The Sun.
London, England, 1806-04-17 00:00:00

OLD B4JLEY.

YESTE-RD AT the Sessions commenced at this place
before the City (Akers, in the usual form.
Lora ou4,(CliiefJUS6ce of England),
Mr:Baron TnOmisoy, and Mr. Justice RooKL, were
theludges.on the Bench..
rillilianeKennovin Joseph Parker, and Mtn Gale,
the eldest of whom was about 12 years of age, the
next about 19, and' the youngest only 8, were in-:
diaed fora capital offence, viz.. for burglitrionsly
breaking
.and entering the dwelling-bouse 9f Richard
Moss, about the hour of eight o'c;lck in the
on the 25th of March last, and stealing there-
from four pairs a stockings, his property'.
The Prosecutor is a hosier in Shoreditch. He was

alarmed by the three. Prisoners being brought into
Sheri by three of the Police Officers, and learn-
that 'the window. of his shop had been broken,_
abOnt eight o'clock. From the.window he missed
six or seven pairs of stockings, which were in a par-
cel together :..he had seen them five minutes before,
and the'Window was then entire.

• Three Police Officers, who were patroling the
streets; viz. Mason, Giccd, and Terries, saw 'four
boys at the prosecutor's shop-window ; watched
theie motions, 'observed the prisoner Gable put: his
arm-in at -the wt\hdow, and take out the stockings,
and gitc them to Kennovin ; went up and secured
botk -__Parker walked intb the grocer's shop
vext door, and the fourth boy ran away before the
Officers could' come up. Parlier came out of the
grocer;s.shop and they secured him. They searched
them ail';:Kenntivin had a pair of stockings, which
he threi,ydown and kicked before him. ,Gable had
in his pocket a glazier's knife, with' some putty on
it which lie 4:11d w'as a bit of an egg. This knife
A,yas compared with the hole made lii the putty of
the.parie of•glass-(for .the pane had been broken by
.putting the point of the knife under the putty) which
.was broken, and-fitted the'place exaaly.• • '
‘lThe,Prosectitor proved the stocking& to. be

L, : Teter Mason, the constable, into NVIOSC. care-we're
cloive,red theEe boys at the Watch-house, proved that
"the:boy Parker'What was become of the
re,st:of the stockings which were taken from the
'.(vindow.? and he ansW•ered, " that the—other boy
=had ght them, who It ;<1 run away," that was Gables
,btother ;' he, gave directions w.ihere to find him, but
•:search was-made after him in
The PrisOners:b called' Upon for their de-
fence, _ _ _

Kennoviu and Gable aimitted that the stockings
were taken out,of the window by one of them and
.
,given to the other. Gable took them, and Kernadvin
receied. them of -him but they :said they were
banging half out of the- window' when they took
theta.--Tbe PriSonter, Parker, said he had uo.con-
ne&ion with the-other boyS; he had been at play,
and jcii'nvd-theufby accident. , • • .
He called some persons to his charaaer.
person .appeared for the character of Gable.
Mr. Baron THOMPSON stated tokhe Jury that this
was a capital offence, and the requisites to substan-
tiate the charge were, that there should be a breaking
and entering the dwelling, which was proved suffi-
ciently if they were satisfied that one of the Prisoners
llTOlac tlzG pan of slaac and put big hand into . the.
window, for the shop being attached to the house
was a part of the dwelling. And that it was done in-
the night was proved if the witnes..2i.Avere right in
the hour, near eight o'clock on the 2.5 th March, at
which time day-light was gone. Two of there ad-
mitted the taking the stockings. Parker denied any
connexion with them, but affe&ed a knowledge of
the manner in which part of the stolen property was
disposed of. The Jury would find a' verditt as the
truth of the case appeared to them upon the evi-
, dence.

One

The Jury found the Prisoners Kennovin and Ga-
-ble•Gziilty of Stealing the. Goods, tut not of Breaking
- and Entering the
,Dwelling-itouse. Parker Not Guilty.

Mr. GURNEY opened this case for the Prosecution,
which he said was plain in its fads, 'but of a singular
audacity. A Gentleman of fortune, of the name of
Vaughan, had a farm at Enfield-;--he had a bailiff of
the name of Woodhouse, Who, some time ago, sad-
dled and bridled •a bay mare, and. rode her to the
farm-yard, there tied her, and put his stick in the
corn trough, and walked a little way up a field to
.i-iut.rf bush of furze in a hurdle which wanted' it ; he
turned round in about five minutes, and discovered

tiae mare was gone, and on the instant, he saw a
~person •
riding off with her full -speed up the adjoining
`hill, and beating it to keep up its full pace. He,
ttounted•another- and followed as, fast as possible,
-.,and,sovertook ;him f.t a -public house .about Our,
miles off, Whcl'e the-.:Prinifer was barg-aining for
the salo of the Mare ..to a 'person" of the naine of
'Baker, saying -he hall l been at St. Alban's, spent
all his money, and .that he could not: to home, to
his family without money, ,and therefore he must
sell his-mare, at firSt, saying he had ber 'for' firei,
then fog three years and an-:half—asking first 7'gui-
megs,,, then il..and then 61.1 os. and sayiil be should,.
not mind spending five shillings if he. sold the mare.
—At this time WoodhouSe, the bailiff; came' up—
took the Prisoner_ int 9 custody—knew the mare; and -

the saddle and bridle perfeotly well, and the: stick
. too—the Prisoner was. 'charged with a Constable.
he of them a guinea a piece if they would. go
withlim Islington, and let him go afterwards-.
then said hp would esniist, gild pay them of t. of his
boirtnty Money. They took. him to .a Magistrate,
and on theit way, meeting a Serjeant and five soldiers,.
. the Prisoner said, " I ain a deserter from the 17th
Regiment of Foot, and I deliver myself up-to-you,
serjeant," 'Was AispOsed to take hiin, but the
Constable said,, if the Magistratelshodld.deliVer
tip, good and well, but as he *is charged with: a
_ Felony, before the Magistrate he should go at all
events ; and 'away he was i.aken accordingly and
committed.-

The whole of. this case Wag proved as'opened ;
but . t'he witnesses admitted; on cross-euattnatitt
by Mr. KNAPP, that the
,Prisoner was about half-
and-:ha(f; meaning that he" ivas half drunk,
Lord ELLENMMOUGII observed, that such was

too often the case ot. persons 'of the Prisoner'S-cpmli-
tion in life, which was no excuse before a- Jar)i
Upon a trial for a crime, whatever operation it might
sometimes have in the apportionment Of the punish-
ment of the offender-7-Oullty.—Deathe