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THE INUTTOWAL itteraTEß

ASSIZE INTRZLIOENCE. KilroyTow..ra h. I.—James Sparks, a regrettable stiller
awe. and farmer, residing at !Mulford, near Guildford. was its-
suartET. I dieted kir atalicioutily shooting at Henry Harrison. a he/
- lib toloone . Dte. ea —The commimion for this ceenty ' almost twelve years Of ace, on the Cith of Angelo last. wit
• was 1111011,11 I hi% 8110111 kt if before 1/1P 11'.11• Harms Grisham. the Inteetim of doiez him sonic grievous bodily harm.
et the Session's Howse. Horsetail's:zee Lane, after which Iflary Harrison, the mother of 11. s. buy deposed to havitag
the learned Jailer alipmthe I to this town for the snore gone kin a barley field belonging to the pikoner, allow
• convenient 11114114101 of liosinea-, there being nu serum- two o'risiek its the adierutron of ii.. 1551 s of Angus, last;
reollation at N. inform for the iittiug of the other Judge. she was arefullltallied by her '0" Ih'ilrY Ilse"-"", sad a
Ilia Lordship, was received at a short distance from Ike "all" of the "MA of Briggs; as 'they wets Passing
• titan by a iinuterues attendance of the gentry sad um. I 1111 11•11 the first field. witsie•s saw the prisoner to across
• pisteeey. and ',seemed to the ditilges'e lodgings, wheeler, , the *divining Morley-field tiowerila his honor; witness then
after .pertakitig of sefreslitneet, tie went to churrio, and went into Ike !miry-field, and hail not been there long
Lentil 1111 approprirde semen preach 41 by the High Site' whets site beard the gelwi iii. a gran ; Willie" ran In Stir
• riff's chaplain. assistance of heeling), who was Iderdiite very motels at the
After tun o'clock the learned Jailer. weut Into Conti, right eye. Witness went sip to the prisoner, collared litm,
• when the Growl Jury were railed over and swum.— and Auger' him with having shut the L0y...-Prinnier
Them was a numerous altearlinee of gentlemen. 'l'ie replied, •• I wish it had been you." The little buy was
were
Bane.. forpusail—the reit a slip Greed Jury al" w"und"l in the kft leg'
were the gentlemen alto iisesally ahead the ..ees. Henry Harrison milkman, the testimony of his mother.
?Er. Heron Graham delivered a vety short address to He dill tint see the 'trimmer when be tired. %Vitoria was
file Grand Jury. He observed that many ititelliemit and t al"nuing when lie "a *min"'
rerellent prearsaa had meet...led the espediency of a gaol ' Mary Blimp confirmed the firrerithig evidenee.-IVii-
delivery at this seam, of the year. in r„,,,qopoc, of iiVa, iliOlight Ike Ilii•01101 mi;lit have been ithont 40 yards
which his ?slake'''. Ga vet •iiiiont bail directed a third (min the boy whet, he tired. lie lint Ile gist, tip lii hi.
•ei mull. T hemp pert..., would now hare an opportunity . "'"'elder as if he as. taking aim—Witness slid 11111 C4ll
of laminae a juileineut AS to the wimlum of "pelt a men. oat, Weasels, she did not viper-I the prisoner would tire.
sore. His Lerdship, however, tumid not help ohserviog, 1/111111.444d11131 4. a setraenn, was 11.111 fur to intend the
' that however advisable it wield lie, as respected the boy is/ the al (Pm" ~,, of the 1 ith of Angus'. ** he was
baser's.% of pisklic jastice, Ike erasion chosen for this going to him, lie met Ilse prisoner, who said he hail had a
„p„t„wn‘ „mid not be deemed immoomilim, to Homy most nnlecky accident; he then told him to pay every
tiersmw wham, ath.iida„„.„ „riisiia. This was it attention In the tiny ; the lad had a bruise on she right
season of the year ofwerved 'Motorboat all Christendom temple. it hail the appearance of a small Aim having
by 11,„b„ohomy and joy, and was ill ~sited to dm duties passed into the skin; the bruise was comilderahle, 111111 as
a Inch this proceeding imposed upon 'lto gentry and yea. She shot hail his • vein three was a sonsiderettle slush:in
mew, of lim„mmodey. }La 1..„,14,11, „mild say use snore of. blond; witness slid not think it necessity to celestet the
upon this subject; and after shortly adverting to the shot, es the boy was of a very scrofulous Italia ; there ass
priacipal cases in the calendar, be dismissed the Otaad • similar wound on she shin of the left leg. front which
