The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-21 00:00:00

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111IDDL4SEX SESSIONS, S E ;

Ga_pi of those Italians
about the town i7encilni teiescopes; barottizters; &c.was indined lot- a thisdetutanot, in, ptibli,Ti;:.g
two obscene. and indecent prints at Tottenlithil;:n
the County of Middlesex; on Saturday the
instant. •

Mr. KNAri and Mr.. KNOWLYS tt:r.o
ployed on the part of the Prosecution, Which Wa3
commenced at the instance.of that verii
and laudable Society; instituted in Fiatton-Ctiit.
den for the Suppression of Vice. The Leiirned
Counsel, in Opening the Caie to the Jury;
inented with much feeling on the enoi•mit;', of
the crime, of endeavouring by of bMce;le
prints, &c. to d.-bauch the minds of the yatirit
branches of society. Such publications as the:cc
isted to an immense extent ; near 806 ptHon.,
employed in the dreadful occupation of diStribCtig-
prints of the description of those for which ta... De-.
fendant was indicted. The danger resditi,lg
the extensive sale of such things, must to the minds
of the Jury, as husbands., and • fathers, be too

1 A person named Grey' stated, that he Was cm-
' 1 ployed by the Gentlemen of a Society in Hatters_
garden, from whfpn he received ,a cetairt salry,
to endeavour to deteft and bring to justice persons
, who were guilty of offeeees such as that which the
. Defendant was charged with. 'On the 7th instant,
he had some conversation with him relative to
purchasing some indecent prints of ;tin-) ; tlef: the
Defendant then told him several persons lad:been
apprehended; and were now in euse,,dy, for stllng
pidures of that description ; but that he weu!d-
meet him again. They aceotrlitly. natt by ap_
pointment on Saturday the i r th, -t a pfiblie- hen,:
in Shoreditch. The Defendant then said, the de-
mand for these Prints was so great, that he caul-.l
not at that time let him have any quantity ! he
was then going to Tottenham, -abmit the neigh,
bourhood of which place he served a great numHer
of res,zse.;'?aLle Ladies, who were very good t-,'li-
tamers to hint, as were also several Boaidinzz-seLmis;
The Witness followed him, and-saw him stop at seve.,
rid respedable houses, after which he again accosted
him, and there purchased of him for one pound,.
the two prints which were the grotind
.of the Jrt. .
didmnt, and which were shewn to the jur--. "Pri
the asth, he tool; Ray, one of the Police OffiHrs„
with him again to meet the Defendant, Who, how--;
ever, at that time, had no such things With him ----:
This Witness was closely r.:tatriined by Mr. ALLEY
on the part of the Defendant. Ray, the Officer,
apprehended the Defendant in Consequence of a
warrant ; but on searching hit-xi, did nut find any
indecent prints, &c.
Mr. HUMPH kt / ES, who is Solicitdr for the Society,
and who of course prosecuted on this oceision; pro:
duced a note, which was giVen by the first Witness;
Grey, to the Defendant, appointing a place of meet..
ing, &e. He further stated, ,that the Defendant, in
Iris account of himself, and the transadion at Tot_
tenham, when before the Magistrate, charged Grey
with having offered him the prints fir sale, instead
'of the Defendant's offering them to Grey. -
Mr. ALLEY, in a speech of considerable length,
endeavoured to impress the minds of the Jury' with
an idea, that the evidence of Grey was nQt emitted
to the same credit with that of other. Witnesses,'
from his having confessed himself a sort of informer,
with which set, of people, from the frequent occa-
sion they had to take an oath, it had lest half
its consequence. After dwelling on this, and on
the deficiency. of the evidence, inasmuch a's the
Prosecutors had not called the master, moistness
or servants of the public house where the nitet-
ings were said to have taken plate, or the servants
of the different houses in the neighbourhood. of.
Tottenham, where the Defendant was said to
have milt, he said he was in possesSion of .evi,
dente to prove a complete alibi ; and thenecalled
the woman of the house in which thO. ,Defendant
lodged, in Turnmill-street, who swore that- on
Saturday the I tilt inst. tire Defendant wits at
home the whole of the day until six or seVen in the
evening,
Three other witnesses were examined; all of the"* ~:
Italians and Foreigners, who also positively swore - • -:
to the fart of the Defendant'sbeing at hothe on the
a i di.

