The National Register.
London, England, 1822-01-20 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

MONDAY, J►N. I.l.—Elizaltctli Clements WES convicted
on an indictment charging her With feloniously intermarrying
with James Townsend, her former husband being then alive.
Sentenced to six months imprisonment in the house of cor-
rection.

Charles Fred. Scutt ,a genteel looking lad, was indicted
for steality, u book, value :Is. the pruaerty of James Lowe.
The pi 'sinter, it appeared, was a clerk in the employment
of the prosecutor, a ho is a respectattle sulicit Ur ill CliltliCery.
lane. Several bunk. haviug been missed at various times,
sod suspicion falling on the prisoner, he was discharged.—
About a mouth Miens arils the partner of Mr. Lowe met him
ill Fleet-street, and in consequence of information he received
took the prisoner to u shoemaker in Breams-huildings, to
whom he had sold the books in question.—Guilty.
W. Bentley was convicted of breaking and entering the
coach house and stables of N. W. R. Colbnrn, Esq. of Hill.
street, Berkeley-square, and stealing therefrom sevetal
articles, bib property.
The capital part of the charge was not made out, but the
Jury found him guilty of stealing only.
Ile a as then called up for judgment, and received sentence
of transportation for seven years.
William Lyons was capitally indicted for stealing, on the
6th of December last, in the dwelling-house of Miss Arabella
Watson, a quantity of silver desert-forks, table spoons, and
other plate, her property.
The first witness called was Mr. Baker, a pawnbroker, re-
siding at No. ll,George street, Portman-square, who stated,
that on the bth of December, the prisoner came to his shop
and offered in pledge two silver desert fmks, upon winch he
asked twelve shillings. Suspicion being awakened in the
mind of the witness Ils to the means by a hick the prisoner
became possessed of the plate' he sent his assistant to make
eaquirles at tbeplare mentioned. While the young matt was
gone , the prisoner ran out of the shop, mid witness jumped
over the counter, pursued, and brought him buck. Re was
given in charge to u cum' isble..
Miss Watson deposed that the prisoner had lived with her
as footman about three weeks, and she was *boast front town
at the time the artlelCS were stoleu. Witness identified the
plate as her molten).
The prisoner, o Inn called upon fir his defence, said,
he should throw himself upon the mercy of the Claret and
Jury.
The Common Sergeant complimented Mr. Baker his
conduct on this occasion, and directed the Jury, that
there was no proof of property to the amount of 40,
having been taken at any one time.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing under
the value of 404. and the Common Sergeant immediately
sentenced hint to seven years transportation.
John Croker, a youth of 19, apparently of Chinese de-
scent, was capitally indicted for stealing wearing apparel,
tire. value 41. and upwards, the property of J. Suloinon,
in his dwelling-house.
The Jury, alter retiring for half an hour, found the
prisoner guilty of stealing goods of the value of 395. only.
TIMR.DAY, JAN. IT.—Blatamv.—John CIOAS was
indicted tor feloniously intermarrying with Itlary Nelson,
his lawful wife bring at the time alive.
The Rev. Wigmatt produced the register of the
prisoner's marriage with Mary Nelson, the proisecutria, at
the church of St. lieurge'm, Bloomsbury, in 1510.
Jane Smuttier s deposed, that she is sister to the prose-
entrix, and the priautier lodged at her house about three
months before lie Illearlied her sister. Witness was pre-
sent at the marriage ; her sister was then I i y ears of age,
and was living and earning her livelihood with her father.
She returned to her father three days after the marriage,
but still cohabited with the prisoner, and had two
chll-
dreu by him. They were now partly supported by the
parish.
Mary Ann Nelson deposed, that she was married to the
primate' in ISIO, and when she had been married about
four months, and was pregnant, he deserted her, but af.
ter wards returned to her. In the interval she was sup.
ported by her father and mother. Site became again
pregnant, and he mice more deserted her. He, however,
remitted to tier some time after, but again ran away, and
never came back, mid she was obliged to support her
children by her own industry, assisted in a trilling degree
by the parish.. In his last absence she received a letter
from him, telling her that she was not Isis lawful wife, and
advising her to accept of the last offer of marriage that
bile might inert with. It was about four years since lie
has left her.
Mr. Taylor, the parish clerk of St. Giles in the Fields,
product d the register of the prisoner's first marriage with
:Slaty a" giu lad I. 'l he signature, " John Crooks,"
WI!. proved to be his hand- w rinng.
akillidati Read, ilts officer of Halton Garden, swore, that
whim he apprehended the prisoner he confessed to I •
that lie was married to Maly V • gin 181 h.
The Jai y, without a moment's hesitation, found the
prisoner
The Commit Sergeant gen teaced him to seven years
transportation.
James Smith and Attn Nichols were put to (lie bar, on
an indictment charging them with having stolen, on the
424 December, from the house of W. Phillimoi es r-sa • the
eminent Chaucer) barrister, a variety of pror0:11y,

