The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-09 00:00:00

OXFORD CIRCUITWORCESTER, MARCH 6.

Francis Taylor was indicted for highway robbery.
It appeared that on the 13th of November last, the prosecu-
tor, Richard How, was returning homewards at night from
work, when he was overtaken by the prisoner, who accosted
him, and asked him to go into a public-house and have a pint
of ale. The prosecutor accepted the invitation, and after
staying there about an hour, and partaking of one pint of
ale, which he paid for himself, left
_to go home, the prisoner
accompanying him, stating that he was going ha same way.
When they got about BO 3ards from the public-house, the
prisoner went behind the prosecutor, and passing to his right
side, struck him a left-handed blow which knccked him down
and left him insensible for some time. The pi iioner had lost
his left hat.d, and were, as a substitute, a stout piece of leather
round the stump of the atm, with a thick piete of iron at the
etid, into which various implements might be fastened with a
screw. The prosecutor, on recovering, missed a knife, a to-
bacco-box, and three shillings which the box contained.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The prisoner was again put on his trial for committing, to-
gether with some other person unknown, another highway sob-
bery.upon the same prosecutor as in the former ewe-.
On the 28th of November the prosecutor was going home,
when, almost Within a yard (if the spot on which the former
robbery took place, he was knocked down by two men ; one
of them held him while the other commenced rifling Lis
pockets, and took from him one sovereign, four half-t roans,
and five shillings. He tried to bite the hand of one of them,
and bit a piece of iron, and, upon the parties running away,
he called a'ter them, and told the prisoner that he knew him.
Upon this they boill returned, beat him with great seacrity,
and were dragging him towards a pool of water, about twenty
feet deep, when a Mrs. Jones, who was returning home from
Dudley market with two of her children,- hearing a cry of mur-
der, made tov.ards the spot, and the •il,ains c!ecampecl. The
prisoner was apprehended the next day.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty ; and
Mr. Baron G URNEV, after some severe observations on the
barbarity of the prisoner's conduct, sentenced him to trauspor-
tation for life.

The Learned JUDGE then called Mrs .Ten I‘.s inti the box,
prais,d the spirit and coura.ze which she had displayed, said
ordered a reward of 5/. to be paid to her.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUL.T.

OLD COURT.

Joseph Dean, 27, was indicted for feloniously cutting and
woundi ,g Edward Wiseman, with intent to do him some I..ie-
vious bodily harm.
Mr. Phillips appeared for the priioner.
From the evidence adduced, it appeared that, on the sth of
February, the prosecutor went to the house of a person named
Ambrusk, while in a state of intoxication, and that a despe-
rate fight took rlace with the prisoner, the prosecutor, and
same others present, and the prosecutor received a blow on the
left eye which deprived him of sight.- The police constable, a
man nalicel tslu-pnerJ, of the R division, gave his evidence ha
such a confusal and contradictory manner, that he was repri-
manded by the Recorder, who expi essed an opinion that the
in! abitants of Greenwich ought to Le served by some more
intelligent person than he zweared to be.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of a common assault,
and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
the Ri:coßDEr. observed that he should not allow the ex-
penses of the_ witnesses, except the surgeon.
The constable said he hal been put to great expense in pro-
curing the attendance of witness:-s, and he hoped the Court
would allow him to be reimbursed.
The RECORDBIL slid that if the public paid andemployed
him, they had a right to expect him to give a correct version
of any airar he might be engaged in. He had not done that
in the per sent instance, and therefore he would not receive
any ey penses.
lane Hedditch, 46, was, indicted for stabbing and wounding
Thomas Day, with intent to do hisn some grievous bodily has .n.
The facts of the case have been recently very fully given in
oar Bow-street police report, and it will therefore be unneces-
sary to report them.
The Jury found tl e prisoner guilty of a common assault, and
she was sentenced to three moxths' imprisonment.