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London, England, 1822-01-13 00:00:00

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the declaration that a man kept it greyhound for the de-
struction of game, anti then the que•tion is, how do you
prove the destructiou cannot allow that the mere
keeping a dog is proof of the killing of game, or that it
moist he presumed such was the object of the party,—
Proof of the killing is required. If it were not so, a man
%shit keeps a setter or [archer, to defend Isis house, or fol-
low his carriage, or for the amusement of his children,
would be liable to the penalty—ts Inch it never could be
the intention of the Legi.ritme to impose in such a Case.
Mr. Justice Bayley.— NH proceedings under the sth
of Anne, which have conic within my experience, have
required evidence not only to show that the defendant
kept dogs and engines for the destruction of game, but
that he actually destroyed game.
Mr. Justice I iolroyd stated a case tried at York, namely
an action in Traver, against a Magistrate, for seizing a
dog, and, as it was mot kept for sporting purposes, the
Court held, that the parties had no right to seize it.
Mr. Justice Best said, this was an action on a penal sta.
tine, and it reqiiired a strict consti uctiou. Persons got
their livelihood by training and Winging up dogs, and
every one of that class would be liable, if the rigid con-
struction contended tor was to be allowed. Ile had never
known an action in which the were keeping of a dog was
sufficient to convict the party.
The rule for a nonsuit was made absolute.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.
WRDNESDAY, JAW. g.—The Sessions commenced at
Justice-hall, in the 01d Bailey, this morning, before
Chief Baron Richarda, Mr. Justice Burrough, Sec.
Samuel Home was indicted for stealing two mares,
value 601. the property of Mr. David Getting% ; and
William Smith Cutts was charged with receiving the
same, knowing them to have been stolen.
Mr. Gettiogs is a farmer at Godstone, in Surrey, and
the mares in question were missed on the lath ult. from
a field in which they were at pasture. Mr. G. came im-
mediately to London, and, with an officer of Union
Hall, obtained iniOrmation, which induced him to go to
Narrow-walk, Paddington, where Cutts occupied stables,
and where Mr. G. saw one of his mares. He inquired
to kvlions the stable belonged, and Cutts presented him-
self as the owner. Mr. Gettings said he wanted to pur-
chase two horses, and Cutts took him into a stable, but
not the one in which he had seen the mares. He said
there were none in that stable that would suit hint, and
asked Cutts whether he had any cart horses in the other
stable. He hesitated, but at length said lie had only two
yomig colts, that had never been shoal. Mr. G. pressed
to lie shown into that stable, and Cutts opened the dour,
and there NI r. Geo logs found his two mares; their shoes
had been taken oil before they were turned into the pas-
ture, but it was impossible that a man experienced in
horses could mistake them for colts that had never been
shod. Mr. Gettings claimed the mares, and said they
were stolen property ; and Cutts accompanied him and
the officer to a public horse in the neighbourhood,where
he pointed mit Ilome as the man from whom he had re.
reived them, and statmal, that he and another man had
brought theta to his stable on the previous night, and
requested to leave them for the night. The pristniers were
taken to Union Ilan, where Home made a confession of
his guilt, amid told the name of the man who had accom-
panied hint when he stole them.
When the case was nearly closed, the learned Judge
(Ilurrough) expres-ed an opinion, that there was no evi-
dence beyond the declaration of C.uns (which could not
be taken against !tomes, that Heine .ever had possession
of the mares in Nliddlesex ; and the venue therefore was
wrongly laid.
The prisoners were found Not Guilty; but an order
was given for their detention, to he tried again in Surrey.
THURSDAY, JAN.PR•SECUTIONSo—J•
Tye was put to the bar on an indictment charging him
with hacang put off, and disposed of, a hive-poand Bank
note, purporting to be one of those issued by the Gover-
nor and Company of the .Bank of England, he well-
knowing it to he forged and counterfeit.
Harriet Cuff, the wife of George Goff, the police-
officer, deposed to her having been employed by Kinsey,
the officer of the Town-hall, Southwark, to purchase
some bad notes of the prisoner, at the Jacob's Well,
Barbican, and other public-houses, the last of which
was on the '7th of December, at the White-horse,
Brick-lane, where she purchased a 61. note of the prisoner
for a sovereign. Witness because acquainted with the
prisoner through the means of one Mary Dowling.
The notes as ere presed to be forgeries in every respect,
by Mr. Glover. the bank inspector.
The Chief Baron recapitulated the evidence, and the
Jury, alter a short consultation, returned a verdict of
Guilty—Death. Aged 42.
William ageti 17, was indicted for uttering a
forged tot. note. In December last he went to the shop
of r. Bowen, in Oxford-street, stationer, and ordered a
quantity of paper, for which he paid a ilk note, and
tit treetco the paper to be be:it to Mr. Mum's, in George-
street, Port th to square, The paper was sent as directed,
but it was lound that none had been ordered. On a
subsequent day the prisoner offered another lul. note to
Mr. Wedgewocal, another stationer in Oxford.street, in
paymeut for some paper and pens, which he said he
was directed to purchase fur Mr. Scott, of Bedford-row.
Mr. Wedgewomel, however, suspecting it to be forged,
sent for two officers, arid the prisoner was taken into
custody.
The prisoner in his defence said he had only one
request to make, and that was, that his life might be
spared.
Mr. Justice Burrongh said, that did nut depend upon

