The Sun.
London, England, 1803-10-28 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

SECOND. imy---THuRNDAY, OCT.
Willa, D(.4nnirig stood inditteiC fpr mtetang;a'
parcel c'ontainiog Six. pairs of cotton stockings, it
property, of a Mr. Mortimer, in Vine-street. :
Win. Moss deposed, that he'was employed on the
loth inst. to'carry some parcels of hosiery to vari..
cos 'parts of-the: town. The Prisoner accosted the
.Witnessirr Howard.street, in the Strand. The Pri-
soner asked the servant who opened the door if !a
Mr. Howard lived their. On learning that no soar
person dwelt in that house, the Prisoner Went away,
bat the deponent observed; that previous toll's
departure he looked ar the address on. his parcel.
.When the. Witness had reached Charing-cm:is, the
.Prisoner came yip to him again, and inquired the
way to Vine-street. The Witness told him he was
going to a Mr. Mortimer, in that street, and there-
fore utf red to shew him the way. On this the
Prisdner pretended that ht also was going to call on
Mr. Mortimer. When they came to Vine-street,
the Witness delivered the parcel 'addressed to Mi.

Mortimer..
The Landlady of the house where Mr. Mortimer
lodged, and also a young Lady who lively in the
came house, both proved that the PrisOilerCd a
few minutes afterwards., and said that he could not
possibly think of leaving the parcel unless, Mr.
Mortimer himself was at home. They having pre.
viously seen the Prisoner with the former Wittiest,
entertained no stispicioni of hii intentions, and
therefore delivered up the parcel to him, upon the
supposition that he had really received such instruc-
tions from the hosier, whom they imagined to lie
his master. Verditt—Guihy.

Mary Sullivan was charged. with a „capital of-
fence in feloniously stealing, on the 2ISt of Sep.
tember, three printed cotton-shawls, value seven
shillings, the property of James Harris,, privately
in his shop.
It appeared, the Prisoner came into, the shop of
tbe,PrOsecutor, an :haberdasher's, between five and
six o'clock in the evening, of the 2551 of SeptetrAiei;
his wife was then in the. shop serving .a tvoatn.;
the Prisoner asked to look at some
,things ; and tif,
terwards to he sho.vn some shawls,:' three, pieces Of
which were hung up'st the Window".. -Mrs. 'Harris
, observed her put her hand to the shaivli,.ai if pang.
•
jog them our, but nothing mote: she told the Psi
sow' she should see. the shawls presently the Tat!.
;Ise 'lien said, she would go Out for awhile, and.re;.
turn again.`,•
The Prisoner had gone' but a ,very' short, time,
when the ..bawls laid in the indifitnent
cd : the rtisi;ner was instantly pursued,' and the
aid of a "Constable called in : they fortunately
found the Prisoner 'at a • neighbouring'''. pnhlier
house : Mrs. Harris charged her wilh-taking the
shawls out of her shop : 'the Pris Oner denied ever
being in it : however the. Officer Spkd sthe''Cotf!ier
of a shawl out of a bundle the-Pristmer had with heti
this of Course was examined, and it was found,. t 4
contain the shawls in question.
The Learned Judge was of opinion,the cate,Aid the
jttryArnolieitly credit the testimony of Mrs. Harris,
was made out against the Prisoner : all that 'caul('
now make a difference as. to the capital part, was
the value of the articles stolen, which the Jury
would consider of, and conscientiously estimate.
Alter confuting a few minutes, the. J ,ry found
the Prisoner Gado of stealing to she walue of Iwo
'hasp amd mimeipmce,wl4l) did 4w4y, the capital
charge. .

