himself
indos in Cleveland-court, St. Jame t,-place ; on
the aught oC the sib of August last, ebont a qnarter
past ten, he war going towards twine. through St.
James's Park ; he sat (Jowls upon one of the seats:
there *eto two others sitting there; it wee • re-
storkataiy fine moonlight slight ; the Primmer came
aaid.sist-possis beside ism ; the party entered into a
gen::ral cooversation: Nifty ,tirllnial. of volunteers;
sitter some time, the other two went away; the Pri-
sonsr odder seed laiseaself to Ginn, he said lie was one

I.t the Maty-14-I;enue Voltaiste,rlo; be raiailiarly
t ippetl him on the thigh, said he was a nice man,
.ria spiked him to come a;)d see hr,a ; ,41.1 he
way a butler in a gentlemen's fgaaly, thst he

.would girt him some goal wine, and that many
very respectable gentlemen came to see him, so
that hue seed uot Ise afraid; that its lie had the sp.
pearance of a gentleniaii, he alight hide his watch
and seals, and .imudy would notice burr. This he
rehired; red, upon the Prisoner's cOutiutting to
pees, hint. lie began to entertain suspicions ; and
be ;.t; afraid he would follow hint into the streets,
he thought it best ty appear to acquiesce, atid ae-
cordingly desired hits to walk on before Isite to-
wards Beckisigha.sit House. la this manner they
proceeded ilk they arrived there, .the Prisoner
sometimes walkieg before Litu and 'sometimes
alongside of him* he then desired Qin Prisoner to
go forward town'tdat Constitution-bill, which he
rentainedeas listd, at a short distance he-
tiire ilia he met a man, to Whom tie stoke ; he
then walked on ; •the P.irolick came up to him,
ou seeing tutu speak, and lie menial bade Into go
forward at some distance, and he would come
to him ; .about thirty or forty yards from 'that,
he crossed over the road, driller a row of trees,
thinking to elude the Prisoner, and be able try
.return hack unobserved r it soldier- from ti wards
..Hyde Park. castle dowtenear to thespot whersihe
was; he then turned beck, and proceeded en to-
wards St. James's Park, at a short distance before
the soldier ; the Prisoner observed him, turd
fol-
lowed at some distance; when they arrived at Buck:
ingliam-house, the soldier emit towards Bucking:
hum-gate. The Prisoner then came up to Waft and
slid, rethe and take u (mach," The
aimless swore at him, and threatened to kolick him
down if he did not leere him. Tim Prisoskr then
rain, they would not part so soon. and expressed
some horrible and unmanly indecencies. Th.
wit-
nen then renewed' his threats ; wheillhe PrisiOner
seized him by the arm, and said lie would take)rini
into custody by virtue of his office,' at the same
time producing something like an officer's:
*deer stank 'trout under his coat. IM said he ober
noting tia.ers,weisd that he utts an ' Officer ol' Po:
lice belenstiagitin flow-street. Hip said If he made
rrsislance,he had only en whistle, and being COMM blot
to #his assistance; b4l If he woUld accompany hid '
quietly, hr would lodge'llim in a'watdu.liouse, on a
clietge.of intending to commit an unnatural ensile.
Lilo desired io kw)* the addresisof the witailin ; '
aid he had sum knowledge of his person ; that he
4”..1 sten him on fivard at St. Jones's, And was
sure he was an officer in the Gnat*. He added, if
~. • Witness would behave geacrisualy in dm
heai-
u►a, it shoat." Me hushed op, end insisted on know.
ic.r who he was, and where he resided. The Wit-
WS MP'e uo h?Iiit:It1011 to inform hint, that he re-
sided iu Cleveland-court, St. Jamee'reedisee.
%dame was very much agitated at the c
'flee Prisoner insisted en having it preyed Zit
1-s ed where be said, and for that purfese went
with Ism home. His wife was at-that tune is the
country. He gave the Prisoner his name sadism.
;dormant. The Prisoner went with hint to his
apartments ; he took him from a back teem into a
dressing-closet. • The Prisoner then inquired whin
he could do far him, to avoid the tinpleasiint et.
poser*, which would be the conseqathice etgiving
him in charge. The Witness repliesf, he did not
know what he could requira ; to which be said he
must have 301. The Witness stated he hadno such
ant. and he might do with him what he pleased ;
he then demanded what he could do? and lowered
his demand from 501. to 301. to al. and lul. by
degrees, and persisted in declaring, tharif ha did
not comply, he would take " hire away, and
lodge trim in the watch-house for the night.
—The Witness still told him, be had 'not
so much money by him. He observed, he
could get money in the neighbourhood; lie had
no doubt he could procure it at the Queen's
Larder Tavern, in St. James's-street, to which the
Witness objected:' lie then noticed his watch, his
chain, end seals, end that lie might obtain money
;;a them. The Witness observed, that at that late
hour it was unlikely lie should ; hut as he knew a
Mr. Aliless, *pawnbroker, in Berwick-street, he
would ga and try. Previousto their
.goine out, die
Prisoner required - something to drank ; 'he gave
him some brandy, of which he took two glasses.
lie then went not with him. In Piccadilly he took
a coach ; the Prisoner got in with hint, and they
drove to Berwick-street. He was there told Mr.
Alders was gook to bed ; he was called up, and he
got from hint lot Benk of England note, upon his
wadi, &e. The 1)::soner was waiting for Into
near the-donr, where he found hint when be tame
out ; he demanded if he had succeeded, and how
much he had got ? when be was told, he said he
utiglit have asked for 201. ; the Prisoner to the
191. and said it was an unpleasant bnii;ness, and lie
should hear no more of it ; but at that moment in.
quirrd if he had not got any more rush about him ?
lie saint be hail but belie guinea, which the Pri-
soner deinnoiled of him; he begged lie would not
take that from him; he then renewed his threats,
and s:iid if he did not give it him he would call the
watch to assist hien ; the Witness upon this com-
plied, std gore it to him ; the Prisoner then said,
the business should rest in oblivion, and he should
hear no more of it ; the Prisoner left him, and he
went home. Being asked why he parted with his
money ? he answered, " because I felt a dread of
accusation of a charge at which my mind recoiled,
asidnein„;• me in the situation of a criminal, which
would have exposed meat a public bar ; I acted un-
der that fear alone." The Prisoner was taken into
eitstody on the 31st of .October; he had celled on
him oa the 13tils. %bile he was at dinner with Ins
wife shit famelr ; he was called (10WII to him ; he
tutu deuirtods;l two guineas of hits ; he said he
was going to Portsmouth ; that he had been dis-
missed from the Police Office, in consequence of
lieime.off duty out the night of the Bth of August,
awl net having accounted for his absence ; the
Witness desired he would leave the house, and
told him he would uot give him a single
shilling. He was loud, and threatened he would
expose him; whereupon he insisted he should
lease inin, and pushed hint by the arm nut of the
door. The same day the witness applied A. the
office in (tow-street. The neat time lie saw
hint was on die 3 ist October, when he came to
him at Mr. ‘Vorknian's place of heftiness, in St.
Jaiiies's-street. *here he had him token into cus-
tody.

