The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-11 00:00:00

OLD BAIL EY .

• FIFTH DAY.---..7it MAY, nsc. to, •
Thomas Williams was capitally intlit3ed fisr bur.
glariously breaking and eliciting the dwelling.hnuse
of Thomas Rhodes, and stealing several habit shirts
and other articles of wearing; appirel, -.valued at
41. the property of the said Thcinii Rhodes and
others.
The Prisoner, who is a gardener, by prdosion,
and has a wife with four or five children, sold to a
Mrs. ,Macdonald certain "articles• of linen for two
guineas, on the gth of November last, • pretending
that his wife and childicn had got them in a .pre.
sent, and had not use for them. Part of these orm.
tides this Lady te.sold to a Jew, in whose possession
they were discovered, and by that means traced to
the Prisimer. Tie wash-house tif.Mr.. Rhodes, in
the Parish of St. Pancras, had been broken open a
few nights-before thii, and robhed'of the articles
,stated in the Indiflment. The Prisoner's houie, in
/onsequenct of the discovery, was searched, when
the olher articles of Rhodes's. were found in. his pos.
session. The identity of the clothes was proved
by several witnesses ; bat no witness appeared to
'prove that the wash.hoose was violently broken
hpsat, or !hat it had been properly secured !he:pre.;
,
ceding evening.•
• .
Soteral witnesses appeared in favour rif the
seller's eharodterr and particularly a Mr. Hill,
,from
whom he rents- the garden be now occupies.---,
'The Jury found him guilty of stealing above forty

ame, lanes ,Was inditied for feloniously,
fully, and maliciously stabbing and cutting Jere.
mialt Regani witlt intent of doing him some
harm, Ste. and :Ifaruiv for aiding and
abetting the saine:• • .
The cutting and stalabing. were proved; but there
appeared grat difficulty in determining who Was
the aggressor, and,t4rse was. no proof of the intent,
&c. The Prisoners were therefore acquitted ; but
detained for the assault. Harkey, on application
to the Court, was admitted to bail. .
•Lcui;nitors was indieted at. the instance. of
Thotnns,Oriel and others, on suspicion.ol. stealing
irrnm ate dwelling.house.of the said Thomas Odel
ilrenehlime piece, a golci.watch, and other articks'
Of the volue'nf 405. and Upwards.

Mi. Oriel is a taylor, No. rB, Polsodatrcet, and
had his house broken open on the morning of the
1.4.11 i July last, and the said articles atolen.,. On the
corning of the 13t1 of November last, an Officer
belonging to (-Litton Garden, went torthe house of
the Filson-et, who is a broker, in die neighbourbo'od
of Scke, and found the clock and some of the arti.
ales that were missing, in the closet of the first
floor of the Prisoner's house, which the Prisoner and
his wife said had been left by a lodger. This de.
fence, in all probability, would have availed, the
Prisoner 'but little without some 'farther evidence.
"'doily, however, he succeeded in establishing a
complete alibi, as he was at some distance from
town, in company with some other. Gentlemen in
the way of bminess, when the robbery was cont.
mitred. He was of course acquitted ; but stimo.
rushed by the Judge ,to be cautious how he purchased
suspicious articles.
Robert Gillet,: was intlitted for bigamy. The first
marriage was proved, by Mrs. Jane Thomson, to
have taken place in the year 1799, at St. Ann's,
Solio, as also that his first wile,Aon Smith, was still
alive. The first marriage being established, the
second wife was admissable as a Witness, -and. ac.
curdiogly appeared, but had scarcely presented her.
self when she fainted, and war. seized With iht.tnost
violent col.l6lsions. Every means.. were tried to
restore her, bur without area. They therefore
carried her out of Court, and in half an hour after.
wards retorned,witli,her, but again she was obliged
to he'cAilicil away. Being brought in again, how.
ever, and sup-fumed by some of the Officers, she said
that she had been, married to the Prisdner, in iScst,
ondcr the name of James (-Alan., In the tits! in4r.
riage he had been desi,greittd James Robert C.ilan.
jr was farther Stated, thp he had been separated
from his fitst wife before his second marriage,and that
the second wife knew of this circumstance previous.
ly to her toarriage; that :she had happily with
'him for, three years, and would still be happy to
continue to do so,--Guily.,

A boy of six years of age,' son of Mr. Bailey,
tiraper, of Poole, was burnt last week, whilst
.Irit
by the servantin the nursery, so that he tiled the
text morning,
ah ivloncidy night 'last, as a man anti woman
were coming our of one of the ship in LeittLhar.
boor, owing to the darkness of the .rtighr, they
stumbled,. and fell between the ship anti the pier.
The man ,was taken our, alive, but the p‘dor..,v/oman
was unfultunately drowned. ;