They were severally cross-examined by Mt-6
KN.APP and Mr.kNowLys ; and their having been
ordered out of Court while each was examining,
produced some little variation in their evidence ;
but they all, swore to the Defendant's havi.ng been
at home from rnorning until evening on the day
named in the indidment.
_ _

Mr. KNOWLYS, in 'reply to Mr. ALLEY, re,
marked, that the Gentlemen who composed the
Society which had with so much honour to them-.:
selves taken up 'these sort of Prosecutions; did not'
intend to expose to public Censure those families
who might be unfortunate enough to have a wife,
daughter, or -sister inclined to purchase such inde-
cent and diabolical prints. • It was enough for them
to bring the, venders 'of such things to justice, and
not, in an inquisitorial manner, to publish things
Which might destroy the harmony of private life.
Mr. Justice CONANT, who was in the Chair in
the absence of Mr. MAINwAR INC, remarked to the
Jury, that in:finding the Defendant guilty, they.
must believe the four witnesses who had been ex-
amined on the part of the Defendant to have beim
guilty of wilful and corrupt•perjury, as the -trans.
action was so recent, it was not possible for the day
which they so positively swore to, to be forgotten.
The Jory, however, after some deliberation,
pronounced him Gailty, and the Court sentenced him
to six months im t onmen .
•.

The following awful occurrence lately happened
at Orston, near Bingham, Nottinghamshire :—One
Francis Cox, -aged 72, a labourer of that place,
after having had a violent altercation with his 'son-
in-law, wherein a great deal of blasphemy had bzen
made use of on both sides, went, full of choler, to
a public-house, and called for some ale, uttering
the most dreadful imprecations till the liquor was
brought, which he instantly drUnk, and z,..11 dead
on the floor I—A dreadrul example of Divine
vengeance, iu:d the di:=tr'..l e.rfeOts of an. unbriddLd
pals; or,

OLD B41“Y.

FIFTH DAY.--:MONDAY, SEPT. 20.'

