The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-03 00:00:00

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)

The Court was occupied the whole of the morning in an
ejectment cause, devoid of any public interest.

OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

William Angel, a respectable-looking young man, aged
17, was indicted far stealing, in the dwelling house of
Mary Bedford, a sum of 591.—The prisoner was acquitted.
'William Weedon, aged 27, and Maria Dowling, aged
25, were indicted for stealing 255. from the person of
James Lawrence, on the 17th of November.
The prosecutor stated that he was a labourer. On the
17th of November (Thursday) he, was at Uxbridge mar-
ket ; he there met with the female prisoner, about six
o'clock in the evening, and went with her to a house
kept by a Mrs. Langdon ; he remained there five minutes
and then left, having given her a shilling out of his purse,
which contained 255. more. He swore that be was not
drunk, and that he was perfectly sensible. He shortly
after thought he lost his money and accused her of taking
it, but he found it in another pocket. She then threat-
ened to " punch his bead" if he did not treat her, as he
had falsely accused her. He consented, and they went to
the One Tun and had some liquor. They afterwards went to
' several other public•houses, at one of which they met with
the male prisoner, and they all drank together. At one
place they ill-used him, and endeavoured to rob him, but
they did not effect their object, and afterwards they made
friends and drank some more liquor together. Upon
leaving the town to go home in his cart the male pri-
soner followed, jumped into his cart, and attempted
to get his purse from his pocket. The prosecutor
struggled with him, and they fell together out of
the cart. When in the road, they bad several
ups and down.," and the female prisoner, who was
standing a short distance, called out to the man to keep
witness down, and she would came and help him. The
man at length got him down, and she came up, and
seising Mtn by
the neckcloth, almost strangled him, and
made the blood :spout from his nose and mouth. They
then cut his pockets, took his purse and money, and left
him almost insensible. Witness's horse and cart
followed one that was before it, and which was
driven by a person named Weatherby, who bed
been drinking with the witness at some of the houses in
Uxbridge. Witness followed as soon as be was able, and
overtook Weatherby before he got home. A whte
beaver hat was found in Weatherby's cart.
Cross-examined—Witness was married, and had two
children ;he lived at King's-inn, in the parish of Rus-
sell, and went to Uxbridge with a load of hay. He was
examined as to the number of publie-houses lie had been
in that day, and it appeared that he had drank at a con-
siderable number. He, however, swore that he was not
quite drunk.
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Wm. Cherry, landlord of übl.ic-house at
Uxbridge, stated that on the evening in question th e
ripi•
soners and the prosecutor Weatherby were drinkig at
his house. They had two pots of beer and half a pint of
gin ; when they left his house Lawrence and Weatherby
were perfectly capable of knowing what they were about.
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Weedon,
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aconstable,
apprehended the male
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blic-mm in Ux-
bridge. He said going g, "itis a bad job, I shall
go over the water for it. When the bat that was found