The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-13 00:00:00

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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

(Further partididari of ye.sierclay's Proceedings.]

FORGERY.

John Benjamin Brookes the prisoner who was arraigned in
the morning, was afterwards placed at the bar.
Mr. PLATT, his Counsel, then Made an application to the
Court for the postponment of the prisoner's trial until next
Sessions, en the ground that he had not been able to obtain the
attendance of a witness, whose evidence would be material to
his defence,

An affidavit was put in support of the fact.
Mr. ALLEY, who was for the prosecution, said, he would
not oppose the application if the Court thought fit to listen
to it.

After some deliberation, the Court directed the trial to stand
over till next Sessions ; but ordered the prisoner to remain in
custody.

CURIOUS CASE,

Hannah, Stanton aged 18, and Hester Cummings, aged 25,
*ere capitally indicted for assaulting Henry Woodcock on the
King's highway, and taking from his person 35 sovereigns.
Woodcock, the prosecutor, who is apparently about 70 years
of age, stated that he lived in the country. He was in London
on the 15th of August last. On the evening of that day he
was walking through Whitechapel a good deal intoxicated.
Two women came up, one of whom took hold of his arm, and
the other pushed him up Nelson-court. He had a great coat
on his arm, which one of the prisoners seized hold of, and at
the same time the other thrust her hand into his small-clothes
pocket, and took out a purse containing the 35 sovereigns ;
after which, they both ran off very quickly. He now believed
that both the prisoners were the women who robbed him'.
In his cross-examination by Mr. LAW, he said he did not
exactly know at first the place where the robbery was commit-
ted ; but after some timelearcbing, in company with an offi.:
cer, he found it. He was not certain whether he had. not said
to the magistrate that he was not sure of the identity of the
prisoners.
The constable who apprehended the prisoners deposed, that
the prosecutor told him he could not swear to the parties who
had robbed'him, as he was much in liquor at the time. Wit-
ness went in search of the prisoners, and found Cummings in
a house in Nelson-court. He searched it, and in a yard belong-
ing to it he found the prosecutor's great coat. Cummings said
that some person must have thrown it there unknown to her.
She afterwards declared to witness that the other prisoner,
Stanton, threw it there.
Plunketti an officer, went to search Stanton's house. . On
his arrival sire made her escape, but he followed and found her
in another house. She protested entire ignorance of the rob-
bery, and accounted for her having gone away oii the appear-
ance of the officer, by saying that she had had a quarrel with
another female, and she thought the officer had had a war-
rant against her in consequence. On searching her nothing
was found which was calculated to excite suspicion.
Both prisoners in their defence declared their perfect inno-
cence of the transaction.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM summed up the evidence, and the Jury
acquitted Stanton, but found Cummings—Guilty of stealing
from the person.
After the removal of Cummings, who appeared in a very
weak state, and was scarcely able to walk without assistance,
Mr. Baron Graham left the Court for a short time. During
his absence an officer of the Court informed the Bench, that the
prisoner Cummings was in such a state of health on the night
of the robbery, as to have made it impossible that she could
have been one of the parties concerned in it. she having some
time before lost the use of her lower limbs, and from that time
to the present she was unable to walk Without assistance: He
added, that on the day following the robbery, when arrested,
she was scarcely able to Stir, when carried before the magistrate.
Mr. Justice BEST. —" Gdod God, Sir, why did you not
mention this at the time of the trial ? However, I shall Inen-
tion the circumstance to my brother Graham, on his return to
Court ; in the mean time, let all the parties remain in Coda,
and let the surgeon who attended her be sent for.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM, at the conclusion of the next trial, or=
tiered the prisoner Cummings to be again placed at the bar.
Plunkett the officer was re-called, and he stated that when
he.arrested her, she was scarcely able to walk.
The Surgeon was next examined, and he stated that he at-
tended her, and had to-clay examined her most minutely. She
was labouring under the effects of a violent cold caught in her
lying-in some time before. She could pot now run, and he be-
lieved that at the time of the robbery she must have been Less
able than at present. He believed it impossible that she could
have committed the robbery, and then run away as described
by the prosecutor.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM, after consulting with the other Judgq,
ordered the prisoner to enter into her own recognizance in the
sum Of 20/. to appear for judgment when called for, and to be
then discharged. On questioning her for this purpose, it lip.;
peared that she• was a married woman, and that her husband
was living. His Lordship on learning this ordered her to pay
a fine of (hi. and to be discharged ; but upon some observations
made to him by Mr. Justice Best,• his Lordship altered this,
and ordered her to be discharged forthwith.
The poor woman was then removed from the bar, evidently
much affected by this sudden and unlooked-for change in her
situation.