The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-21 00:00:00

TUESDAY.

DIABOLICAL CHARGE.—Jeremiah Haley was put to the
bar, tinder ale indictment charging I with bailing felonious..
ly assaulted Samuel Thorp on the highway, and having
forcibly taken him into custody. In another count, he was
charged with having attempted to extort money from the
prosecutor under a threat of accusing him of having been
guilty of a most heinous crime.
We refrain from detailing the facts of this case from am_
fives of common decrier y, the circumstances discussed being
so abhorrent to human endure. It &ppm ed that the prosecies
tor is • t lad, living In the service of a Mr. Martingale,
of Lower Catlogan-place, Sloane-street. On the night of the
28th of November last he was going throngli the Park, when
he was violently assaulted by the pi isoner and a man of the
name of Dyer, who had unfortunately escaped deiectiou.—
They asksed him for money, but la hail none about him. In
going through the Park the prisouer said, •6 we will be met.
ciltil to yon, being a you'll; servant e"' bat his companion im-
mediately Observed, s•D—n you, Captain Reilly, if you drat
do your duty, I will report you to the committee to-morrow."
Being very much terrified, the prosecutor told them, that he
would give them a 11. note, if they would go along with hini.
They all three went through Knightsbridge and opposite a
butcher's shop the prosecutor had presence of mind enough
to tell them he wanted to get some meat for his master's
supper, and would return to them immediately. He told his
I stogy to the butcher ; and the prisoner and Iris compirolon,
seeing the butcher come oat, ran off as fast as they could.—
The prisoner was overtaken, and Dyer escaped.
The prisoner, in Isis defence, retaliated upon the prosecutor,
and ari•used him of having knocked hire down, and stolen his
money.
The Jury, without troubling the Costultifnergeant to sum
up the evidence, formula verdict—Gtifity.
The Common Sergeant then addressed the prisoner as
follows:—" Prisoner, you have been guilty of a most heinous
oßence. Yon are our of a most desperate gang of thieves and
vagalronds, and it es my duty to banish you from society.—
The crime of which you have now been must justly ce,nvicied
is fortunately one of rare occurrence, and depend upuu it
you will receive the utmost punishment the law will allow. I
shall now pass sesitence upon you, because, bad as the chas
ravers are of those infamous persons now coutined in New-
gate, I do nut choose that such a base villain as you should be
suffered to stand by the side of others, who, at the end of the
Session, will be brought to receive the sentence of the law.
am afraid that, were you suffered to mix with them, they
would be contaminated by you. The ssidence of the law is,
that you be transported beyond the seas to such part as his
Majesty's Council shall die ect and appoint, fur the term ot
years. 1 do not expect that any thing that 1 can say well
snake any impression 'pore such a v Main as you are ; but
depend upon it that your compailions in guilt will be detected,
and will receive the punishment they deserve."
The prisoner was then taken from the bar.

The Officer who apprehended the prisoner observed, that ti e
prisoner was one of a desperate gang of three, the persons of
all of whom he knew, and would apprehend them.
Mr. Alley, who had been employed as Counsel on the part
of the prosecution, told the Conn that a short tiine ago h•
had defended the prisoner and his companion, at the Middle•
sex sessions, for a similar oflence to the present, also upon a
poor servant lad. 'the I risoners were Thenacquitted; Rod
the man at the bar bad the Impudence to to me an action for
false imprisonment. Such vms the chaser it of this info ))))) us
ruffian. No name was had enough fur sorb a wretch—such
A pest upon society.
It appears to he a system, carried to a great extent by these
gangs of robbers, to attack poor servant., and, matter the
threat of r pining their character, to extort money Irmo them,
sometimes to a large amount.
WEDNESDAY.
This morning the Court proceeded to try the remaining
fo►gery cases before Mr. Baron Wood and Ms. Jumice
Huh oyd.

The first prisoner put to the bar was J. Kingston.
Mr. Serjratit Itosangnet applied to the Court for permir
lion IU proceed against the prisoner 'writ; fur the minor
offence, to which he had already pleaded guilty, but had
since withdrawn his plea.
The prisoner was then indicted for haring In his pos•es-
sinn three ringed notes, and betel' in company with another
pr who was engaged its uttesing notes of the
ription.
011 the application of the prisoner, the wittirisms were
a tiro rat out ut Court, and separately introduced to give their
esi.lenee.

It. Roilianey ►rated, that he nu, an auctioneer, end twitted
at No. ISt. in the strand. 0., Saturday night, the 19th of
trptetrtlae►, he saw the piiiiuner anti auuther oasis, in the
drys► of tit rinen ; lbcy value into hi► alieliutio oven iheat
eight o'clock in the evening, dining the sane, and liongt
for 28. rid. a 91010,111‘1111'S knife. %ills eight insirtinit or
whirls the plisone r it ridered a 1.. noir. Witneba inokril at
the note , and rather us pre% ed it. He then asked

snarl; write his -name- twrithiress on the note, butt he
way not certain whether it wee the prisoner or his corn-
passion, whit was with hint all the time, who signed the
lime. The address. wrote upon it was, "
MP& 011ire.—Mr. Kingston, Lombard-street." The corn-
pienisow of the prisoner said, they were well-known, and
.nerd to the Hand-in-Hand Fire Mice, where they had
tams Me ',cite. The note now prodnerd was the same which
the primmer and his companion tendered at the witness's
Auction-room.

