The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-17 00:00:00

OLD 11,411,FY.

FIFTH DAY-MONDAY, JAN. 16;
James Hughes wai indiaed_ for stealing a quart
pewter po,, thr property of Joseph Kiddy, a publi-
can, in King.szreet, Druty.lane; and Mary Haus.
ton was indieted for receiving that pewter pot,
knoWir.g it to have been stolen.
The evidence was quite clear against both the
Prisoners. Hughes went into the public-house, had
a pot of beer, and took away the pot. The Pri-
soner, Mary Houston, bought it of him Cur six-

pence.
:bey were both fcund Guilty—for which the
'Thief he transported for seven years, and the
Receiver for fourteen.-
When the Officers who apprehended and the per_
sons who gave evidence against the Prisoners,• ap-
plied t:•r their expences, the RECORDER said, they
should certainly have their- expences. The Public
were greatly indebted to !hose who brought such
offenders to justice, for the depredations they com-
mitted in this manner were must enormous ; scarcely
credible to those who did not really. know of their
extent.

James Latham was charged, with feloniously
stealing, on the 6th day of I r lbs. weight
of beet, the property of Eleazor Chaplin.
The Prosecutor, it appears, . keeps a butcher's-
shop in one of the streets branching from Hatton.
garden : on the day abovementioned, one of the"
Witnesses, a baker, an npposite neighbour of the
Prosecutor's, saw the Prisoner take the piece of
bed a:+ ay in his left hand, put it under his coat,
and walk cif with it :—he ran and told the Prosecu.
tor of it, in consequence.of Which the Prisoner was
pursued—before they came up with him he threw
the beet upon a heap of stones.
The latter part of the Baker's testimony was
corroborated by another of the witnesses, a Music
Master, who saw the Prisoner throw away the
piece of beef.
The Prisoner, in his defence, denied the charge-
itr toto.. He knew nothing of the Prosecutor or his
beef: he was walking leisuriely near the bottom of
Hattnn_garden, when one or two of the Witnesses
caught boidrof and made the charge against him.
No Witw:sses appeared in his behalf. The Jury
had no hesitazitm in finding him-Guilty.

Moses Joseph, one of the Hebrew persuasion, was
charged with feloniously stealing,. on the 29* of
December, a pocket book, containing two.2l.l3tank
of England notes, half_a-guinea, and a Spanish Pro-
te6tion, the goods anti monies of Josef Keting.
The Prosecutor, a Spanish Mariner, stated,lhat
last Thursday fortnight, he was robbed of his pocket-
book, containing the money, &c. above-mentioned.
Ir was.?t the Ship and Horse-shoe, public-house, it,
East Smithfield a party, of which the Prosecutor
made one, had. been dancing for some time before
the affair took place—the 'Prisoner was among the
seven and eight o'clock he went

to the'bar, followed; in some way
or other got round him, and took his pocket-book
out of the pocket of his jacket, and ran off with. it—
in some timeafter, however, he (the, Prisoner) came
in again, when a friend of his who saw him take out
his pocket-book, told him he was the man who rob_7
bed him. He instantly charged the Prisoner with
having taken his property : to which he replied it
was no such thing. He desired him to stop. tilhhe
had sent for an Officer, and he:should Jet him know
how it was : the Prisoner, however, did not com-
ply with this requisition ;, on hearing• the idea of
an Officer started, he ran out through the back yard
and got over a wall. The Prosecutor saw nothing
of him until the next evening when he was in ctt-
tody. Fie never recovered his property after.
On being cross.examined by the Prisoner's Coun-
sel, he denied his being in the least afilaed by
liquor that night.: he and two others had a pot of
brandy-hot, between them, and of this one of .the
female dancers had a glass ; he saw Iris pocket_
book just belle he was robbed, having taken it out
in order to pay the man who played the organ, a

Lawrence Crowe, a ship-mate of the Prosecutor's,
corrob,trated his account of the transaftion, and
added expressly, that he saw the Prisoner take the
pocket.book out of. the Prosecutor's pocket, and
run away with it. When he returned, he instant-
ly apprized the Prosecutor of the circumstance, and
on his making the charge, and threatening to send
for a constable, the Prisoner, he said, bolted
.out of
the house like a shot, and got over the back wall
in an instant. The Prisoner, he oLberved, saw the
:Prosecutor take out his pocket-book to pay for the
organ, a few minutes before he deprived him ()lit.
On his cross-examination, the idea that they
were inebriated was not a little urged, the Pri.
sorter's Counsel saying that " sailors were never. 51)
happy as when they were half seas over," to which
the reply was, ". they are just in their glory then."
In his defence the Prisoner said, he knew nothing
of the rcket.book, and asserted that the Prosecu-
tor charged a girl and another person who were in
the room, before he thought of fixing on him as the
depredator, iota that they were all searched Without.
effect.

These Allegations were solemnly denied by the
Prosecutor and Crowe, Two Witnesses of the Pri.:
soner's fraternity appeared to his CharaCter,
Mr. C. mmon Serk.ant .KNoWLys• who tried the
case, delivered a very peispicuous charge
.to. the
jury on the occasion. He adverted to seine points
lo the Evidence which tended to induce a suspicion
of the Prisoner's guilt.

The jury after a very short conference manifested
their coincidence with Mr. Common Serjeant's
opinion by findirg a verdift,of G

jam Brewster and -John' Prtpum were charged
with the capital offence of highway robbery; in
;.eloninusly aisauiting Thomas Barry on :the King's
r,ighway, putting him io.fear,- an tir taking from his
person a silver watch, his property.
The parties in this' case were all Hibeinians, and
merits may be colle6ted from the fo!lowing sketch:

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