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London, England, 1802-07-19 00:00:00

he said he, had known Mr. Jones many ye&rt,
and he vas one of the last he shodld have sucpe6ed
of such conduct. He kept a shop,in St. Martin's,
lane, was a comb and brush maker, arid a per,
fume manufaelurer. • ,

Mr. Henry Bell, the, High Constable of the Hol-
born Division, stated, that he came to the Coach
and Horses on the evening Of the 9th ,instant, by
desire of the Landlord : the Prisoner and about five
others were in the back parlour : they requested he
would, search them. Mr. Jones opened his waist_
coat, took out a tew papers out of the pockets of it,
and a shilling; but said no man should search Tiim :
the Witness skewed him his-authority, and said, he
would begin by searching him. He took out of the
left hand coat pocket a iol, bank note, loose, and
much tumbledhe said to the Prisoner, Mr. Jones.,
do'you usually carry 201. notes in your coat pocket ?
He answered, the note did not belong to him: to which
the Witness replied, jocularly, I am very glad of it,
then I hope it belongs to me. However, very soon
after, the Prisoner desivied his zol note might be
returned—it was his property—he received it, he
said, from a IWrs. Snowden, a perfumer, in the
Haymarket. He told him the note was safe, but
he must keep it. He then‘took the Prisoner into
custody ; and as he was conveying him to the'
watch-house, he artfully endeavoured to make his
escape, and afterwards used a considerable degree of
violence, so much so, that the Witness Was under
the necessity of knocking him down in the street—,'
he had kept the note ever since—when.pr,oduced at
Bow-street, it was instantly recognized by the Pro.
secutor.

Mr; Martin was then called up to identify
the note—it was the same he had received from
Mr. M'Allister, about a quarter of an hour before
he went to the Coach and Horses. He recolle4ed
the indorsethent of Mr. Hall, on the note, and the
initials of Mr. M'Allister's name, which , he salt,
.him write upon it.
Edward M'Allister .said, he keeps a Tavern in
High Holborn—he paid the zol. note in question tn
Mr. Martin, 'as he had stated—He saw .one of Mt.
Hall's shopmen ,write his master's name on the note,
when he received it from him : whiCh proceeding
was corrob2rated by the shopman' alluded to, who-
added, he gave the note to' Mr. M'Allister on the
6th of June. /
Mr. Combe stated, that he had inquired from the
beginning to ;he end, and from the end to the begin-
ning of the Haymarket, and could learn nothing of a
Mrs. Snowden, a Perfumer. , -

The Evidence for the Prosecution being closed,
the Prisoner was called upon for his defeKce.
He said, that- on tb,.. evening the affair- took
place, he was considerably intoxicated, ving.pre,l
Viously drank a quantity of tile he drank after din,
net fur three or four hOurs, at Mr. Barker's,•in corn.:
party With several gentlemen ; he was convinced that
eight or ten bottles were consumed. 114 r. Martin-him
self,-as wine merchant of the house, paid for five. Af...
ter he left Mr. Barker"s; he.went home to St. Martin's
Lane; it was' near an hour before he returned, and
in the interval he took the note• in question at his
own shop, as a. gentleman then present could
prove. It was a plain proof that he was excessively
intoxicated when he mentioned the name of a Mrs.
Snowden, a person he never even heard of; and he
thought it a hard case that a person could- not. take
a tot. note, without being brought to such an ac.—:
count for it.

Mr. Cumming, of Exeter Court, Strand, thf! per-
son alluded to, said, he had known the' Prisoner
some time, and had occasional dealings with him';.
he recolleaed being at Mr. Jones's shop on the
evening of the 9th, it was sometime between five
and seven o'clock. Mr. Jones came in while the
Witness was there, and soon after a decent dressed
person came in for the change of a note—the amOunr
he did recollea. Mr. Jones said he could not
change it without he purchased some thing. After
some converiation, the person agreed to take arti-
cles, he believed combs, to the amount of between
four and five pounds. Mr. Jones appear.ed rather
tipsy—he asked the Witness to assist him to make,
up the change ; he accordingly lent him 9L. in small
notes=-he had a -very favourable opinion of Mr.
Jones, and should have trusted hinr•to any amount.
On his cross-examination by Mr. GURNEY, the
Witness said, he had been a Wafrant-Officer—was
then in the Naval .Agency Line, and kept a House
in Exeter Court.

Several Witnesses, mostly neighbours of the Pri-
soner, gave him a favourable.charader.

The RECORDER, who tried the case; summed
up the evidence, and delivered•a very, able charge
thereon to the Jury.—With the Prosectitor's Conn_
sel lie seemed to agree, that-the capital part of the
charge, that of privately stealing, may be left out
of the consideration of the Jury, as one of the Wit:
nesses distinaly, stated that he saw the Prisoner's
hand drawn from or very near the pocket of the Prose-
.cutor—an act from which a conclusion may be fairly
clrawn in such 'a case that it was at that. time the
theft was perpetrated, and Which would be sufficient
for the purpose alluded to. lie then stated sonic
points for the consideration of the Jury, from which
he thought guilt might be inferred, arid one or two
points which may operate rather favourably for the
Prisoner. He concluded' with the usual 'Observa
tioM on the effea of cha'raeter.

The Jury. deliberated a very short time, when
they found the Prisoner guilty of stealing, but not
privately from the person.- -
The Prisoner was well dressed, and is a rozn of
gentlemanly appearance. He stated his age to he
fifty wo.

John lll'Donalei and Wm. Carr were also charg-
ed with a capital offence in felonipusly asiattltingi
on the .27th:of June, John- Hope, on The King's
highway, putting him in fear, and taking. from his
person and against his will, a siver:watch, a gilt
chain, arid a Metal 'seal his property.
The Prosecutor it appeared 'was' passing through
BliCkniOri-Street 'about's o'clock in the-morning of
the day stated in the Incliament, When he" was•mel
by .the-two Prisoners.; who stopt and asked. hi'tn td
treat. them'; this Mr. Hope naturally refOge?d, of.)
which they hustled him -violently, and at •the mo,
ment 'he felt his watoh_taketi'frorn-his pocket the