The National Register.
London, England, 1821-04-29 00:00:00

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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

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JOvantt.s Twieves.—On Tuesday, George Crawley
• and Tomas Head, two boys, were indicted for stealing A
cloth penult., value2l. and upwards, the property of Clint.
lotto Thomas, widow, :roanthe person of Anne Bleat j
and Elisabeth Ward, alias Bray, was indicted for reerlta
lag the same, knowing it to have been stolen.
Anne Bloat, a little girl, aged 13. stated, she wag NIBI
by her allskess with a pelisse to Mrs.Thontas, at Winglessh
and when near the road leading to Sadler. Wells, she
observed the two male 'prisoners following her. She Isar.
tied on and lost sight of them, but they had, it mooing,
-vow mend a 'mire, way se as to meet her, for as she ae.
,passing the New Kit er Head they canto in front abet,
and snatching the pelisse front her hands, ran off with It.
A police-officer stated, that having bad information it
•the robbery, with a description of the thieves, he appro.
belated the prisoners at the house of the woman Ward. ii
Fryiug-pamalley, Islington. He found the stolen pelisse
ill the mown, and the two boys were sitting by the fire with
their coats off, singing a flask song. The woman, when
questioned about the pelisse, said, the boys brought in '
blare, bat she knew nothing Of it.
Crawley and Head were found guilty, and Ward was
acquitted.
The Common Sergeant Inquired if the boys were blows
The officers said, they were well known. Head, who is
only II years of age, hairier been some time in confine-
Anent under sentence of death, hat hail received a pardon
and Crawley having been tried here before.
The Common Sergeant said, they must both leave Ai
conutry. The young delinquents conducted themselves'
le the most hardened manner.
Mary Simnsonds and Sarah Evans, aged 17 and 111, were
indicted for stealing a pocket-book and one WI. one 101.
and ten ii. bank notes, front the person of W. Sancti.
It appeared the prosecutor, who is a seafaring man, and
just left his ship for the purpose of procuring change fur II
draft on Messrs. Grote and Co. bankers, in Threadneedle+
sliest. He obtained the notes In question, and in the
course of the day went into a public-house in Wentworth.
street.—After remaining a short time he went to a neigh-.
Louring shop to purchase some tobacco. While he M.
there the prisoner Evans came in and invited hint to walk
up stairs ; he did so. and saw the prisoner Mary Sininsoods'
there. Evans then left them together, when Simatetalle
took him to a house in George-yard. Evans shortly fol-
lowed, and engaged his attention, while Simmunds leaned
over his shoulder and took his pocketbook, and ran away
he pursued her, but she was out of sight in a moment.
She was taken about ten days after in Shire-lane, Temple-
bar.
Several very respectable witnesses spoke to the former
good character of Simenonds, and said she had only been
about three months in this unhappy muse of life. Before
that, she was an honest and intimations girl. Het ap•
pearanee wee rather interesting.

The Jury, eller some deliberation, found both the pri-
soners Nut Guilty.
The Common Sergeant, in very feeling terms, conjured
the prisoner SummonJs to forsake her present dreadful
coarse, and return to a life of honest industry.
&be cried very much, and assured his Lordship that she
would.
On Wednesday, Thomas Smith was indicted for stealing
1201bs. weight of lead, the property of James Cromwell,
from a certain building to which it was affixed.
Mr. Cromwell, a farmer at Hammersmith, proved that
the le id in question was stolen from one of his Intros, on or
about the night of the 8011 of Marcia.
Th mas Close swore, that on the night of the Bth ult. he
stopp rd with a horse and cart at the Chaise and Horses
public-house, at Hasnmersmith, where the prisoner came
an and forced his conversation upon him, and asked him if
lie would earn five shillings by carrying some lead in his
cart to London, next morning. After some conversation,
witness agreed to the bargain, and the prisoner then en-
gaged a bed for him of the laudlord. He was called at
six o'clock, and then be put his horse in the car, and
followed the prisoner to an adjacent lane, where the latter
took some lead from a dunghill, and put it halo the cart.
Witness then drove if towards London, and when he
arrived near Kensington, two officers slopped the cart,
and took him and the lead into their custody. The pri-
soner at that time was not with the cart. He had never
seen prisoner before that night.
Mr. Drink water, landlord of the Chaise and Horses,
swore that the last witness, when be saw the prisoner at
kis house, shook Inns by the hand, called him by name,
sod conversed with bins with all the familiarity of an old
acquaintance. lu the morning Close went towards the
lane with his horse and cart, but the prisoner was not then
with him. Witness saw the cart afterwards drive away
towards London, and he gave information to the Consta-
ble, as he suspected all was not right. Shortly after-
wards the prisoner came in, and asked if the young man
was gone, and being told be was, walked away towards
London.
The Constables deposed to stopping the cart, and said
they saw the prisoner walking three quarters of a mile
behind the cart. They took him afterwards at his own
Louse.
The Jury found him—Guilty.
Close was recalled, and severely reprimanded by the
Court, for his conduct before and at the
On Thursday, William Sack and George Smith werc
indicted for stealing Milt's. of lead, th • property of Jas.
Barker, from his dwelling-house.
William Omni, sawyer, has the care of Mr. Barker's
house. About nine o'clock on the Wilt April, his wife
awoke him, and told him thieves were in the house; lie
got up, and saw two men rolling the lead nil the top of
the water closet, he immediately pursued them, calling
out stop thieves. Sack was taken in the act of getting
over the wall. Tine other prisoer took a different course,
and iu his hurry to 4et away jumped off the wall into a
pond tin the other side; he was seized by a gentleman
who was passing, and taken to the watch-house. The
lead was afterwards fitted to the parts cut, and found to
correspond exactly.
George Taylor saw the prisoner in company on the
slay stated in the 41(141mi:in. In consequence of infor-
mation he received, he went to Smith's lodgings, and
found him in bed. His clothes were wet. Wittiesa
took prisoner's shoes and compared them with the im-
pressions in the garden. They were found to tally
exscily.—Goi lay.
Michael NMI:, a young watt of sickly appcatance,