The Sun.
London, England, 1807-09-19 00:00:00

CL,E RKEN WELL SESS' ONS 18.

cHab.sttAt.lN..,,
• lizabeth Bennett, about-.twenty-four years of
t
:16 was trio,l rdi a misdemeanour, in having stolen
P ' =
a ! gtrchild about ii' weeks old, the son of Richard

rrt Mary Burdekin.T
Thelmot her appeared- to be extrettiely afre,Eted
the'reiiition Of her' story. She stated that her
hugiand is a -poor labouring man, and she keeps a
little.oyster;shovin Baldwin's-Gardens, Gray's-Inn.
lane. In the month of May last she lay in at St:
Andrew's Wort(house. -About three weeks after tt,e
Itiirth Of the childi.she'returned home.. About the

ie,Y;'nnin-, of July last us she was wanting along

FlLlhorn _ with the child in
,her anni, she fell dawn in

a fit,. and when she.. recovered' her child was n.it, to
betbutid. She applied to the, Paridt J)tlicers, who
issued hand-bills, offering:l reward for the recovery.
of the Child; fly the exertions of one CatChpole, tt '
Parish Officer, and in cop,cequenee of some ii;funna-

tion which she received- from a female trieed; she •
Went towards London- Wall, in company ..tith a
Mrs. Nottingham, to a plaCe where she was inform-
ed there was a woman who had a young child, tinder,
suspicious circumstances. When she got to Londort
Wall; she saw the-Prisoner at the Bar with the babe
then in Court, in her arms. With some struggling
the PrOsecutrkand her friend gbt the child from the
Prisoner. The mother was so overcotne with joy at
finding her child again,.that her feelings were unable *
to sustain the shock, and she again fell into a fit;
btu her friend took
,carp of the child, and had the
Prisoner.taken into .custody. She swore positively
to the child, from some marks about its person, and
she could-swear to.its clothes, which were found by . •
the Officer in the lodging of the woman to whom
the Prisoner had given it 'to nurse. ,
Am; Field, of lied Lion-court, London Walls de...

posed, that in March last the Prisoner engaged her :T
to nurse a child, when she. should lie in.. About
the- tst or 2d of July' she einne to the witness at

one (Mock in the:morning, and gare•her.the
She- said she had lain in about a fortnight before
that., at Marv-ie-bone Workhouse. Upon being
asked by the Witness who was the father of tin,
child, she said that William Bumingharn was. The

Witness said-she hoped nor, as. he was a married
man. She observed that the child had but poor
clothes on it.,.and;the Prisoner desired ,her to burn.
-them, but.the witness refused to do so.

ItililryNottinghanl,ofSt.John's•court, Cow?lane,
swore, thata fcw,days before she.was apprehended,
the Prisoner, who had formerly lived in :the sums
house witli the Witness, tame to visit her. She
said she had lain in at St. Mary-le-bony Workhouse,
'about-a week and three days before that time ; but
upon looking at the • child, the Witness said • that
could not be, for she was sure it was six weeks old.
The Prisoner said she was going to swear it to some
one, but to whom, or whether•she mentioned any
name, the Witness could not tell. She was the
person that.wasin company with the mother when
the child was recovered.

Jane Horton, the nurse at the Tying-in-weird,. in
Ai:ivy-le-bone Workhouse, swore, that the. Prisoner
did not he in at that house.

M. Turner;the midwife at St.:Andrew's Work..
house, proved he tad of having delivered Mrs. Bur•
dekin ola male child, on the 52.0 th of May. She
lieved tha babe whieli was then in Mvs. B.'s arms
was the same that was born then.

Dizabetla Robinsoti.swore, that the lived about

three veers and a Itilflitrthe house with the Prisoner.
littrit4s.thlt tiine she said that she was With Child
three rialLl3. The :Witness was a mat-tie 4 svoinah,
and she was certain that the Prisoner was teat with-
chit& Wlien-she she was: .
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Nary Col:irKtlepaiedittuit the Prisoner pretended
every year that 411,, was Avitti &dd. • ,