Cross-examined.--Several persons gave him notes on that
night, hut they all marked them. The prisoners eerie
strangers. lie passed away the note after the sale to an
eming-lionse keeper ; and thong!' he sas➢rcted it was not
Kind. he said nothing oboist his suspicions to the 1111111 to
whom he passed it. The Bank certainly told him a man
was ia custody, and they desired him to go and see if he
wa, the same who passed the note. He 'lwo went to Marl.
hotoogli.street Police-odiee, and identified the prisoner as
being the man who missed the note at his Auction.rouoi.
Re-examined.—Hr knew Hooper for a twelvemonth. The
prisoner took the change of the note.
Prisauer.—That is false, my Lord, I never saw the man
before la my life.
Examined toy the Jury.—l did not tell Hooper that I sns.
petted it was a load one, although the baker had previously
refuse:l to take it. It was a matter of opinion then, and I
could rot speak decisively until I had the opinion of the
Bank. .

'C. tisrrett said, lie was a Messenger in the Hand-in-Hand
Vile Offiee. On the 19th of September the prisoner was
rot employed in that Office ; he had been in the service six
years ego.
C. Masters, a Collector of the Watch Rate for the Precinct of
White Friarodiving in Temple-lane, said, that Cotnbaril..strert,
Fleet-street, eonitisti of about 18 houses; he knew
lionseleolder ; the prisoner did not live there on the 19th of
September lest ; witness never knew that a person named
Kingston lived i that street; witness knew the prisoner, and
knew that he did lint live there.
J. Wakely 'Owed, that lie was a cheesemotiger, living at
No. 61, Upper East Smithfield. On the 21,1 of Jetty last, about
three o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner came into his
shop and purchased 4 piece of Interns, whirl) came to 9s. 14.1.
in I,4ys,!ent of which he tendered a 11. note. Witness sus.
peeled it nt44 4 hail one, and in the front, on the right-hand
side nt:ir, was the name of ' ‘l4eltay," sir some such name
Witness went out under preleilee of getting it changed;
and Mines, .1 neighbour, lent him his 111411, Haggerty, to take
the note to an officer, and get I • to attend. The officer
soon Feint with the nate iu his hand, and apprehended
the prisoner. Tile note produced wile the same. On the
prisoner being searched, he h id more silver than was 011101111
to pay for the barer,
Cross examined 'my H . html, himself, frequently
changed n tes use,. nail sil v,•ir iu his pocket.
111rAlley. yu.,t aitl recolleet,Grilliveine.i, that this is not the
gate svniru lie 41111.'1.10.in trsined ; lllet woe paid to
the ire 4410 '4l lirer.
J. Haggerty said he was a barker to Moses, the Jew; and
corroborated the former witness.
Hyde said, the note nrodueed was the ene brought to him
by Haggerty. He &Aril the prisoner where lie got the stole, and
be said, from two sailors lie hail t Ate') on hoard au India-
nian.

Hatch, a ligkterman, stated, that lie bad known the pri-
soner 24 years, and saw him in the middle of tieptember, et
the Hells of Fulham. He said lie had a barge of coals, and
he would give witness some if lie came down iu'ilie dark.
He asked witness to get him change of a IL note and he,
witness, went to the landlord, gut it, and gave the change to
the prisoner; the note was returned to witness.
Cross.examined.—He expected the B.uuk note would be
paid to him by the Bank : he had nut been from Fulham ;
tint, upon recollection, he had been six months at sea ; but
there never was a charge made against him for stealing tim•
ker. It was six weeks before the note was returned to him.
He knew tlr. ; he lived at Fulham ; he had worked
far {tim fur Id years, and be was absent fium him fur 18
months.

W. Evens, the landlord of the Bells, at Fulham, proved,
that sow the prisoner there in the middle of September,
and that lie elianged the note produced ; it was given him by
Hatch, an .I he wrote his name and address on it.
511441111411 Harrison. wife of T. Harrison, who keeps the
Clown and Anehor pnhlic•huuse, in Seven Dials, proved,
that on the Id of November, a companion of the prisoucr
passed a forged note to her in payment of some pepper-
Mint. _ . _

