The National Register.
London, England, 1819-04-25 00:00:00

rim UP.! KC?.-AN ALIBI,

The prisoner in hi,. deliqier said, Mr. Phillips as a
v hum he had met on going from Liverpool to
lremml, and he sold him goods to the amount of and
Le -lose him the difference, 6.U.; Phillips gave him the
address spoken of; th.it he had been fit o %treks iu prison,
winch had spoiled his business, and missal him in ibis eke-
isetei.

To prow. nn alibi, Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Arabia called

r. ti llo~airq wiineire.:—

Coleman Levu.',exult to the Jew' Pynagogne, %aid, that
on the .21st of Orcensber he hutted the pd.:oiler's nioilirr,
,he had lived hi Itill alley, Hitnadsniteli, tied it was their
ictigion to say pra,..ers 'tanning and evetiint; at tionir in
the gonin where the corpse lii-;41 lath for seven days. Wit.
r."‘. attended for the seven from half past st.ven to
I, or p.to tight in the and front lialfTast three
fcnr in the •ftrrituon, tend the prieotier was
there every: windup anti evening dining the seven days,
and lie Appetit et: to be in a bad state of health; there was
s.cred prayer to he !add standing by the yohnit ehilds en,
and the pi i.oti.r it a. too 11l to hold up the y‘ungest
and witeco, did it for him.

li~man Benjamin Cowan said, he called nn the prigonee

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n.t Cit. ext.ir Ili.. ill of the seventlt day to take tittANut e of
itiinself.ats,l the eltildcrn I If was on a Sunday. lie celled
at ten n'toek in the morning.and saw lam in Ls I 040,11,Pri-
sos.rr said he was ill, and cool.i not ataud to be tneasot td.
Witness railed about two 11011,1 afters at ds, about tut t lye
o'eloi:is, and raw the piasoner »gain in has i,e.l:tuons, and
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be c.tyl Alt WWI SU ill he retold not he ',weans ed. % Mita&
the rhitdren. bat net the pi ixottee.

Ann Ilaiduieke tated, that she aitei,ded the prisoner's
mother tie nurse I she went to her on the leoh of Decem-
ber—she died M.tlte Sunday following, and woos but ted on
tIC rlondae. The whole of the family list on the wound
tur wren Jaye after the funeral. Wituelo was in the house
.Or 14 days, soil she was aura the poisoner ss,is not out of
oloorirg that jet hid; lie was nut out of the house on
, the 27'1: of Dec. lie was in ill hi alth.

dlt. A walnuts SU:4111)0U, surgeon and aceunr?Mi•,proved
that the pt honer had been in a derliking state of Ite..1:11
lir the hoa two years, and he attended hint at his father's,
emu' Christmas.

A girat wary apparently respectable pencils, but
the Jewish persuasion, gate the prIXJ111:1 a good
•haracter.

Baron Wood mita recapitulating the nature of the charge
3 ;ainst the pri.usier, when the Jolty uninitesteit an anxiety
base a eod.,aitnt on, wi icla they inaniediati:ly had, and
t!,en dec;ared theinbelves satisfied of the innocence of the
yrisoner.

Mr. lii.-on W. otl—" If so, let the verdict be taken."—
Verdict, Not Ciaiity.

wi,u is a respectable looking. man, bowed
2:81 ri tu hal excited a ip at deal of &Littlest,
particularly among+t the Hebreu s.

IN 171 E MATTFIrt uT cummes RENNZIT.

At Ike termination ol the above trial, Goodo in, one of
the pats oie belonging to llow-si root office, got into the
tms, and hciiged that tin &Mips would be
pleased to take on the tiiat N 0.9, agalust a gii I named
l'afteesmi, and in \\ hose case he nas a witness, but ids
application WWI grounded upon this circumstance. Ile
Lehi a warrant against Charles Kennett, tt bo e s charged
with haying siWe.it a child linos Mr. lloisky. in10"04 lion
had been tenet d ,hut Itemiser' lass hourly expected at
I larvricii, and it was the anxious wish of Mr. Horsley that
be (Goode in) slimild go In 'Lanka to CI.OOII him to town.
Air. Justice I's k 'modems:et' applications ljow utEcer.
to put mititab., anti clue' scilo hat if such pi actiecs were
a dieted to eais ininoticed, the otlicei•ot every Police•fhce
would be fo..king suudas apphestiow whcacser they
toonglet ht.
:Ur. on %VOA refused to giant the application, lint
a fteea ruul4.ll: tiuu between alit Judges., mitt several of
the Cieullsom nof the Hsi, Good% iti, ho wit the nom
that pursued lieu nett em lb. Copilot:oil), wits again called
lip, and told that the iiist or P. 4 a lesson would be postponed
until Thai sitay mosning,anu that he might Lase Irate of
absence 160,11 the Como, oa giving the prisoner aad-
bet witoekbes, old the V. 111116 ft, for Ibe prosectition,.noe
tice of the ssine. The witnesses fur the prosecathns were
in Court, and heard the artier.

