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London, England, 1834-05-20 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, MAY 19.

Ann Duff, aged 17, Thomas Steele, aged 25, and
Richard keith, aged 23, were indicted for assaulting
with attempt to rob William Thomas Wakeling.
The male prisoners were both found Guilty, but
the court directed the jury to acquit the female pri_
soner.

Joseph Seal, aged 22, and Thomas Simpson, aged
18, were indicted for stealing in the dwelling-house of
John Lewis Webber a quantity of plate and other
articles, value 201., his property.
It appeared from the evidence of Mary Cotter, a
servant to the prosecutor, who is a solicitor residing
in Caroline-street, Bedford-square, that the prisoner
Seal was acquainted with the servants of the house,
and on the 15th of April he came to invite the nurse
to go to Astley's Theatre. She carried the invitation
up stairs to the nurse, leaving Seal in the hall. As
she was coming down stairs she heard the street-door
shut, and observed that he appeared agitated. She
told him that the nurse could not go to the play. He
went away, and shortly afterwards the property was
missing. It was further proved by another witness,
named Caroline Nicholson, who lived opposite the
prosecutor, that she saw three persons come out of the
house, two of whom she believed to be the prisoners.
Several persons gave Seal a good character.
Mary Stone, who had left Mr. Webber's service
only three days before the robbery, had known the
prisoner seven years, and he was always an upright
man.

Cross-examined—Had borrowed a shawl to go and
get married to Seal, but was too late for the parson.
(Laughter.) Had so good an opinion of him that she
would marry him directly. (Laughter.)
The jury pronounced a verdict of Guilty against
Seal, but acquitted Simpson.
( Before the COMMON- SERGEANT and a Middlesex Jury. )
Joseph Stockman was indicted for stealing nine
napkins, the property of Charles Trowbridge ; and
Mary Scholey was charged with receiving the same,
feloniously knowing them to have been stolen.

It turned out that the indictment contained a super-
fluous word (aforesaid), which induced the Learned
Judge to go and consult the Recorder. On his return
to the Court he directed the jury to acquit both the
prisoners, and observed to them that the word " afore-
said" was the most lucky for them of any one contained
in the dictionary.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A young man named Charles, the waiter at a re-
spectable tavern in Fleet-street, appeared before the
Lord Mayor and Alderman Cowan, a girl who has
since died having sworn that he was the father of an
illegitimate child of which she was pregnant, on the
2d of April last. The circumstances of the affiliation
were rather singular.
John Crutchley, beadle of St. Dunstan's, had been
present at the examination of the female, and she
swore upon the occasion, without hesitation, that the
defendant was the father, and that he was the only
man with whom she had ever been acquainted in " that
particular way."
Elizabeth Fox stated that the young woman had
been brought to bed in Marlborough House, Peckham,
of a boy, and that she died two days afterwards of in-
flammation. Witness attended her as nurse, and
observed that she was aware of the approach of death,
and spoke of her child under the strong impression
that recovery was impossible. Witness asked her if
there was anything that lay heavy upon her mind, to
which she replied in the negative, saying that she was
happy that she had sworn the child to the defendant,
who was the only person to whom she had ever per-
mitted familiarities. The child was alive, and likely
to live.

Mr. Wooler for the defendant, was instructed to
say that the deceased was a person of such habits as
made it a matter of great difficulty for her to decide
who was the father of the child. The defendant most
solemnly denied that he had ever sought or been
granted any such favours as could have led to the con-
sequences he had been called upon to answer for. The
duty was an extremely disagreeable one, but it was
one which he could not abandon, as a professional
man, to prove that the young woman was so loose a
person that her evidence, even under the awful cir-
cumstances of the approach of death, could not be
believed.

The LORD MAYOR said that the testimony in oppo-
sition to such a declaration as the unfortunate girl had
made upon her death-bed must be very strong to cause
him to alter the opinion he had formed upon the
subject.
• ' • •

Sohn Parkhouse, the porter to a wine merchant in
Fleet-street, had been obliged by the young woman in
the particular way alluded to very often. In fact, it
appeared from the witness's statement, that he had
only to ask and have—an odd circumstance enough,
considering that he was a person of a very unseemly
appearance, the very reverse of that of the defendant.
He also swore that he had seen the deceased sitting
on the steps of the hall-door of a house of the vilest
description in Shire-lane.
The defendant said he was ready to take his oath
that he had never taken the slightest liberty with the
deceased. She had been his fellow-servant, and was
in the house about six weeks, and it was notorious that
her virtue was soon overpowered whenever it was as-
sailed.

His LORDSHIP said he certainly must sign the order
which was to make the defendant responsible for the
support of the child, and the expenses of the lying-in.
There was not in his opinion any comparison between
the testimony of the person who so readily swore that
he had succeeded in his attempts upon the virtue of
the deceased and the solemn asseverations of a mother
going out of the world as to the father of her child.
The defendant was then adjudged to pay the ex-
penses of the lying-in, and 3s. a week for the support
of the child. He immediately procured bail and was
liberated.

A young man named John James, of genteel ap-
pearance, was brought up, charged with having stolen
the sum of 71. 10s. from a Mr. Schomberg, of Bald-
win's-gardens. It was stated that the prisoner was a
most respectable medical men.
The prisoner, it appeared, lodged in Mr. Schom-
berg's house, and took the opportunity, when the com-
plainant and his wife were engaged in another part of
the house, to steal into their bed-room, and possess
himself of the cash which lay there. As soon as he
was thus provided, he went off to one of the theatres,
where he soon picked up a partner, with whom he re-
mained till he spent the last farthing. He then betook
I himself to his father's house, from which, the moment
he arrived, word was sent to the prosecutor, who at-
tended with an officer, and took him into custody.
The prisoner admitted to the officer that he had
" cribbed" the cash, that it went off in pleasures, and
that he went to his father's house when he found that
he was getting hungry.
The officer said the prisoner's father had six other
children, whom the example of the prisoner was likely
to corrupt, if steps were not taken to keep him away
from the house.
The prisoner was remanded.
UNION-HALL.

