The Sun.
London, England, 1806-03-28 00:00:00

L.LVCASTER ASSIZES.

Nweltnan was inclided for stealing fifteen
pieces of printed cambric, :the_ property of Hugh
Waterworth.'

the ,Prosecutor had purchased the goods in ques'..
4ion. at a warehouse in Manchester, and desired
them to be sent to him by The Kendal carrier. The
carrier's servant called for the goods, which .Were
made un. in a truss, and put into his cart. After-
wants, while hestopped at another warehouse for
some More goods,: the truss was. taken away out ,of
the, cart, and no,trace left of the depredator.

InforMation being given at the Police Office,
Nadin,- the: constable, applied to a woman of the
rime 'of Roberts to assist him in discoveting the
goods and th. thief.

This Roberts, it appeared, kept a public-house,
Was acqUainted with the persons and haunts of
all the principal thietesin Manchester, and ILO-of-
ten bctbre been employed by Nadin in the hon6nr-
01e. office of betra) Mg her friends and supportcrs:
She- set about here 'work -with great aetivity, and
meeting the Prisoner in the street, and thinking
hini as likely as any of her friends to give her in-
fdrmation on the subject, she aCcosted him by asking
" Whether he folloWed his 'old trade,-and whether.
'he had any-thing ?" Hardman at first pre
tended ignbrance ; on which she said, ". Come, you
-need not niake it strano.e, ram up to-you t" She
then asked. hint :"Whether het-lad-gut any prints
-He answered, '" that he had :got fifteen ;pieces in
,dant but would not break them." He 'said: farther,
that " he had lit of a sweei ,Petir,o'n and
, •
'had got it froth a drag in .Cannon,street: All
"winch corresponded exaaly with the theft in .ques, .
tion. Upon this she agreed-' for the printS,
pointed a time for the Prisoner to bring them to her
houSe, where she
,introdced hint ancr Pqer to
Nadio, who took charge of thenwith great
wiilin&ness; - .. •
The goods being produced and identified; the jury
immediately fOund the Prisonerioiitty, and he. was
.
sentencectto- seven years' transpehation. •
Brindle was indieted,:for bug ;lariousl~
entering the dwelling-house of William Cocker::' !• •

- appeared from the statement of the' Tiroie6ltdes
Counsel, .that the of 'entry'adopted' by The
Prisoner was getting-down the chant-ley.; but when
'he was near the bottom thechimney grew so narrow
:that-he stuck fast, and could get neither:-backKards.
no forwards. In this situation, he had onl3}' to
choose between the certainty of suffocation 'in re- •
maining wherelie was, or the chance of hanging
by alarming the, family.. He preferred the latter ;
and,
,in so: doing, •it appears he acted very wisely ;
for the Ridge (Mr. Justice ROOKE) being of opinion
that as he got no farther than,thechininey, LecoUld.
not be said to haVe entered the house, direaed an
iftquittal.
It is a singular circumstance that the Prisoner was
tried at the -last Agsi-hei for a Inirglary in the same
h'ouse, and had then a-very narrow escape ; and he
had not been released from prison more. than a
snonth'when the present atternprwar;made:'*,
' Mary Jackson, ageo 20, was indiEted fbr Stealing
to the amount of more than fortY shillings' in a dwel-,
linohouse. • • 'a
This young womanAiras• indjaed • laat Assizes for-
the
,Murder, of the woman whose property she was,
DQW accused of having stolen.- :The Prisoner, it ap-
pears, was acquainted with: the. deceased, and used
• often to visit Jier ; on: Which occasion the deceased
had often shewed her clothes..and little trinkets, one
'of which, in. particular, had attracted the. notice Of
the Prisoner. It was a small eilarnel box, with this
Thyme dn the lid, " I.love .too- well, to kiss and
1' tell." A few days before. .the robbery and murder,
*she had,been talking of this box-to-.0 girl ofher ac
quaintance, and' had'promised to make her -a
,present
of it: On the day of the robbery the Prisoner bad
,been at work iii a'fa&ory at 'Manchester, .as 'usual,
till dinner time, but did not return after dinner till
• about..t4-o. hours later than ordinary 4 during which
time, it. appeared decisively ,in evidence that .the
murder must haye'been.committed.- Oa her return
4: brought with her set'eridhalf-guineaS,soMe saver, ,
and some trinkets, and• among them .the box hefoi-e-
-mentioned,. These -trinkets she gave awxy in the
Most 'open 'manner among the-girls at the faClory,
saving, they had 'been given. her by, a Sweetheart a,

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Cr; ilO. 1 '1
42, Strand , •wit Ore* 4rivertls::7": ell is',
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•
het's, whom sh n lcna,l , person of the name
has beeiCor can be fontid.- 'ln the evening; when--
told of the -murder, she appeared surprised, but
neither alarmed or confused, and continued her or-
dinary employMent and residence for some days, tiJI
her apprehension.. When , searthed,-, several other,
articles of the deceased's property were 'found upon
her, which she told the constable had been given
her by one Gel& Che:-.tham,.which was a different
name Imm than ,v ieh she bad before used The
only circumstances in her favour ,Were, the little
lam) she exhibited both before and on her appre:-
!tension . her not having used the full opportunity-.
she bad for escaping ; . her not 'having been seen in
the neighbourhood of the deceased near the time_;
abd the sudden and reSolute violence of the 'Murder,
which seemed to require; more strength and, resolu-
tion than what could be expeeted in a girl 0f20.
For the deceased,had been, strangled:, as.it should
seem, so violently and instantaneously as not to
alarm persons who were in the next room, which
was only sepilited by -a lath and plaister partitiOn,
and the windows of both of which rooms were open.
It should -be added that the deceased was ill in bed.

