The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-08 00:00:00

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in his side pocket, containing 1701. and in the morning it was
gone. Suspicion alixliting upon the prisoner, officers acre•
sent after her, and she %I'm at leo4th apprehended at Liver-
pool. Several of the notes were found in her pus-essi,in.
interrupted, -c he said the prosecutor had given them
to her. . . .

The Jnry flood the pri.ooer flovilrv. It apprarc,l sn'aso
gocody tlvit 361. out of the 1701. had only been 'recovered,
and about 51. worth of clothe..

2WEIML4DAY.

r. Longlmrst was indicted ftit:stealing two doves and sel
live pigeons, the property of Mrs. Video' inc snow.
Toe prorecutria resides at Sunbury ; on the night of the lOM
o October, the t)ove house WAS broken into, and robbed as
above stated, and on the following morning the prisoner
of a number of pigeons ir sale at a woman': in Damp-
stead•road, but she would not purchase them ; anti it being
afterwards ttodetstood that they WPi e stolen, the prisoner
was pursued anti taken in the New Road, and he then said
they were all sold. It was afterwrails discovered that the
prisoner liad left 29 of them at the house of one Stevenson,
near Battle Bridge. Three of them were produced and
sworn to, one of them tieing a carrier, and a fourth was pro-
tM which died on Tuesday night.—Guilty.
At rots Iley stated, that now the verdict hail been returned, he
stood with propriety inform the Jury, that the prisoner had
twice been admitted as an evidence in this Court. lie also
stated, that Mrs. Stevenson had bought:it) of the pigeons fur
stis. and 1,411 denied that the pigeons were in her possestiion.
Tills was denied by Mrs. Stevenson; butt the ollieer, being
railed up, positively said, that, out his going to her house,
she deisiett that she load any of the pigeons.
Mr. Alliy observed, that if lie had known this before, else
should have been indicted as an accessary,—Mrs. Stevenson
said, she had give,' eon amount for them.

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Mr. Alley thforino,l her, that it was not necessary, to sus-
tain an indictment for receiving stolen goods, that the person
so receiving them should have paid for Owns.
W. ilingley was indicted for stealing, ou the 1211. of An-
gist, three Bank notes for the payment of at. each, and
other monies, to the amount 01'671. the property of ---
I.)tiland.

The prosecutor is an• Irish jabber, and on the day before
oientlonett he sold six heiferste a Mr. Lawrence, at 110niford
Market, for 631. rice prisoner assisted the prosecutor to
(hire the cattle, mad on their return they laid down together,
and the prosecutor fell asleep, awl on awaking, llie prisoner
Was Witte and also his pocket haok. The prisoner
was apprehended a fete days ayter, cud three notes for 51.
.each, which were paid to the pro,e'ratitr by Mr. Lawrence,
were found concealed in his breeches--Grility,
AI. L.vv was indicted fur reee ivi:, ,mt the -Itli of October,
algdeer coffee-pot, v line 201.; a tankard, rattle 101. ; 30 sil.
vet spoons, value :1. ; and A Variety of articles of plate,
kunwhia theta toil:see been stolen, the property of W. Chi.
.tow
The circumstances of this ease have been fully developed
In the trial of FL Morris and J. Dennis, who were con vie tril
of having stolen The articles.

J. Braid, the aocottytire, who had !tern three years ;n Mr.
clotows service, went o% er his Former evideoce,'and stated,
that he end Morrii took the prate to the ptiSeliCr
Pettienat-lane ; and that on the cttoie day. Levy met them at
111orris'i lodgings, and gave Alurris a banditti of notes, six of
which Hottan rave to the witness, who spent two, and hutted
Mott. The accomplice teas -corroborated In a few of the
minor facts.

Six lir seven, apparently respectable) people, gave the pri-
soner a good character, one of who.ii had known him for 56
years.--The Jury retired, and on their re:tau funiid We
soner Nut
THEMSDAY.

Jaynes Ward was indicted jot steatiare 401. note, the pro"
perty of A. tliscork.
A tew da)s ago, Thomas Manic was eanyjetod or stealing
- this very note from the relent prosee,itor, who is CO.schalall
to a Mr. Gunter. By the evidence on that [6.'l, it appeared
. that the brother of the prisoner Morris (JaineA Mori is) had
been sent In get Alie note changed at a draper's shop in the
Strand ; that the bllOrnati had peen ,eat to the Bank with the
note, and that Ire, instead of bringing it back. atiieondeil with
it. The prisoner Ward, now at the bar, is that very sliernati
who ran off.

Mrs. ll'hoia Simmons, the wife of Mr. Simmons, a draper
in the :itrand, and J4IIIPS Morris, were again examined, and
repeated their former statements.
Smithers, the officer who apprehended Ward, said that the
prisoaer hail informed him that lie had lost and spent all the
401 in travelling, and had wily a portmanteau, a silk hand-
kerchief, and two snuff boxes lett.
'The officer then stated, that the Bank clerk, William Hook,
who had attended on the former trial, now refused to be pre-
sent, or to produce the bank note, unless lie received a gui-
nea or a -oubpecna. The prosecutor had been unable to give
tile guinea, and the consequence was the absence of the
rincipal witness.
The Recorder.—Have you erved him with a snbpiena.
. .

Sinithers.-1 did not think it necessary.
The Recorder.—You should have told me of the denim-
stance before the trial, or have sersed him with a subpoena.
I would have seen about the guinea when I got hint here.
Smithers repeated, that he dirt slot imagine it had been ne-
cessary, as be had attended on the last trial. He told me
after the last trial that he would not attend without a sub-
Ilona or a guinea.
!Ilse Recorder then told the Jury to acquit the prisoner on
.recount or the absence of tin. material WilllcsS. The July re_
United a ye:diet—Not Guilty.
ltaehrl Alitehell was convicted of stealing a quantity of
we string apparel, the property of Etizabeth Wilde. By tile
evidence it appeared, that the prisoner committed the theft in
older to obtain liquor; hut in her defence site said that tier
husband was a great drunkard ; and that she and her children
tail been left tivr days at a time without a morsel of bread to
put in tacit
A juryman obses cl, that a few months ago thr prisoner's
husband threw he!, dead drunk, 011! of a ourpuir'ifstilts
window. The husband teas a senor man, and had frequently
vrot ked for
The Recorder.—How long shall we confine her, gentlemen,
to make her sober
A Juryman.-1 think she may be sober in a imnith.
The 'teem de.•.—Theis we will gibe her two months to
bring her completely to her sense•.