The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-15 00:00:00

OLD .BAILEY.

FIRST pay-WEDNESDAY, TAN. X 4. •
THIS day the .Session coMmenced at this
place, before the'RECO'itDER and other City Of-
ficers, an4l also Mr. 3aron THomrsON; Mr. jus-
tice LAWRENCE, 414 Mr. Baron GRABANI.
• job,: lianbani was Witted for stealing every
large quantity of goods in the Perfumery .branch
of business, the property of Mr. Richard'Jei'ies,
manufaauret and wholesale trader in Terfuniery,
at'Shoreditch, With'whOM the Prisoner had' been
servant and fOreman in that branch of 'the' tr:lde
which relates' tai the Manufitiory 'of hard !soap ;
Wit he kaa nothing','to do with part of the
Perfumery. Although the vaiue of the Arians
was very great, yet the Prior,
only for simply stealing the goods, without star-
ing that they were stolen out of the dwelling-
'house.

, ~lt appeared, by the eVidence of Mr. lours,
that his matiufattory is. in Shpreditch ; that the
Prisoner lived with him in the capacity of his
foreman in the hard soap branch, but that in
consequence of suspicions he entertained, he
discharged the Prisoner in November last, and
afterwards, in consequence bf .the same iuspicion,
he went in company with a 136%4,4.m:et-Officer of.
the name of Ilarpr, to the Prisoner's lodgings,
'which were at No. 31. New.-Inn Yard, for the
purpose ofsearching them. These Itidgings were
within 3o yards of the Prosecutor:4 'manufiflory.
.The Prosecutor 'and Harper toldtthe PrisonerAhat
•a particular circumstance had happened, and they
came td search his lodgings. The:Prisoner asked
them if they had a Search-warrant ? .They said
they had nor.. The Prisoner insisted they should
not search his 'lodgings without a,Warrant for
that•purpose, .0n which the Prosecutor went to
the Public-Office for a Warrant, leaving Harper.
in the Prisoner's' lodgings, The Magistrate,
however, did not give the Prosecutor a Warrant,
but seth 'a verbal order for starching the lodgings
of the 'Prisoner ; :upon which -they were searched;
and in.the-Prisoner's bed-room were found some
of the various' articles 'of property .stated in. the.
Indiblment. • Oa searching the person ofthe Pri-
soner there were found in his pocket: two' keys ;
'h was desired' to -tell what- they belonged. to,
:which-he refuSeet ;but the Witnesses found means
. lei'diseover.—that, in consequence of which they
!went to a house in RisdolPA,Buildingsewhere they
-found a— large quantity of ,washing balls,. in an
'unfinished-state, in boX. (.4 assize fit for contain.
iog one Inindrol weight' or:War...4e was full ,;
they foilokals6 a great Many; other 'articles of
Perfumery to agreat2value, and among them, a
machine for witahing4alls, which was
an initeurnent-nettetintended to be sold, and was'
made• in a peculiar manner., by order of the Pro.
secutor, for the trod of-his mantif-,:ture, ,•• and
which he knew lierfeetty'welt,'• it being a very
remarkable one. The• Prisoner being charged with
bavings-tolen.these articles from his master, said,
he had bought them of.a-maii of the name' of .Bi-
-4101?..; who was a smuggler.
These articles; produced' in Court, the
Prosecutor swore posttiveiy to' the Wash--ball
Nlishing machine,` to a great number of labels
on several of the articles of Perfumery, and. that
he had. lost all these articles out of his strop.
, • Swywid nereper; .the crinstable, swore,. that' he
went with the Prosecutor to the Prisoner's lodg.:.
.ing,'at No. sk New—lnn Yard. He gave the
same.account as Mr. Jones bad given, of search..
log the Prisoner's 'lodgings, and Of the goods
found there; and added', that while Mr. Jones
was' gone for *a SearchLsvarrantohe Prisoner
went into a back-room and locked: it, and the
Witness saw Through the key=hole' the Prisoner
busy in the room 'tying up- .something; and- he
saw the' Prisoner's body half oil t' of the window.
Afterwards. a blanket was ••fOnd in the .cellar;
which contained many articles the: property of
. Allr. Jones, and which was brought into the eel:.
tar from -the outside of the wins ow by 'the PH.
soner's wife. .
It appeared afterwards that the, house in Ris
doll's.,lioildings, of which the Prisoner had the
keys,..and in which the, property of Mr. Jones
was found, was let in October last to' the Prison.
er, and that.he had -the possession of it from that
time to the time he was apprehended. ,
On behalf of the Prisoner one Witness of the
name (.4. Eti'za4eth ,Spark, who'was the landlady
of the house where the Prisoner was
'called, for the purpo.st• ptoving that he was in
the coarse of mnnudiuring time wash-balls, po.
matum3,'Sec. which ‘vere found in his possession;
but-the tendeno,' of her evidence, -as far as it
'went, was rattier against the Prisoner than for
him.. •

Several Witnesses appeared to his charaarr,
which the Learned judge told the ;pity was of no
(Ice whatever,- except when the 'case wa3,doubt-
lid. This ‘vas un Indian-lent which did not
fca•the Prisoner's life,' because it was not stated
that the goods were stolen in,the dwelling-house.
lithe jury believed the evidence, they would
find the Prisoner guilty ; if thek had,any reason
to doubt it, they would acquit. him, There w.v.
ne'question but..the Verdi Verdi& would be such a
would he satisfa&ory to the Justice of the Coun-
•,

7ditth Porry was inditted for stealing on the
704 T of December last, a gold watch, of the
value of; thirty psuoais, the property of deorge
etsly Esq.,
This offence was not stated as a capital one,
ratnely, either as an highway robbery, or steal.
ing privately from the person, but was only
stated as a simple stealing, and, therefore, did
not afre6t the life of the Prisoner.. .

Ehe Probetwor. is no Officer in Hi 3 Majesty's
Military 6ervlce : he v:a , tatty come to tuwn
from Novel6tle, and, on the 7th of I)ecernher
last, he hat.l bt,en at' the heAre of Drury- Lane,
and ai he was coming our, in 13ridge'.,.stieet, he
felt hirosell hustledi as they term it. Inunetliate.