The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-15 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

This day the General Session of Oyer and
Terminer commenced before Mr. Baron GitAttAm,
Mr. Justice GASELEE, and Mr. Justice LITTLE..
DALE, the LORD MAYOR, and usual City Officers.
Samuel.Fernee was indicted for stealing a
watch, and some money, the property of William
Brown, servant to John Leverett, Esq. lie was
acquitted.
BURGLARY.— William Rippon the elder, and
William RilTon the younger, were capitally in.
dicted for burglariously entering the dwelling.
house of Joseph Woolf, and stealing therefrom
property to the value of 1001. and upwards. The
prosecutor is a draper, and resides in Bedford.
bury. On the night of the 23d of July last !Jo
went to bed, having previously secured his house.
On the. following morning, about four o'clock, he
got • up, in. consequence of au alarm, and
found his house .had been robbed. From
the shop above one hundred yards of broad
cloth had been. stolen. Ills house had been
under repair, and part of the back of it was open.
From information ,given by the ,watchman, he
suspected the prisoners, who lived near him. lie
gave information at the Police Office, and Pac,.,
an officer, searched the prisoners' house, anti
found part of the stolen property in the cellar.
J. Bradley, servant to a cow keeper in the vicinity of t:te
prosecutor's, proved that on the 24th July, the morning
after the robbery, he went into bis master's barn-house, and
found a quantity of Mr. Woolf's Property. A ladder had been
removed and placed against the, back of Mr. Woolf's 'house.
Rattenbury, a watchman, proved having given the alarm d:-
scribed by the prosecutor, having previously seen the youngm
prisoner and two ether lads at the back of his premises.
A young. man named Hede proved a conversation with the
younger prisoner, wherein he said that three persons named
Flanagan, Redding, and David wen: in the robbery, and that
he knew of it.
Another witness proved having seen the younger prisoner in
company with the persons named, the day before the robbery.
Thomas Pace, the officer, produced a chisel which corre-
sponded with the marks on the door.
Woodbury, another officer, proved the apprehension of the
prisoners, and produced the stolen property.
• Philip Woolf, the son of the pkasecutor, said, that on the
morning when the alarm was given he was stationed at the back
of the house to watch the premises ; and he had not been long
there before he saw the elder prisoner look out of a window of
his house. Shortly after he heard the sound of voices in a
back kitchen, and in a woman's voice—' They are on the •
watch now;" and, in a man's voice, as if ih reply, ' Let them •
watch, we have got it safe enough." Here it was accompanied
by an oath, and the witness believes the female voice was dust of
the prisoner's wite, and the other voice that of himself.
Cross-examined by Mr. BRODERICK—When I heard the
voices I was in the Hop Grardens, about two houses from the
prisoner's; there is only a cow-house between.
Mr. fodder, keeper of Tothill Fields Brideweil, proved the
committal of the younger prisoner on the 24th July to his ens.
tody. Some days after, upon his application, witness gava
him pens, ink, and paper, and he wrote a statement,
that three persons, Flanagan Redding, and David, had called
upon him, and he went with them, and remained in the cow.
house, while they rebbed Mr. Woolf's house. He, by their
desire; concealed the stolen property in the cellar unknuwn to
his father.

For the defence, Henry Raddiffe'one of the elder prisoners
lodgers proved having looked out of the window, .and seeing
the witness Woolf on the watch ; he afterwards saw the elder
prisoner come down stairs.
Woolf recalled, persisted in his statement. •
Other of the elder prisoner's lodgers proved that he was not
up until after six o'clock on the morning of the robbery, and
several witnesses gate him a most excellent character.
The Jury found the younger prisoner Guilty=
Death; and the elder prisoner Not Guilty.
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