The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-15 00:00:00

.guilty of felony, and suffer death without benefit of
clergy, procceds,to state follows
That, on the -.toth day of oAoberlast, Thom,.,
Ylather, 'grjw.er, in the parish of Saint Nicholas, in
the town of. Ness-eatie-upon-Tyne, and county of
Northumberland; having wrote and addressed, or
caused to be written. and addressed, 'letter :a
Misses °E.• M. *lnd A. Lowes, milliners,: Leith'
street-, Edinburgh, he inclosed,-or caused :to be in_
closed therein; four Bank Notes, or -Bankir'sNotes,
two of which were' for ,five ,pounds each; and. the
Other two for ten pounds each, issued by the Bank-
ing Company in Edinburgh; commonly known by
the name of the. British Linen CoMpany, and signed
respeftively by, Ebenezer Qiiehrl'ss, and Walter Hogg
Manager?, or at least two of the Manager, of that
Company, and by David.Hoga4h and George. Kin.
loch, Clerks to the said Company ; and, the said
letter or packet- having been addressed to the said
:Misses E. M. and A. Lowes, was sealed and put
into the Post-Office at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, upon
.the said Toth of OZtober, and received at the Ge-
neral Post-Office, Edinburgh, in the course of post
and tie aforesaid- letter or packet, addreSseid as
aforesaid, and containing the said- four Bank. or
.Bankers' Notes, was delivered to or taken from the
said Post-Office, by ;he said AndreTLawrie, letter-
carrier, emplciyed therein, 'in order. to Ise carried
and delivered bEehim to, he said: MisSeS E. and M,'
-A.', Lowes ; but, in' place of dOing so, -the said An-
drew. Lawrie did, at Edinburgh or Leith, or else-
where Jo. the Public Prosecutor unknown, upon the
zoth day. of. the said month of OClOber, 'Sot,
theftuoosly and feloniously steal and -abSeraCt the
said packet, addressed as- aforesaid, together with.
the foresaid Bank or Bankers' Notes, therein cOn_.
tamed, and after having taken' out the Bank or
Bankers' Notes, did feloniously secret or destroy -
the letter, packet, 'or cover Wherein they were con-
tained ; one of 'which Notes for 51, sterling- the. said
?Andrew Lawrie did, on the z Ist of OCtuber;„
ex-
change and receive value for frOn(ArchiLald'HUMe,
'one of the Clerks in the' General Post-Office of
tdinbUrgh, in :whose possession `the said Rank or
Bankers' Note, stolen by hirn as aforesaid; • was.
soon thereafter traced out and dicovered.' AS also,-
the Said Andrew Lawrie did, upon the zbtlf-dayaof
the said month of OCtobet, steal 'atid irbstraft from
the foresaid packer, one of the" said.-: Mites therein
contained for Tot. sterling,, and' the said Andrew
LaWrie did, 'upon the zzd day-of the said month of
OClober, excl ange and receive value therefor front
iAlexander Wise, grocer in Edinburgh, in whose
2possession the said _Mite, stolen by 'him, was soon
thereafter traced out and discOvered. And the said
Andre-w Lawrie,,conscions of guilt in the premises,
.did-lbscOnd and endeavour to escape from justice;
but was thereafter apprehended, &c. .
The libel being read, the Prisoner pleaded Not
artiki,, and the Trial proceeded. _
•
It-appeared from the evidence, that the :WM.-ice
Lowes, in themonth.of October ,last, wrote Mr.
'Thomas Mather, grocer in N-2wcastle-upon-Tyne;
for a remittance, and he in return assured them it
would be.sent in a few days; .that accordingly, upon
the loth dad' of October, Mr. Mather, in presence
of Mr. Told; his clerk, inclosed. two ten pound,
and
,two five pound. notes, of the British Linen
Company, in a Letter addressed to E. and M. A.
Lowes, the numbers of which notes were ingrossed
in a bpok kept fair that 'purpose,. and the words'
Moue) Letter marked on the back. The Let_ter
also tnatked as a Money Letter at BerWick,and was
received in' Edinburgh in duecour-se—
On'the zoth of OCtober„ the Letter VMS delivered
to the Prisoner to be carried agreeable to. 'the ad-
dress, andhe subscribed a book kept in the office,
entitled Money-book, in which the direction was
ingrossed, as- an acknowledgment of his having
received it. Two days 'after this, the Pannel,,
being in arrear two pounds five shillings to
Flume, one Of the Clerks of the' Office, gave him.
a Note, which he said was a' five poUnd one, de.
siring him to dedua his arrears, and give him the,
balance, which he accordingly did'; but in, a short
time Mr. Hume discovered the Note he had re-
ceived from Lawrie was for ten; -instead of Ave
pounds. The Prisoner-Was immediately called and
infortned of the error, which said was owing
to some mistake of die- person from whom _he
received .it, which he would immediately
'
tify. He accordingly _went out, and returned in a
short ;time with a note for five pounds. Thii
creating some Suspicion, Mr. Hume laid the, note
aside, and it was soon after found to be oneof those
stolen from the letter addressed to Misses Lowes.—
The prisoner also changed a ten pound note
with Mr, Alexander Wise; grocer, • Nesti Town,
which was also found to hive been abstraaed from.
the above letter. The'SolicitorOf the Office, :Mr.
-Beveridge, soon after the. Pannel
,was apprehendede
went to Newcastle for the purpOse of completing the
investigations, and , lotiodithat 'the-numbers of the
Notes inserted in Matheri books-exaaly corres-
ponded With th4e in his posseSsiOn.-
The Prisoner in his deelaratiOns said, he gave the
letter to Misses Lowes servant Maid: The reason
for his abSconding was, his having contraCied 'some
debt which he was not able 7 to discharge ; and his
intention of going to Liverpool was to cOM4nence
'gingerbread-baker.
.inure Witnesses were,examined in exculpation ;
bu:tjhei'r evidence went principally to the Pannel'S
good charaCter.
/ The evidence was summed up 'for. the Crown by
the Lord Advocate; and fat the Pannel by H. P.,
'Brougham., Esc.s-Lord Justice_ Clerk afterwarOs
,addressed the Jury; who were inclosed about. eight
and. yesterday at one, returned aVerdia,
finding, ,by a plurality of voiees,' the Pannel
He vas sentenced tribe h::oged.itt the.counnon ph7ce
of execution, on. Wednesday 4he loth of Februar
next.. •, . .

Some ruffians- in White Cross-street, about four
days singe, stripped the house of a poor Miik-wo-
tnan of all. the furniture, and to add to their vii-
lany, an infant was rolled up in a feather-bed, and
c3rried ofr.—The-poor mother is in a state of dis_
traetion. .