The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-25 00:00:00

ST. BOTOLPH, ALDGATE.

There are no less than 102 objections to this list made
on the ground of the rates being paid by the landlord, and
not by the occupier of the premises.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

Henry Jeffreys, a very respectable young man in ap-
pearance, was indicted for feloniously receiving a coat, value
3/., the property of a Mr. Wemys, well knowing the same
to have been stolen.

From the evidence, it appeared that Mr. Wemys and
the prisoner lodged at the house of a widow lady, named
Hinksman, in White Conduit-street, Islington, a few even-
ings previous to the Ist of the present month. Mr.
Wemys arrived at Mrs. Hinksman's house, from Scotland ;
among his luggage was a great-coat, quite new, which he
placed in his bed-room. On the morning of the Ist of
October, after the prisoner had gone out, a came to the
house of Mrs. Hinksman, with a card, the writing on which
purported to be Mr. Wemys's, desiring him to send by the
bearer his great-coat ; thinking all right, she sent the coat
by the boy.
The shopman of a pawnbroker, named Cottrell, in Shoe-
lane, swore positively to the prisoner being the person who
pledged the great-coat produced, which Mr. Wemys iden-
tified as his property.
The prisoner in his defence said, that being in want of
a great-coat, he went to the shop of Messrs. Machin and
Debenham, in Covent-garden, where, he had been informed,
he was likely to suit himself at their sale of unredeemed
pledges. He tried many coats there, but none suited him ;
a person came up to him and said, if it was a coat ho
wanted he thought he could suit him, as he had a great
number of misfits ; he met him the following Saturday,
and then bought the coat produced of him for 2/.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Richard White and Robert Poole were indicted for
stealing, on the 24th September, several quantities of
copper and lead, value 10/., the property of John Wilks
Hill, from freehold houses, his property.
From the evidence of Mr. Hill, it appeared that he
was the proprietor of several houses that had been for
some time unoccupied in Cooper's-row, Crutched Friars.
On the 24th of September his suspicions were aroused that all
was not right, for upon going to one of the houses, No. 2,
he found the key would not pass the lock. He then went
to the next door, in which he saw Poole come from the
house, into which he could not get. His son saw the pri-
soner White also coma from the house No. 2. On the
prisoners being taken into custody, they denied that they
bad been into either of the houses. On getting into them,
he discovered that a great quantity of lead had been taken,
a copper removed, and several other things stolen.
A female, who resided at No. 16, Cooper's-row, swore to
seeing White come from the house No. 2, with a copper
and some lead, on the 23d of September, and Poole on tho
24th, but the latter had nothing with him.
The officer who took the prisoners into custody, on
searching White, found a bradawl and gitublet in his
pocket. On looking over the house,ho discovered the lead
on the sinks had been violently torn up.
Poole, who had no Counsel, denied any knowledge of the
robbery.

Mr. C. JONES, who appeared for the prisoner 'White,
under the power of the new Act, addressed the jury on his
behalf, contending it was a ease of doubt, and the prisoner
was entitled to the benefit of it.
The RECORDER summed up, and the Jury acquitted
Poole, and found White guilty.
This was the first case tried at this Sessions, in which
Counsel addressed the Jury on behalf of a prisoner.

NEW COURT.
Jane Anne Heath, 27, w•as indicted for stealing on the
22d of July last, three pair of stays, value 18s., the pro-
perty of Richard Bord, her master.

Mary Birkett, a shopwoman in the employment of the
prosecutor, deposed that the prisoner, who is a staymakeri
was employed in the warehouse from which the propert3H
was taken. The stays were afterwards pawned by the pri-
soner at two pawnbrokers' shops in the neighbourhood.
The prisoner made no defence, and was found Guilty.
• John Hodge, 13, was indicted for stealing on the 21st of
September, seven handkerchiefs, value 2s, (id., the goods of
his master.

The prisoner had been fora short time in the service of
the prosecutor, a silk-moroer, On the day the property
was missed the prisonor left his service, and it was ascer-
tained that he had given the handkerchiefs to a little boy
named Maddox, to keep for him. The prisoner received a
good character.

Mr. BODKIN addressed the Jury on behalf of the pri-
soner, and concluded by observing that this was the first
case since the passing of a recent Act, in which Counsel
had had an opportunity, in the Metropolitan Court, of ad-
dressing a Jury on behalf tit a prigmer charged with felony
and there never Wa4 a co in which the policy and huma-
nity of that Act could he better exemplified than the pre-
sent, if his (Mr. Bodkin's) observations, would have the
effect of disabusing their minds of any erroneous itnproesion
they might entertain of the prisoner's guilt.
The LEARNED SIRJEANT, in summing up, after compli-
menting the Learned Counsel on his ingenuity, observed,
that ho feared the application of such talent as had boon
evinced on the present nocasion would inapedo rather
than promote Ow bourse of public justice, and that guilty
parties would too often escape punishment, owing to the in-
genuity and ability of their counsel.
The Jury, 4ft,o, consulting together for tau 15 mi-
ritAteg, exwasect a wish to retire, and Another Jury was
is:uipannelled.

Peter Cassidy, aged 14, was indicted for stealing o pair
of half-hoot% tho property of Joseph Phillips,, of Old-street,
•
The property was exposA for sale in the prosecutor's,
shop, from which it was stolen on the 17th of September,
4114 foutt4 iu the prisoner's possession on the same
4lay,r7Qujlty.

llio pri4lig-T• had been twice previously convicted of fe.
long, and the Learned Serjeant intimated that he should be
sent out of the country.
Anne Lee, aged 21, was indicto4 tca, stealing, on the 12th
of October, a coat, waisteuat, and trousers, value 255„ the
propel of S,ayage„ a pensioner of the Royal Ar-
t{}lor* iYipg at pepttord.--Quilty..
Vie priseuer was arra4l charged with having been con-
victed of felony on the 15th of August last, which was
proved by the record of her conviction.—Guilty.

The LEARNED SEOJEANT observed that the prisoner
had been before the Court for four sessions successively,
and had been most humanely supplied with money by the
Sheriffs on a former occasion, to enable her to go to 1310
to her friends. As it now aeared that the lenity of the
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Court had been very much misplaced, it was his duty to
sentence her to 14 years' transportation.
The Jury, in the case of John Hodge, here appeared in
Court, and returned a verdict of Not Guilty.