The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-09 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

D. Longherst was iryglicted for stealing two doves and SS
live pigeons, the properrty of Mrs. Valentine Snow.
The prosecutrie resides at Snnbtiry ; on the night of the 10th
of October, the Dove house was broken into, and robbed as
above stated, and on the following morning the prisoners
offered a number of pigeons fir sale at • woman's in Hemp-
stead-road, but she would not purchase them ; and it being
afterwards understood that they wese stolen, the prisoner
vas pursued and taken in the New Road, and he then said
they were all sold. It was afterwards discovered that the
prisoner had left 19 of them at the house of one Stevenson,
stear Battle Bridge. Three of them were produced and
sworn to, one of them being a carrier, end a fourth was pro-
duced, which died on Tuesday night.—Guilty.
Mr. Alley stated, that now the verdict had been returned, he
could wills propriety inform the Jnry, that the prisoner bad
*twice heel, admitted as an evidence in this Court. He also
stated, that Mrs. Stevenson had bought 30 of the pigeons for
50n. and had denied that the pigeons were in he: possession.
This was denied by Mrs. Stevenson; but the officer, being
called np, positively said, that, on his going (to Ler house,
,she denied that she had any of the pigeons.
Mr. Alley observed, that if he had known this before, she
should have been indicted as an accessary.—Mrs. Stevenson
.said,-she had given no amount for them.
Mr. Alley loformed her, that it was not necessary, to sus-
tain an indictment for receiving stolen goods, that the person
so receiving them shonld have paid for them.
W. Bingley was indicted for stealing, on the 11th of Au-
gust. three Bank notes for the payment of 51. each, and
other monies, to the amount of tiil, the property of ----
tDidand. Ys

The proseentor is an 'lrish jobber, and on the day before
mentioned he sold six heifers to a Mr. Lawrence, at Ronsford
Market, fur 651. .The prisoner assisted the prosecutor to
drive the cattle, and on their return they laid down together,
and the prosecutor tell asleep, and on awaking, the prisoner
was gone and also his pocket book. The prisoner
was apprehended a few days after. and three notes for 31.
-tomb, which were paid to the prosecutor by Mr. Lawrence,
were found concealed in his breeches—Guilty.
M. Levy was indicted for• receiving, on the 4th of October,
a silver coffee-pot, valise 201.; a tankard, value 101. ; 30 sit.
ver spoons, value 71.; and a variety of articles of plate,
knowing them to have been stolen, the property of W. CM.
low
The circumstances of this case have been fully developed
in the trial of S. Morris and J. Dennis, who were convicted
of having•stnlen the articles.
J. Braid. the accomplice, who had been three years in Mr.
eltilow's service, went over his former evidence, and stated,
that he and Morris took the plate to the prisoner Levy, in
Petticoat•lane ; and that on the same day, Levy met them at
Morri,.'s lodgings, and gave Morris a handful of notes, six of
which Morris gave to the witness who spent two, and buried
four. The accomplice was corroborated iu a few of the
Junior facts.

Six or seven, apparently respectable people, gave the pri-
soner a good character, one of whom had known him for 36
years.—The Jury retired, and on their return found the pi i.
sonar Not Guilty.
THURSDAY.

James Ward was Indictell; ; a 401. note, the pro-
perty of A. Hiscock.
A leer days ajp, Thomas Morris was convicted of stealing
this very note from the present prosecutor, who is coachman
to a Mr. Granter. By the evidence on that trial, it appeared
that the bristlier of the prisoner alorris (James Morris) had
been sent to get the note changed at a ',draper's shop in the
Strand ; that the shopman haJ been sent to the Bank with the
note, and that he, instead of bringing it back. absconded with
it. The prisoner Ward, uow at the bar, is that very shopmau
who ran off.

Mrs. Phoebe Simmons, the wife of Mr. Si►nmons, a draper
in the Strand. and James Morris, were again examined, and
repeated their limner statetnents.
Smithers, the officer who apprehended Ward, said that the
prisoner had informed him that he had lost anti spent all the
401 in travellinz, and hail only a portmanteau, a sill hand-
kerchief, and two mud boxes left.
The °sheer then flitted, that the Bank.cletk, William Hoole,
who had attended on the foriner trial, new refused to be pre-
sent, or to produce the bank note, unless he received a gni.
nea ore simplex:l. The proeeentor•lmd been on:Olen) give
Hie guinea, and the eunserpteisce was the .abseuce of the
piiacipal witness.
The Recorder.— Have von serve I him with.a subpoena.
Smithers.—l did not think it neceseaey.
The Recorder.—You should have told me of the cirenn.
Stance before the trial, or have served I ' with a subpuessa.
I would have seen about the *nine:* when I got him► here.
Srlithers repeated, that he dill nut imagine it had been ne-
ee‘s,try, as lie had atieinie.l on tl►e last trial. He told sue
antc the last trial that he would not attend without a sub-
. poems or a guinea.
Recorder then told the Jury to acquit the pri•nner on
account of the absence ofthie material witness. The Ju►y re_
tnened a vet diet--Not Guilty.
Rachel Mitchell was convicted of stealing a quantity of
searing aniline!, the prverty of Elizabeth Wilde. Hy the
evidence it a,speared, that the prisoner committed the then in
order to tolatain liiiiturr but in her defence she said that her
husband war u ►pear olninlearit r and that she and her children
had !teem left ti..e _days at a time tvitltuot r mur,el of bread to
put in their mouths.
A juts% M3ll observed, that a few months azo the prisoner's
hatband Ilisew her, *lend bunk, out of a tale pirirof st a.r.
window. The husband was a super uran, ind had frequently
winked for

The Recorder.—How long ihall we ronliiie hrr, genilemen,
to wake her boort

A ii;soik she may be sobor in a month.
Floe Recentle...—Thett we will gi“: blf two months to
, bring her completely to her aeIISP•4.

FRIDAY.

John Hot rig wit% in.liet:tilor.:0;i:Ii111; All iron A‘l,ll'AV Anti
2 IV hil Ai r..4(11.1/rlllp, on the tall of Octuocu, the proper',
of AO4Ollllllll.
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lee 1;IVIit, or the robbery were clearly proved. The pro_
sccutor lived near Vieserot Stpliire, We:aniiiedor. 'rue (14y
Ativr the prupet ty wall sitgrii, the 1011$01Wr WA{ srd p.