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London, England, 1851-08-07 00:00:00

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NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Carlisle, Aug. 5.
Mr. Justice Williams opened the commission here
yesterday.
To day their Lordships proceeded to court at ten
o'clock, Mr. Baron Platt sitting on the Criminal Side.
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Skinburness, on the Bth of February last, unlawfully
shot at William Gibson, with intent to do him some
grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Fawcett prosecuted; the prisoner was nude-
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fended.
Is appeared from the evidence of the witnesses that
on the Bth of February last ',here had been a wedding at
Skinburness, and some of the parties had adjourned to a
public-house called Penrice's for the purpose of merry-
making, amongst whom were the prosecutor and pri-
soner. The prisoner left this public-house and went
home about eleven o'clock at night, his house not being
far off, and soon after the prosecutor followed him, ac-
companied by several other persons, singing a song.
When opposite the prisoner's door one witness saw the
prisoner put a gun through a hole in a broken pane of
glass in his window, and heard him cry out, " By G
I will shoot you." The witness said, " Jack, you will
not shoot me," and hastily got past the door. Almost
immediately after he heard a gun go off. The prose-
cutor appeared to have followed immediately after this
witness, and some one from behind the prosecutor threw
a stone at the prisoner's door, immediately after which
the prisoner fired and hit the prosecutor in the thigh.
The prosecutor fell, and was afterwards carried to the
infirmary, where he was confined eleven weeks. Several
shots had penetrated his thigh. The wound, however,
was superficial, and not dangerous.
For the defence the prisoner's daughter was called,
and she stated that a party of men had been throwing
stones at her father's house all the night, and had broken
the windows and door with stones, until she was afraid
of her life. She told her father ellen he came home
what had happened, and ho had no sooner got into the
house than a volley of stones was thrown at the door
after him.

His LORDSHIP, in summing up, directed the jury that
if in their opinion the prisoner had done no more than
was necessary' to protect his house when thus attacked
at midnight, and his daughter frightened for her life, to
find him not guilty.
The jury, after a short consultation, Acquitted the
prisoner.
Hugh Monteith, aged is, and Thomas Tinning, aged
50, were indicted for having assaulted and robbed Ro-
bert Carson, near Carlisle, on the sth of July last.
Mr. Overend and Mr. Hodgson prosecuted; the pri-
soners were undefended.

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sth of last July be went to bathe in the river Eden, near
travelling
Stoneyholme. He had been bathing about five minutes,
and had just come out of the river and begun dressing,
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when a man came up to him with a black mask on his
face, and asked him if he had any money in his pocket.
Prosecutor said that was not his business, when the man
stepped back and pulled out a six-barrelled revolving
pistol, and said, " Give me your purse, or I'll blow your
brains out." Prosecutor not liking the look of the pis-
tol, thought it better to give up his money, and handed
the man 3g., all the money he had, and the man then
demanded and got his watch, and went away. The
man was very like the prisoner Monteith in person, and
was dressed like him. Information was given to the po-
lice, and suspicion fixed on the two prisoners, who were
seen together at the railway station, goinc, to Dumfries,
on the 12th of July. They were followed there, and
the prisoner Tinning was apprehended at a lodging-
house at Maxwell-town, near Damfries, and in
his pockets were found a brace of loaded pis-
tols, three signal whistles, a bullet mould, ten
bullets of different sizes, powder, and caps. On
being searched by the officer, he said, " Are you going
to take my bull-dogs from me?" Afterwards a small
parcel was found in a cradle in the room where he was,
which was found to contain the works of a watch, which
the prosecutor identified as his. The other prisoner was
also apprehended at a lodging-house in Dumfries, where
he was found in bed. On the officer entering his room
he sprang out of bed and endeavoured to get his coat, in
the pockets of which a six-barrelled revolving pistol was
found. each barrel loaded. He said, had ha known it was
the officer he would have put three bullets into him. He
then asked if the officer had got Tinning.
This was the case for the prosecution.

