The National Register.
London, England, 1815-10-29 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

On Friday David Wood stood indicted for burglatinusly breaking
and entering the dwelling house of Wm. Jenkins, with intent to steal
the goods and chattels of the said Wm. Jenkins, on Tuesday the 46111
of September.
The prosecutor, who is a clerik in the Navy Office, had retired to
rest about 11 o'clock. A little before 12 he was alarmed with a crash,

as it breaking of glass, which appeared to come from the kitchen.
He got up and struck a lighy, and on coming down stairs he found the
kitchen window broken. He took no notice of that, but went up
stalls and extinguished his candle, tellin.: his wife that some one was
attempting the house, and he would take him if possible. He sat
down by the window in the front room up stairs. About one o'clock
a.coach drove into the street, and the prosecutor saw a person follow
the coach, who knelt down on the grating of the kite en window.—
Witness took a dirk and went down stairs, where the map was trying
to work out a gimlet, which fastened the cashes of the kitchen win.
tiow. The person went away, hut soon after returned, and succeeded
in getting the gimlet out, and introduced a stick with a hook at the
end of it, to try to get out a basket of clothes. Witness thought it
'equired some management to take him, and waited till the prisoner
put his hand far enough in at the window for the prosecutor to get
hold of it, when be seized him by the wrist, and pulled his arm in
between the bars up to-the shoulder. Witness called watch, and the
prisoner was secured, when, two gentlemen coming up, the prose-
cutor gave up the prisoner to the watch.
The watchman who took him found on him a green hag, a black
crape, and four more fish-hooks, like that at the end of the stick
which he was using at the house of Mr. Jenkins ; all which he said
he used its fishing.
In his defence, the prisoner said he had lately been a publican in
opulent circumstances, and had been driven to the commission of the
crime by distress.—Guilty— Death.
J. Thomson, alias Thomas, and Edward Clarke, were indicted for
stealing a large quantity of plate, and other articles, the property of
Mr. Marsh, on the lath of October, in his dwelling house. The
prosecutor is a silk-dyer in Brook•street, Holborn. On the Morning
of the 14th instant, he was a'armed, about half an hour after five
o'clock, by the watchmen. When he got down he fount the shop
door open, and three of his servants and three of the watchmen in the
shop. There was an empty house in a place called Foster-place, and
the robbers had got in by taking out a pane of glass from a ItAht at the
top, so as to admit a hand to unfasten the loci of a wooden abutter
which was on the top. The shutter was secured two days before.
The hoop he found in the gutter, and the trap was laid aside. He
might have got over through the uninhabited house. Th- key of the
door down stairs was in the lock, and the persons who had let them.
selves in by the top of the house, must have easily let themselves out
again. The witness missed out of the kitchen two silver round salts,
a silver ladle, two dessert spoons, one gravy spoon, two table spoons,
ten tea spoons, a set of castors with silver tops; and out of the shop,
ten shawls, six scarfs. seven gowns, a remnant, five yards of crape,
a black cloak, three silk stockings, and fourteen silk handkerchiefs.
—Cross-examined by Mr. Andrews. The trap-door was used in the
way of his business. The prisoner Clark was the son of a man who
has been lathe witness's employ for about 40 years ; and the witness
had taken him into his employment for these two years to assist the
father, who had a sore leg, but was obliged to discharge him some
time ago for attempting to steal a shawl.
Edwards, -the watchman, proved that on going his rounds he met a
man with a bundle; knowing that he had not passed him, the
witness ran after him, when he perceived Mr. Marsh's door open,
and two bundles lying on the table. He immediately sprung his rattle
for assistance, and went into the house, where he found the drawers
o Robert Mackie, a City Constable, was in Catherine-street, in the
Strand, about seven o'clock in the morning of the 14th of October—
Observed the prisoner Clark in company with another man, who was
carrying this hurdle over his arm. They were talking together. The
witness asked them if that was not Eagle-court ? Clark answered that
it was. The witness then went up the Court, and the men went into
Catherine-street, where they were joined by Thompson, whom the
witness knew, to whom the man who was not in custody gave the
bundle. The witness immediately laid hold of Thompson, who had
the bundle, and the other two ran away. He found on Thompson a
pair of black silk stockings, and a letter, directed to Mr. Marsh, silk.,
dyer. He went to Sonser's-town the same morningd where Clark was
apprehended. Saw Ruthen take some fringe froth the cupboard.—
Crowesantined. Did not then know Clark.