The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-27 00:00:00

YORKSIIIRE LIMME4- SIZES.

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tiiWarti Veoman , the 'c'jth of Marcb List
he assisted in
;apprehending. the Prisentr; lie was
‘Staiioned by Mr. Townend at 'Ututley's shop, along
%kith Pardoe; Dent sell's lion: and 'meal a'dOut
nine o'clock, wituess And -l'ardoe went into
dining-room, and two or three 4.lainutes• afterwards
Mr. Townend cache in ; there:was a. coat-piece
lying on a chair, and a silver cup was on. the table;
the cup-might be put under coat; 'Witness search-
ed the Prisoner's lett ithide-coat pocket, and itt it
found fifteen Bank mires, of il. each; witnec*s
marked them; witness had no other; on searching
the Prisoner's Waistcoat-pocket, witness found
twelve.country . notes of different denominations,
and a 21. Bank of England Note; ,witness has had
the note in his possession ever since, it was marked
at the time; another il. Bank note -was found
amongst the country notes,- :and produced and
identified by the witness; the other tourteen out of
the fifteen notes, found by the witness, Were pro,
duced•and identified by hfcn ; the two notes taken
by Dent of the Prisoner, , and by Dent delivered to
the witness.en theytli.orMarch, and then marked
by' the witness, were also produced by him and
identified; witness .is confident the fifteen notes
were taken out of the Prisoner's left inside coat
poLket;_ _ •

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Mr. P4kai called Mr. Townend again, who was,
shewn the 21. note, and proved it to be the same
whicis he gave to Baumbrough, and which he had
previously . marked with a Q ; also the two notes
which were pica by Dent to Yeoman, after he 'had,
taken them of the Prisoner, were previously marked
by this witness and identified.
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Joseplt. Pardue, Police Officer, says, that on the
nth Marco-last, he was at-Cautley's along with Mr.
ToWnend and Yeoman ; witness went with Yeoman
to. Dent's 3. they 'found the Prisoner and Vent to- .
getherin!a ;Own (up stairs ; saw a silver cup with
two lia4dies, also some woollen. cloth in the room
neLtr the Pri,ioner;. witness appreliended, him, and
wifoes, and Yeoman -searched him together ; Wit-
ness leund two watches; there was a key at one of
thetuf; the:watches now produced are in the same
state they were thtn ; went to . Mrs. M'Carty's, and
saw her; she shewed him a room in which he
found a pair: of saddle-bags and. -a great coat; this
was in the Far Water-lane-7[hags now produced]
--;-they were then locked; the witness then opened
them with the -key hanging xo one:of .the w4tehes ;
witness examined the contents of the bags, and fo'und
upwards of one hundred notes, which .witness pre.=
duced and identified, as being marked by him be-
fore
he gave them but of his custody ; the notes be-
ing counted there were 123 .01 11. ekii, and f 3 of.:
21. each ; • witness found a shilling upon the Prisnti-
er,,which had been previously marked by Mr. Tc6n- •
end ; witness had it till this morning, and then gave.
iLto Mr. Townend.

