The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-15 00:00:00

Extraordinary Affair at Warwick.

At Warwick, on Saturday, Alice Owen made an
affidavit tending to establish the innocence of
George Cooke, a carver and gilder, who was in-
dicted at the Warwick summer assizes on a charge
of highway robbery with violence, found guilty,
and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Ac-
cording to her evidence the young man was in bed
at the time the robbery was alleged to have been
committed, and she herself confesses that the money,
for the stealing of which he was convicted, was in
fact never stolen at all, for the prosecutor had given
it to her some time before to keep safe for
him. The following is a summary of the evi-
dence on which Cooke was convicted :—The pro-
secutor stated that he and the prisoner had been
drinking together in several public-houses
in Warwick, and that he himself got drunk. About
one o'clock in the morning they started from where
they had been drinking for home, the prisoner
being at the time quite sober. While they were
walking along, the prisoner suddenly turned upon
him, and struck him a severe blow upon the head
with something hard like a stone. From the effects
of that blow he was partially stunned, and fell upon
the pavement. The prisoner then rifled his pockets,
and, having possessed himself of the money, ran
away. Police Constable Waters, who was on
duty near the spot where the assault and
robbery were said to have been committed, proved
with blood flowing from a upon the ground,
finding the prosecutor lyingwound at the back of
bead. On being asked what he was doing there,
he answered, " Cooke is a rogue, for he has robbed
me and run away," or words very much to that
effect. Cooke was subsequently apprehended upon
the charge. When taken into custody four half
crowns and a few coppers were found in his posses-
sion.—Mr. Tibbits, for the defendant, attempted to
show that the policeman first suggested the
name of Cooke to the prosecutor when ho found
him lying upon the ground, and that then, and
not before, he adopted the notion that Cooke was
the person who had robbed and beaten him. That,
shtoawteedvert,hali:awitheerns flatly
tyro lydenied.—Sergeaut Webb
n
men confronted each
other at the station-house, prosecutor pointed to
Cooke and said, " That man has robbed me," upon
which Cooke called him all sorts of names, and said
that he knew nothing about his money. It was
shown by the prisoner's mother that he had money
in his pocket before he left home to drink with the
prosecutor. Nary Ann R.ndow when the policeman
awline deposed that she
was up at her bedroom window
Walters found the prosecutor upon the pavement.
The policeman asked him what he did there with his
pocket turned inside out. Green behaved like a man
stupefied with drink., The officer then said, " What
have you done with Cooke P Prosecutor replied ho
policeman said,
~icdnni note
along;kw
we will go and find Alice Owen,
Cooke both came to
at the time of the offence, was living in Warwick, and
dno, upon which the
question the pro-
secutors haverse
thatGreenand
the house whdre she was in an intoxicated condi-
tion. Cooke went to bed, but Grua f although every-
thing was done to persuade him
late
theon the
prisoner night i
him, refused to follow
his companion, and insisted upon going out into the
street again. Before doing so, however, he emptied
his pockets of all the money
they contained, and
handed it to her to keep fi.a.fe for him, a trust he had
often exercised when visiting her before. He sub-
sequently loft the house, an.d sjin heard no more
about him, but Cooke remained in bed all night.
In answer to the Magistrate, why she has not made
her stateMOit before, lie replied
and it that early next
morning she left Warwick, Was not until
recently she heard dila) undcaerled sentence which
had been passed upon Colo'. .A.t preaent the friends
of the young man are engag" tuiP"cur"lg signa-
tures td a dncument to be forwaro,;(l to Sir George
Gray.

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DEATH OF TILE VEN. AltethilriMl°N BE N.--
The death is announefd of the Yen. Thoaas Bevan,
archdeacon of St. David's, in his 64th year. For ul4'l9'than
St. David's College, Lampeter
fir,
30 years the ven. archdeacon had been rector of St. Pete
a St.n d
Dhaevibda,ss, also,s‘,ithf for
emparne.:
man}'
years in the gift of
'cathedral church of that dio-
cese, £l7O, population 4,850)
years held the archdeacoury of
ccse, value about £5O. resigned his living from ill-
health, stall of Mydrim, in the
He
health, atter 30 years of unwearied labour and great minis-
terial usefulness, iu Nev.,
effective preacher ; and, 1863' He was a very able and
though Evangelical in his views,
ha was moderato and unOsuuling in his enunciation of
them.