The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-17 00:00:00

one pound notes ; but the Prosecutor's pocket book
wa!,, not lottrAl ttpon him.
In his defence the Prisoner said—" lam entirely
innocent of the charge laid against me. lam a na-
tive of the City - of, Oxford, and have nobody in
town to appear to my character. I know nothing
of the htisiness—and am perfealy innocent of the

charge."
The RECORDER charged the Jury ❑pon the case ;
after which they immedisltely found the -Prisoner—
Gully,.

lane Phillips was charged with a capital offence
in feloninusly stealing a gold inside case of a watch,
the property of Messrs. Tobias, watch-case finishers,
in a dwelling_house.

The principal Witness against the Prisoner was
an apprentice of the Prosecutors', named Isaacs ; he
had been sent with the gold case in question to a
place where it was to he delivered, but in his way he
called at a relation's of his, with whom the Prisoner
lived as servant : lte'had the watch-case in his great
coat pocket ; while he staid he took off his great
coat, and hung it up. He did not miss the article
until he returned to his master's, and for some time
no account whatever was got of the watch-case.
By a circuitous chain of evidence, it appeared that
the Prisoner had given ilk watch-case in question
to a erson to whom she said she had found it, and
by when, it was afterwards disposed of to a Jew in
Chancery-lane.

On evidence against the Prisoner to this general
effea, the Jury, after considering some time, found
her Guilty of stealing, hut not in the dwelling-house,
'which obviated the capital part of the charge.

Mary Sampson was capitally indifled for steal-
ing in the dwelling.house of John Martin, linen to
the value of 51. and' also for burglariously breok_
ing cut,of the said housi7. It appeared in evidence,
that the Prisoner was seen by the watchman at a
door in Milbank-street, on the 17th of January,
early in the morning, with a bundle under her arm.
On being questioned, she said she was going to the
washerwoman's, and was tired, and requested he
would leave it in his box till seven o'clock, when
she would call for it. About eight o'clock she came
to fetch the bundle, when the watchman having
some suspicion, took.- her into custody ; and upon
an investigation before the Magistrate, the Prose-
cutor came forward, and owned the property.-3he
was found Guilty of stealing only.

.3"ohn Jones was capitally cnnviaur for stealing
forty-ttvo ounces of flatted silver, the property of
Samuel A,kinson, value i zl.

Mr. Atkinson, who is a watch:case-maker, re-
siding in Bridgewater-square, stated, that his boy
had been rubbed of the articles specified in the in-
diCrnenr, on the evening of the igth of January.
John Griffiths, a boy twelve years of age, stated,
that he had fetched the silver from the flatting
mills, and on his return honie, about seven o'clock in
the evening, the Prisoner-came up to him in Jewry_
street, wilcn he snatched the property off his shoul-
der and ran away._ The boy called out " Murder !
stop thief !" when he observed that a Gentleman
had ;,ursued, as he did also as fAst as he could, and
be was taken. .4Pn cross-examination, the boy did
not see his face, hut he had -on a Belcher handker-
chief, and be had no doubt in identifying him to be
the -robber.

Mr. Mumford, who is a pceket-book maker, and
lives in Jewry-street, heard the cry of stop thief, and
murder, %Olen he went into the street, and.saw the
Prisoner running, and calling out stop thief also.
He passed Witness, who observed that he held in his\
hand a bag, when he pursued him., and on seizing
him by the flap of the coat, he threw away the
bag. Witness pursued hi►n until he fell down in
the Crment.. He then secured him, and with as-
sistance conduled him to the Bull's Head
house, where an Officer was sent for who lodged him
in safe custody.

Eliz. Webber, who was passing up Jewry-street,
saw the Prisoner running, and ,lbserved him to throw
away a bag, and which she picked up and gave to
the man who secured him. This bag proved to con-
tain the silver in question. •
Cartwright the Officer produced the property,
which was sworn to by the Prosecutor as being his
proper ty .—Guilty-7 Death.
While the jury were deliberating on the evidence,
the Prisoner behaved in a most riotous and disorderly
manner, swearing that " he would be hanged—he
would die direaly—that the Witnesses had sworn
his life away—he not having had a Belcher hand_
kerchief on his neck for the last three years. He
was with difficulty kept in order to hear the verdid
of Guilty from the Jury.