The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-09 00:00:00

SENTENCES.

The trials having concluded, the RECORDER
passed sentences on the following convicts :--
DEATH.—Thomas Shearman, for horse-stealing; James
Cafes, for uttering a forged order for the payment of
money ; William Young, for housebreaking and larceny ;
Ann Hyde, for stealing in a dwelling-house above the value
of 51. ; James Evans, for cattle-stealing ; Geo. Bentham,
for stealing in a dwelling-house; Thomas Horner Stone,
for housebreaking and larceny; Thomas Tiernay, for bur-
glary; Wm. Vincent, for stealing in a dwelling-house
(this prisoner banded up a written paper to the Recorder,
who, having read it, said that it contained no fact that
could warrant the Court in respiting the judgment ; the
petition, however, should be laid before his Majesty in
Council when the Report was made) ; W. Richmond, for
stealing in a dwelling-house ; Joseph Backler, for uttering
a forged order for the payment of money (this convict also
handed i❑ a petition, to which the Recorder replied in the
same terms as he had to Vincent) ; Edward Smeetham,
for cutting and stabbing ; John Bnurnes, for maliciously
stabbing a man with intent to do him sonic grievous bodily
harm ; John Cronin, for maliciously cutting and stabbing
Fuller the policeman, with intent to kill and murder him ;
Robert Scutton, for uttering a forged order for the pay-
ment of money; Win. Jones, for housebreaking and lar-
ceny; Geo. W) brough, for stealing above the amount of
51. in a dwelling-house ; Margaret Smith, for a like
offence ; Thomas Howe, for stealing from the person ; Geo.
Hammond, for housebreaking and larceny; Mary He-
therman, for stealing in a dwelling-house ; Mary Jackman,
for a robbery from the person ; John Carney, fur house-
breaking and larceny ; Chas. Penrose, for stealing in a
dwelling-house above the amount of 5/. ; John Lee, for
housebreaking and larceny ; Alphonse Rapin, for stealing
in a dwelling-house ; and George Smith, for feloniously
cutting a stamp from a sheet of parchment which had been
used, and affixing the same to another parchment, with
intent to defraud his Majesty's Commissioners of the
Stamp Office.
To HE TRANSPORTED FOR LlFE.—George Poulden,
James Cowell, Wm. Clark, Charles Simmons, John Sheen,
John Silk, Wm. Thompson, John Martin, John Cullen,
Robert Predhurst, John Morris, Edward Molloy, Henry
Collier, Win. Rose, Ann Andrew., George Rayne, Henry
Thompson.
TO BE TRANSPORTED FOR FOURTEEN YEARS.--Twenty.
Sixty-three convicts were sentenced to be transported for
seven years. The judgment of the Court was respited on
John Jordan, John Brown, Wm. Brown, and George
Frederick Reinhart. The remainder of the convicts were
sentenced to various periods of imprisonment, from two
years down to seven Clays, after which the Sessions were
adjourned.

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