The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-04 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.

These Sessions commenced to-day before the Lord Mayor,
Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Sergeant
Arabin, and Aldermen Kelly and Sir Chapman Marshall.
This Court since the last Sessions has undergone consider-
able alterations, improvements they cannot be called, for of all
the inconvenient places we ever saw, this Court as altered has
the proud pre-eminence. The Counsel are all cribbed toge-
ther in a place where they are unable to move ; the reporters
are placed where they can neither see nor hear, and hardly
breathe ; and the witness-box is placed at such a distance from
Judge and Counsel, as to render it almost impossible
for them to hear a word the witness says. It is true
that the alterations are not yet completed, and consider-
able improvements may yet be made. We hope they may,
for as the Court at
*presents exists it will be impossible to
carry on the business in it.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON, on coming into Court, looked round
for the counsel, and spying them in the crabbed-up place
allotted to them, laughingly observed, " Gentlemen, I thought
I had lost you.—( Laughter.) The place appropriated to you
is most inconvenient, and I think it would be much better if
you were to have a table placed in the middle of the Court."
The Bar thanked his Lordship, and the suggestion was in-
stantly adopted.
James Ashley was indicted for feloniously assaulting Susan
Wilmot, and taking from her person a snuff-box and Is. on
the 27th of July last.

From the statements of the prosecutrix it appeared that she
was going home from a relation's house, at Hammersmith, to
Turnham-green, at three o'clock in the morning, when she met
the prisoner, who promised her a glass of gin if she would go
to a public-house near where they were. As they were pro-
ceeding to the house, the prisoner by force insisted upon having
her money, and forcibly took the property charged in the in-
dictment from her.

A Policeman deposed to taking the prisoner, and finding the
property upon him.
The Prisoner, in his defence, said that he had lost 3s. in the
company of the prosecutrix, who he believed had robbed him,
and he only took the money from her to pay himself.
The Jury found, the prisoner Guilty, but strongly recom-
mended him to mercy.
Mary Smith was indicted for stealing from the person of
Harriet Thorpe 65., her property.
The prosecutor stated that she resided at Edmonton. On
Thursday, the 24th of July, she was looking for lodgings at
Stoke Newington, and asked the prisoner at the bar if she
could tell her where to find one. The prisoner said she would
take her to her lodgings. They went as far as the Weavers'
Arms, when the prisoner knocked her down and took the
money from her. Prosecutor had not strength to resist
the prisoner as she knelt upon her while she committed
the robbery. As soon as she was able she called the police.
Was separated from her husband, and received six shillings a
week from him.

A policeman stated that on the prisoner being searched
only ls. 4d. was fouud upon her, but close to the place where
he took the prisoner he discovered the pocket of the prosecu-
trix thrown over a hedge into the garden. Thought that the
prosecutrix had had something to drink, but was not intoxi-
cated.

The jury acquitted the prisoner.
John Wilkins, aged 22, was indicted with stabbing Eliza
Billing, with intent to do her some grevious bodily harm.,
The prosecutrix not being forthcoming, the trial was or-
dered to stand over till the next Sessions, the prisoner to be
liberated upon finding bail, himself in 40/. and four sureties of
10/. each.

John Henry Stanley and John Clay were indicted for bur-
glary in the dwelling-house of Stephen Warren Devereux,
and stealing therefrom eighteen spoons and several articles of
plate his property.
Stephen Warren Devereux stated that he was a baker in
High-street, Wapping. On the 2d of August, on coming
down in the morning, he discovered that his house had been
broken into, the till burst open, and thirty shillings taken from
it ; his desk had also been forced open, and several pounds
worth of copper coin taken from it. Several silver spoons,
one cream jug, and several articles of plate had also
been taken away. Upon searching discovered that the entry
had been made at the bakehouse window, which had not been
opened for four months ; and the dog, which was always
loose, and a very sharp one, was found tied to a post in the
bakehouse. The prisoner Clay lived in the service of the
prosecutor a month previous to the robbery, as a journeym'tn
baker.

