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man? He said his own name was Thomas Charley.
afterwards, tort it was Thomas Charles Phillips.
He said the lather of the young mail lived in John-
street. Witness took the young man into custody,
and ordered his mislaid' to fasten the dour, and
let Do aster go out, until he had brought a gentle-
inewtts..aereetais. ;be Web of what the.elder Phil-
lips had told him. Witness brought in * re-
spectable neighbour, who immediately told him the
part* jitthe house were fattier and son. The
alder -Wllips then said, witness could only hurt
the parties at whose house the things were
Witness bed not at that time told him .what his
balsas was, or that any thing had been found,
though he could mot swear that Isis eamstaid" had
Joot daring his abatises. Phillips further said he
know nothing, his mos .knew nothiog. nor would
'boy tall any thing. Witness read the warrant, and
took the old man into custody ; he then smirched
kiwi sad found apse hint one cuanterfrit shilling
(ibis was produced). and also ten good shil-
lbws, sod three good ss. tokens. Witness asked if
ite,knew Jamph Smith, of Houghmore. He said
.he did not, nor bed he been at Hales Owen this
labile or ten years. The younger Phillips denied
:hiraseriing Hales Owen. the Smiths, or Houghasore,
where, he maid, be hod never been in his life. After
this, osi the' same day, witness went to Mr. Robin-
eon's and took possession of the port of the press,
sod. in emsequence of giving the workmen trou-
ble. gave them also half • epees. Whew going to
take the Phillips's before the Megistrate* next day,
the elder Phillips called witness, and said he wished
to speak to loin. He said to witness, "If you will
admit see King's evidence. I will tell you a good
deal." Witness said. About this ?" Phillips
moiled, ea Aimed that, and a good deal more."
Witness, on being cross-examined, stated further,
that he apprehended Smith on the 9th of May;
that both he and Mr. Woodcock bud conversa-
tion with Smith that evening ; but he 'sever had
told Smith that he would have • reward for Con-
victing the Prisoners; in fact, he did not then, or
sow, know of such a reward ; the first he heard of
it was from the elder Phillips* after he was brought'
to prison. Smith end Phillips's were all commit-
ted to prison. He did not think himself entitled
to any ieward on this occasion, nor had any such
motive actuated his conduct.
Paul Higgs—Lives half • mile from Smith's.
Saw the younger Prisoner near Smith's on the morn-
ing or the Bth of May, about eight or nine o'clock ;
saw Joseph Smith with him, and walked together
with them oa the rood to Dudley near • quarter of
a mile.
Thomas Wilktts, servant to Mr. Grainger, de-
posed to the finding of the shilling before produced,
upon searching the house on the Sunday. He
flood it where the press stood.
Robert Norris, silversmith, Shrewsbury. was
swans, and produced his test. Mr. Morris exa-
mined the *lulling found on Phillips at Birming-
ham ; thought it was a mixture of copper and brass
—it was so in his judgment. He next
examin-
ed the shilling room.' in the press at Smith's,
thought it lied snore copper in it than the first. hut
it was also a mixture of copper slid brass. The
shilling found by Willett" was the same as the last.
—[lt did not appear in evidence that either of these
purses was 'willed; but, we believe. two of than
were.l—lle believed the white appearance of the
pieces to arise from a strong silvering, melted into
a liquid. which might either be applied by laying
the liquid on the pieces, or by boiling the pieces
is the liquid; and this might also be done either
Wrote or after the pieces were stumped. He ex-
amined the blank pieces, and said they were of the
acme metal as the two last-mentioned shillings.
Think. the blanks produced must be silvered
again, either before or after stamping, or else they
would not be passable when stamped. Believes the
uniting of pieces to be a second process. Believes
certainly that Me plain pieces produced could not
pass in their present state, without some other pro-
ves* besides stamping. Believes that those ion-
pressed which had been produced, had undergone
this further process, and might have been brought
back to the cellar where they were found, by the
proms. who used that cellar. With respect to
plated goods, he said, in those of English manu-
facture the silver was put us a body on copper,
French plated goods were differently manufuc-
toted.

This closed the evidence for the prosecution.
No witstrwo were called on behalf of the Prisoners.

The Prisoners were asked if they had any thing
to say in their defence ; when they replied that they
should leave it to their Counsel. Mr. HART had,
011 their behalf, previously cross-examined the seve-
ral witnesses, the result of which will be found nar-
rated in the condensed statement which we have
given of their respective depositions. No further
argon eat took place on either side.
The Learned Judge then stated the law as it re-
fated to the case, and recapitulated the whole of
the evidence to the Jury ; and, iu his subsequent
address to them, forcibly animadverted on the pe-
culiar circumstances under which the evidence of

Smith (the accomplice) and his family had been
give►►. observing that, unless the Jury were fully
satisfied of its general truth, by the corroboration
it received from the testimony of the other wit-
nesses, it would be their province So ctedit it with
great caution. But if from a coosideratiou of all
the evidence which had been adduced, they were
completely convinced of the guilt of the Prisoners,
their verdict must be give► accordingly. The lives
of the Prisoners were, however, in their hands ; and
ishoubl they I►ave any reasonable doubt on the sub-
ject, it was their duly to give the benefit of that
doubt to the Prisoners at the bar.

The Jury consulted for • few minute•, when
they returned a verdict of Guilty against both Pri-
soners.

This cue occupied the attention of the Court till

• I. the course of the proceedings, his Lordship ob-
served, that the Cowered for the prosecution bad acted wisely
to relying for coevictiou on that count or the indictment
which related to, the die. lied they relied upon the con-
victing they for coaelerfelting the current coin, he thought
the indictment could not have bees sustained, as it did not
appear eke, that say one of lb. pieces found were, at the
tinge they were found, in such a leashed state as to be pass-
able for the coin they were assumed to resemble. His
Lindship also observed, that if the Counsel fur the prose-
cution had relied on that part of the indictment which re-
ferred to the possession of the press, they could not convict
the Pliwniers; cur it was not clearly proved, although the
Prisoners were indicted together, that there was a joint pus•
s. mien of t►e press by father +tedium.

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