The National Register.
London, England, 1818-09-27 00:00:00

'llll .SI)AY.

IfsSvrl Wood fttril. senior, and Robert Woodford, junior,
f itt.er ace, o ere pat it/ the bar, ;miler au indictment
en:acing titt.a Stith receiving, Setassing to be stolen, 1001 b.
4il !..t. the preps.) ts of J ;lin William 'teasel;
ar coraticted loat St:saintly', at the Old Bailey, for the
.!tbety,

3lr. Adolphus opened the: ease to the jury on the put of
tile prosecution. Ile very mitch segietted that the two
;,i eases at the bar, it Ito were of so reveetable an apvenr•
at; ee, stionlJ Ililse het it placed in that unfortunate situation;
liltl public justice retinired that a gollty man, whatever
nrielit he rank in life, should net be antlered to go on-
punished. A father and a soil were now :landing before a
pot y of their country. silo were to decide according to the
Evidence upon the ;4ilNt or itutorebee. The father • was a
t iu dealer in Clare street, Clare.mai het, and carried
on a very extensive business there; and it ras evident that
t'te prison. r net been scut:wed to commit this heition.
ofence tluuu,L necessity, as lie had realived a considerable
property. liy rise Stithrille::t of the facts to the Jury by the
'earned Counsel, it appeared that the property in-question had
liten left ut the prisoner's house, when Woodford, eta. was
absent, but tin' soil was within, and abseonded %viten the
fart V'All diavonerrd. He then entered into a wit:cite state-
.l. eat of Ilse eiremusrances of the ca-c, olio+ it is unneces-
sary here to relate, and.concluded with observing span the
favourable circumstances for the elder prisoner, that he
Was cot at hone. when the property was left at his house.—
regard to the yonug lad a. the liar, be hoped that this
sr Dahl br a serious lessen to him in Entire., and he would learn,
That li4vittg committed a crime, it was not advisable to fly
from the laandsof justice. He was serYyln see so young a person
following the path of infamy and vice, and he was most mix_
Jens that he should know, that if he continued its that course,
"etc gibbet windel altimately put an end to his existence.—
(thre the !ming lad began to cry bitterly, and showed the
contrition.)—With revpect to the prosecutor iu this
ease, he could assure the Genet, that be had been actuated
in this prosecution by en vindictive spirit; lie entettained
r silintesitv towards the prisoners, but was solely anxious
that public offenders shosild not go unpunished.
flefore any witnesses were eallesioin make out the ease,
tht Recorder said, that he vet y mach doubted whether, if the
tel4trnee was gone into, there was any fact which could induce
a inty to proi ttttttt re the prisoners guilty. The elder pri.
:st.t.sr, it appealed, vras nut resell( when the property was
left at his house, and' therefore it could not lie said that hi-
Lad a guilty knowledge of the fact. If, indeed, there hail
been a previous cotnntartivation between the thief and the
rvisctitr, and it aas settled between them that the latter
rt,oilld cot hP.' at 110111 C at the time, then indeed might be
said that he had a guilty knowledge; hist here there was no
proof of that input taint fai t. With ret.,qtrri So the buy, he hail
certainly helms ell in a very RllSpiehosS manner, lint stilt
there W3A not sufficient critninating proof. He did not Manse
tt prosectiter feelmg sore upon die enetterrbut the Judge
Ltd the Joey had other eonsitkrainsns; the gnat or inno
ernes of the prisoners was to be decided upon the evidence
adduced. and, however ingenious the arguments of the
(;ounsel might he, and however plausikle his conclusions, yet
thr jitry was t,nly to be guided by the facts of the case. Hr
complimented the learned Counsel upon the manner in which
he had opened the case for the prosecution, and observed,
that he was happy when Counsel were employed by the pro_
secutors, as the ease was always stated fairly ; their ONO
&tat acter depended upon it. Untivr these (Ire 1111 l stances he
advised the gitiatlemen of the Jut y to acquit the prisoners.
Both the piirioners were immediately acquitted.

sod Robert %Vynn, were indicted fnr steal-
ire Sevetsl actielts or plate, the property of James Luottord
Bell:211y.
Mary Butler, formerly in the service of the proseentor,
who lived at Chelsea, was assisting her fedow-aet rant on the
Y9tli June, and hearing a noi,e in the parlour, she left the
kitchen, At- she was going op stairs she saw Fuell running
out oldie ;tallow, and she found that the sideboard had been
stripped. The other prisoner, Wynn, was also seen in do
parSter, and was observed in his retreat 1 throw something
oat 'Wilk hand.

Other's trot toes corrobot aced Ittil testimony.

The prisoners, tit their deft nee, denied having any knots.
ledge of she tobto ry.
the Jury finitid the prisoners both guilty, and they were
TeColltillClltieti to merry by the pro•••ottor.
The Coittooni sergeant then addressed the prisoners :
" Von hate both been molt properly found gni:ty of this
offence; au.l it is only through the hemline disposition of
umr proseeitior that your lives have been saved. It appears
that yon have not been sett' tied by necessity to commit this
act, and tht•rcGrte you must quit the Country.
The prisoners were theta sentenced to seven years' trans.
puttation.