Upon the. evidence Of the above fa&s, the Prisoner
had been acquitted of, the murder, but was found
Guilty of 'the robbery.
Sully Eddloton;- aged only lg.; was- conviEtcd of
stealing 01. Gs. out of the dwelling-house Of John.
•

She' had been servant- to the prosecutor five years;
and hid'-had many oppOrtubiiies- of knowing where;
he kept hiS money. She had
.lef( his service about
six weeks when she returned one .afternoon, and.
entering the house 'without being observed, pro-
ceed untuediately to The drawer; -where- she Übe*,
the money to be kept, and, by pulling, forced the
loclt off She then rifled the dthwer of its col tents;'
and departed Without being seen by any One. She
first excited suspicion by appearing on a sudden
Vei3,- finely dressed;. and lavishing about her, :most
profuSely; sums of money impossible for a "girl ofher
description to have come by honestly, and of which she
gave very`improbable and contradi#ory accoUnts.of
her manner (it:obtaining. From these eirenrmtances
she was. apprehended, and when carried before a
Macristrate, made a full cOnfession•of all the above
•

George leozce was' indiEted for uttering, know
ly, a forged 13i11 of Exchartei- for :the sum of
VA Rs:

The Prisbner had gone into a shop in Manchester;
and- purchased a Watch, for the payment of which
he tender :A., the -bill in queStion, signed by J: Pod=
more.---Being asked, whether it were Mr. Podmort
of Eichange-strect ? he said no; it was a much bet-
ter Man ; it was Mr. Podmore of King-Street: The
hand-writing of -both these :persons was disproved
as being that of the drawer of the bill.
On the part of the Prisoner, it was proved • that
the bill was aLaually signed- by a JOseph:Podmore;
ii-d:theiefore it Could not be a forgery, but a 'fraud
only. The Prosecutor then- sheaved, that the Joz
seph Podmore' who drew the bill was a person in
very low circumstances, and could not possibly
pet!-.t that a hill-would pa's on the credit ofhis name-;
and general connexions between hum •and.the *Pri-
soner (thong h not:as immediately relative to this.
y.ransaCtion) were prosed. -Upon these - citcum
stances; Mr. Ju'itice RooKE 'left two questions- for
the Jury to consider.- whetla Jogeph POd
more, When he signed the bill, intended it should be'
passed'off as the bill of anothef person 2dly;
'then the Prisoner knewof its being .draWri i.vith such
intention ?

, . .
1 he Jury found both. these fa&S in the affirmative, 1
, and a general yerdlal-)f Gudiy was taken. -, -•- .
' - Christoph.ei- Si lIIPSY4I2 ',V as.incJieled fora hickri7ay
,=.
robbery.' • Stephen Sparrow, the Prosecutor-, Was Met
by a man on a chesnut horse, about ele4en (Muck
in-the morning, on the road-between Lancaster -and .
-Liverpool, and about seven mileakfrOm the foimer
place. The man' presented 'a, pistol, 'and robbed •
lam of leis Watch and money.- The.,Prosectit'or
then stated, that he believed the:Prik)ners to. be 'the.
1-11'cin ; but as it appeared, C,2at' When robbed,khe had-
been;
,very much: alarmed, - and -had .'ionee,'befare
pointed_ out'.a different' person, the COunselr .fo
the prosecution thought it right to go into other
evidence Twhich was nearly as follows :---The Pri-
Ismer, Mounted on a che3nut horse, was tracedd-the
same day from Lancaster to Kendal, 'where he
stayed one night; and, in the morning, bought a
'deal'box, kin which he packed. some articles, direa-
ed it to ‘c C. D. Willimng, -Liverpool, to be. left till
called tor,' 'and sent it to the, carrier's wayehouse.
Some suspicion arising, the box • was stopped and
opened 'at Prestcm ; and- the- ProseCutor's watch,
atnong divers Other articles, was foUnd,in it. These
things were taken oat, the box was'sent forward,
'and the Prisoner - apprehended, inquiring for it at.
• Liverpool. On this evidence 'the Jury ?ound him,
Guitty, . . . . .
The . Country' May be congratulated on this con-.
vision, as a more active and determined robber.
m ' sees hardly ever 'to have existed. He had
ly% robbed five persons on the mine .day, near Hert-
ford ; for ;one of whiCh he-was condemnd to die,
but his sentenee exchanged for transportation for
life.: Whilst under this sentence, he escaped from
gaol; and came into that part .of the country; where
1)e did not at all relax in his exertions ; tor, it ap--
pearect that he had stolen the very -horse on whith
I.- be rode ; that he t binmitted .more than one robbery
[ - On the night he was at Kendal ; that all' the articles
I- in the box he packed there were stolen ; and in his
-lodgings' were -fOund.:three large chests of stolen
.•. goods.