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J. Hargrave was indicted for taking from the person of
strike the lady atuDitat deceased; and knock them 'both ,
Holloway, a chain and seals, of the value of 3m.
(100.. The wheal paUell Ottsr the gentleman's body, : J 4111"
and the chaise proceeded with great' rapidity down the 1 On the King's highway.
it appeared by the evidence, that them articles of pro-
oail. The prisoner, 'Who was Civing, woi throon out. 1
perry were taken front the prosecutor's person by the
The deceased was lakinbitito the false, and surgical as. prisoner : but it appeared both on the prosecutor's tes-
sistance immediately sent Mr, but the deceased thine.
tummy, and on that of witnesses, that the act was per-
that lie 4111Ist he si7tit to the Hospital ' lie was then
funned without violenceust conveyeirto4liildlesex Hospital tot a shown Wutnets
The Judge (Mr. Justice Best) noticed this citcums
Ilia not Arent the Miter strike the horse, or use any I
I stance to the jury, as one particularly essential, inas. :
means 'whoever to mire him on.
much as it changed the character of the offence from
Fit
Steed, a silversmith, saw tholiorse going at i
highway robbery to stealing from the person.
• foll nallop. lit went at that rate-from the turnpike-gate l
The Jury returned a verdict of guilty of stealing from.
94. Warremstreet till the-Buie the'acctieni *gem red. He !
i The Grand Jury, hat ing gone through the whole of
. saw thedriver thrdwu out at the instant the wheel passed the person to the value of less than 40,.
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over the body of the dt.ceate.d. Prisoner appeared in-
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toxic:med. N'ituesa'alliked his tianarsaml *hires% H-
the business assigned to them, about five 'clock were
rough.
oak' his name Nos Needham, and teresided in'the 80-1 41i5eged•
Henry Browne was indicted for stealing from the
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rocket C. Angel, a pocket-bdok, value 11.6 d.
Thomas Woodhouse, surgeon, of M iddlesex Hospital, i
I a The prosecutor, it seemed,• lost the amide in question
stated, that the deceased was brought into the house on
t Bartholomew fair.- He was not;bowever, conscious
the evening of the It hof August. Five of his ribs were 1
of having 1051 it till informed Ity an officer, on the day
fractored; he lived about an WU( ; witness opened the
I t custo
Lady and found a considerable quantity of extravasated
alluded to, that a person had besothe On se dy for
blood itt the thorax and abdomen. lie believed the ac-
another offince cot 1111 l itted at same fair !akin into
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cident to have occasioned his death.
I ing this individual (die prisoner), a pocket-book ws
I found, containing letters for the postectitor, addressed to
The prisoner, when et illed on fur his defence, handed
in a w
tihiten paper, stating his most heartfelt regret WEDNESDAY, Soar. 18.---Mary Antic Louisa Boiler, for 1 hint by name. The Jury returned a verdict of—Guilty.
the nforottiate accident which had taken place; lie said
a female of extremely interesting appearance, aged 23,
be had been in the Cay, on busioess,, the whole of the
was egpitally indicted for stealing, in the dwelling-housa
. day, and had called upon his daughter orrhis way home.
Aare he had left her, and when near thiend of foal f• ilt R.'Cottereli, in Surrey-street, a penknife and seven'
31. Bank of Hoglund notes, the property of V. Drew,
hanocenrt.road, the belly.band.broke, thp horse beanie
• Mr. Adolphus stated the case to the Jhry.
• restive, and sat,
off at full 'speed. Heat's(' his utmost
exertion In pull up. but without effect.. 'fuse horse pro- Mrs. Eliza Cotterell resides in Surrey-street, Strand, '
ceeded rapidly along the New-road. He called out as and receives boarders and lodgers into her house. Ili
loudly as he could to the deceased to get out of the way. August last the prisoner applied to come and lodge and
The chaisaWat then loin; in P tigaffors direditnii. The hoard in her house. She represented herself to be mar-
unfortunate deceased was knocked down, the shock tied ; she said she was married in France; that her has.
threw kiln out of the chaise mark his head, and dislo. hard was there, and that she was soon to return to him.
cited two of his fingers He was taken up insensible She was received as a lodger on Friday the 2d of August.
