The National Register.
London, England, 1815-05-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

MAY 14.,

Sir 8, Le Blanc craving stuttered- tq the evidence, OA. Ju►y re.
tired, and after an absence of half an Lao►, retinite:d With a verdict
of Guilty-,-Denth.
Elizabeth Sims was found guilty of stealing a 51. note, the pie.
petty of Rebecca Ford, in her dwelling-house. Th prisoner had
been entrusted to place the mite in a drawer ; it was afterwards
missed, and on het being accused of the theft, blic c'ut.lessed she had'
taken the note, and was veil sorry fur it.
George Sherrington was convicted of stealing I. from Eleanor
Hudson. The prosecuti ix is a poor infirm widow, a lionseket per,
listing in Gray's Inn-lane, and the prisoner, snide► rietein r of he.
longing to a society formed for the purpose of paying poor-widow's
debts, cajoled her out of her note, w►th which he got clear off.-- lie
hiss been convicted dnringll►e present Sessions of a similar offence p
and five other charges have been preferred against him.

POLICE.

UNION HALL.

Mary Welch, a native of Ireland, was brongbt before Mr. Sera
jeant Sellon, on Tuesday, on a charge of attempting to hang her
own child, a girl about eleven }Tara of age. The child oaten. that
her mother, aided by her father-in-law, after t)iiig her hands se.
curely behind her, put a rope 'mind her neck, and dragged her to
a hook fixed in the wall of the room, front which they suspended
her in such a manner, that the end( of her toes only just touched
the floor; in this situation sue was fortu:tately discovered by a re-
lation of her father-in-law, who entered the room by chance, and
cut the rope before the vital spark was extinct. This person stated,
that the child soon recovered her speech, and informed him how
she had been treated, on which he immediately sent for a constable,
and the unnatural mother was taken into cnitotly. The father-in.
law, having received information in time, unfortunately escaped.
The prisoner was fully committed tor trial at the Quarter Sessions.

A respectable looking young man was brought up by May, on a
charge of forging the signature of Mr. Benj. Robinson to a check
for 13s. on the house of Down and r
Co.
The prosecntrix was
frail fair one, residing near Astley's Theatre, who stated that she
was on Monday last witnessing the performance at that place, when
she was accosted by the prisoner, and after some conversation, they
left the Theatre together about half.past ten, and he accompanied
her borne, and quitted her about half past six in the morning. Be-
fore he quitted her, he expressed his regret at seeing a girl of her
interesting appearance so indifferently attired, presented her the
check in question, desired she would procure herself some better
eloaths, and meet him again at Astley's on the Thursday evening
following. In the course of the day she presented the check, and
was informed that it was a forgery. On the Thursday.evening she
went to Astley'a, and seeing the prisoner in the boxes, pointed him
out to May, and he was taken into custody.--The prisoner denied
the charge, and brought forward a number of respectable persons
in his defence. The servant of the house where he lodged swore
that he was at home in his own apartments at half-past ten on Mon-
day evening. She was positive he could not have been out, when
she rose in the morning the door being as she left it the night e,
chained and bolted.- A gentleman who lodged in the same house
also swore to his being at honk at the time the prosecntrix swore
to bis being in her company. And a young woman, who lives at a
pastry cook's in Fleet-street, swore to the isoner's coining, abort
ten o'clock on that eveuihig, to her shop, and purchasing a jar of
jelly : the jar was found in his apartment.—Under these circum-
stances he was discharged.