The National Register.
London, England, 1821-06-10 00:00:00

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1491, - a State=Out _ the means used
to sower . in"cdrenoe against the law, from
whisk we sweet es follows:
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to de. at that time Matz temeatef tire mistime et such
a week. exeeptio•v from the advestisrment in the 1111116h0 MWIS
Readied a secant time the aims 1111011111 g. and ovew to
re him a copy in the events& I emmedimily pardoned a eery.
and at Ike o'clock be WWI& thisitiese ani paid foe it. My
. with informal mediae OM the hilleskagsrawies he repented hie
vim is my. nd shed kr a sealed espy. which she told
him is amMee. as she bed bit aria the shop.
. Oalkaieg leet 1 resolve! the Ant iodisation of the indict-
- =led that the Oland Jury had rejected it. I Went on
is the Coma Ole with my solicitor. Mr. Hayward, of
Tube'? Cera whine, is netWeetieg the isdiamest, ! disoovered
.it swine the ale ef the •Mind Orstiesery.' MO dm name
• cf Hondo Omer endorsed at Os huh the optimism as the
• ear Mom Sig sodded: Mrs tide Honuin Orin yes the
kill assietrar In* purchased of nee the only caw of dm work
which I had sold. I rent kr thellin the mock • Constitutional
iselety.' in BridgeSsutzplumatch=lala Mr. Hayward; and,
• -AIM sersealulk. a clerk in the o*e as
fho POMP Who kilths the Irak Mt MC, rod who. on my
Mei kratirtilretatire did so. and that be was
Ale asaidie-Optes wheal we was eadmeed Ma the back of the
Mr. Maywood asked Mr. Mod° Orton whether,
•Ad Menem wad the ado use in the indiemsads be was the pro-
Agagyge; to Ake he weawaed • Cambay au, Mr. Hayward
- Ohm Modred who was die' peoseretor, which be refused to
• arise. sok( we might and that out as we amid, hereafter.
I AA else as nom neat es this traumatise: it is of a. piece
with the mum which baps Oliva Casks, Malocein. and
Newish Mks Freddie. 1 need not ;mark en the Irreparable
hiker lab* sash a might bens oo an
bout tips maas whom foltiP thromdfot his oho-
- vemersad passel mertimmhe daily liread. Had the bill
beta fees 4 tbe eapeani sod =tad have best my ruin,
em akin/dm media hid sliii=ehteoll4.
, "Tim ofsr* be es the Mat shinesdm solo snide
. pitied handsi.l hes kme as add a desidoties ef she shove
statism Meads Osten—Ahem g has I isehee4SS
'WM if cgs P mom howl t dark wheals I par!
pidt-a general. appeases of gent
t... alibmistrie moaners; a Sithstiag mode of spedds&asd
negligence of gait. 7
OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.
On Wednesday morning the Sessions at the Old
Bailey were opened by Mr. Justice Bayley, Mr. Baron
Garrow, the Lord
Williamsor_t_Sheritts, sod City Officers.
Bo RGLAR 11',...HC11/11 a.respectable looking
man, stood indicted tor burst:trim:sly entering the dwel-
ling-house of John Bruce. Etq. at liromption, and eteahng
therein a considerable quantity of plate, his property.
It apiwaird in evidence, that on the Skl of April a
qua yof plate had been 6101 ell (root the house of the
prosecutor by means of a hole made in the panne'. of
the door of the butler's pantry. On the,4th of April
the prisoner sold part •of the property at the house of
Messrs. Merle and Company, refiners, in Little Britain.
I he prisoner had been in toe habit of selling plate to
Mears. Merle and Co. for 111 months.
• Mr. Justice Blley in summing up the tevidenc ,e
stated to the Jury, that it not having been proved that the
robbery was committud before daylight, the prisoner
should be acquitted of the charge of burglary. •
The Jury accordingly found him guilty of stealing in
a dwelling-house a sum exceeding 493.—Ikath.
John Saxton and William Redding, two well-dressed
young men, were capitally indicted for burgleriously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house ofJohnElsrlow,
and stealing Bank times and silver to the amount of

3261. his property.