SATTRDAT, Avast. 44..
BANK FORGLRILS.
Thomas Arnold, George St-reap, ni.4l Daniel O'Hara,
Mire chaiwJ %WY bk 1.1114 ii thtir poasession anudsy

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TTIE NATIONAL RtdiStrii;

forged Bank of England note.. Theae prisiners having
pleaded Guilty, subjects them to transportation fur 1.
years.
Henry Dalt and Matey Ann Griffiths were chsrged with
a "limiter orence. These prieuticte pleaded Not Gotha ;
they will, theref e. lake their trials the ensiling week.
trot- convicted of 'dealing a quantity of
Ic.ltinc apparel, the property of John Edwards, at the
Carat and.ilorses, Ft ithatrett, 80110.
Buhr, t West was convicted of circling two-silver tea I
spoons, tlpie property of Mr, M•Dounel. , •
ROBBERY QF Tlig GENERAL rott-OFFICE.
Nicholas lienigue Albin and Thoton, Jetfatt, clerks in
Ilse above Olfir,, acre capitally Indicted on variens
counts, for steeling and eecreling divers letters, contaicing
smithy Blink of England and Miter notes, which hadeonie
into their pomessian ly virtue el. their employment in the
said General Post-Office, frotn'time to tints. 'this him
excited considetehle interest, and on no one oteeslon has
the Court been inure crowded. two Interment were
braught to the bar at la o'clock, when the varions &keret.
ageittst them west. road, to ethic' they pltutird Net
Guilty; and the London July having beet) awinst in. the
trial of Allem took place, dui ing the. whole of which the
prisoner held a trumpet to his ear. at the inner bar, he
being allowed to come lomat d that he night the easier
hear the evidorce against him. The code vas opened to
the Jury by 111 r. fietuey ; and the facts Icing clearly
proved by the evidence of Rohl. Simpson, esq. of
thorpe Hall, Yorkshire, who put in a letter containing a
201. Bawls of Englaed Nowt, *thinned to. gentleman et
l'aris of the name of Hudson, on the Ttlt December last.
This was fuliy cootirnied by the evidence of two clerks
trent the Post-Office at York, and the evidence of other
gentlemen at the General l'ust-Office• in London, who
proved that it was the ditty of the prisoner to open the
York bags. It was also proved by a female of the name
of Aim Coffin, that on the 7th of December she received
the very note from the prisoner at the Isar, abaci' one
o'clock ow that day.—Mr. Baron Wood charged the Joey,
who, alter a few minutes' consultation, returned a verdict
of
Mows Jelott was also capitally indicted on similar charges
as the Gainer primner, and particularly for stealing on nr them
the 16th of October, a quantity of Bank of lingland.Notes.
amounting to Lett. which were uiclos‘d in a lever addreasedto
?Ir. Edward Midi,. at Bury, in I.ancashire. and which Iv:agent
to himpy his uncles Mr.. Hunt. in the firm of Mersa. Longman,
burst and Co. Paternoster-row. It appeared thatethe ptwonet
Lad been for f 0 years in the Post tam, and for some years past
he had a situatioo of £2lO ratty, and was highly respected in
the office till suspicion fellou Lids- rued had Mr these twee years
past kept elegant lodging: in Norfulk-street. Strand. Ills situa-
tion in the otlice was a taxer.and charAer. The prisoner put in a
written defence, and Mr. Justice Park ha. iiig -stated the didirent
evidences which were adduced against him. nom which it appear-
ed that the letter in question had been proved to hare been put in
in London for Bury, and that no such letter had ever been re-
ceived there ; that on his being apprehended at the PoOcifilettan
the morning of the iftth of January, and cried to his Ind;dnga,
Atkins, the same at Cow-street, on searching his drawers, build
one of the Notes which had been enclosed is the letter addressed
to Bury ; dint On his bea; taken and charged by Mr Perkins,
b:e solicitor, of his being suspected of being guilty of coaling
monies nom different letters, use ptisuner replied ." I hare de:te
wrong, I am gaily." In his drawers .were found upwards of
2001. in Bank of llngland notes, part of which amounting to
231. he had est:vivid as part of its salary. the learned Judge
baring scorned up the whole of the evidence, the Jury with-
drew out of Court. and on their return gave their verdict, Nut
Guilly.—The prisoner on beingtakt.n from tha bar, VAS informed
that on Monday morning be would .be tiled on another charge,
and the parties were ordered to attend.