The prisoner Monteith put in a written tlPfence, ac-
knowledging that he, in company with Tinning, had
committed two other highway robberies, but denying par-
ticipation in this particular one.
His LORDSHIP having summed up,
The jury found both the prisoners Guilty.
They were afterwards charged with robbing at mid-
day a chemist and druggist travelling in his gig, about a
mile from Carlisle, on the 11th day of July last, present-
ing a pistol at his head and demanding his money.
To this charge Monteith pleaded Guilty. The other
prisoner was found Guilty.
There were two other similar charges against the pri-
soners, to which they pleaded Guilty.
They were sentenced to be transported for 15 years.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Aug. 6.
(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge, and a
Bench of Magistrates.)
AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF CRlME,—James
Williams, 17, was indicted for having stolen a pair of
silver spectacles, value 215., the property of William
Blackhouse, from the person of Jane, his wife.
Mr. Spicer appeared for the prisoner.
Michael Hayden, the well-known detective officer of
the City police, stated that he left Cremorne Gardens by
the last boat on the night of the 21st of July. The pri-
soner came in the same boat. The prosecutrix quitted
the vessel at Hungerford-pier, when she wasimmediately
followed by the prisoner. Witness, who was close at
hand, saw the prisoner put his right hand into the
lady's pocket, and draw it out again. Witness then
stepped forward and seized his hand, and the contents
fell to the ground, which proved to be a pair of silver
spectacles, upon which he took the prisoner into cus-
tody. On the way to the station-house the prisoner
asked him whether they had not better " square it,"
and added that if ho would call upon the old man he
would give him a pound for himself; as he had not got
him to rights.
Mrs. Blackhouse proved that the spectacles were her
property, and that they were safe in her possession five
minutes before her attention was called to her loss by the
officer.
Mr. SPICER cross-examined: the witnesses, but de-
clined to address the jury fur the prisoner, believing it to
be impossible to struggle against the evidence.
The jury instantly found the prisoner Guilty.
William Combo, police-constable,94 L, then gave the
following history f the prisoner, whom he stated he had
known for a number of years:—ln February, 1841, he
was convicted at the Surrey Sessions, and sentenced to
imprisonment for three months; on the 9th of August,
1843, he was again tried at the Westminster Sessions,
and sentenced to be transported for seven years. (This
sentence was afterwards remitted by the Secretary of
State.) On the Bth of October, in the following year,
he again appeared at the Surrey Sessions, and was sen-
tenced to imprisonment for three months. He appeared
a third time at the Surrey Sessions, on the 6th of No-
vember, 1845, when ho was fortunate in being acquitted
of the charge. Nothing further is traced as to his doings
until the 7th of August, 1848, when he, for the fourth
time, was brought up at the Surrey Sessions, and sen-
tenced to be imprisoned for three months. The next
that is heard of him is at the Central Criminal Court, on
the 11th of June, 1849, when he was convicted and sen-
tenced to be imprisoned for twelve months, but had been
out of prison little more than a month, when he was
again tried at his old quarters at the Surrey Sessions,
for the fifth time, but was again fortunate in obtaining
an acquittal. The next offence, on the 21st of July,
brought him before this Court, but in the intervals that
had elapsed between one imprisonment and another, at
various times he had been frequently summarily con-
victed, and sentenced to terms of imprisonment veiling
from seven to fourteen days.
The Learned JUDGE said that this lad, who was now
only 17 years of age, was eight years ago one of the
boys who was transported for seven years, for the pur-
pose of being sent to Parkhurst, but it appeared that
he did not fall under the " qualifications" required for
admission to that establishment, which were that he
should be 13 years of age, 5 feet 4 inches in height, and that
he should be a great rogue. He was then young in
years and in crime, and the effect was, that instead of
being kept out of harm's way, and put to some useful
employment, he was pardoned by the Secretary of State,
to pursue that career that had brought him to the bar
this day. He should, therefore, under the cireumstenees,
sentence the prisoner to the ongest term in the power
of the Court, and that was, that he be transported for the
term of ten years.
ROBBERY AT M. SOYER'S SYMPOSITER, KENSINGT7c:
William Hayes, 42, was indicted for baying stolen sot,
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cloth and other articles, value 305., the proper*" •al
John Simmonds.
Mr. Hardinge Giffard conducted the prosecution; Mr.
Metcalf defended the prisoner.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner was
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employed as a night watchman on the Premises
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oz
Soyer, the Symposium, Gore House, Remington, the
ploy meat of a watchman being deemcd necessary in conse-
quence of articles of value being leftoanbotuhteainteigr
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had
dined in tents on theground.ofthe
lodgers
coming to
Fri-
day, the Ist of July,one
Soyer's at a late hour, and finding the front gate
open and the watchman not in his box, together with
the fact of a woman being seen ust leaving the premises
with
a bundle, some suspicion fell. upon the prisoner, and
onsearching his residence in Field-street, 14 tumblers
and 14 wisie glasses were found, which were identified as
belonging to the contractor for linen, glass, &c,, at AL