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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Several other witnesses were called on the part of the prose-
cution, who spoke as to the riot, but none of them could identify
the defendant us being a party concerned. One witness spoke
to a sum of 5l• being paid by one Donovan to settle the matter,
With the knowledge of the defendant.
Upon this evidence the Jury acquitted the defendant.
ASSAULTS.
Jelin Barnsley, the prosecutor in the former indictment, was
rest indicted for assaulting Catherine Anderson, a poor barrow-
woman, and breaking her leg.
:On the evidence of the prosecutor it appeareds that on the
11th of March last, she had left her harrow in care of a young
woman in Saffron-hill, and the defendant coming up seized the
barrow, and carried it to his own house; the prosecutrix remon-
strated with Lim, and rep( steel the restoration of her barrow.
Upon• which lie tee& hold of her, and insisted upon carrying
her to the watch-houe. She resisted hint, and he knocked her
down, in the fall her kg was fractured,. and shcwas carried to
the hospital, where she lay for two months, and still went on
• crutches.
Her evidence was corroborated by two other witnesses.
On the part of the defendant, Mr. ADOLPHUS addressed the
fury, obse: ving that his client had been called upon as a Peace
°dicer to remove a nuisance ; that in the execution of his duty
be had taken the prosecutor's barrow, when lie was assailed by
her With the most abusive and opprebrious epithets ; that she
threw dirt at hint, and when he attempted to take her into
custody, she resisted him with such violence, that she fell to
the greenlet, by which accident her k•g was broken, aid not by
• any violence on the part of the defendant, who at first believing
' the broken leg to -be a hoax to prevent her being carried to the
• initch-hOuse insisted on her going there, but when he found the
real state of the case, he acted with the greatest humanity to-
wards her, brought a chair trom his own house to place her
upon, conveyed her to the howl! al himself, and was very atten-
tive to lureduring her confinement there, but refused giving her
y
an rennineration for the injury she had sustained, feeling that
he had been merely acting in the due-execution of his public
duty.
Several witnesses were called to these facts, but none of them
could speak to any improper language or violence on the part of
thipresecntrix.
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how-
ever the defendant might have exceeded his duty in the violent
means he used to carry the prosecutrix to the watch-house, yet
it could not be imputed to hine.an intention purposely to break
her leg, that accident must have happened from the resistance
she made, and not from any prereiditated intention on the part
of the defendant.
The Jury declared themselves of the same opinion, and the
defendant was sentenced to pay eflite effireepouuds.
SIL~M PARSON.

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Yesterday, Carter Tuck, alias Mtn Tucker (better known by
the appellation of the Shan Parson) was put to the bar, to t:lke
bis trial,'being indicted for various frauds, but being entitled to
.• Lis traverse, be postponed his trial until the next Sessions.
SWINDLING. •
R irlanrd Andrews (commonly called /liccifir Andrews), and
itiezmuirr Holt, whose names have been so frequently - before
the public, were next brought to the Bar, and arraigned upon
eta Indictin, ut, charging them with obtaining money upon false
• liretehees, from a person of the name of Kendall, a Coffee-house-
keeper in St. Clegfetit's Church-fard, to which they severally
• pleaded—Not
IVIr.- Ea a alt, as Counsel. for the. defendants, applied to the
. Court to.postpone the trial until the next Sessions; stating that
be solicited this tick as a matter oft ight, but of indulgence from
the CoUrt-to the unfortunate clef-iitiants. This application, he
said, was grounded *upon. an •;:flititieit of both the defendants,
stating, that whin they were anti-( lit nded otrchurges of another
description, and about th be dischrYged by the Magistrate, a
detainer was lodged tin- ypoira bill-found the last July
- Sessions; that Ning thus taken by surprise, and requiring the
• attendance several respectable Witnesses, they were unable to
procure theirappearaneo,•for.want of the necessary means, until
1-taext !-lessions, being wh.olly-withinit any money to emble them
to procure their attentlancel and ftnether, that in other respects
• they'were not prepared to take their trial. The Learned Cour.-
sel, on these grounds, urged the justice of permitting the de-
fendants an triporturii.y of preparing for their defence.
The affidavit being read by the Clerk of the Peace,
~ivie.'At;l.", as Counsel for the In'oAecntor opposed this
ap-
rication; obiervirg that he bad carefully attended to the affida-
'4' IPit just read, but a• it did not specify the name of any one single
isvirtiess•Whose ttetirnouy the- defendants thought beneficial to
thein,•be ttiked the Court ve(iiild mit* grant Abe indttlgeuce
.` -they no*,Sought He said, it certainly was in the discretion
of Lae Court, but tiiit-awus u•distritidn which-the Court would

exercise with much caution and circumspection, observing at
the same time, that the offence with which the defendants
stood charged, they had been committed upon so far back as
February last, and the NB was found af'ainst them by the
Grand Jury in July ; he therefore thought they bad time enough
to prepare for their defence, and hoped the motion would nut
be granted.
After a reply from Mr. Barry, and a long discussion between
the Court and the Counsel on either side, it was ultimately
agreed that the trial should come on on Tuesday next.
The Court and all the leading passage.' were crowded to [aR
immense degree during the whole of the day.
CHILD •ITEALING.
Frances Dunkcrly, a strong and stout young woman.-Wu put
to the bar, charged wi'lh stealing a child's frock, of the value of
one shilling, the proiterty of Wm. Turner. Mary Turn.-r, the
wife of Wne Turns r, stated, that she lives in the neighbour-
hood of Bethnal-green. That on Friday morning her little sun,
a child. of two years and a half old, was sitting at th, d :or of the
house where she lodge•f when it was suddenly missed, and after
a long search was found' a colisid ruble way stripped of its
clothes. Ott the Wednesday after, the witness was 'cm for to
the Public Office, Whitechapel, where the prisoner was in cus-
tody, and identified the child's frock in the hands of an 0 cer
of the Police. A Mrs. Thatcham, who keeps an old clothes
shop in James-sire et. Bethnal-green, deposed that the prisoner
sold her the frock in question, and that hearing a woman was
taken into custody upon a charge of stripping several children,
she had the curiosity to go to the Public Office t i see her, and
there recognised her as the person who had sold l:er the frock in
question. On being asked what she had to say for bersfel, she
said that the witnesses were all perjured. The Jury found her
Guilty, and the Court sentenced her to be transported fir seven
years.