The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-09 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

CROYDON, MONDAY, ATM. 8.
George Watts, and Elizabeth Hannah Wat, his wif, ere
indicted for stealing at St. Mary, Lambeth;ont''
the 18the Juwne,
a pair •of silver candlesticks, five silver spoons, and a silver
fork, in the dwelling-house of John Lomas.
Mr. ANDREWS conducted the prosecution.
The prosecutor keeps a tavern opposite Astley's Theatre, in
Bridge-rose, and on the 18th June he lost the articles in ques-
tion from a supper-table in the back part of his premises. On
the 21st of June the female prisoner offered one of the candle-
sticks in pledge for a sovereign, to a pawnbroker in the same
_peighbourhood. She was detained whilst the pawnbroker went
. for a constable. In the-street he was accosted by the male pri-
soner who asked why he detained the woman ? The answer
was, ;hat the pawnbroker did not believe she had come honestly
by the eandlestick. Upon which the prisoner said he.had sent
her to pawn it, and that he had found that, and other articles,
in the Waterloo-road. He was taken into custody. It further
appeared that the male pri4oner him Self had pawned five spoons
on the 19th June, at another pawnbroker's in the.same neigh.
bourhood. The male prisoner said in his defence, that he had
found the articles of plate in qeeition, had pawned them in his
distress, intending to restore them to the right owner when
, found. The Jury acquitted the woman,.but found the man.
Guilty. Sentence of Death was recorded:
George' ffnith was indicted,for stealing at St. Olave, South-
wark,- on the 3d of February, a horse, the property of
Henry Verrall.—Mr.' ANDREWS conducted thp prosecation,_
and Mr. BitoDEßlcze the defence.-The prosecutor lost! the
horse in question on the 3d. February, from his, field at Lewes,
in. Sussex. It was seen, safe as late as six o'clock in the
evening of that day. On the 3d of April it was found in
the possession of' the prisoner, who kept stables in the
Borough, and drove a van.• To Hall, the officer, who appre-
hended him,. he stated that he had purchased the horse of a
man named Clarke, at his 'own stables, on the 7th Feb.; gave.
121. for it, and had a receipt which was written for him by a
Lieutenant Everett, and could produce it.—The defence set.
tip for- the primmer WIT, two-fold ; fest, an alibi as to the 3d of
February, when the horse was alleged to have been stolen ;
and, second, that he had bought and paid for it of a man named
Clarke.—Mr. William Bridges, now a stock-broker of Warn.
ford-court', formerly of Yorkshire, anti latterly steward to Lord.
Barham, prOVed that on the 3d February he employed the pri-
soner to carry some goods for him froth Haye's Wharf to his
house at Hampstead. The prisoner was in his sight the greater
part of the day, and as lats as ten at night.—John White, who
assisted the prisoner in carting Mr. Bridges' goods, gave evi-
dence to the same effect.--Mr. ‘Vm. Everett, a Lieutenant on
half-pay of the 8-sth regiment, residing in Lyon-street, .'al_
worth,re e• occupyin a single room with hiswife and two eh:l-
dn, at 6s. a week, proved that he had knoWn the prisoner for
about two years. On the
.7th February he accidentally called
on the prisoner at his stables, in Vinegar-yard, ,Bermondsey-
street; the prisoner asked him to write a receipt•for him for a
horse, which he had just bought of a man named William
Clarke; witness did so, and saw Clarke .make his cross to it,
acknowledging the receipts of 12/. of the priioner for the hone,
with a warranty of soundness.—Hannah Sutton, who lives in
the same house in which the' peisOner lodges, in Vinegar-yard,
Proved that she saw the prisoner pay 12/. to ,Clarke for the
horse in queStion, on the 7th of February. The prisoner after-
wards used it publicly to draw in his van.—A great *number of
witnesses gave_the prisoner an excellent character for honesty.
—The Jury, under the Learned Judge's: direction, found the
prisoner—Not-Guilty. •