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London, England, 1801-09-18 00:00:00

the penon of any one of the#l, and therefore they
were all acquitted.

William Roberts was indiEted foi stealing thirty.
six yards 'of ticking, value 41. the property of
James Henley, his dwelling house. It appeared
that the ticking in question was put out at the
door of the Prosecutor for sale, as many pieces are,
half o►it and half within doors, -and'tied within.—
The Prisoner had contrived to snatch it away, and,
being pursued, dropt it.
Mr. Baron HOTHAM told the Jury thift the
meaning of the At of Parliament, making the
stealing in the dwelling-house to the amount of
4.05. a capital offence, was, not that this sort of
property, put out for sale half in and half out of
the-house, should ba. protetcd by this penalty of
Death. That •was not, in common sense, stealing
in a dwelling_house. The meaning of that AI of
Parliament was, to proted a man from those who
really come into a house and steal property out
of it, no.t against stealing that which was out at
the door, as this was.—Guilty of stealing the
goods, but not in the dwelling-IL,use.

John IT/Wilson was indieted for stealing three
rol. three 51. four il. Bank of England Notes, two
7s. pieces, two half crowns, and four shillings, the
property of Catherine Pugh, in her dwelling-house.
Catherine Pugh, the Prosecutrix, swore, that she
lives at a place called Great Gar'aen, Seven-step_s
alley, St. 'Catherine's, and keeps a house there;
that the Prisoner lodged with her for five weeks;
that on the 24-th of July she lost her money and
Bank notes ; the money and the notes were packed
up in a drawer in a chest Of drawers in my• bed_
room, said she, where I slept ; I saw the money
about half-past five in the morning; there were
three tol. notes, three 51. four 11. two seven
shilling pieces, two half-crowns, and four shil--
flogs, all my own money ; before eight in the
morning, I discovered that I had been robbed. I
went to the drawer, and missed tie pocket-bookin.
which the Notes and money were, my watch also
was gone. The drawer was locked, but. I left the
key in it ; I then gave information for the Pri-
soner to be taken. -The reason for it, that he was
the only person who slept in the house ; he
slept above me, and he could not go down stairs
without going through my bed-room. I had seen
him at six in the morning.; be was then in my
bedroom. I asked him, what he got up so soon
for ? He said he did not know, but be could not
sleep. He went down and he came back again in
about half an hour, and he drank with me in bed ;
he fetched me some liquor, and he gave me.some
while another man was with' me in bed. The man
who gave me the money, he is a sailor gone to the
Indies, he always gave me all his money when he
came to my,house, the same as• if I had been his
wife. '[She proceeded with More details of the same
kind.]

Another woman swore that the Prisoner had
some conversation with her, and told her the watch
was with a person near Deptford Turnpike, but was
not so.—As to the-money, he Said le would give
Mrs. Pugh a note of hand for the Whole of it if he
was cleared.
The Priconer said, the home was a house of :
fame, that he had lodged In it7a
away, but knew nothing of the monerpcnotes—
None were found on him.

The Jury did not think it safe to convi& a man
and forfeit his life upon such Evidence; anci, there-
fore, found the Prisoner—Not. Guilty.

William ,Berry was charged with a capital 'of-
fence, in violently assaulting. Ann Holman, and
forcibly taking from her person a 21. Bank Note
and 1.4.5. her property.
It appeared that the Prosecutrix, a Negress, was
a common creature of the town, and by the ace9unts
of one or two of the Witnesses, one of the lowest
and most abandoned of her kind. She.told, a long,
and certainly a rather improbable story, with re-
spe6t to the charge. She stared, that between one
.and two o'clock in the morning of the first inst.
she went into the house of the Prosecutor (who
keeps one of those low receptacles in Hedge-lane),
accompanied by two men ; that she had at the time
a 21. Bank Note, which she received from a Gentle-
man in Pall-Mall, and that she had also r4s.—all
whioh she held in her hand ; and that she told her
companions she had the money. She -then stated
that one of the men gave her half a guinea to change,
and buy some gin this, she said; she put into her
mouth ; she went down accordingly to purchase the
liquor, and.at the foot of the stairs was met by the
Prisoner, who' she supposed must have over-heard
her tell the men above stairs of the money she had
in her possession. lie came up to her, and said,
" How came you by that money ? give it me ;
what business has such a black b—Lh with so much
money ?" He then, she iaid, knocked her
and putting his knee upon her stomach, forced the
money and note out of her hand; that she then went
out, bought. the gin at a public-house, and returned
with it ; that all that time she made no mention of
her being robbed, to any person. Soon after she
returned, the Prisoner came with two watchmen,
and forced into the room ; on which the men ran
out, and afterwards that she was beat and abused
very much by the Prisoner and the watchmen.

This was the substance of her story as applying
-to the charge against the-Prisoner; the remaining
evidence On the part of the'proseCution respeded the
conduit of the Prisoner .when the -Prosectitrix hit
subsequently made the charge 'against him. • Two
Witnesses vi/ere brought forward in this view,- whO
were not apparently of the most -respeCtable -descrip-
tion : the jet, however; of what they advanced
was, that the Prisoner, while in custody •it a pub-
liC-house, before he was taken to the Marlborough-
street Office, had said, in their hearing, that he had •
sent home for a zl. note, and 14s. in-order to •satisfy
that infamous black woman, who had charged him .
with robbing her. Kennedy, the officer, who was
brought forward on the same side, •-stated, that he
heard the Prisoner say -he bad sent for a -0,1. note,
to give that black b—h,- sooner than go before a
Os t ice. .