The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-08 00:00:00

I:`ORG

William E:vans, a youth of tB, cvai.eapitailk.
dieted for forging and etiunterfeiting, and ft.l mioutt...
ly uttering,
,a certain araft for 109. pUrporting
to he the I.l6ft:of 13.)mh, Poblon, and Keyrntr,
signed Keyme.r, for Sett. ;111,1 q'yrnpany, \Ar.ire;
housetnen,,,. 4t;.4.441:1y-streer, upon Wirws.
Lueadon, and Co, Winkerti, in favour of M. Gechan,
or neater; on demand.

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Mr. CousT
,stated the case,as 'follows :—Tha.
on the 29th of Novetpliet, tbe Pri,oner being op•
posite the Banking-house, No. 77, Lomikard.stteez,
employed
,a boy, named 1-14yrnes, "to go into. the.
Banking-house and, tender for paythent.. the drafi
above described. The biy accordingly wont in
and on shewing the dfalt, was desired to send in the
person who gave it to him. The boy went outi
and was immediately followed by .two of the Clerks;
who seeing. him talk to tit; Prisoner, followed himo
whoitist.intly ran off, but was overtaken in Pope'.
Head-alley, and brought back to the Banking-
house, where be was iurerrogated by Mr. litscail,io,
to whoth he would at first..give n6'ianswer r but
as he was about to be sent away with a Con.iabk,
said he had wrote the draft, but it was only in
joke.
These circumstances were proved in evidence.
Mr, Titus Keymer, whOse draft it was afled:,,ei)
to be, and in whose employment the Pawner h ,L 1
lived some time,. proved that the hand-writing
was ,not his.

The Prisoner alledged in his dr fenceoitat h !,13
found the draft, and only htot the boy to hivire
if it wab a good one.
Mr. T. M ttgatt, a warehouseman in Lawrence.
lane, with whom tile Ptiolter last lived, saint, rbt-
young man did nut want money, ntt he tnig44, hAvti
had, from bite, any sa.n hr huuld,, in r..1a):1,
required of him. He also gar,: him a most excellent
charaaef, from a lcnoTlea;r: tlf two years ;"
charafter was cOrrolioratck fiver other CC"1.1111)!
witnesses.
1 he .Pry, after romvinga v9.ry solemn
viepdoi.harge from c,itp ER, iejirit,i tit
al?dut 'three quarters of hcor, and returned
verdiEt of—aot.Guiltv.

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'Very loud applause was .expreY;ed, Cour!,
which w4s-4 very crot(l4(, When the vcrdki w
given.
• if/i/lig T. Kill was i for:s testing t peck
of flour, value Bs. the property of Nliitont
hi:: 'mister. •, , -
The Prisnrer hid been entrotred by hip roaster
twopecits. of fliur to
.he ciorried to a Dr.;
drinhy!s, which • the Ilidor" it sterns hid never
received. 'Tice Prisoner about the game tithe: had
sold son?e" flout to ono Avnold, which h3*(l beeri
seized anciv.l prc,*duced in Court. The rintielu.
tOr,,-howeier,noi being Ale to vve.tr that the fl )tti
was -the slim& thitt httlelivered to,Kill, though
apprare4 to. 114nTur itie7.san?e klod, Prisoner was
acquitted': '
frilliaor Martin tV3% inclined on suspicion of steal..
i number, of pieces of Indian eilicuts,
perty of -Jotin'Twiss and others;' •

On evidence 'it appeared, that a bde of opwatili
of two hundred weight, -containing 6s pieces of'd
kind of calicoes called Niconees,' had- been lent
by Brown and Co. by the Livertioolgwaggim, ad;
dressed.'to the Custom flottsr.- The 'Waggon
robbed of this parcel on the night of the .sth or 614
November last, and
,on the !it'll the .Priioner,•.wai
stopped in a street in 'town, with the bale on Mt
tibuld r . •

The Prisoner stated in his Licnci,, that he had
been at his work, and as he was returning in the
evening had been asked to carry the par&l by twct
Gentlemen, from a house not far from the place
where he had' been stopped. -As theProsienfort4
however, could. not swear to the identity of the
'goods, the Prisoner -was.disinissed without farther
inquiry. A King's 00,:cr wds by to seize
goods its prohibited arttetes.
E.h.r.vbetb Spencer, alias 'Elizabeth EtiatreNtovits
indided for stealing: four, table cloths, the property
of George Diggles, Half Mxin.street, Piccadilly«
The Prosecutor, 'svho stared himself to be an At.
torney, and the Prisoner to have been his servant,
on missing the said articles, kid applied to a Mrs«
Ball, who is an arplailitanCe of the Prisoner, and
from •her learned where the table cloth had been
pawned.: •
Mrs. Ball stated, that she had received the table
cloths at different tirriesfram the Prisoner, and had
pledged them no her account, -to redeem e.me
eles that had been taken from the lodgings she had
occupied before going to Mr; Diggles. The Pri.
saner, she'said, used to'be in better circurnataneesi
nod wsa forMerly kept by a Military Gentleman now
in Trinidad. It appeared in farther evidence, how
ever, that the-Prisoner had lived-with'the Proseett.,
for as A friend, that Mr., 13, had pawned the articles
for- her own use, and th;-:t the Prisonerhad nOthing
to redeem belotting to her former lodgings.—Not
f'Griilry.

