The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-22 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL R.

OLD BAILEY.

Tuesday, Robert William Felton Lathorp was indicted for bigamy, 1
in nurryin Catherine Clark, his former Wife, Alicia, being still
alive. The prisoner was an officer in the Manx Feneades, who in
the vcar 1797, had married a lady at Londonderry. being a dissenter,
and the reromony was pertermed by Dr. Black, a dissenting minister,
in a private room. He afterwards, in the year 1801, married a lady
in Marylebone parish, according to the ceremonies of the Church of
England.—Mr. Nowlan, as counsel for the prisoner, contended that
the first marriage Was illegal, as not being celebrated in the face of
the coogregatilin, but, as he contended, in a clandestine manner. The
argument on this question occupied nearly two hours, but it was
ov, ri tiled by the Recorder. and the prismier was found guilty. The
first u ite was much older than the prisoner ; in his defence he said,
that at the time of hi marriage he Was under twenty year* of age,
anti was entrapped into the marriage by the lady's family. The
prw.ention was not instituted by the friends of either wife.
(hi Wedne,day, Thomas Nntt was indicted for stealing two
counter panes, and a variety of other articles, the property ut John
Bishop.
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Mary Bishop, the wife o'iolitt Bishop, steward to the Marquis of
Hertford, deposed, tlsat she let the house, No. 41, Hans-place,
Sloane.street, to the prisoner, at a rent of 100 guineas per annum.
The house was ready furnished, and the prisoner came into it on the
17th of October last. Iu a short time after, it was suspected that
the prisoner was disposing of difletent articles which had been left
in the house ; at►d, on enquiry, this suspicion was well funded.
\',►rims articles were discovered to have been pawned in the neigh-
bourhood. Thieve articles were identified as the property of John
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The prisoner addressed the Court in a long speech from a written
paper, in which he complained loudly against the scot rilities of
newspapers, represented himself as a descendant of an ancient
and honoorable family, and insisted that alibis transactions amount-
ed only to simple contract debts. When he had finished his harangue.
many parts of whirl' were plausible and ingenious, the Jury, without
hesitation, prononoced him Guilty.
The Recorder then said—." Prisoner, the Long speech which yon
bare just made only serves to convince the Court, that you are much
too clever a man to be ►eilliteil to remain its this country."
iVednesday, Francis Bodenham was indicted for marrying Eliza
Acatch, his former wife, Amy, being alive.—H. Pearson, parish
clerk ofKingstommon-Thames, produced the register of prisoner's
marriage with Amy Petty. 111th of February, 1812 ; and J. Vincent.
pariahs cicr k of Ilestimi. Middlesex, produced the register of prisoner's
second marriage at illestoo, to Eliza Keatch, on the sth of June,
lark—The prisoner in his defence staled, that Eliza licatch fully
tin le, stood that he was a married man ; but she threatened to destroy
beised if he did net 'miry her, and, to prevent her putting her
threat in execution, he was induced to marry her. This, on her
cross.examinatian, she positively denied. Guilty.
Sarah Stone was indicted for stealing. on the 14th Oct. a female
4'l'ild, of the age of seven weeks, the daughter of Mathew and
Cathariue Cramer. The fact of stealing the child was proved, and
it appeared that the prisoner had committed the offence with the
view of persuading a sailor, with whom she lived, that the child was
hi 4, having previously told bins that she was pregnant. She obtained
the child trom the mother, who is a very pour woman, by pretending
to take her to some charitable lady, who would give her half a
Runlet', and she was found with the child on board an East Indianian,
with the sailor whom she said Was its father. She persisted in the
story of the child being her own, even in Court, but the evidence
was clear, and the Jury found her Guilty. Site was immediately
senteoced to seven years transportation.
On Friday Richard Jones, aged 14, and Charles Tilley, a little
boy only 13 years of age,were convicted of stealing four cotton hand.
kerchiefs in a shop. It appeared that on the morning of the day on
which the prisoners cotnmitted the offence, Johnson the officer dog.
Iced the prisoners in the neighbourhood of St. Giles's from 8 until
about 11 o'clock, during which time they reconnoitered several
shop-, aml at length stopped near that of the prosecutrix, Mrs. Pile,
where Tilley pulled off an apron (which they • had worn alternately
do ie ps rambnlations) and Jones asked. for some handker-
chief,. th.ii %vete laying on the upper shelf; Mrs. Pile turned mond
to remit tins Ifl o for him to examine their quality, when Tilley
ran oni of the 'Hop in a violent hurry. and Mr*. Pile asked Jones
ma e the utiles no), run out so ; she thought he had got some-
thlog more than he oat:Jit is have Jones replii d, " No, he was not
that kind of Is ;" imt the officer, Johnson, immediately brought the
prisoner, Tilley, into the shop, whom he took at the door with four
it:ton liandkerchiel:. so his possession; which Mrs. Pile herogniscd

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and on their being produced •in Court, swore were her property. On
the officer's searching the prisoners in the shop of the Prosecntrix,
no money was fonnd on either of them.
The Common Serjeant used every argument that conld well be
urged, to persoade the prisoners to confess by whom they were
imlo)ed to commit such a heinous crime, but unavailiwly, as they
persisted in the most hardened manner, that they had nut been insti-
gated by any person whatever.
Same day time Sessions ended, when sentence of death was passed
on Henry Penman and John Tilsey, for burglary; Michael Seep,.
broke. James Kettle, John Reeves, James Donahoe, Thomas Rey-
nold 4, Carl Plombaek, Robert Cowling and Joseph King, for like
offences; Martha Whitaker and William Rice, for stealing iu &ad-
Img•honse ; Richard and AVilliam Jones, John Treble, John Neal,
James Thompson. John Egleton, Thomas Wells, Eleanor Smith,
, Mary' Blake and Elizabeth Lambert, for privately stealing in a shop;
I Robert Holton, for horse stealing; Richard Morley, for sheep-steal-
ing; anti Richard Moore, for highway soldiery ; fire were ordered
to be transported for fourteen )ears. and thirty tine for seven years;
nine were sentenced to be imprisoned in the house of Correction foe
one year, asm4 24 for various periods ; 16 for imps isonment in New.
gate for different periods; 17 to be privately, and four publicly
whipped ; five judgments were respited, and 17 were discharged by
proclamation.—Sessions adjourned to the 15th of February next.
The judgment of Elizabeth Ringrose, who was capitally convicted
00 the 11th instant for stealing a fifty pound Bank note in a dwel-
linglimise, was respited, on account of the illness et the primmer
until the next Session.