The National Register.
London, England, 1812-04-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

PROVINCIAL ASSIZES.

SURREY.

-,APRIL 6

KINGSTON, APRIL I.—. Adam, Lee, Thomas Lee, and Eleanor his
wife, were indicted for a highway robbery, by stopping Elizabeth Col-
lier, on the 21st of October last, and forcibly taking. from her her
cloaths, pockets, money, 3tc.
The prisoners were three gipsies, and the case excited a considerable
degree of interest, on account of the cruel manner in which the prose-
cutrix had been treated.
Elizabeth Collier, when called, was in a very languid and debilitated
state, from the ill ugage she had received. She stated that she lived at
Horsham, in this county, with Mr. Giles. On the morning of the
21st of October she was sent to Walton, by her mistress, and on her
return home she saw the three prisoners. The woman gipsy asked her
if she would have her fortune told ? She replied no, she knew her for-
very well. Immediatejy the prisoner Thomas Lee came up to her,
and caught her by putting his arm round her neck. The other came
up, and dragged 'her towards the park paling of Sir John Frederick's
park. While the men were dragging her, the woman kicked her seve-
ral times. They then loosened a paling from the park, and dragged
her through the aparture into the Old Park. Here they abused her
very much, by beating her violently. She fainted away, and when she
recovered she found that they had stripped her of her gown, pockets,
petticoat, &c. and left her almost naked. She made a noise, but they
were not gone, and they returned back again, and told her if she mad.:
any more noise tilt), would murder her. She then described the dress
of all the three.—She said that Thomas Lee, the ta;ler gipsy, had more
hair and Whiskey. They were taken the next day, and she recognized
them again, eitcept that :he whiskers of Thomas Lee had been shaved
eft
Another witness proved, that she passed:the same place shortly be-
fore, and she saw tho three prisoners near the spot which the prosecutrix
had described as the same of the robbery. •
For the prisoners an alibi was set up ; to *wort which a great num-
• bee of witnesses were called.
1 The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty.

LAUNCESTON:
Wyatt, of Fowey, was tried at these Assizes, for the nrardf.r
and robbery of Isaiah Falk Valentine. The prisoner kept a public-
house in Dock, called the Jolly Bacchus, from whence he removed in
November last, to the Rose and Crown, at Fowey. The dpeceasel
person of the Jewish persuasion, Wah in habits of intimacy with tile
prisoner. About the kith of November, two letters were aedressed to
Valentine (then in Dock) by the prisoner, desiring him to come down
to Fowey, where he (the priscnerl had some buttons, or guineas, to
dispose of. Relying on this statement, Valentine. accordingly went
hwn on the 19th of the same 'onth; but on his arrival, instead of
introducing lialentine' as he had proposed, to the persons whom he had
stated as dealing in coin, the prisoner contrived to amuse and deceive
hint, in various ways, until Monday evening, the 25th of, Novenfo!r,
when, under the pretence of taking him (Valentine) to Captain Best,
• he led him to a place or quay called the Broad Slip, in Fowey, and
pushed him into the water, where he first suffocated, and then robbcd
him of ::601. which be afterwards deposited in a heap of dung on his
own premises.—No doiiht, whatever mild be entertained of the pri-
soner's guilt, front a long but strong train of circumstantial evidence;
and after a trial of eleven hours' continuance, he was found guilty of
felony and murder, and sentenced to be hung at Launceston.

DERBY.
These Assizes were attended by great crowds of persons. One of
the most dangerous gangs of nightly depredators that has infested Eng-
land for many years has been broken up. They were formed by one
John England, who resided at a little stone-house, the fir on the right
hand on entering Derby, from Nottingham. This gang was wholly
made up of deserters, with the exception of England, w ho, as a brewer,
labourer, and petty-huckster, wed every art for the purpose of finding
a cover for the rest. lie never went out himself with his comrades to
plunder, but always p.inted out the object ; and his concubine (wite
of one Matthew Bush, of Wessington, who was the principal witness
against one of the depredators on these trials, and who was attempted
to be seized as a deserter as he entered the 1111), provided them with
caps, masks, and other things necessary for disguise: He used to have
a share of the plunder; but at length he outwitted himself. Three of
these depredatbrs, James Tomlinson, Perceval Cook, and John Eng-
land, were put to the bar, charged with entering a dwelling-house, at
midn;glit, on the 23d of December, and robbing Mr. Hunt, at 0.;brol:-
mill, of thirty-five one-pound -notes, and several other articles. Ihe
prisoners were found guilty. Cook and Tomlinson were then convicted
on another indictment, of the robbery of the house of Mr. Brentneal,
at Lock-grange.

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