At a late hour on the. evening of the 25th, or
very_early on the ni,:rning of the 26th nit. dirt
house of Mr. Wa!lnsley Todri, of fi,:voly ft very
kfirtn old rn,n4,.Was (..ntcrrd lay s ntre ;yetwn or per.
sons, who, aftvr breAting of Iffy icruitoite
in the sittin4.,rovn, .n•ltront a privirt, drawer in
which I,ver6 depoitted hi; va:u piperl„' took
a%Vayleomeitraniccrs of v,Ack., or goverowent Atcu.
ririe4 ,to -n amenot, wilt! !deb they
got off untiiienvred." The r6bherb hat; got entrance
at the back pin o‘es its wrtich they had
access by some t.:-.ntly taken down,
and with a ladder 'way. through a
dark window nn the itcwai „„„,viris.
the virks and inirtar, af,,l had retired by the street
door., It wag ober wed in the.ttaaning, that they
had been in every rroin unf,ecupiel'; the h,;);,:•fi
i'vere examined, dc..k.hroke open, and a gtoat
papers's! retved upon the but; atthang:it which wet
two or three g1.41;t0 !WWI tley had nut discovered.

C'..)RONF,k's INQUEST.

Tate robbery of Mr. SHAW, of Bridge-street,
Blickfriars, most still be remembered, and that a
late servant of iris is now in custody on suspicion
of committing it. On Saturday last an old wo.
man, about 6o years of age, conk to the above
Gentleman, cut her throat in so dreadfol a manner,
that she die.l on Thursday in, St. Bartholomew's
Hospital. Last night Mr. SICELTON, the Coroner
for the City of London, held an italuest on the
body, when time following curious ctrcumstances
transpired :—The lit use.maid of Mr. Shaw de.
posed, that on, Saturday morning last the Cook
went up stairs from the kitchen to her own room,
as she ainspotted for the purpose of getting her book
ready for the inepettion of her Master ; when on
going to call her to breakfast, she saw from the
chamber door the marks of blood, and heard the old
woman gtoating. She was so alarmed at this cir.
cumstance that she slid not enter the tonna, but gave
immediate notice of it to Mr.Slaaw ; who, with two
of his Clerks went up stairs, where they found the
deceased laying with her head on the bed, and her
wounded in such a manner as to disable her
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"-74, ••, —ea mg. She, however, made signs for pen,
td paper, and wrote aa nearly as possible the
'.ring words " Sir, William, groom ; Wil-
Tiatii;laorman ; John, Wife, and Mother, robbed
you." She afterwo'rds, but
,ineffeetually, endea.
voured to convey some further Anformation.—
She, however, took (ruin her rtidiet'a paper co.
vered. with blood, .and containing the following
worth ;---" John the groom, Ann, and William, is
going to swear my life away ; give my property to
Pheheaa4 am not in fault;" OK her being re.
moved to the hospital, Mr. Shaw saw. her There,
and asked her several qttestions respetiing the
robbery ; how she supposed it had been effected;
and ho she thought were the offenders ; but did not
at first call to her recollettion, or shew her the two
papers bhp had written. To Ilia questions she
wrote answers; most of which wily went to set
forth her own innocence, and to request he would
seaqi a Clergyman to pray by her. To one of
his goto‘tions respelling the robbery, she wrote
the following answer Who was concerned with
John, I would not go to say you have found your
money in his. house ; how could he get it I he gut
in below, depend on it.—l am U ihnotent as your.
self." A few hours before her death Mr. Shaw
again called on her, and laid before her the first
paper she had written after she cut her ihrobt, in
which she accuses tour people with being coneethed
in the robbery ; when she wrote the following an.
saver ;--s, Sir, I did not mean that.;4 must be mis.
taken." • In most of her writings she prays most
fetvently for her Master ;° declares her own inno.
cence, anti requests her property may be given to
Phebe, The Jury conceiving, from the paper in
which she says " they are going to swear away my
life," that her fears had afreiled her senses, re.
turned a verditt of Unary,.
Mr. Shaw said she was as good a servant, as ever
came into a Gentleman's service, for punnualify
and enrreaness in her accounts ; but of a very bad
temper, and was always at variance with every
art vantain the house.

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