The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-13 00:00:00

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SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1824.

MIDDLESEX ADJOURNED SESSIONS.

Yesterday Elizabeth Dickson, a little girl, about 12 or 13
years of age, was indicted for stealing a leaf of bread, value
4d., the property of George Schunter.
George_Schumer stated that he was a baker, and kept a shop
in Mansfield-place, Kentish-town. Ile discovered that he was
occasionally robbed of bread, and suspecting a boy who was In
his service, he discharged him. His losses, however, did not
cease with the absence of the boy, and he determined to set
about discovering the thief. For this purpose he bored a hole
through his parlour-door at the back of the shop, through which
he could see what, was going on in the shop without being seen
himself. On the morning of the 23d of October, between 8
and 9 o'clock, he saw the prisoner' come into the shop, take up
a 4d. loaf, and walk away with it. Ile followed and seized
her, and she dropped the loaf from under her pinafore.
Cross-examined by Mr. ALLEY—He knew the prisoner;
she lived with her aunt, who was a lady of property, and re-
sided nearly opposite to his house ; he once served the prisoner's
aunt with bread, but he discontinued to do so from his dwn
wish, on account of the irregular manner in which payments
were made; the prisoner's aunt never complained to bins of
the badness of his bread, nor did she ever accuse him of having
taken part of a pudding which she bad,sent to him to be baked.
lie did not state to a person named Hanson, that ho had any
doubt with respect to the person who took the loaf'.
Gilpin deposed, that between eight and nine o'clock on
the morning of the 23d of October, he was passing the prose-
cutor's house, and saw the prisoner go into the shop. He
shortly after bad occasion to turn back, when he saw the pri-
soner retiring from the shop, and the prosecutor following her.
The prosecutor seized her, and a loaf tell front beneath her
pinafore.

A boy also stated, that he saw the prisoner enter the prosecu-
tor's shop.
The prisoner being called on for her defence, handed to the
Chairman a paper, in which she stated that the loaf was given
to'her by a boy, a stranger to her, at her aunt's door, and that
she had .never entered the prosecutor's shop.
Mrs. Shout, the prisoner's aunt, stated, that the prisoner
lived with her. Her conduct had always been correct, and she
wanted for nothing. She once sent a rice-pudding to the pro-
secutor to be baked. When it came home, the pudding was
not half so large as when it went. She iscontinued to deal
with the prosecutor, because of the badness of his bread.
honsdale, a hosier, in Regent-street, stated, that he had
known the prisoner's aunt for the last 16 years ; she was a most
respectable lady. The prisoner was well educated, and wanted
for nething.

Hanson, a builder, at Highgate, stated, that in the course
of some conversation which he had with the prosecutor in Court
yesterday, he (the prosecutor) said that he" had his doubts,
but would not mention names, as it would make a great dis-
turbance." The witness supposed the prosecutor meant that
he entertained doubts with respect to the person who took the
loaf.

The CH AMU :4, in addressing the Jury. observed that they
were called upon to perform a very painful duty, but he trusted
that they would perform it impartially. It would be wrong
to suppose that a child brought up in the way in which the
prisoner was described to have been reared, and living with
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by persons whose station in life was of the first respectability.
'I he character of the prosecutor was as much at stake as that of
the prisoner, and the jury were bound to do justice between
them.—The jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty.
The prosecutor said, that he had not prosecuted the prisoner
from vindictive motives, anti begged to recommend her to
mercy.
The CHAIRMAN observed, that the prosecutor's conduct,
after the manner in which he had been treated in his cross-exa-
mination, did him great credit. The best thing which could
be done with the prisoner would be to place her under the care
of her friends. 1:e then directed that the prisoner should be
delivered to her aunt, on her entering into recogniaances of 201.
to bring ber up for judgement when called for.
John grenadier in the ith Fusileers, and dkx.
angler Ramsay, a private in the Grenadier Guards, were in-
dicted for that they, ,together with another soldier not in cus-
tody, committed a riot and assaulted Vary Clark.
Mary Clark, an elderly female, said--I keep a shop in Wych.
street, and my daughter is a milliner there. On l'uesday the
26th of October, about seven o'clock in the evening, my daugh-
ter and I were sitting in our shop when the three soldiers passed
down the street arm in arts making a great noise; they were
all three drunk, and one of them broke a pane of glass in the
shop window. I went after them, and asked them to pay for
it, and one of them said with an oath, " We will pay you :"
and he gave the a blow which stunned me, and I can remember
no more.