Jost' to their room. witness 'enacted a 111101 i (the shot was pioduced in
Dew. :11.—Jobs Howell was indicted for stealing la the Court. it was of the size of No. 01 witness um' to see
Berengh of s,„ffi,„.,i, In the ds„;;;„/.bome of Joist, the boy the neat day, list he was gone to the magistrate's;
Davis, .IS sovereigns and 111. its silver, the property of went ain on the dry folloo lux anti found hint plalyiwang'
• the p Woe. witneassg 111111 known the prisoner for li years, he ays
It appeared in evidence that the prosecutor was a pub• sh""gi'l hi"' a "'an" sod ("II"
"Isn'
lit en ru the Huroneb. On the slay in question, be had lii him defence the prisoner sell that he did not mean to
ad sovereigns and 111.1 n silver in a bag. A woman came shoot the boy; he did not know that the gen was loaded
to the house eta asked for diatom of sovereign. He took nor did he pat the bull to his shohider ; lie fired It loosely,
dews site bag which he had placed ON a shelf; gave her and in consequence of Its recoil, prisoner's Sager was ,
ehenge. and replaced the bag in its former signalise. """'ll'4'
tOM time the prisoner was in the home and saw whet Tilt learned Judge slimmed ni• the evidence. and the
• Slimly afterwards the prosecutor went our, leay. I Jery returned a reedit lof not guilty—the primmer not
mg hk meet, in the taw place, and his wit., in the liar, knowing the gum was loaded with shot at the lime be fired
:'slip Wet happened to fall asleep, ilium whirls the ;mi. It °IC
emser. who remained in the house, diapatched a man H. Lordship said, that it was highly satisfactory to
loner, a waiter in Ike house, upon some errand know the grounds upon which We Jury had arrived at the
prosecutor's kept him out of the way for Iwo subtitles. When entielnalint ealtretined in their aeAdi' t.
prosecutor's wife awoke, she askedthe prisoner if
Charles liockett was indicted for stealing, at Reliant,
r linshand bail taken away any thing from the bar. 'the
nee replied that her Milhaud had gone inn with • In 'Angelo Imo. a deal plank, the property of Honer'
' Staples, a timber merchant. In Angela last the plank
pining taxa, and had taken away something from the shelf. , W 44 stolen, in the night , i 000 e, front the prosecutor's pre-
Mho, the prosecutor returned he found his money gone, •'•Ile -.4- October it was traced to the et--
anises. and on I in tof
sinner's home, where it was found Lowed up in deals, and
wad the primmer led. Suspicion falling on the latter he
- was apprelitrusled. It appeared that in the course of the identified by Ihr prosecutor,
IL !morning of the robbery the prisoner declared be bad but The Jury found the primmer guilty, and being an old
Woarponce In the world, bat la the course of the peculiar et/ender, lie was sentenced le be transported fur 'even
"aged a sovereign at another house in this Buroineb; . Year'. ,
speared in a great burry; asked for Daly two slut. ; S.srali Clements was indicted foratealing hilliedwelling-
ben. and said be would call for the remainder of the , house of Thomas Harris, at Richnitissil, on the flat el Oct.
e another lime. Upon these facts the case for thie
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ninetesoto!, so.errsigns and 100 lialliwevereigns, the property
rotten was (minded. of At 4an.
1 Jury, tinder Ills ;earned Judge's direction, found It appears that the proaeentrix occupied the lower part
Issuer gnilty-D wth. of Mr. Harris's home, and carried on the 114/14114.1111 of •
Ilona Bendel' was biateted fur steallog at Btocklend, bisberdealwr. Oil the els! of October she suinsed Mom bar
111th of December, a shiver the property of B. till al. of which the 'sovereigns its opttsiion farmed a part.
-- __,moot. ..411 the course of the same day the prisoner, who was a
The ease was proved tryst 'lse voluntary confession of tit in the lionae, laid ulna sovereign in the shop of a
Alleeiprisauter, and lie was foa ti goodly—Death. linetnalraper at Illetimontl, to whom she said Were was a ,
James Cux mid George Bane later, convicted of stealing piece of 14111 k al be, mm.ter's bootee, and begged that be
tar Betchwarth, on the 19th of Deceinlier, 23 rod Is, she would POI say any thing about her laying out any looney,
•.property of Thomas Duod were sentenced to be tran-
rs.
