The Sun.
London, England, 1808-01-15 00:00:00

041) 134111,Er.

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John Coates' aged -16, and flo4vrt.E44ger, 0n17,-
1 4 years of age; were iiidi(l7P.A:for hurgla-•
riouNy bre:ll.o'llg and entering •the dwlling-house of,
John Doward, habetdasher and hosier, No, 5,.
street fir6inpron, 00 the night p1.11ie,5,1;1 o(Janivry;
at eight o!clock, and stealing therein one pieeg'.of
Irish linn,.comaining 26.y.ird1;:v,alue,41.
.two silk
handkerdhief3, value, 10•3. and one muslin handl:er- -
thief,Nhlue 3,., • • 't •

,The. Prosecutor, his son (Wm. Doward), and W.H,
Hill, who took the .boy. Badger. into custody, swore
in substance as follows-:,,Doward t he yormger.heard
a noise at the shop-Window as if-pease, were dashed'
against it, but tOok- no- noticeytlntil, a neighbour
• came and • told him what had happened. He then
went &out, sdAir' a pane of glass broken, and, some
blood upon the Window,fraMe, after,Which•he mis,sed,
the -articles- Stated ,in the indielment, and infante('
his father. . Mr. Doward ..secQff its pursuit of
KYuthful depredators,. and when he, came as far. as
niglitsbridge foot-pith,: he came up with the .Prior
soner Coates, who, had the _linen...under his arm.
Ie shortly after that produced, the handkerchiefs,
but said that tWo, boys'lhad. promisedhim 14111-
Crown for'.earrying-the.articles to the White Horse.
Cellar, .Piccadilly. Mr. Doward seeing two boys,at
a skirt distancevfOre.them, begged of 'Mr. Hill,
who happened to be passing at the time, to take
them into,Ctistody, One, however,. ran-off and got
cleaN• the.other was-the Prisoner, Badger, -who had:,
one of his hands cut .and bleeding severely. When,..,;,
they were taken before a. Magistrate, • Coates said, ,q
in the presence of Badger, that he had been in comer,
pany with him and LaCeV (the boy who escaped) all-t
the evening. This the other did taut then deny, nor
did he at the: trial, when the some assertion was
peated.
Mr. Justice I.4w,ttotick, : who tried the case,
served, that. Badger's hand .being, bleeding at the
time of his apprehension, the window frame -havipg
sonic blood upon it,.. together with their being very
nearly in. company.together when ,Coates was seen*
carrying the property, and 'the.assertiou of Coates,•
uncontradicted by. Badger, that they were in company,:
all the eveningtogetber, appeared to him to be very,
strong.circumstanees against the Prisoners. How-
ever,. it was the province of the Jury.- to decide
,how•
far they thought the Prisoners were either or both. of
them innocent or •• . •.
The Jury immediately pronounced both the
soners Guilty—Deata. • ,
- John Little, eighteen years of age, was tried for a
burglary on the night Qf. the't§th,,uf.December
having broken into the dwelling-house of Mrs..,
Mary Pavey, in Elbow-lane, and 'stolen, therein.a
man's coat, four waistcoats, forty-six -handkerchiefs,
her property. - .The articles the indiament were
traced to. the Prisoner's Possession. .).30t, firs.
P. had,gime out ~whon ~it was, light,. Chief; ~Baron
MACDON ALD humanely. observed, .that,there was a
probability Olaf the crime.,might,;have been coni- •
Alined betbre it was dark. This
.presnmptiOn ought
therefore to weighin favour-'of the Priaoner., • •
The Jury then pronounced, the,.Prisoner.guilty of.
Grand Larceny only. . • • . . •
Sarah Ward-was indicted for stealingin the dwell- I
ing•houSe of 21.1 ex. Brum, Jahr-Mall-
Court,. on .the night 'of. the „loth. of'Deeetnber, 24:;.
silver :forks. a dozen and a, half of. silver'slatted
knived - and .forks, t 5 silver desert, spoons, and. other--
articles, altogether of , the Value,of.. 12L • The story*
has already: ' bean given in .this and other Papersi,
.It ~is therefore 4..)0,1yr- necessary to. mention-that
Prisoner' laid been hot a week in-the service of the,
prosecutor when she absconded with the. property,,
aim that through the honesty and aftivity of Mr.-
Kimber, a pawnbroker, in Knightsbridge, she was,,
taken into custody, and the. property restored.to the
real owner. •.. • .

The Prisoner was found Guilty— Deailz. But the
Prosecutor most earnestly 'recommended Tier
inerey,bnch on accounVol ;it: not appearing that she,
had any bad connections, and, on .EiCeollllt of her,ex-:
tretue penitence. 'Of thin Mr. Justice' .CitAmatts
took a minute.-.

John Matthews, aged eighteen, was'capitally Con
vitted of stealing.varions articles of plate, the pro-
perty of Mrs. Ann Shuw, in her house in ,Bedford-
square.---This case has already been fully given.
• George Rudd, a 'master. hatchey at Pimlico, and
7'hoinas Donovan, a ,drover, were tried on a charge
of 'stealing e 5 sheep, the .property o(James Burrell
and Robert • Swaine, of Sharp's-alley, Cow-cross.
The whole were stolen from the Reservoir-field,
near Bagnigge Wells, and, found on the premises ,of
Rudd, at Pimlico. From the improbable and con,.
tradiCtory accounts given by, each of the Prisoners,
as to the share each had in the trausa&ion, and the
circumstance of the m'arks on the skins having been
visibly altered and, defaced, the Jury pronounced
both Prisoners Guilty,,-Deut4.

A heinous attempt to injure, probably to murder,
some part of Mr. MON cua's family, at Fineshade,
near Stamford, was made early cm Sunday morning
Last. • About three o'clock a .gun was diseliarged
'close to Mr. Mouctia's bed-room window, which
alarmed his wife so much that she immediately: got
out of bed,' but before she could reach the windoW
another gun was discharged through the shutter info
the room, which providentially did her nn injury:
Upon a light being procured it was found that seve-
ral large abut had.passed through the shutter, grazed
the ceiling, ,and lodged in the wall of the room,
close to ►he bed. Some abandoned villain has tar
many months coverted in thd neighbourhood 'in
which this offence was committed, as other extraor-
dinary escapes from intended harm have been known
thereabouts. Some commendable efforts to suppress
poaching• are supposed to have induced the enmity
which is so alarmingly shewn;

A young soldier, a deserter, yeas, brought to
-Southampton, on the 4th instant, on his way to the
depot in the Is of Wight; but whether from de-
'sign or not, he made a lbng confession to the
Mayor of murders,- robberies, &C, committed by
'him.lind his confederates—among which is a rob_
.bevy committed lately at Mrs. Tr tram's house, at
Redbridge; Hants. Wednesday 3titmight he was
4 sent to Porismeuth, accompanied-by Mr. Vince pt,'
the Chief Constable,. where he says he will ppint
out many of the gmg, together +.vith