The Sun.
London, England, 1805-12-07 00:00:00

LD 13,41LLY.

SECOND DA T.--DEC. G.

7Tho Prisoners .._ one 117,n; Gloss, the father.nf tiie
other, a shoemaker,. aged 43, mid the other
Smith Giws, a lad about 1.5 years of age, his con,
• were indi6ted capitally, fer having privately stolen a
box, containing several shirts, stockings,--handker-.
chiefs; value 4os. the.property of John Riggs,
a master shoe-inahcr, in the neighbourhood of Shore-
ditch, who
.was iOrinerly the'hoy s master, and sever id
other articles, the prbperty of- Mr. -Rims, sett: and
Ann Eastes, his servant-Maid, on the '2 t h of No-
vember last, 'at eight'o'cloCk in the evening. The
greater part of the property was traced.to the shops
i
of different Pawnbrokers n the neighbourhood,
where they had lieen.pledged or offered. to be put in
pledge by a boy very like the Prisoner, within an hour
after the things.wereMissed. 'At one of the shops
the Prosecutor cameinat 'the very mOment when the.
Pawnbroker was holding up. a-shirt to the light for.
the purpese of examining- it--a boy ran out, but he
could not sweat that he was the person. Another
ptl..son pursued and t(i6k the boy, who-proved to be
the younger of the two PriSoners. Two Men and
two women laid 'hold of the person, and the boy
escaped for, the moment, but Was afterwards takent
and his person Was sworn to be the same. Almost
all the remaining part of the property was- found .in
a bundle in the elder Prisoner's 'hand : he said it
was his oWn property. His defence also stated,
that his son told him that he found the property. in-
' Whitechapel-road,--that he had interrogated the lad-
very particularly ;about the manner in which he
came by thein, and the youth persisting itc hiS
story,,he considered the property as-his own.
The Landlord dale- hbuse Where the father ?edged,
and another person, gave him'an excellent-tharatier,
The July deliberated about tire minutes, and. re-
turned the father Mt Guilty—the 6n guilty of
stealing only to the amount of 30. -'
.13AnoN'.• GIiARADJ, hoWever, cautioned the
elder Prisoner to beware of the conseittence.s of .ltis
being brought into that Court again under
charge of a criminal nature. . • -
siosep4S,a,qtrtood, who stated himself to have been
a Lieutenant in' the Navy, was tried on a charge of
stealing three silver tea-spoons, and one silver table-
spoon, the limp:city- of Mr. John Witfin, a Mid-
shi [nen .

The circumstances of the case have been already
described in the report of the Prisoner's pnblip ex-
amination before the 'Magistrates oti Police, bite
whom he was 33 first. taken.. The case on the.

part of the prosecution ,this day rested. entirely. on
the evidence of the young Ge.ntieman who. had, lost;
'the property. He described the Iriendship that he .
had conceived for the Prisoner at their firstibter-

view, on account of hit supposing hitt-110'1v a bro-
ther Officer the ditnrent invitations which. he had
given the Prisoner to dinner and breakfast with li!zn ;
the Prisoner's having in returninvitcd hhu to go' and
spend the day.
,With him on board his ship, and then
leaving him in an abrupt manner, .after,wWch time
the spoons Were missed, but which he had promised
to lend him preriousiy ; • And lastly what passed be-
tween both, on their accidentally meeting together
in the street, were all described in the artless, blunt,
and candid Malmo' peculiar to the
,naval. chamaer,
which in more than one instance excited the laugh-
ter of the people. present; pnrticularly one pair, in
which he. said, that Warned his own credulity,
after the stranger had :made Lis escape witirthe
spoons..:

• "The Prisoner insisted on it that be had been a Na-
Val Officer, and that he was in expe&ation of another
:appo'intnient. • He said that he ,had done 301110 itOs
of kindness for, the Prosecutor, and denied any ~knowl-
edge ,of ihefa6t with which he 'was now charged:
.1.116 Jws Without hesitation, pronounced the
Prisonier,=Guilid.
Y nityved im Arrest -of Judgment in :the
case of While Ahd Richardson, who were convicted on
Wedtic:•klay last of cutting and maiming,,under „Lord
gllenborough'.;. AZt, He quoted several cases,., in
'which it was dei:ided under other laws, that theindia-
meat must contain 'an averment of some fa& as the.
gronnd upon which the prosectitionTested, before any
conviction could legally take place; • the indictmen t did
not aver that the. Prosecutor was in the a& of appre-
hending, either of the. Prisoners, though. in point.
of fa& it might be so ; and, on account at- this defi-
Ciency, he submitted that the indiainent was not
maintainable at His second obje&ion Was to
the case of it ichard%on ()nip 'Theincliatinent charged ,
him, With the joint, commission of the crime, though
he Was not present at the time. The a& of cutting
the watchman by the hand of White was not proved •
to have been done in ihrtherance of . their original
and joint intention, but was incidentally consequen-
tial, and most probably originated in the iniud of
that man At the Moment. . •
Baron Qamtaat. and Judge Gaost both resisted
the application on the first ground; on, the second a
Case was reserved tbr the Opinion of the Judge

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Dec. 6.