The Sun.
London, England, 1803-11-02 00:00:00

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SIXTH • -TUESDAY, NOV. T.

Frantic ./ITeroille Hatchinion, 'Robert Corivek,, anti
William Shemille, were charged . with a., mis-
demeanour it) .conspiring to defraud Pater Jermyn of
a certain sum of money, -
The leading circumstances of this case eoeicig
ready before , die Public, throtigh the mediuM, of
various Police reports, renders it unnecessary ,to
state fariber, in the present instanceohan an outline,
or rather the effect of ,what appeared in evidence.

The Prosecutot, Mr. Jermyrt, is a farmer and
.dealer in wool, se,iding on the confines of Wales.
On the 31st of July last he first saw the prisoner
Sheville, who Appeared in the character of an agent
or traveller ;.lie described himself as conneaed with
certain cotima ereiai houses.of the first respenability ;
sail he was employed by five different houses, spoke,
of the salaries he received from Vane of tiwse, and
also hinted at the services• he had rendered hid em.
ployers, &c. , He at length bargained for a consi.
derable quantity of wool from Mt..jermyn, which
he'agreed to take at a glven. price, amounting to
an aggregate of between 5 and 6001. This was
to be liquidated, by Bills .of. Exchange drawn on
Francis Hutchinson,, Esq.. whom 'Shey ille described
as a commercial Gentleman of great respe&ability,
aild living in Suffolk.lane, Cannon.street ; there
was also a penalty or forfeiture of soh spoken of in
case of non.porformance of controd. This ap-
peared to have been. agreed to on. the part of the
Prosecutor, provided he was sati,fied of, the good-
ness of the Bills ; the difrerence Iwtween'the Bills
delivered to the Prosecotot and the amount of the
wool cuntrafted for, was liquidated by the prisoner,
Slieville, in Bank Notes. A .detailed account Was
given by the Prosecutor respehing the manner of •
Sheville's coining to know him, but which it is not,
material to state, .
The wool, to.lhe quantity of 34 packiges, was
delivered to a Mr. Vewis, a wlorti:iger at Glou
cester, and in
,vhose possession it was seeO,hy She.'
vine and pe Prosecutor together : the 'former said,
he should
,not remove the wool
time
/two' or three
weeks or a month: In some time after this); was
discovered that the Bills were not to rho PrPSCCti.
tor's Satistaaion, and in consequence of Which• or.
ders'were.,sent ti) stop the delivery if
,a part.of the
wool, which had in the interval been forwarded to
Town ai the instance of Sheville,. and lodged at the
,Bell Inn, War‘iick-olaoe. On the same day the
wool was deliVerid,, the prisoners Sheyille and.Gor,
rock came ,to the inn-yard, and demanded the woOl ; •
this was on.the, rt th of. August : t`ie Bolk-keeper.
(one Of the witnesses) refuses to delitier The wool, in
con'equenpe of 'a commuoleation received by him
from the country ; they said, they would call again
accordingly, some time after they- called at the
.ion,..and besought a person who appeared to he an
Attorney ; they tendered the mon.o for • the*,ctir;
rinse, and talked or proceeding to coercive mea-
sures, if the wool was not delivered. At that 'too.
merit Mr. Jermyn, ;he Prosecutor, entered the Inn
yard, the Book.ke,Ter had no,,.doubt of the Pri.
boners Sheville and currock being the persons who
applied for cite wupl,
It. appeared that .several letters were inter.
changed beta een the wrties`on tr 110613 s of
the tbrwarding. and subsequent, stoppage or the
delivery of the wool, one of which included.
threat to commence an ‘Mtion on account of the
non-delivety of the woof, the bo4 of 'which 'ap.
peared to 7 written by the Prisoner CorrOck,•and
the name signed by Shevillei and some\other
cumstances, tranipired tending to implicate CotroCk
in a enntiedion with Sheville—tbese•principa4 ap.
',eared in some codidential letters
,which passed be-
tween the parties,and•which were found on their apple. •
pension ;• some allusions .were made in them to Mr.
Caulfield, and alio to the Prisoner Hutchinson, Whotti
it was deemed advicable by the writers to keep
'' sweet," the language of the letters, and there
appeared a studious desire in the parties to keep
the Prisoner, Hutchinson, the dark with reSpe(t
to their transatliOns.

The Prisoner, Sheville, was apprehended. at the
Swan. Inn, Holborn Bridge ; to an amount of
44091. were found on him ;. several °Obese ap.
peared to have been 'drawn on Mr. Caulfield

Hutchinson, was taken by the City Marshals, at
4 CUltifgfb near Norwood, nn Sunday tL x Ist of
August ; he made some resistance, hot king Se.
cured, he was brought to town and examined before
the Lord Mayor, and at which the junior Marshal
described, that he acknowledged Shevilke had drawn
the Bills on him, and that he had accepted them.
He understood that the bills were to be in payment
for the wool bought by Sheville,
Mr. RECORDER took occasion itl.Blrong terms to
reprehend the prae"lice of publishing the exatnina.
tions which take place before Magistrates,
Mr. GURNEY exerted himself with great
ability and "effect in behalf of Mr. I lotAinson,
whom he stated as a person mutt respeElably
connected---an < Officer in the Navy, and to has"e
been duped by the artifices of the other two
Prisoners to engage in commercial speettlatios
with his wife's portion, in the course of which
these bills came to be accepted by him, who en-
tertained not, the least idea of the transadion being
an improper one.
Messrs. ALLEY and 'CRATE spoke shortly in be.
half of the other Prisoners—and after an able and
discriminating charge from the RECORDER, the
Jury retired to consider Of their .verdict. After
conferring about half an hour they, found—Hutchin-
sort Not Guilti-41ievilic and Corrock Guilty,
The Rgautibla expressed his satisfattion at the
yerdin, and immediately discharged the Jury. •
The RECORD t It forthwith sentenced tlit PritOners
to Two Years, intprisonment, in Newgate.
The "t'rial's being gone through, the Riccoß DER
proceeded to ,pronounce the judgment, of the Court
on sucbl'risoners 83 had been convi6led in the course
of the Session, vii.
Joseph Edwards, James Harrison, AliceSlterrard,
and Mary Smith, were sentenced to Fourteen, year;
Trail:for/41;am
John Faikener, Catherine Caryl!, Henry O'ilara,
,Liaralt Brown, I (yam Michell, J,Williams, J. Fiellis,
J
J. Kennedy, W. Bentley, J. Bradford,