The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-08 00:00:00

NORFOLK CIRCLIIT.---7lpswich, Aug. 7.

Joseph
Baldwin, aged 47, a man of Herculean pro-
portions, was charged with breaking into the house of
John Barnes, at Redlingfield, on the 6th of May, and
stealing therein five shillings' worth of penny pieces,
six buns, a piece of linm, and half a pound of pickled
pork.
Mr. Palmer conducted the case for the prosecution.
On Sunday, the 6th May, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes quitted
their house, for the purpose of going to church, leaving
the doors and windows ali secured. On their return
they were surprised to find the marks of two or three
very large footprints on the druggett in the keeping
room. They ascertained that a cupboard had been
forced open in which was kept the key of another cup-
board. This key still hung on its accustomed nail, and
nothing was missing from that cupboard. The other,
however, when opened with the key, showed that the
intruder had visited its shelves, for the various trifles
mentioned in the indictment were missed from them.
The next question was how to account for the en-
trance and the exit of the thief, and a minute
inspection of the window, which was found bolted as
usual, satisfied Mr. Barnes that a pane had been taken
out of the lead close to the hasp. Through this aperture
a hand could easily open the fastening, and then the
window afforied an aperture of 13 inches by 30. The
pane, however, had been carefully replaced and the lead
knocked together again, thus showing that the robbery
had been effected with considerable precaution, and meet
probably through the agency of a boy or small tit?
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had afterwards admitted a larger man through
Information having been given of thiseeortirg,a,ing,“ w
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discovered that the prisoner had. beaerdi
direction from the
o'clock on the day in questivoanr,disn
his own house. The
house of the prosecutor to%
the latter on Tuesday, but
Afterwards, however, it was
poolel3ic,efoaucncdorrointigiilny searched
.iit.
nothing in
prisoner had paid an arrest. of
lit•ates to the overseer, in penny pieces,
.3 if
Pio:ro dupsoet 4was searched again, when a piece of linen
ascertained
e=xactly corresponded with that lost by
and. his
gas found, wow
Mrs.s Barnes, who recognised it as a piece of her hus-
band's shirt sleeve, which she had only removed from
that
the cugpboardarment on the Saturday night, Lind then placed in
.
The priiocer, in his defence, contended that it wag
physically' impossible that he should have committed the
robbery, he could not have got through the windua,
"if he had tried ever so;" and, as for the payment to
the overseer, he had paid him with coppers received
from his deceased master on Saturday. Ile also ac-
counted for the possession of the linen by saying that he
had picked it up in a ditch, while at work, between the
first and second search.
The jury having found the prisoner Guilty,
His LORDSHIP sentenced the prisoner to transpo:L-
tion for ten years.
John Woods, aged 32, and John Lcwis, aged 43, were

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charged with assaulting anti besting John Muuniogs, on
the 27th of March, and robbing him of 171. 15s.
Mr. E. Rodwell was counsel for the prosecutiot ; Mr.
Dasent defended Woods ; and Mr. 13ulwer defended
Lewis.
The prosecutor is a jobber at Carel, about sir
miles from Ipswich, at which village both the pri-
soners live, the latter being a labourer, and the
former the parish schoolmaster. On the 27th of
March the prosecutor went to the Plough at
half-past seven in the evening, and met there two
men, named Fallows and Woods, to the
latter of whom he let fall that he had beta
that day paid by one Salmon, and that he had the
money in his pocket. Soon after eight o'clock Woe d 3
went out, saying he was " going ht me to have a hot
supper;" and in half an hour after Fellows also left. In
the course of the evening Woods was seen prowling about
the streets with a huge walking-stick as late as half-past
ni❑e. At that hour the prosecutor left the Plcugh to go
home, an I when he had reached a corner Of the road
shaded by high hedges, he saw two men standing; (110
of these he knew to be Woods, and bade him '• d
night." The man so addressed mode him no answt r,
but springing forward felled the prosecutor to tf e
ground with a blow on the head front a stick, aid o-
ccedcd to force a handkerchief into his threat. While
this operation was going on, the prosecutor seized Wocsls
by the lower lip, attempting to drag fr( m his lace a fal-e
pair of moustaches and whiskers. The pain of this
attack caused the robber to mutter for " help" to his
companion, who then lent his aid, and held the head
of the prosecutor as Woods drew from his pocket his
purse. This dune, the two took to their heels, and
the prosecutor calling murder, went to his house,
where he was met by a neighbour attracted by his
cries. Information was given to the police at one o'clock
by the prosecutor, who charged Woods and Fallows
a jib the commission of this offence, saying ho was sure
of roods, as he had marked his face, but was not so
confident as to Fallows. At half-past five o'clock a man
passing Wood's house saw him peeping out of his door
mysteriously, and presently after Lewis came by, when
Woods beckoned to him, and they remained in conver-
sation for some minutes. Immediately after this the
prosecutor and the police appeared at the house of
Woods, whom they found dressed in his school-room,
and presenting marks of scratches on his face, and recent
injury to the lower lip and chin, to which the prosecutor
triumphantly appealed. When Follows came, the pro-
secutor at first charged him as being the companion of
Woods, but when the two were put together, he with-
drew the accusation, saying that Fallows was far too big.
In Woods' house were found two sovereigns, which he
accounted for as belonging to a benefit club, and in that
of Lewis were found two sovereigns and a half in an
outhouse, under an old flower-pot. Soon after this
Lewis was taken into custody, and in his watch fob
was found a half-crown, which he gave two different
accounts of, while it was subsequently traced most
clearly as one of two half-crowns paid by Salmon to tho
prosecutor on the morning of the robbery, the prosecutor
stating that he had not parted with tiny of the money so
paid to him.
Both the prisoners having been found Guilty,
Woods, against whom there was another charge of'
burglary on which no evidence was offered, was sen-
tenced to be transported for ten years, and Lewis to two
years' imprisonment.
This case, which did not come to a conclusion till
half-past eight o'clock, terminated the criminal business
of the assize.