The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-20 00:00:00

OLD BAILET.-(THIS DAY.)

NEW COURT.
Win. Harley, a young man, was indicted for stealing
thirty yards of flannel, on the 17th of December, of the
value of 205., the property of John Goodin.

The prosecutor stated that he was a linen draper, living
at No. 33, Brick-lane, Old-street. Mrs. Goodin was in
the shop about six o'clock in the evening, when she saw
the prisoner snatch up a piece of flannel inside the shop,
and run away with it. She pursued the prisoner for
about a dozen yards, with the flannel in his pos-
session, and cried out " Stop thief!" at his heels. The
prisoner dropped the flannel, and was afterwards stopped
by the watchman and taken into custody..--Guilty.
Solomon Colman, Richard Thomas, Thomas Cook,
Thomas Price, and Jane Thomas, were indicted for
stealing 10 reatns of paper, value W. the property of the
Messrs. Key.

Mr. C. PHILLIPS stated the case fur the prosecution.
This was an indictment against these five prisoners for
stealing 10 reams of paper, the property of the Messrs.
Key. It was right that he should disembarrass their
minds ir. favour of the young woman, who, he believed,
was not a participator in the robbery. It would be
proved, that on the Slat of December, the prisoners
were seen with this paper in such a way as to induce
those persons who saw them acting in this manner, to
tkink that they were not their own (the prisonen9
property, and it at once occurred to them to watch ; they
were watched, and the person who saw them gave in-
formation to the police officers. They were seen bringing
the paper into a certain house, and were afterwards dis-
covered altogether in a room of this house in the act of
burning the wrappers which enveloped the reams, which
would have led to their identity. Three or four of the
wrappers were, however, left. There can be no doubt
but that the property was stolen, for they could give no
account whatever of it. The next question to try was,
whether the property belonged to the prosecutors, tEe
Messrs. Key. They did not miss the paper until by the
activity of the officers it was actually traced to their house.
After some further observations which were detailed in
evidence, Mr. Phillips concluded.

Thomas Browne examined—Lives at Shoreditch ; re-
collects going out of Long-alley on the evening in ques-
tion; saw Richard Thomas sitting on five bundles of
paper; saw him afterwards endeavour to lift the p per
under his arms, but could not do it; he then dehvered
them to the prisoner Colman, who hauled them to Price ;
saw them pass the paper into the passage, No. 4, Sanders'-
buildings, Horse-shoe-alley; supposed that if it was their
own they would not have used it so ; gave information to
a police-constable.

Cross-examined-_ls a green-grocer ; was in trouble
himself last June or July; was in trouble before about
two or three years; was acquitted both times; was never
in prison for six months ; was in prison for a time on the
other side of the water, where he was tried upon a suspi-
cion of robbing his master; the Jury were cruel enough
to find him guilty—(laughter)—was never sent to New
South Wales.

Thomas Van is an officer of Worship-street. Recol-
lects seeing the last witness on the evening in question ; in
consequence of the information he received went to the
house before mentioned, and saw the four male prisoners
there; saw five reams of paper in the bed-room ; found
under the bedstead those rappers which Colman was shov-
ing with his foot ; heard the prisoner Cook say " we are
all marplotted ;" his comrade Armstrong asked the pri-
soners frequently if they knew any thing about the paper,
and they said they did not ; part of the paper was muddy,
as it is now; some of the paper had covers on it, and a
great deal was stripped ; took the prisoners into custody,
and detained the paper.

Cross•examineil—r—ls not sure whether the female pri-
ner was in the room when he went in; did not hear
Cook sly that he came home with the female prisoner, and
that he was taken in.

Joshua Armstrong recollects going into the room in
question with the last witness; saw the five prisoners is
the roam around a table, and the paper was on the table.
This witness corroborated the last in his testimony.
William Hatfield accompanied the last two witnesses to
the house in question ; saw Colman throw this paper,
which he held, across the bed ; the house was about three
quarters of a mile from Alderman Key's.
Henry Coles examined—ls with his father, who is a
paper manufacturer; this paper was of his father's manu-
facture—supplied a Mr. Morgan with it ; recollects the
■umber of the ream which was first sent to Mr. Morgan ;
knows it from the book which he kept ; sent it on the
4th of December; put the letter M on the paper sent to
Mr. Morgan : believes this to be the M he cut out him-
self.

Cross-examined—Has other customers whose name be-
gins with M., and marks them with the same stamp—.
Knows those by the quarter mark on the ream, besides
the letter M, those certainly went to Morgan.
William Warman is a warehouseman to a Mr. Mor.,
gan ; recollects receiving 91 reams of paper on the 14th
of last December, they were sold on the 22d of the same
month to Alderman Key.
Alderman John Key examined—ln consequence of in-
formation be received, examined the stock of paper, and
found ten reams were gone; received them from Mr. Mor-
gan ; examined the numbers of the covers of those reams ;
there are ten reams here, the number he hid missed ; five
of the covers were destroyed ; has no doubt but that those
reams were his.

Cross-examined--Found at home all the preceding and
succeeding numbers, which correspond exactly with the
numbers on the covers.

Solomon Cohnan, Richard Thomas, and Thomas
Price, Guilty.--Cook and Jane Thomas, Not Guilty.

The thermometer on Hampstead-heath on
Monday night was at 10 FAHRENHEIT, being no less than
22 degrees below freezing.
The snow between Bury and Botesdale is in
some places 10 feet deep ; and on the Sicklesmere road it •
has been necessary to cut through the same to admitqf
traffic. Essex Herald.