The Sun.
London, England, 1802-11-06 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY..

NINTH DAY--FR I D AY, !OP V. 5.

AT one o'clock the Court of Admiralty; which
5 mod adjourned to this day, was further adjourned,
to Thursday, the lull-instant, an account of -the
business of the Common Sessions not being con_
chided.

Jahn revtott, alias John. Davw, alias johlt
Taw{, was indiEled for stealing a cloak,. of the
Value of 161. r6s. the property of Sarah Pearce,. in
a dwelling-house, which was a capital offence.
The Prosecrutrix was called, hut did not appear,
and, therefore, the Prisoner was pronounced Not
He was then tried upon an Indiatnent for a Single
Felony, for stealing a pair of gold ear-rings, and a
gold pin, the property. of Sarah Heather, on the
toth of August last.
The Prosecutrix swore, that the Prisoner came
home with her from the Play, at the Hay-market,
to her lodgings in Clarges-street, and staid with
her all night. In the morning he desired the ser-
vant of the Prosecutrix to follow him, which the
Prosecutrix objeaed to. He then said that he would
send her some money, and desired the servant to
follow him to the Thatch'd House Tavern

the Prosecutrix would not agree to that. . In

• *bout a quaiter of an hour after he was gone, she
/ went to her dressing table, and found that her gold
ear-rings and gold pin..were gone, together with a
Shawl.nuf of her trunk : the Prisoner did not return,

tor did she see any more of him until The 24th of
September, when she was coming out of Covent_
"garden Theatre : she then laid hold of him, and
charged him with robbing her. He was secured,
and the following day taken to NI aiborough-street
Police Office, and committed.
By a Duplicate, which was found in theprisoner's
lodgings, the ear-rins and pin were found at-a
Pawn-broker's, where the Prisoner pawned them be-
t ween ten and twelve o'clock, on the z t t of August,

for p.
Both the Prosecutrix and the Pawn-broker swore
they had not the least doubt of the identity of the
Ps isoner. . . •
'1 he Servant of the Prosecutrix swore also, that
she saw hint at her Mistress's lodgings on the night
of the
.loth of August, and to his asking her to
follow him to his lodgings, and then to the Thatch'd
House Tavern, which her Mistress refused.
The Prisoner, in his written Defence, which he
handed up to the Court-, said, that the Prosecutrix
gave him these articles ; but he called no witnesses.
The COMMON SviilrAsir summed up-the case,
and observed, that if the Jury believed the evidence,
they would find the Prisoner guilty by their verdict.
The Jury pronounced him Guilty.
Thi COMMON SERI PANT said *to the Prisoner,
you have had great g). d fortune, in not being tried
on the first Indictment, which is for a capital of-
fence.—l shall not try him on the other India-
merits, alluding to others with which IA; stands
charged, which are for pilfering a number Of articles
from unfortunate women, with whom he had been

in company.
The case on which he is convicted, is a transport-
able offeliae.

Edward Clarke was i-)tit to the Bar charged with
stealing t broWO gelding, in Whiz:Jiapel, in.Sep-
temberlast.

in this Case the Prbsecntor in proceeding to give
his evidence, describzd the' Oiling he had lost to
have been a bay, and 'in this he persisted.
The 'Learned Judge then remarked to the Jury
that there was a defect in the Indielment, staring
Oat the gelding was brown, therefore the Prosecu-
tion could not proceed.
Not

John Connor and Michnel reathrg were indiaed
'for stealing a bundle from William Penn, on the
6th of Odober.

.William Penn, a young lad, said, he was carry..
ing a bundle from Charlotte-street, Blootrisbury, to
his father in the city, when he was hustled in Broad.
street St. Giles's, and the bundle was snatched from
him by a person whom he thought was Connor, but
he could not be positive, neither could he say that
Keatingt.was concerned..
Mrs. enn described the contents of the bundle
to be a shirt, a neck-handleerchief, and a white dish.
Part of this property was produced by a Constable,
who said he had found it in the custody of Connor.
Mrs. Penn identified it.
,Karing being called on for his defence, said, he
bought tl.e property from a labourer whom he had
frequently seen. Connor Not Guilty. Keating

yob,/ Will;ains and William Williams were tried
for. stealing a trunk containing sundry artigdes of
wearing apparel, the property of Hannah Wild, in
the dwelling-house of -- Sayers.
1-I,nnah. Wild swore, that upon last Tuesday:
fortnight she came from .Margate to London, and
came up in a boat to the Swan public-house, near
Westminster-bridge. She- stopped there in order
to Iraoe her trunks in a place of safety,
.Which she
,did, having entrusted them to the care of the land-
She. returned to the house on the ensuing
:iday, in order to carry one away. She came
soon after to remove the other, when she
red it as gone. She saw the trunk which
carried :,t1 without her knowledge, and
01 its contents afterwards, at 'the Public Office.