Mating of six sovereigns, a valuable tea caddie, and a con-
siderable quantity of culinary utensils.
The facts were proved by Hancock, an officer, and the
property was identified by Mr. Duffield, a tinman, who
sold them to Mr. Phillimore on the 1.2 d of last October.
Smith, upon being called for his defence, said, he had
been employed by his cumin (the female prisoner) to
carry the articles in question, sad had no knowledge of
their being stolen.
Anne Nichols stated, she had married in April last, and
was about to settle, and had bought the articles for her
own use; but her mistress being rather short of such
utensils, she had used theist front the motive of wishing to
accommodate the family.
Several respectable witnesses gave Smith an excellent
character, as did others the female prisoner.
After an impartial summing up, the Jury consulted for
a short time, and found Nichols Guilty, but acquitted
Smith.
FItIDA Y, Jaw. 10.—Tha Sessions this day concluded,
and sentence of death was passed on the following 13
prisoners :
Wm. Rivers and John 'fye, for forgery—Jas. Tuffnell
Win. Wilson, George Bryan, John Redgrave, and William
Jones, for burglary; John Lane and George Williams, for
horse breaking ; Edward Smith, Robert Kitt, Letitia
Williams, and Mary Scott, for stealing in a dwelling lions°.
Six were sentenced to be transported for lite ; k fur 1 t
years; and 26 for 7 *ears ;—IS were ordered to be pri-
vately, and four publicly whipped.
The Sessions then adjourned to Wednesday, Feb. 25.

Among the trials at the late Court of Ass:se at Ilium,
was that of a family called Salgues, accused of a dread-
ful assassination. Maurice, one of the sous, had for
three years been deeply enamoured of a girl named Ca-
tharine Pondegoire. She had long resisted hint, but at
last, yielding to his promises, she became pregnant. His
father and family would not hear of a marriage with the
poar gill, who confided her situation to her lover, and to
the Curate of the parish, at whose house they were to
meet to arrange matters for her support. In the mean
time, she was seen one evening near Salgues' house, and
from that moment she disappeared. Sospicinit then
arose that she had fallen the victim of some horrible
crime. Search was made in the house of the Salgues,
and in their ga-den. In the house was found a knife,
in the form of a stiletto, still covered with blood"; and
in the garden, whicii they dug all over, they found the
body of the unfortunate girl. The inspection of the body
showed that several blows had been given in the throat
with the knife, andlto stifle the cries of the victim, they
had put a gag of straw, birced so strongly into the mouth,
that it was with difficulty withdrawn. They had also
attempted several times to strangle her, first with a cord,
then with a handkerchief, knotted, and drawn with
force. A great number of witnesses were examined on
the trial, which lasted four days. Salgues, the father,
died in prison three days before the verdict was returned,
and two of his sons, Peter and Anthony, have been ac-
quitted. A crowd of circumstances gave the fullest
conviction of the guilt of Maurice Salgues, who has in
consequence been condemned to death.
Another trotting match, of two miles, for 200 guineas
aside, took place on Menday, on the Bagshot road, be-
tween M r. Wells's roan mare and Mr. R. Painter's black
horse. The mare made the play, and kept it the first
half mile, when the broke into a gallop, and in turn-
ing the horse passed her. At the mile the horse broke,
when neck and neck, and got four lengths a-bead.—
Leery inch of the ground was contested, and both were
together when two hundred yards front home. The
mane WOll by two lengths in 6 minutes, 31 seconds.
EXTRAORDINARY FLATS.—Friday, a man, tot a
small consideration, undertook to run 17 miles in two
hours, from Romsey market-place to half a mile on the
Southampton road, which lie performed with apparent
ease in ten minutes within the time.—One of the most
extraordinary feats of exertion was made by a young
man, Mark Fork, who hail been employed on a new
road making by the Rev. W. Gamier, in the parish of
Wickham, Hants ; who, for a trifling wager, undertook
to wheel a barrow that he had liven accustomed to wink
with on the road, with a hundred weight of gravel in it,
40 miles in 12 hours, viz. from six in the morning to six
in the evening. This distance he perforated on ground
measured for the purpose, on the turnpike road, hall a
mile in length, in 10 hours and 28 minutes, without
being very much distressed.
Out Mouday morning an elderly female, who resides
in the Kent-road, who by misfortune had been reduced
from a state of affluence almost to dependence, went to
the hank to draw one hundred pounds, for the purr), e
of intim; up a little shop in a fancy business, by the
Fonts of which she hoped to be able to support herself
in her declining years. This sum was nearly all she
possessed. The money was paid to her in seven ten
pound notes, and the remainder in sovereigns, which she
put into a blue clasp purse, which contained a promis-
sory no:e.—She had not left the hank five militates,
when between Threadneedle and Lombard-streets, she
was sonounded by a gang of thieves, who, it is supposed,
had previously watched her into the hank, who bustled
her, and one of the villains imust his hand into her
pocket, and took mit the purse, and with Ills associates
decamped before site had recovered from her alarm, or
discovered her loss. As soon as she lOOnd that she had
been rubbed, she returned to the bank, where the notes
(the numbers of which had been taken) were stopped.—
The unfortunate woman hastened home in the greatest
distress, stud her friends gave information to the magis-
trates of the different police offices of the robbery. .
DARING kitoFtwAY itnitsakt,—Weditesday anght,
as Mr. Robert Dowling, ))) i)) iatureilatider, of Great
Portland-..sect, was returning home from Kensingto.t.
he was stopped near the further extr.mity of Hyde Park,
by a fellow who knocked Mot down: his head oaute
against a stone with great violence, which rendered him
quite insensible; whilst in that situation, the villinti and
His conipmion robbed him of his watch, suoucy, alit'
some oilier property.
The Rev. Robert Steele, Rector of Mundelley, at hi,
late tithe atll., has deducted iti per cent. its conse-
ywnce of the agricultural depression.