from the &retard the fall, which alo doubt induced the at which time Captain Drew, a commander of a West
-witoemel to suppose that he was intoxicated. He con- • Indianian, was lodging there also. There was a com-
eluded by solemnly assuring the Count that he was per. 'son room where the lodgers assembled. Ott a table in
fectly sober at the time the lamentable accident took the ditiing'room there was a writing desk belonging to -
place, soul threw hiinmlf oil their merciful consideration, i the captain. Ott the loth of Au tust last, Capt. Drew
Witnesses were called, who moved the belly-hand of was out, and at the time of retiring to rest witness and
the horse to have been boil:cloacad that the prisoner was y the prisoner quitted the diniug room together to go to
not intoxicated at the time of the accident. Alining bed. The prisoner's sleeping room joined thst of the
others, of most respectable appearance, was the Rev. Dr. i witness, and was hour pair of stairs from the dining-
Draper, of Isliag 1111 l , who had known tom upwards of i room. Witness did not go to bed immediately, as she
SO years, and who gate him a most excellent character had a child ill, and about half 311 hour afierwards, open-
fur humanity, steady couduct, and great benevolence of ing her door, she saw the prisoner on the stairs, cominj,
disposition. I up. Site appeared very much agitated, but nothing
Ile prisoner frequently shed tears, and the Jury, with. I particular passed. Oat Sunday tentless went into the
out a *unguent's hesitation, returned a verdict of Not dining-room about one o'clock. The prisoner had pre.
(:oilty, to the satisfaction of an exceedingly crowded cloudy gone out. CaptsDrew's desk stood-in the usual
COWL I place, and wittiest took it up, for the purpose of putting
1). Barnard, alias Barnes, a yotoh of seventeen, was it on a cloth to press it, when she discovered that it was
capOally inflicted for burglary in the dwelling house of unlocked. She upon this discovery put the desk into a
Alexander Reed, in the palish of St. George, Hanover. I closet and locked it op. Capt. Drew returned on Sunday.
square, and stealing a tea caddy, four tea spoons, two bin witness was hi bed, ilia did not see hint, and she
table spoons, a pair of silver spectacles, and other articles did not return the desk to him until .Monday morning.
his property. I Sae gave him the desk, and in consequence of a disco-
Oil the night of die 13th of August, the family of very wich took place, a Bow-street offic. r was sent for,
Al r. Reed, of Flask-street, Pimlico. went to bed, tear. and thel house was searched. The prisoner's room was
Mg the house fastened. %Viten they arose in the morn- I searched, and in one of the onisments (the rosette) of
the furniture. two five pound notes were found conceal.
Mg, it was found that some persons had entered the
house by cutting out a piece from the kitchen shutter ed. Other thiugs were found in her drawers which the
tt hit a c.entie-bit, and thus unfastening the window.— officer would describe.
'I he property mentioned in the indictment was missing. Captain' William Drew proved that, in July, he re-
-On the 18th of August, in the evening, the prisoner ceived 1801. part of which consisted of sixteen 51. notes
and another lad, named Pearson, were apprehended in for a draft on Prescott and Co. He had some of those
Ilehrietta-street, Covent-garden, by Morris, Lack, and notes in Ins possession on Saturday the loth of August.
other Bow-street officers, with a centre-bit, a 'great mint i lie was going out on that day, and said, in the presence
her of skeleton and picklock keys, ~ datk lantern, arc. of the prisoner, in the dining-room, lie had too much
found 111,011 them. Imoney in his pocket to take out, and he deposited seven
The burglary at Mr. B.'s having been communicated five pound notes, and locked the desk. At die time he
to the officers, they tri-d the centre-bit found upon the put the mites iti the desk, a air. Driscoll and Alts Cot- 1
prisoner with the holes in the slimier, and it was found I terell were in the room, as well as the prisoner. On
to li tl.eiit exactly They ascertained where the prisoner Monday 111011Plig Mrs. iotterell delivered the desk to
lodged, and at his lodgings they found, among a great wittiess unlocked; on °prolog it he missed the notes.—
ceal of niiscellaireous property, a teacaddy, which was He clewed all the servants might lie called up_. and tie-
tile summit SUJ:ell 40111 Mr. Reef:OS hoose. 1 tattled hi the parlour while lie went for a Bow-street
The Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing, but officer. All the servants and Miss Conerell were then
acquitted burn of the burglary. searched, but nothing was found.