l'he• PtiSaiter delivered in dOral"Ce,
in which bLe stated, that some time b.tek, as slits .
was-erossing WoOtThhurj,-strvii-e, a wetwnf,,ivith
.a.
childin her arm;, came up to her, said tpho wil i ye.ry .;
tired, and. begged her to carry it a little way :Or
That the wornan ittlerwatds went into a lious,t 46)
where near the *inure, as she said, 1.4.) see a friend..:
The Prisoner waited a .consideraole kilgth 'of tint*
outside, but the wan-tan-did not come out, ,and
gaVeitto a. friend to take care of it until she could
rind thtillarents. Site alledged,. in cti;:.o, that.theo....
is Bole ~cus a conspiracy against ner,
The eIIAIIIALAN WtiS:4opinion that the case was
clearly proved. Jury evinced.ths!ir
by imay:tdiately fwonpuncling th4risotierpi/o.' She !
was then ordered to bo 'sent to (lila &ail Vieldsnatil:,
a attire clay,. when she will be.brought .112 to Court
to receive her sentence.

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1114NsioN-Ifougn.---Yeztercily 77:;;'!:112i Ia '
v6ung nun, a p,.4l•ti,r, Way hron,lht.- I,o'ilD
MAYott, Chargvd by Ann S 111111; witit :in
Op1;.s:11(:d I bat the Prisoner to-t I.t -r Fiect...st rettt
o'chid; thel that tit-
laid huh.' of Ilt•r ariti, and ad-,i her to ; wap.: •
Vittl:lllA, ,he retthed ; Oyu thzt. Pr6oner;
ith(ior t, ,tier cattle, gave Ivr a biox andltiluek•H-
lwr 30wu in rite kennel: lithis was corroborated by,
:-,l;t.ithcl• young woman who was present,
• ftill.rid Wilsh, the xv.atChinan, deposed, •that the
Priner passed hint np and down the'str..et several
atria'; tl:e tkyo preceding
,hours ; an.d that lot
piled and imulted.almost every felliaict 3 that
ctl,l)7ll3sttel:zanveartylvbiseadd. irlit,ii'lt:pg•tdis'olltoleTe;itirnklrtutzltitaltl hij
and said lie would dO'as he, liked ; that be %yogi:a el.
tizen of London„. and sty ho dared prevent him •
On the Prisoner being asked what he
,bad to say
fot• his conduct, he stated that Ann Smith first laid
hold of,. and insulted him and thiit he wonli brio;
persOns for Ward to'. prove the ;falsity. of the wateh.'
mart's assertion. The LORD NUYOR gate him 3
severe leatire, and' ordered hiM, from his ddicate,
sensibility of the feinale sex, to be sent on board the
Tender. ' •

To show the consequence' of the Supplementary
Scheme, in the present improved Lottery Plan, it is
suflicientio observe that, .with only soqp Numbers,
it contains a tall: proportion of principal Prizes, front
20,0001. down to those of 5001. which the first
Scheme; of 20,000 Tickets, possesses; nod all these
too for one and the same original stake of adventure,'