Yesterday a respectable-looking man, described as
an attorney, was brought up from the station-house,
where he had been confined the preceding night on the
following charge :
Mr. Carman, a respectable tradesman residing in
Peacock-street, Newington, stated that on Sunday his
daughter, a little girl under 10 years of age, went to
dine with some friends in Hampton-street. He ex-
pected that she would have been accompanied home in
the early part of the evening, but 9 o'clock having
arrived, and she not making her appearance, he became
uneasy, and went out for the purpose of going after
her. He had not, however, proceeded far when he
met the defendant, who had hold of the child's arm, and
was endeavouring to prevail on her to go in a contrary
direction to that of her home. The complainant im-
mediately went up, and taking his daughter away from
the stranger, gave him into custody, upon her having
represented his conduct towards her.
The little girl stated that soon after she had left the
house where she dined the defendant walked up to her
side and asked her where she lived, and she told him.
He then asked her to take some wine, which she de-
clined, and he said that if she would accompany him
to the Hampton Arms, he would buy her some bis-
cuits ; she did accompany him to that house, and he
called for wine and biscuits ; two of the latter she ac-
cepted, but rejected any wine, although he pressed
her very much to drink. When they left the house
she commenced running towards home, when the de-
fendant ran after her and laid hold of her by the arm,
and wanted her to go in the direction of the Zoolo-
gical gardens, instead of the street where she lived.
She refused to go the way he wanted, and he then
said that if she did not he would serve her the way
that he did many little girls, and throw her into the
river Thames. He held her tightly by the arm, and
soon afterwards her father came up ttnd released her,

and she told him what had happened. The father here
exhibited the arm of the child's frock, which was torn
in her efforts to disengage herself from the defendant
when he held her and prevented her from going home.
Two young lads were examined, whose attention
was attracted on the preceding night by seeing the
defendant along with a child, who was proceeding,
evidently against her inclination, towards an unfre-
quented spot near the Zoological Gardens. As they
went along, the defendant was stooping down every
now and then and encouraging her, and this conduct
assured the boys that the defendant was not the little
girl's father as they first imagined. Their curiosity
was therefore excited, and they were determined to
see the result, and fly to the assistance of the child, if
their aid was required. In going along, the child at
length refused to proceed any further in the direction
the defendant wanted her, and she turned round to-
wards Peacock-street, where she lived, and they (the
witnesses) distinctly heard the defendant threaten to
throw her into the Thames. The witnesses added,
that soon afterwards the child's father came up and
rescued her.

The defendant said that he had been dining out, and
,drank too freely, adding that he was so intoxicated
that he had not the slightest recollection of what had
happened.
The Magistrates(Mr. WEDGWOOD and Mr. TRAILL)
inflicted a fine of 5/. on the defendant, and in default
of payment to be committed for two months to gaol.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday Matthew Bird was brought up in custody
before Mr. BURRELL by George Colley, ch ged with
selling an unstamped weekly newspaper, called the
Weekly Police Gazette. .

Colley saw the defendant selling the papers in the
New Cut, Lambeth, and purchased one, for which he
paid twopence.
The papers were here handed to the bench.
Mr. BURRELL asked the defendant what he had to
say in answer to the charge ?
The defendant had been out of work for a length of
time, and for the last three weeks had been selling the
Gazettes to get a living.
Mr. BURRELL asked him what he was?
The defendant said he was a baker by trade, but
out of work.

In answer to a question, Colley said that he had
never seen the defendant selling unstamped papers
before.

Mr. BURRELL committed him for 14 days to King-
ston gaol.
John Herbert, better known on the Surrey side of
the water by the name of Billy Barlow, was charged
by Colley, before Mr. GREGORIE, with selling an un-
stamped weekly paper, called The People's Hue and
Cry.
Colley saw the defendant selling papers in the New
Cut, and he purchased one for a penny.
The defendant, in reply, was determined to perse-
vere; he sold them to show that the liberty of the
press should not be shackled, and as long as the peo-
ple would buy an unstamped publication, and he could
sell one, he was determined to do it.
The defendant is well known at the office, and has
been several times convicted for a similar offence.
Mr. GREGORIE, as he had been so often convicted,
should commit him for the full period, three months.
The defendant was then removed, declaring that
he would sell again as soon as he got out of prison.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE,

MAY 19.

The Waterloo, from Antwerp; the Earl of Liverpool,
from Rotterdam ; La Constance, from Cherburg ; the
Aldborough, from Guernsey ; the Union, from Ostend and
Rochester; the Triton, from Belfast ; the Loyal William,
from Guernsey ; the Tulloch Castle, from Jamaica ; the
Eliza Ann, from Hamburg ; the Cedric, from Grande ;
the Rebel, from Denia, Rio Xavia; the Minerva, and
Trois Freres, from Gravelines ; the Sceptre, from Moga-
dore and S ffia; the Isabel, from Lisbon ; the Demerara
Planter, from Demerara ; the Venus, from Hamburg ;
the Twee Broders, from Worcum ; the Eliza, from
Grenada; the Defiance, from Liverpool; the Elbe Packet,
from Hamburg ; the Garonne, from Bremen ; the Lon-
don and Chester, from Liverpool ; the John Renwick,
from Jamaica; the Hero of Maloan, from Bombay and the
Cape of Good Hope ; the Sedulous, from Charente.