The Sun.
London, England, 1801-07-03 00:00:00

OLD BAILE:'..

SECOND DAY--THTJRS,DAY, JULY 2.

William Lyons was capitally crinriaed of Stealing
two parcels, the (me containing ten lengths of trioS_
linet, the, other eight yards of dimity, the goods'of
Joseph Capper

games Broadhurst was tonvi&ed of stealing a
chaise harness, and other articles, the property of
Messrs. Saxe, and Mary Yare.

Richard ,Adams was tried upon a charge of steal-
ing on the 29th of May,. a silk hat, the property of
Messrs. Dunnage and Larkin.

This Cake, from the intricacy of some of its cir-
cumstanees, and the length to which the examination
of the Witnesses • consequently run, 'occupied the
attention, of the Court a considerable time ; how-''
ever, a general idea of its meths may be- collated
from the followihg recital.
. It appeared from the evidence that the Prosecu-
tors were Patentees of the• Silk Hat Manufadory,
and that the Prisoner worked in their employ ; that
o the 27th of
.Maj Mr. Larkin saw the hat in clues-
t ion lying in the Manufadory, and. in consequence of
some suspicions which he entertained,. marked the
hat.in a particular manner ; that the Prisoner .accord-
ing to the statement of thd Proseacor, was seep to
Ci3IIW out of the Manufactory with :the hat on his
head : that Mr. Larkin followed him out, charged
hilt's with the theft, which the Prisoner denied, say-
ing, it was a hat he had,takenin to repair,
However, Mr. Larkin being positive-as to its.iden.
tity, as the hat he had marked, hal him taken into
custody„ lie described it' as a new hat, and that it
had not even the last gloss, or-finish upon it, and
that the better to ascertain it, he had forced. Within
a particular part of the lining, a bit of paper, upon
which the -letters P. L. 'were marked, on which,
_under the direction of the CoLirt, he was proceeding
to, cut open the part Alf the hat, in order to shew'
that such a paper had been introduced, when he:was
stopped by 'the Pris'oner's Contisel, who said; that
in the course of his Defence; the hat %:voUld.be duly
identified-by
.the right owner.;
The Prisoner's Defenee' was shortly aftet. entered
upon, and by the Evidence adduced in that part of
case, it appeared, that a practice existed in the
Manufactory of the Prosecutor's, of permitting the
journeymen occasionally to have hats at the whole-
sale priCe; and to self theni at the lerait
,to' their
friends; &c.: but that any 'alterations 'which might
requisite, were to be done on, the part of the
Masters ;
.and a young than of the oanie.„ we believe,
of Peacock, was brOught forward- who stilted, that
Le- hail bought the, hat in TieStiOn frdm the'Prjeoner,
which he wore. hot above a dozen times,' when he
returned it to, him, in order to have it altered. A
variety of circumstances, and, what the necessary al.
terations were, were minutely-described by the Wit.
ness that he had bought it about six, months since
from the Prisoner :—The hat Was closely .examined,
and found to answer the description of the Witness,
whose account was corroborated, by the testimony
of his father, as to the time of buying the hat, the
price,. &c.—the hat was opened, and the paper
described by the Prosecutor, was- found in the
place be had mentioned. A number of resped-
able Witnesses appeared to the cha'rm'er of the
Prisoner, and the Learned Judge. who erica the
Case summed up the evidence with great preci-
sion, and made a variety of judicious remarkS
thereon. He .seemed to hold the Case at- best as
one.ofmuch doubt,.andhe pointed out the Considera-
tion that the hat might have been so marked by the
Proseeutor,'and yet' it might have been that left in:
the Manufadory by the Prisoner to have altered for
his customer. . ,

The Jury after conferring some time,-pronounced
a' verdia of Not

Wm. Burk was indkied on the capital charge of
stealing, -0 silver watch value 51: and a guinea, the
property of Thos. Kelly, in the dwelling.:house of
Rich. Birch.

The Prosecutors who, as well as the majortiy of
the parties concerned ill this case, were Irish brick.
layers'-labourers,
etold a long story r.espling the
alledged robbery : tt appeared
,that the parties, toge-
ther with one or two Wiinesses, alt lodged at and
lay in. the same room, at 'Birch's -house : it'also ap-
peared that they were intoxicated the night the
Prosecutor stated the fat to have taken place. His
story was totally unsupporred by any other Evi-
dence, and five or six Witnesses, were brougLt for-
ward in order to establish the Prisoner's innocence
di.' the charge—the Jury had little hesitation in ac.
quitting him. •

Edqvard Malta: and John Old were charged ca-
pitally with stealing a gold watch, the 'property of
Francts Welch, in his dwelling house.
It appeared the Prosecutor was a publican in
Shoreditch ; that, on the :9th ot-JUne, abotit eleven
at night, the Prisoners came to the house and or-
dered a pint of beer ; the
_PrOsecutor's wife, who
was sitting near a table within the bar, upon which
tile watch lay, kot up to order the beer, upon which
Ivl.:lipas snatched it off the table.and 'made towards
the door; Mrs. Welch followed him, but the•Pri-.
sonee Oki caught her round the neck and held 'her
till Malpas got away ; he then ran after him. \ She
then ran into the street and gave the alarm, but
without effect. On the following Sunday the Pri-
soners were -taken,• but the property • was 'not re-
covered. On evidence •to this effet the Jury had
nc hesitAion in finding both the Prisoners Guilty—
Death. •

•
A Theatrical Calculator has -lately computed at
Paris, that the sum expended in all .the Theatre's
amounts to 5001. a night. Of the insufficiency of
this sum to the necessities of the Drama this Cal-
: culator .heavily complains. A Ouarter-Master at
Paris 'has undertaken to answer this complaint, by
:.showing that the aggregate of their re..eipt, at the-
end of the. year, amounts ,to 1•80,0001. which it is
said, though insufficient to the maintenance. of about
• boo Comedians, is enough to pay, feed, anti sup•-:
pOrt 28 Battalions. •