- Mr. Barlow deposed, that he keeps the Two Brewers
public-house, iisposwell street; and on the evening of the
2bth of March last, as he was sitting in a parlour behind
his bar, he heard a noise like a hag of silver falling upon
the pavement in the street. The back of his house was
in Nob.e-street, and the noise appealed to be there.—
Witness ran out, hut saw no else there, and he them went
up stairs, and tried his chamber-door, but found it
fastened, and a watchman came and broke it open.—He
then saw that the winnow was standing open, and the
fastening was wrenched off. He also discovered that
his bureau was broken open, and his east- box, contain-
ing hank notes and silver to the amount stated in the
indictment was gone —the following nay he caused
hanai-billa to be circulated, offering a reward pf rout. for
the discosery of the thieves. He had known both the
prisoners for sense time : they had frequented his house
two or three times a day, and from the time of the rub.
Nay they had ceased to come there. On the 17th of
April he saw the prisoner Redding to Gorwell-street, in
company with another man, and was approaching to
seize him, when Redding caught slain of him, and he
and his companion retreated down Wildeniess•row and
he lost sight of them. It. a moment after he saw Saxton
looking down Wilderness-row, and took hiin by the
collar, and told huts he should detain hint on a charge
of felony.—When he was seized, mad before he was told
• what the charge against hint was, he said, -"I his lacing
done to defraud your creditors."
Mrs. Amelia Barlow, wife of the last witness, staid,
that she heard- the hag of silver fall, and at the same
moment head a crush above stairs. ‘Vitsiess went into
a passage, at the cud of which was a window looking into
• Noble-strive, and she distinctly heard a voice which she
• knew to be Saxton's, call out " Stop I" About half a
minute. afterwards she saw the prisoner Redding descend
as from her chamber window, and jump into the street.
Mr. Justice Bayley summed up, and the Jury, after
retiring nearly a quarter of an hour, returned a verdict of
not guilty, as to both the prisoners.
John Baker, and Robert Jacobs were put to the bar,
/tad indicted fur stealing from the person of Mr. Isaac

seals, his property.
I guilty.
the prisoners they
should quit the cottony foe life.
On Thursday, Joitph Blakeney was indicted for Ms,
saulung J. Foote on the King's highway, and stealing,
from Istz person a gold chain and *eel, value Si. 1
Joseph Foote stated, that on Friday, the sth of Map,
he was passing through Beicktlatie, in company with his
wifq; when the prisoner, who pretended to lie 111101&
cated, ran violently against him, snatched at his watch,
'and succeeded in detachinz the chain and seals; witness
collared the prisoner; a struggle ensued; when he was
instantly surrounded by several of the prisoner's compa-
nions, And at the same moment received a violent blow
on the back of his head, which felled him to the ground,
and the prisoner escaped. A kw days afterwards the
prisoner was observed talking with a female in Spital-
fields, when he was taken into custody.
•
The jury immediately found 111111 Guilty.
Mr. Baron (arrow addressed the prisoner, who, he
said, had been convicted upon she clearest evidence of
being one of a desperate gang of thieves, and earnestly
desired him to employ the short time allotted in prepara-
tion fur the awful fate that awaited him, as no mercy
could be extended to Into here.
Joseph Lilly,.a lad IS years of age, was capitally con-
victed of stealing in the dwelling house of Hannah
Hawkshaw, two silver spoons, duce silver forks, licc.
tier property. •
David Adams was indicted for stealing in the dwelling
house of Sir A. Crook 461. in bank notes, hats property.
—Not Guilty.
John Smith stood capitally indicted of having stepped
and robbed Philip Jones on the King's highway, he
prisoner set up in his defence, that Jones was in a state
01 intoxication.
After a few moments consideration, the jury found the
prisoner—Not Guilty.
William Wilson was convicted of feloniously being at
large before the period to which he bad been sentenced
to be transported had expired.
Bryan Whelan and Bridget M'Lachlan (the former
an infirm old man, who was supported into court, and
allowed to sit diking the trial) were indicted for assault-
ing James Hogarth in a place near the highway, and
taking 11. 7s. is silver, one Si. and six 11. notes, front his
person.