John Levy was capitally indicted for assaulting Samuel Mary Anne Ashcroft. a terrain at Mrs. Cotterell's. de-
.l",.s, on the highway, in tile parish of Isheworto, and posed. that on the Saturday night in question, the ph-
stealing from his person a watch, value 61. aria 14s. in soner sat tip half anittior after Mrs. Com:tell went up
silver. , it stairs she rang her hell, and witness answered it. The
Samuel Jones. a miller, deposed, that on the nigtrt of prisoner then said she had lost her pocket-book. On
the Ist of July he was at a dance at a public nouselb . Sunday the prisoner again told tier she must look for her
Isleworth, and danced with Sarah Spruce there. it was pocket-book, fur she had not a farthing of money except
fair night, and he continued dancing until two or three what was in it. She said she had Mond the key of the
o'clock, at which tune he went out with Sarah Spruce, drawers on the carpet soon after. She Wept out, and
and walked up the town, and they turned up a tang.— did not return until about ten at night.
White there he heard footsteps, stud presently saw three James Dili, the officer, produced the desk. and proved
men coming at a smart run. When they crate up to that force had been applied to it; but he could not say
lion one of them pitched his head against wittiess'a sto- whether it was opened with a false key or any other ilia
mach, and knocked him back against a brick wall.— struinent. After searching the rest of the family, hail
To is of them then seized his arms and held them down; went to the prisoiter's room, and told her what had GO
while the third " orawed" him of his watch and too. curred. and that he must match her. In the top &twirl!
oey Having done this. they made off. 'file prisoner of a chest of drawers he tumid fodr sealed parcels. one
was the man who "drawee Ins watch. He had seen of which contained twenty sovereigns, one twenty
the prisoner two or three times before in the course of shillings, the third ten shillings, and the fourth ten six-
the night. Witness was quite sober; he had drank IselAces• There were also its the drawer two loose suer.
stunt four pita/A.of ales and not any spirits, in several reigns and tour shillings. He war requested by Airs.
li surs. s " CUtterall to search the bed furniture ; he heard it rustle.
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Sarah SprocOrlosegot Hounslow, and was at Isle. Mrs, CLAterell said " wheals that which rattles ?" and
worth fair. *lt minijhowed the testimony of the pm. put ism. gaud outside. Miriam put its his baud and
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took ot4 the" Two .61. notes proshierd. He alika-prisurwe
if sift knew how th
e notes came then, and she said she
knewnothing ationt them. The other money she • slid
she had hail by her for litres weeks or a n 1111 l th. On the
27th of August ;mother 51, tote came into,the hands of
the witness, and he in constlpteoce went in Tothif h 1(18
prison, accompanied by Mr puler, a medical gentleman.
at Ketisiuton.
Cross ex niiined.—.When witness went to the pri-
soner's roam she was lii bed, and she W 3! nut apprised
why he came. Mis. Cotterell knocked at the door, and
after some time was admitted, .11(1 soon after witness
also went in. Witness did not search the bed h 111 l iture
the hist time; some one else did, but he could not say
who it was. ‘Viteti before the Magistrate, she said she
sealed up the money to take with her to Fritter.
Mr. Newport, clerk to the house of Presscott and Co.
proved the mindsets of the notes,paid to Mr. Drew her
his draft of 1801. The two 51. produced were two of
those so paid. The third note produced by Ellis, was
another of Ike notes paid 4o Mr Drew.
Mr. George Price. of Kensington, a surgeon and drug.
gist, deposed, that on.Suntlay, 11th of August, he whit a
bottle of lavender water to a woman, whom he believed
to be the prisoner. The price was 2s. 61 and she gave
hills 61. note to pay for it. tie asked her address, and
she said," Nu. B,'St. Jaines's.place' St.James's-street."
—When asketther name, she 'Ai she would name the
lady from whom she received the note, and gave " Mr..
Gray. at au academy at Brook Greets." Witness saw
her afterwards in Tuthill-fields. This clewed the case fur
the Crown.
The prisoner was then calllo, upon by Mr. Justice
Richardson to make any observifusis • which she might
be desirous of offering to the Jury in her defence.
She requested leave to sit while she addressed the Jury, .
and commenced reading (rout a paper which she held in
her hand. She appealed to the Jury to pause before
(upon the evidence which had been adduced, however
strung it might appear to be) they made up their minds
. to convict her oldie felony with which sites:tau charged.
...Was it likely that she would have staid in the house
after committing the robbery, when she had an ample
opportunity of going away t Was it not absurd to sup-
ra s; stolent `' at sl : sits
ewn(t)PuldTTet soh avveereg, (gun rids (aso f thee
would
tolesoula
iiiiroshvee
by evidenc:) were sent to her by a gentleman who had
been kind to her for some time past, but whose name she
she must be. pardoned for withholding.
Mr. Alley then called Joseph Stugletion, a porter, who
swore, tiso about three weeks before the prisoner was
taken into custody, he took a letter containing money
(root a gentleman at Iti.odle's Club-house to the prisoner.