' War. ka;rb, alias Maro'n, was inditted.capitally
for seedling, on the 331 of September, in. the
dwel-
house of Joseph Clementson, twenty-six yards
of woollen cloth, value sol.the property of Messrs.
Clerneoison, itirrowdale, anti Jackson.
The Prosecutors, it aprated, arc Factors, and
have their warehouse in Basinghall.street ; this
fotms 'a pan (.1 the dwelling.house of Mr, Clement-
son, the first person in the firm.. Mr. King, their.
principal Clerk, stated, that at about three in, the.
afternoon of the 231 of September, be saw the Fri—
saner in the warehouse; he knew nut bow he came
in, or whether the door, was left open.: fie ob.
served a piece of :red cloth, chiefly concealed by a
bag, which he had un shoulder he instantly,
demanded of him what he was about with the cloth,
on which lie threw, it down and endeavoured to, get
;Away. One of the under.Arerks was present ;
.they
immediately scented tie Prisoner, and .delivered
him to the care,of an Officer,, in'whose custody the!
cloth had since 'remained.
Mr. King's testimony Was corroborated by
Thomas BrOgdale, the oilier Clerk alluded 'to, and
the Officer stated she Jhate he had in the transac.
, - .

The Prisoner being,s,tllett upon for his defence,
said, he had nothing offer therein.' What the
Witnesses had deposed was, he obserVed, true
enough.
The 12.0CoRDEP. (MNSILVVITIVIO who tried' the
case; summed up the evidence to the fOregoing
and observed, that however conclusive spina; the
Prisoner Oft other parts- of the charge might be
made our, there was no evidence given us to the
value of the property in question, it was therefore
peculiarly with them to consider that part of the
case..

The Jury found a verdiEl guilty of stealing to
the value- of thirty....nine shillings, which obviated
the capital part of the cave.
Mr. fi.coitotit he r i °us I y admonished the 'Pd.
aoner,as to his future conduel ; to the mercy of a
very lenient jury he was indebted for not being
liable. to forkittire of life.

he denied any knowledge of them. .te acknow.
ledged that *he had promised to' forgive hitn, if he
told what be knew amp them.
In contequence cif this, it appeared that one of,
the sotoons,:was found: in,the possession of a
Williat~ta, ,t+-Wmelintaker in Shoreditch.;l.ltWeis
Weo the Officer,in a drawer among smth •
broken.silver; he stated that MIL Wiggins lottl'
the boy irwould,b,e,betterfor hint if` he cui,fetiek.'
and that his mother' flew into a passion and, beat
him in 'eonlsquenee. ,
A young buy httt rather oidet thin the Pristine!,
was brottlalorward he stared,. that". the Prisoner
cattle tit stall) and
asked hiin'tet ;- they went; to
the honie he said he had' found
a spoon, and begged. of him'" to go. and, sell it ; he
Mid so, and got half a guinea froirt, Mr. Williams'.
for it ; it was a table spoon. When he. came out
he gave Prisoner four shillings of the money, the
rest,. as was agreed upon, he retained for himself.
This Witness underwent a close cross examine. •
tion b 7. the Prisoner's Counsel, in which some points
transpired 'which did at tend- to strengthen his
credit. It appeared, particularly, he had been
mined before the Grand Jur,iin referenCe to another
indiftment conneaed with the 'present, charge, and
'which was 'thrown t,u; by the Grand Jury. The
spoon which had.been found at Williams's was prci.
duced; but Mrs.. Wiggins deelined'swearing to it,
as it had been so greatly alteredond the cypher erased.
Mr. Baron TuosssoN observed, that the 'case
must end here : there was not Sufficient evidence•to
establish the charge. That the bliy.,had said, tinder
the admitted circumstances, 'could not be given in
evidetice.'

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The Prisoner was necessarily acquitted. His
father, a man of reputable appearance, was in
Court, and said he could explain the affair : the
Baron advised him to be watchful of his son's future
=duet.

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Lyon Lazarus was indided for feloniously steal.
ing, on the Sth inst. seventy.two yank of bed
lace, valued at four shillings, the property of John
Ranshall.