The prosecutor, a respectable looking young man,
e swore,. that as lie was going biome to Ratelifl• highway,
on the imh of April, lie met with a woman of colour,
and was induced to accomputiv her to a house in Went-
. wonh-street,•Whitecisapel. He had been but a few mi-
nutes in the room when the two prisoners and a man
with a wooden kg came in, and, placing themselves be-
fore the door, Minted upon his giving them money to get •
drink. As a pretext for getting out of the room, he said
he would go and get something to drink, but the wooden
legged man seized him by the collar, swore lie owed him
31. and that he should not leave the room till it was ;mid.
The female primmer joined in declaring it was so, and
the man with the
_wooden kg got hint tlowti upon the
floor, and called to the female prisoner to get hios a knife..
which was given to the male prisoner, who eat off his
'pocket containing the money in question, and then said,
" shall we cut the b—s throat?" The sandhi had
been extinguished. Some of them said "do so," and
is diately three stabs were made at his throat, but he
received the cuts at the back of his hand, which he had
put upon his throat upon hearing the exclamations above
mentioned. His senses their left him, and when he re-
covered he still found. himself lying on his back, and
along. He gave information to some watchmen, and
the I,Pisoners were apprehended soon after ;,but nothing
wayktund upon them. ,
The prosecutor admitted, upon cross-examination, that
he was rather intoxicated on the night in question, but
declared that his seaollection was perfect, and he was
positive as to the identity of the prisoners.
They, in their defence, -declared their innocence.
l'he jury after a long conversation, returned a et-edict,
finding both prisoners not guilty.
Susannah Hyde was, then indicted foe killing her
infant c.hilffon. the 6th of April.
It appeared front the evidence of Mrs. Taylor, in
whose service the unfortunate woman had been at the
time mentioned in the indictment, that her situation was
observed on the previouinight, and there were certain
appeatatices which denoted her having been delivered in
the watertfosa, where the body of the child was found.
There was no pmof of the child having been born alive ;
and the Jury returned a verdict of—Not Guilty.
Capt. Algernon Disney was then put to the bar,
charged with havingdauked the death of Anne Banting,
'spinster, by repeated assaults on the tat of September,
the 30th of October, and several other days, in the parish
Mary-le-bonne.
On calling the witnesses several appeared to be absent,
and Mr. .Barou Garriaw complained strongly of the
want of attendance of those parties.
Mr. Alley, as counsel Mr Capt. Disney, said, that
notice had been given to all the witnesses to a. tend.
Mr. Baron Graham remarked that bout justice to
the- prisoner and the public required a full investigation
of this case, and that he was ready to hear any applica-
tion for the postponement of the trial.
Mr. Alley said, that, on the part of Capt. Disney, he
had no such application to. wake.
Tile first witness was Robert Coates, a constable,
who merely proved the fact of the arrest of the prisoner,.
and the removal of Ann Bauting to an infirmary,•where
she afterwards died.
Hannah Coles, the midwife of the bospital, proved the
reception and death of Anise 114111110 g, as she thought, at
the time, in consequence of the after pains of labour.
Susinnals Dawson deposed to the statement m .de to •J
he by the deceased, of various beatings with • stick
which she had received from the prisoner; the last time
was a fortnight before she was sent to the hospital.
'Mr.Getclyer, the apothecary to the hospital, said, that
when the deceased was atimitted, he merely considered
her as labouring tinder a common curt!, ..o I ordered uses

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Irsaillamoslikuri CCHIsPuIucToA Mr. Kim, Shannon, a silver wiich, chain' sad seals. hiap.
erchatteeey.feee, one a the into mirea victims-0f this The jury found the•pnsonetsboth guilty.
go& has published a statement of the means used Th.d Cr"nntone ' Sergeare'r life. nt 'Bo`torred the Prisons
to entrap him into an'o'ffence against the law, from sh°ul CLu thnuY
On "fitureday. Joieph Blakeney was indicted