Cross.examined soldiers the prisoner Mitchell—l don't .know
which of the three broke the *indow, but I am quite
sure it was one of them.
Sophia Clark said, I am the daughter of the last witness ;
saw one of the soldiers break the window, and my mother went
out after them, and one of them knocked her head against a
wall, by which she was stunnsd ; I called fur help. These
gentlemen came to our assistance, but they were knocked down
by the soldiers, as was a police officer who also came. The pri.
soner Ramsey made a blow at me, but the officer caught his
arm. On the arrival of more officers the two prisoners were
secured, but the third escaped.
John ,pascal said, I was passing along the street at the time,
and saw the prison Mitchell, who was decidedly the worst of
the three, strike Mrs. Clark's head against the wall. I fetched
the officer, and Mitchell knocked me down. The prisoners
were at length secured and taken to Bow-street, but Mr. Halls,
the sitting Magistrate, remanded the prisoners till the next day
on account of the state of Mrs. Clurk.

The prisoner Mitchell said in his defence, that he had been
drinking with his comrades ; that a window was broken, and
that Mrs. Clark took him by the collar, and dragged him into
her shop.—(The prisoner was a powerful man, nearly six fact
high.)
The prisoner Ramsay told a similar story, and called
William Church, a fishmonger in Wych-street, who said-
-1 saw. Mrs. Clark collar the prisoner and heard her
lay that she would not let him go till he paid for the window ;
she called for assistance, but I would not render her any, be-
cause she and her daughter are a nuisance to the neighbours,
and every body hates them. She dragged Mitchell into her
shop. " Indeed, 84." said the witness " Mrs. Clark and her
daufhter very ill-used the poor soldiers. ,"
—(A laugh.)
the
CIIA IJILMAN, after observing on the extreme absurdity
of fm elderly woman dragging a grenadier into a shop, told the
Jury that if they believed the witnesses for the prosecution,
there could be no doubt that this was a most gross outrage.—
Verdict—Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN then sentenced Mitchell to be imprisoned at
the tread-mill for two calendar months, and Ramsay for one
calendar month.

Ma. GIME x's A ICEXT.—(o4ichester, N 0,...
voyage, from the Gas-
near the Barns, South Gate. At two o'clock P.W. the
.I\l.l;hwenheunbout due east of the
wrmoornks3,lr. GREEN imule his 25th aerial )) Thisafter-
aerostatic machine was completely filled. Mr. Green, however,
in order, no doubt, that no one should be disappointed by being
the signal-gun was
a little too late after the stated hour,-delayed his departure till
aboutfired, andgi minutes
clbd
city, it appeared stationary, and the sun, then obscured by
clouds front the earth, shining on the balloon, gave it the effect
enfeorleettlltoore4P.
of a bright ball of gold, on an azure field; it then approached
a long ride . of clouds, and for two minutes and a hail was
obscured from the view : this was the only time it was lost sight
of for nearly three quarters of an hour by those with good
glasses, when it dwindled into a mere speck.
At ten o'clock
at night, Sir. Green arrived safe in a chaise and four at the
Swan Inn, where he stated thiit he made a safe descent in a
field at llentield.—(Brtglrion Gazette.)
On crltursday afternoon on Inquest was held at
the Plymouth Arms, in hill-lane, Tooley:street, before Taos. Esq ,on the body of Benjamin Care. It ap-
peared from the evidence that the deceased, on Tuesday last,
fell from a wharf into the Thames, anti some persons, who
were on the spot, got hint out ki a few minutes, but he
Was apparently lifeless. A Surgeon was sent 'for, and
in a short time he was so far recovered, as to be able
to speak. He then walked up stairs, anti went to bed,
anti the Surgeon, considering him out Of all dangez, hawse left
alone apparently asleep; but on a person going into the room
a few hours after, he was found laying in the bed, quite dead.
Verdict, Accidental Dwith.---Anotiter inquest was held at the
Waterman's Arms, on the body of William Harris, who fell
out of a boat into the Thames, on Monday last, and was unfor-
tunately drowned."--Verdiet—Accidental Death.