It appeared in the course of the evidence, that
the Prisoner came into the shop of the Prosecutor,
on the day laid in the Indietment, took out the roll
of lace in question, and made Off with it ; the Pro.
secutor's wife. was in ,at back parlour ; she saw him
come in,. but did not observe him take the lace. -It
appeared that soon after the, Prisoner offered, the
lace for sale, ak one Walker's' •wlfo keeps a broker's
shop. pn being questioned by Mi-s. Walker, in
what. Manner the' lace came" nto 'his possession-:—he
said he had it in exchange for other goods in the
country, anti that necessity •intitteed him to part
with it,,agairo., he agreed to. sell. it to her for vs.;
however, entertaining some _suspicion ‘of the Pri-
sbner, she sent for
,4
,Constable, , and after some
141 king on the subjen. the grimmer, acknowledged
he bad stolen, iç, .
The Prisoner when called upon. for his defence,
talked and -Comitteted himself in a way as it he Wish..
ed to impress the Court and auditory with the idea,
that he was deranged—he turned his back frequently'
to the Court, and talked to 'the Keepers and those
about him on indifferent subjeCts.,,:oot seeming to
regard what was going forward, &c.
Onc Witness was brought tOrward, a person also
of the Israelitish:perstision, who stated some cir—
cumstances respelling the Prisoner which induced
him to conclude that he was insane ; particularly
one instance of his having come and lain down at
his door, and that they were obliged to threaten to
throw a bucker of water on him to induce him to
change Isis position.
The Learned Judge seemed inclined to leave the
consideration of the Prisoner's defence entirely to
the Jury—they had seen what,had taken place, and
how much of method had pervaded the Prisoner's
bchavi or, they would consider whether the Pri.
saner, at the, time of his,committing the 14, was
in the possession of hiqac,tilties, or whether he was'
generally BO deranged a 4 nut to be, responsible for
his actions.
The Jury had little • besitatiOn in finding the
Prisoner Guilty.

Henry Smith and Thomas Goodman were charged
with stealing a quantity of lead, laid as the proper.
ty of Edward Langley ; and Alice Sherrard for fe.
loninusly receiving the same, knowing it to have
been stolen.

The citcumstances of ►his case, which transpired
in the course of a circuitous and long detail of evi.
dence, were subtantially as follow:—the lead in
question was designed for a water closet, about tobe
ereded at 4 house in Great Cu►nberland Place, in the
occupation of the Earl of Jersey, it was seen by
some of the Witnesses on the pening Of the 28th
of September; and early.,the next morning, it ap..
peared by a distinct chain of evidence, that the
lead was in the possession of the Prisoners, Smith
and Goodman. One of the Witnesses stated that
he saw them go with the lead, which Smith had
on his shoulder, into the house of Mrs. Sherrard,
who keeps an old' clothes and iron.shop in Short's
Garden's, Druryalanei Information of this fad
was immediately conveyed to Bow-street ; three
officers immediately hurried to the spot, and caught
Smith and Goodman coming oat a the. shop ; they
of course, took them into custody. They ob-
served Mrs. Sherrard at the door; she bad not her
clothes entirely on ; she acknowledged that some
lead had been brought into the shop; if wits per.
ceived lying in the shop; and the officers, allowing
her time to dress, alsolook her tnto custody.

The Prisoners left their defence to their enrin„i.
A few Witnesses appeared to Mrs. SherrardPs due
rdeter, but of a tioeription which the Learned
Lord (ELLartuoaouti) who tried the case, did not
thillk, to be very cogent in het favour. His Lord.
ship delivered a very able and impartial charge
upon the case, and the liry, after retiring some
time entiiider of their verdia, foam all the
The punishment attached to felonious receiving
is, by Mt of parliamtnt, fourteen years transpor.
tation. I

LTi4IHANII OCT. 26.

. . Some reports having gone abroad, that. the Cow
Pox has been found Co secure the constitution from
the plague in Constantinople 'and some 'other parts
..of 'European Turkey, nr. JEN N e tir,hegti leave to lay
before the Public, the evidence whiCh-he Cis receiv.
ed of this important. fail. He does not deem the.,
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Nint clegly ascertained, lint'eannotiorbeli,rhinking
that every Reader will:see a considerable presump-
tion in its favour in ith'; Billowing Extratt of a Let.
to from' , • •