The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-12 00:00:00

CROWN SIDE.

BEFORE THE, LOAD CHIEF r.. 4 ans.
Savtael Lomb, Mary Illarfin, and Mary Alden,
were int.liqed• tOr stealing ILI. in Batik Notes, tour
ring., a curbet, an opera glosA, and several other
trinkets, the property•of Marianne Cooke, in the
dwelling-house of Mary Cooke. .
Mi.s Cooke Veposed, that she kept the several
articles which were stolen, in a small cabinet box, and

they were u the box in the parlour at- her mother's
house on the evening of the 7th of March. ,The
next day she-missed the box and the artirles-it con,
tained : she 'suspeCted some other persons, .and
plied to Bow-street, but they did-nciLthinkber Sllloi-
cions sufficiently well founded;and therefore refused
-to grant her a warrant: 'The prisoner, Mary Martin,.
was- the wite-Of a- naval surgeon, and she had known
her many 1 ears: The other Jetnale'. prisoner was her
sister, and the Man had lately returned from sea, .and
lodged in the house -with the other two prisoners.
The next day the prisoners left their house at Lam-
beth, and went, as she afterwards discovered, to
North End,-=Fulham.' She heard no more of her

property fornine or ten days; at last she.heard that
the box, which was a remarkable one, vas exposed

to --sale at a -broker's, in Wych-street, St. Clements.
She went there, and learned it had been sold by a
man ai=d a woman, answeringTthe-description of the.
man:priSOner-and .Mary Martin.- , She then traced
thetti_to Hammersmith, where they had gom, and,
accompanied by Adkins, the 'officer, they searched
the house.. She found part. of an ear-ring, which
she knew to be her's, .upon which Mary -Martin
confessed she had. taken the box, and ,said part of
the things were bulled in a little basket in the gar-
den. '11:1ley accordingly dug in the garden, and
found the •basket with seyeral of the stolen articles, as
she had described. The finding of the goods was cor-
'robotated by' the witness, who accompanied Miss-
-Cooke,and the broker said he bought the box (which
was a cabinet °lie of ivory) of a man, but he could
not speak distinctly loins person. I've came tohim,
and said, that as he .understood he dealt in antiqui-
ties and curositiesr, he '1)10.bl-ought him that box.
The faisorier• Martin cotvesscxl she had takta the
box, but Said her !eliuw prisoners were entirely in-
nocent. The ,Lary ibuud, her: Guilty, and acquitted
Abe others. . .

George Pearson was intliEted for wilfully. and
maliciously stabbing Robert Rutteridge, with a
case knife, in the parish of Dorking, on the Ist of
April lasi.
the evidence of a person of the name of
Sprokelni, it appeared that tbe`ptisoner was a Ser-
-jeant on a recruiting party al Dorking. The wound-
ed man. was a soldier, and on the, day stated in the.
in,itianient, there were three of them together, arar
what conversation lased, he did not know, but. he
saw the Prisoner make a couple of thru is at Rutte-
ridge ; amp the la,A of which Rutteridge put his hand
to his breast, exclaiming lam wounded." He
saw the blood trickle through his fingers. He im-
mediately Went for consuble and surgeon. •He
said that the wounded 'man afterwards said that
'there was no'annuosily between him and the Pri,

sorter.%
Lernax, a Surgeon at Dorking, stated, that he

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was called in, and•tound,Rutteridgenadly wounded;
a case knife had penettated the cavity .ot the chest,
and he considered his wound as extremely dangerous.
He said, Orin the wounded Man, %vitt) was now with
hisfregitnent, told 41im• that there was no animosity•
between him and the Pri:oner, and he believed the
I.votand lia,t been accientally given ; •that. they were
at-dinner together, and that the Piisoner " sky-lark-
ing" with his knife, had. made a thrust at Itutteridge,
saying, ." Here,- Bob., .haVe you;" and that the
kt„te shuck hint. s•
Tue.. Prisoner, in his defence, protested 'he.had no
intention of injuring his comrade.;. that they were
flourishing their knives, and 'he thrust. farther than,
he intended.. , ••
Tire Jury found him _Not Guilty ; and the Learn-
ed Judge admonished him to beware how he
dulged in such foolisii pastime in ftittire, \villa had
very near caused the death of a fellow creature::
If illianz lliest was. .ladided for stealing a black •
gelding, the properly
.of William Cove, trout East
Lamstead, iu the' County ofilerks..
• Aft. GURNEY derailed the.case,,which was proved
...41.1t)113v;6:—The Prosecutor, Cove,' Was a farmer at
East Latnstead, in 'kilo, and bud the horse in his
yard. .on the night of the 2.7 th of April,: but the next .
rooming he was gone. ..A witness, of the .name of
Knight, proyed teat he bought. the boric of the Pri,
soner• on .the Bth of iNlay,. at A.ldfotd, in this Coun-
ty. The Prist.ner, when he sold him, said he lad
had the horse all to' winter, and sold. hiru in the
name of George -Thomas.
• CHIEF BARON toll tho,jury,,that,ostthe horse_
. was found so short after it
,was stolenin tl,e-posys-H
sioll at the Prisoner, it becamehim to account how
be came by it, winch he Enid not. done, Verdiet-
He 'a-as alsO convicted in a second indiament for
Stealing a horSe, the property' of Richard Stringer,
-of West Grunsiettd, in-the county of SLIStiCX.

Dating the storm on Thursilay evening, the sailors
on bchird a Grecian vessel, ly.tog near the Hermit-
age stairs, ,became so-exttemjy terrified by the re-
peated peals ut thuader,--and successive vivid flashes
of iigh,ning, that they one and all quitted the deck,
and bewOk- themselves to prayers, and remained in
the oirnoSt ttepidation between decks some howl.-
Isy this time t;)e tide had gone down considerably,

and the shil) lay nearly on her s:de, sustained only
, .by the' ope by Which she was moored ;, and this.
to-cAilig; or,ihrough,being cut by smne tita
11Ci(JUS persunt 'occasioned the vessel to fall over,
which broke her tnnuer;, and sh iceived such con
sder.ibie damage, that it teestituated that the costs
to bet her rights will exceed 6001.