him.
The Jory then found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly
recountienticd him to mercy on occount of his youth.
Mr. Wedgewood, the prosecutor,juined in the recom-
mendation, and was proceeding in au agitated manner to
state, that his happittebs in life would he for ever cut oft
if the law took its lull course, when
Mr. Justice 13/11r041 napped him, and said the Court
could only Wen to the reommiendanuti.
Curt. Laic; AND StAuutsu.--Juhu Ctook., a man of

middle age, was indicted for cutting and maiming Nlary
Ann Nelson, with intent to kill and murder her.
Thomas' Lce lived in the same house with the prisoner,
and he heard a nose above stairs, and went up and saw
he prisoner and rosecutroc siruggling togoliet. The
former had a knife in his hand, which witness took from
him and pushed hint up stairs, desiring him to einem
his passion. The woman seemed touch frightened.
—.Read, jun. the police officer, produced a knife
which he found in the prisoner's room. It was very
bloody when he found it. Ile also produced an apron.
which was stained widi blood.
The learned Judge summed up the evidence, and the
Jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner Not
Guilty.
Chief Baron Richards said he could not part with the
prisoner without repeating the Avice given him by the
witness Le..—" Govern your passions."
Read, the officer, said, there was another indictment
against the prisoner for bigamy, and lie was unit red to be
detained.
FRIDAY, JAN. I—CHARGE OF MURDBR.—.This
morning 1). Mahoney was indicted for the murder of

It Needs.
Mr. k. Harrison, a pupil at the London-hospital,
deposed that he saw the deceased when he was brought
to the hospital on the 13th of November. lie bail
wound on the front of the head, hut he did not discover
that his skull was fractured until three or four days after.
The cause of death was an iisflonimation on the lungs.
the body was and it was 'timid that the deceased
had been subject to pulmonary inflammation, but the
fracture of the skull was the cause of the inflammation
of which he died.
'l'. Staggs, landlord of the Green Man, Whitechapel,
swore, that on the night of the I2th of Noveatitier, about
lit o'clock, the prisoner and the deceased came tuts this
house together, and after being them some time the mi.
toner said " You know you gave me a slip in the face
once, and 1 did not deserve it."—Deceased said " You
do not bear malice, do you r Prisoner replied, " 1 have
not forgotten it, and you had better look out for yourself,
for L shall look out for you.—They were drinking to-
gether before and after this conversation and seemed very
friendly.
J. Mattis, a coster-monger, was at the Green Man.—
Prisoner and his two partners went out first, and the de.
ceased went out alone shortly after. Witness and
Francis went out alone behind him. The prisoner and
his friends were walking before the deceased, and all at
mice he saw Needs fall, and the prisoner and his friends
ran away. When Needs fell he was not above two
yards from the prisoner. Witness pursued the fugitives
but could not overtake them, and he returned and found
the deceased in the care of a watchman. Witness, with
the watchman and another, took the deceased home to
Catherine.wheel alley. lie was wounded out the side of
the head, and bled very much. He seemed very ill.—
Witness cut his hair off, and applied a plaister to the
wound, and then went away.
Other witnesses confirmed the preceding evidence.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character.
Mr. Justice Parke summed up the evidence, and the
Jury found the prisoner—Not Guilty.
CHAROF OF Mu aotta.--Thontas Stratford stood in-
dicted for the wilful murder of Abraham Slade. lie was
charged also upon the Coroner's Inquisition with man-
slaughter.
Tne evidence in this case, which was that of Mr.
Slade, the butcher, of Tottenham Court-road, did not
differ in any point front what we reported as given before
ir Coroiter's Jury, and
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of Manslaughter.