The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-16 00:00:00

UL I) BAILEY SESSIONS.
MONDAY, DEC. 9.—G:urge Cripps, aged 49, was
convicted of etnbe•zzling the . of SI. 4s. 4id., the
monies of his master, Richard Hawes.
UTTERING Couxrz+tt•ur COlN.—Frederick Mid-
, dhow:, aged 30. was indicted for uttering several pieces
of forged and counterfeit cum, made to rescuable the
silver coifs of the realm.
Mr. Lit" stated the case for the prosecution.
Eyles, a misfit' out of employment. deposed.
that the prisoner offered to sell him, on various occasions. •
Lad money; this he come ttttt heated to Armstrong, the
officer, who, with Hatfield, gave I • venom direction►.
and marked money to ram to the prisoner; lie accor&
ingly did purchase sevefa. pieces, which lie II:111ded Ol'er
11/ the (officers.
Artiosimmt, the officer, deposed. that in consequence
of a commun►cation, he gave in fiirmation to the Mint,
and received certain directions. Witnevi banished Eyles
with money to pureitase bail silver of the prisoner, and
Files went to St. J ihn's Coffee-house, Cow-cross, and
-it trehased smite load shillings, iti the presence of a Coln-
panatn named Vali. Oil their quitting the house, wit-
ness detained the prisoner. and on searching him found
.hs. good, which was not the money witness had marked.
Ales-ward(' he fim..(l two of the marked shillings which
• he had given to Eyles.
W. Ilatfield corroborated the evidence already detailed,
. and produced the bad money
The Jury, after a short consultation, pronounced the
rri.ititer

Recorder —The judgment of the Court is, that you be
imprisoned one year its the House of Correctiou, and
there kept to hard lobular.
Mit GANG of BURGLAR3.—Mark Herd, aged
• 2f, William Watts, aged vb, James Brown, aced 33,
and Thomas Fuller, aged if, were c indicted fur
burAlariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house
•of James Alexander de Wither, in the parish of St.
'Pancras, and stealing therein 14 spoons, value 101., a
penknife, a gold mounted snuff-box, a wine funnel, and
other articles, his property; and Charlotte Winfield was
indicted tur being an accessary alter the fact, and hay-
bmiring and receiving them, well knowing them to have
co 1111 l noted the said burglary.
Mr. Reinier deposed, that he resides at No. l e, Easton-
place. New-road, and oil the I Ith df November his
house was broken open. He was informed by Iris cook
early in the morning that the house had been robbed,
and he found that the bJek-kitchen winuow hail been
forced open. There was a hole in the shutter. There
were itt.trks of two men having got down by the back
wall, which was ten feet high. The kitchen door had
• one of its pannels cut completely out. The witness,
after relating some more minute particulars as to the
breaking, described the property stolen, and identified it
as produced by the police officers.
Charlotte Raye, cook to the last witness, deposed to
finding the house broken open in the morning, as de-
scribed by her master. She heard no noise iii the night.
She identified an umbrella found in the house where the
prisoners were apprehended, as belonging to her fellow-
strea tit.
Pace, the officer, of iineen.square, produced the tun-
nel of the kitchen door, and a set of burglarious imple-
ments. He stated that he went, with Cooper and
H alley, officers, to a house in Castle-strret, Seven
Dials, about six o'clock on the morning of the I f tit ult.
Witness listened at the door of the garret, and heard the
voices of two or three persons, and immediately burst
open the door, and saw a quantity of plate spread out on
a table round which the priconers Watts, Brown, and
Fuller were sitting. Knowing Watts, wittiest rushed tip
to him, drew bit cu lass, placed it at hits breast, and told
him if he stirred he would run him through the body.
Handley meanwhile went to the side of the bed, where
Herd and the woman prisoner were lying together, and
presenting a pistol at his head, desired him to keels still.
-Cooper seised the property, and seem. d it. Witness
handcuffed Fuller and Brown, and while doing so he
Saw the gold mounted snuff box, identified by Mr. Rei-1
slier, fal from one of thetn, but could not tell wnich.
Handley 'Handcuffed Watts, and Herd was made to get
111/ arid dress himself. His coat was lying on the oppo;
site side of the room, and he saw the petikuite produced
fall from his coat, as he was putting it on. Bonifield
also got up, and dressed. Drop, r asked the prisoners to
which of them the piste belonged, but neither of them
would own it. Concealed under the floor they found
several picklock and skeleton keys, a chissel, a stock for
centre-bits, a crow-bar, and a dark latatero.
Cooper produced the plate, &c. which were identified
by Mr. Bernier, and he corroborated the statement of
"filet', as did Handley, in its main facts.
['he Recorder summed tip the evidence, and the Jury,
after cartooning fora few unnutes,found all the prisoners
Guilty—Death.
Nlr. Renner stepped into the witnesses' box, and
tames ly begged fo recommend the prisoners to mercy.
The Recortler.—On what ground can you recommend
these men to mercy 1
111 r. Reitsier.—Ors the ground, my Lord, that no tin.
lence was offered to any 'idiot' in the house; and it
would be a great relief to my Ittihad if I could be assured
they would riot stiffer.
The Recopler.—The recommendation made upon the
gronsid you have mentioned Ol,' most undoubtedly be
i.foryrarded ; but your individual feelings catinot be cots-
Ighed. if public justice demand an example.
Piivsick, a pretty gni about twenty years of age,
•was indicted 9ar robbing Mr. Baker, tallow chandler, of
Foley•creet ; and Sophia Stephenson was charged with
having received the stolen property, knowing it to have
been illegally come by.
Toe prisoner Pitysick, it appeared, was a house ser-
vant to the prosecutor, awl, after a service of three days,
she decamped with his cash-box, containing certain
writings and papers, two 61. notes, eight sovereigns, and
a guinea. The evidettetagatinst bet was conclusive; she.
was apprehended at Chatham on the Yd ult. (rive days
alter the rubbery), ittactrofeesed the lact. St”phensou,