The Sun.
London, England, 1807-09-18 00:00:00

OLD PAIL! r.

SECOND 15A7:-THU.IISDAY, SEPT, 17.

'Vargo-et Holmes and
,Eliateth Gill, alias ,Pane,
were indiaed for stealing a piece of-Irish iinen,.and
five pieces'of saiStlei ribbon, the property of John
Alexander, a lineti-draper in Brick-lane,: Bethnal-
green, privately in his shop. * •
The evidence was satiifiietory as to the prisoners
having stolen the above property, and Mr. Aleian-
der, did not see them take it; but Mr. justice LE
BLANC. observed to the. Jury, that in order that the
ofience. of 'privately stealing should be complete&
According to the. meaning of the Mt, of Parliament
in this case, it was not enough that 'the goods were
stolen so.. that the master of. the shop did not see, it
iion.e, but so as that, no person. accustomed to serve:
in the shop bad seen it.. Now Mr. Alexander had
shopmen ; they were not here to give their evidence;
and therefore as. they might have'scen this -a6t
theft,, the Jury would .not. conclude that they did
not,. but would, in' favour of life,.only find a verdid
of. guilty as to . the larceny, and would acquit the ,
prisoners of the .privately stealing, which was the
capital part of the charge.---Guilty of stealing, tat
not privaley, in the.shop.- •

,ThonzAs Weston was indiEted for stealing a. box,
containing 51. in money, a Bristol Bank note for
51. and four Bank of England notes of-101. each;
and •two 51. Bank of England notes, the property of
William Lingard, in his .dwelling-house. .
The case for the prOsecution depended chiefly on
the evidence of Mrs. Lingard, and' some part of the
evidence of her husband. • •

The account of the husband was, that lie is the
landlord of the public-house called the,Boe-buck, at
Hainmersnaith that on Wednesday, the tpth of
August last, being about to go frbarltome,.he gave
his wife all his Bank notes ;,four la Bank notes,
two 51. Bank notes, a. Bristol Bank note, itnd sortie
other small notes, • the particulars of. which he; did
not recollect. e gave thorn' all Co her in the bar
of the public-house, the Roe-buck, and nobody was
then in the bar but himself, his wife, and the Pri-
soner Weston, who sa W him give his wife the notes,
and-saw her put ;them into a boi in a drawer in the
liar, a place in which she is in the habit of keeping
her money. The" Prisoner is the .proprictor and
driver of the Kew, stage, and had always borne a
good charaaer. The, time this was done waS par-
ticularly fixed, on account of it beifig' the- day lie
fore the race that was run on Bath read, 'which
the Piosexutor • went to see. When h. returned
from, the race, he' received 'information from Lis
wile of her having lost this money: In consequence.
of the Manner hi Which she said she had loAt it,
.
he-Went to ii,ew-bridge, which is 'about a and
an half from,his house, and there saw the Prisoner
Weston.,

Mrs. Lingard, the wife, swore that she received
the above property in notes and money of her hus-
band on the igth; that -at that time the. Prisoner
stood close to the door hi the. bar, when she put • the
property in a box, and then into a drawer in the bar.
She put in the property as soon as she received it,
and locked it up. On the same evening she put
in 51. which she had received, and that was in
silver. Nobody was present when she received the•
money and put it into the drawer but herself, her
bUsband, and. the Prisoner. On the next day,
about four in the afternoon, she bad opened the
drawer :with this mousy in it, for the purpose of
putting in some _niece silver. , She had -Opened
the box, saw the notes and silver then in the box
whdri,catthe instant came up the Kew-bridge Coach,
the 'Prisoner 'driving, it. The coach drew up to, the
door; she turned the key, and left it ie the drawer,.
and Went to -attend to the coach. served. :a
of 'liquor to a person -who came; into the house
from the coach, but the'Pdsoner. was the only pet-,
aon-who came into the bar. The other persoo stood
by the d6or of the bar. She herself did not go out
of the bar. (This was a circunastance' which be.,
carne extrenwly 'material, in consequence of .evi-
deuce called- in-behalf of the Prisoner.) The man
she, gave the glass of liquor to Stood in the door-wayi
but did not come within the'bar; but the-Prisoner
stood within. the bar close to the, drawer. .Sliegave
chang& 'for a .shilling to the person who had the
liqour at the corner of the bar, and he went away
directly ; that, acCording- to her evidence, the.
Prisoner was the only person who was in the bar.
That when she was giving this -man change, she
heard a rustling, 'anti 'called' UM twice to the I?tiso-
ner, saying "- What- are you at ?" 'and sOthe2,. table
linen and some books which' were on the toP'6f the:
drawer, had fallen. down:'' The Prisoner went out,
got upon his coach, :HMI tlien' drove aVi'dy. 'She
went to the drawer to 'put th 3 silver into the box,
which she was about to do when the coach tulle tip
and prevented her from doing so. She perceived
that the hox containing the above property was gone.
The whole transaction did not take up more than
four or five minutes rime.

On .the part of the Prisoner several witnesses were
called, who distindly proved two material. tads.
After the evidence had been gone through,
Mr. Justice La BLANC concluded an excellent and
appropriate charge. The Jury, after a short delibe-
ration Acquitted the Prisoner.
John Green, who seemed, from the number of
other detainers against him for charges nearly simi-
lar, an expert depredator in this line, was capitally
convicted oti steaiiiig a metal.watch, dome capped
and jewelled, value 51. the property of Henry Bur-
ton.—Deatk.

tiward. Cooke and John Sguares were, after a
wry long trial, cutivi6ted of stealing a check, or
order,' for' the payment of 1201. the property of
Messrs. Barry and Wilkinson, wine merchants in
Mincing-lane,

The case was, apparently, one of burglary, and
the evidence mostly circumstantial. The charge
was not laid capitally, and the Jury had no hesitation
in CQLlVidilla. the Prisoners.

POLICE.

FORGERY.

HATToti-QmingN.7---Yesterclay, White, the per-
Sou chirged tivitb procoritig the. Bills _of Exc..liatige,
in tilt.: posvession of Mr. Kentingion, the bkinhet, 30
lac
ciic(9)iiiited by.,Yr. Cooper, theß44er,:.tpl—Bl,lr.

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