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Thomas Holmes, alias RadaiiiijECrothlocle (iv Cad.
dic aniV,l.9hitt.,Bria4„„alias .11irkvtt, ,stoeclisapitally
indicted for violentirpssaUlting.and.feloniilinsly
bhig, with n knife or sharp instriinsent, John Waf.:
kinson, with intent to disable or, intli,;:t seine da:pget-
ouS wound ,upon hint,
Mr. GV,RNEY Qpe;Wd case for the proseCtitian..
1-14 had todisclyse a scene, of atrocity moiitbarbarous
ant wanton. , Whitever doubt tniht .e.ist as to,
:the ,identity of the pessons by whoth the kitrage;
Was perpetrates)_, the Jury he kneW would be fully
convinced that the circumstance did lake place.
He bad: also to remind the Jury of the difficulty of.
bringing home a charge against men accused of the
cortunisSion of a crime, under circumstances unfa-'
valuable to the identification; of the of ; such
as the e. lateness of th hour When the crime was
committed, or the absence of persinis on wh6e tes-
titnony
a Jury could.prPoc dependence. In the Pre-
sent case, if he was rightlyitiestrUCted, it would
appear, that although the ad took place at niabt,
yet near.to the place. there was a shop open; from
which two patent lamps t..etlealed very great
Having stated the prominent parts of the evidence
which he had to produce,. the Learned Gentleinan
proceeded to the examination of evidence.
John Parkington, a salesman, in COMptan-street,
;Soho, deposed,, that, on the 25th Of May, when re-
turning from his benefit. society, he came. up with a
waggoir in Middle-row, Holborn,
,aboot ten minutes
after ten o'clock. ,He saw a man in a dark mixture
coat go up to the waggoner, and ask hint from
whence he came, and to whom the Waggon belong 7
cd ?. When the waggonerAnswered, he said. that
.he
was,.well acquainted with the proprietor.. The wit.
ness observed nothing further, until the waggon ar-
rived opposite. Red Lion-street I then he heard the
same man nsk • the waggoner t0,..g0 and drink with
him. Witness. then stepped .up to the: waggoner,
and advised him not to drink with any stranger, as
he'conld have no tither view than to get ap oppor-
tunity some, of his associates to rot, the waggon
in his absenCe, The waggoner then proceeded with
his waggon; and at Smares-buildh4s, in the nr-
roW end of ,SL in .Giles's, he saw the an 'in the mix-
ture coat knock down the waggoner, ith an intent,
as witness believed, of. getting ,the whet Is to roll
over,him.. "Witness retreated to call :the, watch, and
immediately saw several persons, watchmen, and in-
habitants assembled. The person who, struck .the
waggoner was dressed in a lapelled-coat, of a dark.
mixture; but witness could not swear to the identity
of either of the PrisCners at.the bar.,

P.rt,

OLD, BAILEY.! •

TIMM D A Y.,-••• ti (DAY.; 18.
Mated), iindiey, a , decepot;looing woman, be-
,tw 'en ;:u and Go years of age Wii4 indkted for filo-
niouily having 'in herpossession'a forged one 'wild
noteof tb,' Governor and Company of the Bank of
Vlglanct, she .;!elt knowing it. 10 be forged.

Counselfat-Abe Prosecution, said,
it'thre.Governor and Company of the Bank had been
disposed to act stlialy by thu e.nfortunat.e person at
the bar, she would noW have been called on to take
her trial-for a capital offence., She having, however,
made every atonement in- herpower, by discovering
all she knew. of the business, they had been induced,
out of ~,notoiseratioti to:her, to hula her in`such a
Emin )aid not, iitfea her life. To this indiament
she pleaded 'guilty, . thereby manifeSting in the
ugly way she could, her contrition far her offence.—
, lie now, therefore, on the part of the prosecution,
and with the approbation of the Learned Judge-who
was to try the case, should abstain from calling any.
eY id ace in,support.of the charge, that the Jury might-
be warinted in acquitting 'her..
Tidlury accordingly ,found the Prisoner ,Not
John itialinne'y stood capitally indicted for the
. wilful murder of Dennis Bryant.
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It appearld from the tesiitnony of Jeremiah Ha-
n lot, Ow the Prisoner and the deceased went to
Ogil! iu Stepney tieLli, in consequence of a previous
dispute at -a Smoking • Club, ofi,which .they were
butt; !namhers,; that the deceased in the course of
the`b.i;tie received blow; frotri the Prisoner, and
Jim he ,ralt out .of the beCause be could.:not
walk,' to a c::ach, where he expired.
The Surgion, :w.ho examinitd'the body, deposed,
that Niti cause of Bryant's death was a rupture of
blood veSsel,•tind that there was no appearance of an
extertetkvound., .

Tile Jury I were then informed'by. the Court, that
there tv,a, no proof: even for verdict of man-
blatighter, and they aceorditiglracquitteci

Janies Hartnett Was: nett giVen in charge, for the
WWII) murierokl!..ogene Mahoney, a child of three
years of age, on the i nth of May last.
Mary erye de!posed,- that on • the Wednesday be.:
fore Whitsuntide, on • passing. 'across, Cartwright-
otioare;folvthe other side :of !rower. Hill, sbe'ob-
serVailoa'Aintuber•of children standing round some
sugar hog4ic.tds, and scraping the sugar off; she saw
a Mall cotne.ont of Crowm.court, across the square,.
and -say kill-.some of them, uolesi they
wcut.away • from • the .hogsheatils. About two mi.
nuro;'afti.-1, the Prisoner totik.:up -a hogshead.-with
bo,n 'his hand,4, by the top and bottom, and-threw-
it down- otter:illy. where the children were. At tell
on la boy • calliAl as• she. w'as•told, James•Mahoney,
and it :Inc) W;vids.foiandit bit him on the small of
Witoo,s cried :oat flint -the child was
.„ ttn.-.! Prisoner immediately went and took.
1,i3-arinS,' •A•• man without •shoes and
o'it of .a.liouse nearly -Opposite, • and
sni,t clind bei.oilvd, to Mr. Mahoney. • A we-
rintal.toltovyAl out of saute and took the
Prisouer, and gave it to a Mrs. Bry-
ant. • • • _.

