The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-01 00:00:00

GtiII.IIHALL.

VIOLENT ASSAULT AND I:OVID-At If —William Grant and
Peed, two yonug niell as desperate as the% are nom.
n leas, were on Wroloicsday brought before lite Sitting Ml.
g:strate, npon the following charges :
Jinni., Snow, the street-keeper on Ludgate Hill, said, that
fo de on ditty at four o'clock on Tuesday anersioon, he oh.
sorted the two prisoners mid another Raking idiom and at-
ti. :apting to commit rohberie-s. three Shirrliillllll.ll a gen-
tloonais also 14.13 paY4111.7, am, one of them (Giant I hit him a
‘i..detit blow on the head. NVitliets lollow rd them iu the di•
',glint] of St, tonal's, where he ohltionsl the assistanise of
White, another °tile prisoners awl their companion
upon perceiving him threw forth a volley of tls•eats and
ribose. Two of them, the prisoners, wile laid hold of, but
tie. third ••capeil. The former nest got away, lout the three
%%PPP secured, and again made a desperate struggle to
escape, in which one of them eventnally succeeded. On
their way to the vault coast• the prisoners made Some vie,-
'al eltiirti Upon the orticrr. by locating, kicking, biting, and
by attempting to me upon them Si clasp knite.
John MetSit•rs said, lie was a hook-bionler. lan Tuesday last
h,• saw the ',rivulet 41141 another man in tile Strand, attentpl.
jog to pick pockets. No person Sohn passed escaped their
Ifigilitnee, :Mil so adroit and audacious were there
schuntes, that they initially opened the pockets of several to
ascertain %sheltie,. property was in them or not. This expel i-
meta *as particelarly tried at picture snot other fancy situps.
The witness forinved them on to lanigatc•hill, to which place,
escepting while they visited a gin shop, and pastry cook's
Viey continued their practice elm e deers i bed. Olt the hill
lir. saw deem close tsp.'s. the gesitlensan and strike lino, and
be, with Snow, and others, assis,ed its si curing them. The
prisoners heat and kicked him, and tore Isis clothes.
'llse prisoners, with the assistance of liras lv a dozen per-
sons, were hautlenffed sad taken to the Comptsr. They de-
nied having committed any offence, and said they had merely
defended themselves.

The ,Magistrate inquired if they could procure good buil to
answer at the Sessions, for the double offence of attempting to
pick pockets and :assaolting the officers
Ifarrisou, the officer, immediately stepped forward, and
said, " These men will readily find hail, although they are
two of the most desperate thieves in London. lint 1 trust
yon will remand them on this ground : rubbery was at-
templed to Is...committed at liarknoy a few nights since, when
one of the robbers was shot t"—Upon now eaamiuiai the
hat of Giant, it appeared to have been perforated with a ball.
The hat was product 41, but Grant said the hole was a burn.
but not from powder.--The Magistrate directed every in.
quiry to be loath., and the prisoners were remanded.
Saturday, Barney Hart was brought up in ctastody charged with
shewing a horse for sale in Duke-street Smithfield and riding the
animal furiously up anti down the street. He was fined in the miti-
gated pnaly of forty s!allings under the. new Act—and in default of
ainuntt eorumitted. The full penalty for this once is 51.