William Herbert, eyiaLls, Samuel Beack,
Francis Ryley, Charles Smith, 3-ohn Roberts, Ed-
ward Griffiths, Elizabeth Lane, and Elizabeth
E?y, were indiCted fcr a burglary, In breaking and
entering the dwelling-house of George Skillicorn,
in the night of the zoth of July last, and stealing
therein two wooden boxes called tills; containing
penny-pieces, half-pence, and:farthings of the value
- of ,gas. and upwards, a nutmeg-grater, and a medal
resembling a farthing, the property of the said Geo.
Skillicorn.
;-The Prosecutor swore that he keeps a Public-
isOnse in Little Queenstreet, Holborn, and on
the night of the 19:h of July, he fastened up his
house, cellar, bar, &c. about eleven o'clock, and
was alarmed, before three, by a report of his house
having been broken open ; which he found to be
so, the cellar door having been forced, and the sash
of the bar door thrown up. He did not miss any
thing out of the cellar, but two drawers which were
his tills, were taken away; they contained pence,
half-pence, and farthings ; it was not -quite light
when he was called up. When he cattle• to the door
of his house, a Watch Man came up to him, _and in
consequence of what that Watchman said, to him, he
went with -the watchman down Parker's.lane
through Cross-lane, to Lewkner's-lane.t:-At first
only two Watchmen' went with him, but others
came afterwardi to assist them, and, theyeentered
a dwelling-house where the Watchman -s-uspeCted the
. Prisoners to he. They rushed into the parlour and
saw' all the Prisoners except Elizabeth Lase. , Eli-
zabeth Ely was in bed and undrest,there was but
one bed in the room. One of the men was upon
the bed, but he was dressed. . The Prisoner Gail-,
flubs was leaning against the window—Reynolds
was at the table counting money ; the penny-pieces
lay before him
.all in rows. Smith attempted
.to make his escape up the chimney, and as
.he
went up, half-pence tumbled down along with
the soot. As to Elizabeth Lane, she came in the
morning. to the watch-house, and desired that her
charatler might be cleared of suspicion in this busi-
ness, and that was the way she came to be com-
mitted.
Bryan Dowling, a Watchman, said, he Was the
person who spoke to the Prosecutor. Before the
Prosecutor spoke to him, he had made some observa-
tions, about twelve at night, on seeingthe Prisoner
Ryley going towards the corner where the Public_
house was:: After twelve o'clock he heard the
voice,of a woman, who he believed to be Elizabeth
Lanes whom he had known many years, say, "d--n
your eyes, Jack, this is the time to make your
ground, for the watchman, is out of the way ;" at
the same time he saw Reynolds cross over the way,
towards the Prosecutoe',s lactase, upon which the
Witness sprung his rattle. Saw him going into the
passage in Goldsmith's Alley, in Lewkner's Lane,
but he did - not see the woman. He went to look
for Reynolds, and Reynolds came back to him, and
he took him, and brought him to the watch-house.
He had shoes on, but he wore them as slippers.—
He could not get them on, for they did not fit him.
The Witness having told the Constable his reason
for apprehending this man-s.-the Constable having
searched him, and found no money on him, he let
him go. As they were coming away. from the
watch-house; Reynolds said to the Witness, I be-
lieve you are an honest watchman, and .I will give
you a shilling to-morrow. - The Witness said,
he wanted no treatment.' He afterwards met
the Bow Street Officers, who brotight the drawers
to the watch-house, and then came bade again,
when they met the Prosecutor : the Bow-street
Qfficer said to the prosecutor, " if you know
of any body who has. been robbed, the drawers
,are
at 'the watch-house :" which she . Prosecutor
toldlim he had been robbed.. Then, the Witness
and/be other watchmen went,to take the Prisoners.
They work to a house _in Lewkner's Lane : when
they came up to the door, Ryley. spOke to the
others and said, " here is Dowling.".—He was _
• therein . the passage; he
.ran back direetly, and
hiVkirnself: he was afterwards found covered with
Vtlstw under the stairs. The Witness ran imme-
diately to the dOor, and there he found, the Prisoner,
Sanluel Beach.—As soon as the doOr had been
broken open, Beach jumped on the bed, and threw
the money, where the remainder of it was.--The
Prisoner, Charles Smith, went up the chimney, and
was afterwards got down.—The Prisoner Grif
fulls was standing between, the window and. the
table—Reynolds was standing opposite to the, fire-
place, and the Witness said to him, " Reynolds, if
you attempt to stir, I will lose my life but I will
take you, for I know you to be a thief." • Ro-
berts was also standing there ; ands -site woman
u' dressed was in bed:. She, was Eli7atheth Ely.—
The Prisoner Herbert was lying
ndiiwo bet Ween
the window and the table. Herbert said, " Be-
fore you take me away, there is a shilling of mine
between the bed-cloaths, for it does.not belong to the
property." The 'Witness went to look for the
Shilling, and it was found. Smith having-got up
the chimney, and 'the halfpence tumbling down,
the Witness told_ some of the Watchmen to go to
the top of the house and throw the chimney down
upon him and smother him if he did not come down
-7--but he . continued going up, and-the halfpence
were tumbling- down e but- on being told that a
fire would be kindled in the chimney if he would
not come down ; he came down, and taking out of
his pocket nine pennyworth of, half-pence, said,
4' that is all I have got—you cannot hang or trans-
port me for that." 'The Prisoners were then all
taken away. Reynolds pulled sip his fop-coat and
threw it on the chair, and said; " Dowling, you
have-found' no money on- me." In this coat there
Was• about five shillings -worth of halfpence, that he
would swear to; bin he would dare to say there was
nine shillings worth. The nutmeg-grater Reynolds
drops out of his- hand : the Witness saw him drop
it. The Witness took all-the copper that hofound,
and carried it to the watch-house. As to the Prisoner
Roberts, he only saw.him,standing in the room.
Several other Witnesses were examined; who •
it:Corroborated the former ,Evidence, and added, that •