Mr. Townetid again called,:identified the shilling,
On questions by Mr. SINCLAIR, Joseph Pardoe
says,he is a public officer; 'he had Dent in custody
once; he has an" indifferent charmer; would not
M 'all cases believe 'him upon 'oath.
Mary .11`carty lives in the Far Water-lane; knows
the Prisoner at the bar, whom she identified;
came'tO her house and slept one night, about a
.quarter of a• year previous to the gt h of March last,
and on that day, between ten and eleven o'clock in
the forenoon, he came again ; he had a pair of sad-
dle-bags over his arm, and his top coat on ; he-
asked for a bed ; he placed hiS bags upon a‘ chair,
took a key oil his watch-chain, and opened the
bap to take out a .shirt to wash, and locked the
bags again'; witness told him to take them to
bed•rooni, where he -had slept before,. and be left •
them there, and his top-coat; after he had locked:
the bags, he put the key to his watch again; Pri-
soner went out, and witness sat late foi his return '.
at night ; Pardoe came, and she she Wed him the
room ; Pardoe • took the bags, and witness Marked
therri before they were taken
.away; (the bags were
produced to this witness, and identified;)9 the
ness,saw Pardoe open the bag's, she saw the key
open the lock, and there were .papers taken on',
which appeared like bank bills. • .
William' Smith was ostler at the Fleece; on the
gilt of March lak, the Prisoner came there in the
toreneon upon a little brown galloway, with a parr of
'saddle-bags - under him, he took them: off, hung
them over his arm, went ,away, leaving the, gallo-
way in the witness's
Thomas-Baumbrough is in the employment of
Mr. Cautley, druggist,
.in Low Ousegate, York ;'
received a two pound Bank of England-note of.
-Townsend.; With instrudibnOb go over to R: bent's
about eight b'eloek 'in thei tvening to'get change;
the note. Nvas matked, and the viltnesOlad no-other
note ntit that given him by Mr. Tywnekid witness
went roVer sand Saw Hannan, and she took the
note; went up stairs, and in a little time brought
'down 21. in silver, which she gave to the witness;
;witness counted it over and objeded to. some, and
one being a'very bad one,' he got it changed.
On a question by Mr. Sinclair, witness said Han-
onawilt) Gporcke
at.tchanged the shilling.with one out :of her
Haniiali. Grant, housekeeper to. R. says,;
she khows the Prisoner; the saw him 'there in
.March,
first in tuts forebotgi, -but he did not stop
long; he came in with Dent, between • eight and
nine in' the evening, and went into the dining-reuni;
it is nearly opposite to- Mr. Cautley's ; a little time
afterwards her master called her up stairs,. there was
' A shilling-lying on the table, she was desired to fetch.
some'rimn ; she met Thomas Baumbrough, whn
askedlier-to give him change; he; had a 1.1. note in
his hand,; he .asked if Mr.' Dent could give Mr.
Cautleychange ; viltness took the note, ancE went
up with it to her master and the Prisoner,, and,
speaking th D'eni, said " Mr. Cautley would be
obliged if-he:cobld change him a 9.1: note;" Prisoner
'wok it in his hand, and said, " it was a good'One„
he would change it," and 'gave her, four hall-cro,:vn
pieces; and the rest in shillings ; witness went down
stairs and laid the change on a- table; and Baum-
brough looked it over, objected to several, but- at
last there was one be :would not take, and she
changed it with the shilling 'she . had to fetch the
rum •wilb ; Pardoe came in as soon as ilaumbrough
had got out of the paSsage.
William Boocoek was boot-catcher at the White
Swan
,in'the Pavement, was talking with the Pti,-
sonee when Dent came up, and said, " I want
you."

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• Joni. ic_,„.7ior t Ban .1. ore,; 11!!
Bank of England; on being diem] ere .of. the notes
stated in the indiarn;mt,,said, it ~vas ct forged note ;
it was not the wi which Bank not:..s are
made ; there is no part of the note the production
of the Bank. The:note was signed 3. Clapp ; u it-
nes:i sad there is such an officer as J. Clapp, but
thik signature is not "of his hand-writing; the name
of A. Hoopet,,ki entering clerk, is DOE the hand-
writing of A.-hooper; who belongs to the Bank iii
anOther department ; no such person as A. Hooper
was entering Clerk in the Bank ; another note named
in the indidment, which was paid to Dent, wa
.shewn to: the witness, wha said, it was forged iii
every respell, the plate and -Manuscript same
the other; the fourteen taken.by Yeoman, all for-
geries, being of the same plate and filling up 'as tlit
other two ; the 1:23 of AI. and 13 of 21. taken out
of the saddle-bags by Pardoe, are ail forgeries, al!,
the " one" poupds the same plate as the other
" ones," and the same hand-writing, and the
" twos" are filled up by the .same hand ; also the
note sent up by`Mr. Townend ; .a forged bank. note,
found amongst the 'country notes is of a different
plate from the other " ones," but is a forgery.—
The notes stated in the indittment were then read ;
and the Prisoner being called upon for his defence
said,' he had nothing to say, nor any witnesses to
call, but declared the coat he had on when appre
hended had no inside pocket.
Mr. Justice:CHAMßitE summed up the evidence,
and, after a consultation of five minutes, 'the Jury
returned a verdiCt 0f......-Guilly. •
His Lordship, in addressing 'the Prisoner, observ-
e.}, that he bad been found guilty upon as lull;
clear, and satisfactory evidence as ever had been
heard, of an offence which was in its practice most
injurious to individuals, 'and tended todestroy the
national credit. Many who had been-tried for
similar, offences, had been deluded by others; but
no doubt could be entertained- that he, from the
quantity in hiS possession, had been nearly connect-
ed with the actual forgers and fabricators of these
notes ;. and after. advising him to prepare for the,
awful change about to take place, passed on hint
the dreadful sentence of—Death,

Among the capital convictions .was that of Rick-
and Ailonnison; aged 3.2, of Darlington, yeoman, re-
moved-by habeas 'corpus from the gaol at Durham,
charged with assaulting Thomas Hall, of Bramp-
ton,' tarmet, on the King's highway, and taking
from him three-; Ripon and Ktiaresborougb hiink-
nbtes, half a guinea in gold, .and,fi:teen shillings hi
sine;---Guilty--Deaf 1..
N. B. We are sorry that we have occasion to no-
tice the indecorous condua of the witnesses for the
prosecution on this trial. After the-unfortuuate man
had been found guilty, they set out in post-chaises
from their-inns home, with every demonstration of
rejoicing, the post-boys having their hats chic Orated
wish various coloured ribbons.—Fye on such inhu
man gladness ! , , •