John Mead, the beadle of Enfield, stated that he saw the
prisoners down at Enfield, at the Three Horse.shoes, near
Enfield Chace, playing at bowls on the howling-green there.
They told witness they had just returned from the Cape, and
boasted to witness that their dresses, which were very respect-
able, were made at the Cape, and that the cloth was manu-
factured there. Stanley had only a light drab coat, and
Clay had a very handsome spotted waistcoat. They said
that one was cook and the other was baker at the Cape.
In consequence of information he received on the Tuesday, he
went after the prisoners. Discovered Stanley at the Three
Horse Show, but Clay had gone. Stanley said he had lost
his jacket, which Clay had taken. Witness said if he would
go along with him, he would get it for him. As soon as he
got to the cage, he told him what he wanted. He was con-
fined in the cage all night. No one else was there. On
searching the prisoner, found ten shillings upon him. He
was afterwards sent to the Thames Police. After the pri-
soner miss bak,t, to sue cage,
and on searching the privy belonging to the cage, the follow-
ing morning, he found a waistcoat. The prisoner Stanley,
on being searched, had on a pair of drab trowsers, which
he complained were tight at the band. Discovered
Clay at his grandmother's, quite tipsy. On stating to him
the facts of the robbery, he said he had nothing to do with it.
Took him into custody. Afterwards examined the bed on
which he was lying, and found there a drab jacket, the same
sort as Stanley had on when he saw him on the bowling-green
at Enfield Chace. The witness produced the articles he found
on the prisoner.
An officer, of the name of Watkins, corroborated the state-
ment of the last witness, and produced a silk handkerchief
which he found upon Clay, in which a sovereign was wrapped up.
Ellen Thorogood, a widow residing at Enfield, saw the
prisoner at Enfield on the Sunday they dined at her em-
ployer's, and slept there that night. Gave Watkins a hand-
kerchief, which the prisoner Stanley put on her neck on the
Sunday night.
The prosecutor identified all the articles produced as his
property.
Hancock, the foreman to Mr. Devereux's tailor, proved
that the clothes produced were made for the prosecutor.
The prisoner Stanley said that he was innocent of the rob-
bery, and had bought the clothes of a young man who was in
company with Clay.
Clay denied any knowledge of the robbery.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS summed up, and the Jury found both
prisoners Guilty.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
Charles Wallace and Henry Wallace, two young lads, were
indicted for stealing- two shirts and two handkerchiefs, the
property of James Easter, on the 3d of June last.
The case was fully proved, and the prisoners were found
Guilty.

John Weaver was indicted for stealing a hammer, the pro-
perty of Archibald Layton, on the 14th of July last.
In his defence, the prisoner said that he had formerly been
an apprentice of Mr. Layton's, and that the hammer was his
own property—Not Guilty.
The prisoner was then indicted for stealing a shirt, handker-
chief, waistcoat, shoes, &c., the property of Henry Cowley.
The prosecutor deposed that the prisoner was in his master's
employment on the 20th of June last, and that he missed the
articles in question, which it turned out had been taken away,
and pawned by the prisoner.—Guilty.
Charles William Poulten, a boy about twelve years old, was
indicted for stealing a handkerchief and pair of gloves from
the person of William Simmons, on the 21st of August last.—
Guilty.
The officer said he was one of a regular gang of pickpockets
who frequented Fitzroy-square.
Richard Marsh, aged 16, was indicted for stealing a snuff-
box from the person of James Read, on the 12th of July last,
in King-street, Golden-square.—Guilty.
The officer said the prisoner had been two months in prison
for stealing a handkerchief. The prisoner denied this, and
the Learned Sergeant desired the officer to ascertain the fact by
to-morrow morning, as his going abroad would depend upon
whether this was his first offence or not.

Francis Burton, a genteel-looking young man, was indicted
for embezzling the sums of 781. and 5/. Bs., the property of
Margaret Canham, his mistress.

The prosecutrix deposed that the prisoner was a clerk in
her employment ; she kept a shop in Bernard-street, Oxford-
street, for the sale of De Velnoe's Vegetable Syrup. She
had also ',/me property in houses ' • she paid the prisoner 100/.
a-year for managing her business. The prisoner went to Messrs.
Sutton, Bow Church-yard, who owed her a sum of 51. Bs. for
the vegetable syrup, which sum he never paid, nor entered, as
as he should have done. There was a quarter's rent,
26/. 55., of a house held from her, by Mr. Jervis, of
of Percy-street, Rathbone-place, due at Midsummer, which
was not entered in the book as it should have been. The
prisoner never paid the money to witness.
Cross-examined by Mr. C. PHILLIPS—When witness asked
the prisoner if he had received the quarter's rent from Mr.
Jervis, he said he had, and began to cry, and hoped she
would not be severe upon him. She never promised the pri-
soner a commission upon the syrup he would sell.
George Jones, clerk to Messrs. Sutton of Bow Church-
yard, paid the prisoner the sum of 51. Bs. on the 7th June, on
account of vegetable syrup purchased from Mrs. Canham.
Knew the prisoner to be a clerk of Mrs. Canham's, and got a
receipt from him for the money.
Mr. Jervis deposed that he paid the prisoner 26/. 55.,
quarter's rent of a house held by witness from Mrs. Canham
on the 14th of July last. He got a receipt from the prisoner,
and paid him by a check.
Mr. PHILLIPS contended that the evidence of the witness
did not sustain the indictment, as the payment bad not been
made in money.
Mr. ADOLPHUS, for the prosecution, contended that the
money having been paid upon the check was quite sufficient.
By the CoußT—Was that check returned to you by the
Banker as paid? Witness—lt was.
The receipt was here put in and read.
Mrs. Canham was re-examined, and stated that the receipt
was signed by her; she frequently gave the prisoner blank
receipts ; the prisoner made many excuses relative to Mr.
Jervis's money, saying that he had not the money.
Mr. Clutterbuck, a magistrate of Hereford, deposed that he
called upon Mrs. Canham, at her request, after these discove-
ries had been made ; the prisoner admitted that he had re-