Mary Ashcroft re-calle .—Site made the prisoner's
bed, and the door of the room was never fastened. She
did search, as the prisoner desired her, for her pocket-
book, but she did not find it. She did not search the
rosettes nor the 1.):.(1 furniture.
Alt. Justice Richardson summed up the evidence, and
directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner of the capital part
Mille charge of stealing in a dwelling-house, as it had
been proved that .he name of Mr. Cotterell was strongly
described in the indictmetip Ile was there called
Robert Cotterell only, whereas his wiie had declared
his name to be Robert Donner Cotterell.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing, but not
in a dwelling-house.
The trial lasted six hours, during which the Court was
crowded to excess, and the most intense interest was ma-
nifested.
William :Leading, aged 26, was indicted for burgle-
firmly breaking and entering the dwelling-house of It.
Westwood, in the parish of Set Anne,Sisho, on the scot
of Jitly-last, and stealing thereout watches. chains, seals,
talc. to the ansount of upwards of 1,0001.
Beojansits Solomons was indicted as an accessory, he
having received the 910101 articles, well knowing thew
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Mr. R. Westwood stated, that he resided in Prince's.
street, Soho, where he carried on business as a jeweller.
On the day in question he went out and double locked
his door. On his return it was single locked, and the bar
down ; and when he went iii, he found that the place
had been crane ransacked in his abscrice ; WO watches.
a great number of ;odd pills, seals, ear-rings, silver dant-
Ives, spoons,a quantity of coral necklaces, six sovereigns,
a 101. note, and 3.. in silver, were taken away. The
sovereigns were marked, two of which hecould swear to.
Crour-exatitined by Mr. Alley.—Had never seen any
of the Watches or seals since.
Beading was searched tit prison, al, er being taken to
Marlborough-street. A witch was found on him. Wit-
ness did not claim it, but it was returned. Witness
could swear to the two sovereigns. Left no person in
the house when he went out.
Be.ex 4 mined.—Hire sovereigns were found on Reading
in the House of Correction.
Several witnesses spoke to the identity of Reading, and
to having seen huh on the day in question near the pro.
setanor's house.
The watchman who secured Reading found on his
person a watchiseals, six sovereigut, and two shillings.
foe clerk at the House of Correction proved a paper,
discovered about the person of Reading, directed to his
brother, and requesting that certain amulet there named
might be pot out of the way. , 7,
The prosecutor swore to thetwo sovereigns.
Three witnesses, Cope, Alexander, and Green, prorod,
that Alexander obtained many gold pins from Solon on&
wh*h he sold to Green, in whose shop they were found.
kaft lexander, in his cross examination, persisted in
o reating Mat he did not know what price he gave Solo-
nslor the pins.
Mr. Jositce Best said. that the only esidence affecting
&Amitosis (namely, that of Alexander and his family),
was not sufficient to convict hint. With respect to the
other prisoner, he feared this would not be the case.
The Jury acquitted Solomon*, but found Reading
Guilty—Diath.
THUKSVAP, Seer. 19.—T. King, a man of very re-
spectable- appartitice. WAS tad coed for stealing a stlvet
spoon, value Ws. the properly of James 'slits, Esq.
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....,.. ,wecutor, and swore firmly that the prisoner was the Man
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whit robbed hint. • The prosecutor was perfectly sober.
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man every Webb, a constable of Twickenham, deposed, shat he
MosroAT, -•• ••n aN eillutstl*• ' apprehended the prisoner on the 4th July on 'fwicken-
respectahle •• • A?' .'wan placed at Mbar, charged, 1
discus the :• 4'; ')at. iiition, col at kng ham Common, where he lived. The constables of Isle-
and eavitnr Ja%rn. :.f 11, on the iimi.rx„„,..„ u„, in worth mentioned his name, and deacribed his person,
before he was taken. Witstebs had understood that the
the New.roall, no the Regent's Park.• prisoner Fad been to his house to offer to surrender him-
John akleiander Fisher, gate-keeper of Niarylebone
self, previously to his brit* taken.
I.ntlite4/4/11,, that on the Itels.of August last he was
Two witnesses were called to speak to the prisoner'.
sitting ,i'dßte. rail of the Regent's Park, and saw a lady
character,
and gentleman es
crossing ibe road opposite the Park Cr•
Mr. Justice Richardson summed up the evidence, and
cent... They had allsitOrd about a yard in the road,
the Jury found the prisoner guilly--dealh—aged 18.
when he ehaerved thlliaproceeding at a very rapid pace,
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