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/ from a ^sat named Boyle, fur the purpose of taking legal
prir.stedings stylising two peroimas who owed bias mosey. Mr.
Sa.lh was inutile to attend oo that day, leaving to he present
pt .ratty meeting at Betintal-greeu, but Boyle was them
piresriit to prove the charge.
Thomas Boyle, of Great Saffron-hill, potato-rnerehstit,
Apposes', that the Primmer was natoasaiesded to hint as ses
• n!loracy, to mover ewes debts doe to him; the Prisoner
represented himself to bins as acting-clerk to Mr. Smith, of
Illaseet's.haild,ngs ; be employed him to recover a debt of
24. front Hubert Brady, sod • debt of IL 17s. from James
a few days after the Prisoner, accumpanierl by
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they man, called upon him, the Prisoner chewed him two
• its of pireiiment, with the tame of Smith, signed at the
la .tout of r.eb, and told him they were writs he took
..a.S :against the parties, and demanded ten shillings costs
Tor one, and Ave shigiop for the other ; which wit.
E.... 1 paid him. The Prisoner then demanded twit shillings
sr-ore fur the into who accompanied him, who he said was •
fikeratf'S officer who was to execute the writs Witness paid
these 2a. also ; and several days passing without his mein
or
bearing from the Prisoner, be waited on Mr. Smith at his
chambers, who informed him he had no knowledge whalso-
'ever of the Prisoner, or the transaction alluded to).
It appeared on the examination that previous to the
heiiig taken into custody he waited on Boyle, sod
compromised with him by paying hiss part of the money
rret.yered, and promising him the remainder in a short time,
• prevented the Magistrate proceeding further in the
sae.

'the Prisoner, alter recessing a severe lecture, and runtime
c..t to art an an attorney in future, was discharged, having
011., premised to pay Boyle the money be had received frum
b:rn.

SOUTHWARK SESSIONS.

TRIAL. or WILLIAMS. THE DESPERATE PRISON..
BREAKER, &C.

Thursday thew Sessions cuaspenced, before AP Lord
ki.,tor, the Common tteijeast, aid a Brack of Aldermen.
•01. notorious Williams, who same time ago broke pri-
-101,, and iu double irons fell front the top of tbe gaol, Wee
Cal i it'll into Court for trial. He had received dreadful injury
from the fall ; but, notwithstanding the fracture of all his
lirnhs, it appeared that he conducted himself is so deartrate
to:inner in prison, as to induce the superintendents to asp
vest to the Cutlet the serenity of keeping him is soliary
tonfinenteut. The indictment charged him with having
stolen • watch and a pocket-book, the property of Captain
Edwards, of the twig Unity.
Captain Cdwards stated, that he weal to bed ou the 11th
of July last at bis usual hour, leaving his watch and his
poeket.tstwic at his hetra.head; al two o'clock is the toner.
ing the male of the next ship called him, sad showed him
tits nateli. The dour of the albite had heels closed, but not
rn suet. a mintier as to pretreat • penes frogs catering with.
Out duffieulty.
Lewis Edwards, who is Bete of the Unity, said be saw
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the Prisoner coming out of the Captain's mbin at two
o'clock in the morning. Upset asking who was there the Pri..
.J!ier said, u White the Captain's name r see.
In.! something like a balk In the mati's baud, jammed bows
v.t3 !be Captain. The Primmer get into the seat ves.
svt, in which there was • dog. Wham and tie mate of
woodier re.wel purified him until he got We a best
Inc to the Venus, where he /wore he would stab say MISS
wl.tt came near him ; after which be shaped overheard.
Prialintr—Da you swear I had a weapon
V, ille/111.•—lcantiot swear
ivriner—ll must hive bees light at the thine; wad If
14,1 a weapon you malt have seen it.
Thv Common SVILMATIT—Thane are observation, sad
may be ed for your defense.
Prisoner—l know they are, my Lord ; but It is very hard
t make matters worse, end to press against my life. Pray.
what Ned of weapon was it!
Wlteest—l mortal describe what you had io your hand.
I observed pomethingshising, sad thought it was • knife.
Primmer—Then yon have disproved What Ise wished to

p. u•r.
SV. Dixon, mate of the ship Thomas, said be saw the
P. Loner at Iwo in the morning in one of the vessels that lay
in er his. Witness wait alarmed by the barking of the dog,
observed the Prisoner getting down into the boat. Wit.
I,.ms snore he would stab she Oral man that tame near hint.
'I Pi twiner, finding that the alatm was pretty general, look
a ...MCI, out of his pocket, and placed it in the main-chains
of the ship Venus—he then slipped into the water. Witness
souk tip the watch, sad give it to the Captain. The Pri-
soner was taken in his desperate attempt to escape; bet he
artrwards got away, being a most powerful mass.
l'he Prisoner put in a paper, in which be begged fur
an's, upon the gronnd that he had broken his bones, was
a cninplett cripple, and bad 'offered dreadfully from mis.
furl m ne /11111 ens linemen t.

The COMMON SrAJtANT asked the cooler whether tbe
Wm( r bad been brougbt to prises its the slate described
by !,ise

floc Gaul. r replied in the negative, but *aid he had fallen
from the top of the prison in end ring In escape.
The Prisoner said he had but a few words to address to
the Jury. He sat Ibere, he said, an awful maniple to all.
Tv the Prosecutor, the Court, and the Jury, br looked
with bout for tuercy. His repentance was sincere; and he
if ward thiit those around his would benefit by the warning,
and ovoid the Amine and guilt by thick he was overwhelmed.
'I he COMMON Sr.sit4ST, to addressing the Jury, said,
it was so be Imi:relied that the Prisoner bad sustained such
driudhil Nary ; but observed, that the circumstance could
smut be ariccessfully urged in mitigation, as the disaster had
stroreed is is attempt to evade the laws of the country.
The Jury iinitantty found hire
The Cosmos %Liu east, in passing sentence, said the
desperate sten before the Conti was, be feared, totally irre-
claimable. His conduct in prison, even under the dreadful
circumstance of the loss of the toe of his limbs, had been
it,h as couvinced the Clout that he was otte of the most dais.
perm., men that ever appeared iu a Court oflustice; and it
was Inure than probable this if the witnesses bad (lecithins as
oopurinaity of putting his threat of stabbing into execution,
would have lidded murder to robbery. Notwittistaarliog
this, and the fact that the Prisoner bad acted with great vio-
lence is prisim, the Court would not mad his out of Hee
ettantry, as ►e was incapable of moving without assistance.
Li rims, ausever,necesvary to keep him from the public.
S•ntenre—Two years imprisonineut.
The (:ommott SSRJSANT ordered the gooks, if the Pd.
s‘mer acted badly iu prison, to put bias is irons, and is
miry confinement.