T. Harrison confirmed her testimony, and said they were
apprehended, hull the prisoner made no resistance.
Mr. J Lees, Bank inspector for 20 ye:trs, proved that the
notes passed by the prisoner were forged in every respect ;
they were slot of she Bank paper, nor the water marl, and
la Id not the waving lines. In genuine notes the words
" Basalt of England" were made in the original fabric; it was
dune by comprehension and composition.
Cross-examined by Mr. Alley.—He had had great capes
rienre, hut once in his life he was deceived ; he knew there
Lad been several forged notes paid at she Bank, dun ng the
list year; he could not say there had been 80. The paper
was manufactured in Hampshire, but he had never been at
the manillas tory ; he had never compared one of the forged
notes with the Ilassk of England plate; the Bank clerks bad
been streets ed ism some rases.
&•-ex: • .d by 311. nerjeant Busasupset. He should
think the inking of Inrgest 111/11.11 at the Batik arose lions neg.
1,11, and the clerks and inspectors were always made to pay
them, if they were nut so fortunate as to find the person who
Lad passed thesis.
Peter Lister, °sae of the signing clerks of the Bank, preyed
that the signateire, purporting to he his, was forged.
Cross • .d. He knew that some noses lied been is_
sued will t the 'diming clerk's name to them.
Mr. Alley.— Suppose a Knot] note hail been issued without
y.suss signatotre to it, and this 1101 e was that good note, to
Which a signature nut your own had been put would you have
known it nut to be your hand wining ?—The witness
gave 110 answer; bait list Jury having requested that the
piestion might be put again, it was put by Mr. Baron Wood,
and Ilse witness said, he should have known it to he a forgery.
Question of a Juror to Mr. Lees.—Has there ever been an
instance where a genuine note has been rejected as forged,
and stallipell so ?
Mr. Lem—There has one, but the note was sit or seven
31rals1.1d,ssessl it was by a yorsog Inspector.
One of the Joiry.—After the scene of yesterday, time feel.•
100 of the Jury 1111: very great. and they shwk that Mime
the life cf it pi ',otter is in danger, silty sleren it necessary that
Me fullest rents or e should be given.
.; • 11.11‘ it 411/11 Ai' 01411, Yon have hail the Ii iko evislcurp
in
thA:atia at. vine'. row' web ye.' tom

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This closed the case, and Mr. Baron Wood summed op at
length.
After shout live minutes consultatiou, the Jury returned a
verdict of—Guilty.
Sir R. Wilson, Mr, Alderman Wood, and Mr. Alderman
Waitliman,were on the Bench tinriiis the trial.
J. Hefforl. end W. King, were convicted of a similar of
fence, and ordered to be transported foe 14 years. R. Cooper,
for steeling 4* bottles of wine, to be transported for 7 years.
W. Williams, fur stealing a watch, to be transported fur life.
J. H. Foreman's judgment was respited, his former sentence
of transportation heing revoked.
When the verdict of Guilty was pronounced at the close of
Heffot t's trial, he said, "I hope I shall go to a country
where I shall have more justice, fur I have had none here ;"
and on receiving sentence Kingston used the same language,
when HelFert (pulling hint Irons the Dock)said," Come away,
there's no use in talking to NM about it," (meaning the Re
corder).
Thomas Daniels, a clergyman,who graduated et Cambridge,
of very respectable appear suer, and about 32 years of sae,
was indicted fur picking the pocket of a coach maker, in
Bridge Street, during the procession on Lord Mayor's do.
The prosecutor felt a push at his pocket as lie walked alone
with the erowd.,and was immediately after asked by a gentle-
man whether he had lost any thing ; on potting Isis hind to
one of Iris pockets he missed his snuf box. An • hoer who
had watched the prisoner pointed• at him as the thief. The
prosecutor took hold of him, and told hint to give up the snuff
box, but the prisoner denied that he hail it. The prosecutor
persisted in hii demand, on whiel, the prisoner presented it
so hint, saying that one of the crowd had, jus4 put it into his
hand. The officer took the prisoner into custody, end
brought him before the Magistrate at Guildhall, when a con-
fession of the theft was made, and distress pleaded in ex.
eiisr.

On the prosecutor's erose•examination. by Mr. Barry, lie
said he had ascertained that the prisoner was what he had
described himself to tie.

The officrr who apprehended him stated, that on search.
ing him he found four different handkerchiefs, a 11. B4uk of
England nose, three good shillings, mail a counterfeit shilling.
No witnesses appeared to give him a chareeter.
The Jury found him guilty.
The Comtism Serjeant said the crime was greatly aggra-
vated when the situation the prisoner held it life was consi-
dered. " Religion, morality, nod law," said be, " demand
that ilie most severe humid that can be inflicted fur this
offence shall be d-alt to you. Yon have rendered yourself
'unfit to mix in society again, and it is necessary to send you
nut ot the country for ever."
The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for life
The Sessions bring ended, the Recorder passed ',valence of
dee h on the following prisoisers—vis. T. Pearkes, for home-
breaking ; H. Parsons, J. Corderoy, G. Wool, J. Pidgeon,
and J. Fellows, for burglary ; W. Maithigley, for bone.
stealing ; J. Egerton, fur highway robbery ; R. Evans, G.
Belli:nor, R. Thrower, J. Moon, and H. Itceilliisin, for stcaliug
goods, disc. in dmelling honses ; J. 11,1siiii, and W. Balilock,
for highway robbery ; Sarah Thwaites, fur house breaking ;
G. W. Handy, fur stealing in a dwelling house and afterwards
breaking out of the same and W. Smith fur stealing privately
in * shop. The Court then adjoartmd to Wednesday, the
alb of January nest.

POLICE.