The National Register.
London, England, 1818-09-14 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

W,•doesJay the SPl•ions commenced before the Lord
Mayor, Mr. Baron Graham, Mr. Jnatiee Bayley, end Mr.
Ja.stiee Hos rmit:ls. Ali. Baron °arrow was also on ilie Bench,
btu the Ic..rned Judge was only attending to wait the reunit
of a prieseessiiosi in whicu it was probable Isis teNtielluily
Mould be revirsd ; it w.e• the caw of lialloran, for forgifig
a frank, purporting to Ise from Sir Win. Oarrow, when be was
a N11.11.1,..i of Parliidaivnt.

John roz v.; 4181 INAS the first prisoner pat to the bar, chem.
e.l with lia%lll2'. ( n the ;it eh of may last, Restudied George
Das is on the King's highway, and taken from hint a watch,
value 41., and twu seals value 21. The prisoner was a det...nt
looking young man, 25 years of •ne, deaf and dumb ; an iu.
est.' eter attended to esnlain to I the prosecutor's testi-
, and a1..0 to interpret to the Court the prisoner's dc.
fence.

The prosecutor stated, that on the night mentioned in the
indictment, he was going along Georgt-sti cot, Bloomsbury,
between twelve and one o'clock, when he observed some wo-
men gust retliug ; he paused to listen to them, and observed
three men twining towards BIM; sloe of them, the prisoner,
came up and knocked oft the witness's hat, nit at one of the
lathers forced his watch not of his fob and ran off. Witness
seized the prisoner and culled the watch, by whom he was
•II eon-ell to he token to the vinteb house.
The prieoni r, by signs', drided the charge ; lie stated by
signs that on the night in question, hr Will going along George-
street, a woman had hold of hip arnt ; lie saw three men as
described by the prosecutor ; lie supposed the watch might
be rallied, but he did tart her- it, as lie is dears% Welton dumb ;
the first know:* Eke lie•hail of the tiansaction wits the WHiCII-
Pianroming np end seizing him. Verdict —Cittilly of stealing
from the person.
James Higgins and Wm. Mitchell were indicted for a isms
glary n theliouse of Mr. Dawson, iu the parish of s'. George,
Bloomsbury mud Sarah :Mitchell, Aim Higgins. mid Edward
Mitchell, fur receiving the stolen propertj, Kell kuowing it
to be stolen. . . .

Mary Taylor, servant to Mr. Dawson, slated, thus she was
vii_• last person who went to bed on the 21st ofJtely last.—
About ;liree o'clock en the morning of the 2211, she was railed
up by the watchman, and on cult: duo n stairs discovered
that a hole had been cut in the kitchen Manner large
enough to admit a person's band to unfasten the window ; that
some person had been in the house, and the drawers and closets
opened, and canons articles of wearing apparel and plate had
been taken away; the hole in the window shutter had been
stopped up with a table cloth, to prevent any light being seen
in the street.
Richard Lillywhite, a watchman, stated, that as he ass
going his rounds about 20 minsites before three., lie discovered
a liquor stand and a I,air of pantaloons lying on the ground ,
be took them sip, and on exami ii iii g them found a letter ad-
dressed to Mr. Dawson. 'Phis caused him to go to 3k. Daw-
son's, and alarm the family.
James Smith, watch house keeper of St. Pancras, stated
that he stopt the two prisoners, James Higgins and William
Mitchell, in Skinner-street, Sinners Town, about 5 o'clock 1.11
the morning of July 22 ; they had each a bundle under their
arm, which, on examination, was found to contain various
articles talplate and o caring apparel, and some skeleton keys,
and a chisel ; the place where he met them was about a poin-
ter of a mile from Mr. Dawson's house.
Sir. Dawson identified the several articles found in the
poseession of the too prisoners as being his property, and as
being worth, 141.
The evidence in establish the chary, of receiving against
the other three prisoners failing, they were, mailer the direc-
tion of the learned Judge, Mr. Justice 11in-rough, 'ermined.
The other two pilasters made no defence, and were found
Guilty.
Fonnian A FltANK.—Lawrence Hynes Halloran, alias W.
C. Gregory, alias Holland, was next placed at the bar, cliarg.
elf with writing and sending a letter by post, theseperscrip-
t ion of which was forged, in the name of Sir William Garrow,
Knight, Member of Parliament, for the Purpose and with the
intent of avoiding payment of the duty of postage, Meowing
the same to be forged.

The prisoner is a man of most respectahie appearance and
demeanour, and a clergyman; he was dressed in black, and
wore pow der, and is he eween 50 and 60 years of age; on en.
tet ing the Cinirt he bowed first to the behch, and then to all
aronnil. (In the question of guilty or not giiiity being put
by the clerk, lie addressed the Court as follows:
Mr. Lord, owing to the long period of nay confinement on
this charge, upwards of 20 nmettlis,the death during thatpe-
riod of the only witness who conk, ;tore substantiated my
innocence, the exhortation of my pecui&rry resources, and
soy consequent inability to employ cociarel, or bate the ad-
vantage of professional ads ice, 1 have no alternative left pie
but to plead guilty to the eflenee with which I am charged.
Mr. Baron Graham -advised the prisoner to consider w ell
the effects 'Otitis plea before lie persisted itt it.
Primmer.— My lord, I have no alternatise : I stand here
mutinied and defeoceleas against a phalanx of powerful op.
ponents arrayed againat me, and determined to pet seente.—
It would be a waste of your Lordship's time to plead not
guilty. I inti•t persist in my plea.
Mr. Baron Graham o3served, if the prisoner persisted hi
his plea of utility, it most be taken that lie was satisfied' it ith
the justice of the eltaige. The only object which the Conti
could hair was to brim.; truth to light. He might plead not
guilty it he chose, and thus promote inquiry but he otaulit
lot to plum' anil whilst glnitn.: so import. %ulit-five
motives to those aho prosecuted. His plea IX guilty taus)
be token as an arktimilcilcnient of the troth of the chorus'.
A sidici tot who was to Coto t said he hail some know Irilge
sof the pti-oner, nod iswould, wirlt his Lorthltip'4
advise lii in. The Coort ticsii cal he la wird du it), awl be writ
to the itt IstaMr for that purpose.
1 Ire prisoner, however, rein-cal his prof eredserviee, and
ob-r used, " I have derided to plead uttina." I tr, pica was
then hal a. and he hoist at to the Coital and setirril.

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entered the hiisme of Alt resin irk Milano.. in the Si
stolen n %liver ten pot Anil other Artie*. plate; %.111it• 101.
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