Thomas Topping deposed, that he was the driver
of the Watford waggon, and that on the night of
the 25th of May, he was knocked down in St.
Giles's, by some person wlwin he- did not know,
and to wham; he could not swear.., He was .so
frightened at the time, that he did not now recoiled
what he then either said.or did.

. Mr. ,lohn Kettle, -a
,hookseller,,. in . Holborn,
proved,. that he saw the waggon stationed before the
-a-la-mode beef-house, . near Smart's-buildings, Hol-
born, there were two. patent- lamps in that shop, ,
which retleCted considerable tight. When he came
up, the waggoner was chargiag, a man •in ad.irk
drab . coat, who stoodnex: to witness, with having
struck and knoigked him, down. The waggoner's
face was very-bloody., He ,believed, but could not
positively .swear, that.. Caddick, the, prisoner at. the
bar, was thesperson who stood tit to him, and whom
the waggoner charged with, the
,assault. • ,From the
impudent manner in which this man behaved) Wit-
ness advised the. waggoner to, charge biro on the
watch. At that moment Mr. Watkinson and a
watchman came up, and 'the two Men immediately
ran off. Mr. Watkiusun and. the watchman per.
sued theM, and in a very short period the.forMer
returned, saying he was, as the yvritness thought,
struck,..but he, afterwards unfortunately found it was
stuck. I'he persons who ran,:in his opinion, had
the appearance of grooms, dressed. in dark drab
coats.. tie had All along a :strong impression that
the Prisoners at• the bar wbre. the same men, but
could not
,Swear positively.„ , When he saw them at
the Public Oilice; caddick. was, dress,ed as, he was 4
present, andlriant in a suit of black. . . ,
On his ero,ssreltarnination, he • admitted,. that he
saw the men about the waggon but for two or three
minutes, and that-when he_ saw the:Prisoners at the
Public Office, they were the only. Prisoners there),
cept one Finch,.who was also_charged with being an
accomplice,,and is since. dead.. _ , .
John Watkinson corroborated,
,the ,staternent
pursuing, with the watchman; ithe men who ran off.,
.The Prisoners at the bar, answered this description,
`in height. I3eing again; asked .as ,to their identity,:
the'Witness said; fithey Ore thp men, .1 have last tur
recolleEtion of them.: . The. Prisoners are not unlike
theni, but: think: the taller Man Was instier,than
briant, the Prisener.,
~When in the
pursuit, 'Overtook the shorter man,: And pulled. him
back, the Witness wai attacked by-4 peyson behind
hitn ;and was, es he then thbught, struck in the
back, but heatterwardsfound he was stabbed,

On; hyr cross-examinationr Witness admitted that
could have no in tiicioltkt intention whatever,
unit the worc:6 made use of were merely to
frighte3 :tho
,chtidren. The-casks Were not before
auy Gruccesduur or warehouse. The children
wore on.tne pavement, and the Prisoner was on the.
coacnway..

Mary 13ryant said, she received the child from
his !pother, and washed him. There was a small
spot,' !mutt! the breadth of a half-cruwp, on the
small Of hot back. When she got the child he ,was
dead.

