The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-21 00:00:00

OLD BAIL IY.

FOURTH PAY^'SJITURDAY, FEB, lei.
, Elizabeth. Bollivpwarth was charged with
stealing, on the 2d of February, a One Pound Bank
Note, the property of William Adams,
The Prosecutor, it appeared, is a', broker, and
lives in Fore-street. The Prisoner lived as Servant
in his family, and had been about four'months
the place when this affair happened. On Tuesday,
the Ist inst. he received six Bank of England One
Pound Nofes, and one Country One Pound Note,
from one of the Witnesses, MC. Bridge,
a Gentle.
man residing in Essex. These Notes he put into a
pock-et-book, whiCh he usually carried in his coat-
pocket. On going to bed, he deposited his coat in
the usual place, aild left his poeket.hock remaining in
the pocket, as was his general custom. The next
morning, when he put on his coat after his hair was
dressed, he inspected the pocket-book, and missed
one of the Bank of England Notes. His suspicions
rather inclined to the PriJoner, in the first instance ;
but at that time, he took:no notice of it to her.
That night, on going to .bed, the pocket-book
and coat were sufkred to remain as usual, but, on
the following morning, tint of Thursday the 3d, Mr.
Adams again inspeded his pocket-book, and missed
another of the Bank of England Notes. He 'mine.
diately went down into the kitchen, 'where the PO.
toner was at breakfast, and Mrs, Adams happened
to he there at the time, and immediately said to the
latter, " There's another of the Notes gone, that
makes two, have you 6)110;0 my pocket-book ?"
The Lady answered in the negative, and seemed
surprised. The Prisoner, who heard the above,
instantly said to the Prosecutor, if you have any
suspicion of me ; I have no ebjedion to stand
cedich." The Prosecutor replied, he had very
great reason to suspect her, and that what she had
just said, served to confirm ,his suspicion. An Of-
ficer was sent for; the Prisoner was searched, with.
out effed : her box then, in the presence of all the
parties, underwent a rigorous scrutiny. No Notes
were found ; five guineas were discovered wrapped
up in an old glove. '.Cite Prisoner 4aiki she received
the money from her sister the last Sunday to send
.down into the country, for a pirtieular purpose.
Not satisfied with this store, the Prosecutor sent
the Officer for the sister:of the Prisoner, who lived
at no great distance ; when she came, he examined
her_ apart from the Prisoner, and her account not
being satisfactory,' he went into the kitchen and
told the Prisoner he most- have, her before a Ma.
gistrate„ On ibis annunciation, she tell on her
knees,. and ,said, if he would forgive her, she would
go and fetch the Notes. She then.ran up.stairs, the
Officer and the Prosecutor followed her. She went
into Miss Adams's. room, and there, from between
two mattresses which laroutier.the bed, she took
out a handkerehief which contained several articles, •
among which was a purse, from which she took out

two Otai-t'otiod itiTotei, *nd delivered them to the
Prosecutor. -
On Mr. Adams's cress-examination he s lid, be
-made no promise whatever to the Prisoner of favour
or fnrgiveness.
With .respea to the identification of the Note, a
degree of difficulty seemed afterwards to obtain, the
Prosecutor declining to' swear positively that the,
Note specified in •the present Indictment ova's one of
those which he had in his pocket bock ; but hes4id
be had no ether Notes in it at that time than thosi
which he received from' Mr. Bridge, as above.men:
tioned,'however, the deficiency MIS supplied by did
statement bi Mr. Btidge, who said, that the Notd
produced was One of those he paid to Mr. Adams od
the zst of February, and that he perfe&iy recoll
idled the number of it.
The Prisoner left her defence to her Counieii
who forehore calling any witnesses to Chargter, as
clie Prosecutor.had stated, he had a' very goOtt 004
with her.

The Jury found her Gill
The,Prosecutor recommended the Prisoner to
mercy, conceiving it to be her first offence.
Some of the jury also recommended her to mercy,
on an extraordinary ground, namely, that of tempt-
ation laid in her way.
The RECORD ER expressed his disapprobation of
this proceeding, on two grounds, first, that or
recoMmendation' of a Jury was inadmiolufr ;
and secondly, he could by no means agree with the
Jury, that any temptation whatever was thron.io
the Prisoner's way. At well might it bessia that
the property carried in the rocker, even of any
son in that Court, . was a temptation to those #u°
might rob them on the contrary, he thought It°
aggravated case,, inasmuch as the Prisoner, beial; A
domestic servant, was paid for proteding the co'
perty of her master, &c. The general rccominen•
dation, however, of a jury, and founded nn au
quate grounds, should always meet with doe consi-
deration,
"qh Jemnet Was capitally conVitled Of folgil
a certain Promissory Note for the 1,4 meat d 51•
purporting to be a Note of the Stowtmiket

,john Dew was Witted for assaulting •Chatleg
Poole, Esq. on the highway, with a pistol, on the
zoth of january,;
:Mr. Poole said, that on the 30th Of PALMY he
was in his carriage on the F.,dgeware.road, near Tei
four mile stone:. It was a chick day ; he obser"7 -
person on horseback. on the left side. of the carriage►
whom lie took for a black; but upon looking o°,6'
lively, he Saw he had a crape over his face. the
postillion • instantly set- t4r at fall 'speed, and tl°
man with the crape over his face was striking
with 'a small stick. The Witness took a Piswls Vll'l
threatened to blow; out his brains if he did not,''
behind the carriage. He appeared to pull up. and
i.
Poole took down the left glass, still pointing his Pl 5;
tul at the fellow. He then discovered another I"
mounted, with a red. handkerchief over his face'`""
They were both within the range of Li' Pistol,
They pined,and removed the crape and lotrKlkerclue
from their faces. They then rode,up' the hill tours,
Staninbre, and the witness kept them in. vie4l
when two grooms came up. He told them he 7„
.been attacked by, the men riding up the' hill,
were highwaymen, and desired the grooms to g"
in pursuit,' which they did.
Thomas Bachelor, one. of the grooms, was " the'
road when he saw two men ride from the eartiagl,;
'in compliance with Mr. Poole's request, he and ler'
11c
companion pursued them for a mile and'a halt,
they turned up N! •ne leading to Hendon ; never.
lost sight of thent: Onc of them turned ty Guild
ford street, and the other went up Gray's-11,%31.
The Witness pursued the man. who Went up "V.
ford.street, and called out to the people to stol)11'„`,
-Tice horse stumbled upon the ice, and the man ca-3
off.
Mr. Justice CUAatBRE interrupted the proeee,a
ings, by observing, the Prisoner
.conta. not be eti.n:
vitted, as the assault had been stated. in the indit
a
ment to have been made With. a pistol,
wherea9
stick had only been sworn to.--Not