Upon his cresa-ritamination.. Mr. Butter ar.
knowleit•zeil there were tivony people in the l'ark as
m 4,11016,6, different unit that he did not
(11;1 upon any a.thus assistance ; that hi: had

that
tame.

bcfere.
aey r
to

+tetra slo from the impulse of the manient ; the a
Captain Marsden lodged in the house with horn ;
.but tbat-lte•did not inquire was he at home at the
time the Prisoner recomintinded him to his lodgings; 1
that the watch were set, sud many coaches on the
stead; anti that ke did out speak to any of them ; that
he did not tell the pawnbroker or any of his men of
the affair ; that he left the Prisoner in the street,
and was hi the pawnbroker's house above fifteen
inmates; and that he did not conliounir ate the
matter to any person whatever, until he thought it
right to apply to the. Public Office it, [Sou .:drret,
for the purpose et* haring him 'taken -into distany.
Mr. Alders proved his coming to his house, and
getting the money, and that he appeared in gr/ill
agitation.
%Vilhani Anthony, the Bow-etre t Officer, took
the Prisoner into custody. The Pris.oner was
not Young Sayers; there was such a mail, a
brother to one of the •Ilow-street Officers, The
Prisoner never dal belong to Bow-street. •
The Prisoner did not make any defence, or ea*
any witnesses.
The Learned Judge (Ganse) recapitulated the
evidence to the Jury, applying the facts to the'
charge-of taking money by force end terror frdar
the Prosecutor.
I The '1 ore-, with very little hesitation, found that'.
, verdict—dui/is..
The same TlOnais Cannot,, together with jiniee
Cortfrurkton,44 as again indicted for a similar ofilmce
against the same Joseph Butter.
• He stated that on the 9tii of August, the day
after the commencement of the former iniquitinfa
scene, soon after ten o'clock in the morning; the
Prisoner, Coddington, came to the shop of • trit:i
AVorkutun, and inquired for Mr. Butter; he told
him lie wai the per”di ; he said Severs was waiting
fur him in St. James's-place, that lee wanted to see
him on the business which had occurred on the
recycling evenin” ; he went accorthogly, and
found Cannon their; lie took them to his spire.
meats, in Cleveland-court, not wishing to be seen
in the streets • Cannon there told hitu lie had been
discovered to 'Watt Leen absent from his ditty in the
Perk the eight before, that he was obli.;ed to at;
Count to the other constables on duty, 'silo elaiated
a slime of the tOl. he had raceieedetnut br ivaisob:ig,
ed to state hie albumen to the other man (the Ka-
mmer) whom itit maid Willman% and deseribed
as au assistant-cleat °Mee ✓ 800-otreci
and that they reu
else that they mow
Cannon •

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