The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-23 00:00:00

a pawnbroker's in Oxford.streat, who strongly.
suspeaing.that she came dishonestly. by it, ,had her
detained; and went..to the place whence she 4aisi she
had it, This confirmed him in hi's suspicion,. anal
he had .her taken into custody however., every
endeavour to discover the owners of the linen was
unsuccessful ; and inconsequence of this glaring le,
gal defer in the evidence, n-amely, the inability of
proving to whom the property belonged, the Pri-
soner was necessarily acquitted.--On an application
to the Court relative to the disposal of the property,
Mr. SyLvts-rEit held'it to vest in the Sheriff. •

William Albin was indi&d for feloniously steal
ing, on the tzth of September, a cloth great coat,
valued at `is. 6d. the property of John Hineks.

The PriSoner,. it appeared,. was passing one of
the turnpike roads near town,, where the Prosecutor
and several other labourers were at work ;' the coat
lay by the side of toad : 'he took it up, imMe.
diately.tied it in a handkerchief,- and was:proceed-
ing away "withit. The Prosecutor shortly: missed
his- coat, and inquiring after it, was told by one of
•the Witnesses, that a man had lately passed by with
a blue gteat coat _tied in a handkerchief. They in-
Stantly followed, and overtaking' the Prisoner,
charged him with the theft: The Prisdner denied
it : however the property was taken from him, and.,
he was. secured. •

In his' defence, the Prisoner said he found the coat
on the road side, and not observing any person near
it; he thought it might have been lost there, and so
took it away. lie supplicated the lenity of the
Court, saying, he had a wifeand six young children;
on which the COMMON' SER; EAi,IT told him he should
have thought of that before he committed a felony.
The Jury had little hesitation in finding him--y
Guilty.

Deng Lazarus, an Hebrew, was charged with a
capital_ offence, in stealing, on the zoth of August,
four handkerchiefs, and one napkin, value gs. pri-
vately in the shopof James Cowe and James Brown,
their property. _
• The Prosecutors, it.appeared, are linen-drapers,
in Oxford-street ;'about eleven in the forenoon of
the.above-menzioned day, the Prisoner came into
the shop—at the moment, no person was' in it: how-.
ever,--Mr. Cowe's brother soon made his appearance,
and asked ithe Prisoner what he wanted. He Seethed
much confused,' and asked fo.r some ferrit. Being
told they had none, he quitted the shop. Very
shortly after, the property laid in the indiament
was missed. Mr. Cowe, jun. followed the Priso-
ner, and brought him back to the shop. An officer
was immediately sent for to search him. While
that was 'doing, one of the Witnesses, •a boy, who
was standing near the shop door, observed the Pri-
soner throw the napkin upon the floor of the_shop ;
and while Mr. C. stooped to pick it up, it appeared
he'laid the handkerchiefs .upon the Counter. , •
Some difficulty- appiNtrecl in one part•of the inves-
tigation, in ascertaining to whotn, strhlly speak.
ing, the property belonged. Mr. Cowe stated, that
in effeCt the partnership between him and Mr. Brown
had been some time dissolved. However, as it.ap-
peared that the firm of- Cowe and Brown still sub- •
sisted, and that the articles of partnership were not
yet aaually cancelled, the Court held it sufficient to
bear out the charge in the indianient, of the goods
in question being- the property of Cowe and. Brown.
The above circumstances appearing clearly in
evidence, the Jury found the Prisoner Guilty, but
,
thought proper to do away the capital part of the.
charge, by adding, "but not privately in the shop."

. lames Raymend was charged with stealing, .on
the zoth of July, rwo7 fur bats value 4s. the pro-
perty of Messrs. BorrlAßWciale and Atkinson. .
The Prosecutors, it appeared, are hat manufaaii-
rers, in Fenchutch-street ; the Prisonet worked for
them. About ten o'clock on the above night,- one.
of the Witnesses observed him mending a hat-box,
and on-hiS periving that he was watehtd, he blew
his candle Out : however, by hismotions, the Wit-
ness• was certain, that he put something in the box.
afterwards. They then- went outs and when. they
got near the gate of the premises, the Witness al-
luded to took an opPortunity,. and insisted up-oh
examining the-box ;in consequence of which the
discovery was made. With respeft to the identity,
on account of the great similarity of the hats to a
great number of others, the Witness bad no other
specific reason to suppose they Were the Prosecutors'
property, than that he had observed them taken Off
their premises, which, uncle; the circumstances of
the case, the Court held to be a sufficient identifi-
cation.

The Prisoner put in a long and written defence,
which contained a tedious detail; the principal point
in which was, that the contents of the hat-box in
question were books. The Jury, however, not
crediting his assertions, found him Guilty.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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SATURDAY, SI..°T. 19.

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by the latter. •

ENFIELD.

MONDAY, 'SEPT.

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