Francis Mahoney, the father of the child,. took
hitn•out of Mrs. liryant's arms 'lovas-then gnite
dedd.: -.He had secti.the Prisoner before rolling suz
ganckt.ks; but was not acquainted with him. liehad
seen.his child, about one o'clock that d_ay, in Per.,
feo health. It was about four when he found him,
dead. /ES name was Ettgene:Mahoney.'
Thcynas Stone, one of the boys who were stand-
ing.round the casks, Stat“l, in the:most perspicuous
manner, that when the Prisohei.came up, he shook
his, hat,ar the children to' frighten them; a way.. From.
.th.martneg in which thecasks i.vere placed, ono over
the Other; it _was- ithposible for the Prisoner, where
he stool;to sec-tins &Ceased, who, was on the-pave-.
ment,.under The casks., The Witness, When he saw
the Prisoner putting his hands on the uppermost hogs-
head, cried out to the Prisoner that there was a child
uti,lerta.rath, but' he could not prevent its falling, as
the (2:tsk war, too tar :.011e. Re had, seen the casks
hronglit there. by a, man, rin.Alte course of the morn,
iii', ;ntdliarthett, the Prisoner, cattle them .
fie veils sure the Prisoner had no malice or intention
of hurting th,: deceased.: •
in.his defence, satisfaoCtorily stated,
thar it w:is purely. an accident. That when he found
thp ea,. he immediately wentfor
ad tee. ,
,Sevei:o r2spea.ible persons gave evidence to the
charautei arilie.Pri,,,aier, as being a sober., hinuane,
anti extrvit6y civil mall.
A:ht: I,EAtt'ziED Junue observed, that although it
ai,pear,2a 1..,111 the testimotiy of the boy, that it was
iu.4re ;tee ient, yet it eat, satistai:terY•to the Coun-
to to- Prisoner,, i 6 have the; unfortunate oc.„
14) Livestigited, The Jury immediately
(4:l/toted t..c Vrisonvr.
Mice was indij.tect for feloniously slaying.
hk This was toundeil on an
in vest rin take!) bc:if,treit.tie: Coroner (.4 the County
when a p4triliCt of ..illaiii/aughter.was
re' ',lit y the 'Jury. , appeared that,. .itruine.
y tile decease of Sarah P ricer, rumours
I; r, ,e I the Parkh Officers, that she had diet! iu
ci, ~t flews she had received frti.n
lii tile W,"(.;kit.M.,olllo.lti
Ch-St '" C.;.11,rc . ,
yoeret. 4,;ciety,
t .7t* Li :at sti,t;tetoll ttlid lerwent ;I:. to Um
lhes • • • •
Itiqui,ulo.l \t,l4 (hell
1.4 alid.the p“obcct4-
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thin the deith' Sir
L.,a
v„,.., i'3l.auni.lllo.l d.i
colt 11,1 'i I)) ail} emettia, Whateier.
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Mary Hedges, -and, Michael, Coleman, the, watch-
man, 'corrobora►ted the - testimony of the forincy
Witnesses,. :butcould notidentify the I.),risorms.

. Samuel Marsh deposed, that lit: was on his return
to residence, near Snho-stinare, when he,,beard
the disturbance near,. thelvaggon, at ,the corner of,
.Smart's-huildings ; .ho. positively, proved, ,that ;the
goalentitn, Mr. riant, was one of those who ran,
and almost kbocked the .Witness down. '.l'he Pri-
set.cr ran with .his face full .to .the Witness, which
gave him, a, perfe4t, opportunity of seeing. him,
On his cross-examination he. said, that it was about
two yards on this side of the a,la,mode "shop
Briant ratvby him, lie. never tiakV .Inrubefoie that
night, and. neat saW.hiin at the.. Public Otlice,:to •
which place. he' went, under the. .explOation of sew
ing thepersotkwho had guilty of the oire•nce.
'l'he Prisoners. were i.lJen. in.. irons.. -

Mary Atkilit/ isom. posiyvely t4.i , the .Prisoner
Cadi ag 'being the:person 'Won lo'loWed in, the
rearof the,,tvaguti..'.6lic; was croAsing the: Street at
the time, and the ninon fully-hhotte op 4,Piitioner's
cottutenance, ivhickensbled. 'tor to .be so. positive:
Was the waggon goini; clown Holborn -she coutatiot
13a, e: been able to identify bin).
On her cross-.ex imitation, shevaro,ked,-whetlaer:
film had not to. "swearytto poiftively- before
the Nlitis!r.ite r, Witness wag. there 4. and
iniuiten by the (icinietuan opposite,.(pointistg at,
tht., Prisonees age, it, a )e.w at t oritey,'ot; ktie, panic. of
-1-larris) ; that site uegg'ed to retire, in order to re

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