Thomas Wiliun, Edward Riede and Thomas Brown,
lima:-
log and entering the dwelling-home of Timothy Belly, ii,folitiedesi:loollini lit
sit e risked concerning it. He gave itiformotioa
sported fur seven yea '
to the proiticult ix, and in COusequencr a covetable Ipso
It in the house; the pristmer. of her own aeesiw
were indicted under the Statute of Elisabeth, for
ign concealed in the cellar; and node,
the table is the roars:worthies silting-rousts wet. found IT
la the pariah of St. Giks. Calltherteell, in the day time of sovereigns and two lialfssevereigni its a bag. Upon these
IF the Btilt of August, no peison hriag therein, and stealing face" the ease fur the prosecution was founded.
ela sliver teaspoons and other article* of plate, the pro- 'flu. leSraed Judge lammed en the case, mold liteln7
perly of Margaret Metier Bull. found the prisoner Getilty—Deaths; but they recommended
Thu breaking, entering, and stealing were proved, and her to mercy.
when the probecutrix was called to prove She loss of her The 'tweet:Orli also recommended her to mercy, as
property, she admitted, Its true-.examination, that she she had been for Iwo years in her place, and had, daring '
had beets married to a men named Conde, but basin that time, borne a good diameter.
hated that he bad been married to another woman, she . Sentence of death was passed epos' her, but hopes of
left kiwi aud teittined tier eneiden name, by which she was mercy were held nuts
dear, ibed in the Indictment. George 1 14111 CS was indicted for stealing, at Lambeth,
The prisoner's coned then objected that the prosecutor • int the Ild of November, a mace, file prupes Sy of Richard
should have been.described in the indictment by the name Clockel.
of Conde, there being no legal evidence that she was not i Ilse cave was Measly made oat, and the prisoner WIIS
properly married to Conde. She had curly heard that the ' found guilty—if. 'lli.
latter was monied to another woman, and thought that ' LIM. Bay, alias Darby, an eccentric looking creature,
wits put so the bar in a it raight waistcoat, charged with
misfit be inificient to justify her in resuming her maiden
alone, yet for the present it must be preausued that site stealing, in the dwelling-house of Lord Viscount Middles
was legally married. ton, at Paper Herm,, a sliter jug, a silver "having Eros,
Mr. Baron Graham thought thcobjeetion, for the rca - I and ether articles of plate, exceeding the value of Jae. Use
soot offered, a ere well founded, -erslered me acamilat, i properly of hi. Lou dihip,
The Jury fusind the primmer* not guilty ; but they were I The Jury found the 'misuser not guilty on the ground of
'detained fer the burglary, without regard to the charge of insanity, 41111 she was ordered to be detained to await hie
steelier. I King's pleas-ere, pursuant to the swam.
Frederick King was indicted for stealing from the Edmund Cairoil was indicted for receiving. at Walton,
of Nove in December la it, Rye fowls, the properly of Thomas
person of Frederick S Smith, on the 1311imber ,
at Kingston Fair, his watch chain, seats, and key. Tapuer, tattooing theist to have been itulen.
It appeared that the prisoner was seised in the 11C1 off The Jnry forted the prisoner Guilty, and he was sen.
attemptitty to pick the pocket of the ;pruners:tor (an tented to one year's imprisuonient• aud hard labour iii the ,
atiorney's clerk) in the fair at Kingston, of his match, House of Correction.
but the chain breaking, he ineceetted only In stealing the Daniel Pickett was indicted for amatilting tVm. ',ruing
chain and its appendages. He was immediately secured, Lupton, on the King's Wilkes), al Co oyikou, on the Ist ot
and threw the chain away. February last, and lin cibly hiking
,from his person a
The case been made out, the prisoner was tonsil entity metal watch, gimlet mid sliver seal.
and he was sentenced to be confined in the Home of Cur. The progenitor was a woe boy, about twelve years of
recline% and kept to hard labour for four mouths. age, the son dila farmer in the neuelilsourisisoil of Croydon.
Joseph Milikin and J. Jonea were Indicted fur stealing. On the Ist of February last he saw the prisoner at a ;Mo-
at Egliam, on the 19111 of September, a watt•b, chain and tic house its Croydon. who prevailed upon Il i 11l to take pait
xst. In mow', from the person fW. Ghats% The pro. of a pint of beer, and wait until he should accompany him
eta gator wean bargeman, and had been drinking at a booth home• the pi limner hying shepherd to a gentleness' in she
during the last Relearn fair, and had fallen asleep, The Iteighboarlitrod. The prosecutor accordingly waited until
pa/oilers who were alsO in the booth, availed themselves Ilse Plilawierien the public kettle with I • • On Slur way
of the opportunity of picking his pocket, bat in the set the privoner knocked him down, and forcibly took the
of taking the chain the promentur awoke. The prisuneis watch ire lineation front Isis 111.1.4411. The prosecutor par.
eau off, bat this Peat day were apprehended with the sued hint a considerable diitance, when the prisoner
greater part of the property of the prosecutor upon them. threatemed to asinder him if he followed hint any farther.
The-pri ours 110111111 ifedhfence, and were fosad phi,. lie gu.c tip the imprint and went home, when be fold his
find sentenced to be treelperted le: life. • father of the swum' le which be had beau sobbed. 'the