The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-05 00:00:00

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OLD BAILEY.

No trial of the least interest took place on Monday or

WEDNESD 4Y.

Richard (terrine a _rey•headei old non, 74 years of axe,
WO indicted for stealing 45 pounds of fat, the property of•
John Jackson.

- The peoseentor keeps a slanghter-honse in Marshall Street,
Cat natty market, and carries on a very extensive business.—
The prisoner used formerly to sell eats meat ashen' the
streets, lint had latterly worked in slaughter•bottscs. On the
morning of the 21th July, Mr. Jackson saw the prisoner in
Broad Street. Caritaby_maiket, with something ii ;:e a sack
neon his shoulder.; but he atterwards discovered that it was
n round frockotsually worn by butchers, with the sleeves
tied op. 'Elaine:lt one of the boles in the frock be plainly
saw some fat (timing out. The tit issmer deposited flm fat at
l'aintl's melting house, in Wardoor-street, and received
a payer front a rlcrk in attendance, authorising hint to receive
Is. Is 411 (the value of the tat deposited) at Mr. Brinti's
shop, in 0 sfurd•street. The prosecutor followed the pti•
boner, having previously obtained au officer, to Oxford-sto eel,
stud took him into enstutly in the act dif rot esenting the paper
in the shop. Plank. the officer, Edit to 6itn, "My friend,
where slid yon get that fat from; how did you come by it ?"
" Conte by it," repeated the prisoner, " why how should I
come by its' I bought it to he sore." The prisoner aftet wards
lowereil his tone as he was going to the watch-house. and
told Mr. Jackson he would tell hittehow he came by it. -•••
" Why. to tell you tlin truth," he said, "I did not buy the
f t, lint I haul it of two men at the Maidenhead public.
vtlio gave it sue to dispose of."
1u eonvequence (Willis information, the proseentor and the
o' err event to the Maidenhead puldir.honse just by. and saw
two meet, which the prisoner said were the two from whom
lie received the fat. They Warm tha next inuruing all three
taken before a magistrate, nod the prisoner dien lief loosed
titat these were mat the two men he meant. The magistrate
in consequence did nut detain them, and they were ordered
to appear en the next examination of the prisoner. At the
subsequent examination oae of 'the hula did, appear, but the
other absconded. s . •
Mr. Adolphus-here concluded the *toe tbe part of the
prosecution.
The prlsonett.-1 must have all Bat whitest's called; there
k en. I wish to be examined.

Mr. Adolphus.— Whit. is his name
rc The pm ironer,—l) d—n the moan, I don't know his name,
bit here he is (pointing to him) n him a bald head.
The witness being eailed,stated that he was in the den-
head pulilieJmotrum when the prisoner called for a bundle,
and at the same time saw two men with him. He could m•;
tell what was in the saek, or what size it was, or what r oloimr,
A roan ut the name of Bailey helped time prisoner up with
amid then he did observe its size and colour. He knew nothing
snore of the Ital!SaCtiffil.

The Jury found the pi isoner Guilty, after a Short consul.
'The nffirer told the Jury that the pilsoner w'.•as a notor;onsly
bad character.

The Recorder.—Oli yes, Gentlemen, I have tried him be_
fuze; I recullvet him well.
Several other trials of little interest to the public occupied
the Com t until five o'clock.

The Recorder thou dismissed the Jury, with thanks for
their unremitting attention.
Mr. Armstrong, one of the Jurymen, wished to take this
opportunity or applying to the Court in behalf of Samuel
Mason, a little hoc, who had been tried and convicted, on
l'riday last, of picking pockets. He had enquired into his
and had found out several circumstances which tt
go much in mitigation of punishment. Tie sister of the oo•
fort11111:111. lair was at present in hk Nervire, and if the Court
VI 0041 discharge the boy; Ire Iraii rio objeetion to take him
into ert ice at all cis►s.

The Recorder observed that it had born fonnil necessary
to punish tlime found guilty of pirk'ng pockets very .evrredr,
b :cause the number of offenders id that particoilar branch or
infamy had so much increased. Transportation aas gem tally
the piiiii.lintent far such erimiiiii:s, and the reason wily so
many ni re sent out of the toll 111 y any, that hasiuG lost their
character here, au opportunity was given to them to bogin
(art it wen:l a new life in a foreign country. The ritatl Fault
♦vaa, that this was not made a capital offense. He wont('
certainly attend to the recommendation.

. .
The Joi 'lllll 1,T•15 uldl,l t•d to attend to.tnorrow morning at
nine o't lock.

The ‘i hole of the trial% having been zone throe:zit, the
Recorder proceeded to pass sentence upon the ,cvcral pri.
toners.

Ur. I...iwrcnce Halloran, who had been convicted of fort.
inc a flank in the 11.1111 C of t4ir Garrow, M. P., ear
:mow: other pi isoilers brought Up to the bar to leccire the
setitrnre of the law.

Mr. Shelton, the Clerk of the Ai raiml, lI t hi?, demanded in
Ilse moat fain wilt-titer any of the pri.ouers li,td any filing to
aav uliv Sentence alifoild not be paced upon
•Lawrence Halloran alerord forward, and humility begged
perraisciun to addremi the Court for 4 few minutes. lie spoke
nearly in these words :•

" I beg leave timid re.pectfoily to sirgzest to the Coort. that
the present prosecution against me is the tii'at that ha% taken
plare 'miler the statute ; and, altliongli I profess not to de•
'elope t he. motive% by which this prosecution may have been
indueneed, yet I hope I may he per miti ell tam till fur a
niii,nrint to the cruel awl rmpist suf}tia ai a i have experienced,
and Which I burbly siebniii, have been •e than %v le erpii •
ta;dy proportioned to the utfetitio committed. 'Lucy have,
jell eed, been to me more distressilig and dreadfully appalling
than even death itself. Under the snppo.SUou of ha yip,
you feited a frank. by which the Font Otfleeli;l% bet o
dc-
frau:l. il, I have hero torn from my Itinne,_f the truant,' of
trimly, and have been incarcerated for more than &Ince
reowlis in a tlnageou•among the I rinse of mankind : and ills
though the warrant of the Magistrate extended only to the
apprehension of ally person, my lodgings wet e searched. my
trunks were rifled, and my limier% were Arista arid carried
away by an oftiver altlii nab, Indeed, %mate of them have
been rt turned. °theta have oven Will withheld, whieh have
se% recd (lire to the cbarge in creation. 1 liiimbly hope that
the CCIll!l wall he plc.:wed to restore those documents. For
the violent Milliner in which the officer with five or six athirs-
t] lids burst iron toy apartments; an ample jti%tifiratitin has
b(ta afforded by the fnla. dn.! midieintes slittotwists i01..e c4l in
111411,014 th by the promoter of I,.n•ecittiogl, ic-
ires.o.iner me a% a dan2eriiiis (+at aettr, alwai eariying
Liaded p;steht about my person; hes ria%, alit the e 011; tat y„
I have not hail a pair of itIISIOIA ;II my posseision for 12 wombs
prior to up a t. 'These malicious molt% et: could slot,
Ivor' be Fuceided, cud the zubAlueut ccuduct ui the oflccr