The National Register.
London, England, 1816-04-08 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.
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Wednesday the Retisiona c..in,rnenced at tilt 0:..1
whet, rota pt tomer: were capitally convicted. viz. E. 11r %ant
and W re. 1,,t n, for lot- tztariettAy• bleakitig and enteric:;
the dwellii.g ititto.e ttf J Fillisou. and stealing tteve:al grti-
der of %witting appa.el. the pioperty of R. E. Mime; and
T. Daley and 1 Morning, fnr i.tegling three 'Acres of (alien.
valtte.to,.. the property- of Me,srs. Pearse, Aunty, and An-
•tev in ih • el welliite, home of W. l'eanie.
Thitniday. .1. smith wa< indicted fir breal:ing into the
Itotoe of J. Siinpkiii, anti ctcaltng a looking-glass—Guilty,
Lath. . .

.1. Morris, T. Coker. Enz. Henley, and Ann Moore, live
Indicted for clam ing the dwellitn•house of Emanuel Mug*.
and stealing a quantity of silk shawls, handkerchiefs, and
sarsne:s. Mori is and Coker ,Guiity—Death ; anti
Moore acquitted.
M. Moven for assaulting J. Wood on the highway, and
tai tug from his person entl. in Batik notes, his pope, ty,
Nt ae al,n capitally man hied.
11. Robes is was put to the bar; when an indictment was
read, chwing him with stealing carious promissoiy tiotm,
the propel ty of B. and W. Williams, W. Motiliti, and W.
IL Burgess.
Mr. Alley, counsel for the prosecution, after entering at
great length upon the circumstances of the case, and the
recent conyiesion of White, alias Konkey Beau. with whom
41040iscts stood indicted as a principal, stated, that the pi esent
indictment could not be sustained. inasmuch as thee was
no evidence against liti% as a principal, in which charactei
.he was indicted; and thrt the notes were not of that species
-of property descril.cd in the act •ifisarliallicot (you which
.the indictment was tOundell, and which would t ousomo.
an act essary after di.. fact; therei;rre the prisoner must
be acquitted oil the indictment as it stood; but he was
fig oily of opinion that the prisoner migiit be tt red for a
conspilacy, and ni order to effect this, he prayed the Con, t
hint until an indictment was pliferred against
!kiln before the Gland Jury.
Loud Ellenborough was of the same opinion with the
learned Counsel. .

.1 verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly recoided; and
the prisoner was ordered to be detained.
Friday, Susannah Newman was indicted for stealing a
,wan b, a.eal, a In oath, a shawl, &c. the property cf.l. Lane.
Guilty—Death.

John l'aaner was indicted for manslaughter, in killing
Painter, the infant child of his (laughter, Mary l'aintch
Mary Painter deposed, that her father asked her Inothei
to tr.o to market for some meat, which he refused to do, and
,made use of very foul words. tier father got tip to beat her
brother, and potting his knife away in a rage, he tlnew it
from him, and it entered the child's head. her father did
not throw the knife at her brother. Th.! knife was one
forhich he used to eat his victual-, and to kill cattle ; bein
butcher.) The child was CM witness's knee. I ler father
was find of the child. it lived two days after the unfOrtu-
na:e accident. •

-- Painter. the son. said, his father ordered him to go
4o market, and he said he would not, and us -d foul km-
guage to him. Ills father got up front his dinner in a vo.
lent passion, and witness ran out of doors.
A Surgeon foutid a wound on the child's head, al,•out an
inch in length, but it had not penetrated the skull. Ile
'gra of opiition that the child died from loss of blood.
Gad Ellenborough held, that as the p, ironer patted with
the knife in a rage, his offence amounted to manslaughter.
of Manalaii6hter.
Si TURDAY-BURGt.AR V.

Joseph Myers, Emanuel Amon, and Joseph Emanuel,
were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the
dwelling-house of David Davis, iu the night time, and
ateming therein a variety of articles of wearing apparel,
household linen, &c.
Theie being no direct evidence to effect the prisoners,
they wei e acquitted.
Henry Pother was indicted for stealing three books ri-
sately. in the shop of J. S. Setehell. a hookeller livinpin
King Street, Covent Garden, on the 7th of March.
The prisoner went into the shop under the pretence of
purchasing some books ; hut on going away, the prosecutor
suspected the theft, fUnoweit, and took him into custody.
On his was back lie dropped the hooks.—guilty.
There wets four other indictments against Lim.

POLICE.

lIATFON-GARDEN.

Monday,J. P. Drury, late an officer in the City Militia, who
has been examined at Worship-street, Queen-square, and Bow-
street, on various charges of felony, was charged with breaking
into the Chambers of Messrs Long and Attain, in Gray's Inn,
and stealing right gold watch seals, seven of which were toned
at a pawnbroker's in Charing.(.l'o,ol. Several Gentlemen, rela-
tit es of the prisoner, represented to the magi►trates the lament-
able state of derangement of the prisoner's mind ; that his half.
was 601. a year; and that it was their wish to get him into
some place of t ctitrc. Ile was committed to the infirmary of the
lionseutsCorrection. in order to be got into the New Bedlam,
in St. George's Fields, the magistrates promising to sign his pe-
tition.