The National Register.
London, England, 1818-06-21 00:00:00

WEDN:‘,IJAY, JLNF. 17.

The sessions commenced :leis clay, I.; fire Mr. Justice Park
and Mr. Justize .tolout. There air ;.00 pristmt I's Gtr trial.
William Henry Howard, commorly the Sprig rf
Faihien, good indicted for feloniously Int giog, at the hint
April, a tertain older for the payment of 10:. a 1.% intent to
defraud John (;t-urge Diaper,
The itroseetitur stated lie was waiter at the Key, in Chandcs.
street, Covent zarilen ; it was an hotel. 011 tai Ilivitt of the
Ifilhr,t pi il, Cue prisoner and another man, and two women,
came to the Key ; alter they bad taken refresiniscrits, &c.
the ot'aer person, in the presence of the prisoner, offered
vii!ness a cheque tor 101., and lie objected to it. '1 he pri-
soner said, be need not be afraid, anti ts,..tic,l it was for
1,0001. instead of WI They hail supper, and desired to lease
breakfast at seat a o'clock in the ssioritiag, using they be-
longed to the Guards, and had to be tin duty eat the Horse
early. Witness did not see the cheque in the pri..
sorter's Itaud. On the following morning the 010 tsr presort Kaye
his name and address," Captain Armstrong, claretolun Hotel,
Bond-steret," and lie gave him the change.
The porter at the Key said, the last witness put tit cheque
produced into his hands, and told him to take it to sir John
.Lubbock and Co., Mansion House-street, which he
it was refused payment.
Mr. Justice Park conserved, that there was no evidence of
the forgery ; the instr 1111 l cid 'night be a vahil ore ; Spit the
bankers' clerks behaved very improperly, in not coining for-
ward to give their evidence— Not Guilty.
The prisoner was again iiidizied for feloniously forging and
tittering a certain order for the payment of al. is. wills an in-
, tent to defra.rd 111.rst.

The prosecute-ix keens 'lie Crown anti .litellor wine vaults
in King-street, We-tininster. This witite-s emild not speak to
the fact, and the witnesses Who could iv,..re absent; they were
called, but did nut answer. The prisuuer was consequeutly
acquitted
Mr. Justice Park ad Tressed him as follows : —'• Youngman
I see by the calendar that you are only 18• year.; of at:e : you
have been extreme:, climate. and I trust the sitthuinn is
which yun liave been teed will induce you to 'distal your
life anti y Gni conduct in tisture."

John klaw kilts and W. Ball, two v.:try yming boys, were
Co., ic tad of assaulting Louisa Hay nes on Ow King's hig,hw.,y„,
and forcibly raking from her person a handkerchief, co:nail—
ing 15s, in silver, the property of her lur.band. The jury
recommended them to merry on anconnt /a :heir youth, one
of theta being but 1.3, and the ot!.t..r 15 years of age.
TilO.ll3A Hayes, a soldier, was indented for a highway rob..
bery upon the person of Benjamin Hoe lier, and stealing from
hie pt-1.500 a geld wile'', Vetil:t. 501., a gtdil chain, two gold
seats, andtwo Napoleons his property.
It appeared that the protwirtur is a gentleman of fortune,
who was on a visit to his biodrit-iii-law, in P.Hiament_
sheet. Ott the evening of Sinithay, the 24th of May, he and
his betctlir r went to take a walk, and :their a quat-ter past tea
riatleck his brother left bias, and hi" (the titles(' ontor) proceeded
through its Stable yard acd over thc Pagoda-bridge,.at the
four of it hall a ...11l Callie up to him, seised him fry his bosom.
as lie thought, the Ole purpose of stealing broach; be thew
knocked his face against the sentry hos, and demanded
what he hail." Prosecutor seized him. and drae gird him up
t °Well ds the top of the bridge, %%here there was a sentinel nu
ditty, aiiil he begged Will to interfere iii his behalf, hut he
would not, ;tad said it was no business of his. 'the pi isurier
said tt was no good to ask the aeatiuel, as he was a comrade
of his, dud du: she prosecutor flail oi% ell 1t I iii lavtg ea:.-fora
particular purpose. Prosecutor bea•ged the sr fills' to detain
them both until the relief came, but he refsised to mots rfere,
:mil the prisoner snatched bis watt+ from his tub, and went
hastily away, aud as he passed the sentry pot something into
his liand,,which proved to be a co. tier of the prosecutor's
neekerchiet, which I.le had torn oil'. The ct y oft" SIUI.
was raised, but the prisoner was 110 l taken that night. O
the foilowing.day 0 boy, named Joseph Iteailey,wlio was pot.
hoy.at the Three Jolly Butchers its flangerbird-market, took
die mark in question to Mr. Jarman, a ',level smith in the
Siraiiil, to. have is yliass put in it. Mr. Jarman, however,.
sospocting,that it had nut been hon. stly come by, made some
excuse to the boy to detain tile watch a short time, and in the
interim he went to Mr.. Eiliminds, the makei of it, and thew
ascertained that it hail liven stolen from the prosiatiitiii. Ira
the evening the prisonew who had sent the buy will. it, called-
I elf for it iii a stat,i of intoxication, and said it had been
given him by a gentleman. He was then detained.
The prisoner did not make any defence, best insi rutted Ida
counsel, both im their cross-examination, anti in calling eve-
deuce, to insinuate 'Mat the prosecutor had given him the
watch.

Mr. Smith, a highly respectable ptrson, living in York-
wee', we,tiojuster, rocrshoiated toasty of the principal fea-
tines of the prosecutor's testimony, particularly that of the
prisom.c's away.
Mi.Athooltua called too witm3sses lathe-prisoner's cl arac-
ler and he also coded a witneb- named John Oniam, for the
final u.s:e of voittratlicting the prosecutor ; hot the Court held
that he weld notlie examined. consistently with the inks ur
cadence.

P011:I I.le .4.lltryi qvas aims and saia., the reason he
%%oat.' hut iiiterecie scab, that each eliargt II the ctlicr. lie
denied that the pri..o.icr cntre him the corner of the necker..
chit I, uut said I•e t•ickt te it np on ti:e bridge.
the trial lasted a bug time, and the July GJUDd we
scher Gitiity—Death— aged 19.